Lost In Translation

I rented the "Lost In Translation" DVD with my sister and brother-in-law last night. I had heard good things about it, but I found it slow and confusing, so I was disappointed.

I added some photos from Venice to my digital photo page. Only about 10 more places to go...

Ferris

We finally started organized our camping trip for the long weekend. We make a reservation for the Ferris Provincial Park as it was the only park south of Sudbury that had campsites still available for Canada Day weekend. It sounds like an okay, but the boating/fishing/swimming might not be quite as good as we had hoped as there is just a river going through the park.

Busy, Busy

This has been a really busy weekend. Saturday was my convocation. (I'm now a graduate with a Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Double Combinatorics and Optimization & Computer Science Cooperative Program With Distinction - Dean's Honours List...or something like that). I had a lot of fun seeing my various friends although the ceremony was a little long.

Saturday as dinner with various relatives and Sunday was lunch with various other relatives. e.g. My cousin (who is back from a year of teaching in Iraq) came down from Ottawa with his girlfriend. Sunday night I went out with friends who were in town for Convocation and Friday I went out with other friends who were also in town for Convocation.

On Friday, we saw the movie Supersize Me. I thought it was really good. It is a documentary about a guy who eats nothing but McDonald's for a month. However, it is much more sophisticated than that. Rather than bashing McDonald's, it examines the state of people's health (wrt exercise and diet) in the US. He travels around interviewing various people, e.g. a law professor involved with law suits against McDonald's, a lobbyist for the food industry, a very obese guy who was getting his stomach stapled, the 3 doctors and 1 nutritionist who supervised him, etc. I'd recommend seeing it.

Tomorrow I'm planning on going to a talk at the Fields Institute in Toronto.

I also posted some photos from Liechtenstein and Austria on my digital photo page. Eventually I'll finish adding photos from my trip to Europe and then I'll add some from Convocation.

Switzerland

I've added 14 photos from Switzerland.

More Photos

I put up photos from the Netherlands and Germany.

London

I'm still organizing all the photos I took in Europe. I've selected some from London and added commentary. You can find links to them from my digital photo page. I'll add photos from the rest of my trip over the next week or two.

I haven't really been up to anything exciting since I've returned. Convocation is Saturday. I'm hoping to go camping during the long weekend, but we are poorly organized. I heard that (another) one of my friends was hired by Microsoft and is going to move to Seattle. So I'll know at least one more person when I get there!