Thursday, May 26
David got bumped up to Business Class for showing up late. I've been trying this for years, to no avail.
Dave's Logbook: Yes, please!
When we were in the car on the way to the airport, I said to my dad, "You know, I've taken this flight lots of times and it's always early. I'll bet it's early this time, too." When we arrived at 02:00 I checked the board and it said the flight arrived at 01:21, nearly AN HOUR early. Then an SMS came in on my phone:
Air bridge is broken!
The funny thing is, the flight left New York EARLY, but when they arrived, the air bridge (the ramp that connects the plane to the gate) wasn't working, so they had to sit and wait to get moved to another gate, anyway. So in the end, David arrived on schedule. A nice way to start the weekend, I'd say.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Oh, the shame...
This is hilarious! It's Aunt Pearl (83?) and Uncle Joe (86?). Click on the pic for the backstory.
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Flickr Going Away Party
Ludicorp, the company behind Flickr.com, threw a going-away party on Thursday night at the Alibi Room in Gastown (the office gets moved to San Francisco on Tuesday). Libations, scrummy eats, and t-shirts were there for the taking, and I met more Flickrati than I could keep track of. Especially after the martinis. More on this later.
ADDITION: Tuesday, June 1
I've uploaded more photos to the Flickr Farewell Party set.
The universal Flickr tag for the party is flickrfarewell. As of this writing there are 710 photos with that tag.
Check out the farewell card that JMV made. He crafted a PowerBook/iBook hybrid card out of two UPS boxes and snuck around the room, getting people to sign it. I had to take off at midnight to make sure I had enough time to pick David up at the airport, so I missed the presentation, but there's a collage of it here. I'm sure they were chuffed to receive it -- there was 'time capsule' stuff in the SuperDrive slot, too! That JMV, he thought of everything!
Oh yes, and how could I forget the martinis? They kept bringing out waves of martinis and pints and hors d'oeuvres, so while I was talking I'd spot trays of these going by and of course grab one. At one point in a conversation I looked down and saw my half pint of ale was surrounded by a circle of red sparkly martinis, so I started one of those and went back to the pint, looked down again, and saw an arrangement of champagne-coloured sparkling appletinis (at least, I think that's what they were). So I talked, held a drink in one hand and took photos with the other. What would a Flickr gathering be without shooting anything and everything?
Summer Sneaks In
So, it's the wee hours of Saturday morning, and I'm only downloading my photos of the past few days to clear off the cards for the rest of the weekend. Forget Photoshop and any modifications, I'm sending small batches of photos Flickrward and writing smatterings. The rest will have to wait until after David leaves on Tuesday.
Wednesday was HOT, so I took the kids to the complex's playground with their bikes, my dad joining us shortly after we got there. We didn't last very long in the blazing heat, after hopscotch and swinging and biking. A cool-off in the wading pool was just the ticket for the afternoon.
Wednesday photos -- or click on the image below.
Wednesday was HOT, so I took the kids to the complex's playground with their bikes, my dad joining us shortly after we got there. We didn't last very long in the blazing heat, after hopscotch and swinging and biking. A cool-off in the wading pool was just the ticket for the afternoon.
Wednesday photos -- or click on the image below.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Dave's Logbook
David has finally moved over to the Dark Side... er, I mean Blogger. Until now his online journal has been on Multiply, quite a decent social networking site, but it has its limitations as a blog/journal site. Check out his new location here:
Dave's Logbook
I'm sure there will be a fair amount of tweaking going on there, so check back often.
My own blogging has slowed lately because I've been shuttling between three places, PowerBook in tow, but at my dad's place I'm stuck on *eek* dialup, unfortunately. I'll survive.
A big night tonight:
1) Flickr Going Away Bash in Gastown
2) I pick David up at the airport at 2am
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Storewars
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No doubt most people have come across this link, but in case you haven't:
http://www.storewars.org
It's TEEMING with puns, so consider yourselves warned!
