Monthly Archives: August 2010

Experience Canada

By Adam Snider | Published: August 23, 2010

As I sit here on my coffee break, eating a sausage and egg McMuffin*, a fairly random thought has come to me: I want to visit every corner of this country of mine. I have decided, albeit on a whim, that I want to visit every province and territory in Canada. I’ve already got a [...]

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On the Tories’ Contempt for Knowledge

By Adam Snider | Published: August 17, 2010

Only in Canada have expertise and ideas been so brutally cast aside. On the level of principle, this is appalling. A society that holds education and expertise in contempt, no less than one that disdains commerce or entrepreneurship, is dying. To whip up popular hostility to intellectuals is to invite the public to jump on [...]

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Do I Get to Go to Heaven if I Sit Through This Play?

By Adam Snider | Published: August 13, 2010

Sara and I are going to a play at the Fringe tomorrow called Can I Still Go To Heaven (If I Shoot the Music Minister?). It’s about a guy who takes a church hostage and will kill everyone there if they can’t prove the existance of God to him. This sounded like a very interesting [...]

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On Being a Writer

By Adam Snider | Published: August 13, 2010

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a writer—whatever that means. When I was younger, I thought that being a writer meant writing novels. I wanted to be a novelist. I wanted to be an author; I wanted to be an authority. I can recall an incident in elementary school—I [...]

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Today Was a Good Day

By Adam Snider | Published: August 4, 2010

Today was a pretty good day. It was, for the most part, a mundane day, but it was a good one nonetheless. I was fairly productive a work. I got a haircut. I had pizza and Caesar salad for dinner, and a good beer to wash it down. And California’s Proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage) [...]

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Maybe Email Ain’t So Bad

By Adam Snider | Published: August 4, 2010

I have been on a real anti-email kick lately. I’ve been talking smack about how much email sucks. About how email doesn’t really fit into the modern communications model. And about how absolutely terrible email is for doing any sort of collaborative work (wikis and waves are much better in that regard). My hate-on for [...]

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Lazy Tuesday

By Adam Snider | Published: August 3, 2010

Following a great weekend that included Dinner for Schmucks, Capital Ex, and the Heritage Festival, I lounged around like a fart today. I had booked the day off, on the assumption that my friend Chris would be in town. As it turns out, he wasn’t. While he was here for the weekend, he’s visiting Calgary [...]

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