There has been some great excitement recently in U.S. presidential election politics, with Barack Obama officially accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at their National Convention in Denver. This news was so far-reaching, that even the ‘Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’ reported on it at their website. I never really associated the profession of engineering [...]
No one disagrees that there are some wretched movies out there. Any number of factors can cause a film to be derided: an incohesive script, laughable acting, and predictible, pointed clichés being common reasons. It is good to remember that when a movie is made available for our consumption, it has made a [...]
Just over a year ago, I wrote of a concrete architectural monstrosity based in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. This pyramidesque building is called the Ryugyong Hotel, and has stood 105 storeys tall, yet far from complete, ever since its construction came to a halt in 1992. If finished, its 330 meters of height would [...]
I visited the province of Alberta recently. While there, I spent some time travelling the highway between the two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton, and observed one particularly striking difference between there and my home province of Ontario. The film ‘Pulp Fiction’ certainly looked at comparing the ‘little differences’ between Europe and America (mostly with [...]