@ Siang Yu Tang - Neighbourhood acupuncture for fatigue. Needles in neck and back of hands, rather than down back. Vision cleared in seconds

@ Firehall Arts Center - Display of pigment prints by Leonard Cohen 2008-2011. Chelsea Hotel play previews tomorrow, I will leave Vancouver on plane

@warstrekkid When I developed a course in Finland,  student blogs were a way to enlarge interaction to a larger world.  I had colleagues from around the world looking and commenting on student blogs, with an understanding that students may have ...

@warstrekkid Full-time, in-person university education is a privilege.  Distinctions between learning and teaching should be appreciated.  Unlike high school where (sometimes coercive “push”) teaching is required for adolescents, university ...

The structural shift from manufacturing economy to service economy can be denied or encouraged by society in general, and governments in particular.  Joseph Stiglitz writes: The parallels between the story of the origin of the Great Depression an...

@ Pelican - Cantonese cuisine farther east, past Commercial Drive. Extensive menu, Chinese families at dinner, English of some servers weak

Flight AC101 returning to gate, due to sheared shaft in #2 engine, and can’t take off with one engine. Will either have repair, or change to another plane. Inconvenient, yes, glad that I didn’t book tightly from Toronto to Vancouver.

Called by BMO Mastercard fraud detection, cash advances in Montreal without using a PIN. How was that done? Yes, I was in Montreal, and used card for metro fare and one dinner

@ Maple Leaf Lounge - Domestic Departures - Healthier airport lounge snacks? Hummus and pita chips are new, can't find potato chips nor apples at 11a.m.

@ Segal Centre for Performing Arts - Coral Egan with trio previewing new album "The Year He Drove Me Crazy" to be released in spring. Intimate venue with 150 in audience.

@ Food Court Centre Eaton - Wandered through underground city from Bonaventure to Eaton Centre. Is this more real than Montreal below zero outside?

@ Montréal International Airport Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau (YUL) - Inbound from international locations, YUL seems to have upside of low stress immigration with no lines, but downside that checked baggage is slow to appear

@ Newark Penn Station - En route to Manhattan to visit MK. Plans change quickly, now recalling New York time (and local prices)

@ Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) - Flight delay 2+ hours from JAX to EWR. End point okay, but tornados in between. Will sleeping on plane block out turbulent experience?

@ The Florida Theatre - In row 5 of Gordon Lightfoot concert in Jacksonville FL. Lucky with JMW, tickets bought 2 hours before show. Tour bus outside, southern tour weather benefits. Venue where Elvis first shook pelvis.

@ Indochine - Bustling resto, unexpected for Florida. Servers move quickly, parents chasing children. Is Jacksonville for the young, or do they put uppers in the water?

@ River City Marketplace - Drive-by view of suburban mall on Jacksonville CT3 bus from airport. Scenic route no extra charge, fare $1

@ Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) - Quiet morning in United lounge, weather outside dry and clear. I guess this counts as the beginning of the south, in the U.S.

@ Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) - Rebooked to early flight. Immigration heavy

Canadians three time more economically mobile than U.S., says Miles Corak.  Children more likely from two-parent homes, college fees lower. Canada is a world leader in economic mobility, right up there with Denmark, Norway and other Scandinavian ...

@ Toronto Public Library - Queen/Saulter Branch - Only an inch of snow, sunny break in afternoon. Calm before a bigger storm?

Another eight days in Tokyo, for work plus sightseeing, also serving as a tour guide for Roy.

Questions about "what is system science" lead to questions of "what is science", and to system thinking surfacing some more philosophical foundations.

Madonna reading systems thinking, describing Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” as “reductive”?  The word is better understand with an antonym of “expansive”, i.e. there’s little added on to “Express Yourself”.  Maybe Madonna got in...