Matthew, Monique and Paul's Pictures & Videos

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  1. Sao Paulo, BR, March 8 2010 Whoosh I'm back.  28C, sunny and humid to 4C, cloudy and humid!  Obrigado, obrigado, Georges, Reuven, Daniel ... M was amazed at the 28 m^2 of chita.
  2. Campos do Jordao & Sao Paulo, BR, March 6 2010 George: (3,5), (3,6), (4,1), (5,6), (6.1),  Daniel: (4,4), (5,6), (6,1). ((4,4): D assuming simply-connected space and hence deducing the location of the Grandes Hotel.
  3. Sao Paulo (GUR) & Campos do Jordao, BR, March 4-5 2010
  4. Vancouver BC, February 27 2010 Raw unedited AVI footage of the controlled carnage that was day 16 of the Olympics (Canada having set a record for Winter Games gold medals, just for context you understand).
  5. Vancouver BC, February 14 2010 Day 3 of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Rain? What rain? Olympic cauldron visible in row 4, column 1
  6. Isabella MB & Isabella MB to Rocky Mountains, December 25-29 2009 Christmas on the farm and some shots from the road trip back (mostly along the trans Canada).
  7. Isabella MB, December 23-24 2009 Another white Christmas on the farm! Includes shots of Tiger discovering that the white stuff he leapt into couldn't sustain his weight! Tiger movie [87 MB AVI]
  8. Vancouver BC, December 25 2008 Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!
  9. Melbourne AU, July 13 2008 Mostly Royal Botanical Garden and other downtown
  10. Melbourne AU, July 12 2008 AFL: St Kilda vs Carlton & Healseville Sanctuary (Fauna & Flora)
  11. Melbourne AU, July 6 2008 Williamstown
  12. Melbourne AU, July 5 2008 St Kilda and South Bank
  13. Melbourne AU, July 4 2008 Swanston St & Flinders Stn
  14. Melbourne AU, July 3 2008 Swanston St
  15. Vancouver BC, June 26 2008 Back from Berlin: Garden needs work :-)
  16. Berlin DE, June 24 2008 On the way home
  17. Berlin DE, June 23 2008 TODO
  18. Berlin DE, June 22 2008 Weimar currency
  19. Berlin DE, June 21 2008 Zoo
  20. UBC, Vancouver BC, August 13 2006 XXX and XXX MB AVI and XXX MB AVI to come
  21. UBC, Vancouver BC, August 12 2006 Heavy bird theme here, including some video clips of the current seagull action on the roof of Hennings: 80 MBAVI. 26 MB AVI and 28 MB AVI
  22. UBC, Vancouver BC, August 4 2006 XXX and XXX MB AVI and XXX MB AVI to come
  23. Vancouver BC, August 3 2006 First experiment with dual cameras shooting simultaneously, first held together later by MWC., later separated courtesy AJP697 MB MPEG Stream 0 | 725 MB MPEG Stream 1]
  24. Vancouver BC, August 3 2006 Shots of the gardens at 1637 W 61st and the environs thereof, ...
  25. Vancovuer BC, August 1 2006 The classic late afternoon (July 31) "marine layer burn-off", familiar in form one or another, and at some time of the year or other, up and down this magnificent coast of North America. Monique does some scanning for the upcoming Unruh & Wald Fest.  Couple of decent shots of the ever elusive Monique and Paul.
  26. Vancouver BC, July 25 2006 XXX
  27. Vancouver BC, July 25 2006 XXX [Monique's Garden 242 MB AVI]
  28. Berlin and Potsdam DE, July 20 2006 XXX and XXX and XXX [XXX  MB AVI and XXX MB AVI and XXX MB AVI]
  29. Berlin DE, July 16 2006 Tiergarten [XXX MB AVI]
  30. Vancouver BC, July 10 2006 XXX and rant alpha [111 MB AVI] rant beta [5.4 MB AVI] rant gamma [49 MB AVI] rant delta [39 MB AVI] A picture of AC DC and Fortran together at last and, why not, a link to "The AC DC and FORTRAN Page". Go ahead, google that folks!!
  31. Vancouver BC, July 9 2006 Includes shots of most of the species currently in Monique's garden's plus documentation of a hole MWC dug during the World Cup Final (yawn!, he says, pissing off several billion of the world's citiizens!!)
  32. Vancouver BC, July 8 2006 XXX including setup of new Dell Inspiron XPS M1710's (3 of em'!)
  33. Vancouver BC, July 3 2006  Rant
  34. UBC, Vancouver BC, July 3 2006 Random "Cone Of Silence" [Cone-Of-Silence] video in Hennings 403 [152 MB AVI
  35. Vancouver BC, July 2 2006 Party aftermath and another video of Monque's front garden, summer of '06 version! [298 MB AVI]
  36. Vancouver BC, June 26 2006 More "free" parking at UBC.
  37. Vancouver BC, June 24 2006 Hennnings shots, including a few of someone doing a job I definitely would not want!  Rock ON guy!! Also includes the height (he hopes) of cluelessness in MWC: Like what part of "NOT HERE" isn't clear, Matt!  And after almost 7 years of plugging in and out the freakin' VGA cable, eh?!
  38. UBC, Vancouver BC, June 23 2006 Local technical interest only.
  39. UBC, Vancouver BC, June 22 2006 Hey, whoever is responsible for construction at UBC!  Check out the working environment in the offices of my research group in the West Penthouse of Hennings! [135 MB AVI] As you can see from the video, it's a mere 85 dB at one of the desk's in the outer offices.  I would have thought that this would be illegal; it certainly would be in most other jurisdictions where I've worked.  Apparently, the noise is coming from a generator: why not put it somewhere in the Barber construction site, or on Main Mall, so that it wouldn't be located less than 20m from office windows; and ones that need to be open in the summer, to boot!
