Weekend in the Burbs

Ah, back at work. Got a laptop now from the firm...which is very, very cool. Can now work out of the office now--and use the Internet from the various hotspots in the city. I know in Korea EVERY Starbucks has WiFi, but not sure about Vancouver. You'd think they'd have it here, but you never know.

So, on the weekend we went to Ikea for an hour or so. It's pretty cool: there's a playroom for the kids, a restaurant with $1 breakfasts and a bistro with well-priced hotdogs, coffee and cinnamon buns (mmmmm cinnamon buns....). Some of the floorplans are nice, but I wonder what the total pricetag of these little decorating scenarios might be.

Last night watched Windtalkers, about the Navaho Indians (or Native Americans or First Nations Peoples or whatever the name-of-the-day is) who made a code from their native tongue so that Japanese codebreakers couldn't understand what Allied plans in the Pacific were. A very cool flick. John Woo directed it and the story was typical Woo: let the bullets and mayhem do the talking. Light on dialogue and big on action...I liked it a lot.

Time to get to work, later.