a day in Nashville

After a solid rest in Nashville at the home of our CouchSurfing host, we departed for Fido on 21st Ave, a local coffee and breakfast joint. Delicious.
Next up we paid a visit to the Parthenon. Yes, the Parthenon. Because Nashville has so many universities, Fisk University, Saint Cecilia Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy, Meharry Medical College, [...]

leaving North Carolina

Starting Friday, June 26th 2009 my life changed dramatically. I left my job at Duke Energy, I spent a few weeks in western North Carolina at Lake Santeetlah with Jane and her family, I packed up, said goodbye, drove for a month across the US and Canada with my fianceé and @serdmanczyk (Erby), moved to [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the “Googlization of Everything” at UBC

The best thing about being back in a university environment is the opportunity to explore talks from great thinkers outside my field of materials engineering. Thanks to the magic of a running twitter search for UBC I found out at 11:45 that University of Virginia cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan was giving a [...]

I’m not alone: many leaving to US and going to school in Canada for good reasons

Apparently many other college students are leaving the United States and going to Canada.
The Canadian Embassy reports that as many as 10,000 American students are being educated in Canada this year, a three-fold increase from a decade ago.
I’m going to graduate school in Canada for several main reasons: I can work at a major [...]

my new contact card

Originally inspired to design a personal contact card by the awesomeness of @jruckman, I needed to add my Canadian cell # and decided to go for a complete refresh of the design. Fortunately, Vistaprint was allowing free business card orders and with the custom design fee of a few bucks, I got 250 cards shipped [...]

there will be bison

I’ve finally finished editing all my photos from the road-trip this summer and will put up a series of posts on here to describe the adventure across North America. If you are thinking that might be boring, I’ll whet your appetite with this trailer,

Update: via request from @aernst, for an approximate map of the [...]

just one of the reasons I’m going to UBC

from a recent email about Graduate Student Orientation,
As a sustainable campus, we encourage you to bike, walk, bus or carpool to orientation activities.

other people like sardines?

I’ve recently become enamored with sardines. Anyone who knows my eating habits can attest to the fact that I’m going through Trader Joe’s sardines soaked in olive oil at a rapid pace. Oddly enough, I enjoy them for breakfast. They are delicious little fish that also have great implications for nature. The Washington Post has [...]

a farewell letter to North Carolina

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I’ve had the deepest pleasure working with all of you during my time as a student at UNC Charlotte, as an officer in the Student Government Association, at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, as the 2007-2008 Charlotte 49er Student Body President and as an engaged citizen in Charlotte.
On July 17th of this [...]

my new neighborhood

Now I’m even more excited to move this July. Say hello to 36th St. in Vancouver! It looks gorgeous!