I was wondering if only in my city of Toronto, Canada, do you have large flower pots installed right next to very busy, narrow roads and you make sure the gardners put in there long beautiful plants that

I've recently begun memorizing songs using the journey method. Above, you see my note book with all my journey points. At each stop, I put a line of the song I am memorizing. The last song I memorized

The Eastern 2017 Canadian Memory Championships at a glance, from the front desk during the recall for Speed Cards. Le Championnat canadien de la mémoire de l'Est 2017. C'est la dernière épreuve, cartes

Windows are a major killer of birds during the migratory season. There are many ways to make your windows safe. Check out If you find an injured bird, it is best to put it in a paper bag. Often, it will

...to catch your attention big time. Stop and stare at this image. Now ponder about its origin. Please create scenarios in your mind to explain the double, extraordinary bullseye accuracy of the bird bomber

Someone on FB asked me how I memorize numbers using only 500 images. Since I feel my answer is valuable, I have decided to post my answer here and give FB the link. At each locus, I place on my right any

This was the biggest, greatest and strongest memory competition ever organized on Canadian soil. It was also the most nerve wracking. In one side of the country inside a swanky Edmonton corporate boardroom,

One thing can be said about the new extra long street cars in Toronto: if they block your intersection while you have a green light, you are going to have a real hard time going around them. And honcking

I will present here a new memory technique to remember names and faces. I like my new method, which I just invented today because it doesn't link the name to the face as do just about all other techniques

When memory athletes look at the above they often call it a binary number, even if they don't know how to count a binary number. 01=1, 10=2, 11=3, 100=4, 101=5, etc. Knowing a number is knowing its value

I occasionally find these kinds of stains on my hands and wonder how they got there. Sometimes they appear mysteriously as I wake up in the morning. Today, I just noticed them around noon and only in my

This year, we'll have two simultaneous completions across a two hour time zone. I'll be in Montreal. I believe this is a first in the field of national memory competitions. For more details visit

It's this time of the year, yea! But be careful, they have torns. I'm not adding pictures of my scratched arms.

I took a picture of this mouse today. I came up to it slowly while approaching an intersection with a red light. I did not know why it stayed motionless there. I wanted to get it out of the road as I would

The photo for this post is of the 2016 Canadian Memory Championships. A manager's main focus is to control you. He/she will use any means at his/her disposal to influence you according to his/her hidden

My favorite plant was attacked today. From looking at the evidence alone, can you say who most likely did this? Could it be a squirl or does this bear the mark of human vandalism? Thank you.

The new poles are twice the size of the ones they replace. Nobody had a chance to say anything about that because, "it's just a replacement, an upgrade." The poles are quite ugly, by most people's

I was born in Montreal, and was fortunate to have great supportive parents. I played lots of soccer and chess. I was studying engineering when I felt like hitting the unbeaten path: I moved to Toronto