27/365
Ultimate Titanium Matrix
It’s too cold to golf, so I thought I’d show my clubs in a nice blue light.
26/365
Brewed in Dublin…
Guinness:
It all starts with just one man, but it’s not down to a single “eureka” moment. The history of Guinness is a stirring tale of inspiration, dedication, ingenuity and effort. It’s over two centuries of sublime brewing craft, a remarkable knack for spreading the word and more than a few leaps of faith. It’s the story of how a unique Irish stout became, with a little magic, one of the World’s best-loved beers.
25/365
The Legend of the Wedding Ring
Author Unknown
In a far off country many centuries ago,
A kind young king was married to a princess he loved.
Together they lived happily
Until they learned one day that duties were to force
The king to journey far away.
One night, before he left,
He tossed some pebbles into a moonlit pool
On the palace grounds
As he sat thinking of his lovely Queen.
Something wonderful occurred to him
As the lovely ripples widened,
From where the little pebbles had fallen.
The next day,
Remembering the glistening circles he had seen,
He had a gold ring made
To fit the finger of his Queen.
“There is no ending or beginning
To the circle of this band”,
The King said as he slipped it on her finger,
“And that is why I have chosen this golden ring
To be a pledge to you-
My love will last through all eternity.”;
And so, since that time,
A golden ring has been a symbol
Of the beauty of devotion
And the beauty of the endlessness of love.
24/365
Address To a Haggis…
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!
Then, horn for horn,
they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent lyke drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
“Bethankit!” ‘hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.
Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a haggis!
23/365
No tattoos gotta stay cool…
Gotta love Andy Curran.
My wife suggested taking a picture of one of her many tattoos. The flower beat out the rest.
22/365
My old jean jacket…
Dusted this one off and had to take a shot of it. Lots of great memories….
21/365
New Washing Machine. YES!!!
Our old washing machine was dying a slow death. It was a Maytag and it served us well for a long time. But even the best servant need to be retired.
So we went on the hunt and found a new GE front loader with 3.8 cubic(but it’s round!!!) feet of space.
Our friendly sales guy at Home Depot hooked us up on a great deal. It was delivered today and we’re washing our first load in it.
Now, before you start using it, always check the connections. My dad was here to receive the new washer as my wife and I were at work. Well, he called me and said “they didn’t mark which one is hot or cold”. So he just plugged them in. Well, he had a 50/50 shot of getting it right and……he didn’t. So when we got home, we check it out and guess what….THEY DID mark it. There’s a big H and C. I guess he was thinking of C for Chaud and H for HFroid (silent h?). Alas, we fixed the hoses and started our first load. It’s the quietest thing I’ve never heard!
20/365
Chubby Legs
My little Hayden-man has such chubby legs. I had to get a picture of all his rolls.
19/365
How I felt last night and today….
Ugh…I’ve finally made it out of bed, just to post this. I’m going back to bed now.
16/365
Dilbert for Photographers
Tore the page to reveal my new Dilbert joke of the day. Too funny for a photographer like me with a 9-5 desk job….
Thank you Scott Adams!!
15/365
Monster backgammon
I went a little crazy with the 365 challenge today.
I love backgammon, but couldn’t capture the essence of the game, so I over photoshoped this image…
14/365
Connect Four
www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?guid=92E0B2CA-6D40-1014-8…
It’s a vertical game of tic-tac-toe, but with a twist – you have to get four in a row! Take turns dropping checkers into place, and try to get four in a row in any direction – while preventing your opponent from doing it first!
The game was published under the famous Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in 1974; however, the much older original version is known as “The Captain’s Mistress”.
13/365
Mahjong
Mahjong (also called mah-jongg by the American association, Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; Pinyin: májiàng) is a game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of chance. Depending on the variation which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand (depending on the variation being played). On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or “head”. Winning comes “on the draw”, by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.
12/365
Citadels
www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=mesjeux&id=328
The setting
The game is settled in a fantasy mediaeval world, not heroic fantasy but rather oniric fantasy. You must build the greatest, the most glorious, the most beautiful city of the land, with cards figuring the various districts of the city: university, castle, townhall, dracoport, cathedral… To do this, you will play the roles of the most powerful characters in town: the king, the bishop, the merchant, the architect, the condottiere, the magician and the most dreaded thief and assassin
The game system
It’s not so easy to build a rich and outstanding Citadel: it needs wealth, ambition and intrigue.
Each turn, players will chose one of the eight characters, each with its specific power: build faster, destroy a district, murder, steal, get more gold, protect the citadel, draw more cards… The way characters are chosen makes for tactical choices, but also for some bluff and double guessing.
Will the other players guess what is your role this turn? Will you be murdered or stolen? Unless, of course, you are the assassin or the thief…
The winner is the player who builds the richest and most beautiful City.
Citadels is a game for 2 to 7 players, but it’s better, I think, with 5.
11/365
Hayden’s Baptism
My little Hayden-man got baptized today. He slept through the whole ceremony.
10/365
Lost Cities – Daring Adventure for two
www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=126
Game Description:
For the daring and adventurous, there are many lost cities to explore. They are in the Himalayas, the ever-shifting sands of the desert, the Brazilian rain forest, ancient volcanoes and in Neptune’s Realm. With limited resources the players must choose which expeditions to begin. Those with high confidence may want to up the stakes: increasing the rewards for success, but risking more should the expedition fail. The player who finds the right balance will find victory!
A good friend of mine(Matt Goddard) commented:
Dude, take that lost cities out of the plastic and play with the wife.
So that’s exactly what I did. We opened the game this afternoon and read the instructions. Easy enough. Played a few rounds and wow, this game is really fun.
8/365
Peek-A-Boo…I see you…
My first attempt at a “Tilt Shift” image using CS3. I used a gaussian blur, the gradient tool, some heavy contrast and lots of sharpening.
Force Of Habbitt – A reunion
For those of you that know me, I used to play in a band called Force Of Habbitt in Oakville. We recently got together to remember the old times. This first pic I took using Oli’s camera. Not sure what make/model it was.
The rest of these pictures were taken by Oli. I’m the old guy on the right.
7/365
Painting by Marie St-Amour
My aunt, Marie St-Amour, gave this painting as a wedding gift to my wife and I. She was not able to make it to the wedding, but gave us this wonderful gift. Je vous merci encore Marie.
6/365
A reminder of warmer days
Someone left behind a trace of summer in my underground parking garage.
