Review Mini-Reviews 2021 Last year was a busy year on the personal front (due to a growing family) so I didn't have as much time to write reviews of things I read compared to previous years. Still, I wanted to have some highlights and notes to reference
DIY Greenland Paddle In this post, I wanted to share a project I did this year: building a kayak paddle. The paddle I built is more-or-less in the Greenland style. I adapted the instructions/dimensions from here. Here is a summary of the steps I followed: Starting
Movies & TV Recently Watched: 3 Foreign-Language Films This post is just a few quick reviews of some movies I've watched recently. Incendies is a French-Canadian movie from 2010. It was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. It is directed by Denis Villeneuve (who's done a few other movies I
Art Images of the Anthropocene When I went to the AGO back in the fall I mentioned that there was an upcoming exhibit I wanted to see called "Anthropocene". I didn't make it back to the gallery while it was on, so I watched the accompanying film
Movies & TV Documentary Notes Over the holidays I watched some documentaries on Netflix. I thought I'd share some of the things I found interesting for my first post of 2018. To start with, here are a couple of great clips from some BBC nature documentaries: Human Planet showed
Movies & TV Assorted Links (Fall 2017) Last week I was in a conference in Chicago. I plan to write about it later this month, but for this week I just wanted to share some miscellaneous links (mostly related to things I've written about previously) that I've been saving up. It's
Review Orbiting Kerbin A coworker recently recommended the game Kerbal Space Program (KSP) to me. I've been enjoying it. I don’t spend a lot of time gaming, but from time to time I like to get into one. I especially like open-ended games (where you choose
Movies & TV A story that wouldn't have been possible a decade ago This post is about a very unique movie trailer. A new movie called Lion comes out today. It stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman. I heard about it from my girlfriend and it looks like it might be really good. Here is the
Movies & TV A New Wild This post is a review of Earth: A New Wild, a nature documentary series. Earth: A New Wild is a five-episode series produced by PBS and National Geographic. I have it on BluRay disc. The National Geographic website includes this description: The series features
Movies & TV A Golden Age for Canadian Sci-Fi I've noticed that some shows I've been watching on Space have been filmed/produced in Canada, which seemed like an interesting topic for a short post (which is in order after the lengthy one from last week). Wikipedia has a list of science fiction
Movies & TV Watch The Expanse I've previously written about a book series I like. Now it's been made into a TV show. The Expanse is a new show based on the books by James S.A. Corey. It's a pretty close adaptation; having read the books, I didn't get
Movies & TV The Operative from Serenity I'm busy this week, so I decided to share a .gif I made and some quotes I like from the movie Serenity—it's hard to believe that it came out 10 years ago. Here is the .gif, of the scene where the nameless "
Review Orphan Black is almost back! This post is about what is, in my opinion, the best show currently being filmed in Canada: Orphan Black. Beware of minor spoilers below, but for the most part I've tried to keep this as an overview. The central plot concept of Orphan Black