View from the Edge

Its been too long since I wrote something for Geeks Are Sexy. I’ve been in a fairly non-geek period of my life recently, focusing on my stand-up comedy side rather than my techie side. In that spirit, I thought I might combine the two sides a bit with some (hopefully humourous) recollections of my life […]

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Having spent 5 years living and working in Lagos, this is an unfortunately common story. The people of Lagos, in general, are wealthy in comparison to the rest of the count…

I’m a geek in a number of ways, but maps have always been one of my secret loves. Programs like Google Earth are very addictive for someone like me … I sometimes jokingly (?) refer to it as ‘geo-porn.’ One of the things I like to do with i…

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Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
This is a shot of the original Fiki Bar … this version was demolished in 96 or 97 and rebuilt, and while I always had structural questions about Fiki's, I must admit to a certain nostalgia for the original straw and wood shack on stilts.
On the left corner, you can see a […]

Just listening to a press conference on CBC Newsworld with leaders from CAIR-CAN … the Canadian Council on American Islamic Affairs, and they are calling on provincial and Federal governments to hold a summit on extremism in their community, and to help address those extremists in their midst's.  This attitude highlights what I see as […]

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Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
This is the pregnant goat. I was in Lagos, worling on this street for 5 years, and this goat was pregnant essentially the entire time. I never really did work out who owned her, or where all the baby goats went … not too sure I want to delve too deeply […]

I scanned in some pictures form one of my favorite places while I was in Lagos a few days ago, posted on my flickr account. To the right is a scan of my original ticket, from my first visit to the club. Jazz 38 became a regular and common refuge from the insanity […]

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Originally uploaded by Elron6900.
This is a fairly typical street scene from Victoria Island in Lagos In part, I took the shot to show the kind of traffic we dealt with on a regular basis, but the “Battle of the Gods” sign in the background was the secondary […]

These photos were taken in 1993, a few miles outside of the Victoria Island subdivision I lived and worked in, at a market/townsite called Illusan. I’ve got some examples of the masks that I brought back with, but its really hard to convey what it was like to go to the market. I […]