Some new albums are now on my Fotki page, including the pictures from Portland.  I have yet to label them nor blog about any of the stories behind them and I think I will elect not to until some random point in the future. (and on a friends-only entry)

Cheers, folks.

I decided, spur-of-the-moment, to book a half-week trip to Portland:

Friday July 6: Leave Vancouver 6PM by train, get to Seattle 10:05 PM, stay with
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This Vancouver Sun story talks about how much the city has changed since the Hong Kong handover.  The first paragraph seems promising - looking back at old slurs and suggesting they have no place in today's Vancouver:

Remember "Hongcouver?" You don't hear that word much anymore in the polite society of Vancouver, a city that has grown into Canada's ( Read more... )

My cousin Justin's Bar Mitzvah was this weekend.  I was flat-out exhausted Friday from my overnight flight, but I still made it to the party and overall a lot of fun was had.

All my pictures from the weekend can be found at this Fotki album.

The Friday night was a welcoming party for out-of-town guests.  Some photo highlights:


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I have a lot of trouble overlaying the concepts of distance between the city where I was born and the city where I now live.  So here are a few conversions, thanks to Gmaps Pedometer, that may help me and others compare.

East-west
1) Distance from western boundary (Blanca St.) to eastern boundary (Boundary Rd.) = 14 km = entire length of Queen Street ( Read more... )

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http://www.thestar.com/News/article/206073

A software problem is to blame for a packing slip on a couch that read "nigger-brown," according to a manger at the Chinese computer company that provided the translation.

I didn't know that mangers could speak, much less work at a computer company.  I love when language errors slip into articles about ( Read more... )

http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/ourhumanity.htm

Whenever anything really bad happens around Korean people, that is when I would like to hide, go to Hawaii and eat spam sushi until it blows over. I don’t want to comment on it because I don't want to escalate the situation and I don't ( Read more... )

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Today Joe invited me out to join him and some people for lunch on the Drive, so I told him I'd meet him there.  I decided to scooter over to the Stadium SkyTrain and carry my shopping bags with me in my daypack so I could go to Costco on the way home.  The rain was miserable enough that by the time I got near the SkyTrain (I'd have had to take it ( Read more... )