27 May 2006 was a Saturday. I remember sitting in the back-yard and reading a story in the paper about internet music sharing services: Pandora, last.fm and others. I signed up for both Pandora and Last.fm, but Pandora's Canadian availability was short-lived. I have, however, stuck with Last.fm for the past 6.5 years and [...]
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Week 38 in review
Dinner with Andrew and Colin on Friday. Now that doesn't happen much these days. Nice. Dinner at Tappo on Saturday with Greg and Maggie. No pictures I'm afraid, but a great meal and company nonetheless. Took a bottle of 2010 De Lancellotti from Bergstrom Winery that we picked up in Oregon over the summer. Good [...]
Quebec acrobatics, South African piano and Norwegian electro-jazz
Cirque du Soleil is back in T.O. with their latest big spetac, Amaluna. Have to say that we were underwhelmed with this one. It's great fun as always, but definitely doesn't have the "wow, how do they do that" moments that we've seen in other shows. And the clowns are the unfunniest clowns we've seen in a long time, [...]
She’s at it again…
...diving for frisbees.
Andrew Barrie
I've been debating whether to post anything about the tragic death of Andrew Barrie on 28 July, on the Kettle River in Alberta. Andy is Carol Barrie's husband, and Carol is my cousin. I decided that, since I generally post to record significant family events, I should go ahead with a posting in Andy's [...]
