I haven't posted in while. The main things that have happened since my last post are that we have moved in to our condo and that I started working as an Intern Meteorologist at Environment Canada. I'll probably post a more complete update over the next week or so.

I've setup this link blog (here's the RSS feed for those of you who use news aggregators), in which I will share a dozen or so news articles each day that I find worth sharing. The headlines will also appear on the left sidebar of my blog. Feel free to comment on the articles!

New Haircut

Well, it seems that summer's finally arrived in Halifax which means it's time for a haircut. Normally I would just get a buzz cut, but my hair had gotten so long that I think I should take advantage of that and get a style put in. So I googled some places near here and found a place in downtown Halifax on Sackville. I brought a few pictures from my previous post. It turned out ok I think. What do you think?






Well, it seems that summer's finally arrived in Halifax which means it's time for a haircut. Normally I would just get a buzz cut, but my hair had gotten so long that I think I should take advantage of that and get a style put in. So I googled some places near here and found a place in downtown Halifax on Sackville. I brought a few pictures from my previous post. It turned out ok I think. What do you think?

Robin Hood

Susan started watching this show (it's pretty entertaining) and finds the main character hot and things I should get a hair cut like him. What do you think?

Random thoughts and links

I've been bookmarking interesting links for a while now and I thought I'd share some.

Anyone who's ever played the computer game Worms should get this. Here's another one about Zelda. VGCats have some pretty funny comics, although I don't get a lot of them.

Remember this? Brings back memories...

Has anyone watched Bruce Campbell's new show Burn Notice? I haven't yet, but I plan to. I'll watch anything with Bruce Campbell actually. It appears to be a hit.

Here's a little groaner for Monty Python fans and one for Star Wars fans.

I read an article a while back about Evil Dead / Spiderman director Sam Raimi opting to produce a mini-series about the very popular Novel series Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind. Awesome!

Looking to adopt kids? Because these kids are most certainly up for adoption now!

A few weather links: Here's a picture of a tornado that touched down not far from Winnipeg. A picture of something called Night Shinning Clouds. No one really knows what they are, but I guess they are observed more and more frequently. Here's a CBC article about recent snowfall in Argentina that Nate sent me. Next a video of a dust devil interrupting a soccer match. Note that a dust devil is not a tornado. And finally, an article about a swarm of flies so large, that it visible by radar.

Warning: The following contains BattleStar Galactica Season 3 spoilers. Do not read or follow any these links if you haven't seen all of Season 3.

Can't wait until 2008 for season 4 of Battlestar Galactica? Well get your fix in November with the feature movie BSG: Razor. From the preview, it looks like the story is going to revolve around Adm Cain and the Pegasus.
In case you forgot how season 3 ended, click here to watch the last 4 minutes of the season finale.
The song played in the finale is an adaptation of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. You might notice that the involved characters used some of those lyrics at certain points in the episode. Are the lyrics hinting at things to come? See what some of those actors had to say about the recent turn of events. It turns out that the Final Five may not have so much in common with the rest of their brethren.

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Canada Day in Halifax

I meant to post this a bit earlier, but blogger doesn't have the easiest interface for arranging lots of pictures in a post.

Susan and I had a good time on Canada Day, and I thought I'd write about it. I had a full day of activities planned out, so we got up at 6:00am that morning and were out of the door by 7am.

The first thing on our agenda was free pancakes in Dartmouth's Alderney Landing. We made our way to the ferry terminal.

It turns out that the ferry didn't run for another while yet, so we ended up taking the bus across the bridge instead. After standing in line for 45 minutes, we finally got to eat our pancakes! Yum!

Some website said that there'd be a farmers market as well, which is why we went all the way to Dartmouth for the pancakes. Otherwise we would have stayed in downtown Halifax, where they also had free pancakes. There wasn't much of any type of market though. We spent a bit of time on the harbour before catching a bus back. Here are some pictures. You know what they say the best thing about Dartmouth is...right? ;)

Next on our list was to visit the Halifax Citadel, which was free for Canada Day. On our way up the hill, we got a close up view of the clock tower, which I guess had people living in it up until 50 years ago or so.

These pictures were taken on the bridge just before the entrance to the fort.

Every hour they have a changing of the guard. These guys stand guard for one hour, then get a 2 hour break. The real guards had to stand post for 2 hours then got 4 hours off.



Once inside the Citadel, you can walk around and look inside rooms and see how the guards and prisoners lived there. You can walk the walls and get a great view of the city. There's also a military museum which I found very interesting.

We spent a quite bit of time on the walls looking down at the people below. They had the Tattoo Choir and some military band playing.



The view from atop the wall is pretty amazing. Without the buildings blocking the way, the old time guards would have had a perfect view of the harbour, which is the point of the Citadel I guess :P I learned later on in the tour that the Halifax Citadel never actually had to defend the city. Most attackers failed long before, never making it to the Citadel's firing range.



Beware! The Citadel employs an old lady who runs around blowing a whistle and yelling at people who get too close to the edge of the wall.



After our tour of the Citadel, it was lunch time. We picked a spot on the hill and had a little pick nick while watching the Canada Day parade. It wasn't all that interesting, mostly different army divisions marching. No floats.



Even the lingerie store was getting into the Canada Day and Tattoo Festival spirit!



After our lunch, I had planned a surprise event for Susan...



We went to see a musical production of the Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I like musicals and we had a copy of the VHS movie at home when we were kids so I enjoyed the show quite a bit. It's pretty much a live version of the cartoon with a few extra scenes and songs. It was a bit over the top but still lots of fun.

After the show we decided to go home for some rest and supper before the fireworks. Along the way we walked by the Nickelback concert. There were a whole lot of people.



Our day ended with fireworks at the harbour. I thought the show was pretty good. Better than most I've seen, with the exception of the ones at Disneyworld of course :)




Well, that sums what our Canada Day in Halifax. What did you do on July 1st?


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