We are nearing the end of our stay in Mexico City’s San Angel neighbourhood, and it’s taken me almost two weeks but I’ve ...

Looptail g. Just down the street from our temporary house in Mexico City. Books about food. What’s not to love about Librería ...

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

Our Dutch friends, printers Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten, have launched a fundraising campaign for a book about printing with LEGO, The Hilversum Method: In 2023 we made our first book, ...

Want to get in touch? Go here. I am a curious person with a thirst for mashing, remixing, extending, experimenting and pushing new envelopes. I’m a blogger, an occasional podcaster and video producer, ...

One of the items on the wall at the Victoria Schoolhouse that catches my eye, every week as we go there for acting class, is a list of all the teachers who taught at the school, over the 101 years ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

Canadian Tire has now completely switched over to digital price tags, wireless e-ink shelf displays that show the item name, price, and barcode. Under the hood I imagine this both saves hundreds of ...

We had occasion to cancel Eastlink Internet service this month. And it took the entire month to do so. There’s no way to cancel online. There’s no way to email a request. The Eastlink toll-free number ...

From Alberta reader David Richardson comes news that the CBC weekly science show Quirks and Quarks will be available starting Monday as a podcast (here’s the audio of the announcement as an MP3). I’d ...

Earlier this year, we prepared a guide for our Home Exchange guests that, among other things, points them to shops and restaurants in the area that we like. When I looked the new address up, and found ...

It’s not that I didn’t know that Lisa spoke Spanish, but it’s another thing entirely to listen to her speak Spanish to a taxi driver for an hour, wending through Mexico City traffic: like waking up ...