Patrick Lam

Thoughts and travels of Patrick Lam

Three full days in Yellowknife

Checking off another territory from my Canada list; brief visit to Yellowknife (NWT) and successful aurora spotting.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Saturday, May 7, 2022

April: between Winter and Spring; more travels

End of term. Still avoiding COVID. Getting out of Waterloo while there is no teaching: travels to Yellowknife and New Zealand.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Sunday, May 1, 2022

March: first and last full month of teaching in Winter 2022, and some trips

People are pretending it’s back to normal, but the sixth wave has started in Quebec.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Friday, April 1, 2022

24 Hours in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is surprisingly scenic. About giant eggs and porcupines (in Alberta), another Blue Mountain, aurora borealis, and just one ditch.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Saturday, March 26, 2022

February: with short escapes to Quebec

Back to normal? Well, maybe, except that there are still a lot of cases out there.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Warm lights in the Airbnb bedroom FTW

Sometimes I’m ridiculous. Tales of swapping light bulbs.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Sunday, February 20, 2022

New Zealand Restaurants

I looked up two years’ of dining history and collected all the New Zealand restaurants I thought were worth mentioning.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Monday, January 24, 2022

There are six eggs

Christmas Eve content you wanted: egg sizes in NZ, Canada and the US.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Friday, December 24, 2021

Leaving Aotearoa Part II: AKL-LAX, Los Angeles, and back on Air Canada to Montreal

Part II: from Auckland to Montreal (and Kitchener). Plus, how did we get here? Looking back at 2019.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Friday, December 10, 2021

Leaving Aotearoa Part I: WLG to AKL and on to NZ6

Ma te wa—see you later, New Zealand. First half of my trip from Wellington to Montreal, covering travel from Wellington to Auckland and onto the plane to Los Angeles.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Tuesday, December 7, 2021

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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo; patrick.lam@uwaterloo.ca

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