  40. Vancouver BC, June 21 2006 Hennings at solstice 2006 [More construction of the Learnin' Center & a rant about truck traffic to and fro UBC in the context of all the freakin' construction that continues to go on here! 133 MB AVI]
  41. Vancouver BC, June 21 2006 Numerical relativists at the Pit.  More fun with UBC parking and meter #26 in particular, see my Parking Page for full details!
  42. Vancouver BC, June 20 2006 Trying to get back at Brian, some shots to acommpany the AVIs and a shot of a load in of a week's worth of productivity elexir. [The New Science Student Building Polemic & The Tulip Tree In Front Of Hennings AVI | Colo(u)red Light Box Displays, Hennings 2nd FloorAVI]
  43. Vancouver BC, June 19 2006 Includes traditional (i.e. this is the first yr we've done it) reenactment of Father's Day I, June 1996, when PWC was literally a little bundle of joy. Now he's a little bundle of all of those things that little boys are made of ... hoo hah, PWC!! Also, PWC's year end piano recital: Roll over Beethoven!! Plus, a spectacluar (yawn) Vancouver summer sunrise. Movies [ Paul's end-of-year piano recital AVI | Some more from the recital AVI | On the beach, 2006-06-19-0600 Part I AVI | On the beach, 2006-06-19-0600 Part II AVI | On the beach, 2006-06-19-0600 Part III AVI ]
  44. Vancouver BC, June 11 2006 Monique's lovely garden, year two! [192 MB AVI]l
  45. Vancouver BC, June 9 2006 Plus video [210 MB AVI] and [98 MB AVI] in support of our efforts/struggle to get a collection agency off our back!
  46. Vancouver BC, June 9 2006 XXX
  47. Kamloops BC, June 8 2006 XXX and AVI and AVI and AVI.
  48. Vancouver BC, June 3 2006 XXX
  49. Vancouver BC, June 1 2006 XXX
  50. Vancouver BC, May 31 2006 Approach to Vancouver, including several shots of Mt Baker. Paul's Jump Up from Cubs to Scouts. Extra special treal for all you Tom Patrick Davis (Tom Davis) fans (he of U Guelph lineage), who, despite having instantly sold out (sell out, sell-out) to the financial sector following completion of his outstanding doctoral studies in theoretical condensed matter physics, still plays a mean guitar, as can be seen in the following clip [AVI]
  51. Toronto, ON, May 26 2006 Includes some shots of Dale C and Jason P in Kensington Market, in front of 11 Wales Ave, where Monique and I met in March 1989. Fundamentally, it's Monique's garden, as one can tell, but quite badly in need of a "trim"!
  52. Toronto, ON, May 25 2006
  53. Toronto, ON, May 24 2006
  54. CITA, U Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 23 2006: Brief clips featuring Candace (Candida) and Margaret (Margarita). Hard to think of CITA without thinking about Margaret! Clip 1 [XXX Mbyte MPEG] and clip 2 [XXX Mbyte MPEG]
  55. Toronto, ON, May 22 2006
  56. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 17 2006 Exterior, ground level shots outside the main (north-ish) entrance to the Hennings Building.
  57. UBC (Vancouver BC),  May 14 2006 Hennings, Saturday, May 13 AM, including a shot of a 1999 snapshot of a considerably thinner and younger MWC. Nani's farewell party, Saturday, May 13. [Looking for good shots of Monique?  There's some in here!] Shots in Hennings 403, Sunday, May 14 AM (Mother's Day, and guess which two Choptuik's completely forgot about it!  Yikes!!), near LS Klinck Building (where our HPC machines are lovingly housed), in the Ponderosa complex, around the First Nations Centre.
  58. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 13 2006 Includes phots associated with the Great Atipa Cover Up courtesy the much maligned (see below), but good humoured, Bret Stouder, of Team HPC! Incidentally, are you looking for HPC equipment? At least some customers are inclined to paraphrase Monty Python: "Atipa is not a company to deal with, it's a company for lying down and avoiding!!". Contact Matt for additional details.
  59. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 11 2006 Short clip of Jason Penner schlepping (sp?) one of Steve Plotkin's computers, soon to be made part of the vn collective! (aka Borg-ification!) [26 Mbyte MPEG]
  60. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 9 2006 Looking for "industrious" graduate students (hah!) [222 Mbyte MPEG], and some footage with infinitely more edification content, due to the participation of Prof Harvey Richer, one of the world's foremost experts on those most ancient of ancients, globular clusters [110 MbyteMPEG].
  61. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 8 2006 Brief clip of Margaret Villacin [4.5 Mbyte MPEG], who administers the Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics [PITP]
  62. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 3 2006 Brief clip from weekly Numerical Relativity Group meeting [250 Mbyte MPEG].
  63. UBC (Vancouver BC), May 2, 2006 More shots of an ever more glorious than typical Vancouver spring.
  64. Vancouver BC and environs, May 2, 2006 Some shots of the river route out to Surrey, and Hennings 403, including notes on multigrid and other Brandt-isms, and the continuing coffee-life experiment. One AVI from the New Westminster stretch of the aforementioned river route.
