So on the way back from Banff I ended up listening to 99.3 Fox, more particular their Metal Mondays show. At some point they played (what i think was some) Iced Earth. That has sent me into a serious Power Metal bender. On the suggestion of a friend here I got myself some Edguy to listen to. That band rocks! Furthermore though extensive study I have found that Power Metal indeed makes an awsome soundtrack to Supreme Commander.

Physics & Skiing

So the Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference happened from last Friday evening up to noon today. The conference is taking place in Banff, in the province of the rich and sometimes famous. I went with Keith one of the other students at UVic. We got a lucky break of getting to give our talks right on Friday evening, so the rest of the conference was very enjoyable. It was also very cool that this year (for the first time) the conference is being organized by the my undergrad university (and a few other universities from back east, so I got to meet some of my old profs and some of the new students from back home.

Anyway today we decided to take off early (and skip the concluding remarks) such that we could check out one of the ski resorts. We decided to go to Sunshine where I skied again for the first time in like 15 years. With some help from Keith, the other UVic grad that came to the conference I actually was relatively comfortable exploring all the greens and blues at sunshine.

On Monday we spent the entire day at Lake Louise, a much better ski resort (though the regulars tell me that it usually does not get as good a snowfall as this year). Very nice skiing, and Keith actually took me down a black diamond at some point. That and we did this awesome blue going though the woods, and to my peril, around some boulders. Felt very good though, and lots of powder.

They're Everywhere!

I saw no less than seven people on the bus today sporting an iPod. Come on people, if you can't get a decent mp3 player at least get some decent headphones! While we are talking about iStuff at least get and iRvier, 1337 it up a bit, and then play Mario on it. You know that nearly makes the iRiver cool. I would still get a DS before going though all that work though.