The Blork Blog

It’s the Ave. Mont-Royal street festival this weekend, so the street is closed to car traffic between rue St. Hubert and Ave. Papineau. I discovered this when I was out doing some banking on Mont-Royal this afternoon.
I walked my bike the length of the pedestrian-only area, and I was wondering why people were staring […]

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As a software start-up survivor, I find this Dilbert comic both funny and gruesome…

I was in the small and ancient city of Évora, about 150 km from Lisbon, with a car, a couple of books by the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, and a roughly plotted course towards the Algarve town of Tavira. The books were English translations (from the original Portuguese) of The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist. Both […]

Year after year, I find summer in Montreal goes something like this:
June. Anticipation. Spring has pretty much sprung, but it doesn’t quite feel like summer yet. Still a bit too cool–seems cooler than May. Festivals are showing up here and there, but they’re all the ones you associate with “late spring,” not summer. Slight panic […]

Since long before I saw the M. Night Shyamalan film “Signs” I’ve had a fascination with the phenomenon of coincidences and omens. I experience these things very frequently, although they are usually rather small and insignificant. I like to play the game that these are “signs” pointing to something or other, but I almost never […]

I finally saw the bug movie. At the superficial level, Reign of Fire is fabulous. It has a pretty straightforward apocalyptic premise, doesn’t sink into silly romance, and has outstanding special effects.
The best part, of course, is the dragons. Fearsome! You don’t get to see too much of them, which is good–if we […]