Life Out the Window

A few months ago I set up a site at mapwonk.com…..because apparently with my day job of building and maintaining websites, various pro-bono work and lifeoutthewindow I don’t feel like I have enough web-work to do. Now apparently I’m even … Continue reading →

The Problem Imagine this: You’re working on an important site or design for a client. It’s Sunday morning and you’re camped out in the back of a Starbucks, not because the coffee is good (it isn’t), but because it has … Continue reading →

So recently, and more than once I’ve had people look down their noses at me when I say that I spend a lot of time on Youtube. It’s as if I’m openly admitting to having some peculiar kitten fetish or … Continue reading →

If you ask me what my most prized posession is I would tell you about my great grandfather’s fiddle. It’s been in the family 3 generations now and it connects me to my heritage of east-coast fiddle music. If you … Continue reading →

For a number of years now I’ve been using the fishman v100 pickup for all my gigging. I say ALL my gigging but until recently I was only using it at the odd Plastic Acid concert or once perhaps occasionally for a fiddle jam. … Continue reading →

Vancouver is a bigger city than you think.... luckily you can use a bicycle to see most of it. Continue reading →

In which our hero defends himself from a zombie horde.... or horny neighbours. Continue reading →

3D modeling in some of the most rural environments on earth. Recently I was able to join a friend on a scouting mission to eastern Tanzania to survey a couple of schools that were being considered for medium-sized solar power … Continue reading →