Disparate
A bilingual blog on disparate subjects. Un blogue disparate bilingue.
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Coffee at CBC - 31 days ago
Went on radio to talk about coffee. Topics: Café Myriade, Café Neve, CBC Homerun, Coffee, comment-fishing, espresso, linkfest, Montreal, Myriade, Neve, Third Wave
Happiness Anniversary - 45 days ago
A year ago today, I found out that I was, in fact, happy. Topics: 1987, 1996, 2008, adolescence, airplane cold, Beverages, bonheur, Boris Vian, Brasserie Benelux, Café Myriade, Camus, canon, cluefulness, Coffee, confessions, Crescent, Descartes, douceur de vivre, downtown Montreal, empathy, enthusiasm, ethnography colloquium, existential crisis, existentialism, experience, folk diseases, folk medicine, Food, food philosophy, Freud, Greek sweater, happiness, happiness anniversary, hedonism, Heidegger, hepatitis A, humanism, humankind, Intersubjectivity, joie de vivre, key moments in life, LA Story, Laval, life philosophy, life stages, match, Maupassant, Meaning of Life, mononucleosis, Montreal, naïve, naïveté, Nietzsche, nostalgia, nostalgie, openness, opinions, optimism, others, People, personal, personal life, phenomenology, Places, playfulness, pleasure, PodCamp Montreal, Québec, Sartre, satisfaction, Serenity, shameless plug, sleeping, slogans, social, social media, social networks, social support systems, sociocentrism, soulmate, success in life, Swiss smiles, Switzerland, trusting people, veiled references, Vian
Planning my #pcmtl session.
Topics: comment-fishing, geek crowd, geek culture, geekness, geeks, participatory culture, pcmtl09, PodCamp, podcasting, quickies, shameless plug, social, social butterfly effect, social media, social networks, Sociology, Web sociology
Topics: comment-fishing, geek crowd, geek culture, geekness, geeks, participatory culture, pcmtl09, PodCamp, podcasting, quickies, shameless plug, social, social butterfly effect, social media, social networks, Sociology, Web sociology
War of the Bugs: Playing with Life in the Brewery - 66 days ago
A mad brewer's approach to wild yeast and bacteria. Topics: A, adaptation, Alcohol, amateurs, bacteria, bacterial culture, Beer, beer diversity, beer history, Belgian Artist, Berliner Weisse, Brettanomyces, brewing, carefree brewing, categories, cognitive anthropology, comment-fishing, confessions, craft beer, craft beer culture, creation, creativity, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, darwinism, diversity, enthusiasm, Ethnography, ethnoscience, experience, experimentation, expertise, folk knowledge, folk taxonomy, folkloristics, folksonomies, folksonomy, food and culture, food philosophy, freedom, geek culture, German Engineer, hedonism, homebrewing, humanism, humour, identity, informal learning, informality, innovation, interdisciplinarity, knowledge, knowledge people, lactobacillus, lambic brewing, language sciences, learn by doing, librarians, linguistic anthropology, musings, naïve, naïveté, personal, personal life, play, playfulness, pleasure, product and process, pure yeast, pure yeast culture, ramblings, responsible drinking, sanitization, science, sciences, scientific mindframe, scientificity, shameless plug, soapbox, specialists, standardization, stereotypes, tagging, tags, taste, tasting, trends, White Labs, wild yeast, WordPress, WordPress.com, Wyeast, yeast, yeast culture
How I Got Into Beer - 70 days ago
Ramblings about my passions for beer and experimentation. Topics: acquaintances, Alcohol, amateurs, anecdotes, Austin, baking, Beer, beer diversity, beer geeks, beer history, beer scene, beerpubs, Beverages, Bièropholie, binge drinking, brewclubs, brewing, brewpubs, Chicago, Chicago Beer Society, childhood, Coffee, comment-fishing, Communities, confessions, cooking, craft beer, craft beer culture, crazy, creativity, cuisine, cultural diversity, cultural identity, culture, enthusiasm, experience, experimental spirit, experimentation, expertise, Food, food and culture, food and society, food philosophy, friendship, geek culture, hedonism, homebrewing, humanism, Indiana, mad, Members of Barleyment, microbreweries, Montreal, MontreAlers, networking, New Brunswick, nostalgia, online communities, participatory culture, People, personal, personal life, personal narrative, Places, Prague, product and process, ramblings, responsible drinking, shameless plug, social, social butterflies, social butterfly effect, social dynamics, social networking, social networks, social support systems, sour ales, South Bend, Switzerland, taste, tasting, teenagers, Vienna, wild, wild ales, wild beers
















