travels

May 20, 2009

Spacing's Toronto the Good party, take five

Tonight was the fifth iteration of Spacing’s Toronto the Good Party . It celebrated a few things that are near and dear to my heart…

April 16, 2009

The convergence of Torontoist, beer, and patios

Several of Toronto’s favourite things came together for the first edition of the Torontoist Patio Series . Being a fan of all of the above…

April 9, 2009

Scenes from Mesh09

Seeing as I'm too wiped to write anything coherent, I'm just going to throw a few photos up from Mesh (For the play-by-plays, consult the…

March 25, 2009

Computer Science shows off its stuff

Today was our Computer Science department’s Research in Action day — a big room is booked, it’s filled with smart people, industry…

February 24, 2009

How to run a code sprint*

While many students this week were busy partying reading, a handful of computer science students participated in a code sprint to work on…

December 16, 2008

#hohoto

Toronto's Twitter addicts emerged from the virtual woodwork for HoHoTo , a rapidly organized holiday party at the Mod Club. Just imagine a…

December 6, 2008

University and College

University and College, Toronto, Ontario from the MaRS tower

December 2, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell packs Con Hall

Malcolm Gladwell was back in his old stomping grounds tonight to promote his third book, Outliers: The Story of Success. A native of Ontario…

December 2, 2008

Dance Yourself to Death

Jen of Dance Yourself to Death plays a show at Supermarket

November 6, 2008

Angry students on the march

November 5th was the designated Day of Action for the Canadian Federation of Students' Drop Fees campaign. Students from across the…

November 5, 2008

Obamania in Toronto

Election Day in America means a night of anxious television watching for Canadians. Like always, I can't say it better than the NYT so I…

November 4, 2008

PZ Myers preaches to the choir

PZ Myers, a "godless liberal" and one of the Internet's most popular bloggers was in Toronto on Halloween to talk about "Science Education…

October 3, 2008

My take on Citizen Lab

Anyone who opened their feed readers this morning probably saw the news that Skype is monitoring its Chinese users and storing messages that…

September 19, 2008

New Glass

Got my first L lens (albeit used): the 17-40 f/4. I'm usually not someone who swoons over lenses but I'm getting the Canon 5D in a few weeks…