Lists of various sorts

A few things that I really like/enjoy/respect

Using an algorithm which is not Turing computable . . .

• my family (wife and child plus parents, siblings, inlaws, etc)
• friends
• Integrity
• a nice sunset
• SCUBA diving
• Sir Winston Churchill
• the Internet
• driving on the Canadian Prairies
• Canada
  • the people
  • the land
  • our parliamentary system of government
  • our National Parks (I've been to Banff, Cape Breton Highlands, Elk Island, Fundy, Jasper, Kootenay, Mount Revelstoke, Prince Albert, Prince Edward Island, Riding Mountain, Waterton Lakes and Yoho so I still have a few more to see).

A few things that I really do NOT like/enjoy/respect

• Bigotry
• Hypocrisy
• Holocaust denial
• the Internet (yes, it is on both lists!)
• lack of respect for
  • other people
  • truth
  • history

Places that I've been that are really special

This list needs SERIOUS work . . .

• Vancouver
• the Rocky Mountains
  • the southern entrance to Kootenay National Park just east of Radium, B.C.
  • Lake Louise
  • Jasper townsite
  • Banff townsite
  • Athabasca Icefields
  • Athabasca Falls
  • Maligne Canyon
  • Hell's Gate
• The Canadian Prairies
• Walking trails in Elk Island National Park
• Royal Tyrrell Museum
• Waterton Lakes National Park
• Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert National Park
• Kenosee Lake
• Winnipeg
  • Portage and Main
  • The Forks National Historic Site
  • Manitoba Children's Museum
• Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site
• Lake of the Woods
• Southern Ontario roads just west of Hamilton
• National Gallery of Canada
• Old Montreal
• Schwartz's Deli in Montreal
• Saint John, NB
• Prince Edward Island (yes, an entire province!)
• Peggy's Cove (with due respect for the families of the victims of the crash of Swiss Air flight 111)
• Halifax
• Newfoundland
• London
  • Westminster Abbey
    • the king's tomb containing someone buried so long ago that they don't know who it is
    • Churchill's memorial (and his statue outside in Westminster Square)
    • Newton's memorial
    • ALL the memorials
    • the entire building (architecture, ambience, history, etc)
  • Big Ben's tower
  • London Eye
  • Saint Paul's
  • Tower Bridge
  • the Imperial War Museum (including Churchill's war offices)
  • Hyde Park
  • Greenwich including the Royal Observatory located at 0 degrees longtitude (there's a telescope in the Observatory whose crosshairs define, by international treaty, 0 degrees longtitude)
  • attending a concert in Saint Martin in the Fields
  • Trafalgar Square
  • Piccadilly Circus
• Wells Cathedral including, in particular, the stairs leading to Vicar's Close and the Chapter House (click here for some photos and desktop background images of the Cathedral)
• Salisbury Cathedral including one of the original copies of the Magna Carta in the Chapter House (click here for some photographs of the Cathedral)
• Winchester Cathedral and the surrounding city of Winchester
• York Cathedral and the surrounding city of York (check out the National Transportation Museum and the Viking-era excavations)
• The City of Bath
  • The Roman Baths
  • Bath Abbey
  • Pulteney Bridge
  • Rajpoot Tandoori Indian Restaurant
  • Bath Lodge
• Admiral Nelson's flagship Victory in Portsmouth
• Windsor Castle (the antique firearms exhibit rooms are particularily amazing)
• Australia
  • Townsville
  • Cairns
  • diving on the Great Barrier Reef
  • the rain forest
  • the Australian Institute of Marine Science
  • attending a modern dance presentation at the Sydney Opera House
• Upstate New York State
• Trabuco Oaks Steak House

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