Inspired by Gregg McLachlan’s recent twitter conversation with Caroline Schultz ((As aside, here’s why Twitter is awesome—before Twitter, how or where else do you get to have an informal chat with the executive director of Ontario Nature and the founder of environmentally-focused career site?)), allow me some reasoned conjecture answering what might happen to animals […]
Author: Gavan
Do photographs ever capture wilderness?
This striking image, taken by José Luis Rodriguez, won the 2009 Veolia Environnement Wildlife photographer of the year competition. The subject is an Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus signatus), leaping over a farm gate somewhere in the Spanish countryside. At the time that the prize was announced in October 2009, Rodriguez has this to say about […]
Our Geotagged Honeymoon
I do love to geotag the photographs that I take. But what to do with all that data once entered? iMapFlickr is a neat-o site that takes my geotagged photos (say, like the ones I took on Heather and I’s honeymoon) and places them in a google map. Brilliant part? You can embed the ensuing […]
Think multiples of twenty
photo credit: KittyCanuck From first-hand experience, when you’re selling something on Craigslist set the price for some multiple of 20—this way you don’t have to make change as your buyer will have likely just gone to the bank machine and have twenties in their pocket.
Bedbugs, Toronto and Class
photo credit: liz.novack We don’t have a problem with them in our apartment (thankfully), but because of an interest (I guess somewhat similar to gawking when an emergency vehicle goes by) in where they’re found in Toronto, I discovered the bedbug registry and a map of reported Toronto sightings. Now the usual caveats apply to […]
Barosaurus in the basillica
Barosaurus in the basillica, originally uploaded by Gavatron. The main entrance to the American Museum of Natural History.
Yukon Fox
Yukon Fox, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
Two minds meet in a parking lot
Haines Ferry Terminal, Haines, Alaska I had just pulled the van into the ferry queue and stepped outside when they arrived: from the tree-tops of the nearby Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest, two Northwestern Crows (Corvus caurinus) glided and landed on the asphalt beside me. Hopping to a stop and quickly re-arranging their wings, they […]
I can’t skate
photo credit: stevendepolo Confession time: I can’t skate. Bombshell, eh? It’s not that I’ve never strapped skates on, it’s just the last time I did so, I was in Grade 8. By my calculations, that was nineteen years ago. We had a neighbourhood skating rink when I was growing up in Guelph, and I would […]
I just won a free vacation!
photo credit: the_tahoe_guy I just got off the phone with a fellow who identified himself as “Mark Wilson” of Master Resorts. Mark had great news—because I had earned “golden points” on my VISA card, I had qualified for a free trip ((Jack, after I updated my status on Facebook suggested that they were offering a […]