Spring is here, for real now.
]]>Hiking in Birds Hill park with my new favourite backpack/friend.
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Now that I know this unit exists, I thinking I'm going to be estimating my METs constantly. As I sit her typing, I'm using 2.3 METs (assuming it's the same as playing the piano). I'm about to walk home which should bump it up to about 3.3 METs. Then I have to make cookies. Maybe 2.5 METs? And so forth.
]]>The source of my confusion: The "stars" line is the last thing Bowman says in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 novel, which I did read, and the line is repeated several times in the sequel (novel and film) 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
]]>I spent yesterday afternoon wandering around St. Boniface taking photos, and I can't figure out why I don't spend more time there. It's just across the river, but I usually just race through it on my bike or in a car.
It's very neat architecturally and historically. I think it just needs a few more new stores and restaurants to get things happening. I started with a coffee at Le Garage (voted best coffee in the city on CBC radio), then wandered by the old city hall, the fire hall, the college universitaire St.-B., Cathedrale St-B., and the Hospital. My photos, as always are on Flickr.
]]>I just got this book No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Maggie "Margaret" Mason, aka Mighty Girl, and its full of cool ideas for what to blog about. I'm thinking of making a project of implementing as many of these ideas as I can. Check back and see if I actually do that...
]]>A Flickr monthly scavenger hunt topic - "Chit Chat" - inspired me to seek out a sculpture that I'd seen but never really looked at closely. I couldn't find a plaque, nor make out the artist's signature, and web searches were fruitless. Finally, I turned to dear Alison, expert on all things arts and crafts in Winnipeg, and she clued me into the name of the piece, artist, and gallery: Gossip, by Rose-Aimée Belanger, whose works are available through the Mayberry gallery. And I love all her stuff! (Anybody got, like, $8000 I can borrow? And do you think the city would mind if I kept it on the boulevard in front of my apartment?)
]]>"Centeron" pulley = upper or guide pulley.
"Narrow" pulley = lower or tension pulley.
I found the answer here. Thank you Shimano for inventing your very own terminology and not using that terminology in your documentation. (I get sarcastic when I'm frustrated.)
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