Monthly Archives: March 2010

blueberry pancakes

saturday brunch with blueberry pancakes at the original pancake house. yum.

new look

We had been meaning to update the appearance of our blog for a while, but since it also required upgrading WordPress, I kept putting it off. Today I finally got around to it–the technical side that is. The creativity part is obviously thanks to Sherwin. Hope you all enjoy the new look!

edmonton water usage during the gold medal game

The following chart pretty much speaks for itself… it plots water usage in Edmonton two Sundays ago (Feb 28, 2010), during the Canada-U.S. Olympic gold medal hockey game (click image for link to article):

filter failure

Many months ago I posted a video (here) by Clay Shirky, a very perceptive commenter on the social effects of technology. Yesterday I found another talk of his on a different topic: the idea that the challenge we face today is not so much “information overload,” but “filter failure.” That is, the problem that the read more »

vancouver olympics: hockey gold

like all other canadians, we were really excited to watch the US-Canada gold medal game on sunday. we had some friends come over for the game, and although they weren’t hockey fans, by the end of the game they were really into it, especially when US tied it up in the last 24 seconds of read more »