  65. UBC (Vancouver BC, April 28, 2006)  Can't think of a better name to adorn the keystone of the "allee"-d University Blvd, than that of our former dear President.  Here's to you, moon rock guy! I just wish that you handn't personally cost me about two months of my life in trying to resurrect capability computing on campus following your absolutely brilliant move that put IT Services on a cost recovery basis.  Could never understand why you didn't go whole hog and have the Library so encumbered! The gentlemen on the bicycle is another departmental "Matthew/Matt". MWC trying desparately (and largely unsuccessfully, but whaddya want after only 4 hours or so of total drumming time!) to drum along with one of his all time favorite pop rock songs [AVI] another [AVI] and another [AVI]
  66. Vancouver BC, April 27, 2006 UBC Gravity Group Meeting (second half and the question period).  Cory Stevens speaking on Topological Censorship and Ring Black Holes [Part 1 298 Mbyte MPEG | Part 2 823 Mbyte MPEG | Part 3 539 Mbyte MPEG | Part 4 817 Mbyte MPEG] Note that in the description of the Einstein Yang-Mills system (Bartnik-McKinnon solutions), MWC errantly says "can balance ... in a stable fashion", when, of course, he meant "can balance  ... in a static fashion".
  67. Vancouver BC, April 27, 2006 Our good friend and business colleague, Bill Hsia, propietor of Varsity Computers dropped in at our home to talk strategy for a project in progress.  Given the hospitality he has afforded our family over the years, I felt compelled to dust off the bottles in our liquor cabinet, and offer him a drink.  You can guess which of the beverages he accepted!
  68. UBC (Vancouver BC), April 26, 2006 "Commentary [rant]" on Myrinet equipment, and export restrictions thereon [164 MByte MPEG] (NOTE: MWC apologizes profusely for the butchered nuclear phyiscs in the commentary!  There will be no fusing of tritium and helium (!) today, children! Clearly the threat of credible "nuclear applications" being carried out by MWC remains low!); the beginning of the Great Learning Center Pour [238 Mbyte MPEG] and more of the Great Pour and some (possibly misinformed) information on stellar variability, helioseismology etc. [390 Mbyte MPEG --- WARNING! CONTAINS PROFANITY!Prof Jaymie Matthews of our Dept should you want the info from, as they say, "the horse's mouth" concerning the MOST satellite and its "science reach".
  69. UBC (Vancouver BC), April 25, 2006 Signs, signs, everywhere signs, ... "Complex gas piping in this vicinity", indeed: given the number of times Wesbrook Mall has been dug up for utility work in the past n years, this seems absolutely par for the course. Also includes a couple of shots of one of my new buddies, Mr Big Ass Wasp. Until I saw "Darwin's Nightmare" last evening, I would hava happily and agressively done everything possible to squish the bejezzuz out such a specimen, but now, as does the gentler PW Choptuik (not to mention, my sisted MD Ashcroft-Staples), feels compelled to shepherd Mr BA Wasp to The Great Outdoors, which, in this instance was accomplished by slowly transporting the stack of CDs to the Coffee-Life Experimental Region on the windowsill. Rock on, MR BA Wasp, and here's to you making it throuogh the next n days without a good squashing!
  70. Vancouver & Sunshice Coast, BC, April 22, 2006 A few shots coutesy of PWC relating to his Cubs trip to Camp Byng.
  71. UBC (Vancouver BC), April 20, 2006 Featuring Prof Brian Wetton, UBC Math, with a load of goodies for some poor undergrads (?) Prof Wetton was certainly looking happier than I expect his charges were, this blossomy final exam season. More pics of the desctro-Main-Lib-constro-Barber-Learnin'-Ctr, and an attempt to shame a certain executive of a certain team-oriented HPC company into sending some long overdue stickers with their logo on them!!
  72. Just for this occasion, we also are pleased to serve up three short AVI movies narrated by MWC: 1) Description of the front end of vnfe4 [AVI] 2) Description of the back end of vnfe4 [AVI] 3) MWC's diatribe on the current state of the main co-lo room, vis a vis the CFI Innovation Fund WestGrid project, with specific reference to the company referred to above [AVI].  Note that said company which, as one will note, did NOT win the WestGrid UBC contract, had the lowest bid, and actual experience in commissioning and stabilizing a 1000-processor machine (and with Myrinet, let alone Gigabit, and a full two years before glacier was eventually installed).
  73. Continuing with some level-1 pics (i.e. somewhat recursive on those described earlier), we also have an AVI featuring yet another 449 student looking in vain for Prof R Kiefl (the hardcopies are to be delivered to him personally). After correctly "guessing" both of his supervisors, I shepherd him down to the main office, where his thesis on cosmology and helioseismology was deposited. Finally, one last AVI as further ammunition in my ongoing "battle" with that certain exec from that certain HPC company (one will note that I'm not mentioning any names, but his initials are BRET STOUDER).
  74. OK, so maybe you think I've got too much time on my hands, but while looking over a CFI proposal for a young asst prof in the dept, I felt compelled to go to recursion level-3, using elementary school coloring-techniques and hi-liter pens on black and white prints of previous shots of my office door. Whoops!  Did it again, so here's recursion level-4 and one last AVI (I promise, fellow taxpayer), to try to prompt Herr Stouder into action!! 
  75. AND DO THIS AT HOME, KIDS 12 OR YOUNGER!!  Download this black and white shot of my office door in [JPEG] or [PDF] format, color it in a self-similar fashion and send it to Bret Stouder, Team HPC, 1040 OCL Parkway, Building A, Eudora, KS 66025.  Bret will award $100 US for the best colored entry (coloring must be self-similar---contact Matt Choptuik should you not understand what "self-similar" coloring is.) Bret, just for you sir, I've made a special hard copied that shall now be put in the mail to you. And, sorry, but I had to put that on my office door and take a picture of it as well.  Enough already!!
  76. Indeed, it is a bit of an addiction, yikes! So here's yet another [AVI] and one of the few very, very last, I promise!! shots haranguing the always good natured and professional, Bret Stouder, of Team HPC, Eudora KS. 
