Archive for September, 2009
Today was the annual Kickoff event – the home opener for the U of C Dinos football team, combined with a party welcoming students to campus for another year. This year, the whole family went to the game, and we had a blast. Also, this year was different because it was the first time in a long, long time that I was able to score the free tickets offered to students…
We had to leave at half time, because it was just too much sun for The Boy™ to endure, but the first half of the game was a great one. When we left, the Dinos were ahead 10-8 over the Golden Bears. Sounds like the second half was exciting, too, with the Dinos holding onto the slim lead to win the game. Whew.
The U of C Dinos playing the U of A Golden Bears, at the University of Calgary home opener – Kickoff 2009.
Being a writer in a world that features Wallace would be like playing basketball in a world that has Michael Jordan, only none of us even know how to play basketball and we’re all injured toddlers with broken lacrosse equipment.
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I know that if we as a society approached depression and mental health with the same dedication and persistence with which we approached drunk driving or smoking or, hell, littering in the past, we’d bury a lot fewer of our brothers and daughters and heroes.
genius. fucking genius.
we had the first parent-teacher interview of grade 1 today. Evan’s got a really great teacher, and we absolutely love the school.
stark contrast between light and darkness, in the early stages of sunrise over the bow river valley, along the bowmont pathway system.
One of the things I was missing when I switched from Google Reader to Fever˚ was a way to share items from my subscriptions. Fever˚ didn’t have any way to generate a feed of things I saved, so it was kind of a separate silo. But, the most recent version of Fever˚ includes a cool new feature to share my Saved items in an RSS feed. Easy peasy.
Here’s an embedded view of the last 30 saved items, thanks to the magical wondrousness of Feed2JS: (it’ll probably bork in the feed, though. irony.)
There are lots of other features that got added in the last update, including integration with Twitter and Instapaper. Fever˚ just keeps getting better and better…
I spent a few minutes rearranging apps in the shiny new iTunes 9. This home screen holds all of my must-have apps. Screen 2 is my set of game addictions. Screen 3 is music apps. The rest is largely a jumble of stuff.
the duck pond near campus, calm as glass at dawn. soon, the ducks will fly away, and the pond will be drained for the winter. likely the last pond reflection shot of the year…
the bow river, flowing eastward along Bowness and Silver Springs, toward downtown Calgary
The parade approaches our vantage point on Railway Drive, near the end of the route.