Author: trevor

What This Year Was, And What The Next Will Be

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This year was good to me. It was. I can look back at January and realize that I had just started working at a school that wasn’t quite yet a school, making peanuts and generally being totally unsure of where I was going and what I was doing. I’m still plenty unsure about where things are going, but I’m a lot more secure in my insecurities. I buried a lot of insecurities this year. I have a generally older peer group, and 2013 is the year in which I owned…

5 Reasons Why You Should Support Cardamom & Cloves’ Indiegogo Campaign

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Cardamom & Cloves is an upcoming herbs & spices shop in Ottawa. It’s on track to open, and Jodi, the proprietress, is running an Indiegogo campaign to help launch the store with the appropriate level of pomp and awesome that the foodie community here in Ottawa deserves. Here are 5 reasons why you should support the campaign in its last 14 hours. 5. Ottawa is a frozen, blasted wasteland and we’ll turn to cannibalism without it. Don’t let the pretty lights fool you. Ottawa is the last bastion against the…

Let’s Stop Asking Why We Should Study Literature, and Start Asking What English Class Is For

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I’ve been wondering a lot lately what the hell I’m doing. I treat my English class like my own personal rumpus room. What do I think is fun or interesting? What do I think it’s important for my students to know? What is in the news that I feel like talking about that day? It makes for a lot of great class discussions. One of my students from last term, walking past my classroom, said to me between classes, “Monsieur, I don’t know what you were teaching before, but it…

CLWPP Episode 14: Some Mayors Just Want to Watch the World Burn

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Will and Greg talk about Rob Ford and whether or not the Province should take a role in handling the ongoing situation in Toronto. Then it’s time to check in with the upcoming federal by-elections. Also featuring a special appearance by #sfbatkid. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/spillway.ca/podcasts/clwpp/CLWPP14.mp3] iTunes | | Stitcher (NEW!) | Download MP3 | RSS feed  

Guilt and KSP

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I’ve been playing a bit of 0.22, which is the career mode update to Kerbal Space Program. I’m enjoying it, but perhaps not as much as I thought. I’m simply not good enough at the game to earn science points easily. I’m not stuck at the second tier of research, but I’m not sure how much fun it will be to get to the next. I may dive back into sandbox mode, but I feel like slugging it out. I bought into the game at this early stage; I feel…

Failure to Communicate

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Natalie Joy is a cutie. And I love drawing her. It’s a rare gift to have a muse, model, best friend, and partner, all in one. I am drawing on my new phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and it is WONDERFUL. The Wacom-powered S Pen stylus is spectacular, and the built-in version of Autodesk Sketchbook is a delight to use. Not to mention that the bundled Samsung apps are surprisingly good. S Note in particular, with its Evernote integration, is a lot of fun to sketch in. I also…