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Toronto, 2012.01.15

It was a sunny gorgeous day, today; naturally, I took Kenny to the museum.

I wanted to see the new Maya exhibit, and he wanted to see the dinosaurs. We did both, to the satisfaction of neither I imagine.

Fun fact: according to the ROM, there's nowhere in the Maya calendar that talks about Dec 23, 2012 being the end of the world. Just the end of the current era; the Mayans even had references to dates past the popular "end of the world" date.

Kenny concluded our visit by saying, "I like the musimin." (his word for "museum").

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force