Day 013/365 1.31.2010 – Weathered Fence
Day 013/365 1.31.2010 – Weathered Fence
Originally uploaded by goose3five
As the world will find out in about two weeks the weather in Vancouver does not fit the American picture of Canada. As a matter of fact, it is down right temperate.
Don’t believe me?
Here is a great geeky tool for the chart/graph lover in you. It is a monthly summary of the highs and lows at the Burnaby Mountain weather station for the month of January. As you can see, we only dipped below freezing on the night of January 7th (31F/-1C). The other thing to note is that it rained roughly half of the month.
It is no wonder with weather like this that the old white picket railing on my porch is in a state that would have old Huck Finn busy whitewashing all summer.
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Day 012/365 1.30.2010 – 1-2-3-4-5
Originally uploaded by goose3five
The five count in pattern 8.
This photo is part of a set taken during my 8-year-old daughter Gabrielle’s taekwondo Poom belt promotion test at Phoenix Sports Academy, January 30, 2010, Coquitlam, British Columbia.
Day 011/365 1.29.2010 – Foreshadowing?
Day 011/365 1.29.2010 – Foreshadowing?
Originally uploaded by goose3five
As I sat at my desk looking for acceptable ways to position this little rodent skull on my portable Western Digital hard drive I couldn’t help but worry that this wasn’t a bit of foreshadowing. Just in case I am going to back up my hard drive.
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Day 010/365 1.28.2010 – Congratulations
Day 010/365 1.28.2010 – Congratulations
Originally uploaded by goose3five
Congratulations are in order as my little one (pictured here on the beam at right) was promoted to the competitive gymanstics team at her gym today. As you can imagine we are very proud particularly because both my wife and my sister were sucessful competitive gymnasts in their youth.
I have to tell you, I spent a ridiculous amount of time in the gym with my little sister when she was a kid. It is “like deja vu all over again.”
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Day 009/365 1.27.2010 – Reflection
Day 009/365 1.27.2010 – Camera Shy
Originally uploaded by goose3five
This was shot in the monitor reflection of my powered-down Macbook Pro. It explains the slight ghosting around the edges of my image (look at my shoulders or head).
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Day 008/365 1.26.2010 – Camera Shy
Day 008/365 1.26.2010 – Camera Shy
Originally uploaded by goose3five
Say hello to my daughter Gabby’s 1.5 year old bearded dragon, Phoenix.
This is as good a time as any to plug Gabby’s cool video entitled “Me and My Pet’s.” Check it out.
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Incredible HD Time Lapse of Vancouver
This HD time lapse video of Vancouver is unbelievably beautiful. Anyone wondering why I was willing to pick up my family and move across the continent to come here need only watch this five minute clip. For those of you who are from here, never forget what you have.
H/T to the good folks at VancouverIsAwesome.com, my new favorite blog.
Day 007/365 1.25.2010 – I Caught You Looking
Day 007/365 1.25.2010 – I Caught You Looking
Originally uploaded by goose3five
My daughter and I take Taekwondo at a gym nearby. Today I was buried in work so I sat on the side and continued my work while the rest of the class practiced for an upcoming promotion test.
These two purple belts were practicing their pattern when I finally got a break and pulled out the camera to snap a few shots.
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Day 006/365 1.24.2010 – A Simple Monk
Day 006/365 1.24.2010 – A Simple Monk
Originally uploaded by goose3five
I was perusing the bookshelves in my office this morning for something to read and thought this set would make an interesting photo. What do you think?
Day 005/365 1.23.2010 – The Blessed Mama Burger
Day 005/365 1.23.2010 – The Blessed Mama Burger
Originally uploaded by goose3five
Gabby attended the birthday party of one of her classmates at Crash Crawlies this evening so dinner was an afterthought. To be honest, we were all craving root beer so the A&W across the street from the party was an easy dinner choice.
Day 004/365 1.22.2010 – Don’t Walk, Blur
Day 004/365 1.22.2010 – Don’t Walk, Blur
Originally uploaded by goose3five
It was a gorgeous day today. The sun was shining, it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 Celsius for my Canadian friends), and I had my camera. Although the day was insanely busy I found 15 minutes at lunch to do a walk around our my old office building and I must have taken 20 good pictures with my Canon DSLR.
