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This is the first day I have the camera and tripod. I didn't start taking pictures until I was on my way home on the SkyTrain.

I saw some neat reflections that looked like UFOs somewhat:
	Mount Baker was also visible to the naked through the haze:
Waiting for my 130 bus to Hastings and Willingdon at Metrotown, I ran into David and Brittney, waiting for a 49 bus to go to David's house.	Those two get along really well as a couple from what I have seen of them.
	Reflections can cause need optical tricks!
Sharply contrasting colours abound around gas stations it seems. Plus look at the neat shape on top of the building in the background.

WTF is it with the number of people calling wrong numbers today?
I've been home for only one hour, and there have been 5 of them already!

There is an actual journal post about my day coming soon, once I get some images into my photo gallery online.

Think Japanese school girls are sexy?
Read this article: http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0206/020619nymphs.html

The weekend I had with Marissa was really nice. but I'm not going to talk about that much now. Just a brief overview. Slept late Saturday morning, then Marissa came in the afternoon. We walked around Burnaby lake, saw a terrapin a long way from water, and took him back to the lake. Got eaten alive by mosquitos. We went to bed early Saturday night after a nice roast beef dinner, intending to get up early and go cycling, but we slept late again without realizing it, so it was too late in the afternoon. I took everybody out for dinner and paid myself as my father's day gift to my father. We went to Shu Sha Ya sushi at Metrotown.

Monday morning, I was heading in to TechBC, and the SkyTrain pulls into New West station. There on the opposite platform, stands a character in an unmistakable brown and psychdelic orange anorak. He doesn't notice me at all, as he is totally zoned out or something. It was Ryan Castenada, from my groups at TechBC, with the same anorak that he ALWAYS wears.

The last two days I've been programming both MVS and phpMyAdmin during my work hours. MVS now has a webpage, it's not wonderful yet, as it was just something I threw together, but do have a look at the image galleries to see what work I am doing.

phpMyAdmin isn't nearly as impressive, but it does get a LOT more traffic and recognition. If you want to know just how busy, take a look here: phpMyAdmin statistics.

The phpMyAdmin developers and myself are looking to make a new major release in the next month or so, with some new features and security improvements.

Bah! Life has a really, really annoying way of pissing you off at times. On Tuesday, I went via the McGill branch of the Burnany Public Libraries, and made inquiries about books by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. They said they had none of them anymore, and searched all of BC on a special website for the books. Powell River has a number of them, and Vancouver Public Library has 2 of them.

Today I went to McGill library again to return some other books, and looked at the sale pile again (I checked it when I asked about the books as well). Standing there at the sale pile was a person who had put aside a number of science fiction books for himself. In his pile, were FIVE of the books I had been looking for. Even though the library sells them for $0.25 each, he refused to let me have them for even $5 each. I've been looking for the books for a long time. That is just downright nasty to happen.

For now, I have put out a bid on eBay for some of the books, hopefully I won't get outbid on them.

You may ask me what draws me to science fiction that was written in the late 1920's and 30's. It just has a characteristic unlike any other I find. The Lensman series are the most incredibly well done story I have ever read.

I need to name my new server something.

Choices are all names of scientists.
Currently, I already have: Fermi, Tesla, Einstein, Henon, Newton, Bohr, Joule.

• Pauli, after Wolfgang Pauli. Pauli Exclusion Principle.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1945/index.html.
• Bothe, after Walther Bothe. Coincidence Method.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1954/index.html.
• Born, after Max Born. Statistical interpretation of the wave function.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1954/index.html.
• Curie, after Marie Curie. X-Rays.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1903/index.html.
• Gabor, after Dennis Gabor. Holograms.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1971/index.html.
• Planck, after Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. Energy Quanta.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1918/index.html.
• Cherenkov, after Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov. Cherenkov effect.
  http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1958/index.html.

More suggestions are welcome as well.

Werner Karl Heisenberg is NOT welcome.