If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going to end up someplace else. — Yogi Berra My ambition is to travel over land from Singapore to Istanbul. I don’t really mind ending up somewhere else, but I’ve selected that as a reasonable goal — far beyond anything I’ve done before, but doable. As I’ve…
Month: September 2007
seriously, Rules of the Game?
Edward Copeland has compiled his internet-surveyed list of the top-voted non-English-language films (you can see how I voted here). Kudos to him for doing it — it was no small feat, and a list like this is useful and interesting to a whole lot of people, including myself. But the list itself left me unsatisfied….
Singapore to Istanbul 2: travel planning and philosophy
“Not many people got a code to live by anymore.” — Bud, Repo Man Okay, I’m obviously not going to be able to do this while saddled with grad-school debts, so this winter (2007-2008), I’ll be going on leave from UBC to work full-time for a start-up I’ve been associated with since I started my…
Canadian Indie-Rock Primer
Don’t you love it when two awesome things come together? My fave pop-culture web site, The A.V. Club delivers a cool primer — complete with tons of videos — on the Canadian indie music scene, which has just been going from great to Ubergreat for the past few years. It’s a pretty cool introduction to…
Travel Geek: Singapore to Istanbul
Singapore to Istanbul, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird . I’m not remotely a hard-core traveller. I grew up in Saskatchewan, in a fairly large lower-middle class household (some of my early years were in a trailer in northern Saskatchewan). International travel always seemed like an unattainable, exotic thing. As a family, the Brochus took…