January 2012
16 posts
Gone Snowboardin’
Employment Insurance financing agency spends...
A federal agency created by the Harper government with great political fanfare in 2008 is costing millions of dollars to achieve pretty much nothing.
The Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board has just about everything a budding government agency could want.
So far, it has spent over $3.3 million for new offices, computers and furniture, well-paid executives and staff, travel budgets,...
Statement to the court: Amanda Hiscock (Canadian... →
[Today, Mandy was sentenced to 16 months in prison. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court, which was interrupted 8 times, by both the judge and the prosecutor. In the end, they spoke more during the time alloted to Mandy than Mandy spoke herself. A version which includes all of those comments will be posted separately.]
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The crown wants this...
Because I changed jobs and subsequently markets in the garment industry recently, I won’t be at capsule or any other trade shows this season.
Fortunately, you can see some of my new work at SHOT Show in Las Vegas this week. Unfortunately, if I told you which items I was involved with, I’d have to kill you.
It’s Monday, go do something amazing.
December 2011
3 posts
Four years with girls has been and continues to be on hiatus. Unfortunately, a new job combined with moving has simply eaten up all of my free time currently. However if you bare with me, I’m sure all will return to normal soon.
November 2011
10 posts
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica
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October 2011
13 posts
Apple's Siri began as DARPA's PAL →
It’s interesting that pretty much everything cool was developed for the military first.
Spending my morning sewing and seam sealing a Gore-Tex Pro-Shell jacket.
It’s Monday, go do something amazing
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September 2011
12 posts
