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What’s your favorite dish? Fish!
The family pecking order for Good Eats on this trip goes something like this: – home fries: Required – great fish: Required – burgers or chicken for Robyn (who doesn’t eat seafood): must be nearby. – pop in bottles, from local brewer: 1point bonus – a shack where you stand in line to order: 1 [...]
Hup Hup Holland!
Was wandering around downtown Halifax looking for a place to watch the game when I saw a huge World Cup banner. It turns out I found the dutch enclave too! Kickoff in 15 minutes and I can hardly wait. NOTICE: This confidential e-mail message is only for the intended recipients. If you are not the [...]
Typical attire in Halifax
It’s a warm day, but the ladies still prefer traditional attire. And if I understand things correctly, beer. Alexander Keiths beer. NOTICE: This confidential e-mail message is only for the intended recipients. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that disclosing, copying, distributing, or any other use of this message, is strictly prohibited. [...]
Land of the Living Skies
July 3 was the 100th Anniversary of the Silverson family farm south of Kayville and Ormiston, Saskatchewan. That particular farm was settled by my mother's Grandfather, although the surrounding farms were also settled by cousins (or soon to be cousins) who immigrated from Romania between 1911 and 1920. While I often heard stories of [...]
Civilization V Announced!
via youtube.com OK, I’m a little late on this, because it the announcement came in February. But i’m very excited to learn there is a new version of Civ coming out in the Fall. Civilization IV is my all time favourite PC game and I can hardly wait for the new version. When Civ IV [...]
Shirky’s myth of complexity
Clay Shirky has given us a surprising number of Internet myths. And by this I mean not falsehoods but the opposite: Broad, illuminating ways of making sense of what’s going on. For example, Clay’s post about the power law distribution of links in the blogosphere (based on research by Cameron Marlow) changed how we view [...]
Marketing for Small Local Businesses
Just a test to see what happens when I post via email from google reader. Will it link to Chris’s post or post the whole thing? Marketing for Small Local Businesses via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on 4/1/10 I was talking to a friend who runs a mobile massage business. She takes her table to you, [...]
A walk down memory lane.
When I was 14 or so I used to spend my spring break at my Aunt’s in Calgary. Mom would put my sister and me on the bus, or the train, or in the passenger seat of my cousin Barry’s semi and we’d hang out for a week in Cowtown. The best part was the [...]
More of the frozen northland
After a night spent watching the (rainy, indoor)Olympic Opening Ceremony and then a Wild Chef episode set in the arctic, I realize we have much more in common with Nunavut than rainy Vancouver. That feeling came home as we drove out to an early hockey game on a crisp, clear winter morning. The light was [...]
Happy Friday
Cindy and Robyn are at a movie, so my portable office is my favourite coffee house: Roca House on Rochdale. Best latte in Regina, made with love. No better place for my weekly review, reading CRTC reports, pricing ebooks, etc. Posted via email from madbaker’s posterous