Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those were the VCR brands (he says, dating himself) and eventually the Walkman and Discman and other CD players. Pioneer was high on that list … Read more
I went to my first Fan Expo yesterday and managed to get in one seminar led by experienced panellists. The second seminar was a bust because, whether by some miscommunication from the staff or some other reason — we were told by a staff member that the location of the seminar had changed at some … Read more
*Reporting Live From Fan Expo Canada 2025* After years of considering going to Fan Expo, we finally decided the time was right to do it. It’s one of the largest travelling conventions in the world for fandom of (sometimes overlapping) TV shows, movies of every stripe, comics, books, video games, table top games, and more. … Read more
The province-owned liquor store I work in has planned playlists that they swap out every “period”, the segments of the year when featured products and sales change. Most playlists are pretty hit and miss, to my tastes. But this one? Oh, man, is it ever hitting. The current playlist is almost entirely classic rock and … Read more
I’m honestly not sure why naps aren’t more popular. They shake off the tiredness and recharge the batteries if you maybe had a bad night, or if you worked particularly hard, or if you’ve been kept very busy lately, or maybe all of the above (he says, perhaps being somewhat self-referential)… It seems like it’s … Read more
J and I have, completely unplanned, caught some documentary shows about food and food processing recently, and bread was among the topics. Perhaps due to that, or perhaps due to our gradually changing up such things every so often anyway, we also recently changed what bread we eat. The recent type gets moldy faster, which … Read more
One of the many excellent ideas and encouragements that Amie McNee suggests in her fantastic book is to get comfortable with the idea that a creative work that’s 80% as good as you’d like it to be is good enough. Beyond that threshold, she says, you’re just making small changes, ones that probably aren’t worth … Read more
Other than a brief dalliance with coffee in high school, I’ve been a tea drinker for the vast bulk of my life. I like the smell of coffee, and I like the taste of it as complementary to the likes of, say, tiramisu. But when it comes to something to have with breakfast or something … Read more
It seems that some high schoolers these days are starting to develop an affinity for owning physical entertainment items instead of relying exclusively on streaming, which for me was an unexpected turn. My 14-year old started to develop a particular interest in VHS tapes thanks to a burgeoning enjoyment of analog horror, which is a … Read more
I never got the hang of skateboarding. I had one for some years and tried, for a while, to pick up at least the basics of it — Okay, so I stand here, and I know I push with this other foot-type rudimentary stuff — but it didn’t take. And at least early on with … Read more