Greg Mayer

CAFS Website Re-Designed

gsmayer — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:52:38 +0000

Over the past few months in my spare time, I’ve been helping the Canadian Association for Food Studies re-develop its website in WordPress. We’ve finally launched the website.

Crowsnest Highway Road Trip

gsmayer — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:13:05 +0000

On a 3 day vacation, I drove from Calgary through Cranbrook, Osoyooos, along the Crowsnest Highway (#3), with my mother who wanted to spend time with her son and see some mountains. We stopped at a number of wonderful stores and interesting spots along the way.

For the scientifically inclined, I highly recommend the Newton [...]

Jasper National Park

gsmayer — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:04:57 +0000

In June I made another road trip, from Vancouver to Sherwood Park (near Edmonton). I guess after driving across the country in a u-haul, a 14 hour drive doesn’t seem all that long, especially if there is a national park along the way that has mountains, bike paths, and wild animals. Another video ensued.

Vancouver

gsmayer — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:09:24 +0000

I’ll be starting a postdoctoral position at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in a few days! My work and research will be related to curriculum development for online undergraduate mathematics courses, and I’m looking forward to the new position.

I spent last week driving to Vancouver from Waterloo in a u-haul across the [...]

Bringing About Better Understanding

gsmayer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:12:28 +0000

Not long ago I helped build a website for a non-profit organization that sends medical equipment and personnel from Canada to Nepal. They also organize a number of other initiatives that their website describes. Most of the work I did on the site was finding and installing WordPress plugins, finding a web host, tweaking CSS [...]

Volunteering in El Salvador

gsmayer — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:11:13 +0000

I was recently accepted onto a team going to El Salvador in February 2011 for a Habitat build! More details here.

Ride for Refugee

gsmayer — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:14:49 +0000

On Saturday October 2 I’m riding my bike for 50 km on a team raising money for the Welcome Home Refugee Housing Community in downtown Kitchener as part of the Ride for Refugee Canada event. I’m looking forward to riding for the first time. Wish me luck! Rain or shine, I will be riding on [...]

Volunteering in Macedonia

gsmayer — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:13:30 +0000

From July 4 to July 18 2010, I will be volunteering in Veles, Macedonia, for Habitat for Humanity. I’ve set-up a separate blog to let people know how my preparations and adventures in Macedonia go. I’ll be blogging my updates on my experiences as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer.

I’m volunteering in Macedonia because I’m [...]

CN Tower Climb

gsmayer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:41:14 +0000

I climbed the CN Tower stairs yesterday for the WWF in about 21 minutes. It was my third time participating for the annual event, and hope to take part in it again next year. Maybe it was just that it was the 20th anniversary of the WWF climb, but it was very well organized and [...]

The Lindy Ledohowski Website

gsmayer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:29:59 +0000

Thankfully, after a busy few months at the end of 2009, I’ve been able to get back into volunteer website design in my spare time over the winter. The first website I’ve completed since last summer was just finished. Check out http://lindyledohowski.com/