The Blork Blog

Those who may think that pizza night chez Blork comes off without a hitch should prepare themselves for disillusionment.
Saturday was not only pizza night, it was pizza night for four, as we were “entertaining” the nephews. I never know how much food to prepare for a 10- and 12-year old, and I’m always surprised at [...]

The STM is running a pilot project at the Berri-UQAM Metro station. On the platform for the Côte Vertu-bound train (orange line), they’ve put some markers on the floor to indicate where the doors for the Metro cars will be when the train comes into the station. The idea is let to you know where [...]

I went to the Annual QWF Awards Gala last night, and on the way out, as I worked my way through the swag, I picked up a bookmark from the Used Book Circle that listed the second-hand bookstores (specializing in English-language books) that can be found in “mid-town” Montreal. As a fan of used bookstores, [...]

Loyal readers will recall my blog post from last March in which I presented a TED video of Karen Armstrong and her “Charter for Compassion” lecture. I said then:
… Armstrong discusses the idea that what lies at the heart of the Abrahamic religions is the simple notion of the Golden Rule: “Do onto others as [...]

Now that the U.S. election is over, we have at least three or four weeks before the campaigning for 2012 begins. Let’s use this time to discuss some of the real issues that affect our daily lives.
For example, while mowing through some Hallowe’en candy recently, I was reminded of a design flaw inherent in the [...]