When I bought my new MacBook Pro, I knew there would be a few necessary accessories, such as cable adapters. I needed two – one to help the new firewire 800 port talk to my old Firewire devices, the other to ensure my screen output could speak VGA. The Firewire ...
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#brands, #sustainabilty, #vancouver, #beer, #design, #defybrandgravity
The future of Telus TV could be even friendlier.
This fall, our family got Telus TV. The promo deal sucked us in, our friendly installer managed to figure out how to wire both ends of a 1920’s apartment without stapling cable everywhere and now we can vegetate digitally. (Of course, the first thing I did with this marvel of ...
Concerts are garbage these days.
Saturday night I attended the Corb Lund show at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom. One of the best (and only remaining) mid-size venues in the city. The music was fantastic. Corb Lund (and his band the Hurtin’ Albertans) are a tight ‘alt country’ act that brings a genuine thinking person’s perspective to ...
Dear Mayor Gregor: Three free ideas to get Vancouver’s new bright green brand out of the boardroom and on to the streets.
I was unusually buoyant, (considering I was reading a government document), as I waded through the new 72-page PDF report – Vancouver 2020, a Bright Green Future. This is the much-awaited guide to Vancouver City Council’s ambitious plan to be ‘a top-five global clean-tech city’, complete with a shiny new ...
Is ‘Granville Island’ Brewing now serving up Localwash?
Next time you reach for a frosty British Columbia ‘microbrew’, you may want to take a closer look at the fine print. Yesterday it was announced that Granville Island Brewing was bought by Creemore, itself a sub-brand owned entirely by Molson Coors. Big brewers taking over small brands is nothing ...