Dwight Makaroff's Personal Interests

Sports and Music

Part of what I do outside school is sports and music. Actually, this is most of what I do outside school.

Sports

I play hockey for the Engineering team in the Faculty/Staff League. We have struggled for a few years. We had a winning streak this year (2011-2012), but are decent on only a percentage of game nights.

With the new decade, I have curled on a team of Computer Science Faculty members and their spouses. In 2011-2012, Gord McCalla's team is tied for first place, and mine is tied for 3rd, with one game remaining. My wife, Laurie, curls third (only her 2nd year of curling), and Kevin Schneider curls second, and his wife Karen Wood throws lead rocks when we are all in town. 22% of our wins have come when we've been away, and another 22% have come from default, and one was a win against the fantastic team BYE, so we're actually 5-7 when we show up, but have a 10-7 record on the books. In the past, I curled with some young guys from Watrous at the Nutana Curling Club.

We won our league in 2005-2006, and finished second in 2006-2007. I put a team in the Blaine Lake Farmer's Bonspiel in 2007 and we ended up finishing 2nd in the C Event and got great prizes. We were 4th in the D Event in 2008, and are in the middle of the spiel again for 2009. So, the guys from Watrous have banished me from their team regularly, since they won the entire Nutana league championship in my absence and wanted to keep the championship team together.

Music

I play guitar, bass, and piano. We have a band that is practising, but not playing very much. We recently got a new drummer and a bass player. Without them, it's pretty hard to make much progress without the foundation of the rhythm section. More to come on this soon.

Research and Vacations

Here are a couple of pictures from the quite a while ago. The first is from a boating trip on the beautiful Shuswap lake with my red-hooded sweatshirt. I miss that shirt, because it was stolen from my car from underneath the Granville Bridge in Vancouver while I was at a Colin James concert, June 1998. Also stolen in that smash'n'grab was an hand-edited copy of my Ph. D. thesis, that had just had the final set of corrections suggested for submission to the external examiner.

This next picture is from a little earlier than that. This is at CASCON 1995, the first major demonstration of the CMFS for wide audiences.

So, time moves on.........

The next picture is recent and combines sport, music, and vacation. Well, not so much sport. We visited Orlando, Florida this past February and took in the Blue Man Group Orlando. Fantastic entertainment.

We had just been at the BB King Blues Club the previous night.

Travel

Travel is something I've been fortunate to do. I have some pictures from trips at the following links.

In October 2005, I was in Waikaloa, Hawaii for a conference. None of the pictures are at the conference, but I was able to stay for a bit longer and do some sightseeing.

The first set of pictures are from the first time I went to Hawaii. HAWAII 2003

In the summer of 2005, I camped in Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks in the US. This is a sampling of some of the pictures. YELLOWSTONE 2005

Finally, for now are the pictures from Hawaii, the big Island, in 2005. HAWAII 2005

Church

I was involved in music and leadership at Living Hope Church from 2001 to 2008, after I returned to Saskatoon. In 2010, Laurie and I joined the launch team of the Broadway site of Forest Grove Community Church. We have been meeting in the Broadway area of Saskatoon since October 2010.

Family

For those of you who know my family, you'll know that 2007 was a remarkably traumatic year. In July, both of my parents were killed in a traffic accident. There are just no words to describe this.

Their lives touched many people in many areas of life. During the memorial service, a powerpoint presentation was shown that highlighted some memories of their lives and their activities.

Last updated: March 13, 2012