The new Burnaby sports complex is taking shape. Amongst its facilities, two NHL sized ice rinks. I haven’t had skates on my feet for at least 35 years, might just have to lace up when this facility comes online.
Reflections
The Marine Building, reflected on the mirror glass surface of its neighbour, shot with an iPhone XS from a point across the street in downtown Vancouver.
Beautiful Day
Stanley Park and the North Shore mountains, shot with an iPhone XS from across Burrard Inlet at Canada Place.
Windows 11 in the house
Today I fired up a Hyper-V virtual machine and installed Windows 11. I had a spare product key for Windows 10 that I wasn’t using, so I used that as a jumping off point. Install was relatively seamless. Did have to enable TPM in the virtual machine settings, because it wouldn’t boot without it. Must…
Rabbit holes and re-learning code
I’m an engineer, and coding as a way of expressing a solution to a problem was something I did a lot in University, but in my career I’ve completely fallen out of practice. I still solve problems for a living, but these days my solutions are expressed in a Word document…or more likely an email….
Coding…the journey begins
About 200 years ago, I was able to do some coding, mainly for my university courses and in an ancient language known as Turbo Pascal. As I left university and progressed out into my day-to-day career, the need to code to solve problems sort of faded away into memory. Being an engineer, I’ve always felt…
Learning Rust…early breakthrough
I’m in the very early days of learning how to code with Rust. I’ve started with a CLI (command line interface) program that converts celsius temperatures to fahrenheit temperatures. This evening, I had a lovely little breakthrough. I was not clear, even after working through the Guessing Game example in “The Book” of all things…
November Sunset
On a work from home day, I looked out the window of our office to see a warm orange light. Thinking fantastic sunset, I went out for a break and a walk. I was rewarded with one of the most spectacular sunsets I’ve seen yet.
Fresh Snowfall
This morning I was out doing a site review at one of my project sites in Surrey. This particular project is 36 storeys tall, and has a spectacular view of the Eastern portion of the Lower Mainland. The night before, we’d had a significant snowfall. From the vantage point of the 36th floor, it looked…