I guess I’m doing well if these are my only problems.  And they make for a hell of a gallery. Problem 1: Everything is a macro shot Put a macro lens on your camera (or in my case the kit lens with a Canon Extension Tube as explained previously) and you’ll want to take pictures [...]

For those of you who watched the first episode of Conan’s new show on TBS, his very first guest Seth Rogen summed up the situation in California pretty succinctly, “anyone on Earth can get a medical marijuana card.”  He got his by going into the doctor and explaining “I have a very specific ailment – [...]

Today is voting day across the US and with San Francisco being a very politically charged city, I thought I’d outline some of the major races and ballot initiatives because there’s a lot.  As you may know, Arnold Schwarzenegger was allowed to run for governor because they got enough signatures to get it on the [...]

Before visiting Vancouver’s downtown eastside for the first time, I’d heard more than a few tales about it.  Most involved scenes of zombie-like junkies aimlessly wandering with needles stuck in their arms, spilling pills everywhere.  It wasn’t quite as ugly as the imagination could paint, but it was definitely pretty bad…in fact, the worst I’ve [...]

“Oh man, you gotta try DMT!” This is the start of terrible or excellent advice, no in betweens.  I actually began the conversation by asking “what’s that drug that makes everything turn into a slinky made out of cubes?” having read about it years ago on a site everyone should know about www.erowid.org.  I wouldn’t [...]

It might sound like a strange thing to say, but Nelson feels like a town at war.  For those of you not from Western Canada, tucked between the steep slopes and the lake of the Kootenay valley in the Rockies, over 5 hours from Calgary or Vancouver, the 10,000 person town of Nelson is known [...]