Beyond the Rhetoric

You’ve surely heard this before. Optimists will typically look at the glasses above and say that they are half-full. Pessimists, on the other hand, will look at those exact same glasses and say that they are half-empty. Who is right? Is the glass half empty or half full? If you see the glass as half-full, [...]

As you may be able to tell from my excessive use of Rodin’s Thinker in many of my online profiles (as well as the header image to Beyond the Rhetoric, I have a tendency to think a lot. That would probably explain the white hairs on top of my relatively young head. In any case, [...]

Lan from Pho Lan can be quite the angry individual. For a decided change of pace, Stephen Fung decided that we need to stick to Vancouver and discover some happy pho. Seriously, Brian (Bryan?) at Cambie Vietnamese Restaurant (located near Main and King Edward) is the happiest restaurant owner I have ever seen. It’s kind [...]

As you know, the big movie that is opening this weekend is The Dark Knight, the latest in a series of movies that focus on the Batman universe. Many people around my age were introduced to Batman for the first time through the Tim Burton movies where Batman was played by Michael Keaton. The villain [...]

Near the beginning of this month, I announced a contest where you could win a big box of cool stuff. Inside that box, you’d find an advanced sports watch, a cool t-shirt, a solar charger, and more. In order to win the contest, which runs until the end of this month, you had to edit [...]