New Pen Day - LAMY Studio LX All Black

I really enjoy my LAMY Studio Imperial Blue pen. I like it so much I even replaced the steel nib with a gold nib. But the chromed section makes it a bit of a challenge to use for extended periods of writing. The LX All Black edition has a rubberized …

Old Pen Day - Rotring ArtPen

The one that started it all, more or less. I bought myself a Rotring ArtPen sometime around 1984 - 1986, so at around 12 - 14 years old. My Father was in the Canadian Military and we were living in Germany at the time. I recall doing some fountain pen related artwork …

New Pens Day - LAMY Studio, TWSBI Diamond 580ALR

A birthday gift from the Mum-in-Law! The LAMY Studio in Imperial Blue, and the TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR in Nickel Gray.

The LAMY Studio

So we're off to a bit of a bad start with this pen. Lots of dry lines / false starts using the stock LAMY ink cartridge. I …

My Year in Books 2020

The Witcher, redux.

Continuously Variable Progressive Income Tax

Knowing next to nothing about Economics, despite being an Econ Undergrad, this is a thing I thought. Probably not original. If you are going to have a progressive tax system, instead of having tax cliffs, give every dollar its own tax rate.

Continuously Variable Progressive Income Tax

My Year in Books 2019

My Year in Books 2019

GS Training With Académie Ridaventure

I did a one day off-road skills training event with Claude Gagné of Académie Ridaventure (not to be confused, I think, with the ridaventure.ca forums) organized through Ottawa Motorrad / Ottawa Goodtime Centre. This event was significantly more "hardcore" vs. the event from the previous weekend. All "level 1 GS …

GS Training with BMW MC Ottawa

The BMW Motorrad Club of Ottawa is developing an off-road skills program, and I was invited to participate in an initial trial run. Very basic off-road GS skills including leaning the bike on off-road surfaces, emergency stopping with reduced traction, hill climbs, etc. Nothing too challenging, except at the very …

An Unscheduled Vehicular Dismount

I had a little wipe out on my moto today. Nothing serious, no injuries, an alarmingly slow speed low side slide out. Some details here.

Anlas Capra X

With plans to do some off-road stuff on my moto, I bought some appropriate rubber. I posted a bit of a running review over on the R1200GS forums. The Coles Notes version is: I don't have much off-road experience to compare these tires to, but they seemed to work quite …