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Hamilton streets for the people published in The Spec
Exciting news! I have another opinion article published in my local newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator:
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Star Citizen's Tony Zurovec describes a scalable simulation based on real world quantum mechanics
It’s a lot of fun to watch Tony Z, the head of their Persistent Universe group, talk about his latest wizardry. I’ve written about Star Citizen before, so I won’t rehash the introduction. As I wrote before, the greatest thing about SC is that it’s a sandbox game. You can go anywhere, do anything, live a life, grow old and die, all the best parts of old school D&D sandbox games like I used to play as a kid.
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An introduction to The Wind Rises (2013) — for my movie club
For The Westdale Cinema’s virtual movie club series.
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Meeting the Beatles in India (2020) movie review
I wrote this up as a review on IMDb—the first review on IMDb for this film—and I thought I ought to post it here as well.
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A couple of opinion pieces published in my local newspaper
I’ve been fortunately recently to have two opinion pieces published by my local newspaper. I’m a bit old-fashioned perhaps when I submitted these to a print newspaper instead of something online, but it was enjoyable to see them in print.
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Climate Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic
I recently read an opinion article in the local paper arguing – rightly – that climate change is a much greater threat than the pandemic. But unfortunately it lead off by saying that climate change caused the pandemic:
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Star Citizen
It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about a video game.
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Everything I know about photography I learned from Ken Rockwell (part one)
I walked outside on a spring day in 2018 and saw this great sky above me. I didn’t have my camera so I just used my iPhone. I shot literally straight up into the air. I turned it into black and white afterwards using Apple Photos. Nothing fancy. View on 500px -
Urban density is more complicated than you might think
Density is often seen as the cure for what ails our cities, our mental health, and the environment, and rightly so. Density is great for all those things. But density is also complicated. There is good density and not-so-good density. Staying in an Airbnb on the 37th floor of a Toronto highrise last week reminded me of why.
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A textbook example (Semacode)
My first startup was Semacode, the world’s first downloadable QR Code scanner. When I tell people my entrepreneurship story, I tell them that my first company was a technological and press success, but a business failure. We were covered in Wired and the Economist, and we did make some money, but not that much. Ultimately, we never figured out how to make a business out of it. That was a big mistake. I thought I had a product, but actually what I had was a technology.