No ATM fees; also world's biggest search engine

God, being back in Waterloo, it's always like this. Your grade school baseball diamond just got replaced by ten solid blocks of RIM buildings, and Google shares a lot with the same cornfield where you first ever kissed a girl.

Google

Toronto: tall things made of stones!

It's teaching and travelling season. Other people are travelling, which means postcards. I am teaching, which means that language is magnificent and I must show them.

Linguistic Relativity

Language is culture! In Edmonton, for example, we have 40 words for snow should f*ck off already this is spring.

Steve: Earl Gray, hot.

If you know Steve, you'll be as pleased as I was at how Google had me prove that I was human for him.

If you don't know Steve, do so.

Feelin' hoopy

I spilled my tea all over the fancy electronic desk I teach from, right in front of the international law professor I had just met who teaches after me. Thank goodness for Douglas Adams

GO AND BACK UP YOUR WORK NOW. RIGHT NOW.

NOW. DO IT NOW.