Language has always fascinated me. It’s structure, how people employ and manipulate it, and use it to manipulate others. It seems we stop paying attention to certain phrases and references, we hear them so often. It occurred to me that…
Author: Gwynne Monahan
Last year, on Easter Sunday, I was on a plane flying back to #vancouver. Taxes paid. Last bit of stuff sold or donated. The physical aspect of the move was done. I physically left all that was familiar behind. By…
It’s just dirty snow, which is what happens in Chicago after it has fallen but not yet melted. There are patches of clean snow still, and of course it is still cold. It’s still March! And the kind of weather…
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…
@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…