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and Vancouver thought transit was crowded during the Olympics…
I remember before the Olympics happened a lot of people in Vancouver thought that during the games transit would look like this,
top tracks for early March
February didn’t really count. So now I’m back with music recommendations in March, just before SXSW descends upon us. I would add commentary on each song but anything I say would taint your mind before hearing these fantastic tracks.
The Tallest Man on Earth – King of Spain
Yukon Blonde – Wind Blows
MillionYoung – Hammock and [...]
Canadian stereotype comics
If you watched the Vancouver 2010 closing ceremonies last week you saw giant inflatable beavers, moose, mounties etc… along with Canada’s music “talent” like Nickelback and Avril Lavigne.
There’s a lot more up here than wild animals and I don’t think anyone in Canada actually listens to Nickelback or Avril Lavigne so I feel like the [...]
Neill Blomkamp on the future
Attending TEDx Vancouver this year was a huge honor as the talks were inspiring and the conversations were refreshing. By far the most amazing talk was by Canadian/South African District 9 director Neill Blomkamp on what aliens would look like. He jumps from Karashev to Kurzweil to the inevitabilities posed by Heinberg (even though he [...]
how grad school is like kindergarten
Oh PhD Comics, you know exactly what grad school (at least in the sciences) is like,
my own closing ceremony
And now that it has been more than a week since the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, things are returning to normal. Classes have started back at UBC and the grind of assignments, lab expectations, long term projects, and midterm exams has provided a nice break from the breakneck pace of the Olympics. Moving [...]
the plot from the prequel to James Cameron’s Avatar
Energy analyst and author Michael Klare has the plot for the prequel to Avatar all written out,
It’s the torrid summer of 2144, just a decade before Avatar begins. (That movie takes place in summer 2154, after a flight from Earth that, we’re told, involves six continuous years of sleep, which helps us backdate [...]
our natural heritage
sure, we still have trees but the virgin forest ecosystem holds so much more than just a nice looking forest. One example: the original mycelial mat which acts as the neural network of the forest moving nutrients from tree to tree. Farewell natural heritage, at least we had Teddy Roosevelt to save portions of our [...]
Vancouver Before and After
Learning what its like to live in Vancouver now has me wondering what it was like to live in Vancouver even 10 or 20 years ago, especially since so much of the city’s growth has taken place since 1980. These photos from the Miss 604 Blog really demonstrate that growth,
