The Charge at Numidia

“Abracadabra!” bellowed Caesar, disintegrating every foe galloping hither, incensed jugglers keeling lengthwise, maddened Numidians on ponies quickly raising swords, thrusting underhanded, vexed, wary, xenophobes yelling “Zounds!” 

Earl of Green Gables, Day Eight: The Citadel and Arrival in Fredericton

On our last day in Halifax, we toured the Citadel at the city's highest point. There's a great museum inside that details the strategic importance of Halifax over the last couple of hundred years.

We were lucky enough to arrive just in time to hear one of these go off with an earth-shattering kaboom.

This is how Halifax looks from atop the Citadel.

We left Halifax in the morning for Fredericton, where we were greeted by sunny skies and beautiful architecture. Fredericton has a lovely downtown and beautiful houses, but for now, here's the view from our fancier-than-expected hotel room.

In truth, though, we spent our first afternoon in New Brunswick...

...doing laundry. 

Animated Real-Time Globes

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, someone is going to invent a globe that's connected to the Internet and has some kind of drawing capability so that the globe can update national boundaries, country and city names, and so on, in real time. For example, if we'd had this technology in the 90s, it would have shown the borders changing as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia crumbled. More recently, it could perhaps show the shifting fronts of the Syrian civil war, or the disappearance of North Yemen, Eritrea's liberation, and so on.

I'm pretty sure the various technologies to create this probably all exist; they just haven't been combined into my realtime globe. Someone invent this and I'll buy one!