by Shannon Graham | Mar 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Books can make us do odd things. There’s a passage in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, I think, where the god Odin is in a nursing home. His thunder and lightning days are done, he’s old and tired. Odin doesn’t want to do anything but sleep, and...
by Shannon Graham | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recyclistas is a bike shop that takes donated bikes and salvages them into cheap commuters. It’s located at the junction of three major cycling routes and has an open-plan workshop where people come for classes and shop time. It was originally instituted as a...
by Shannon Graham | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
… as young men often ask me, as they struggle to maintain interest while I spin off on a bike related tangent. Well, I’ll tell you. A polo bike is a rough looking, scratched up, bomb proof, 90’s style rigid mountain bike with a few modifications that...
by Shannon Graham | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
They make you learn recursion during first-year intro to programming courses. Some people get fed up at that point and drop out to become car salesmen or Liberal Arts majors instead. Some people never quite get it, but bodge their way through another four years of...
by Shannon Graham | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
With Archer on winter hiatus, I started watching Call the Midwife. Set in 1950’s Britain, it follows the struggles of a group of young nurses, employees of Britain’s infant National Health Service, as they deliver babies in the poorest neighbourhood of London. An...
