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Other Websites:
[The Anti-IB Site]
A collection of pages written mainly in 1998, dealing with my experiences in the IB program at Abbotsford Senior from 1996-1998. Presented in its original style with a few minor updates, it captures my (crushed) spirit from the end of those fateful years.
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Features:
[A Panel of Experts]
Something troubling you? An unanswerable question? An ethical dilemma? A big decision in life? An inability to convert Imperial to metric? Ask a Panel of Experts here.
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Short Fiction:
[The Stranger: A Prequel]
A story that I "wrote" in about 1998, I can say now that it was largely plagiarized from something else that I don't remember. In this case I will choose to argue that since I am neither physically nor mentally the person that I was at the time of its writing, I cannot be held responsible for this indiscretion, and thus present it as my own. Its protagonist is well-known to all who took IB Physics and Calculus at Abbotsford Senior Secondary from 1996 to 1998.
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[Translated Deep Thoughts]
Not my work, not technically authored by a human, but Tudor gets the credit for it. This is what you get when you take a Deep Thought by Jack Handey and run it through an English/French translator ten times back and forth. Incidentally, this is also the genesis of my occasionally-used online handle, Suitable Youngster.
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Quiz:
[Twenty Dollar Challenge]
All right, I admit it, I have a fascination with number sequences, and the deduction thereof. However, instead of merely saying, "so sue me", I have decided upon a different method for you to extract money from me. I wrote this quiz in 2000 (or thereabouts), and it took me over an hour to figure them out after having forgotten about them for three years (question five is the toughest). As such, the first person that can match my perfect score, as well as the reasoning behind the sequences, will win a cool twenty dollars Canadian (that's over fifteen dollars American now!)
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[Crosswords]
Cryptic crosswords composed by yours truly, WITH PRIZES! Also, credit goes to those who complete them first. Easier than the 'Twenty Dollar Challenge', and a better way to procrastinate. NOTE: Prizes go only to the first person to solve the puzzle, in addition to having credit for the solution published on the site.
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Thesis:
['You Don't Have to be a Scotchman']
This is what I spent the two years from 2003-2005 doing. Now, you can read it too! This links to the PDF version available from the SFU Library website. Oh, by the way, the colonned subtitle of the thesis is 'Sport and the Evolution of the Vancouver Caledonian Games, 1893-1926.' Because every Master's Thesis has a colon.
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Journalism:
[Whose Academic Freedom?]
Quite Likely the best paper I wrote in my undergraduate career (and incidentally, the one that counted for the least marks). This was written as a newspaper article, and looked at an academic crisis that took place at Simon Fraser University in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Written April 2002.
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Poetry: A Brief Disclaimer
[Over]
This was written in December 2001 after a phone call that, while not inherently unpleasant, was rather untimely, and elicited a fairly hostile response from me (afterwards). This is what I should have said on the phone.
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[Sparks Flying]
Written by me in the basement of Koerner Library of UBC, 25 February 2004, while I was trying to research but had my mind on other things.
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