Once again, I offer up the traditional challenge I make on this holiday:

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick about it for you.

This tradition dates back quite a while now, with iterations in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 which you can peruse at your leisure ( Read more... )

Longtime readers here will already be familiar with the traditional challenge I always make on this holiday:

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick about it for you.

Whether or not you're familiar with this, you can look at the various examples from 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 for amusement and inspiration ( Read more... )

Completely ignoring any of the ideas or suggestions for posts mentioned in my previous entry, I am instead returning to one of the long-standing traditions of this blog...

As seen in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, I will once again offer up a challenge for anyone reading this:

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick ( Read more... )

As anyone checking in here can tell, I haven't exactly been the world's most prolific blogger, with a whopping two posts in all of 2012 ( Read more... )

Keeping up the proud tradition started in 2008 and continued in 2009, 2010, and 2011, I would once again like to offer up a challenge in honour of the holiday for anyone reading this:

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick about it for you.Please keep it to one topic per comment--though you can comment more than once, ( Read more... )

Those of you who've known me for a while will already be aware that I occasionally do a bit of film work, though I don't talk about it that much. Most of what gets filmed in Winnipeg is made for television or direct-to-video, so (even though I've plugged some things I've worked on in the past) I tend to think of it now as something I quietly do on ( Read more... )

Just as I've previously done in 2008, 2009, and 2010, I would once again like to offer up a challenge in honour of the holiday for anyone reading this...

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick about it for you.In the past, I've come up with limericks on subjects as diverse as the Canadarm, Fruit Roll-Ups, and ( Read more... )

I had turned into quite the regular visitor of the whole Gawker Media family of sites, especially io9 (ostensibly their science-fiction blog, but really a catch-all site for whatever they feel like posting), over the past couple of years--enough that I was a "starred commenter" on some of them (which gives your comments more prominence, along with ( Read more... )

After nineteen days overseas, I've travelled to and through six countries on three continents across eight timezones, traversed almost twenty thousand kilometres using five airlines, spent money in four currencies, spoken at least briefly in five languages, taken over a thousand photographs, researched seven generations of my family tree, heard ( Read more... )

I've mentioned this to a few people on my friendslist already, but I'm heading off for a two-week trip to Europe very shortly. Just about all of my time will be spent in Portugal, despite an itinerary which includes momentary stops in three other countries ( Read more... )