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Rendering of the Earth
September 4, 2006
I dusted off the raytracer that I wrote back in fourth year university and made a nice rendering of the Blue Marble data set that NASA publishes. It makes quite a nice wallpaper! Download
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Our new house!
August 24, 2006
It was only two days ago that Meredith and I were reminiscing about our so far unsuccessful attempt to find a house. It's been fun, but after you've seen a number of homes and nothing jumps out at you, it becomes a bit laborious and you start to wonder how long it will take to find something that is just right.
That night we were headed out on a little date night and decided to check out an area of town that we hadn't previously looked in -- Laurelwood. A house had just been listed there, and we thought we'd drive by. It was 9:30, well after dark, but we were in love! What a great neighbourhood! Our warm fuzzies were short lived though... we had been scheduled to see it the next day (yesterday) but before noon hour arrived we were informed that it had already sold! So sad.
As a consolation, we decided to go see a house on the other side of town that had also just been listed. It turned out to be a pretty run of the mill place, but as we were looking through it, our agent got an email on her Blackberry indicating that another house had just been listed on the street we had fallen in love with the night before. It was 12:40 and we needed to get back to work, but we couldn't resist, so we went directly there to see if we could have a tour.
It worked out and we were able to see the house at 1:00. Needless to say, it was love at first sight. We were giggly as we walked up the stairs and saw the master bed room, etc. And the price was quite reasonable. So our agent worked on putting an offer together that afternoon.
In the end, five offers were being made and we had to scramble to figure out whether we were willing to pay a bit more than the asking price. We did, and by the sounds of it we just barely beat out the other couples. Wahoo! Meredith and I are on cloud nine! Thanks Denise! Here's a photo.
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Orbit the EarthAugust 22, 2006
This is one of those dreams that isn't likely to happen, but after reading this article, I had to wonder -- maybe this sort of thing really is going to open up over the next fifty years. I guess we'll just have to wait and see :) older >>
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