Vellum

As much as I like Scrivener and MS Word for the act of writing my books, I’ve never been too happy with the offering on PC for the typeset and layout of my books. I’d been looking at Vellum on the IOS platform to help me correct that. Of course at the time I didn’t …

Generator 2 with Cmdr. Chris Hadfield

Last night Darleen and I went to Generator 2. It’s a bit hard to describe the show’s format. It’s sort of TED Talk meets, Music with some performance art thrown in for good measure. We’d been at the inaugural show the year before and as I’m a fan of Cmdr. Hadfield (because excellence should always …

National Museum of the USAF Part 1

This trip was a bit of a different bent for me as it was going to be a group ride and not my usual solo affair. The plan was to get to Dayton, OH from Mississauga in a day with a brief stop at Iron Pony in Westerville, OH about 80 miles from Dayton. I …

Toronto Maker Faire 2014

I went with Kathleen to the Faire yesterday.  It was being held in the Toronto Reference Library, which was itself an impressive space.  We got there around ten in the morning and the place was already packed with lots to see.  There wasn’t a lot to photograph and to be honest I was there to …