Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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Boston Pizza for Lunch
I went for a lovely lunch at the Metrotown location of Boston Pizza today with my mother and my sister. I had a plate of fettuccine noodles with a wonderfully complex Mediterranean pasta sauce. The sauce was loaded with grilled red peppers, red onions, spinach, and artichoke hearts, feta cheese, and more. Quite a complex…
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Banh mi at Pho Holiday
I have been struggling with a serious shoulder injury over the last six weeks, an injury that has made my appetite virtually disappear. It is totally out of the norm for me but I simply do not have an appetite for food. However, as a result of my loss if appetite I’ve lost quite a…
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Mr Chilli Spices Up East Hastings Street
The south-side of the block of Hastings Street just east of Boundary Road where Mr Chilli is located is a totally non-descript strip of businesses. A couple of used book stores, Comor Sports on the corner, a float tank shop, and well, not much else going on along the block. Perhaps a challenging location for a…
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Google Classroom; Link to an Existing Assignment
Some of my colleagues have asked how they can make it so that a particular assignment they have posted on their Google Classroom Stream can become a “recurring” task. For example, you do not want to have to create a new assignment each week telling students to write in their journals. However, students often need…
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BC Hop Company Opening in Abbotsford
The BC Hop Company is hoping to quench the thirst for a key ingredient in B.C.’s growing craft beer sector. In an effort to provide the B.C. industry with a consistent supply of high-quality and local dry hops, the BC Hop Company is building a processing facility in Abbotsford that will include new technologies currently…
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Adam Bellow on Doing More With Less
The fact of the matter is, technology has an ever increasing role in the education system. So I found Adam Bellow’s blog post on Edutopia to be quite an interesting read. The highlights from the blog post for me were: Make sure tech training is available on a continuous basis. That is part of the…
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My Shoulder Report
On the last day of school before I was to begin my summer holiday I went to the park with my kids. I was literally sitting on a park bench reading a book about a new type of computer I had just bought – a Pi-topCEED which is powered by a micro computer called a…
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Alice Keeler on Fixing Google Docs you Copy and Paste
Now that I have made the switch to using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for most of my teacher-stuff and lesson plans, I no longer struggle with the “all the beautiful formatting I did in the Word doc got messed up!” That’s because when I want to write something or create an assignment, now I…
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Joe Fafard; Retailles at the Burnaby Art Gallery
On the evening of Thursday June 23rd I had the pleasure of meeting the Canadian art iconic Joe Fafard, one of Canada’s most recognized and prolific artists Joe Fafard is one of Canada’s leading professional visual artists and has exhibitions of a wide variety of work in galleries and museums across the country and around the…
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BC Superweek and the Giro di Burnaby
On Thursday, July 14th 2016 (that’s TOMORROW!!!) the Giro di Burnaby returns to the Burnaby Heights neighbourhood for its ninth year. Professional cyclists from all over the globe will race on the fast and technical 1.3km closed loop course on Hastings Street competing for over $15,000 in prize money. Giro di Burnaby Schedule: 3:00pm –…
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