I pulled up two of my favourite quotes from the recently deceased Stephen Hawking, the first one; The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” How wonderful is that? And then there is this dandy, I have noticed even people who claim everything is pre-destined, and that we can […]
Category: Life Musings
Musings, reflections, thoughts, links and other academic related materials.
A Day On Grouse Mountain
I summarized my afternoon on Grouse Mountain into just over four minutes of video. I included a pretty epic “technical failure” into the video. Enjoy. Please follow and like us:
Red Light Cameras and Speeding
Yesterday I followed an interesting twitter “conversation” about the possibility of implementing red light cameras that not only catch people driving through red lights but also catch drivers who are speeding while driving through red lights. One person commented that the process “wasn’t very transparent” because there wasn’t a publicly available list of which intersections […]
Thursday Thoughts
What you say is important. What your listener hears you say is arguably more important. Think about what you are saying and think about what your listener is hearing from you. They are not always the same thing. Is that okay with you? Please follow and like us:
A Walk at Rocky Point and a Tortured Wedding Boat
The kids and I went for a walk at Rocky Point in Port Moody last weekend and they decided to play detective to solve the mystery of “the tortured wedding boat” – the old rotting corpse of a boat located washed up on the mudflats. They began by surveying the shoreline for clues. They then […]
New Year’s Celebrations and Resolutions
I’m not one for making resolutions on New Year’s Eve but I do try to make small adjustments to how I live my life. Last year, or the year before, or maybe even the year before that, I decided to “choose green more often”. What I meant was I would choose the salad over the […]
Merry Christmas!
A day late but, Merry Christmas everybody!! Please follow and like us:
Gone But Not Forgotten
Today would’ve been my grandfather’s 103rd birthday. There are many things I remember about my grandfather. Usually if I went to see him we would go off to some construction site on some remote mountain and cut firewood. Funny to think back and realize that the “remote” mountain we frequently worked on was actually Burnaby […]
Best Practices for Social Media Background Checks
Using social media background checks to screen prospective employees is becoming more common. In a recent study conducted by CareerBuilder, nearly 60 percent of employers used social media to vet prospective candidates in 2016. That translates to a 500 percent increase since 2006. The same study found that nearly half of all employers who used […]
What Do Canadians Know About the USA
Canadians often take glee in how ignorant our American neighbours are of all things Canadian. Perhaps the highpoint of our glee in American ignorance of Canadian politics was when a Canadian tv program punked an American president by asking him a question about our Canadian “Prime Minister Poutine”. However, let’s turn the camera around for […]