Wedding Photos!

These are unedited photos straight from the camera... will do touch-ups and cropping later.

What a fantastic wedding! Thanks Donna and Chris, and see you soon!




Larger pictures here:

Donna and Chris' Wedding

If you want print sized pics let me know and I'll forward you originals!

Chris Osgood; Hall of Fame Goaltender?

Discussed a bit...

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/16472-THNcom-Playoff-Blog-Osgood-for-the-Hall-of-Fame.html

"The fact is Chris Osgood, 35, will amass more than 400 regular season wins in his career. The only other netminders who have surpassed that total and aren't honored members are still active – Ed Belfour and Curtis Joseph. Belfour is a shoo-in for induction; Cujo is more of a longshot.

...

As another colleague asked: "Other than Ken Dryden’s brilliant run in 1971-72, what’s the difference between Osgood and Dryden? Dryden won all those Cups, but was only facing 18 shots a night.”

One difference is perception and Osgood - whose career wins total (363 and counting) and GAA of 2.43 is better than a good handful of his masked brethren who’ve already been inducted - can't shake a reputation forged around a few memorable, soft goals.

...

Maybe this is where he gets the Mike Gartner treatment. Gartner, a fabulously consistent player over the course of his career, was inducted in 2001 having never won a major individual award."

http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/psh/comments/osgoods_hall_of_fame_case/

"10. Is he the best player at his position who is eligible for the Hall of Fame but not in?

No. In the comments of one thread I once listed ten goalies better than Osgood who are Hall of Fame eligible. There are other goalies that could have made the list as well. Players like Vachon, Barrasso, Moog and Mike Richter are definitely better goalies who are Hall of Fame eligible and are not there. "


http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?s=326c5f94584a28d2c88e2a152e22df4e&p=19713010#post19713010



What happens if Detroit wins this year, again, and he comes out with 4 Stanley Cup rings (three as a starter)? Give him another season or two of playing, and by pure numbers he's in top 5 ever... but, that's probably not enough to go on... I'm 70-30 he gets in eventually if he wins again this year. 50-50 if not... 3 rings as a starter, with all the numbers where they should be is hard to ignore.

This is not happening youtube. : Song of the Day 2: Looper - Mondo 77!

Looper:

Looper are a Scottish indie-pop band, fronted by Stuart David, former Belle and Sebastian bassist... After touring the US for three months with The Flaming Lips in 2000 they signed to Mute Records for five albums... Since then, Looper have been releasing their music free to the public at their Looperama website, funding this experiment by licensing the use of their songs in high-profile Hollywood films and ad campaigns, including the film Vanilla Sky and a Xerox campaign... (!)

Download the awesome original here!

Song of the Day!: Plumtree - Scott Pilgrim

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I LOVE THESE LADIES!

Wow. What a great song. What a perfect video. Perfect for the song.. the chorus circuses around, as the red and yellow do! And the hare!.. ughhh...

I've like you for a thousand years! - Plumtree : Song of the day.

Download without distortion and enjoy! You can hear the round on the mp3 version!


I've liked you for a thousand years
I can't wait until I see you

WOW~!

Rehearsal dinner

Padre.


Mom, Bride, Pops, practice, foot by foot.


The consistent pedals of twelve.


Groom with fire.


Greek! Auto-focused on the broccoli? Ahh.. the randomness of life!


Cousin Ula!


Gorgeous!


Again with the gorgeous. Mom dancing with two hands around Leonard Cohen.

How to balance a budget:

The federal government plans to put Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s nuclear reactor business up for sale, and will seek private-sector management for the Chalk River research facility that produces up to half of the world's supply of medical isotopes.

Can they be serious?

Song of the day: Tell Sally - Danny Michel

I first heard Danny Michel courteous Jowi during the unforgettable NYC pickup trip this year. I won't, I honestly can't, replicate Jowi's storytelling, but he painted a fantastic and familiar picture. From there Danny took over.



I sat through the morning 'til the morning up and fled
I held up in my bunker, I held up in my head
The fridge in here is empty and all the plants are dead
I pace like a lion all around my bed

Tell Sally I can't see her, it only makes me weaker
Tell Sally I'm 'a leave her unless I'm her only one, only one
Tell Sally that deceiver how can I now believe her
Tell Sally I'm 'a run unless I'm her only one, only one

I sat through the evening 'til the evening left me too
I sleep beside the phone and hope to hear from you
So I take me hostage and demands I have a few
All I need is one thing, for you to be true

Tell Sally I can't see her, it only makes me weaker
Tell Sally I'm 'a leave her unless I'm her only one, only one
Tell Sally that deceiver how can I now believe her
Tell Sally I'm 'a run unless I'm her only one, only one

Have 4 minutes? I want you to meet someone..

One of the people I greatly look up to... a short introduction to the world of Richard Feynman.



