bridge shots

while in lethbridge with a digital camera it is customary to take several perspective shots of our (not really) namesake bridge. even though our weekend was crazy packed with wedding stuff we managed to take 2 (count them... 2) trips to the high level bridge and combine them with visits with old friends (carmen and lisa). naturally such bridge visits led to talk of the preconceptions of our youth and our newfound awareness of the prejudices built into our unconcious data processing through the efforts of our parents, teachers, pastors, catechism leaders and friends.

for those of you not familiar with lethbridge i will tell you that our town is not named after our most famous landmark (pictured below), it is named after mr. william lethbridge.
the bridge is called the high level bridge and was constructed 1907-1909 before the advent of welding. the whole thing was put together with manually tightened bolts on giant steel nuts. It is 96m high and 1.6 km long.

coming back to the preconceptions thing, kylie and i are both currently reading "blink" by malcolm gladwell. its a great book so far, i'll let you know what i think of his overall thesis once we're done. he has a link to a website where you can take an implicit association test to measure your own automatic preconceptions about race and other topics. very cool and a little scary and worth checking out.







note the train hurtling across approx 94m above us.