Archive for December, 2009


I watched this talk the other evening, and since then the idea of the One Question has been stuck in my head, i.e.: “What’s the one question you’ve been waiting your whole life to be asked?”
I don’t know what my question is, least not yet. What’s yours? (I have a feeling that figuring that out [...]



So far this season I’ve made six sockmonkeys. One went to Tim Jackson of Tech Capital for giving the biggest donation to our Movember team. One went to Melissa for Christmas. I forgot to take pictures of either of those sockmonkeys. Oops. Though I suspect we could get Melissa to take a picture of hers [...]



I could have sworn I’ve seen articles like this one annually for the past couple/few years. I have to admit it’s a bit odd seeing your job touted as the “next big thing”. (Especially for multiple years running.) I’m also not holding my breath.
It always seems a bit incongruous to me, too, since, [...]



We went to see Avatar last weekend. If you’ve been anywhere near media over the past few months, I’m sure you’ve heard plenty. We didn’t have terribly high hopes — the preview we’d seen months ago really was nothing special, and the animation actually looked less sophisticated than some of what we’ve already seen.
But we [...]



The inaugural Ignite Waterloo took place on November 25th in downtown Kitchener, at the Children’s Museum.
I’d never been to an Ignite event, but greatly enjoyed this one (especially since I somehow managed to not pay for a single drink all evening — thanks, gentlemen!)
It was a lot of fun, there was a lot [...]



Some months ago, Erin told me a crazy story about a friend of hers who was working as an au pair in Amsterdam. It involved a dead dog and a suitcase.
Now, I’ve been on the internets for some time, so I probably should have twigged on to the fact that this story was just right [...]