Julian
Andy pouring champagne
Jo
Raymond
Kristen and Sarah
The cutting of the cake
Our first dance
Hattie
Dear friends from Barnes and Noble: Tahirah, Hattie, Linda, Meg and Marcus
Tom begins his quest to dance with every female at the wedding
Carrie and Joe
Jennie
Kurt dancing with Kitty
Kurt has known Gennie since they were 3
Janice, Theresa (Gennie's Mom) and Kathleen
The food (the sausage rolls were lovely... we heard!)
Nurit and Kylene
Nurit and her husband, Sean
The Bride and Groom arrive at the reception
The reception
Beth and her husband, JT
Philip and Kristen, and the Bride
Katie and Joy
Nishan
Ray
Xin and his wife, Jinwen
Amy
The cake: lemon cake with raspberry filling and a buttercream frosting
Gennie's bouquet
Meighan, one of the bridesmaids
The edible lego bricks (our wedding favours) turned out to be quite popular
Kitty, maid of honour
Some of Gennie's extended family
Meg
Bruno and JT
Michael
Claire and Lloyd
Rob and Claudine
Centerpiece
Chris, Val, Mike, Katherine (Paul's girlfriend), Paul
Michel and Tom doing their gangster impressions
Betsy the flower girl
Michel and Theresa walking down the aisle
Gennie's great aunt Fern and her daughter Kathleen
Mical, one of the bridesmaids
Father John Topol
Rich and Mel
Gennie expresses concern that we have the right rings
Gennie and Andrew Gibson!
Signing the wedding license
Gennie finds out that the place we were going to stay on our wedding night lost our reservation
The wedding party: Meighan, Mical, Kitty, Gennie, Andrew, Paul, Chris and Jim
The families: Kitty, Tom, Theresa, Michel, Gennie, Andrew, Mike, Val, Chris and Paul
The Bride and Groom
There is a town near Venice called Mestre. Whenever I saw the name of this town I thought to myself "what a great word - if the Italian word for 'mice' isn't mestre, it should be". (It isn't - it's 'sorci', but I still say it should be).
Talking of mice, I was in a pet shop the other week buying bedding material for Greg and Esme and I saw some hilarious white mice. These guys looked like they were having so much fun with a little game they were playing. They had exercise wheels large enough for two mice to get on at once, and they would race each other on the exercise wheels. Then one of the mice would stop while the other kept running, causing the stopped mouse to fly backwards up towards the top of the wheel while the running mouse would fly forwards up towards the top of the wheel due to the increased resistance of the wheel. Then they would start again. Sometimes they got up so much momentum that they would fly to the top and back down the other side - kind of like they had invented makeshift rollercoasters!
I want some white mice now.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have a number of things on my backlog but they're in various states of incompleteness. Maybe tomorrow I'll find some time to finish some of them.
This is a really good essay about why computer scientists and lawyers will never quite see eye to eye and a very good way of thinking about things such as digital rights management and cryptography. The
follow up essay is a good read too.
I got my car washed recently so it would look reasonably nice for the wedding (my brother was my chauffer for the day). I haven't been inside an automatic car wash for a very long time (I seem to remember going through one with my father as a small child). I hadn't realized how scary it was a driver! You have to put the car in neutral, take your foot off the brake and (if that wasn't scary enough) avoid touching the steering wheel - then the car drives through the contraption on it's own, and you can't see what's going on because the car is covered with soap suds and swirly washing things.
I was dreaming about how to improve the interface for a clock. The dream took the form of a conversation between two parts of my subconscious:
1: The ideal interface for a clock would be to not have one at all. It should be able to set itself from radio time signals.
2: But what about time zones and DST?
1: Well, it could have a built-in GPS and a database of time zones and locations.
2: Isn't that rather a lot of expensive hardware for a simple clock?
1: Well, we could have a microprocessor in the clock which controls everything from the display to the GPS - even the radio could be software based. By keeping the hardware simple and the complexity in the software, we can keep unit costs minimal.
2: Brilliant! Let's write up a business plan.
Then I woke up.