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New House

We bought a new house!
Pretty exciting stuff, as it is a detached house in a slightly better area. By that I mean that we are now in the school catchment that we wanted to be in so the kid can go to JK with all his friends from his daycare. Still in the same neighbourhood, [...]

Damian Conway Blew My Mind

Two nights ago I attended Damian Conway’s excellent talk: “Temporally Quaquaversal Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces … Made Easy!” My notes said that he left out the “Virtual Nanomachine” part of the talk title, although he did talk about virtual nanomachines.
The talk was a preview of the keynote session that Damian will [...]

I Went To Detroit Eatery For a Burger … And All I Got Was The Stanley Cup

So my friend Pat The Lawyer and I went for lunch. I felt like a burger, so I suggested we go to Detroit Eatery on the Danforth. Good burgers and a pretty cool place — school kids at lunch sitting besides regulars and the hipsters, too.
The place is crazy decked out with Red Wings memorabilia, [...]

Toronto Real Estate

The wife and I are sitting around, trying to figure out if we can buy a new house. We’re looking to move slightly up into a different school catchment, but stay in the same overall ‘hood. So I cooked up a spreadsheet that calculates all the variables that I could think of:

What we’d sell this [...]