Author: Kris Krüg
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Calling Us All In
I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it, and spent the rest of the day finding out it was the right call.
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Web Summit Vancouver 2026
Vancouver’s AI community is showing up this week. So should the public metrics.
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Feelmore Plants – A Gardening Pop-Up Shop in Vancouver’s West End
You may have heard of Vancouver’s ‘Greenest City’ initiative and the Vancouver Foundation’s “Neighbourhood Small Grant” program that runs along with it. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a super cool local program giving small amounts of money to people with cool ideas about how to make their communities more AWESOME! 🙂 Here’s more
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Small Art Printmaking Press on Whaler Bay, Galiano Island
Two of the first people I met on Galiano Island when I started visiting here back in 2007 were art educators Kit Grauer & Peter Scurr authors of “To Teach is to Touch the Future“. Both Kit & Peter have a long history of making and teaching art as wll as teaching art teachers and
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Upcoming Galiano Island Events: BioBlitz, Pirate Regatta, Tour des Iles & Instagram Workshop
Excited to announce 4 fun events I’m involved with coming up in May & June on Galiano Island. If you’re thinking of coming over to the island for the first time for one of these events… it’s a great idea… you totally should! Here’s a little bit more info about the island from The New
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DENT the Future 2019 Photo Recap & Gallery
Just back from Sante Fe where I was attending DENT the Future organized by Jason Preston and Steve Broback. DENT is an ‘ideas and inspiration festival’ featuring talks, workshops, adventures, projects, and goodtimes. We meet several times a year in places like Maui, Teluride and Napa and have formed a great support network of creative
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Handmade Knife Collection Inventory
I curse the day my homeboy Matt McKenna of Owl Tactical sold me my first custom knife and started a acquisition addiction that has resulted in this inventory list. Custom – Made by hand, one at a time. Jake Hoback – A10 Custom Folder – Made by Jake Hoback this Custom A10 folder is a solid
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Sharon Anderson Morris – Empowering independent documentary films – FiReFilms
For the past couple years I’ve been photographing the Future in Review (FiRe) conference in Park City, Utah hosted by futurist Mark Anderson and his incredible family. FiRe is an offshoot of the Strategic News Service (SNS), that helps business and industry leaders understand trends in technology and the global economy 3-5 years into the future
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Phillimore Point Galiano Island Summer 2016 Bird Inventory
The following 24 birds were observed and identified at Phillimore Point on Galiano Island in British Columbia Canada during the summer of 2016. Some were spotted eating out of the feeders in my backyard garden while others were hanging out in the trees around my cabin while other seabirds were seen soaring over or floating upon the
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Folsom California Christmas Bird Inventory 2015
The following birds were viewed and identified in Folsom, California between the dates of December 24-27, 2015. Some were spotted eating out of the feeders in my mother’s backyard garden while others were hanging out over the fence in the wetlands greenspace along the Humbug Willow Creek Trail behind her suburban home. I used The Audubon
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What is the unique value that female artists bring to electronic dance music?
By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, talented young women in the electronic dance music scene are harbingers for the emerging paradigm. Friends of mine have been working for a couple years on a feature-length documentary film about girl DJs and music producers called Amplify Her. The film is making great progress. Productions is complete
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RECAP: 2015 King Fisher Galiano Island Salmon Classic Fishing Derby
Sunshine, whales, great BBQ, bonfires and winter Chinook Salmon weighing in the mid-high teens. What more could a group of fisherpeeps want? Big prize money, a bunch of money raised for charity and a fun laid-back island vibe? Yeah, the 2015 King Fisher Galiano Island Salmon Classic fishing derby at Montague Harbour Marina on Galiano Island had
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Engineering Serendipity interview w/ Chris Coldewey
To say that a few things have fallen through the cracks around here over the years is a bit of an understatement. With the explosion of options for social networking, posting things online and keeping in touch w/ people there’s been many posts that I’d ‘meant to’ write that never saw the light of day. Well,
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Galiano Island’s New Outdoor Lifestyle Brand – King Fisher Apparel
For the past 5 years I’ve spent almost all my ‘downtime’ on the water w/ Galiano Island‘s Ryan McQuillan of Salish Sea Charters. We’ve developed a great friendship and spent copious of time fishing, exploring and making photos and videos of our adventures… much to the chagrin of local salmon. On a typical day we’ll rise
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The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes
For the first time in years, I’m making some crucial updates around here. This website sat for many years, untouched. 12 years in fact since I launched this site and started blogging. It held up pretty well all things considered. It’s been online consistently since then with the exception of 2 small hacker outages. Time