Nairobi

TRU participates in a program called Leave for Change, which “matches the needs of partners in developing countries with the skills of Canadian partner organizations to build capacity at both ends”. Essentially, employees donate vacation time toward volunteer assignments managed by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and TRU covers additional expenses. I know […]

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Hits, misses and runs

Some things I might have posted to Twitter… if Twitter wasn’t run by this guy. So yes. Elon Musk picked a fight with a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular distrophy on a public twitter thread, hoping to humiliate a parasitic do-nothing employee, and instead revealed the damage done as he continues to smash his $44 […]

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First gig

A sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles burst from a kind of juke box at the far end of the room. Everybody quit talking. The bartender tiptoed back, with the drinks. “What’s happening?” Oedipa whispered. “That’s by Stockhausen,” the hip graybeard informed her, “the early crowd tends to dig your Radio Cologne sound. Later on […]

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It’s the Abject Super Bowl Spectacular! Picks and prop bets! (“What time does the Super Bowl start?”)

This film is less than six minutes long. It’s very well made, with a dark hypnotic beauty. I barely made it through. Filmmaker Josh Begley captures the 280 (reported) concussions in this year’s NFL season. Field of Vision – Concussion Protocol from Field of Vision on Vimeo. Made as a collaboration between Field of Vision […]

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