Post Win Celebration

This was the scene at Yonge and Dundas after we won hockey gold. I counted three different people climbing the traffic lights.

Heart Rings

I heart the Olympics too. Sad they will be over soon.

VanOC

Canada enters the opening ceremonies at BC place...

There was some stunning imagery. They must have had hundreds of projectors going. At one point, they turned the entire floor into a prairie wheat field. I kept trying to figure out where they were projecting from. Could it have been from below? If it was from above, I don't understand how we didn't see the dancers' shadows more. Perhaps Brent and Tash figured out the trick...

VanOC did a great job.

The only shortcoming was a malfunction in one of the arms of the Olympic cauldron that failed to deploy.

Quirkle

A new game called "quirkle" we learned about at Christmas...

Babushka Doll

John and Michelle's Babushka has more layers than I've ever seen in one of these dolls.

Blue Sky

A picture of Tonya from a trip up to Sudbury in the Fall.

Toaster Oven

I don't like our new toaster oven. All 3 knobs have to be set correctly to make toast.

If you look closely, you'll notice the instructions: "Rotate knob past 10 then set to desired time". WTF!? What if you want to set it for 5 minutes? You have to rotate it past 10 and then back to 5?! The designers of this toaster need to read Kim Vincente's The Human Factor. It was a problem like this that led to the Chernobyl disaster.

So I have to rotate past 10...but wait. What does it say at the bottom en francais? "Tourner le bouton jusqu'a depasser la position 20 puis regler le temps desire"

Which is it? 10 or 20? Does toaster oven treat me different if I'm french?

Fire

There was a fire at my old building at 191 St. George early in the morning of Feb 4, 2010. The fire was in the first floor apartment but the scorch marks appear to have reached to the 6th floor. More photos here.