Watching the birds (watching me)
With the flood photos flooding in from Ottawa and Montreal and other points uphill from here, I have to admit something. The areas don’t look much like their associated maps.
When we chose this piece of land, that was a condition; the change in sea levels shouldn’t catch us out for another century or so. Time enough to fill sandbags.
Spent part of the afternoon watching the birds watching me. The feeders are very busy right now, and with the sun shining, the feather colours are fascinating. I may have to start playing with HDR settings to capture the show.
The federal government called a big press conference, locally, this morning. Announcing that you intend to change how the ferry boats run only makes sense if you are actually going to run them. Telling us that you’d like to know if anyone has a better plan doesn’t inspire confidence. I mean, sure, there might be someone with their own personal fleet that is itching to operate a service that never breaks even, but its a long shot. After all, running a business at a loss is what governments DO, right? Your expertise has never been called into question.
Shock in the press about surveillance cameras in schools. Get over it. Blame the IT people who didn’t RTM and left the web access active and unprotected. You can’t fix stupidity that easily. I worked with cameras; the view from the hallway of an institutional building won’t make for a feature film. The site (in Russia) simply reported what was out there already.