  77. Take a bow Bret!!
  78. Well, never one to be subtle, I have felt it necessary to go on a bit, and since Monique and Paul now have the Canon SD 550, with which I have made the AVI files, linked to in the above commentary, I've had to use the spiffy JVC HDD unit to make this 120 Mbyte or monstrosity.  Download and enjoy, Bret! And, if you liked that one, how about this one [650 Mbyte MPEG], which has absolutely nothing (well almost nothing) to do with Team HPC.
  79. Vancouver BC, April 17, 2006 Beautiful spring day at very low tide on Spanish Banks beach with Hong and Fred. (Note that it was pretty nice almost exactly a year ago as well; check out April 10 2005 below, on Wreck Beach, just around Pt Grey from Spanish Banks).
  80. Vancouver BC, April 16, 2006 Our current jammin' gear, except for the microphone.  Get you a&* up here, Mr Spady, sir! CRUCIAL, CRUCIAL NOTE:  Only diehard fans of MWC's playing should subject to themselves to the butchering of Beethoven that unfolds following the Yamaha DTXPL demo, and, in my defense, I was playing the piece "cold" having not been keeping it in my repetoire for about a decade now.  In addition, I have heard worse from a physicist, including Dr Strangelove himself, Prof Teller, banging out something almost unrecognizable (at least to my ear) in Los Alamos, 1992ish. [Part 1 805 MbyteMPEG]
  81. Richmond BC Ice  Age The Meltdown Bootleg (I'm sorry, 20th Century Fox, and XXX Theatres, and I will never do this again!) Part 1 Theatrical Trailers 54 Mbyte MPEG | Part 2 Theatrical Players 64 Mbyte MPEG | Part 3 Theatrical Trailers 240 Mbyte MPEG | Part 4, OK, this isn't trailer, but in my defense: a) the battery dies pretty quick b) the "Skrat" part that starts the movie is from Ice Age II, AND, the best part is hearing a new generation of two yr olds going "eeewwwwoooo ... " when the hapless rodent gets his tongue stuck to the ice! 401 Mbyte MPEG ]
  82. Vancouver BC, April 10, 2006 and a short AVI movie of "our" (i.e. Monique's) new Neutron Blue Honda Element (i.e. our truck. And it is a truck, love!!)
  83. Vancouver & Kamloops BC, April 8, 2006  Those silly Vancouver cherry blossoms; Paul and Jake working on a "Global Warming" science project and some real estate listings in warm, sunny Kamloops!
  84. Vancouver BC, April 10, 2006 Miscellaneous, including 3 at the first day of the UBC PHAS 449 presentations. What an outstanding undergraduate population we have in the dept, and what a privilege it is to interact  with such superb young scientists year after year after year!  Kudos all, as well as to Prof Rob KieflPal Sandhu -> Aaryn Tonita.
  85. Daejon, Gunsan & Seoul Korea, April 1, 2006 Short hike in Gyeryongsan Natl Park (Buddhist temple, complete with nuns); world-famous, multi-story Japanese restaurant in Gunsan; War Museum in Seoul; Tiny Quilting Museum in Seoul.
  86. Daejon Korea, March 22, 2006 Monique & Paul go to Zooworld!
  87. Seoul Korea, March 20, 2006 More typical Seoul shots, as well as some of the equipment in our Holiday Inn room.
  88. Seoul Korea, March 19, 2006 Palaces and other structures old and new; other typical Seoul shots.
  89. Seoul Korea, March 19, 2006 Trip to the Seoul Sports Complex, where a small horde of Koreans had gathered in the baseball stadium to cheer on their team in the semifinal in the Baseball Classic against Japan. Includes a stop-off at Lotte World where, possibly, a future generation of Olympian skaters are already in training./Public/Images/atipa-level-4-posterized.jpg
  90. Seoul Korea, March 18, 2006 Second "roll" of Korea University shots, as MWC heads for the high ground. Along the way he encounterrs another couple of undergrads more than happy to practice their English; these fine lads study Agriculture, and after managing to communicate that he grew up on a wheat, barley ... farm, he is told that "I love rice", and that, at least the more gregarious of the two, wishes to go abroad to India when he is done. The elderly Korean on the bench also happily submits to having his shot taken, and the less elderly gentlemen at the plateau points MWC in the right direction for the real views. The young man spinninng the soccer ball later catches up with MWC and enquires re where he is from etc. He studies English Literature, but is finding it a bit boring. He is heading for the soccer stadium which is beautifully visible from atop the hills.
  91. Seoul Korea, March 18, 2006 Walking back along "Institute Row" in the glorious Seoul spring sunshine; having one's day made by 18-yr old Ms Kim telling you "you look sooo cool!"; surreptitious shots of KIDA (from the other side of the street). Into Korea University, one of Korea's two most prestigious private
  92. Seoul Korea, March 18, 2006 Fourth day of the Spring Schoool. We walk to the Korea University Stn, then MWC forks off, and follows "Institute Row" (note the one institute that doesn't cotton to caucasians taking pictures of it). Note that the gulley under the XXX Expressway is bone dry, but fenced off for a reason (see above). And here's to the Eskimo Bar & Grill which has been serving beer and drink since the turn of the century!
  93. Seoul Korea, March 16, 2006 Second day of the Spring Schoool. Crucially, Korea beats Japan 2-1 in a baseball game in LA, and watched live at the school.
  94. Seoul Korea, March 15, 2006 Happy 77th Mom! First day of the Spring Schoool on Numerical Methods in Gravitation and Astrophysics at KIAS, APCTP & KISTI
  95. Vancouver BC & Seoul Korea, March 14, 2006 Day before the start of the Spring Schoool on Numerical Methods in Gravitation and Astrophysics at KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), APCTP (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics) and KISTI (Korea Institute for Science & Technology Information).
