Archive > January 2004

Cape Sable Island

Yet another “it’s cold in Canada” post. I am sitting in the computer room with the door closed and the heater on high and I am still freezing. My hands are shaking as I am typing this. Poor Angel has taken to sitting next to the heater under Chris’ desk; she has been there so [...]

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Chai

The first time I heard the word chai was in Madras, India. I remember the exact location and events that followed. It was the Boopathy Cafe across from the British Railway Station in Euston. I was having lunch with a girl from San Francisco who spent the last few minutes telling me that chai was [...]

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Sakana Grill Sushi School

I now know how to make a sushi boat, every last delicious morsel. This came about on Saturday when Street and I went to Sushi School at the Sakana Grill in Chinatown. Our host for the session was Tony the Chef, a very entertaining sushi master. His goal was to teach us 15 years of [...]

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Photos from Canada

Canada can be a not so nice place to live in the winter — mainly because of the weather. The weather in Calgary crappy right now and I just thought I would share. But, rather than doing a “the weather sucks in Calgary” post I decided to pull in the ranks of friends, bloggers and [...]

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