Travel
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More GIFs from Japan
Normally I try to take a few photos when I visit new places to try to capture some of what it was like to be there. Japan is too weird for photos. It demands more weirdness. It demands more GIFs, and so does the Internet. If you like them, share them. The first one is…
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Some GIFs from Japan
A couple days ago I left Ottawa and I am currently in Japan for a few days on my way back to India. I’m staying with one of my home-town brothers Zach and perennial travel partner Anis Sobhani has come along for the adventure. For many of us, Japan holds the promise of being so unlike the western…
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A story about how every day on an Otesha tour is insane
My friends at the Otesha Project inform me that applications are now open for this year’s slate of tours and I thought I would share a story from way back in summer of 2009 when I was a rookie Programs Director with the organization. My role was to co-manage the organization’s cycling and performing tour…
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Photos from Oujé-Bougoumou, Northern Quebec
Yesterday was Take Your Son To Work (Just As Long As He Doesn’t Touch Anything And Takes Some Pictures) Day for my father, which is cool, because yesterday also happened to be the day he was flying to northern Quebec to visit a site he is working on. His company has been providing project management…
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NEW FEATURE: Reviews of Bollywood movies
About a year ago a colleague of mine invited me to join her to a movie night at a friend’s place. She forwarded me the invitation and I saw that it was not a movie night but an institution. This guy had been progressively taking a group of his friends on an exploration of critically…
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Saskamatoonamawan
Did you ever think that you were the type of person who wouldn’t ever make conversation by talking about the weather? The weather always happens and it usually the same thing that happened last year at around this time, right? Well, coming back to Ottawa from the a frozen city in the middle of Canada…
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Environment geeks unite!
I have just returned to Ottawa from Madison, Wisconsin by way of Toronto, Buffalo , Chicago and Milwaukee to present another version of my research on hope and faith in environmentalism at the first meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) as well as to a group of keeners at the Madison…
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Baha’i Geeks and Environmentalists Unite!
In the past 48 hours, I have traveled by bike, hybrid car, regular car, greyhound, subway, train, taxi and foot to get from Tatamagouche, through Amherst, Sackville, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Montreal (again) and New York City to arrive in Washington, D.C. and attend, speak, blog and mingle at the joint 33rd Annual Association for Baha’i…
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The Middle Easy
Faced with the decision to stop over in either London or Bahrain on my way back home, I had to ask myself, as we all do from time to time, what would Samuel Benoit do? Samuel Benoit would go to Bahrain, that’s what he would do, and that’s what he did. My university friend, oil-brat…
Samuel Benoit 