Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
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 ...
…WTF? (+ politics)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, news, opinion, personal, politics, quotes, thought | No Comments »I usually try to save my links until Saturday, but holy crap. BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." ...
Some thoughts
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, news, opinion, thought | No Comments »Earlier this week, I was writing a post for my blog that should have gone up a while ago. Unfortunately, the time at which I was writing it was at the start of my lunch period on Monday, April 14. ...
Canada isn’t *that* important…
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, politics, thought | 1 Comment »As part of my (Canadian) high school's Social Studies (read: history and government) curriculum, everything we study has a distinctly Canadian bias. This means that, while we cover major events of the twentieth century like World Wars I and ...
The *real* ethical dilemma
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 Posted in canada, economics, news, opinion, personal, politics, science | 2 Comments »In light of current events, I've decided to briefly postpone my focus on the topics I mentioned earlier to address Friday's big announcement. By this I mean, of course, the "Climate Change 2007" release from the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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 ...
