friend of the built environment

I always complain and bitch here because that’s what I do, but I thought I’d spend this entry affirming that I do indeed have lots going for me and I’m not always unhappy despite the tone of this journal most of the time:

I have such cool friends. Especially now that so many of them work [...]

This is a great tool which seems to get to the heart of what I journaled about a while back: how well does your ‘hood walk?

 The results? What I expected. My neighborhood in SF got an 85 (out of 100) and my neighborhood in Winston got a 48. I’m actually surprised my neighborhood in WS [...]

I watched it again on the train ride to my sister’s today. It is a truly heart-warming movie. I first saw it many years ago and it’s remained one of my favorites ever since. I’m thoroughly convinced that it has played a larger part in my longing to live in Toronto than even my trip [...]

Proof that labor unions kill people.
Really, with the type of advanced GPS, computers and robotics technologies out there, would human beings still be working in mines if not for those wonderful “job security” protecting watchdogs?
If someone offered me a job where I was sent thousands of feet into a mountainside to blow up rocks inside [...]

Whilst I’d like to see everywhere, there are 5 cities outside of the US and Canada that I absolutely have to visit one day:

Singapore
Moscow
London
BudaPest
Munich

I really want to spend some time in Latin America one day, and I’d love to visit Australia and New Zealand and the Nordic countries, but in terms of specific cities that [...]

Great, another ranty “In Your Face” album from The Cure. And to think they are screwing up an entire tour for the sake of it… Ugh…

After which Album did The Cure/Robert Smith start universally sucking on record?
Don’t get me wrong: I love The Cure. They were my first really big favorite band and I still [...]