My 2007 has not gotten off to the best start. First, I got a letter from Revenue Canada letting me know there was an error in my 2005 taxes and I owed them lots of money. Then, my running shoes (and with them my $400 orthotics that were less than 6 months old!) disappeared. Finally, [...]
lunch for my first school day of 2007, originally uploaded by jkparker. I’m trying to bring my lunch more often, and to make it healthier. So – inspired my Flickr’s “Mr. Bento Porn” group – I’m going to endeavour to photograph and post my lunch to Flickr by cameraphone every day. It’s tough to see [...]
Nothing like a website redesign to aid procrastination from schoolwork! This lovely WordPress template is from the folks over at N.Design (I added the snowflake). School is winding down for the semester. I wrote my last exam ever (I hope!) last Friday. Now I’ve just got to write a thesis and I’ll be done the [...]
Celtic music icon John Allan Cameron dies at 67. He was the godfather of Canadian celtic music. I was a bit of a celtic music nut in my teens and early 20′s (and still am, I guess). I used to see him play around Ontario when I was in high school, and I also have [...]
When I cut all my hair off a year ago I didn’t realize how expensive it was going to be to maintain my new style! My hair starts getting shaggy at the 5 or 6 week mark, so I end up getting my hair cut about once a month. Haircuts are crazy-expensive in Vancouver; It [...]
Garth Turner got dooced!
The purchase of my first french cuff shirt last month prompted me to make some neat-o cufflinks to wear with it. After spending an afternoon in a button store in downtown Vancouver I went a little overboard with the cufflink-making and decided to set up shop over at offthecuff.etsy.com and try selling some of them. [...]
I’m very excited to be involved with a website that launched today in response to the Conservative government’s cuts to the Status of Women Canada: HALIFAX/OTTAWA, October 11, 2006 – A new website launches today to rally support for Status of Women Canada (SWC) and related issues. Statusreport.ca will house objective information about the federal [...]
Waiting for the tide, originally uploaded by jkparker. We got back from Halifax a few weeks ago but the weather here has been so lovely that when I haven’t been in school I’ve been outside enjoying the sun, rather than inside writing blog entries. Our trip to Nova Scotia was wonderful. I got to spend [...]
We’ve had quite the heat wave here over the past few days. Our normally cool basement apartment has been sweltering and on Sunday I discovered that UBC likes to save money and not air condition its buildings on weekends. Yuck! On Saturday I ran in the Summerfast 10k at Stanley Park. The race was early [...]