So it frustrates me a bit that it was this picture, taken at around 5:25 PM with my little pocket point-and-shoot Panasonic, that became my choice for day four. It was really a throw-away shot. I liked the way the lighting on the EA building looked in the dusk so I pulled the camera out of my bag and while i was framing the shot a dude comes flying out of the EA driveway on a skateboard. Snap! The anonymous EA employee/skater is in the left hand side of the shot.
You never know what you are going to like but for some odd reason I liked this one.
Happy Friday!
WDIV Detroit 4 Airs Extremely Positive Vancouver 2010 Profile
If you live in Vancouver like me, the daily drumbeat of negative stories surrounding the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics might have you believing that the rest of the world has a similar negative image of our fair city. Personally I never bought into this meme but the constant nagging had certainly begun to skew my image of our host city. That is until last night when I turned on the WDIV evening news – yes America, Canadians actually get U.S. channels on the cable boxes in our igloos – I was treated to a profile of our Vancouver that had even me blushing.
Vancouverites – you should be proud of how your city is being portrayed on the world stage.
Project 365, Day 003/365 1.21.2010 – Beginnings
Day 003/365 1.20.2010 – Beginnings
Originally uploaded by goose3five
Only three days into Project 365 and I am already embarking on another life-altering project. Home brewing. Today’s photo is a capture of the half-loaded truck of the co-worker from whom I just purchased a lifetime collection of beer making gear.
At this point in the load-up you are only looking at a bottle washing rack, grain grinder, several fermenting bottles, a cooker, two 5-gallon buckets full of grain, three cases of “Grolsh-style” beer bottles, three 5-gallon kegs, a wooden rack and a canister of CO2.
As I said, this is only half of the equipment! Needless to say, the party will be at my house this summer.
Project 365, Day 002/365 1.20.2010 – Puck
Originally uploaded by goose3five
This is my “little man” Puck. As I sat contemplating what to shoot for day 2 of Project 365 I could not resist his serious gaze.
This photo also reminds me that I fear he may be developing cataracts. That haze in his eye, while not present in the absense of direct light, is not a good sign.
I love this little guy.
Project 365, Day 001/365 1.19.2010 – The View from My Office Window
Day 001/365 1.19.2010 – The View from My Office Window
Originally uploaded by goose3five
I am starting my adventure into Project 365 with this poorly lit photo of the view out of my office window as it represents what I see every day and the challenge I will be faced with when trying to come up with something creative to shoot every day for a year. Wish me luck.
Is Missing Ammonium Nitrate a Threat to the 2010 Olympics?
I would not be surprised if you were unaware of this story. There has been next to no press about it since the 2 tons of ammonium nitrate, twice that used in the Oklahoma City bombing, showed up missing from a shipment bound for North Vancouver.
With less than a month until the world’s eyes are B.C., Mounties are still trying to account for missing ammonium nitrate.
Two tonnes of the chemical compound, which has been used in several terrorist bombings, was originally reported missing to the RCMP on Jan. 6.
Kinder Morgan, a pipeline and energy-storing company, had been transporting 6,000 bags of material from Alberta to North Vancouver when two bags could not be accounted for days before Christmas.
The discrepancy was discovered when the shipment was moved by a third-party trucking company to a facility.
Initially the missing material was chalked up to a clerical error but last night the RCMP released an odd video statement claiming that they could not verify this conclusion. [UPDATE: It is worth noting that the video statement below was delivered to a camera only but in a setting that makes it appear it was in front of a press conference. There were no reporters present to ask questions.]
I have two questions at this point.
1) Could this be a threat to the safety of the 2010 Olympics which are only a couple weeks away?
2) Why the hell is this story not all over the news?
I know the tragedy in Haiti is justifiably consuming every moment of air time but this should not preclude the media from keeping people safe. I live here in Vancouver with my family and we plan on attending several Olympic events but if the RCMP and others can’t give me a sense that they have things under control I am not sure whether I will be simply staying home.
At minimum I would expect some commentary from the blogosphere on memorandum.
Recent articles about this story:
1/17/2010
Police unable to confirm that missing explosive has been accounted for
1/18/2010
B.C. fertilizer unaccounted for in RCMP audit
B.C. RCMP probe case of missing chemicals that can be used as explosives
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