American Museum of Natural History
Another pic from my NYC archives. This is a big batch of photos that haven't seen the light of internet day, so it's nice to be able to go through and resuscitate them using Photoshop and remember that trip as I go through them.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Fat Cat On Cat Mat
One of David's early birthday presents from his mother. Hugh looks so much like the cat on the mat, it's as if he modelled for it!
Revisiting the Archives: Manhattan
No, I'm not back in New York again. Now that I've got iPhoto 5 installed, I'm going back through my archives to pre-Flickr photos that need fixing (mostly colour correction).
This was from my trip to New York over New Year's, 2002/2003. I took a circle cruise around the island and shot a boatload of photos that until now haven't been made public. The 'C' in the photo is for Columbia University, located at the north end of Manhattan.
I recently joined a Flickr group that takes you on a tour, of sorts. You post one photo, and you can add notes to parts of the photo with hyperlinks that take you to those places via another photo. It's hard to describe, so here's the URL:
Walkthrough
I posted an aerial photo of Manhattan, with a link to a shot from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. The idea is that I'll upload my archived photos of New York so I'll be able to link them to my aeial shot in 'Walkthrough'.
This was from my trip to New York over New Year's, 2002/2003. I took a circle cruise around the island and shot a boatload of photos that until now haven't been made public. The 'C' in the photo is for Columbia University, located at the north end of Manhattan.
I recently joined a Flickr group that takes you on a tour, of sorts. You post one photo, and you can add notes to parts of the photo with hyperlinks that take you to those places via another photo. It's hard to describe, so here's the URL:
Walkthrough
I posted an aerial photo of Manhattan, with a link to a shot from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. The idea is that I'll upload my archived photos of New York so I'll be able to link them to my aeial shot in 'Walkthrough'.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
I Finally Meet George and Lana!
Just taking a moment to plug George's site:
www.theflyinggreek.com
Every time I go back to his site, he's added more photos and made improvements.
This is the third time we've attempted to meet since last year, when George, his wife Lana, and I started posting in the Vancouver group on Orkut.com, but something's always come up. Lana and I have been writing while I've been in Pennsylvania, a euphemism for me filling up Lana's inbox with complaints about Pennsylvania -- haha!
Third time's a charm, they say, and last night we finally did meet up and nattered over coffee and desserts for hours at True Confections on Denman Street. I'm glad they made it out here from Richmond -- it was a deluge on and off, which creates traffic and orneriness on the roads. The kind of weather that would put many people off from driving, but not George, apparently, even after arriving home that morning from his third flight to Japan this week. What stamina.
When I met David, practically the first person I mentioned my helicopter flight to was George, who's a pilot with Air Canada and a simulator instructor on various Air Bus series planes. David got me into another side of aviation by taking me on my first helicopter trip and my first flight in a private prop plane. Until that point, I'd been on a lot of commercial airlines, but that was it.
On Friday the two pilots will meet, as it's George's birthday, and David's is on Monday. We'll be whooping it up at a Greek restaurant, of course!
www.theflyinggreek.com
Every time I go back to his site, he's added more photos and made improvements.
This is the third time we've attempted to meet since last year, when George, his wife Lana, and I started posting in the Vancouver group on Orkut.com, but something's always come up. Lana and I have been writing while I've been in Pennsylvania, a euphemism for me filling up Lana's inbox with complaints about Pennsylvania -- haha!
Third time's a charm, they say, and last night we finally did meet up and nattered over coffee and desserts for hours at True Confections on Denman Street. I'm glad they made it out here from Richmond -- it was a deluge on and off, which creates traffic and orneriness on the roads. The kind of weather that would put many people off from driving, but not George, apparently, even after arriving home that morning from his third flight to Japan this week. What stamina.
When I met David, practically the first person I mentioned my helicopter flight to was George, who's a pilot with Air Canada and a simulator instructor on various Air Bus series planes. David got me into another side of aviation by taking me on my first helicopter trip and my first flight in a private prop plane. Until that point, I'd been on a lot of commercial airlines, but that was it.
On Friday the two pilots will meet, as it's George's birthday, and David's is on Monday. We'll be whooping it up at a Greek restaurant, of course!
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