Oh, the humidity!
I once tried to find an air conditioner in December. This winter, in the same month, I tried for a dehumidifier. Not easy to find in the Yukon, those. The ba...
iTouch Dressed for Danger in an OtterBox
Known for our butterfingers, Carole and I both ordered OtterBox protective cases for our mobile gewgaws. Hers was the lighter Commuter model for her HTC Andr...
Follow What He Said on your mobile gizmo.
Now that I've caught up to the previous decade by getting an iTouch for Christmas (and a Kindle for my birthday that's stuck in some shipping department some...
It’s like living inside a technical support certification exam.
Everything in life can be explained with three circles. Except bicycles. As I tweeted on a frosty Christmas afternoon, Santa tucked an iPod Touch into my sto...
Whither the Weather Channel whether or not the weather has withered it?
And people claim that English is a difficult language to learn. Our weird temperatures seem to have broken the Weather Channel's forecast: Does the absence ...
Why there is still hope for Canadian televised punditry.
All it takes is two photographs. At first glance, which group do you think knows what it's talking about? Exhibit A: CBC National "At Issue" Panel Gregg, Héb...
A business document format to display my distaste for business documents.
I was working on a business proposal today. The sort of work that inspires within a terrible craving for distraction. "Aha," I said, startling the dog. "I'll...
[Insert joke about a vacuum cleaner that really “sucks” here.]
Done cleaning? Strap it on and buzz the control tower for yucks. My first major purchase upon arriving in Whitehorse was a Dirt Devil upright. It now seems s...
Doubling Down
We all knew it would come. Despite September's snow, we haven't had much winter yet in Whitehorse. We've whispered to ourselves and our close confidants that...
I must confess that I can only follow the diagrammed steps to the Time Warp…
...but the rest is really just jazz hands and perpendicular hopping. The real trick of it is not falling in mid thrust on the wet newspaper and rice that has...
“Path”: for some, a difficult concept to grasp.
Should you accompany your dog on a morning constitutional through Whitehorse's new Ingram subdivision, you're bound to come across this scene before long: "O...
How I Make Words
Between business reports, class notes, and the creative writing course I'm hacking my way through at the College, I reckon that I churn out a few thousand wo...