. . . this extract from Obama's speech last night, is a pretty great statement of what successful communities are all about. This country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our university, our [...]
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A (very minor) milestone
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 [...]
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.
