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Following a link from BoingBoing, I came across this site of pumpkins carved with physics themes. This is if you get tired of the same old, same old jack o’ lantern. Angie’s puking pumpkin is still my favourite of this season.

— from Allan & Cheryl
Let it be shown on record that I am not totally anti-pink! Maddy’s birthday stuff finally arrived today (dance shoes came in separate package — alas, they were out of the pink in her size), and it all fits!

I’ve mentioned before that David belonged to a fraternity at Penn State; many a yarn was spun from that time in his life. I’m sure some (Greek — ha!) mythology slipped into David’s stories, too, considering how many years had passed. Not to mention whatever clarity they might have had at the time.
Some of those [...]

On my way to the local office of Bereaved Families of Ontario after work, where I rummaged around in their lending library for some books to take home. When I attended my peer meeting last week, there was a session in progress so I wasn’t able to browse through their titles. I nabbed two in [...]

Grade 4, circa 1981
Red River Valley Junior Academy
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Judging by all these pictures, my mother obviously abolished cotton from our house. In the early 80s, at least.
I can’t believe I remembered everyone’s names… this was 25 years ago!! (click to see notes in Flickr)
And, just when you thought I was being bashful or pulling your [...]

I’ve been using the latest version of Firefox released earlier today, trying out some new extensions. My favourite so far is Cooliris (v1.9), designed to let you preview and browse at the same time without losing your place. Once you’ve installed it, all you have to do is mouse over the link and it opens [...]

June 24, 2005
Photo credit: David
David’s feet and Hugh on the prowl in the front yard. It’s out of focus, but I like the feeling of the picture. I’ve never seen this photo before — I was in Vancouver waiting for my visa and David and Hugh were waiting for me at home. David would phone [...]

I go up in the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s DC-3 on Saturday! Woo-hoo!

From the dusty archives of primary school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I remember everyone’s names (click on the picture to see the Flickr notes), except one I’m not 100% sure about.
That’s my brother, Allan, in the back row. He was in Grade 6. 13 kids, two grades, one class. It was a tiny school, maybe 100 [...]