Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay Day 105 Photos

February 19th, 2010

Better late than never, here are some of my photos from day 105 of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. On day 105, the torch passed through Deer Lake Park on its way to Vancouver.

Patiently waiting.
waiting…

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Run Day 105 - Burnaby
The next torch runner waits for the flame to arrive

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Run Day 105 - Burnaby
Here comes the flame.

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay, Day 105 - Burnaby
The torch “kiss”

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay, Day 105 - Burnaby

The opportunity to see the torch along Deer Lake Parkway outside of Burnaby city hall afforded some nice views of the torch relay. Lots of office workers emptied out of their cubicles to wait in the rain for the torch to pass.

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Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay, Day 103

February 11th, 2010

Here is a quick post with a few of my favorite pictures from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic torch relay. The relay went through my neighbourhood, so it was nice to get out and take the family to see the torch go by.

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run Day 103 - Surrey
The Torch arrives, and is passed to the next torch bearer.

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run Day 103 - SurreyA heavy Police presence to ensure safe passage of the flame.

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run Day 103 - Surrey
The Olympic Flame

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run Day 103 - Surrey
And its gone.

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run Day 103 - Surrey
This is just a few of the vehicles involved in the convoy. The bus carries torch bearers along the route after their run.

Stay tuned for pics from Day 105 (Feb 11th) and my summary post on the torch relay. You can view more pictures from Day 103 in my flickr stream.

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Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay, Day 102

February 10th, 2010

I thought I’d share a couple of my photos from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Torch relay as the torch arrived at Holland Park in Surrey, BC. (a 15 minute walk from my house). It was pretty cool to see the torch with 30,000 other revelers. I plan to do a more in depth post to summarize the 2010 Torch run experience.

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run - Day 102 Surrey
Thousands of People flooding Old Yale Road and King George Highway Boulevard

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run - Day 102 Surrey
One of the Coca-Cola Buses that make up the torch relay motorcade

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run - Day 102 Surrey
The Flame Arrives

Vancouver 2010 Torch Run - Day 102 Surrey
As quickly as it came, the flame passes by.

There are many more photos from Day 102 of the torch relay in North Surrey in my flickr stream, and stay tuned for photos from Day 103, 105 and my summary post.

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Photo Friday #3 – Honest Ed’s

December 18th, 2009

Honest Ed’s  – A Toronto Landmark

Honest Eds

Photo taken almost a year ago today, December 2008 – Toronto. Honest Ed’s is a must see maze of bargains. It was certainly worth the long walk.

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Photo Friday #2 – Bass

December 11th, 2009

Bass
Bass

Taken at a concert by Central City Jazz in March 2008.

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Photo Friday #1 – Vancouver After Dark

December 4th, 2009

I’m starting a new weekly post here, at apeman.org. Every friday, I am going to post on of my favorite photos. I have thousands of images sitting on my servers spinning around on disk platters so I figured I’d share some of my favorites with a bit of background.

Vancouver After Dark
Vancouver at night

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Amazon Kindle 2 in Canada

December 3rd, 2009

Now that I have had a week or so to get acquainted with my Kindle 2, I thought I’d share my initial perceptions of the device as it pertains to its functionality in Canada.Kindle

First off, the first thing you notice with the Kindle is just how nice the screen is. Amazon designed the kindle so that it would disappear in your hands as you are readying and that is certainly true. The screen is clear, crisp, and renders detail in photos exceptionally well considering it only has 16 shades of gray to work with.

Whisper net seems to deliver books as fast as I would expect it to, purchasing a book from amazon.com on my computer, then turning to my kindle a few minutes later and the book was showing in my list already. Wireless delivery is very handy as I don’t have to search for the USB cable and copy the books manually.

Starting with Version 2.3, the Kindle now supports native PDF reading without the need to convert. There is a catch however, and that is you cannot zoom the text. Most of the PDF files that I read are formatted to fit an 8.5×11″ sheet of paper, not a 6″ screen. You can rotate the PDF and hold your Kindle horizontally, but this only goes so far, as some PDF authors seem to be using 6 and 8 point font as standard text. The solution is to use an application such as “Calibre” (http://calibre-ebook.com/) which is free. Once I converted my PDF files to .mobi, I can zoom the text and read them comfortably.

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