I spend a lot of time reading design magazines, books, and blogs; graphic design, industrial design, architecture, interaction design – all manner of producing things and places of style, of expression, and for use by people. It’s a very convenient confluence of professional, academic, and personal interest – I’m a very lucky person because I […]
More ›Driving back the four hours back to Thunder Bay from Blue Lake Provincial Park last night, I was slightly taken aback by what, a week ago, would have been utterly normal. It was a news broadcast from CBC’s Thunder Bay station. That’s all. But – last night, it seemed so far away. It seemed so completely removed […]
More ›I’ve been bothered for a long while – at least six years – about “what to do.” I put that in quotes to emphasize the very broad and general nature of the problem. Some people call it their ‘life’s work’, or their ‘calling’. I like to avoid both of those, because I don’t like to […]
More ›I don’t like to say that I ‘hate’ things. It’s too harsh, and usually not true. I personally think it’s impossible for someone to truly believe that something can have utterly no redeeming quality or benefit at all, no matter how narrow the circumstance – or perhaps furthermore that something is so universally vile that the world would only […]
More ›Last week I finished up an eight-week weather course through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron. It laid down the basics of ‘why weather happens’ and then delved into the specifics of pressure systems, the reading and interpretation of surface analysis charts, and – most importantly to sailors – how to interpret and then forecast weather […]
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