Some photographs from my time in Waterloo. I'll mount more, and add more text,
as possible.
My travels have taken me to
Waterloo,
Kitchener (Railway Station),
London (Ontario),
McMaster,
Toronto,
Honey Harbour,
Cambridge (Mass) (including
M.I.T. and
Harvard),
Kingston (R.I.),
New York City and
Dubai.
Updated, post Honey Harbour 16 June 2009.
Here are my notes from Prof. Lawrence's lecture.
Here are my notes from various lectures I went to in June.
Here are my notes from various lectures I went to in April/May.
- Beacon Towers, where I am living, with
dawn on May 21st (04:54 - what was I doing being up then?).
Even the user interfaces on the two lifts are confusing: seen
(left) and
(right).
The View South East includes the local mosque.
The View North East includes the local mall, and central crane, next to Davis Centre,
at least when it's not
foggy.
We have a
rabbit.
- The Department, sometimes described as "Centre Pompidou manque",
Davis, Looking East, and
Davis Cafeteria, where I generally buy lunch (in the same building, so no coat, hat, scarf, gloves, boots etc. needed), such as
Lunch, 10 March
- Train (front),
(rear) and
(passenger), with
timetable
(not very frequent). Warning
signs near
crossing.
- Longfellow Drive, Waterloo (one can just see Beacon Towers in the distance)
- It snowed on 6 April: here are views from my balcony looking
NW and
NE.
- There's an eating mall with the odd other shop next to the campus: various views
1,
2,
3 and
4, this last with Mongolian restaurant and snow (all taken 8 April 2009).
- We go out to lunch to celebrate (24 April) and there's plenly of
hot
stuff.
- Memorial
stone to the founder of Waterloo's sandwich programme.
- The PeRIMeter institute
(side
and
front),
also by
day,
where Stephen Hawking is due to come.
- The Barrel Yard, originally Seagram's, and then the Maplesoft offices.
Another view.
- As everywhere, estate agents possess boundless
optimism.
- A distinctly dubious sign.
- GM
run amok, I fear.
- And what is the difference between Canadian and European
Foods?
- I'd heard of the Stanley Cup (Ice Hockey) but not of the
Slothman Trophy.
- Even the Sports centre quotes
Plato.
- On the way there, we observe that a
Blackberry
running GPS fits very ergonomically.
- Views of Lake Huron
1
2
3, and a
local map.
- Some locals know where they
belong,
and some guests took getting
stuffed
too literally.
- Neaby is Sainte-Marie-aux-pays-des-Hurons, with
cabins,
stone buildings
(reconstructions, but the ruins in the foreground are original),
Wendat church,
tepee,
longhouse,
(rear),
(interior),
skin hut,
church with chimney,
bastion.
- "We all live in a
yellow
submarine",
the second with Marc Moreno Maza, my host at M.I.T.
His
view
of the Yellow submarine, of
JHD in difficulties.
- Bullshit by degrees.
- Various views of
the
Stata
Center
at M.I.T., where Computer Science is now housed. According to a cartoon
there, it's a sobriety test: if you think it's normal, you're drunk.
-
Various
views of the
Burj
al Arab
Hotel (not where we were staying), a
Beach,
Courtyard and
Mosque.
-
Various
views
of
the
many
Skyscrapers
in
Dubai.
Dawn in Dubai.
-
Map (old town),
Old Town,
Fort,
Dhow,
Lighthouse,
Creek,
bend in creek,
Dhows,
more Dhows,
Souk,
(our) hotel and
NRF.
- Dinner Dhow
(with Director on right).
- Creek by night,
shore by night,
lighthouse by night,
Dhow by night,
another Dhow by night,
third Dhow by night,
More Creek by night,
more shore by night,
JHD by night and
more JHD by night.
-
ski slope (from outside),
ski slope (inside mall),
More ski slope,
ski slope cafe,
Mall
and a rather unfortunate use of the word
Axiom.