10th
June
2009
I recognize that man can alter a given landscape in a shorter time frame than normal geological forces, but how do we map progress? Part of an ongoing project that I tinker with is a particular history that details the small school I worked with over a period of two decades (minus a bit). We were hosted on the campus of the university, which hasn’t stopped self-modification in decades. What map best fits an event?
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9th
June
2009
I’d like to take the credit, but there were T-shirts and wall posters with catchy citations before I entered the marketplace. My first poster had something to do with flying, but I’m not going to bother seeking it on the net this evening; it was insightful at the age of thirteen. Less now.
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posted in humour, media |
8th
June
2009
The sign was succinct and spoke volumes. Definitively Closed. No ambiguity there. Sometime in the last few days, our only local garage and service station rolled down the gates over their bays, turned off the pump motors and left without saying goodbye.
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posted in economy, technology |
7th
June
2009
Just so you know, this is not a cry for mercy or special care or anything else. For the first time in years, I’ve “come down” with some nasty variant of the common cold, and I don’t like the feeling. I’d forgotten how little it takes to distract me from all that is wonderful. Right now, I’m in Day Two, and if the count can stop now I’ll admit that sick sucks.
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6th
June
2009
There’s nothing like a good book, I say. I’m a consumer of popular (and populist) literature; no sense in dusting off the classics when there is a bountiful harvest of efforts from young, new authors out there. The blurbs on the back cover used to be enough, but some publishers have opted out of that aid. Somehow, a shot of the scribe isn’t enough.
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posted in education |
5th
June
2009
Tonight I feel rather tiny, and rather embarrassed. My species is greedy, and the whole ecological system of Gaia is changing due to us. However, I’ve learned a new catch phrase in the last ninety minutes. I have to share: It’s too late to be a pessimist.
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4th
June
2009
Although I have no idea how they actually do it, nuclear physicists can calculate the half-life of an isotope. Remember those calculations from Grade 11 physics class? Something like that. But what about the half-life, or even better, the whole-life of a nuclear reactor? We seem to be having issues with that question up here in the great white North.
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3rd
June
2009
I come from a long line of farmers, I think. People who dug up produce (potatoes and turnips). People that kept that pig until time for butchering. Sorry, no hunters. Besides, the Island doesn’t have much variety in edible animals, so they made the right choice. My apologies to those who firmly believe that their genetic heritage involves powerful rifles with scopes and the right to kill anything that moves on four legs through the underbrush.
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2nd
June
2009
Don’t look, but somebody’s watching us. Without turning into a paranoid pumpkin, the truth is that someone might be, if you’re in a public venue. Gone are the days when a remote camera had to be the size of a breadbox. We’re in the age of the CCD (charge-coupled device), and the lowly webcam has become an instrument of observation. Ask my antenna farm.
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1st
June
2009
Smack in the middle of Canada’s most ephemeral season, one can only wait for the arrival of warm weather. Every year, we go through the same song and dance; we salute the new foliage and lawncover, while our breathe provides a visible flag while waiting for that early morning bus. As recently as yesterday, in a neighbouring province, my sister recorded snowfall (she called it hail, I call it nasty weather). If I was prone to planting tomatoes, I’d be convinced that the frost was meant to vex me alone.
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