Separate Calgary Bike Lanes

I loved this article I found in the Calgary Sun. It was written just after a major snow dump in December. There were 5 foot tall drifts and people couldn't even get out of a parking lot. The article  pretty much sumed up exactly how I feel about this bureaucratic nonsense of improving Calgary's bike-ability. They are constantly  wasting our money and resources placing additional signs and road paint trying to make it a more bike friendly city. And that's fine, I love biking,  but a lot of what they are doing is just nonsense like placing "single file" signs every half block on side streets, or "share the road" signs in other areas. Not to mention the latest rounds of removing actual parking and road lanes in favor of permanent bike only lanes. Maybe someone in city hall will read this and finally realize what a waste of our tax dollars all this is, just to please 1% of the population.

Cursive a Dying Art

Schools slowly removing cursive writing lessons from their curriculum. I had to learn it and still to this day can remember it, and am grateful for it. I think with the prevalence of technology the need to keep some regular writing lessons is more then ever before. One must remember that it was the only way major documents were written hundreds of years ago. When you lose the ability to write it you also lose the ability to read it. 

Capitalist Suzuki

Me and my father really enjoyed this article talking about Suzuki. In it is talk about his multiple houses, and even an island co-owned with a large oil company. That is all fine and dandy until you set your life's goal to preaching and teaching the whole world how to save the planet. He would be so much more respectable if he just lived more of a simple life I guess. You make your own decision, here is the article for your perusal.

Stampede Boys Ranch Alberta

A few people I grew up with as a teenager went to this ranch. And one of them was my best friend at the time who ended up taking his own life in his early twenties. I had heard so many stories of this place from that group of people but had never really seen it or could barely imagine it. So when I saw this article I thought I would post it for everyone to see, and also in honor of my friend who passed on so long ago.


This is for you Steve Doyle

Algae Free Aquarium

Been running this tank for almost 15 years. Made a video for youtube a few years ago and someone was asking why so much algae. I'm not sure why because I haven't changed anything but now a days, as you can see, it is algae free.

Pacifiers Contain Lead

I'm more curious about exactly what is the "higher-than-allowed" level of lead?!

Google Lists Calgary NE as "The Properties"

I've been living in Calgary since I was four years old and I have never heard of the north east section of Calgary described as "The Properties" but yet here on Google it is labeled as such. Has anyone heard of this term or maybe knows of its origins?