I can rant once in a while…
Monday, August 20th, 2007 Posted in news, politics, vancouver | 1 Comment »Before the CUPE strike closed the Vancouver libraries, I managed to get in one last visit to the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch - seven floors of literary fun housed inside a building with some sort of anachronic identity disorder. ...
The city, she loves me
Sunday, May 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, opinion, personal, quotes, thought, vancouver | 2 Comments »Since my cousin moved back to Vancouver from Manhattan, I've noticed that she has a strange, urban serendipity about her: every time she walks to a street corner, the light instantly changes in her favor. I'm not kidding about ...
Local applications of price theory
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 Posted in economics, news, thought, vancouver | 1 Comment »Recently, in Vancouver, we've had quite a bit of trouble with our water supply: the three reservoirs serving the region were all heavily contaminated after a week-long storm. Thankfully, the reservoir serving my suburban neighbourhood was cleared within a ...
Absurdity in the local news
Sunday, November 12th, 2006 Posted in news, opinion, thought, vancouver | No Comments »The Vancouver Sun printed this increasingly disturbing story in the morning news. The gist of it is this: two teenage boys (13 and 15) beat two elderly men (76 and 82) to death in a park washroom for their wallets. ...
Urbanphobia
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in canada, thought, vancouver | 1 Comment »Is there a -phobia word for 'fear of cities' or 'fear of urban environment'? I would find it hard to believe that we have a word for 'fear of flutes' (aulophobia) and 'fear of objects to the right of ...
