Episode 109 - Wrapping Yourself in Felt and Locking Yourself in a Room With a Coyote

Well, last weekend I was away at the Conference on Comparative Cognition in Melbourne, Florida, so we didn't have an episode.

This weekend coming up, Isabelle will be away in Ottawa and Montreal seeing various art things, so, we did a quick shopping run today (#sabbatical).

Try wrapping him in felt

Isabelle told the story of how she was involved, or is involved in this flower art thing.  I don't want to say much more other than it is a pretty good story, and we had a discussion about art and about how Isabelle is Bono (not really, but it's funny).

Nobody goes shopping on Wednesday afternoons, which is good, as we got done very quickly.

I saw some great stuff at CO3, and lined up quite a few Spit and Twitches guests, so that should work out for me.  As usual when I take podcasting gear somewhere I don't end up recording....

Episode 108 - The Graffiti Is Missing

We had a couple of pretty good discussions today while running a thousand errands and, as is our custom, we recorded them.

Very old graffiti

We talked some about confidence and how women tend to have lower confidence levels than men, and, how people, both women and men, view women as less qualified for virtually everything than men.  

We then had a pretty good discussion about graffiti, but, it seems I forgot to push record....  Anyway, there is a graffiti problem in Sudbury and a guy has installed night vision cameras to capture the perpetrators in the act.  Is this public art?  Not sure.  Is it vandalism?  Yeah.

I did record us talking about Isabelle working on a film project with a friend of hers.  It all sounds pretty great.

Episode 107 - The Demographics of Grocery Shopping

OK, that's enough now, I refuse to shovel.

Back to shopping and back to winter.  Or at least snow.  We got about 10 cm of snow last night and I for one am opposed to it.  Indeed, I refuse to shovel the damned driveway.

We went out a little later than normal today, which explains the later release time.  The nice thing is this allowed Jon to come with us.  I always enjoy his company and his help while shopping.

Isabelle went to the market today before we shopped and she bought stuff.  She also met an alpaca farmer, so you know, that's kinda cool.

It seems like everyone today at the grocery store was old, like way old.

We ended up talking about how different the US is from Canada and why.  Spoiler alert, we don't know why.