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I’m a week into my vegetarian diet and need to make some notes about how it’s going so far. My meals have been something like this for the most part: Breakfast: coffee + vitamin supplements (omega-3, calcium-magnesium, pro-biotic and vitamin D) Lunch: Quinoa or Bean Salad Supper: A Big Salad I did lose 2-3 lbs [...]

I’ve decided that my current investment strategy for my RRSP investments of set it and forget it just hasn’t been performing very well. The new strategy is one I got from my boss at work and it’s super simple. I’m still open to taking on a lot of risk in my portfolio so I don’t [...]

It was several years ago now that I did a dietary experiment and only ate meat for a month. It was shortly after reading the book Good Calories Bad Calories in which I learned about several people who lived on a primarily meat based diet and were very healthy. The main argument in the book [...]

It’s that time of the year to file taxes and I have heard, read and discussed about which is the best place to save money. Before getting to my thoughts and the math behind them just a quick note. The banks have done an amazing job at selling their products and convincing their customers to [...]

For the past week I have been putting in some time working on Art for a game. I think it’s looking really good so far – probably my best drawings yet. The lighting/shadows are consistant between all the characters and the background image, and colors are getting close to perfect for the feel I’m going [...]

Last week the Royal Canadian Mint launched a competition to generate some buzz, and proof of concept ideas for their new form of currency called MintChip:   I’ve entered myself into the competition which is limited to 500 participants to develop an App that will make make use of this next generation of currency. It [...]

The book Emergency by Neil Strauss is about one man’s journey to be self sufficient in the event of an emergency.  He goes to great lengths to learn the skills to survive in the wilderness and in an urban environment, as well as put together enough contingincies plans and supplies to get himself to a [...]

I’m continually re-learning just how difficult it is to do a good job on the artwork for a game.  Photoshop and Illustrator are fairly intense tools and mastering them takes years.  yet I struggle by trying to get things to look good enough that I’m happy with. If only I had the money to just [...]

After a personally disappointing result from the St. Patrick’s Day 10K it’s become apparent that I have gotten out of shape.  Starting this on Monday this week I started on an aggressive weight loss program to get back down to a reasonable weight and an exercise regiment to get my cardio back up for a much [...]

I don’t like TV.  It is a time sink that prevents me from getting things done like getting in shape, finishing my software projects, or practising on the drums.  However from time to time I like getting through a show or watching a movie. Over the weekend we picked up an Apple TV.  It’s a brilliant little [...]