  96. Vancouver BC, March 10, 2006: Snowfalls on previous days are rapidly melting.  Sorry "JohnH", but you actually didn't make it into any of my shots by the War Memorial Gym!  Cherry and other blossom season is getting into full gear, the snowfall not withstanding.
  97. Vancouver BC, March 1 2006: Sadly, mostly shots to do with another run in with UBC Parking (INC!)
  98. Vancouver BC, February 25 2006: XXX
  99. Vancouver  BC: February 20-23 2006: Includes a shot  of the supercool painting by the very talented and witty FP that MWC had commissioned for PWC!  Also shows the most recent insertees of the vn.physics.ubc.ca compute cluster, vn66 (nee "eminem") and vn67 (nee "xtina").  Both machines are property of Steve Plotkin's research group.
  100. Banff AB to Vancouver BC February 19 2006: Various attendees of the CIAR 2006 Annual Meeting (including a shot of John Peacock peering at the other shot of himself), Frans & Matt at Roger's pass, and M & P with Frans back at home.
  101. Canmore and Banff AB: February 18 2006: Includes several shots from swithback n on the Mt Norquay road above Banff.
  102. Canmore and Banff AB: February 17 2006: One of the coldest days in years. Almost too cold for sandals.
  103. Canmore to Calgary AB return: February 16 2006: Can  you say "blizzard"? (and, I believe, a genuine blizzard at that, having the requisite cold,  snow and wind). Very localized blizzard, however.
  104. Vancouver BC to Canmore AB: February 15, 2006: XXX.
  105. Vancouver BC: February 13, 2006: XXX.
  106. Vancouver BC: February 12, 2006: First pictures with our 3rd Canon Powershot, this one a SD550.
  107. Vancouver BC: February 9, 2006: Shots of downtown and the north shore mountains from the Arbutus ridge.
  108. Vancouver & Victoria BC: February 8, 2006: Set 3: Ferry trip back, with stiff winds, and seas sufficiently heavy that barf bags were put on top of all refuse cans towards the end of the trip, and all were asked to stay seated during "final approach".
  109. Vancouver & Victoria BC: February 8, 2006: Set 2: Per above, with some emphasis on shots of gulls pacing the ferry.
  110. Vancouver, February 5, 2006: Set 1: Views from Cypress Park Road switchback.
  111. Vancouver BC: February 4, 2006 Demolition work on old Main Library at UBC; Paul and Monique go camping at Cypress Bowl.
  112. Victoria BC, Vancouver BC: Including a shot of the mobile office at Serious Coffee in Victoria, a great place to hang out, not least due to the FREE broadband!  Rock on, guys!!
  113. Vancouver & Victoria BC, February 2: At least it's clear what's still important in this locale.  Ferry trip over to Victoria the day after a major storm in the Strait (ergo the very full ferries mentioned below, which, as a matter of fact, didn't even sail!) Includes BC Forestry propaganda, like really folks, how many Canadian provinces (and territories for that matter) AREN'T bigger than any European country save Russia? We should get together with the Korean to see if they need any of our timber to help with their automotive industry.  What?  They don't make wooden cars??  Not yet, anyway!
  114. Vancouver BC, February 1: Matt was supposed to go to Victoria, but the morning ferries were full, so he headed into campus, where crews were cleaning up a "snow shoot" on campus.  Very pretty day, although we all know it's only a matter of hours until the next storm hits!
  115. Vancouver BC, January 30, Set 2: Later that day, the storm clouds roll in! (on 10th, and at MEC on Broadway).
  116. Vancouver BC, January 30, Set 1: Atypical but not unusual late winter day in Vancouver (Stanley Park, Broadway, UBC). Also includes a shot of some of the fine folks at  Olympia Restaurant on Broadway, one of our favorite and most frequented West Side restaurants.
  117. Vancouver BC, January 29: Includes MSEC's 45th b-day bsh (yes folks, hard as it is to believe, MWC is the younger man in this relationship!), and the continuing SLSC (Spontaneous Life from Surplus Caffeine) project AND, just for Andrew T Summers (Hamilton ON), a typical coffee spill ("If I don't make at least a spill a day, I'm not working hard enough!" is one of my [many] mottos), and the recovery procedure, starring the indispensable hand-rolled wad of paper towels puloined from the PHAS coffee room.
  118. Vancouver BC, January 26:  Includes shots of the announcement of the National Geographic 2006 Emerging Explorers---one of the eight, Young Stephan Alexander is a friend and colleague; art work "commissioned" from Frans P for our son, Paul! Sick!!
  119. Victoria & Vancouver BC, January 25, 2006: Includes more unicycle shots.  Jesse, the fine young man riding the 'cycle suggest that you work on your harness and rope work, and think about stunt work---sounds good to me!! Paul unwrapping art work per above.
  120. Vancouver & Victoria BC: January 24, 2006: Ferry trip and downtown Victoria in the evening.
  121. Vancouver, BC: January 24, 2006:  Includes snapshot of two eerily similar Xmas presents that Paul received on consecutive Christmases some time ago.
  122. Vancouver, BC: January 23, 2006:  Strictly inside-joke material. Nothing of interest here.  Please move on. Henn 403 debut  of the mattcam (aka, "scotty!! we need that picture sharper!!)
  123. Frankfurt/Berlin, DE;  Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Vancouver; January 14-21, 2006: AM in the rather pricy downtown shopping district in Frankfurt am Main, Tegel Airport (TXL), BYU campus, "If Matt's gone for more than 4 days, at least one room will be a different color when he gets back!!" (in this case, the kitchen (before) and the main bathroom (before)).
