Three of us spent the whole day at the Belfountain Conservation Area, which is about an hour northwest of Toronto and not much further from where I do my flight training. It was a nice break to get out of the city for a day and hang out with friends in nature. I’ll let the [...]

Lexington Avenue Steam Explosion by JimmyOK
Last Wednesday there was a steam explosion in New York City one block from where a friend from Flickr, Jimmy O’Kelly, works. He took this shot and Yahoo News interviewed him over the phone to add his commentary to their online news piece. I found this style of news reporting [...]

CanStage amphitheatre at High Park
Well, I discovered a couple of ways to stop myself from coughing all the way through an outdoor production of Shakespeare — eat and drink. Drink and eat. Repeat. The play was nearly two hours with no intermission, which means I ate more in one sitting than I have all week! [...]

TGIF! — taken on the way home
It’s far too nice a weekend to spend it coughing up a lung, I say. I have plans! Outdoor plans for both Saturday and Sunday! I’m sick of the hacking and the bone-rattling barking. I have no symptoms other than a hijacked esophagus, thankfully, but that’s quite enough.
I took [...]

Relax, it’s a film. A film that looks really funny, but only to a Canadian, I think.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Hatred of Toronto examined in mockumentary at Montreal comedy festival
http://letsallhateto.com/

I found this part of the article particularly amusing:
Although Montreal would likely be the most fervant Toronto-hater in the country because of long-standing sports and cultural rivalries, [...]

Paris metro
To get to work, I take a streetcar, subway, and bus for short times (average 10 minutes each) for a one-way trip of about 35 minutes. I take my iPod and sometimes a book, but because of the short segments and connections I usually just listen, watch, and think:

Should I wake up those people [...]

Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield by caterina
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, founders of Flickr, had a baby girl!
Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield
Born July 10, 2007, 6 lbs. 1 oz.
Congratulations!

Life with Sonnet by caterina
Technorati tags: Flickr, Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield

Behind Palais de Tokyo and Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. You might remember when the movie Amelie came out in late 2001 that the film crew had to clean up the parts of the city they were shooting. Paris (like many large cities) has a lot of graffiti.
I’m feeling in need of [...]

Can I reach it?
This is, almost without a doubt (I have to leave room for a weakening memory), the smallest toilet I have ever visited. It was in Paris — was that only three weeks ago?? — on a wacky boat moored on the Seine called "Le Cabaret Pirate" that doubles as a restaurant and [...]

Behold the Long:

19 and living out of a bag
From the archives: May 1992
Standing on a termite mound somewhere along the coast between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. I’d been on the road for about six months by then, and was travelling with a Scottish guy and a Dutch guy in a combi van. Crazy times.
Obviously, I [...]