Monthly Archives: June 2014

Jun 30

Quantum Entity trilogy

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

PART I Quantum Entity: Discovery, on sale now at Amazon USA – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ9DZNK Canada – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00KZ9DZNK UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KZ9DZNK PART II Quantum Entity: Launch, on sale now at Amazon. US – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L6FLN7W CA – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00L6FLN7W UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00L6FLN7W PART III Quantum Entity: We Are All ONE, on sale at Amazon now US – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LDIFPIU CA – […]

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Jun 16

How to Create More Space in Your Home

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

Via Design Farmhouses used to be designed so that you entered one room to get to another. If you had 11 kids, it made sense to make supreme use of “phantom corridors”; that is, the corridor space you would have needed to make each bedroom a private space is eliminated because you went through Bobby/Billy/Chucky/Johnny’s […]

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Jun 15

(Sub)urban Design

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

Missed opportunity I went visiting friends in Stittsville (a western suburb of Ottawa) last week and took this picture out my car window. Do you see an urban design opportunity missed? I do. These bungalows face Stittsville Main Street and “back” onto Jackson Stitt Circle where they have their garages and rear entries. The grade […]

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Jun 14

Redwood Tree

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

The more I think about it, the more sure I am that human beings are insane to have taken down all but 2% of (Pacific) coastal redwoods–trees that can grow to more than 100 meters, some of which have lived on this planet since the birth of Christ. We think an environmental problem is when […]

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Jun 14

Practicing My 140 Character CV

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

The more important you are, the shorter your cv. For a president of the US, all he or she needs is the presidential seal with their name underneath.  Barack Hussein Obama For you and me, a bit more is required. Here’s my latest effort at a Twitter-length cv: Bruce is an entrepreneur/real estate broker/developer/coach/urban guru/keynote […]

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