Category: Vancouver

  • The Saints are Coming

     While I know it’s only pre-season and, therefore, doesn’t officially count, I’m still giddy at the whoopin’ the New Orleans Saints gave the Kansas City Chiefs in Thursday’s game.  I suppose my enthusiasm is enhanced by the fact that we have to wait 8 months after the playoffs for football season to start again. The…

  • Making an Impression with Letterpress

    For all the design geeks out there (and those who love them), this is a 5-minute clip about letterpress printing.  It’s such an old-fashioned process and still so beautiful and tactile compared to standard offset or digital printing.  The process itself, literally, makes an impression.  

  • Helvetica, Helvetica, Helvetica

    I recently went to see a film called Helvetica which is about the 50th anniversary of the typeface called…you guessed it….Helvetica.  It’s a face which most people have seen countless times in their lives, likely without ever noticing it.  It’s actually a brilliantly-designed face – extremely legible, tidy and all around very clean shapes.  It…

  • Post Secret Project

    Wait! What’s this? A blog entry that has nothing to do with Geocaching? lol I’ll save that one for another entry!  ;-p Someone on a mailing list that I subscribe to posted a link to a YouTube trailer for something called the Post Secret Project.  Basically, a couple of years ago, this guy started a…

  • Seek and Ye Shall Find

    As you may have guessed, this entry is about my latest geocaching expedition! lol I went out this afternoon to Burnaby Lake Park with the coordinates in hand for three of the caches that were hidden in the area.  I parked my car at the film studio where my partner is working this weekend and…

  • Adventures in Geocaching

    Ok, so I’m about to out myself as a total dork here, but I have just started a new hobby that I’m totally excited about called Geocaching.  I was out for a walk in the park by my house last year and came across a lady who was looking around like she was lost or…

  • HP ActiveChat Support to the Rescue

    I just wanted to say that I have yet to be disappointed by the service I’ve gotten from the HP support folks.  It’s not many companies that have 24/7 live chat support via their web sites.  And, of the ones who may have it, I’d be even more surprised if the people manning the support…

  • YouTube Gives Voice to the People in Democratic Debate

    I’m watching clips from the CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate.  Damn!  I missed it when it was on TV – since I don’t usually watch the news (too much negativity and fear-based spin for my taste), I didn’t know it was even happening. I have to say, I’m quite excited at the concept of YouTube and CNN…

  • Insomniac

    I’ve always been a night person, but this is ridiculous!  I now consistently find myself awake at 4am thinking that I should have gone to bed hours ago.  Tonight/this morning is no exception.  My mind just won’t quit…a million things flitting about this way and that.  Calgon take me away! I’ve never been an early…

  • The SAINTS KICK ASS!!!

    I’m so excited that I don’t know where to begin typing!  Ok, first I guess I have to explain that, since I’m a native Louisianian, I’ve been watching New Orleans Saints football since I was a kid.  This pastime has largely been an excercise in perpetual disappointment.  HOWEVER…..enter Sean Payton, Drew Brees, Reggie Bush and…