Month: September 2009

I’m in the business of life.

– KeriCDN 2009

I tweeted about it this morning. 

Today is the day I realized I need help, can’t do this alone any longer and actually, for the first time, I don’t want to.

I want a little team.  I think I got this from being on the ship.

I have drawn up a wish-list for this human: they’ll help me edit, manage things, go back and re-tag blog posts now that I know what I’m doing, insert all my blog photos into Picassa so I can launch ‘THE Map of Canada’, and I could continue this list for a good while.

Accepting resumes, apply within: Keri@TheCanadianExplorer.com  

My first TIFF movie ever.  I do appreciate my friend giving me his extra ticket, “Keri you need a TIFF post”, but to be honest this is not my thing.  

I don’t watch many movies as it is, and sitting in a theatre at noon, with so much to do, made me feel loser-ish.  I summed up my experience on Twitter here and here.

september 17 2009

On the right is where Jody and I met for dinner; we sat upstairs beside the street-view window.  

After we left we still had more talking to do when we heard some voices, looked up, and both of us froze when we simultaneously realized that if we could hear their conversation then our entire dinner chat was just broadcast to Queen Street and OMG… it was a girly dinner and there’s some things I didn’t tell you about my recent exploration.  What happens on the ship stays in my head.

september 17 2009

It’s the final footage for my Navy episode.  Lighting sure changes things, eh.

This time with Jasin Dollin, designer and builder of that cute little boombox below – you stick your iPod in and kick it down the street.  He’s launching soon.  

september 16 2009
I’d met him at Rannie’s pano-gala opening recently, and it was odd:

Me: Hi, I’m Keri
Him: [shakes hand] Wait
Me: Waiting
Him: I know you, I’ve posted some of your stuff on my Facebook
Me: [I’ll never get used to this]

And I don’t think I will; I was recognized at the beginning of the year and I still have that same feeling when it happens.

In the background of the right photo is ‘The Leslie Street Spit‘ which, until today, I’d assumed was a busy street downtown where there were a lot of smokers.  Nope. 

It’s a 5km long conservation area that accidentally became that when, during the 60s and 70s, construction rubble was dumped there creating a headland, which the ‘Friends of the Spit‘ fought to keep from being developed.  

Thanks, Friends, it’s cool Toronto has a little wilderness in it like this.  There’s also 300 different kinds of birds there, making it an Important Bird Area (that’s a real thing, I didn’t make that name up).