(Port) Coquitlam Odysseus

Image of Captain Robert Semrau taken from 24 Hours News The man above, Captain Robert Semrau, is by all accounts a good man and a good soldier. He was recently charged with murder for allegedly killing a “98% dead” enemy soldier on the battlefield. He was acquitted, but was convicted of “disgraceful conduct,” a crime [...]

Image of Capt. Bews parachuting down after ejecting via CTV, with a credit to “Kurt’s Kustom Photography.” I am quite in awe of the ability of the military engineers to design the system that allowed Capt. Brian Bews to pull this off: [video removed from Youtube] While the AP video above is best, the video [...]

Interior of the MacMillan Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park I’m feeling more or less better now, and fingers crossed, this will continue. Anyway, here are a few pictures I took in Queen Elizabeth Park and its MacMillan Bloedel Conservatory back in early May. I’m not very happy with almost any of the landscape pictures [...]

Back in very early March, when it was winter from a botanical perspective (though most certainly not one in terms of temperature), my family and I took in the Van Dusen Botanical Garden. Like the gardens in the movie Being There, for many of the plants, it was winter. That said, at the time, it [...]

The last week was a very difficult one for me, and many thoughts, many of which were most unpleasant, have been going through my head. I have also taken a break from Aristophanes.