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10/17/10
Sleep Number Beds
We have been looking around for a more comfortable bed for a long time. We also stay up really late on occasions, so we are often drawn in by late-night infomercials.
You can hardly flip a channel in the wee hours without happening across bed commerci… more »
04/02/10
Blocking Unwanted Callers
I must admit, a few months ago, we were bandying about the idea of changing our phone number.
Why?
The incessant barrage of telemarketers and scammers was getting to be too much. They outpaced our actual calls from friends and family by about a 4:1… more »
02/06/10
Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Part V
No book by a creationist would be complete without an obligatory reference to Michael Denton's infamous book, Evolution, a Theory in Crisis:Michael Denton points out that 97.7 percent of living orders of land vertebrates are represented as fossils an… more »
10/02/09
Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Part IV
Sarfati spends quite some time on transitional fossils. It is in fact one of the main rallying cries of creationism that there are no transitional fossils.It is not difficult to see why this would be a sticking point with creationists. Genesis has th… more »
08/08/09
Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Part III
We continue on with "Contrasting the Models".Now, he starts off with a reasonable diagram of the evolutionary picture as a "tree", though he can't help but interject that the common ancestor "itself evolved from non-living chemicals". Not part of the… more »
07/25/09
Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Part II
"The Basis of Modern Science" aims initially to show that a whole pile of very useful scientists were creationists. The list is a little laughable in that many of the members listed predate even Darwin's birth, but regardless of 'membership in the club',… more »
06/18/09
Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Part I
I picked up this book at a charity book sale for the SPCA out in Cochrane. It is morbidly fascinating to see books that purport to take down an entire scientific edifice. I took a pencil with me when I first started reading it, because I thought I might… more »
07/23/08
FoldIt!
For a fan of biology, as well as of puzzle games in general, this is one of the most amazing things I have seen in a long time.
Now, we already have things like Folding@Home, which is a distributed project that attempts to find low-energy conformation… more »
07/21/08
Baby Einstein Colour Kaleidoscope
This is just an awesome baby toy.
We bought this when Axel was seven months old. It was not too long after moving into our new house, and we thought that perhaps having some toys that were specifically "crib toys" might help occupy him when he was goi… more »
05/27/08
Plant-Crazy
Our new place has a much bigger garden than our previous townhouse.
It did not sink in how much more so until we brought some of our precious plants from the townhouse to the new garden. The chunk of garden at the top of the yard held what was already… more »
04/14/08
Final Death of an Iconic Restaurant
The Westin's iconic, classy Owl's Nest restaurant, after morphing into the "O. N. Grill", which I did not have the chance to visit, has finally packed it in. What do we have there instead? A Keg.
I do not like fancy restaurants, by and by, but the Owl… more »
02/10/08
Fantastic Voyage : Kurzweil and Grossman
Fantastic Voyage: The Science Behind Radical Life Extension, is a bit of a weird book.
Much of the book is essentially a diet plan, believe it or not. Take the Atkins diet, remove red meat and add alkalinized water, your least favourite vegetables in… more »
12/29/07
Itzbeen
Dena bought this little unit before our son was born. It didn't seem all that useful to start with, but this says more about what parenting in the first few weeks consists of than it says about the usefulness of the Itzbeen. You don't need timers to tell… more »
11/29/07
I Like Hugo's "In Three Months" Series
When I was at my sister's wedding in the UK, my relatives offered to look after our baby for a few minutes while we rampaged through one of Rochester's used bookshops, "Baggins".
It was far too big for a decent perusal of any sort, but before I left t… more »
08/10/07
Gold Seal "Tunaesque" Salmon
Here's something that might not last, and that'd be a bit of a shame: tinned salmon without bones.
It's Gold Seal's Flaked Pacific Pink Salmon, Skinless and Boneless. They have affixed an explanatory note to the top of the can:
NEW! Mild, tuna-like… more »
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