What a difference a year makes. This time last year I was home, finalizing loose ends and paying off my US taxes. The reality of what I had done, what I had agreed to for the next three years, was…
Author: Gwynne Monahan
@econwriter5 you should do a blog post on your motivations for twitter & why you are sour on it now — VBalasubramani (@VBalasubramani) March 23, 2013 Such was the suggestion after my post, Demise of Reader, Rebirth of Twitter, where…
Google is shutting down Reader on July 1. There is no shortage of complaints, petitions to keep it and reviews of alternatives. I myself am a Reader user, and fan. I have a number of feeds I scan every day…
I can’t remember, prior to relocating to #vancouver, when I have not used a gas stove. And I remember finding it a little odd last year while apartment hunting that all the stoves were electric. Same with house hunting. Electric…
Canada has this rule, this asinine rule, that so much of its radio content must be Canadian in some fashion, leaving about 10-15% non-Canadian, which basically means American music. I say it’s asinine because all of the #vancouver DJs only…
I’ve moved into a house with two other Asians and one other white person, all three of whom are Canadian and thus used to Asian cuisine. I’ve mentioned before how I’m used to eating at places where I can’t read…
I don’t know how else to describe it. Moving into a house just seems like the normal thing to do. I’m rather surprised by that, and bow quickly we have all settled in, too. It was weird, but nice, driving…
We found a house! Finally. And today I’m moving this: A bit more than the four boxes and two suitcases with which I arrived in #vancouver. That all fit in the back of a coworkers Mazada, with room to spare.…
Such was the scene at the Aberdeen Mall in Richmond foe the Chinese New Year countdown. Little hard to see, but that is part of the dragon dance performance. Tricky to get a good shot without elbowing the necks and…
Remember how the temporary place I was in last year flooded, and how I had to start looking for an apartment sooner than expected? Fast forward a year, and switch out “apartment” for “house” and that’s about the only difference.…