Comments | niteshad: Considering a trip to Toronto

niteshad

Considering a trip to Toronto

Jun 08, 2009 05:44

I've been thinking it's been a long while since I was in Canada, and am considering a trip to Toronto, with multiple, freeform objectives. Except for one boozy, wasted (not because of the booze, because it was unexpectedly a holiday weekend and everything in Toronto was closed, including the restaurants) weekend in 1994, all of my trips to Toronto ( Read more... )

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niteshad June 8 2009, 14:10:22 UTC

But I thought that Canada has such a great public transportation and rail system that people like you could use to get around. I always enjoy taking VIA rail to Toronto, it beats getting blown around on 402 next to the Lake.

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niteshad June 8 2009, 14:16:47 UTC

I know Waterloo. The mainframe that used to compile my Pascal code back in high school is (or at least was) located somewhere on University of Waterloo's campus! We sent the code as batch jobs over modem from the IBM minicomputer at my school, and used actual DEC VT-100s for editing. The output came back and was printed out by a line printer.

stormgren June 8 2009, 13:52:55 UTC

While planning your travel, don't forget about the "enhanced" identification rules for border crossings now in effect. Passports or near-passports are pretty much required at this point.

http://www.getyouhome.gov/html/lang_eng/index.html

niteshad June 8 2009, 14:04:52 UTC

I wasn't planning on crossing the US border without a passport, no worries.

tottenkoph June 8 2009, 15:06:35 UTC

I would definitely suggest that you get a hold of hypatia and shardy while you're up there. :)

niteshad June 8 2009, 15:12:54 UTC

They are among the people I'm hoping will choose to comment on this post. :-)

thirdson June 8 2009, 21:22:13 UTC

i am here! can definitely help you on 2, 3, and 4. what particular flavor of electronic music?

niteshad June 10 2009, 21:58:16 UTC

I'm from Detroit, so I've already got the minimal Detroit Techno angle covered. Right now, I'm mainly interested to see what the local scene is cooking up there. I won't know what I'm in the mood for until when I'm there. I usually like to just be a bit free-form in these matters. Basically, I'm looking to branch out.

niteshad June 10 2009, 21:59:50 UTC

Don't worry about the first item on my list, I already have that one covered.