  124. Mathematisches Forschungsintitut Oberwolfach, DE, January 8-10, 2006: Beautiful sunny day!
  125. Calgary, AB to Oberwolfach, DE, January 8-10, 2006: Most of the mountain shots are ober Oberwolfach, if I get the meaning of "ober" correctly?
  126. San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2006 and back to Vancouver, January 5, 2006: The Mission district and the Exploratorium!! Home after a mere 11,015 km.
  127. King City and The Pinnacles, CA, January 3, 2006. Includes a shot of one of our favorite Cailfornian restaurants. 
  128. Los Angeles, CA, January 2, 2006: Universal Studios (Matt leaves his stomach in so-called "Environemntal Systems" building, prompting Paul to worry about spewage possibilities).
  129. Los Angeles, CA, December 31, 2005-January 1, 2006: Includes the Steve and Michelle (Michelle and Steve) Nuptials. (Baby, I'm amazed ...) Also includes a few shots from just outside Tucson, AZ.
  130. Manitoba to Texas, December 26-28, 2005: Too busy driving, including Fargo, ND to XXX, Gainesville, TX in one day, sunset is in Oklahoma?
  131. Isabella, Birtle, Solsgirth, Shoal Lake and Isabella, MB, December 25, 2005: Places of our youth, all but obiterated in the case of the hamlets Solsgirth and Isabella (the latter being on an abandoned CNR branch line (the "Beulah Bullet" line), and now officially a ghost town).
  132. Calgary, AB to Isabella, MB, December 23-24, 2005: Includes New Holland combine in Moosomin, SK, Charlie The Large Cat, and a typical prairie Christmas morning, complete with hoar frost.
  133. Vancouver to Canmore and Calgary, AB, December 20-23, 2005: The great trek of Xmas 2005 begins,  spinning the Accord in a circle barely twice the car's own diameter (as I often say, "If I weren't a physicist, I'd want to be a Honda engineer!", typical Banff area scenary per other shots below. Also includes crack pattern on Accord after 120 km/h or so romp through road crud, for the benefit of folk like my buddies Steve Morris and John de Bruyn who actually make pretty good livings studying such things (and to think JdB once, apologetically to be sure, asked me what the connection between my research in numerical relativity and the "real world" was :-))
  134. Vancouver, December 19, 2005: 410 students working hard, and the good folk at Surrey Honda, inlcuding Richard Wong, Lydia Wong's son.
  135.  Vancouver, December 18, 2005: 410 students working hard, practice for the 410X project, yet another demonstration that you can set a flash off on a sleeping child's eyes (sorry, Paul!) an apparently unbounded number of times without disturbing said child. Paul turns 10.
  136. Princeton, NJ (yes, that OTHER Princeton), NYC and Vancouver, December 16-18, 2005: Includes some shots on the Princeton U Campus in the vicinity of Fine and Peyton Halls: Note the stylized tigers in front of the brand-spanking-new and, as yet, unnamed stadium.  Indeed, more that one of the faculty members I met takes considerable pride in the fact that the stadium remains unnamed. And, true to form (and Bill Bradley notwithstanding), the basketball version of the Tigers tied some sort of a record for the fewest points in a game, whilst I was there.  21.  MEEE-OWW.  NYC: Verazzano Bridge from Staten Island and JFK from a hotel room. Vancouver, 410 students slaving away at their term projects and a pack of unicyclers at UBC (unicycle, unicycles).
  137. Vancouver, December 3, 2005: Includes snow at home and on campus, and Paul's first installation of Linux (Mandrake 2006 on one of Steve Plotkin's machines). Not too shabby for a kid a couple of weeks shy of his 10th birthday!
  138. Vancouver & Environs, November 27, 2005: Includes the Coast-Cariboo Loop Route (Vancouver-Whistler-Pemberton-Lillooet-Hope-Vancouver)
  139. Vancouver, November 19, 2005:  Includes the UBC racoons that live in the old Fire House (near the Klinck dumpster, of course), and a foggy sunrise in the West End.
  140. Vancouver, October 12 2005 -- November 11 2005:  Includes Paul and Monique's second year in the 11/11 march as/with Cub Scouts.  Nasty day.  Also, some shots of the Jaguars, as well as from Hennings in a good fog, and a contrasting clear day.
  141. Vancouver, September 6 -- October 11 2005: First day of school, back at McKechnie (sp?); Paul with his instrument of choice, taking after his Uncle Peter; sleepover, rodents; and some specimens, fall colors etc. from a nice sunny, warm (well, at least for a Manitoban) October day in Vancouver.
  142. Kelowna BC, September 3, 2005: Paul at UBC,  Kelowna, including Hiawatha RV Campground in the Mission district, and Mission Hill Winery.
  143. London UK and Vancouver BC, August 26, 2005: The tube to Heathrow and the state of the "garden" upon arrival.
  144. London UK, August 25, 2005: North London with Reza and Emma, including Parliament Hill at sundown.
  145. London UK, August 24, 2005: Shots from the BA Eye and other places downtown, including Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross.
  146. Northern England, August 20-23, 2005: Yorkshire (York, Leeds, Wakefield, Walton). Check here Caitlin!!
  147. Southampton UK, August 18-20, 2005: Down by the docks and part of the old city wall.
  148. Cambridge UK, August 12, 2005: More exploration of Cambridge area.
  149. Cambridge UK, August 11, 2005: More exploration of Cambridge area.
  150. Cambridge UK, August 7-10, 2005: Monique and Paul explore Cambridge and environs.
  151. Vancouver BC, August 4, 2005: Monique's front garden after all of 4 months or so!; guess which species is apparently illegal to cultivate south of the border; another UBC sunrise, including a few shots of the soon-to-be-"renovated" Library gardens (leave it the heck alone apparently isn't an option). Includes squadron of CG-15 "Honkers" flying low in formation over the Rose Garden.
