Freezing in Toronto

A couple of weeks ago I made a trip to the Toronto, Canada area. It was 7 degrees farenheit the night I landed and no telling how cold it felt with the wind chill. Here's the view taken the next morning from inside the Hilton in Markham.

I'm Podcasting!

I have enjoyed listening to podcasts on the iPod I got for Christmas so much that I've begun an audio version of this blog. Check out the links down the right-hand sidebar.

Olympic Panda in Beijing

This is a picture of a Panda figure in the parking lot outside of one of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic stadiums under construction. Picture taken in January 2007.

Bug on a Stick at the Night Market

One night on my recent trip to Beijing, China we wandered around downtown at night and took a peek at the food offerred at the Night Market. Here's a picture from my cell phone which is blurry but I think you get the idea. It had many different booths selling food to people walking by.


Here is a sample of some of the more unusual foods for sale... not for the faint of heart.



In the upper right you see pretty normal looking fresh strawberries and kiwi. Other items include some kind of grub or other insect larva, locust (grasshopper), seahorses, beatles, lizzard, and some other stuff I don't recognize. One of the vendors saw my white face and yelled out in English "deer".

Pictures taken in January 2007.