The vacation is now over.
So the vacation officially ended this morning, and it was pretty damned good. Over the last 8 or 9 days my girlfriend and I saw a ton of stuff in Toronto (and some outside, like Niagara Falls). She also brought me a bunch of movies for my birthday, all cool and all region two baby.
- Out of the movies I got, Hedwig and the Angry Inch was the best; totally, totally awesome. We also watched a bunch of Miyazaki flicks, and a really good British movie named Iris.
- Without a car, the Toronto zoo sucks balls; without a car, Niagara Falls is totally doable. Both were fun though.
- I had a Blackberry from work with me to get e-mail while I was out. It was a good idea at the start, until the latest Windows virus hit everyone and I started having the thing beep every 15 minutes with the latest “critical patch” - hella lame.
- I’m still working on fixing Matt and Ron’s blogs. If you’re installing MovableType from scratch, never ever use the default Berkeley database format. Use MySQL or something similiar.
- We hit a ton of restaurants, specifically a bunch of Japanese ones. Strangely enough, both of the nice ones here in my area (Hosu and Sushi
Rock something) are staffed with Koreans, not Japanese. Still good food though.
Other things we checked out were Casa Loma, the CN Tower, the ROM, and tons of shopping. Oh yeah and get this - both of us got a cold yesterday morning… Boooo!
James said,
September 24, 2003 @ 2:03 am
Dude, are you trying to get my GF to kick my ass? You’re making me look bad. . . Yeah, tell the Trent grad that you loved ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’. . . Seen it once, it’s on the “good but not again” list for me. She says, “Hedwig”, I say “Dune”, stale mate. Now the balance is just off. I was supposed to go to Niagara Falls this summer. . . Never really got around to it though. . . Jesus. . . Gotta make sure Jess doesn’t see your blog. Thanks for raising the bar for the rest of us. (Well, assuming anybody else’s SOs read geek blogs) :)
Glad you had a good vacation!
_James
derek said,
September 24, 2003 @ 5:18 pm
Glad to hear the vacation was nice.
*Nod* on Hedwig and Iris, both fine flicks IMO.
Throw out the blackberry, they’re the scourge of the planet, again IMO.
Did you hit up the ROM during the Art Deco exhibit? I really want to check it out. If so, was it any good?
Luke said,
September 24, 2003 @ 5:22 pm
Yeah, we caught the Art Deco exhibit, it was cool. Strangely enough we weren’t allowed to take any pictures of it all, probably because they were hyping a book with photos of it. So I guess it’s not so strange.
Tech Knight said,
September 24, 2003 @ 10:53 pm
I hate to agree with a dick like Steve Mann, but if you’re subject to surveillance then by rights you ought to be right in there taking pictures too. :/