Jay Allen’s entry on hawaiian shirts reminded me of what my friends and I used to do during my undergrad (and graduate) days at U of A.
Our Friday ritual after class was to head up to RATT (Room At The Top), the bar on campus. Usually we’d head up there around noon or so, grab our usual table in the corner and have some lunch and hang out. The guys with afternoon classes would head off, and come back afterwards. Hawaiian shirts (bright and colourful ones) were standard dress on Fridays. Whoever forgot their’s would be the scornpost for the remainder of the night. They made us very identifiable, and very easy to spot in a crowded bar. Also useful as an ice breaker for meeting girls. We became very well known for them. Sometimes, people would pass us by on campus and say “hey, it’s the hawaiian shirt guys!”.
We’d step off the elevator, head to our table and the waitress would meet us there with a couple of pitchers. Food orders would be placed, and the meeting would start.
People would come and go, and come back again. Much fun was had, much schmoozing and lawn mowing was done. Ahh, those were the days 🙂
Stunning example of retrograde motion
Matrix: Revolutions on IMAX
Matrix: Revolutions on IMAX is very, very cool. Big sound, big picture.
If you have the opportunity to go see it, I highly recommend it.
The Face on Mars
APOD has a cool new picture of what that Face on Mars really looks like.
It still has a face-like appearance, although it does look like more of a natural, not artificially created structure.
The big high resolution version of the photo makes a really cool desktop background.
Christmas preparations
Christmas shopping is finished. Christmas cards are getting sent out. 2 batches of cookies done, 3 or 4 more to go (we get maybe about 250 cookies out of each ‘batch’). People might be getting their cookies a little late this year, but oh well. I’m sure they’ll enjoy them just the same.
Off to go finish off the rest of my cards.