

TIME STAMP
Today I was reminded that I had this weird conflict with my friends. We decided we wanted a stamp made to brand some paper bags for our...
Jul 31, 20232 min read


THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.” “July isn't even over and it's projected to be the hottest month humanity has ever experienced.” “The North Atlantic just reached its highest temperature in recorded history just two days after the Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature in recorded history.” I love this. These folks consistently tell us how passionate they are about precision
Jul 29, 20237 min read


RÉSUMÉ
T’wi: You should let me look at your resume. Zah: Haven’t I? T’wi: Well that was a long time ago. Zah: Well, if I recall, you were...
Jul 22, 202310 min read


BUSINESS BUSINESS or TALKING WITH FRIENDS
Jean: You should just start a business. Wendal: I don’t think businesses are a thing. Tyson: Oh, here we go. Wendal: What I mean is that I believe in debt and I believe in disposable income but I don’t believe in the organic, money-making, self-sustaining businesses. Never seen it happen. And I’ve been looking. Tyson: What? Wendal: So, we have the numbers. And you know these. They're irrefutable. Things like: • Small business owners have far more liquid wealth than wage
Jul 14, 202311 min read


INDUSTRY STANDARD
I’ve been looking at commercial and residential real estate numbers pretty regularly since 2016. When I was in Calgary at that time and exploring commercial real estate, I kept coming across nonsensical numbers all over the place. As someone new to the city and with no background information the figures were ludicrous. As I started looking into it ("Can that possibly be correct?") I learned a lot, mostly about how rampant and significant the level of fraud seemed to be. Since
Jul 7, 20235 min read


"IF IT'S SO AVAILABLE WHY ARE PEOPLE DYING MORE THAN EVER?"
I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “ BC mother runs across province...
Jun 26, 202312 min read


OBLIGATIONS, PRIORITIES, AND THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY or HOW TO DESTROY TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS
In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the professionals entrusted with sustaining them helping this cause? That’s a question that seems worth asking. At the moment there’s a curious phenomenon of experts vociferously spouting off across the news and social media in defence of their colleagues, the managerial class and the institutions those folks run, and the popular media who also
Jun 16, 202317 min read


TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
Jun 12, 20239 min read


UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
May 29, 202311 min read


GIANT SADISTIC MURDER-DOLPHINS
The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. (Silly, just like so many others, such as the: mantis shrimp [not a shrimp or a mantis], electric eel [not an eel], starfish or cuttlefish [not fish], sea cucumber [not a vegetable, though it sure looks like a disembodied rectum], king cobra [not a cobra], horny toad [not a toad, maybe horny], red panda [not a panda], koala bear [not a bear], maned wolf [not a wolf]..
May 27, 20234 min read


COMPASSION AND CLEAN DRUGS
BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...
May 21, 20239 min read


USER EXPERIENCE
A true story
May 16, 20236 min read


ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the elapsed time, many still consider this threat to be at the top of their list of global concerns and something that continues to keep them up at night — and much more so as of late. Others have never learned or largely forgotten that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents rigged the whole of the northern hemisphere with these highest o
Apr 29, 20237 min read


STRIKE
More than 155,000 public servants under the Public Service Alliance of Canada have set up picket lines across the country. On the service...
Apr 19, 20238 min read


THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
Apr 3, 20235 min read


UBER TEACHER
Letter to Blair
Apr 3, 20236 min read


BESMIRCHING THE TRUTH
Though this was clear to anyone paying attention, we now have some details from behind-the-scenes of the rampant, wide-spread,...
Mar 18, 20238 min read


ANNELID DINE-IN
Kurl: Ice ages and droughts, tornadoes and floods, they're all absurd chaos.
Mar 16, 20233 min read

























































































