Golden Ears Bridge
Last weekend I had a chance to walk from Langley all the way to Maple Ridge. Now if it had been any other weekend, that would have sounded absurd, as those two communities are separated north-south by the great Fraser River. However, June 14th, 2009 was the pedestrian-only Opening Celebration for the new Golden Ears Bridge, which connects Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge on the north, to Surrey and the Township of Langley on the south, along the 200th St. corridor. The bridge replaces the Albion Ferry service, a few kilometers upstream.
Vancouver Convention Centre
I didn’t mean to neglect you, poor blog, really I didn’t! With all the beautiful sunshine and summer weather, it was hard to keep myself at the desk 
However, last night I finally found some time to process the images I captured of the Open House at the Vancouver Convention Centre | West Building, which opened to the public on April 4th and 5th, 2009. I took them, intending to write up a post shortly thereafter, but that didn’t happen.. until now!
Tube Debris p2
Seeing as how I only had 2 posts since last Friday’s Tube Debris, I’ve decided it won’t be a weekly feature. It would be video overload! I do, however, have a few videos to share this week. They’re wonderfully random, and at least mildly entertaining. The one above looks into the process of creating ‘grease art’ (”your window to weight gain!”). Others follow.
Twouble with Twitters
If you use twitter, you don’t need any introduction to this video. If you’re not on twitter, you likely know someone who is.. and you’ve likely been confused as to why that someone uses twitter. Well here’s the video for you.
@rbostyle just posted an entry about twitter on his blog!!!
Canpages Street View
Tired of waiting for Google to deliver on their promise to bring Street View to Canadian streets? Wait no longer! Well, unless of course you really want Google to do it. But if you’re fine letting a local company do the same thing, with fullscreen capabilities, extremely high res photos, and even a body cam to capture the pedestrian-only areas (i.e. around Whistler), then you’re in luck! Canpages has developed a Street View add-on to Google Maps, and they’ve already covered many of the popular areas around Metro Vancouver and beyond!
Tube Debris
Happy first day of Spring! This morning I woke to the sound of birds chirping outside. Maybe the weather really will warm up from now on? Even if it doesn’t, every Friday from today onwards, I’m going to post some of the web videos that catch my eye during the week. Plus it’s Friday, so what better way to round out the work week with some laughs and good times?
Rigoletto
After hearing about a 2 for 1 discount for the final Rigoletto performance, I decided it was time for my first opera. I’d always been interested in seeing one, and this invitation, which included access to the VIP salon before the opera and during the intermission, along with an introduction to Rigoletto by David Adams, the locally-born Assistant Director, was too great an opportunity to miss.
Retour
So I’ve decided to start blogging again. A number of my favourite entries from the past 2 years have been imported. For everything from 2003-2007,,, well, you don’t really want to see those, do you?
Please read at your leisure, though I do recommend at least checking out the ones tagged with Favourite.
For future entries, my aim is to continue with the visually descriptive text to support my own memory of events and moments in my life, however I’ll also try to incorporate more Vancouver-specific news, events, and updates (And although I have a huge archive of photos from the past year that I’ve barely even touched, I’ll try to stick to new content!)
Le Moulin
When I was a little boy, I didn’t know what to make of the future. Future to me was moving up a grade and into a fresh desk in a new classroom with an unfamiliar teacher. Another new box of pencil crayons of varying lengths, assembled from the leftovers of years past. The new year would last an eternity, until at last, summer arrived, and then passed, and a new adventure began. So it was through elementary school. And through secondary school. University came, and the future suddenly grew more complex. For once, school would not be followed by school. Without a vision of the years ahead, I worried. I left, I worked for a year, and I returned. I studied other options, and I returned to the program in which I first enrolled. I worked hard, all the while wondering what I was really working towards. Experience it, they said. Learn while you can, and don’t just go for the degree.
Le Final Au Revoir
With a quick check on the computer to find the bus stop, I was on my way to Versailles. It was easy enough to get there, and so it seemed for the other hundreds and hundreds of tourists. The empty plaza I had seen on my first night, was full of tour busses and people, and vendors. I decided after seeing the lengthy line-up, to venture into the gardens before going inside the palace. So I pulled out my map and plotted a route towards the grand Canal.
