By Jonathan
As human beings we are expert procrastinators and excuse makers. We will find nearly any reason to put things off. And we make those reasons sound really good. We will dress them up in clever language that let’s us convince ourselves (and others, if we possibly can) that it’s really not out choice. Here are some phrases that should be immediately removed from you vocabulary. When the time is right… And when will that be…
By Jonathan
I recently made the decision to rekindle my interest in art, more specifically, drawing with coloured pencils. As a result I found myself sorting through some old art supplies which had been in storage. As I was flipping through the pages of one of my sketch books, three pages fell to the ground. My fiancée was with me and was eager to see what was in the book, so I quickly snatched them up just…
By Jonathan
My girlfriend and I recently took a road trip to celebrate our anniversary, and one of the towns we passed through isn’t even a town at all anymore. It’s a small ghost town in south-eastern BC that apparently was once one the the largest and most prosperous towns around during the silver rush days. It was the first town in BC to have electricity in every building, and among other interesting statistics once featured about…
By Jonathan
As I was putting around the house this morning I suddenly had the old saying, “it’s a labour of love” running through my mind. They kept popping up over and over, and I kept shrugging them off as just another random thought. It’s been a long week, and I have a lot of odd and ends to catch up one today, I didn’t have time to give it any further consideration. But then it’s suddenly…
By Jonathan
It’s been a while. Here’s why (warning: the majority of this article is off topic). I am writing this on a brand new Lenovo W520 mobile workstation. It’s a beautiful machine. It’s fast, quiet, has an amazing full HD screen, it’s loaded with ram, and the battery life is downright incredible for such a powerful laptop. But this is not the laptop I ordered. I ordered a W510, and I ordered it back in February…
By Jonathan
These days it seems that tolerance has become *the* most critical of all virtues. We are expected to tolerate everything, and if we don’t then it is a virtual guarantee that we will find ourselves on the receiving end of some harsh criticism by the politically correct crowd. But is tolerance always a good thing? I think not. In fact, I can think of many things that we should not be tolerant of, such as…