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800th post from an American Diner
I’m sitting in a diner near the Atlantic Ocean in West Haven, Connecticut knowing that this trip to Yale will yield enough content to help me surpass 800 cumulative posts. I also know that as I write this in September 2022, it will not be published until summer 2024, almost Read more
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Travels of 2023
I visited Vancouver in January of 2024 and met up with my old secondary school principal from when I was in Hong Kong. We went on a school trip to Yangshuo and Nanchang, China in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He left for another head of school job in Vancouver and Read more
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Backstory: Buildings to save the world
This article is part of a series called Backstory where I reveal how feature and in-depth stories were crafted. You can find more with the Backstory tag by searching “Backstory” in the search bar. The original story was published here: I worked with Jen Osborne again on this video, but Read more
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Backstory: Personal pandemic
This article is part of a series called Backstory where I reveal how feature and in-depth stories were crafted. You can find more with the Backstory tag by searching “Backstory” in the search bar. The original story was published here: https://cusjc.ca/noveltimes/2020/12/13/recoveries-and-vaccines-transitioning-to-a-post-covid-19-canada/ This was the first and will probably be the Read more
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The Clapper
I don’t usually do product reviews or restaurant reviews (except for ice cream parlours), or any reviews in general. But this product has changed the way I look at commercial solutions to problems I didn’t have. The Clapper is a socket adaptor that turns appliances on and off with an Read more
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600 posts
Finished. Finished with my master’s. When I started this website, I was merely an undergraduate student trying to organize all his experiences into a logical medium. I wanted to be able to share what I learned, to internalize travel experiences, and do enough research to appreciate the history of a Read more
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What I learned from driving with a cat
Want to be a calmer driver? Drive with a variety of things in the car. Carrying fragile objects like crystalware and animals as well as loading the car up to the brim with heavy boxes makes you more careful. The first time I realized this was when I picked up Read more
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Touching the Moon
There are only five places in the world where a member of public can touch a piece of the moon recovered from one of the Apollo missions, not just from lunar meteorites. There’s one in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Smithsonian Air and Space Read more