Year: 2005

sailboat Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. Today, I was reading The Sprit of Sailing while sipping on a Starbuck’s coffee in the living room. This is a very excellent book that Scott & Mandi gave me for Christmas. It combines two favorites of mine, sailing and photography. The pictures are very powerful and moving. In Read More …

On Thursday I was working out on the Bowflex and especially focusing on building up my shoulder to recover from the shoulder separtion incident while listening to the Daily Source Code with the PodFather, Adam Curry when he played “Taking a Dump at Work”. I’m well into some difficult reps and concentrating hard but I Read More …

After browsing on Digg for a few minutes I noticed the then #2 digg item on THX which of course lead reviewing the history of THX trailers to hear that classic sound. The Story of “Deep Note”For more than two decades, THX cinema and DVD trailers have been wowing audiences with state-of-the-art visuals and the Read More …

With the shoulder injury from the MDH trip I never did say much about the rest of the ride. Here we are on Saturday morning and the boys are looking for a little something to do during a rest break. Well in this case it’s more like rock off, as in off the hill and Read More …

this is what happens when you check out some blogs, trip off to a wiki, catch part of a web casr witout the audio, and then end up downloading some pre-release software. What’s the idea behind Flock? We believe that it should be easy for everyone to contribute to and participate on the web. To Read More …

It started around 5pm yesterday, and this is what we woke up to this morning. A co-worker who was flying in from Toronto was diverted to Saskatoon and my son who has been out in his 4×4 this morning reported that several buses are stuck and blocking traffic. A good day to work from the Read More …

Did I day burning bush? I meant burning brush; this stuff is definitely getting consumed. On a rare November trip to the lake where the weather was great with temperatures at +10 and no snow, we observed the annual brush burning event. A neighbor organized the burning pile through the year and several local cottagers Read More …

  On October 21, 2005, Eric turned 23 and something magical happened, he became a Princess (according to Scott). We had a great time around a Saturday brunch celebrating Eric’s birthday with Dez, Scott, Mandi & Shirley. However, apparently I need to work on my waffel making skills. First there was the over filling, then Read More …

@import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/1.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;}   Today, I was back on the bike for the usual spin out to Assiniboine Park and back for a distance of 35km. This would be fairly normal, if it we’re not for the crash on the Maah Daah Hey Trail on October 2, a mere 14 days ago, Read More …

Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? Send via SMS BlogThis! blogspotInit();   This is the chair where worries melt away as you look out over the bay in front of our cottage. It’s Thanksgiving weekend and we’re closing up the cottage at the end of another great summer season. I’m so very Read More …