  152. Princeton BC, July 30, 2005: Mini vacation during the long weekend, included a side trip to Tulameen, where a massive BC Day party at Otter Lake was in progress
  153. Vancouver, July 25, 2005: Chris & Chris' trip, day 3 (Chinatown, Gastown, Canada Place).
  154. Vancouver, July 24, 2005: Chris & Chris' trip, day 3 (UBC/Spanish Banks).
  155. Vancouver, July 23, 2005: Chris & Chris' trip, days 1 and 2.
  156. Vancouver, July 20, 2005: Late morning and early afternoonon Acadia and Tower Beaches.  Low tide (local extremum) was near noon, of course.
  157. Vancouver, July 19, 2005: View from Hennings in the afternoon (stopped waaaay down), some (nothing but) blue sky, the MOST receiver, and lastly the UBC PHAS NR 2005 Limited Edition Heterogenous MIDI-supercluster, conisting of 6 dual 0.450 GHz PIIIs, 1 dual 1.67 Ghz Athlon, a Power PC and 2 Commodore Pets (32K), all connected via a 16-port Netgear GS116 gigabit switch.
  158. Vancouver, July 17, 2005: Neigbourhood waterfight, UBC at sunrise, at the UBC Aquatic Center in the afternoon.
  159. Vancouver, July 16 2005: Includes some more pix re the fender-bender, as well as some shots up at that other Lower Mainland university.
  160. Mom & Dad's Trip July 2005: Includes Turnbull sister reunion.
  161. Mom & Dad's Trip, July 2005: Osoyoos BC, N'K Mip Desert Center (U Gulelph grad student measuring, sexing, and inserting subdermal microchip in rattlers.  There are something like 400 or so in the preserve, one of largest concentrations in the Okanagan)
  162. Mom & Dad's Trip, July 2005: Osoyoos BC: Haynes Point Park & N'K Mip Desert Center; Baby rattler in shots 119-123)
  163. Mom & Dad's Trip, July 2005: Oliver BC (Paul and Matt do a little hill climbing)
  164. Mom & Dad's Trip, July 2005: Kelowna and Oliver, BC (also includes snaps of numerical relativity snaps as well as photos relating to fender bender)
  165. Vancouver, July 1, 2005 (Includes Paul's soap stone carving class and our new car.)
  166. Vancouver, May 30, 2005 (This week only! XXX Free Hardcore Raw Images, mostly of my sister and brother-in-law, David (Dave) Staples [a.k.a. "Shaker"].)
  167. Miscellaneous, Vancouver/UBC, May 26, 2005 (Includes Traci Neilsen & Monique and ph0.physics.ubc.ca.  No snide comments about Macs please!)
  168. Black Holes V, May 17, 2005 (More scenery.)
  169. Black Holes V, May 16, 2005 (Various conference participants.)
  170. Black Holes V, May 15, 2005 (Various conference participants.)
  171. BIRS Dark Side Workshop, May 14, 2005 (All the scenery you can eat.)
  172. BIRS Dark Side Workshop, May 13, 2005 (Introducing Son of Travel Mug (c): he's taller, he's just as specular, and he's electric, too!)
  173. Camp Byng, May 7, 2005 (Cub camp on the Sunshine Coast)
  174. Sunrise at UBC and the start of the plantation at 1637 W 61, May 6, 2005 (See Helmut? Not all white, but pretty subdued all the same.)
  175. Vancouver/Los Angeles May 2005 (Including the available apartment of Dolly, the good Samaritan New Yorker who got my nicked wallet back to me)
  176. Vancouver, April 22-29, 2005 (1637 W 61st from the front, FLAMR Workshop @ UBC, quilts)
  177. BIRS Wkshp on Numerical Relativity, Day 3, April 18, 2005 (Afternoon; Rocky Mountain Sheep and a lively conference session)
  178. BIRS Wkshp on Numerical Relativity, Day 3, April 18, 2005 (Morning; more snow, some of the Banff Cntr facilities, conf. part.)
  179. BIRS Wkshp on Numerical Relativity, Day 2, April 17, 2005 (Evening pictures of deer, mountains and a couple of mathematicians)
  180. BIRS Wkshp On Numerical Relativity, Day 2, April 17, 2005 (Snow in the mountains, mooching deer, and some conference participants.  Gotcha Eric!)
