Friday night: Met up with 10 other nutcases in front of the Shatner building. It was raining a bit but there was no snow on the ground in Montréal - but things would soon change for us. The drive out to Floodwood Pond was uneventful - the border guard asked us a lot of questions, but I think most of them were because she was bored. After the ( Read more... )

1. If you like EBM music, you need to see the Crüxshadows at your next opportunity. Totally worth the 4 hour drive to Albany from Montréal.

2. The Sol LeWitt exhibit at MASS MoCA is made of pure win. You have approximately 25 years to go see it, so there's no excuse to miss out. MASS MoCA is in the small town of North Adams - about 1.5 hours ( Read more... )

Google Maps now does Montréal transit directions. Finally!

Though I wish I could tell it "don't bother with a 3 minute bus ride; I'll walk" or that Mont-Royal is only 7 minutes from here, not 11.

Update: ah, you sorta can do the first one by telling it to go to the métro station of your choice, not your actual destination.

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Fri Oct 24: driving to New York City
Attending NYC Decom
Mon Oct 27: driving back to Montréal

Fri Nov 14, 11:45: Via 61, Montréal-Toronto, arr 16:42 Attending T-comp Sun Nov 16, 18:35: Via 668, Toronto-Montréal, arr 00:18 Dec 22, 20:30: AC 632, YUL-YYT, arr 00:27 Dec 23 ( Read more... )

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Here are all the Church of Ceiling Cat photos I know of. I was planning to take more on Sunday night, but we ended up taking everything down on Sunday morning.

• grimmwire : final assembly, more assembly, night view.
• Heather: Ceiling Cat in his Ceiling
• obskura : Kitteh
• Dome by day by Bill

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Sun Oct 5, 21:40: BA 94, YUL-LHR, arr 9:05 Oct 6 Thu Oct 9, 19:40: BD 92, LHR-BHD, arr 21:00 Fri Oct 10, 14:50: parents arrive on BD 86 Sun Oct 12, 13:15: BD 87, BHD-LHR, arr 14:30 Sun Oct 12, 17:40: BA 95, LHR-YUL, arr 19:45LHR for work, BHD to visit family. Unfortunately, I'm not actually working in London but a suburb 1-1.5h out. So I'll ( Read more... )

For reference: it is possible to ride 47km at ludicrous speed with 3 of the best apple pies in the world in a shoulderbag, and have them arrive almost completely intact.

Tue Sep 30, 17:40: AC 525, YUL-ORD, arr 19:05 Tue Sep 30, 20:02: UA 959, ORD-DEN, arr 21:34 Fri Oct 3, 19:33: UA 256, DEN-ORD, arr 22:50 Sat Oct 4, 9:40: AC 8694, ORD-YUL, arr 12:43Unfortunately, I can't get home on Friday night.. so it was either stay in Chicago, or stay in Boulder and get home even later. So I'm staying at the airport ( Read more... )