Visited Nfld. for five days with my brother to catch up with the family out there (older brother and older sister). Everyone is doing well, and is busy as usual. Rebecca, the oldest niece competed in her first triathlon and did pretty well (she does well in school AND she's a jock, both of which should serve her well). Dave and I walked up Signal ( Read more... )

My brother and I spent the weekend doing our biggest bike trip to date, a trip around the Greater Niagara Circle Route, something we've been talking about doing since last year ( Read more... )

And here's some GOOD Avatar news! Nickelodeon has just announced an animated sequel series to Avatar, The Legend of Korra.

Set 70 years after Avatar, it's about the new Avatar, Korra, a teenaged girl waterbender. A lot of the action is going to be taking place is a chaos-stricken, steampunk-filled metropolis called Republic City, and she's going ( Read more... )

Attended the SF con Polaris last weekend, and it went all right. I was on three panels, all of which went well, the most fun being the British TV Panel where two of my co-panelists were a women dressed as the Master-as-John-Saxon (as she put it, she was dressed as John Simm really) and a women dressed as David Tennant. Saw the guest of honour talks ( Read more... )

In the bus shelter by my workplace, there were ads posted up for seven different driving schools today. Is there some deadline or rules change coming up?

A full past several days. Wednesday had dinner with the Terry Prachett meetup group, and found that next year's North American Prachett Con will be in Madison, Wisconsin, home of benet! I smell being a houseguest in my future ( Read more... )

Rich's Comic Blog has just finished his latest story, The Stalker of Norfolk, featuring the third Doctor. Rich really has a handle on Three, so I invite all fans to check it out!

Since it's a topic I seem to be dealing with today, blogger Darryl Cunningham put together a fabulous cartoon overview of the Andrew Wakefield affair. Wakefield is the British doctor who claimed that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism, a claim that has been thoroughly debunked, and Wakefiled cited for various ethical violations. It's really worth ( Read more... )

One of my favourite skeptical webcomics, Cectic, went on indefinite hiatus over a year ago, but its creator has just started it up again. Check it out.

In the same vein, you should also check out Saturday Morning Breakfest Cereal, Calamities of Nature, and Tree Lobsters!

That was quite the long weekend. I got Friday off from work as well as Thursday, thank to the Americans in my company getting a four day weekend last year, so we got one this year.

On Thursday the board game group got together and I won a game of Dominion, and learned to play Puerto Rico, which has been the #1 game on boardgamegeek.com for some ( Read more... )