Category Archive: Friends & Family

May
06

PoTW: The Ocean with the Girls

More to come, but we had fun today walking down to the beach and hanging out. Flickr set. We walked down, Virginia in the stroller and Magdelen in the carrier so we could get there in time to play before nap time.

Jul
02

PoTW : Summer Fields

PoTW : Summer Fields We’re up in Canada visiting friends and family for a wedding and just getting caught up with our nieces. It is time well spent. Flickr set.

May
11

Saturday Mornings

Recently the weather and my head weren’t up for an early ride and at least 1/3rd of my riding buddies were out of town or unavailable. Instead, I made a nice cup of espresso on the gas stove. The Alessi is finally happy about life now that I use it on a gas burner. Me? …

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Apr
06

Unpowered Ride.

Overview of our ride.

I managed to finally get out around town and do some mountain bike riding. Cullen was kind enough to loan me a bike, and his good one at that. We didn’t set any speed records and stopping for a snack on the way home wasn’t exactly hard-core, but it was great to get our and …

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Apr
04

Some stats on some friends.

Some browser derived stats.

A selection of stats on some friends that viewed a thingy I sent around. Certainly not representative of the web at large. I for one, am shocked at the lack of Linux.

Mar
25

Flickr as a visual alphabet.

From Spell with Flickr at Metaatem.net.

Mar
23

PoTW : Easter Sunday in the Park

A fun day in the Frederick Street Park with friends and family. A few photos for the rest of the family that couldn’t be here. I’m fairly particular towards the swinging photo (click through for the images) : The rest of the images can be found in the gallery on this site or via  set on Flickr.

Nov
15

Kinderbag

My old friend John found this bag in a fashionable store in Vancouver. He noticed something about the bag that was a little bit more than “average”. I’ll tell you what it is! This is our kindergarten class photo from the mid 1970s! Egads! People are walking around Vancouver wearing ME (and John) as a …

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Oct
22

PoTW: The Twins

I ran up to the city on Saturday to take photos of the twins and the proud parents. I’ll post some more photos when I have a moment, but here are a few that really captured the morning. I was challenged in that I only had a 50/1.4 and a 20/2.8, no lights or reflectors …

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Sep
06

Facebook Etiquette

Tim Bray on Facebook Rules: “If not, then not. If so .. in which case no… “ Tim Bray has a great writeup on Facebook friend requests and applications. I have to admit that I largely agree. People who use social networking as a popularity contest devalue the meaning of friend for the network as …

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