Grumpy Old Nerd

This post recognizes an idea that I've been incubating for a while, which is a critique of all the terrible, awful, misleading charts and graphs that do the rounds every day. With all the misinformation...

So with the government-mandated social distancing measures now in full effect here in Canada and the spread of the Coronavirus in full swing I've found myself with a lot of time on my hands. I've...

As of a couple of years ago, I play cricket in beautiful Victoria BC. The website for the Victoria District Cricket Association when I joined was a bit of a shambles, and last season I...

In the tradition of putting together hockey teams composed entirely of terrible humans (see previous edition here), I figured we were due for an update. Given the last few months have been tumultuous to say...

An aggressively mediocre alleged all-rounder in my youth, I quit the game cold-turkey in my 20's out of apathy and an impending relocation to New York City. Many happy years later I migrated to Canada,...

Hockey is a fantastic sport to watch. It's fast, physical and the skill of the players involved is mind-blowing. Unfortunately those same traits make it a very difficult sport to properly analyze, unlike some of...

When I migrated the blog to Wix, all of the articles were able to be shifted across seamlessly. All of them except the one where I'd tried to be too cute. I wrote a post...

Microsoft Windows. You have it, you hate it. We all do. It's a giant resource hog, it's security and privacy issues are well documented and it's hoovering up an alarming level of your personal data...

More Apex content! I've been playing way too much of this game to still be this bad. This is my own personal ranking of the weapons in Apex, based on the fact that I'm fairly...

This game has single-handedly converted me to the Battle Royale genre. They did it, something that I thought was impossible. Now I'm hooked and I don't know what to do about it. I see it...