Prince Charles, Camilla drive by. Ooo! Oooh!
Are we all aquiver?
I am a professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. I use this blog for personal and non-work related stuff.
Student Day of Protest: University of Toronto
Took a long time for the people to walk past - hundreds of people.
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Marching band for Camilla
They might look a little "rag tag" but they played very well.
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Nice. SFU rocks the Macleans rankings again.
Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity.
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Victory a hundred different ways
This restaurant in Shenzhen, China, had a wall display with the character for victory (勝 ) done about 50 different ways. Even my hosts said that some of them would be unrecognizable without the context.
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Shenzhen morning
Shenzhen is a young city - someone told me it was only 30 years old - but it has 8 million inhabitants (some estimates go as high as 14 million, see the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen) already. And they are building like mad, presumably for yet more millions soon to come. Astounding rate of growth and pace of change, not just for the infrastructure but for the people who live here. In some ways this is like Canada, my hosts told me (I had earlier described Canada as a "nation of immigrants") - everyone here is from somewhere else. Of course, the somewhere else is somewhere else in China. But it is a mix of regional cultures, to be sure.
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Multiple cell phones
My driver was fielding calls on three cell phones, two of which were "walkie talkie" type (push-to-talk, or PTT, the "Mike" service in Canada). According to my friend at Cisco, this is an innovation born out of declining business in the taxi ranks; the taxi drivers have formed a cooperative in which their cell number is added to a "hunt group" and if a regular customer calls them, and he is unable to take the call, the call is routed immediately to another member of the cooperative. Clever fellows, these taxi drivers.
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Bad parking
Isn't there a web site dedicated to pics of really bad parking jobs? This one isn't a gold medalist but pretty lame...
You also get the feeling that the heaviest thing to ride in the back of that one ton truck was his mountain bike. And the furthest off road that those tires have been is the gravel lane behind his mom's house. Where he stll lives.
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