Category: montreal + canada + the world

Finally got to see Calexico play last night (@ Le National in MTL) with Linda. Excellent show at a fitting venue — waiting for them to post the set-list so…

Lights and snow Photo from last week. MTL’s first snow of the year.

My Macbook Pro died this AM (actually the video chipset died). I went through the “genius bar” reservation process at the downtown MTL mac store and was done in record…

Crazy story came out today… This afternoon in Europe, due to some information revealed by Porsche about how much of VW it actually owned (74% instead of 35%), it’s shares…

MTL’s newest skate park ? All kidding aside MTL’s skateboarders must be looking at the new “quartier des spectacles” with some wide eyes. 30,000 (!) sq feet of marble at…

Fall is here. The days are flying by as the light gets shorter. With the lower arc of the sun comes different light on streets, through windows and shadows that…

Anyone know of a good residential moving company in Montréal? Linda and I found a new place over the weekend and signed the lease last night. We needed more space…

One of my favourite restaurants in the world has closed. I discovered “Las Manitas” (The little hands) in Austin, TX the first time I went to SXSW in 2006. When…

Walking down to lunch today; a new billboard has been put up showing what the eventual corner of Jeanne-Mance and Ste-Catherine’s will look like, the new “Place Quartier Des Spectacle”….

Mortgage We’re not quite there yet – but I do have a meeting at the bank to get some info and set some goals. Anyone out there have some good…

We finally got a sign for the company. My pop ran some nice wood through the CNC machine at his work to “cut out” our logo. We then stained and…

We just swung by the iStore in Westmount to pick up an iBook we had in for service (bad luck for the old iBook – fried logic board). Surprised to…

Oncoming Friday night while driving down to the coast on Highway 91/93 through Vermont and New Hampshire, we were driving on the divided highway. 2 lanes going south separated by…

What do you see in this GOOGLE map of Peru?. .. More long lefts than you could shake a stick at. Zoom in to see more glory.

Wilson Our cat now goes outdoors. Thank god. I owe it all to Linda who pushed him out the door while I was in Mexico — and showed me he’d…