Beyond the Rhetoric

It’s days like this that I appreciate working at home the most. Not only is there snow on the ground (which, up until this winter, had been quite a rarity in Vancouver), but it’s also raining. The next result is a whole lot of puddles and more than our fair share of slush. It’s gross [...]

Vancouver is home to a lot of world class restaurants, offering all sorts of international (and fusion) cuisine. We’ve got some great sushi places, incredible steakhouses (Morton’s is my personal favourite), and let’s not forget about all that West Coast seafood (I recommend C and the Cannery). Problem is, some of these nicer restaurants can [...]

Like, what the H? I’ve had just about every Nintendo console ever made and I’ve never run into any issues whatsoever with these video game systems, with the exception of the old school NES. Of course, that machine is almost as old as I am, and all the ancient games need is a little TLC [...]

Yeah ye-yah! (Okay, so that doesn’t exactly translate to print very well) Over the weekend, I headed on over to Pacific Colisseum to catch a concert. Snoop Dogg rolled into town with his crew, but that wasn’t the only rolling that was happening Saturday night. With the crowd standing at about 15,000 strong (I’m guess-timating), [...]

Gambling. Love it or hate it, it’s got to be one of the oldest ways to make (and lose) a quick buck. Heck, it might have been around even longer than prostitution (and really, it’s not all that different, though it may not quite as clear who is the john, the pimp, and the ho). [...]