Thanks to RQ Magazine and Kitchener-Waterloo Life for twigging me to the Frankenstein!! contest. Take a deliciously random phrase from German poet H.C. Artmann and pair it with an image – mildy disturbing is encouraged. Guess who has two thumbs and won tickets to the Edwin Outwater conducted performance of Frankenstein!! at the Conrad Centre? [...]

One of the classiest joints in town, Verses is the re-imagining of the former New Apostolic Church on Victoria Street. That’s where Chris and I found ourselves after a client won a six course meal at the chef’s table thanks to a recent Chamber event. Kitchener-Waterloo’s sole winner of the CAA/AAA Four Diamond Award it goes [...]

I’m the dirty Mac whore that lined up for the product launch of the iPad2 in Canada. My old iPad wasn’t even six months old before I had sold it in preparation for the second generation device. I was drinking the Kool-Aid and frothing with geek lust So Friday found me in a highly bisected [...]

Had a lot of fun with this one! My talk from Ignite Waterloo on tequila. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKf-_vnhg2I

Dug up some old videos of our daughter that we haven’t looked at in years. A chubby-cheeked and inexplicably curly haired kid living in her world of toys and dollhouses. That got us remembering her story-telling years and so I dug up one of our favorites. It’s the story of Mom Cat. It starts out [...]

And so Ignite Waterloo V is in the bag. But this time it’s different. After attending every Ignite since it’s inception I’ve been privy to some incredible speakers who prove there are no uninteresting topics as long as they are presented with passion. Maybe a certain talk isn’t exactly up your alley but who doesn’t [...]

So finally after four successful Ignite Waterloo’s I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and stepped up to be a speaker. My initial pitch for poker was quickly thrown out when, at the speaker workshop, I veered off on a tangent regarding tequila. Now I’ve always maintained that I would be a reserve – willing [...]

Our household averages a new job every 18 months. Between the wife and I we’ve been party to temporary layoffs, corporate acquisitions, downsizing, rightsizing and voting with our feet. Our daughter is so inured to whole process she wasn’t quite sure whether it was mom or dad this time that might soon be facing unemployment. [...]

Grade 6 boys scream like little girls. “Justin Beiber just asked me to the prom!” kind of little girl screams. They scream for no apparent reason other than they can. This notion of “because I can” is the overriding motive for many inexplicable actions. As they try to define themselves as men, many of the [...]

K’s started at a new school and they’re looking for parent volunteers for three days of camp. I’m in. It’s an anthropological excursion to examine her classmates completely unfiltered. I’m Jane Goodall communing with the apes. With a conscious decision to move back to the “city” comes some marked changes. Our old school had a [...]