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Airbus A380 Coming To Vancouver
It's sort of funny, because Jason and I were talking about this big bitch tonight. Apparently it's going to be making a brief appearance in Vancouver sometime in November. It truly is an engineering marvel, but I really don't want to go on it.
Why not? Well, firstly, it's 590 tons of reinforced plastic travelling at mach 0.85. Doesn't scare you? How about the fact that during the initial stress test of the new plane, the wings snapped in half. Maybe it will be safe, but considering that nobody really understands the failure ... read more
Vacation
My dad sent me this link today: Oaxaca Crisis. That's really near where I'm going in a few weeks. It seems whenever I go somewhere, there's always some big crisis that happens right before. When I went to Cuba a few years ago, our plane was turned back halfway in the air because of Hurricane Michelle.
Hopefully things get better for the people down in Oaxaca soon. read more
More studies
I spent a half hour tonight getting caught up on medical research. I try to read pubmed from time to time just so I know when my doctor is pitching crap to me or not.
This was an interesting recent study comparing diet composition with weight loss. I'm always surprised when I read research, because so much of it is bad, and the author's never want to go out on a limb and say what their research really means. For example, in the study I just linked to, 57 people went on diets, half on one type, ... read more
Halloween part II
Last night was Mel's big halloween social down at the Marine Club. It was a great time, and everyone appeared to like the beer. Here's a link the some of Mel's photos from the night here. She also had a scary faces contest during the night. Here's mine (photo by Mel):
A funny thing happened on the way home. I realized that being a national icon is hard work, and after a night of dancing, I thought the Statue of Liberty could use some poutine. So, I stopped by Fritz and ordered some food. ... read more
Halloween
So, I have bounced between a couple of ideas for Halloween this year, humming and hawing about what I was going to be. I woke up this morning and realized that I still didn't have a costume. Frantic, I started scanning around my living room for ideas.. And that's when it hit me.. on my floor, in a nice picture frame, was a picture I took in New York back in July.
A picture of the Statue of Liberty.
So, I spent this afternoon putting together a costume of the Statue of Liberty. I made a funky ... read more
Ahh Russia
So tonight I had originally planned to come home and work on some costume ideas.. However, while on my way home, Hesty stopped me and thought it would be a good idea to go grab a drink or two at a pub on the way home.. Thinking I wouldn't be out very late, I tagged along.. However, Adrian then invited us down to the Wild Coyote for a cool Russian Party. Since I'm part Ukrainian, and I happen to think Eastern European girls are pretty cute, it didn't take us long before we wer down there having a few ... read more
Cashing in my aeroplan points
I've been getting a lot of notices from Air Canada's Aeroplan recently. Apparently they have changed their policy so that air miles accumulated on airlines actually expire after a period of time. What that means is my airmiles from a long time ago are going to start disappearing off my statement in the near future.
So, I guess the easiest way to get around that is to cash them in sometime in the next 6 months and go somewhere. I don't really have a lot of vacation at work, so I'll probably just have to go somewhere for ... read more
Gotham
So, yesterday night Cisco and I met up with Cullen at Gotham for dinner. Gotham is arguably Vancouver's finest steakhouse, and despite living here for 10 years or so, I had never been there. Steaks start at around $40, and go up to the $50 Porterhouse that I had. Apparently they cook them in some funky infrared chamber that can cook a steak in around 6 minutes. Anyways, it was fun, but I'm not sure my steak was worth $50.
Afterwards, we met up with Jason, Ecker and Derek for a few drinks. ... read more