The dual realities of not wearing a mask
In the last number of months I’ve been seeing more people not wearing masks when they’re grocery or furniture shopping. To clarify: Toronto holds th...
Category: science
Finally kicking Spotify to the curb
I’ve been mulling over what to do for a (more) ethical music streaming service for a while, largely writing about it here after already noodling on it for...
Guess who doesn’t have Covid-19
Go on, I’ll give you three guesses. … Nope. … Wrong again. … … really? Um… no. Guys, it’s me. You’re terrible at...
Happy belated Pencil Day!
My friend, confidant, sometime tabletop game designing/spitballing partner, and all-around best bud told me earlier this week that the following day, March 30th...
I hit the magic number
Hmm? What’s that you say?“Congratulations”? Oh… oh, I see… thanks, but no, this isn’t a good thing. I haven’t won the ...
Monarch emergence time lapse
My wife decided to try out her time lapse video option on a couple of monarch emergences today. It’s cool to watch it happen anyway, but in the time lapse...
Monarchs are imminent
Somewhere between about 8-15 days, the monarch chrysalis goes from green to blue to finally clear, like in the photo here. That stage means they’re going ...
Monarchs are cool
Off and on for a couple of years, we’ve raised monarch butterflies from eggs to first flight. It’s really cool to see. There’s something satis...
Beauty is everywhere if you want to find it
The top of our front door has a window of combined frosted glass and triangular-cut glass pieces, the latter of which which make for unexpectedly nice prisms. W...