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Category: Life Musings

  • 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?

  • 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!!

  • 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…

  • Sharing Access to Docs in Google Classroom

    As a user of the Google apps for education (G-Suite tools) I am a pretty heavy user of Google Classroom and Google Drive in my school classroom. They are tools that work well for what I want to get done with my students. A question I frequently get asked about Google Classroom; what is the…

  • 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…

  • The BC Storm and Winter Driving Preparedness

    Many of the weather prognosticators are now saying that we should prepare for another long, cold and (shudder) snowy winter in the Metro Vancouver region. Ugh. Get ready for hashtag #BC Storm to start trending as we get a dusting of snow. If we are in fact in for a snowy winter, and you are…