What goes on behind the scenes
At long last, the thesis behind my joint MSc in Sport Psychology/Sport Science from the universities of Thessaly and Leipzig, defended June 24th, 2015 in Trikala, Greece. Citations are in the original DOCX/PDF (the first only rendering correctly using the Delicious font). This whole project is released under the CC0 license, with all rights waived …
Another staple of Vancouver is its phenomenal improv scene. From Instant Theatre to Blind Tiger to the Sunday Service to Second Storey Theatre to Vancouver Theatre Sports League — early homes to improv legends Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles — to my own personal favourites, the Fictionals, this city is just teeming with improvisers. And …
I learned so much in interviewing Hou. His integrity and grounding presence shines through his smile, as you’ll quickly see. I’m only sorry about the audio. Most is quite bearable, but some I had to fade out to quiet the wind and planes and text vibrations. The camera auto-refocused often but this is less annoying. …
Originally started on Steemit, summarizing the original BBC article and adding a much broader perspective from talking with Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Cross-posted on Medium. China is creating a new social credit system to rate citizens’ trustworthiness. “By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, …
The interview is unfortunately only available in Polish but I’m sure someday soon AI will be able to quickly parse it into whichever language you need. If you can happily nod along to Polish then go on, see if you can pick out my accent. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation available through watching …
A fraction of our interview is presented below, but like with the Baltic interviews prior, it too was garbled up so only the clear, important bits made it through the editing process. You can navigate through topic timestamps by watching the below directly on YouTube. Fresh out of Vilnius, our cousin took us on a …
As with our Rigan friends, Lina’s interview was largely garbled up but I was able to salvage about 15m of it to put a voice to the beaming smile below. My sister makes a presence here as well, but Lina’s voice is immediately recognizable right from the outset. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation …
Here is a short outtake I was able to salvage from our interview (my phone was on its last legs), where we discuss some of the main points the writeup following dives deeper into. Irina is the first voice you hear, Dace the second, and the other lady with the Canadian accent is my sister. …
Bloodsport (1988, 92m, 6.8, 33|74%) is a cult martial arts action film made in the typical American Hollywood style, where the lines delineating good and evil are simple and audiences gather to either watch the fight scenes or the cute hero. It portrays the now-tired storyline of the young Westerner trained by an exotic, mysterious …
The past decade or so I’ve gotten into some real deep identity-, ethnicity-, and — more recently — genealogy-diving. I was extremely lucky in my search, the timing of it coinciding with the advent of the Internet as a true publicly accessible technology. I started with Poland but very quickly found myself in Germany, Israel, …
I am often asked why I’m so into family tree research, why I’m as deep into it as I am, why my research is so comprehensive and far-reaching as possible. Why not just plan for the future and let generations past stay buried where they are — what’s the point, anyway? Sometimes I’m asked rudely, …
After wrapping up my sport psychology MSc, I’ve returned to work in Vancouver to continue paying off student loans. That in itself is a different discussion: why does our current system so often leave our brightest, freshest, most enthusiastic and most prepared minds saddled with so much debt? Wouldn’t they be of more benefit to …