Nerds

More Buffy. The three nerds are arguing about the pecking order with this quote:

"Warren's the boss. He's Picard, you're Deanna Troi. Get used to the feeling, Betazoid,"

Hilarious. Unless of course you aren't familiar with Star Trek. Or you're not into geek humour.

Skiing at Whistler

I finally made it to my first day on Whistler for the season. I bought five lift tickets so I had better get going!

This picture is from the top of seventh heaven, always a great spot for photos. It was a great day for skiing and it was nice and sunny once you got over the clouds.


However, not all was well. I bought these old used teleskis to learn and finally, 3/4 down Blackcomb glacier the binding broke. This is an even bigger problem because they can't get the snowmobile in. It's a 14 km walk out the bottom or a steep climb up the glacier to top out at the lift so I hiked up.

I made it to the top just as ski patrol showed up to ski to me and tell me to start hiking out. Since I couldn't ski down the mountain I got to ride on the back of the snowmobile down the Horstman glacier (pretty steep) and to a lift I could download on. I think I will keep the skis but buy new bindings.

High Culture

Talk about a lucky evening. I rushed out of the lab on Thursday evening to try and buy rush tickets for the latest Vancouver Opera production The Magic Flute. This was a really neat performance that they had commissioned which incorporated lots of west coast native american tradition. It had been getting good reviews and I was hoping there would be some rush seats available. I stood in line and some lady came up to me to give me a free ticket! I got to see the opera from centre, 9th row! Not bad.

I also finally bought a copy of the Seven Samurai. It's this great movie and I don't really know why I like it so much but I do. Of course, it comes with all the extra audio commentaries I love so much as well as an extra DVD about the making of the movie, AND a book of essays. Before you start thinking I might have a modicum of taste I also recently bought the Disney movie The Little Mermaid.

Harry Potter

Weird, I was wondering what the next Harry Potter title is going to be, looked for it and happened to look the very day they posted the next release date.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
July 21st, 2007.

I'm really excited that this series will be ending. At least, I hope it will end and not go on and on until a great idea finally fizzles (see Lost)