Today Leah picked up the “Digital Negatives” and our proof book for our wedding photos… and we are vey happy! I’ll get them posted to the photo gallery this week, but for now here are a few previews:
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
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After missing it last year, Leah resumed her yearly pilgrimage to the Canadian National Exhibition. This year it included a football match between Toronto FC and Chivas USA – the FC lost 2-0 – with the Swissprinters.
After the match we wandered through the food building, enjoyed a schwarma, a couple of Pogo’s, two dozen Tony Tom Donuts, and a schnitzel. This was followed with a couple of funnel cakes, and a couple of ice cream cones – all things considered, I think we got our fill of treats from The Ex in pretty short order.
Every year someone suggests that The Ex should be cancelled, but judging by the tens of thousands of people who were there on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, I think that The Ex is still going strong. Be sure to check it out!
It may be hard for some people to believe it, but it was 25 years ago today that the first CD was produced for commercial sale. The first CD produced was A) “Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss” or B) “The Visitors†by ABBA (there is some discussion about this…), at a Polygram production facility in Langenhagen (near Hanover), Germany.
Dire Straits adopted the CD format in 1985 and their release “Brothers In Arms” was the first CD to sell one million copies (It still sells well and is closing in on 30 million units). In total, more than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide over the past 25 years!
The City of Toronto continually amazes me. They amaze me in a bad way, as in, “I am amazed that they are this stupid and wasteful.”
Today we received a mailing from the City about the odours coming from the Humber Sewage Treatment Plant and their potential causes. I probably don’t need to write anything else, but come on, what is wrong with the people running this city? It’s a facility that process crap, lots of crap, and anything else that people see fit to flush down their toilets or pour down the drain. The city undertook an “Odour Assessment Study to investigate the source and volume of the odour emissions…”
I could have saved the City a lot of time and money because I don’t need a study to tell them that the cause of the odours is the crap that the plant is processing. So again, in a city that is strapped for cash and looking to cancel services in order to stay in operation, we learn that they spent good money on determining where the smell is coming from at a sewage treatment plant.
When you are Tiger Woods in the PGA Championship!
This guy is unbelievably good. I play golf regularly, and I hit the ball a fair distance, but this guy is in another world. He hit a 351 yard drive and then a 156 yard wedge to within 10 feet of the hole.
Wow.
Apple released a new version of the iMac this week and I want one. Last December I decided I wanted a new computer, but I made a commitment not to buy until Apple released their new operating system – at that point it was thought that the new OS would be out in early 2007.
Apple delayed the release until October and am I ever glad they did, and that I stuck to my commitment! Now I’m going to get a totally kick-ass new iMac with a brand new OS!!! Woo Hoo!!!
The geek in me is very excited!
I’m already salivating for barbequed corn. But at the same time I am pissed off; who schedules Taste OF The Danforth and the Festival Of Beer for the same weekend???
We’ll be checking out the Taste as for the first time ever, corn is more appealing to me than beer.
Donuts, a $2 admission fee and fairy lights – these are my first memories of the Dream in High Park. On Saturday, Chris and I made some new memories – goat cheese pasta salad, a $20 admission fee and fairy lights.
Along with Dan and Anna, we took in the 25th anniversay edition of CanStage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As usual, the production was lively and innovative – though I will fully admit my bias towards CanStage productions, and their rendition of this Shakespeare play in particular.
Puck was acrobatic, cheeky and lovable, Hermia’s mother was brilliantly portaryed as country club-going “jewish mother”, and Titania, Queen of Fairies, had coquettish attendents who randomely broke out in song, huffed and puffed like teen-aged girls when annoyed, and seductively teased the donkey-headed Bottom.
A real highlight was the hip-hop version of “Pyramus and Thisbe” – the play the craftsmen put on in honour of Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. Hilarious.
If you get a chance, take in this year’s Dream. You’ll like it as much as we did – just remember to bring a cushion and a sweater.
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