Today is April 5th, 2009. More than that, it is the first day of Summer here in Central Ontario. “Wait a second,” you’re saying, “I thought the Summer Solstice wasn’t until June 21st (05:45, to be precise)?” While you would be correct, this is not the definition of the first day of Summer that I [...]

I know that I haven’t been around much lately, but don’t worry, I’m working on a couple posts regarding A) my new apartment and B) my new M.A.Sc. position at UTIAS/SFL. In the meantime, I nearly fell off my chair watching this video: I don’t know what they were dangling to make that cat come forward, [...]

It seems that a Japanese company known as Genepax is touting an over-sized battery as a fuel cell that runs on plain old water and air. The system uses what the company has termed a “membrane electrode assembly,” or MEA, to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen through a “chemical reaction.” Well of course it’s [...]

I have always thoroughly enjoyed reading Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes. I find that Watterson — through Calvin — experiences the world in much the same way as myself, allowing me to connect with his characters on a much deeper level than most comics. One aspect of this is Calvin’s incessant curiousity in the world around [...]