  181. Canmore and Banff, Alberta, April 16, 2005 (Chinook was coming through, 20C+ in Calgary that day)
  182. Wreck Beack, April 10 2005 (Hurrah to UBC for finally building a structure that can be seen from the beach.)
  183. Vancouver, April 10 2005, Another bloomin' Saturday morning (and a haircut, and stealth pics of Mom!)
  184. YVR to ORD (including thunderstorms and a go-around at ORD due to debris on runway (!)), Baylor/Waco TX, UT/Austin, the Spadys, April 2005
  185. Cecil Green, Klinck, Hennings, SW Marine Drive, our back lane, March 28, 2005 (the streak near the center of the second picture  is one of a family of raccoons crossing Marine Drive)
  186. HPC machinery in L.S. Klink bldg (monster, glacier, vn, vnp4, jmd), UBC, March 26, 2005
  187. Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, March 25, 2005
  188. Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, March 25, 2005 (Good Friday)
  189. UBC, East Mall, Chan Center, Cecil Green Road, March 24, 2005
  190. Storm the Wall, UBC, from roof of Hennings, March 24, 2005
  191. Wreck and Tower Beaches (Pacific Spirit Park, GVRD), March 23 2005, also some NR types in The Pit 05/03/18, and Cherry Trees in Maple Grove on Marine Drive 05/05/23.  Includes the Travel Mug (c) Goes to Wreck and Tower Beaches
  192. UBC & Pacific Spirit Park (Point Grey), Vancouver, March 16-17, 2005, Cherry Trees, L.S. Klinck bldg (houses various clusters), glacier.westgrid.ca, West Campus, Pacific Spirit Park, M of A
  193. SNU (spot the Manitoban! Also Ed and Gab(rielle) at GGF 13), APCTP sponsored GW/NR mtg at Seoul National University, Korea, March 11, 2005 (from Dr Sang Min Lee at KISTI)
  194. Seoul, Korea, March 13, 2005
  195. Seoul, Korea, March 12, 2005
  196. Flying in to YVR, 10AM PST, January 12, 2005
  197. Vancouver/Toronto, January 2005, 1637 W 61st Ave in the snow, YVR and U Toronto Robards Library
  198. Vancouver, January 2005, Paul/Monique with blue Ibanez, group @ Kevin's nth last night in town (n ~ 3)
  199. Vancouver, January 2005, vn O/S system upgrade, spices, after pics of 1637, Hennings stone work
  200. Vancouver, January 2005, False Creek and Yaletown
  201. Vancouver-Calgary-Vancouver, December 24-30 2004, Includes Revelstoke, Canmore, Airdrie, Sparwood, Castlegar, Osoyoos (condo), Manning Park
  202. Vancouver, December 2004, Camosum Bog
  203. Vancouver, September-November 2004, Sea-to-Sky, Osoyoos, Remembrance Day, 1637 W 61st Ave "Before" Pictures, Sea-to-sky, Eagles at Brackendale
  204. Vancouver, August 2004, ???'s party at Spanish Banks Beach
  205. Osoyoos, BC, August 2004
  206. Vancouver, BC, August 2004, North along the Arbutus Railline
  207. Near Isabella, MB and Cultis Lake, BC, August 2004
  208. Dublin, July 2004 (GR17)
  209. Vancouver, Jun2 2004, Paul's School Presentation, Afternoon at Spanish Banks Beach
  210. Berlin, May 2004, Reichstag, Turkish Market
  211. Potsdam and environs/Berlin, May 2004, Brandeburg countryside, Belvedere, Berlin ?? Aquarium, Statues
  212. Berlin, May 2004, East Berlin Zoo
  213. Berlin, May 2004, Charlottenburg, Alexanderplatz Tower, Egyptian Museum, Reichstag
  214. Berlin/Potsdam, May 2004, Soviet War Memorial, Berlin Wall (Eastside gallery), Dutch Houses (M'day)
  215. Berlin, May 2004 Zoo station, Sanssoucci and Bears
  216. Florida, US, April 2004, NASA Cape Canaveral, Daytona Beach, St. Augustine, Jacksonville, O'Hare
  217. Vancouver, April 2004, Apple Blossoms etc. on 61st Ave.
  218. Vancouver, April 2004, Haircuts, Plants and ZIppy
  219. Vancouver Island, March 2004, Parksville, Cathedral Grove, ?? Park, ?? Park 2 (near Parksville)
  220. Whistler/Vancouver, March 2004, Bobsled, A Very Pink Room, Stanley Park, Coal Harbor etc. with Granny
  221. Vancouver, January 2004, Paul, Very dark pictures in Paul's school
  222. Miami, FL, January 2004, Coral Gables Biltmore, South Beach, Everglades, YYZ
  223. Miami, FL, January 2004, Aquarium and Zoo
  224. Vancouver, August 2003, Stanley Park
  225. California/Vancouver, August 2003, Sonoma, San Francisco, Spadys (Chris' 50th), Condo, 1637 W 61st Ave as purchased, False Creek, Stanley Park
  226. Vancouver, July 2003, General Relativistic Hydro Summer-School
  227. California, July 2003, ??? Winery
  228. California, June 2003, Beach near Pt Mugu, Santa Barbara Mission, Mount Shasta, Zippy
  229. California, June 2003, Central coast & Santa Barbara, Kids, Orchids, Goleta Beach, ??? Winery
  230. California, May 2003, Napa, Santa Barbara, Sequoia, King Canyon, Fresno planes
  231. Miami, FL, April 2003, South Beach
  232. Vancouver, April 2003, Queen Elizabeth Park, Mattan's B'day Party
  233. Vancouver, April 2003, Van Dusen, Quilt, Peter & Jean, Soccer, Sea-to-Sky, John
  234. Vancouver, February 2003, Zippy, Van Dusen
  235. Vancouver, February 2003, False Creek, Lieve (sp?)
  236. Vancouver, January 2003, Pacific Sprit Park
  237. Vancouver, January, 2003, Jericho and Spanish Bank Beaches, Timothy the Eagle
[ ("f&^king" is said twice)] Check with (pictured in 1469) for being this year's shepherd!! Preliminary blackboard otes on the project hand-off: universities. As you can see, the emulation of Ox-Cam-Princeton ... is pretty good, and this campus has more art and vistas than you can shake a stick at. The undergrads in the campus core are in Management, which didn't come as a shock to MWC, given their extreme sensitvity to camera-ops. Note the water in the previously bone-dry gulley under the expressway, and note that the latter is visible from the campus in the sequence above.
  1. Vancouver, January 2003, Miscellaneous
  2. guinea-pigs
  3. ... and a few more.
  4. Isabella, Manitoba, Christmas 2002
Maintained by Matt: choptuik@physics.ubc.ca.