Much Ado About Everything

Easter is quite early this year, isn’t it?  According to CBC, the Easter Day is determined as the first Sunday after a full moon after spring equinox.  The earliest it can be is March 22, the latest April 25.  Enjoy the first holiday so far this year, it won’t be this early for another 220 [...]

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Another master of Science Fiction and a great visionary, Arthur Clarke, has died.  It’ sad but at least, he had a long life – died at ripe old age of 90.  I will probably try to buy a book or two of his to reread (Rendezvous with Rama and the like)- the books I read [...]

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Despite looking like writeoff even by 18:00, by 19:30 the sky was mostly entirely clear! If I haven`t looked through the window, I wouldn`t have even realized it. From my apartment nothing was visible but when we got out of the building we were able to see it immediately. What luck! The total eclipse of [...]

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I took these pictures last fall… The first one is a nice combination of fall colours in front of Joyce station. The second is the same thing. Have to decide which one to keep as official. The next one is sunset at False Creek, at Science world (and no, I won`t be calling it Telus [...]

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Today is yet another day of freaky weather in Vancouver.  This morning I got up to see snow falling and everything was white, mostly.  When I left the building for work an hour later I expected snow as I walked out – instead I got hit by rain and had to quickly retreat to pull [...]

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Stand-by tickets suck.

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A high school friend of mine has started photography as a hobby when digital cameras started appearing – I guess it’s been 7 years or so. He has become so good that he got commissioned to make some calendars for our home town. A few days ago he sent me links to some postcards that [...]

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A week without internet.

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