My travels have taken me to Waterloo, Kitchener (Railway Station), London (Ontario), McMaster, Toronto, Honey Harbour, Cambridge (Mass) (including M.I.T. and Harvard), Kingston (R.I.), New York City and Dubai.

Updated, post Honey Harbour 16 June 2009.

Here are my notes from Prof. Lawrence's lecture.

Here are my notes from various lectures I went to in June.

Here are my notes from various lectures I went to in April/May.

Waterloo

• Beacon Towers, where I am living, with dawn on May 21st (04:54 - what was I doing being up then?). Even the user interfaces on the two lifts are confusing: seen (left) and (right). The View South East includes the local mosque. The View North East includes the local mall, and central crane, next to Davis Centre, at least when it's not foggy. We have a rabbit.
• The Department, sometimes described as "Centre Pompidou manque", Davis, Looking East, and Davis Cafeteria, where I generally buy lunch (in the same building, so no coat, hat, scarf, gloves, boots etc. needed), such as Lunch, 10 March
• Train (front), (rear) and (passenger), with timetable (not very frequent). Warning signs near crossing.
• Longfellow Drive, Waterloo (one can just see Beacon Towers in the distance)
• It snowed on 6 April: here are views from my balcony looking NW and NE.
• There's an eating mall with the odd other shop next to the campus: various views 1, 2, 3 and 4, this last with Mongolian restaurant and snow (all taken 8 April 2009).
• We go out to lunch to celebrate (24 April) and there's plenly of hot stuff.
• Memorial stone to the founder of Waterloo's sandwich programme.
• The PeRIMeter institute (side and front), also by day, where Stephen Hawking is due to come.
• The Barrel Yard, originally Seagram's, and then the Maplesoft offices. Another view.
• As everywhere, estate agents possess boundless optimism.
• A distinctly dubious sign.
• GM run amok, I fear.
• And what is the difference between Canadian and European Foods?
• I'd heard of the Stanley Cup (Ice Hockey) but not of the Slothman Trophy.
• Even the Sports centre quotes Plato.

Kitchener (Railway Station)

• The timetable fits on two screens: one East and one West.
• Some of the trains are fairly silly, some play chicken, and then park.
• The track stretches into the distance, but eventually a train comes.

London (Ontario)

• The timetable for buses to London. They go past the Canadian baseball Hall of Fame.
• UWO-Middlesex, with summer views.
• Stephen Watt's (very) new house, which is very near the river Medway, shown here in flood.
• This flows into the Thames, of course, seen here near the University bridge

McMaster

• Faculty Club, McMaster

Toronto

• The CN Tower.
• A (very distant) view of Niagara from Toronto.
• Toronto docks, looking down from CN tower.

Honey Harbour

• On the way there, we observe that a Blackberry running GPS fits very ergonomically.
• Views of Lake Huron 1 2 3, and a local map.
• Some locals know where they belong, and some guests took getting stuffed too literally.
• Neaby is Sainte-Marie-aux-pays-des-Hurons, with cabins, stone buildings (reconstructions, but the ruins in the foreground are original), Wendat church, tepee, longhouse, (rear), (interior), skin hut, church with chimney, bastion.

Cambridge (Mass)

• Serious Guest bedroom.
• Haskell by day and night: note that Haskell is clearly a one-way street.
• Various views of music on the `T', the last with Yuzhen showing how to do it.

And especially M.I.T.

• "We all live in a yellow submarine", the second with Marc Moreno Maza, my host at M.I.T. His view of the Yellow submarine, of JHD in difficulties.
• Bullshit by degrees.
• Various views of the Stata Center at M.I.T., where Computer Science is now housed. According to a cartoon there, it's a sobriety test: if you think it's normal, you're drunk.

Not forgetting Harvard.

• Founded by John Harvard, who clearly didn't go to this Emmanuel College (seen in the `T').
• They seem to be proud of something: it clearly isn't their respect for the lawns. Marc has a better shot.
• They have a Science Center, which houses part of the original Mark I.
• Various skeletons.
• Marc's view of Harvard square, John Harvard, also closeup (his left shoe is polished by students who believe that touching it is a substitute for revision), and with Yuzhen, himself and JHD (with Emmanuel college tie). view

Kingston, R.I.

• Kingston station, with train (outbound).
• University of Rhode Island, home to much vanity.
• At the conference, two views of Daniel Lichtblau (Mathematica, right) drawing a free copy of Maple from a box of raffle tickets held by John May (Maplesoft, left).
• Nearby Narragansett beach, folly and sign (twice).

New York, N.Y.

• Long Island Sound (this last approaching Brooklyn), Manhattan Island and Jamaica (N.Y.).

Dubai (U.A.E.)

• Various views of the Burj al Arab Hotel (not where we were staying), a Beach, Courtyard and Mosque.
• Various views of the many Skyscrapers in Dubai. Dawn in Dubai.
• Map (old town), Old Town, Fort, Dhow, Lighthouse, Creek, bend in creek, Dhows, more Dhows, Souk, (our) hotel and NRF.
• Dinner Dhow (with Director on right).
• Creek by night, shore by night, lighthouse by night, Dhow by night, another Dhow by night, third Dhow by night, More Creek by night, more shore by night, JHD by night and more JHD by night.
• ski slope (from outside), ski slope (inside mall), More ski slope, ski slope cafe, Mall and a rather unfortunate use of the word Axiom.