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Did you hear about the foodie contest in Richmond, BC? Tourism Richmond recently posted a job opening for food blogger. The winning applicant is awarded the prestigious position of ‘Richmond’s Foodie Blogger’. They’ll get to eat out at a different restaurant every day for a year, $50,000 in salary, a daily restaurant stipend, free rent…
My best friend Jim is famously hard to impress. He’s pursuing a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at a leading technical university. His life’s mission is to teach robots HOW TO SEE. When he succeeds, I suspect he’ll have created Skynet, like in The Terminator movies, and the human race will be doomed. Jim…
Want a kooky three-wheeled car for your next roadtrip/picnic? In 2012, Peel Engineering, “home of the World’s Smallest Car,” is releasing two tiny, hand-built, retro-looking cars. These shiny new microcars are perfect for anglophiles, environmentalists, hitchhiker-haters, Mr. Bean’s runty illegitimate son, attention-starved hipsters, anti-social dwarves, those annoying guys who ride unicycles, or if you’re the…
Enraged by hidden baggage fees? Want to know what your flight really costs before you’re forced to pay $20 or more to check your luggage? Now there’s an app for that. Farelogix has launched a smartphone app called IFlyBags. It lets you calculate baggage fees from 325 airlines around the world, based on the class…
If you love zombie TV shows and films like THE WALKING DEAD and SHAUN OF THE DEAD, this vacation is for you… Now you can kill zombies in an abandoned UK shopping mall. An adventure company called Wish.co.uk is offering an adrenalin-fuelled experience called Zombie Shopping Mall. Usually the company sells once-in-a-lifetime experiences like skydiving,…
Whoa, been a lot of sky freakouts lately. Last week, I mentioned a flight attendant in Dallas who started freaking out before takeoff. The unnamed woman, who’d apparently gone off her meds, grabbed the PA mic and started yelling that the plane was going to crash. Which, you know, tends to disturb other passengers at…
Your dull flight to Cleveland is about to get wayyyy more social. In December, I wrote about KLM’s plans to let you pick your airplane seatmate by creeping on other passengers’ Facebook profiles. Their innovative/unsettling ‘Meet and Seat’ program will roll out some time in 2012, but only for KLM flights. Now a Hungarian startup,…
It’s been a brutal winter with no end in sight. In Vancouver, the forecast for the next 2 weeks calls for soggy, bone-chilling rain and/or snow…EVERY SINGLE DAY. And it’s starting to gnaw at our sanity. Nobody can remember what a big blue sky looks like. We can’t see the mountains through the fog, mist,…
Oh, man, I LOVE this: There’s now a series of 5K runs in which your biggest hurdles are zombies who want to devour your brains. This “zombie-infested 5K obstacle course race” is called Run For Your Lives. According to their website, it’s a “first-of-its-kind event, one part 5K, one part obstacle course, one part escaping…
Whew, my temples are throbbing today because of that tempting demon liquor. Last night I must’ve tasted a gallon of rare and award-winning reds at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. This annual week-long event is billed as “the best consumer wine show on the continent,” and serves as a key fundraiser for the…
Ken Hegan 