Yesterday I committed to riding to work every day, rain, sleet, snow or shine. It is time to become a one car family, so we are putting the Honda Civic up for sale on Craigslist. Check out the listing for more information if you are interested. We are asking $2500. If you know anyone that […]

Today we are mourning the passing of the van. I signed over ownership tonight and we will never see her again. Once I finish this post, I will sit down with a beer and remember the good times we had together. I am comforted knowing that she has gone to a better place though, where […]

It is official, I finally put the van up for sale today. I love the van and it runs great, but I just don’t drive it now that I am biking everywhere. I will be sad to see it go, but I know someone else out there will love it as much as I do. […]

It’s not a joke, on Sunday, the British explorer Lewis Pugh swam for nearly 19 minutes in the open water at the North Pole. Until recently, the North Pole was constantly covered in thick ice, so Pugh did the swim to raise awareness of the devastating effects of global warming. The water was -1.8°C and […]

I was reading an older article in the NY Times this morning about how little the average American knows about science. I am sure that Canadian statistics wouldn’t be much better, but it makes you wonder how a democratic society can make intelligent decisions about issues like global warming or nuclear energy when they don’t have the […]