… 10km fun run.
details on my hiking blog …
A telling graphic from the U.S.A.

Click through to see some of the factors – Gymnastics Coaching – what makes you fat?
Does poverty make people obese, or is it the other way around? …
… sickness, poverty, and obesity are spun together in a dense web of reciprocal causality. Anyone who’s fat is more likely to be poor and sick. Anyone who’s poor is more likely to be fat and sick. And anyone who’s sick is more likely to be poor and fat. …
… Did Bill Gates make us fat?
The facts suggest otherwise: Obesity tends to be highest in states where computer ownership is lowest, and that’s true even after you control for income. …
Slate – Why Are We Getting So Fat?
Trust me.
Kate sent me one of those viral emails jammed with wild bridge photos.
I won’t do that to you.
It did get me going on the Internet looking a bridge photo sites. Astonishing!
Henderson Waves (Chinese: 亨德森波浪桥) is a 274-metre (900 ft) long pedestrian bridge. At 36 metres (120 ft) above Henderson Road, it is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. …
The bridge has a wave-form made up of seven undulating curved steel ribs that alternately rise over and under its deck. The curved ribs form alcoves that function as shelters with seats within. Slats of yellow balau wood, an all-weather timber found in Southeast Asia, are used in the decking. The wave-forms are lit with LED lamps at night from 7pm to 2am daily. …

Click through to see more photos of bridges:
9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen
World’s Most Interesting Bridges
… Hold on …
… That should be Calgary. My mistake.

For the 15th time in 22 years, Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards poll has chosen Maui as the “Best Island in the World.”
But I’ll be the judge of that … hiking Maui for the next 2wks.
I flew out of Vancouver, now my favourite airport in Canada. The new SkyTrain rail service, the Canada Line, whisks you directly downtown, connecting to harbour ferries.
Or, with one bus connection. to the Vancouver Island ferries at Tsawwassen. Superbly convenient!
The line opened August 17, 2009, fifteen weeks ahead of schedule. One of the rare things the B.C. government ever got right. Kudos.
Thanks Les and Tam for the “buddy pass” airline ticket on WestJet, my favourite airline.
This is the favourite shirt of Internet Geeks. You can see why.
Chick’s dig it.
… I think my brother has one.

This is the best product review I’ve ever read. ” 15,044 of 15,180 people found the following review helpful”
This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet …, but once I tried it on, that’s when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to ‘howl at the moon’ from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn’t have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn’t settle for the first thing that comes to him.
I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.
Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the ‘guns’), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.
We took it out of the marina in Port Alberni, B.C.. The fishing season is over.
And pulled it to the shop for minor repairs. And to be winterized.
That’s Dad’s new truck, a Ford.
If you have money, time and are a bit of a gambler, … now might be a very good time to buy.
Distressed home prices in place like Phoenix and Las Vegas are around half of 2006 levels.
In addition, the Canadian dollar has risen to about par with the American. It was 76.98 cents on March 9, 2009.

If you are holding Loonies, consider shopping in the U.S.A.
… Or Bangladesh. There are good deals in both those nations right now.
I can’t understand why Canadian politicians are so easily influenced by the big American lobbyists.
Lobbyists must think Canada is a back door in the battle to win American legislation. Unhappily for them, Obama is no friend to those clinging to outdated copyright law.
This time it’s the Liberals adding even more intrusive provisions into legislation.
From Boing Boing:
… C-27 is the Canadian anti-spam bill that comes out of committee on Monday. The opposition Liberals have proposed amendments which appear to have been drafted by copyright and telecom lobbyists. They would allow for surreptitious installation of computer programs and – even more outrageously – would allow copyright owners to secretly access information on users’ computers. …
Read the full details on the blog of Canada’s best watchdog, Michael Geist:
The Copyright Lobby’s Secret Pressure On the Anti-Spam Bill
From that link you can contact Industry Minister Tony Clement. Or other Canadian politicians to weigh in with your opinion.
I did.