Juke box

Juke box.ARW, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

Tonya and I found this great little restautant at St. George and Dupont. The best part is you get an old fashioned juke box at your table. We’re pretty sure it actually plays records. Only 25 cents a song! We’ll certainly be going back there.

T-shirt

Crappy t-shirts.ARW, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

For 9.99 I hope you get more than a shirt with a piece of paper taped to it…

Telemarketainment II

Another hommage to XKCD on the topic of telemarketing:

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Destruction

Destruction.ARW, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

Picture taken at the renovation of the Dominion at Bloor and Spadina. I like the little heart. I feel like Obama destroyed McCain in the first debate. I wonder what the right wingers think…

Telemarketainment

Another hommage to XKCD:

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Panorama

South from Panorama, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

North from Panorama, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

Tonya and I went to Panorama on a whim. Quite the view.

Quote of the day: “…everyone working on the handwash project is sick…”

Jump!

This was taken at the Grotto near Tobermory. I wonder if any brokers have thought about jumping with the recent turmoil in the markets. The Star’s top story a couple of days ago showed a grown man crying.

Hold On – An Hommage to XKCD

I was recently on hold for over an hour trying to inquire about a magazine subscription. It really shouldn’t be this difficult.
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By Chance

My dream job is one where I can show up for work “by chance”. I could never work on Bay street. I’d have lost many peoples fortunes during this weeks sell-off if I’d been in charge of their portfolios.

Infinity

In Tonya’s mom’s new bathroom…lots of mirrors. I also loved the heat lamp and the heated floors.

Packing Up Timelapse

Packing Up Timelapse, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

This is the process of packing up at the end of our canoe trip. You can tell that we were all pulling our own weight and no one was standing around not doing anything.

Moonlight

This photo was taken during the Perseid’s meteor shower earlier this summer at a cottage near Tobermory. Tonya won for finding the most comfortable viewing position.

A little bit fishy…

fish, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

This picture was taken in Balboa Park in the Japanese garden. Balboa park is a fantastic use of public space. It’s a huge park right in the middle of San Diego. There are something like 20 museums in the park. They choose a few of these to be free each week. My favorites were the photography and model train museums.They have a great cactus garden in the park too. All Americans should move to San Diego. No risk of Gustav or Ike. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for Huston. If I lived in Huston I’d be uncomfortable when they told me to “hunker down” and that not evacuating was a “calculated risk”.

Cloudy Water

Cloudy Water, originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

One of the evenings on our canoe trip was perfectly still. The lake was glass. Actually the water wasn’t cloudy at all…all the acid rainy goodness of Inco’s smelting process from decades ago has ensured that the water remains crystal clear even to this day…

I hope the hadron collider doesn’t make a black hole and suck us all up…I’ll miss evenings like this…

Title credit – M. Tsang

Silver Peak Clouds

Silver Peak Clouds (4x), originally uploaded by tilak.dutta.

Another cloud video from our canoe trip. This one was taken from Silver peak … the third highest point in Ontario at 539m. You can see the Sudbury smoke stacks from there on a clear day.

If only the big four parties could see the lay of the metaphorical political landscape from such a perspective. I hope May gets to debate it out with the others.

Clouds moving away and towards

This was the view from our campsite in Killarney Provicial Park this past weekend while we were there for a canoe trip. We were the only campsite on this lake.

I saw more wildlife on this trip than ever before. We saw a bear, two moose, two or three beavers, turtles, a fox, along with assorted loons and frogs.

The clouds closest to us seem to be moving toward us…and the ones higher up are moving away. Interesting wind patterns. I love how you can see the shadows of the upper clouds on the lower clouds….

Emily thinks this may have been due to a collision of a cold front and a warm front that led to the storm we experienced on Sunday.

Vote for this tree…

I can’t believe Harper is so far ahead in the polls. And how the heck is McCain tied to with Obama?!

What if trees could run for MP. I think they’d do a good job of representing my interests. I’d vote for this tree to be my MP.

I like this tree…he reminds me of the Go7. He lives in Sturgeon Bay Provincial Park.

Taking off

I found this plane at a small airport near Tobermory. In other news, Chrome appears to have taken off.

Attack of the killer puppies….

Taken at a park near Tonya’s place. I think all these dogs belong to these two women.

Here comes the rain…

This picture was taken near a cottage at Sturgeon Bay. I was biking into Pointe au Baril and saw a storm coming. I decided to go for it anyway. Managed to duck into a information kiosk when the downpour came and I managed to stay perfectly dry. If only Gustav were as predictable.