The banking app blues…?
I tend to put my apps in “folders” (boxes?) on my iPhone, themed by category. I noticed ...
11 May, 2021
IKEA ?? and the American Refrigerator ??
I have recently been doing some research into a kitchen renovation project. The two main components,...
01 May, 2021
15 Sud ?
Driving into Montreal (where I have recently moved) I was using, as I generally do when driving, Goo...
24 April, 2021
Francais ?? <-> ?? English
Since early this year my partner and I have kept a list where we add a new French word that we learn...
09 June, 2020
Predictive Poetry ✍️
Mother’s Day (at least in Canada) was on May 10. Seeing as my mother, who lives in Nova Scotia, is...
12 May, 2020
Coronacademics ?
To be clear, this post is not any sort of rigorous (or even unrigorous) analysis, but just a “...
14 April, 2020
All Models… ?
In this time where everyone is coming out with their own bespoke model of the Covid-19 epidemic ther...
07 April, 2020
Visual Schedule ?
I have been using a countdown timer that breaks my time up into different work and break segments. I...
31 March, 2020
Piñata Cake
I remember being in a high school class in France (I was on a Rotary Club exchange) and the teacher ...
23 March, 2020
J’atteste…!
Life in France has experienced a few alterations over the last weeks due to concerns over the spread...
17 March, 2020
CA$H…
I think a good rule of thumb is to assume that if someone is proposing some sort of financial transa...
16 March, 2020
MT-eh
I moved from New York to Toronto in the fall of 2016 to begin a PhD. When I pass through my old home...
09 March, 2020
Smart (?) Pick
I came across a photo I had taken last May while in the hospital waiting area (at Mt. Sinai in Toron...
02 March, 2020
Google Maps + Hills
Just an observation that Google maps accounts for hills when estimating walk time. Which is a though...
24 February, 2020
99 Carrefours…
At our apartment in Belleville, Paris, we lived within a 6 minute walk of four Carrefour grocery sto...
20 February, 2020
How to keep your phone number while abroad…
I have been living in Paris for 3 weeks, as of tomorrow, and finally figured out the phone situation...
22 October, 2019
Paris Velib’ ?
Initially, I was impressed that the public/city bike option in Paris offered both regular and electr...
08 October, 2019
Bike Racks
In Boston today I was walking into a CVS when I noticed that next to each tree the city had carefull...
21 March, 2019
SSSS
I tried to check in for my flight to Boston in advance and, at the very end (after entering all of m...
20 March, 2019
Some sort of pun using cheque for check
I had to order cheques recently. I won’t be sad if this is the last time that I have to do thi...
26 February, 2019
Website reboot…
At some point it will be time to leave WordPress templates and the hodgepodge of plugins/css/sliders...
18 February, 2019
DICOM -> BIDS
A friend asked if I could share some scripts to get fMRI data in proper BIDS format. So I thought it...
18 February, 2019
The 8 Hour App…
On weekends my girlfriend and I (and sometimes others who join) have been attempting to set aside a ...
18 November, 2018