100 days — writingAug 16, 2026

Wormwood & Underwood

I am old enough to know how to change the ribbon on a manual typewriter. One that smells of wormwood and sugar cubes, scarred with cigarette burns. Would I write on one today? Maybe for a page.

adventuresNov 15, 2020

Step One in the Apocalypse

Apocalypse Training If I learned anything from the eighties its to have a mohawk in the apocalypse. And chaps. And a motorcycle. I'm literally built for this timeline. Panda and I…

life at homeJan 13, 2022

Option Number Three

In this new house we live in I have a workshop right off my office, and for the last few months it has been a disaster area. Boxes of drone parts, small drones, medium drones,…

work & creativityJan 18, 2022

Make With The Clicky

When I started the ‘100 Days Project’ part of the setup was making it easy for people to subscribe to the blog and get it in their inbox every morning. There were a couple of…

adventuresJan 24, 2022

Old Dog Tricks

As much as I like to entertain people, I also want to educate, to wit: In 1523, a book was published called ‘ John Fitzherbert’s Book of Husbandry’ ; in it, Fitzherbert postulated…

adventuresMar 24, 2022

Motorcycle Migraine Therapy

Time to call in the bomb squad and save the day. It was +20°c yesterday in Calgary, and my migraine was off the charts. If I were a canary in a coal mine, there would just be a…

work & creativityJan 6, 2022

Factors of Authentication

I've been spending a lot of time doing online-type stuff lately. Not social media or anything, just building websites, tools, campaigns, doing banking, watching crypto disappear…