30th
June
2013
Yesterday, part of my take on the world involved those who make a big move. Today, I want to look at the way people locally move. Tomorrow. The national moving day, so much so that one of the big box stores has drawn (more) ire (than usual). The online flyer celebrates Canada Day in nine provinces, and Moving Day in the tenth. Guess you have to be here to appreciate the message.
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posted in environment |
29th
June
2013
Catching up on the news of people I used to know (the Internet was designed for that, I’ve decided) and I had a vicarious thrill. An old classmate had sold the house, loaded the van and headed off to a new life on the other coast. What a challenge! What fun! And then the memories flooded in. My family did that. Three times.
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posted in history |
28th
June
2013
The smartphone update took care of itself, while I wan’t paying attention. Seems to work. Some multi-window feature that will require me to figure out what I can do with yet more detail, but that’s half the fun. Around the same time, I completed my fourth course from Coursera since the start of the year, and my results still surprise me. Back when I was a full-time card-carrying member of the student profession, there were too many other distractions to see me concentrating on good marks and attendance. Now, with the years of being paid to think, I’m a much better student. Ironic.
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posted in media |
27th
June
2013
Just when they thought things could not degrade any further, it broke. I hate indeterminate pronouns; let’s do a retake on that. Just when the “people in Calgary” thought things (emergency things) could not degrade any further, “the railway bridge” broke. There. Somewhat improved. Railway bridges don’t break, as a rule, especially with several loaded tank cars stuck in the middle. Things can get worse, of course. The cars may fall into the raging river, and float downstream to break other bridges, but that hasn’t happened, yet.
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26th
June
2013
We’ve gone from hot enough to require shorts to cold enough to require a polar. Canada, in summer. This is why I delay my vacation block for as long as possible (within limits). The best is yet to come.
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25th
June
2013
Almost fits. I suppose that is OK when it comes to a t-shirt, but in the high tech world, it complicates life. We finally received the lamp for our main projector at work, at great expense. And it doesn’t fit. Looks the same. Has the same part number stamped into the casing. Goes in just like the other one. And stops. Never makes contact. We went so far as to unbolt the projector from the conference room ceiling, to give a better angle on things. No luck. The local dealer has been contacted, and if we bring the projector and both lamps over to their shop in the industrial park, they’ll take a look. Likely, they’ll see the same thing as us, but the problem will be a shared one.
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posted in economy |
24th
June
2013
Bearing mention for outstanding dialogue in a TV series: The Newsroom. If you haven’t had a chance to watch (and listen), then it’s time to leave the comfort zone on your cable (babel) set box. Climb the numbers, until HBO looms into sight.
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posted in media |
23rd
June
2013
The new of the world getting you down? Can’t find solace in the music of the day. Take the alternative road, and study some history. I’ve just finished watching the last video lecture in a music history course (a combo that solves so many other problems). Retrospective on my life, with a chance to hear what I missed “the first time around”.
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22nd
June
2013
For several hours, I’ve been watching other people fishing. For catfish. Not a species I think much about, usually. Wait… not real catfish. The other kind. I’ll explain.
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21st
June
2013
Today’s challenge: install a new printer with the least impact on the client. By impact, I’m referring to the perception that any kind of change in the workplace is a major crisis, requiring handholding for all the wrong reasons.
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