Mother’s Day (at least in Canada) was on May 10. Seeing as my mother, who lives in Nova Scotia, is a total of 16,657 kilometres away from her four children we did a Zoom Mother’s Day call. The idea was that we (kids and partners...
Just an observation that Google maps accounts for hills when estimating walk time. Which is a thoughtful feature. I realized this when reversing the directions from my apartment in Paris to a nearby grocery store, and noticing that the estimated walk time went from 4...
At our apartment in Belleville, Paris, we lived within a 6 minute walk of four Carrefour grocery stores. There were other grocery stores, as well, within that 6 minute walk radius. And an additional Carrefour at 8 minutes...
In Boston today I was walking into a CVS when I noticed that next to each tree the city had carefully designed and installed a sign discouraging people from locking their bikes to the trees. I couldn't help but be struck by the amount of...
I had to order cheques recently. I won't be sad if this is the last time that I have to do this, and it is the first time that I have actually "purchased" cheques. In the past I have always received a few when opening...
On weekends my girlfriend and I (and sometimes others who join) have been attempting to set aside a block of time (ca. 3 hours) where we play around with some sort of coding project unrelated to our work/research. This Saturday my idea was to combine a...