Sink design: commom ux failure
The faucet is often too close to the back of the basin, causing water to go everywhere. The basin is beautiful and large, but the position of the faucet renders it significantly less useful.
Victoria is a city of dead trees and friends
Ben and Kelly in a log…
Victoria is a city of fishing people
Fishing people sitting on the breakwater with their fishing rods…
Victoria is a city of young people
Ben Cory and Kelly Cummins on the breakwater in Victoria, back in the day…
New tagline
Some recent blog posts about bias and hypocrisy have got me thinking about how the heck we know stuff. How the heck do we know stuff? What counts as justification for our beliefs. And why are we wrong so often? These are questions that get me riled. They always have…
Arrivals
Ben and Kelly at the Victoria airport.
the Calgary Stampede’s growing public relations challenge
AMERICAN HUMANE monitored the animal action. No animals were harmed.
At the beach. Tide is out. Ice cream!
Eating ice cream on the West Coast…
National Post on global warming climate destabilization
The National Post has a decidedly denialist narrative. Do a search for “National Post climate change” and you get a series of articles on the brave scientists “bucking the conventional wisdom.” Or, if you prefer the second choice, you get a series of article tagged “climate change” by Peter Foster, Lorne Gunter and Rex Murphy:…
Questions for Michael Shermer
I’ve been a big fan of Skeptic Magazine for many years. And I am a big fan of science. My thesis was about, in part, science and the philosophy of science. I have some science training and I have some understanding for the way various institutions of science operate.1 I say all of this because…
Moving time.
Moving!
