Today was my initiation to the outdoor gear store paradise that is Bass Pro Shop, which is all over the eastern United States, with a few outlets scattered around the west. Apparently this is the only one in Canada.
It is ENORMOUS and built like a hunting and fishing lodge, with an aquarium-sized fish tank and [...]

Yesterday I replaced my very abused monochrome camera-less handset, the one I got free with the plan I set up nearly two years ago when I came to Toronto to begin my repatriation process and find a place to live.
I really miss that Nokia 6682 I got for free from the marketing company. Alas, it [...]

Earlier this year, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki went on a tour across the country to, as he puts it, “… tap into basic concerns that Canadians have about the environment, and then bring those messages to Ottawa.” One of those issues is about the threat to the environment that plastic bottles pose in terms of [...]

I just returned from driving a big circle around the city to buy a used Canon A520 from Craigslist to replace the Canon A80 as my main everyday digicam. It’s smaller, lighter, with a bigger zoom. The only thing I’ll miss is the A80’s swivel screen, something I used all the time but I’ll have [...]

I scored big-time today.
I went to the last day of Life Fest at the Metro Convention Centre with a free ticket and brought home a coffee table full of free loot! Notably, I also won a draw for a gym bag from Energizer with about $40 worth of stuff in it, 15 free digital prints [...]

Got milk? For Francesca: Excalibur the Moose in residence at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. (I seem to recall Francesca having a thing for the moose.)
My friend’s mum has a booth at the One of a Kind Show, and she got me in on a staff pass. Check out Valerie Page’s handiwork on her [...]

I was supposed to go ice skating at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, but it didn’t quite work out as planned. When I drove home on Friday night I noticed one of my headlights was out, but I decided to postpone changing it until the morning. When morning came ’round, I popped the hood and tried [...]

In this case, that would be a cheap lens.

Pentax K-1000
December 30, 2006
Gran Teatro, Havana
I wanted to buy a macro and a wide-angle lens for the Pentax for the Cuba trip, but lenses are ghastly expensive and I didn’t want to spend much money, I just wanted to do some experimentation. So I bought a Phoenix [...]

As seen on a Mustang Ferrari on University Ave.
Gah, I’m so frustrated. I wasted an entire evening on car maintenance that mostly didn’t happen. Just getting spark plugs from the Ford dealership reminded me of when I went to them to complete the car importation back in the spring and they were complete jerks. I’m [...]

Flight by Cat Faery Shari
So I’ve been posting photos I’ve taken with the Nokia 6682 mobile phone for the past few days, but its convenience doesn’t touch on what you can achieve with a regular digicam.
Shari took this photo last month with a Canon PowerShot SD500, which is in the category of “regular digicam” (like [...]