Category: montreal + canada + the world

I’ve joined the “Finnish Tire Club”. Last Saturday I drove down to F C P on the south shore and went tire shopping. These guys seemingly carry every known brand…

This kind of thing makes me sick. The police have been, caught on video, trying to start/provoke a riot at SPP demonstration last Monday afternoon. “Organizers of the protests at…

My buddy Johan is selling this brand new surfboard – Gold Quad Fin Fish (larger photos). Perfect for smaller surfer or someone hitting the river. “This little goldfish needs to…

My friend Trevor Brown is good at drawing. He worked in our office for couple years (w/Blackeye) and we now have one of his illustrations (from his preview collection) on…

The 10four design group out of Vancouver has released a great free mac Dingbats font. ‘Adanac’ contains dingbats representing such great Canadian icons as the toque, Terry Fox, Hockey Tape,…

I was going to write this long post bemoaning the service we received at Stadig campground in Wells, Southern Maine last weekend, but I’ll keep it short and simple. We…

We got a mini-site up for Johan — something that he could mange himself through some basic HTML work, WordPress 2 and Flickr for photo galleries. Hopefully I’ll be able…

We were all talking about this article that popped up on DIGG last night. Basically it states that we could be very close to contacting another intelligent civilization; and that…

Does anyone know what’s going on with Flickr and Videotron? I’ve been unable to reach the Flickr website directly for 2 days now through Videotron HOME and BUSINESS internet service….

Update: Sold As I already posted, Johan is making me a new surfboard (you can follow the photo progress here). Which means, I’m selling my older Green fish pretty much…

Update: She got a great review here! A very old friend of mine has published her first novel entitled “Bottle Rocket Hearts”. She grew up in the west island of…

I’m a huge supporter of Public skateparks. It still astonishes me that Montréal has done JACK to address this need. They have tossed money at badly thought-out schemes — and…

Found this fun little “Spanish language learning podcast” to get a couple of my ultra-basic-spanish back into my head for next week. The podcast is free and currently is up…

We’re going back to Mexico in a month and a bit. It was so good last time that how could we not? Two of my best friends are getting hitched…

Update: Found this link to the art project on our roof. Love it. Google has finally updated the satellite imagery for Montréal. This morning I was looking through google maps…