This is from a 1981 Horizon Special, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out".

They'll be plenty more on Feynman when I get the chance... sort from the 'not really about science, science category'.

ps. One of the great things about this video is that Feynman doesn't actually know the bird names in those languages.. he explained once he doesn't know any of those languages at all! But, he knows how they sound... (!)

Fisheye lens

What a fantastic comparison!

Yup, I'm looking into getting a fisheye lens for my D40. Will try to hold out until mid-June for something to pop up used.

This website has some good info on the lenses: http://67.173.243.230/easter-egg/index.html

New on the bike scene...

(http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/2009/05/26/jarvis-makeover-include-bike-lanes-says-city-council)

We've all heard about Jarvis street by now .. one thing I didn't realize was that Jarvis was being minimized to four lanes no matter what; they just didn't know what they wanted to do with it... seems that bikes should be 'blamed' for taking priority over wider sidewalks and extra trees/greenery, not the loss of a lane on Jarvis.

Interesting article here by Andrew Steele and future voting implications for Miller.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/peddling-for-votes/article1154094/

Also, there is an increased bike locker plan:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-place-to-park-your-bike-and-lose-your-excuses/article1154685/

I know there was a small one before... Not sure if it's worth it for me and my bike in the end (isn't getting a good lock good enough?) But, any infrastructure helps the promotion, I figure.

More here:

While we appreciate the attention your publication is currently devoting to cycling, and the needs and concerns of cyclists, we take issue with three things:

• Your incendiary use of the `war' theme to describe city council's recent efforts to improve conditions for cyclists. There is nothing "warlike" about reallocating a small portion of public space dominated by cars to other more beneficial uses such as walking and cycling.
• Cyclists are not freeloaders. Motorists' user fees pay for highways, not local roads, which are paid for by property taxes we all pay. Since bicycles impose much lower roadway costs than cars, bicyclists are actually subsidizing motorists.
• Licensing bicycles is a bad idea. Don't just take it from us. That's what city hall has decided as well – on five separate occasions over the past 50 years: 1) it would discourage people from cycling, 2) the cost of administering the program would be higher than fees collected, 3) it would have no effect on cyclists' behaviour, already regulated by the Highway Traffic Act.

– Nancy Smith Lea
Program Director, Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation
– Yvonne Bambrick
Executive Director, Toronto Cyclists Union

( http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/640951)

Furthermore, cyclists in the Netherlands enjoy dedicated signal lights, lanes, tunnels and bridges. Many one-way streets for cars are two-way for bicycle traffic. As I watched an elderly couple leave an opera -- he in suit and bow tie, pedalling, she, in an evening gown, sitting side-saddle across the back rack--I was reminded that cycling need not be a pursuit of the young and athletic alone but can become a cultural reality that is healthier for both the cyclists and the Earth.

(http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1633909)

Most of this was gathered up from Spacing.ca

UPDATE: Inside the Union station bike parking:

http://torontoist.com/2009/05/this_bicycle_is_leaving_the_station.php

LSAT question!

13. Economist： Money, no matter what its form and in almost every culture in which it has been used, derives its value from its scarcity .whether real or perceived.

　　Anthropologist： But cowrie shells formed the major currency in the Solomon Island economy of the Kwara'ae ,and unlimited numbers of these shells washed up daily on the beaches to which the kwara'ae had access.

　　Which one of the following, if true about the Kwara'ae, best serves to resolve the apparently conflicting positions cited above？

　　（A） During festivals they exchanged strings of cowrie-shell money with each other as part of a traditional ritual that honored their elders.

　　（B） They considered porpoise teeth valuable, and these were generally threaded on strings to be worn as jewelry.

　　（C） The shells used as money by men were not always from the same species of cowrie as those used as money by women.

　　（D） They accepted as money only cowrie shells that were polished and carved by a neighboring people, and such shell preparation required both time and skilled labor.

　　（E） After Western traders brought money in the form of precious-metal coins to the Solomon Islands. Cowrie-shell money continued to be used as one of the major media of exchange for both goods and services.


So, I wanted to figure out if this was actual fact, or more LSAT writers have fun, in their own way...

Turns out it's true!











Pretty cool eh?... Now, this material was taken from Google Books, and more specifically from here:

Money and modernity: state and local currencies in Melanesia
By David Akin, Joel Robbins, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Meetings
Edition: illustrated
Published by Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1999
ISBN 0822956896, 9780822956891

http://books.google.ca/books?id=JVycwg1hmcIC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=kwara%27ae+currency&source=bl&ots=KCMZwGKazx&sig=ix9fGdjdyoOPUAp0TTMmiezwa_4&hl=en&ei=rLocSqyGGoK8M_ffrJsP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPA111,M1

And the right answer to the LSAT question? D, of course!