I went to see Arrival (Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g ) yesterday.  As that trailer had given the impression that this was a "Sci-Fi movie wherein the hero of the story is a linguist," I was really lucky to have seen the movie with a linguist ( Read more... )

(EDIT:  About a month after I published this, John Oliver did a TV thing.  You should watch that TV thing before starting.  It's based on the US instead of Canada, but the 401k he describes is basically an employer-matching RRSP ( Read more... )

Tuesday was a disappointing day on the internet, when pictures of Rehteah Parsons began to appear in "dating" ads on Facebook.

I made some mistakes, and I feel that I owe some apologies and explanations.
I'm used to seeing lots of ads on facebook, using pictures of pretty girls.  I know not to click on them, because I'm sure they're all fake and ( Read more... )

I just returned from over two weeks of vacation, which was grand, but now I'm having a confusing time finding out the best way to commute for the rest of the month ( Read more... )

Now, I don't take the TTC every day -- living in North Toronto and working in Markham -- but I really do love public transit systems, especially any on rails. You see, I come from a railway family: 6 generations of telegraph operators, stationmasters, labourers, and engineers.[1] So, I'm not a daily TTC commuter, but I still pay attention ( Read more... )

(I've posted these previouslyDear Friends ( Read more... )

After the Colibri failure last week, I was itching to try again, and hopefully fly home without needing a towplane sent out to get me ( Read more... )

This year, I started off with a series of goals:
- SAC Bronze Badge, required before I'd be allowed to fly cross-country. All that I didn't complete last year was proving that I attended an airspace briefing, which was easily accomplished when Transport Canada came to visit us.
- Checkout for solo in the club's DG-505. Unfortunately, some ( Read more... )

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