Despite an almost complete lack of training so far this year, I (foolishly, you might say) decided to enter the UBC Triathlon over the weekend. This event started my interest in triathlon back in 2006 when a friend talked me into entering the short course. These days I usually enter sprint distance triathlons (800m swim, [...]
Conferences are so much fun, but also oh-so-tiring! I attended my first Northern Voice this past Friday and Saturday and had a great time. While blogging and social media aren’t really related to my personal area of study in HCI (I study people collaborating in the same space, rather than online) they are definitely areas [...]
Despite being a recently-licensed driver (I passed my road test on February 5th!) I am a big proponent of alternative means of transportation. Now that I have my license people keep asking me when I’m going to buy a car and my answer is “Not anytime soon!” We live downtown, have UPasses to get to [...]
Last weekend marked our third annual trip up to Whistler with a bunch of the folks from Dan’s lab at SFU. We stayed here, which was a definite improvement on past years accommodations, and actually quite affordable when split by 11 people. I do not like skiing. I tried to learn when I lived in [...]
According to Inside the CBC, Definitely Not the Opera is planning a special on Stanley Park. They’re asking people to call the show’s phone line and tell them the craziest things they’ve ever done in the park. While I can’t think of anything particularly crazy I’ve done, I do have two Stanley Park stories that [...]
Another backdated entry… tsk tsk, I know. But the weekend kinda got away from me! It just wouldn’t be early November without the wonderful CircleCraft Christmas Market. I’ve made it out to the market every year I’ve lived in Vancouver – and twice even before I lived here, when I happened to be visiting town [...]
I’m cheating and backdating this entry to Wednesday night. I really meant to blog last night, but I am apparently too old to go to weeknight concerts and arrive home still coherent enough to post a blog entry about it… Sondre Lerche put on an amazing concert at the Red Room in Vancouver tonight. I [...]
There’s a common term in the software development industry: “Eating your own dog food.” It refers to software development companies using their own products in-house. One would think that a company like Translink would follow a similar principle. As the provider of transit for the entire Greater Vancouver Regional District, Translink should be encouraging they [...]
I found local Vancouver photographer Duane Storey through a recent Metroblogging post. He has some amazing high dynamic range photographs of the city. My favourite is this one of the Inukshuk near my apartment: You can buy Duane’s work here, and view even more on his Flickr account. And in the interest of full disclosure, [...]
When I last left this blog hanging oh so many months ago I was on the hunt for a new apartment. After changing our minds many times about budget, location, and size, we finally found an awesome one-bedroom place in Vancouver’s west end. It even has a view! We’re moving at the end of this [...]