Damn you, Mom...

So as hilarious at it can be, it turns out that I am color blind.
Those who wonder about the title, it's because the gene is on the X chromosome on the leg missing on the Y, so if a boy gets it, it's because of his mom (and girls have less chances of being colorblind).
I have none it for a long time now, I discovered it when I was 18, and something I have never understood is why they are not testing it sooner at school. It's cheap to check so why not discovering it as soon as possible.

Anyway, every one knows the dot numbers test, but there is another, more subtle, test and I ran into a online version here http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
Upon completion you get a rating, 0 being the best, and a map of you color deficiency.

You can check my results on flickr

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Or why I am a failure...
So a couple of weeks ago I went to Ottawa, to see the Ron Mueck Expo, and have a change of scenery.
Arriving there, I realized that the expo wasn't located in Ottawa per se but we Shawinigan, more than 200 miles away and on the other side from Montreal.
See the museum from Ottawa owns a gallery in Shawinigan...
So last week end, a friend and I set off to Shawinigan.
The expo was so-so. There wasn't a lot of piece from Mueck, some of them I had already seen. The best part was probably a documentary on how he creates his pieces.
There was another artist exposing but I didn't get it... I like the ostrich.
We also went to the Festival de la Poutine (a culinary specialty from Quebec), which mixed music and Poutine...
Awesome.