Been looking for this picture for a while now. I'm glad I found it.

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There was a recent airing of a History channel special entitled "Life After People". The show focuses on how the planet would change if for some reason, human beings disappeared from Earth. They go into detail about how our infrastructure would deteriorate (or survive), what would happen to the planet's environment, and what everything would look like in such a world.

As many of you know, I'm fascinated by post-apocalyptic scenarios. Though the show doesn't exactly state why humans would all disappear, for my own purposes I'm imagining a world-wide zombie plague, which actually leaves small pockets of survivors sprinkled through the world. To that end, even the show's web site devote an entire section to surviving alone in a post-apocalyptic situation. Granted, none of their tips deal with zombie specific elements of survival.

I haven't seen the show, but I might find a torrent for it. Check out the web site for video from the show.

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A few of us were at work late this evening. One of my co-workers was waiting for a build to finish so he jumped onto a World of Warcraft server. He was a few kills away from getting level 70 for his character, which is the highest attainable so far.

We all gathered around while he did the final mouse click that pushed him over from 69 to 70. There was a small smattering applause. Then some pizza arrived. We all gathered in the kitchen area to celebrate the event and eat pizza.

Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm actually living the life of an adult.

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I went to NCIX today to pick up my replacement video card. After a slight bump in the road to recovery, it appears my new computer is running as it should.

I still have a whole crapload of programs to install and configure but seems all good now.

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Damn, it's one of those nights where I run out of time to write something worthwhile for a post. I've spent the last hour or so researching hotels in Honolulu. It turns out my vacation this year will be Hawaii.

I have close friend who is getting married in Honolulu and the trip out there will be a great excuse to go somewhere warm and relaxing. Though the wedding is in early July, I'm trying to wrap up my travel arrangement by Thursday to beat a seat sale deadline.

The craziest option I found so far (that's still listed in Frommer's as a decent place) is the Royal Grove Hotel. It's pink and it's as low as $55 a night. It ain't the Hilton that's for sure but the people swear by the quaintness of the place.

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Though it is supposedly spring in the western hemisphere, the weather doesn't support that fact, at least in Vancouver.

On Friday night, after leaving a dinner engagement, I stepped outside into a full-fledged snowstorm. Though it was late April, the Broadway and Granville area of town resembled a snowy December evening. Cursing the weather, I made my way back downtown where the storm was even more intense. The flakes of snowing falling in the downtown core were huge, approaching the size of small cookies.

Curiously, when I got back home to the outlying areas of Tatooine, there was no snow at all and hardly any moisture on the ground (I guess it had been all farmed already... bada-bing!). Despite the lack of snow, it was still bone-chillingly cold.

Though the snow did not return on Saturday, it was still freezing cold. I attended an outdoor BBQ Saturday evening and by sun down, everyone was scrambling inside to escape the cold air.

Monday calls for a chance of flurries, so this terrible "spring" weather still has a chance to linger for a few days yet. In fact, for the next two days, forecasters are predicting a low temperature of just above freezing!

I better bring a scarf with me when we go for our dinner at TOSF.

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