I have been building this new tool for work, and the initial progress has been promising. Without going into too much detail, it pulls together a number of tools to do long running research; imagine you wanted to find out all about Brazil, and in particular the food scene in the lower half of the…

There is a small lake at one of the larger parks near us, and sometimes I see people fishing there. I never see anyone catch anything, and I wonder if they’d have the same outcome throwing their lure into a bucket. But walking past today, I saw a number of carp (?) jumping out of…

There is a guy on YouTube I listen to while at the gym who give very solid workout advice. For those interested, check out Mike Israetel, founder of Renaissance Periodization and a sports and exercise scientist. He’s funny, knowledgeable, and very, very strong. He’s also super open about his own use of anabolic steroids to…

On Friday it bucketed down with snow. By Monday it will almost all be gone. In that small window, someone made an enormous snow ball. O and I were impressed!

My fact of the week came courtesy of an article I read on the flight over to SF, about the changing state of our northern neighbour. I’m not referring to Canada, but rather Wyoming.t The Cowboy State (technically the Equality State) is to my knowledge the least populous state in the union. What it lacks…

I have been in SF for work, and today I had the privilege of being on Stanford campus. It is clear why so many people want to work there. It’s such a lovely place. We are in the tail end of winter, but it’s still perfect weather. The campus is clean, tidy, and well maintained….