By ian on July 22, 2010
Last night was the first night of Vancouver’s annual fireworks show, the Celebration of Light. From my balcony I was able to listen to the accompanying music over Shore FM (104.3 MHz) and could see all the big fireworks over neighbouring condo buildings. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the smaller ones, but at least there were [...]
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By ian on July 18, 2010
It was a few weeks ago now, but here’s Sonia and my new 2010 Nissan Versa SL with an Xtronic CVT transmission. The Darwin Fish and FSM are from EvolveFish. We ended up getting the car for just under $20,000 with taxes, undercoating and a dealer VIP program (free oil changes as long as [...]
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By ian on July 16, 2010
It’s mid-July already, when did that happen? I can’t even really account with what I did through May and June. I worked on setting up a terahertz spectroscopy system (which is still jittery and noisy) and trying to get half-decent data about this one sample (with another sample already in line). I filled out an [...]
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