Proost!

Here's to Kev's last day of the past, and new day of the future!

Oh and - grats on the Powerbook and the car! :-)

I Love Linux

So funny: Linux

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Mmmmm Music

Check out this music video Kev passed on, I really like it! Now I'm on a mission, since Kev says I should be ashamed to buy my music at Future Shop but need to go to Zulu Records....

Mute Math

and I'm looking at the funnies....

Things that made me laugh, in Ryan's honour:

The Honda Choir Spoof

The Sperm Whale

Before the hair cut...

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
-- Hair, the musical

Stay

Watched the movie "Stay" on the weekend... absolutely mind-boggling, beautiful imagery and surreal story.

Plug....

Blake Abbie and Max van Wyck have starring roles in the Vancouver Community College production of Mikado that is happening this Saturday evening, March 24, at VCC's King Edward Campus (1155 East Broadway, 1 block west of Clark, on the north side of Broadway) at 7:30 p.m..

Tickets available at the door for a mere $15/$10.

This is a fully staged and costumed production with yours truly on the keyboard.

We'd love to see you there at 7:30 p.m.

Thanks,
Gerry.

Clean Fun

SOAP, XML, WSDL, OASIS, BPEL, UDDI, WS-* ... No wonder we're thought to be Martians. Spent the last two days in a seminar on Service-Oriented Architecture.

Don't get me wrong - I love organizing my thoughts in abstract patterns, as you are required to do when designing software systems. There is such beauty in an abstract representation of a solution.

And for all the A&D standards and approaches - I've met only a few people who are good software architects, who create beauty in structure. We all know the design principles, they haven't changed in donkey's years... decoupling, abstraction, information hiding, that lovely new term "agnosticism", .... Thing is, not that many people can apply the clarity of thought to make it happen.

Remember when the Big Thing was to design an Enterprise Entity Model? Complete with its own meta-data-datamodel? :-)

Kev said "creative, pragmatic, and smart people save the development process" and he is right. As usual :-)

The Parable of the Prodigal teaches us that in the context of human community, we need more than words for transformation. We need people who will risk. We need active signs of love that show what love really is.
-- From the WVUC podcast site

Dutch Skate

Dutch Skate
Originally uploaded by siebe.

Oh i miss skating.... I remember circling around and around in the inner track of the 400m skating rink - you had to be exactly in rythm with the next person in the queue, since, as you can tell, there is barely any space. Switching into the middle lane was as much of a navigation challenge as docking the space shuttle in orbit, ensuring excatly the right speed in the lane right next to it and then quickly inserting yourself...

Can a heart still break after it's stopped beating?

Can a heart still break after it's stopped beating?
Originally uploaded by Jet Of Hearts.

End of an era. Struggling with too many emotions and memories to even begin to make sense of things.



The Corpse Bride: Isn't the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any.

Tall Order

Tall Order
Originally uploaded by Jet Of Hearts.

So surely, with the new camera, and EOS 20D, my pictures will be even better, right?

Been here before

I have been here before
words stale inside
composure and grace
turmoil easy to hide

sentiments congeal to coherence
only to deflate on my tongue
what can I say, my friend
that wouldn't feel all wrong

So I compose and I shred
decide against it every time
I have been here before
a wall too high to climb

Did you ever wonder
why we had to run for shelter
when the promise
of a brave new world
unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?
-- Pink Floyd, The Wall, "Goodbye Blue Sky"

We went to see this great exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Photographs from the downtown city streets by Herzog, and an exhibition about story telling in photographs. In the latter, the pictures have staged settings that ask questions and lead the viewer to a story.

I find myself always seeing stories. You meet an old man making a purchase at the IGA, hair unkempt, pants high held up by suspenders, thin socks, unwashed. How did he end up there?
What choices did he make that narrowed his path of potentials to this single outcome?

Light

He says it is my light that makes him want to be here, to take away his darkness. Beautiful words, moving to hear.

But what is a word? I have heard so many words. Something spoken in the moment, fleeting as the fog evaporates. Not just something that no longer is. But something that never was. Only shapes in the fog, an illusion of light.

Thank you, Roger, for the gorgeous pictures.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
John (ch. XII, v. 35)

Wink

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink
-- Beatles, So Tired


Here's to living each day *and* night! Sleep is for the wicked. :-) Blue Chip Cookie Coffee to the rescue.

Badger Badger Mushroom Snake!

My all-time favourite video Badger Badger now has a WoW equivalent :-)

Oomkin FTW!

Darkhope and I doing damage. Somehow Darkhope's crit is at 26% and mine at 9%... :-)
Oomkin power

Darkhope says, don't select gear because of the armour, choose the gear that gives you the most damage increase. She has mostly cloth gear...