If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, how many birds in the hand are fifteen or so birds in the bush worth? Anyone?

Here’s a classic Banff view: these are the mountains you see at the head of the Bow River valley when you’re standing on the viewing deck at the famous Banff Springs Hotel.

Keep your eyes open in Banff, and you’ll find beautiful pictures in unexpected places.

The view out my window when I got up this morning.

Despite the fact I am still an astonishingly young man, I do find that I occasionally have more trouble remembering things than I did twenty years ago (when I was news editor of the Weyburn Review, despite being a mere infant at the time). It is, alas, an indisputable fact that our brains change as …

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I love to watch light and shadow playing with each other.

…except, of course, I’m in Canada.

View from the sixth floor of Lloyd Hall at The Banff Centre. As you can see, it’s a really fine place to be.

Popular Mechanics liveblogs NASA’s announcement of the plans to return to the moon…by 2020? My 10th birthday was July 20, 1969, the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Even if NASA meets this date–a big IF–I’ll be 60, minimum, when we re-land on the moon. That just makes me feel…sad. Not to mention …

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Want to write a movie? Need a plot? No need to overheat your own tired neurons! The Plot-o-matic ™ movie plot generator is there for you! Witness this sure-fire blockbuster: A Star Too Far an original screenplay concept by Edward Willett Science Fiction: A war-hardened soldier teams up with a well-built female cyborg to win …

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Well,no, now that you mention it, I haven’t blogged today. That’s because I spent a large portion of the day in transit from Regina to Banff, where I’m attending the Writing With Style workshop in writing science fiction and fantasy being led by Robert J. Sawyer at the Banff Centre. This is the second time …

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Two Canadian scientists, Ernest McCulloch and James Till of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the University of Toronto, have been jointly awarded a $50,000 U.S. prize from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for their pioneering work in identifying stem cells. Congratulations!