It's been a long road, getting from there to here - wait, wait, wrong show. According to the video above, Star Trek: Discovery has fin...

Today Dad turned 75! We celebrated the event a little early, on Saturday. Sean made an amazing dinner, consisting of chicken breasts s...

If I had a trillion dollars (oh, if I had a trillion dollars..!), I'd build a funky corporate headquarters on a lush Pacific island, po...

The jacket isn't so bad, but the pants! The carpet! The chair! The horror. Check out that sweet vintage John Deere toy, though. An...

In an e-mail discussion about my friend Pete's birthday today, I asserted that surely it was only six or seven years since universi...

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The Woman Who Woke The Chimp That Conquered Eternity Neil Armstrong vs. the Gorilla Prince Ancient Pyramids of New York The Cars That...

What I love most about the Internet is the way it makes it possible for independent creators to easily share their work with a worldwide au...

Thanks to the generosity of my employer, I was able to enjoy (in my own particular manner) my first ever NHL hockey game. I'm not a s...

Tonight Sean and I went to my first NHL hockey game, which I'll post about tomorrow. But in the meantime, how cool is Edmonton'...

Oh, Amazon - cornucopia of delights - How sweet to see your packages in my mailbox How bitter the discovery When boxes contain parts 2 a...

I shot this image at an air show in 1990. I probably should have cropped out the off-kilter horizon, but somehow I think it adds to the g...

For some unknown reason, I (for I presume it was me) shot this blurry, white-imbalanced photo of Dad using a food processor to shred some...

Gene Cernan, the last human being to walk on the moon, has died . Naturally I didn't know Cernan, and as always I feel a strange twinge...

Sylvia and I actually decorated for Christmas this year. Here are a few images for posterity. The decorations will come down...ev...

Sometime in 1973, either my parents or one of my aunts or uncles captured this shot of a blue bird enjoying the hospitality of a bird hou...

Being marooned on a tropical island would probably not be much fun in real life, but in popular culture it's not always a completely ba...

Let's say we move ahead after all with carbon capture and storage plans. Instead of just storing all that carbon underground, why not b...

We had four of the collapsible tables upon which this flower pot rests. They were very good at collapsing, but we kept them until at leas...

I'm swimming off the snow-white coast of Antarctica, but I don't feel the chill of the frigid waters thanks to the snowsuit I'm...

The Western Board of Music, where I served as Executive Director for about a year and a half in the mid-90s, had a suite of custom-built ...

I shot this just after I started working for the publishing department of Hole's in St. Albert, back in 1998. Bruce encouraged me to ...