That’s it, the last of the pictures are uploaded. Day 5 has quite a few pics, but days 6 and 7 are pretty light. Maybe I’ll put one or two of the videos into YouTube someday, but for now I’m happy this is done.
Day 5: pictures | description
Day 6: pictures | description
Day 7: pictures (no description; there were only 10 pictures taken as we drove out of Banff)
[tags]rockies, banff, banff springs, wolf, deer, elk, coyote, beauty creek, mistaya canyon, johnston canyon[/tags]
TV notes:
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Sports notes:
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Political notes:
[tags]er, friday night lights, heroes, colbert report, canadiens, raptors, vince carter, stephen harper, iraq[/tags]
I’ve uploaded pictures from the fourth day of our trip, when we saw things around Jasper like Mount Robson, Maligne Canyon, Maligne Lake and the gondola to the top of The Whistlers. Lots of wildlife shots in this one: bighorn sheep, deer and a few distant elk. Click here for the pictures & description.
[tags]rockies, jasper, maligne lake, maligne canyon, bighorn sheep, deer, gondola, whistlers[/tags]
This plane crash story from New York is getting weirder and weirder. There’re now reports that Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was on the plane when it crashed into the building. I’d heard it was his plane, but apparently they’ve now found his passport near the wreckage.
Was he just really broken up about the ALCS loss to Detroit?
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I see that Americans, having run out of foods to deep-fry, have begun deep-frying Coke. Brilliant. [via Joe]
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I’m always angry at myself for not going to see art and photography exhibits, so I’m going to try really hard to see the World Press Photo 2006 exhibit at BCE place before the 22nd. [via Torontoist]
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More pictures tonight if I have a chance.
[tags]cory lidle, new york plane crash, deep-fried coke, word press photo 2006[/tags]
I’ve whittled the 405 pictures we took on the way from Lake Louise to Jasper down to 295…which is still a lot, but thankfully flickr lets you preview ’em before you open ’em. There’re about 70 of the Athabasca Glacier alone, so if you get tired of looking at ice just skip to the waterfalls. Pictures are here, description of the day is here.
[tags]rockies, banff, jasper, icefields parkway, bow lake, peyto lake, athabasca glacier, athabasca falls, sunwapta falls[/tags]
The Onion’s A.V. Blog reports that two of the TIFF films that I’m most anticipating might have trouble getting on screens south of the border. I suspect no such issues here in Canada, but it’s a sad state of affairs. As the article states,
“In both cases, films are being shut out of theaters for their ideas, not for any explicit or offensive content on the surface. These gatekeepers have basically decided that adults need to be shielded from ideas that they deem inappropriate. They’ve creating a special rating and it’s called GFY (Go Fuck Yourself).”
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I might be in the minority, but I’m all for Hockey Night In Canada moving from CBC to TSN/CTV. Why? Because I, like most of the rest of the country, can’t stand watching the prime time game being called by a pair of Leafs homers who’re on the down slope of their careers. Bob Cole and Harry Neale may be nice guys, but you may as well go watch the game in your Toronto-fan grandpa’s rec room. Gord Miller’s a better play-by-play man, Pierre Maguire’s better at colour (and actually knows the names of some non-Leaf NHLers), and they have guys like Bob McKenzie, Glenn Healy, James Duthie and Chris Cuthbert to boot.
The best part: no more Don Cherry. I’d like it if they could salvage MacLean somehow, but if he has to be sacrificed in order to distract Cherry while they pack up the HNIC set, then so be it.
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Because all my music is encoded at 128kbps (it’s the only way it’ll all fit on my Nomad) I’m thinking this would be a good investment.
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Hey, WOXY’s back.
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Slides in a museum; bitchin’. My brother’s already mentioned it, but this exhibit at London’s Tate Modern looks very cool. When I was there that hall was filled with a giant (and I do mean giant; it was about a hundred feet tall) double-ended red horn.
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If I have time tonight I’ll try to post more pictures from our trip. Day 3 was the motherload (400+ pics) so it could take me a while to slog through them.
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I’ve finally had to pick up my next textbook. However, it’s a statistics course, and I find stats kind of interesting. Sick puppy, I know.
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New TV: Heroes has me hooked. Studio 60 is, apparently, in trouble, proving once again that Aaron Sorkin is too smart to write for television. I haven’t watched Friday Night Lights yet, but if it’s as good as the movie I’ll stick around for the ride.
[tags]d.o.a.p., deliver us from evil, hockey night in canada, creative xmod, woxy, tate modern, statistics, heroes, studio 60, friday night lights[/tags]
Here’s an interesting confluence of personal interest and scholarly pursuit: the Russian music downloading site AllOfMP3.com, which provides extremely cheap downloads with no copyright protection, is apparently one of the — perhaps the only — major barrier to Russia joining the World Trade Organization. A site like AllOfMP3 would surely violate the TRIPs agreement on international recognition of intellectual property rules, and TRIPs is what I just wrote a whole paper on (though I focused on generic medication for poor countries, not music copyright).
This book learnin’ might come in handy after all…
[tags]allofmp3, wto, trips agreement, russia[/tags]
Here are the pictures from our second day in the Rockies, and my description of it. Again, the text should pretty much go along with the pictures. The first 156 (!) pictures are from the Lake O’Hara region where we hiked up to Lake Oesa and down again, then there are 10 of Lake Louise and 20 of Moraine Lake.
[tags]rockies, lake o’hara, lake oesa, yoho national park, lake louise, moraine lake[/tags]
I’ve upgraded to a Flickr Pro account so that I could upload all the pictures from the trip. Obviously I won’t bother posting some of them (some turned out blurry, and Nellie likes to take pictures of our hotel rooms that I’m sure aren’t interesting to anyone else). The sets are broken up into days: you can see pictures from day 1 here. My description of the day is here; the pictures pretty much follow along in sequence.
I had to scale them all down so that uploading wouldn’t take all night. If anyone wants an original version (most were in the 2800 x 1600 range) email me.
[tags]rockies, lake louise, kicking horse river, emerald lake, moraine lake[/tags]
Our Canon S3 (and the 2GB memory card inside) did yeoman’s work on our trip. We’ve finally moved all the files into one place for a grand total of 1,302 pictures and 30 videos weighing in at 1.63GB and 1.64GB respectively. Here’s how it broke down by day:
* there were some technical difficulties with getting the video to work, so we have no videos of Emerald Lake or the Lake O’Hara/Lake Oesa region.
[tags]canon s3, rockies[/tags]
