Marisol Jasmine Lam Clarke
Posted on December 26, 2021
Diana and I made a baby. We arrived at the hospital on Saturday afternoon. This was the first time I had been able to accompany Diana to any of her appointments because of Covid. The nurse wrapped up Diana’s belly and attached some robot ears. Then I heard our baby’s...
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Prince Edward County Property Shopping
Posted on October 14, 2019
Recently I wrote about my theories on the impending de-urbanization of Canada. This weekend, I decided to put my money where my mouth is. Diana and I visited Prince Edward County to look at real estate. The ideal investment for us is a 3-6 acre rural residential waterfront property close...
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Musk de-urbanization
Posted on September 18, 2019
Admiral Elon Musk with his fleet of companies will de-urbanize Canada. Cities are great at storing people. Utilities, transport, & infrastructure are efficiently centralized. However Canadian cities are ripe for disruption. Utilities People need electricity, internet, & water to live comfortably. These utilities are easily accessible in cities. Elon Musk...
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Being Canadian
Posted on January 1, 2019
Canada has been my wonderful home for 5 years now. As an Australian, it was an easy cultural transition. After a couple of vocabulary changes, I felt like I comfortably fit in. Recently, I had a rare unpleasant experience while selling our boat on Kijiji and it felt very un-Canadian....
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Border Bounce part 2 (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 14
Posted on October 8, 2017
This episode, the crew of Catsaway spends their time back in Canada to get more prepared for their border crossing. We were able to source a used Zodiac 8’ RIB dinghy, with a 8hp Yamaha outboard. We bought it at a great price, and decided to license it for our...
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Border Bounce part 1 (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 13
Posted on September 29, 2017
This week we move onto the boat, travel to Oswego and get bounced back to Canada. The last couple weeks in Ottawa were a whirlwind of activity - getting the solar system installed on the boat, trying to get a renter for the house, finishing up work, packing the house...
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Fixing boats and naming Catsaway (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 12
Posted on September 20, 2017
This week we welcome our friend Charles back, fix the hole in the floor, rename the boat and prepare for becoming liveaboards. Charles used plywood and fiberglass to reinforce the floor. The cut out section had gotten a little warped, so Charles and Greg stood on it while the fiberglass...
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Gemini 105M Boat Tour (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 11
Posted on September 13, 2017
Welcome to our home for the next year! We live on a 1998 Gemini 105M (Hull 605) named Catsaway. She is 34 feet long (10.21m) and has a 14 foot beam (4.27m). She weights about 4 tons, but only sits about 1.5 feet (0.46m) deep in the water. The 105M...
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Learning to Sail Upwind on a Catamaran (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 09
Posted on August 11, 2017
This week we become temporary liveabords (if that even makes sense)! Some things on our list of work to be done included changing the oil and filter, find out how to successfully sail upwind, and rebedding one of our front hatches. The oil was more complicated than we had anticipated....
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Close Call - learning to dock (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 08
Posted on August 2, 2017
This week Diana’s parents came to visit us in Kingston, Ontario. We took them on a brief sail (the winds were light and later died), and then later enrolled them to help us remove the old name from the hull. Finding out what worked for our boat was helpfully fueled...
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TOday
Posted on July 30, 2017
I’m spending some time pairing with a team member in Toronto in order to knowledge transfer as much as possible before our trip. For the next 4 days I’ll be a local. TOday (see what I did there) was spent exploring the city. The day finished with sore feet from...
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Our First Sail on SV Catsaway (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 07
Posted on July 26, 2017
This week we managed to adjust our rigging, set up our sails and finally get Catsaway sailing on the water. Setting up our jib was a good learning opportunity for us as neither of us had worked with a rolling furler. Diana was the only one who had set up...
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Pre-journey Preparation for our year long trip (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 06
Posted on July 21, 2017
This week we continue to prepare for our journey by: Launching our website. His Royal Highness Prince Charles came to Shopify HQs (Greg’s workplace), and assisting in launching 15 new online businesses. This was partially in celebration of this year’s Canada Day, which happened to be the 150th year of...
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Coming Home - motoring across Lake Ontario (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 05
Posted on July 12, 2017
In this episode, Catsaway gets her mast stepped and journeys to her temporary home in Kingston, Ontario. The crew at the Chaumont Yacht Club helped us step the mast. Due to time constraints, we didn’t wait to finish setting up the rigging, but departed immediately because of thunderstorms approaching. We...
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Hole in the Hull - we discovered a crack (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 04
Posted on July 5, 2017
This episode follows the delivery of our boat from Cape Cod, MA to Chaumont, NY. When the boat was picked up from Cape Cod, a 6 inch crack was discovered in the hull. By the time it was transported to the Chaumont Yacht Club, the crack had widened to 16...
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The Plan - sailing for a year (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 01
Posted on June 6, 2017
Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans but this is our attempt. We’re looking forward to adventure, new experiences, and learning new skills (including video editing). We’d appreciate feedback, ideas, and thoughts on our plan :) Crew: Admeowral Diana - Canadian, has never sailed, but is good with...
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Boat Shopping - finding a boat for us and our cats (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 02
Posted on May 30, 2017
This is the beginning of our sailing adventure with two people & two cats. This episode follows our boat shopping journey as we try to find the right sailing vessel for our upcoming trip. Our parameters included: 1) Comfortable cruising 2) Under $100,000 CDN 3) Bluewater ready/almost ready (we won’t...
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Starting an Ottawa Pixel War
Posted on November 15, 2015
Mario and I started a pixel war
Ottpixels
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Sen City
Posted on August 26, 2015
Ashley Madison user heat map for Canada’s Capital
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Fixie bikes aren't big in Ottawa
Posted on July 7, 2015
Busking in the ByWard Market
Posted on May 19, 2014
Chinatown Remixed Ottawa Performance
Posted on May 18, 2014
Quebec trip with my Mum
Posted on April 10, 2013
Cow with snow
Cow without snow
Road with snow
Road without snow
Franklin at Art Gallery
Franklin at Art Gallery
High tea with my Mum
Brick shadow
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Pizzly en Chaleur & My first French song
Posted on February 1, 2013
This is my first French song with a lot of help from Adrijana and Julie.
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Frost Goatee
Posted on January 18, 2013
Heading to Montreal
Posted on December 27, 2012
The sugar coated landscape has changed from ghostly white to pale blue now that the sun has disappeared. At times the windows are a single colour as the train throws up a cloud of winter. A snow storm and a 20 minute walk await me in Montreal hopefully followed quickly...
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Settling in to Canada
Posted on December 26, 2012
Seven and a half weeks later, pretty much Canadian eh? Acro yoga, friendly work mates, and a lovely housemate have made settling in easy. Ottawa has a really nice outdoorsy vibe and now that I’m dressed appropriately I can enjoy it. Tomorrow I set off for Montréal for seven days staying at a...
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Ruby Tuesday at Shopify notes
Posted on November 28, 2012
Tonight I’m playing with the Ottawian Ruby crowd at Ruby Tuesday hosted by Shopify. My notes are limited as there was free beer. First talk - Internationalization by @J3 Internationalization - done once localization - done at each location You should internationalization your code even if your only deploying to...
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My new leader/neighbour
Posted on November 23, 2012
Sloth Harper!
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Leaving for Canada
Posted on November 10, 2012
For the last 6 months I’ve had the awesome pleasure of working for Amnesty International Australia playing with databases. The purpose of the role was to automate processes and give internal sections more tools so they can do their job effectively. My sister Sam explained it succinctly as, removing the human from humanitarian....
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