Category: 2. Amber

Dr. Ted Tetsuo Aoki (1919-2012)

My dissertation has finally made it to the UBC repository, marking the official end of my Ph.D.

The first draft of something I’ve been meaning to get back to

Header image: On of my weighted paracord fidgets. First Confession by Frank O’Connor [See the bottom of the page if you’d prefer to watch a film adaptation of the piece] All the trouble began when my grandfather died and my grand-mother – my father’s mother – came to live with us. Relations in the one […]

Some thoughts on walking the Main Mall at UBC

The catch of the (inter)net

I did not write for 25 years.

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Header image: KF personal pic, mosaicked [writing in progress] The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they […]

Oh, Canada 🤷🏻‍♂️

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“[E]ntities whose information is included in knowledge panels are self-authoritative…”

Header image: You Were On My Mind, by Thomas Lerooy (2014) “First the man takes the drink, then the drink takes the man.” Bread at the hardware store Looking back it’s a little bit clearer His folks never had it to give So he grew up without, ~ Feelin real small within And learned best […]

I am Thermi but you might be Thermi too.

Gratitude

60 minutes away from becoming a Canadian citizen

Prep for the citizenship test

Am I still Irish?

Casa Forde Menu

In which I go on and on and ɐup ou ɐup ou ɐup ou and on about Möbius strips

There is something very interesting to this idea that I can’t yet articulate…

In which I am done a heckin bamboozle

Possibly the best piece on humility ever written.

Give me an A!