Photos from around Oslo
I went for a walk around Oslo. Here are some snaps from my trip.
A small cemetery in Oslo.
Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo.
An ice rink I skated on near the Royal Palace in Oslo.
The palace where the King of Norway lives.
River in Oslo,
An Oslo T-blane station.
The road enroute to Metronet (where I'm working)
Posted on 2012-01-09 by
Olympic Oval
The Olympic Oval at the University of Calgary is the best ice rink I’ve ever seen! Two full international sized hockey rinks within the confines of a full long track speed skating rink!
I played hockey there at lunch times a lot and I had power skating and hockey lessons there as well. Plus I played in the University of Calgary B-grade Intramural hockey league for Team Group Velocity (I was a ring-in for the Physics department team).
Posted on 2005-02-10 by
Front yard rink
Well what else do you do when it’s -15 degrees outside and you have an itch to play hockey? The idea of the rink came about one day when my roommate (flatmate) Gregor and I were sitting round talking about how his old roommate had built a rink in their backyard. So I was like “dammit, I’m buildin’ us a rink today!”, so I googled as many things as I could on rink building to figure out the best plan of attack. You can build them by building a snow wall and spraying water directly on to the ground, but this apparently messes up the lawn and takes longer to freeze, so I headed to Walmart and picked up a rink liner for $10 (big sheet of plastic) and filled it up with water. A day and a bit later and we had a fully functioning ice rink in our front yard 
Getting the ice surface smooth is no easy task. I tried leaving hose on it for a while, but it just created a nice big lump on one side of the rink 
Buckets of hot water did the trick, but it took quite a few to cover it.
Posted on 2004-11-12 by