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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 17, 2007 21:33:05 GMT -8
Here's a webpage that sells Lego kits. This one is a ferry, and I think it looks somewhat like the Cumberland / Capilano, in Expo livery: www.lionsgatemodels.com/cat-carf.htmSorry if this has been posted before....months ago....
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Post by Nick on Sept 17, 2007 23:14:10 GMT -8
It actually says at the bottom of the page that it is based on the Bowen Island Ferry, so Capilano.
Cool lego kit though, makes me wish I still had all my lego.
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Post by Balfour on Sept 18, 2007 21:00:49 GMT -8
I first saw that at Science World in their lego exhibit.
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 19, 2007 12:38:40 GMT -8
You're right... it looks just like the Capilano.
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Post by Neil on Sept 20, 2007 18:38:38 GMT -8
I would like to have seen the Canucks incorporate the old Johnny Canuck character, somehow, into their new look. Here's a depiction from an old program- although it's strangely unflattering to the home team... From the same program, the WHL league directory, with an interesting ad...
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 20, 2007 19:31:59 GMT -8
Here are a fake Canuck logo design and 2 fake jersey designs, that I found on a sports logo/uniform discussion forum: --------------------- This one's a composite of various other Canuck logos: This one's in protest of what some see as unnecessary script that's on the front of the Canucks' jersey. And here's what Neil was maybe hoping for:
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Post by Curtis on Sept 21, 2007 15:01:49 GMT -8
Personally, I Support the New Uniforms, Everythings Good, I Don't Mind the Giant VANCOUVER But the One thing I don't like is the Green (Excluding the Vintage Crest's Green) It makes it look Tackey, From what I feel, it's either More Green or No Green at All, As well, they could have made the Orca logo (Mainly the Ice it's Jumping out Of) on the Home Jersey match the Away Jersey Cause the Blue of the Orca and the Ice on the Away looks the Same, Otherwise Great Jersey... I would have liked to see something Along the Lines of this or one of it's many other variations...
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Post by Retrovision on Sept 21, 2007 16:10:09 GMT -8
I guess that last one looks the meanest because of the Pfizer steroids or uppers that it's on
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Post by Neil on Sept 21, 2007 16:19:32 GMT -8
I kind of like the clean, classic look of their WHL away uniforms from the '60s. The great Andy Bathgate, coming off a 20 goal season with the NHL Penguins, finishing out his career with the Western League champions. (oops-error. After having 37 and 40 goal seasons with the Canucks, he returned to the NHL with Pittsburgh, scoring 15 goals; then coached the WHA Vancouver Blazers in '73-'74, and played with them briefly the next year before finally retiring.)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 22, 2007 8:13:18 GMT -8
re the recently-rebranded member "Ship Rider 16", and his secondary title "King of Posts".
- Did you know that if you google that "KOP" phrase, the first item found is a post by you on this very ferry forum. Wow, you're famous!
- The 2nd item listed by Google (in my region) is a reference to Henri, King of France in a book called "Astrophel Or the Life and Death of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney". I believe the term "King of Posts" it is a term of ridicule for Henri.....likely referring to a ruler over fence-posts.
- If you are King of Posts, am I the Royal Fool of Posts?
- Is Donella (from Facebook ferry fame) your Queen of Posts?
- ps: did the re-branding process hurt? Those irons can get pretty hot....
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Post by Curtis on Sept 22, 2007 9:48:14 GMT -8
I find that quite strange I put it in on Google and I get nothing close to what you got. I wouldn't say you're the Royal Fool of Posts, I'd say you're...King, Lord, or Duke of Sarcasm? No Comment on the 4th Note. I barely even touched on the Facebook Discussions. And for the P.S. It Sure Did Hurt. Apparantly it left a Mark Somewhere on my body that looks like a horrible picture of two mating slugs according to the doctor it should disappear in a few weeks.
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Post by Barnacle on Sept 22, 2007 9:50:06 GMT -8
And for the P.S. It Sure Did Hurt. Apparantly it left a Mark Somewhere on my body that looks like a horrible picture of two mating slugs according to the doctor it should disappear in a few weeks. Somewhere? You haven't found it yet?
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Post by Kevin Wilson on Sept 23, 2007 7:32:25 GMT -8
I first saw that at Science World in their lego exhibit. Hi guys, excuse me popping here - I'm Kevin Wilson, designer and builder of the LEGO ferry you're talking about. Yes, it's based on the Capilano. I was living in N Van when I built it a few years ago, so could take a little research trip to Bowen It was built in 2002, hence the old livery. Only the exterior is at all realistic (as far as one can be in LEGO), the interior is more a case of "what can I fit in the available space" - but there are prototypical touches like the fire axe behind glass. It's also out of proportion tall, as you can see from the photos - that was a compromise between making it capable of carrying LEGO cars and trucks and the height of LEGO people, vs practicality of production as a kit: making it twice as long and twice as wide, which would look much better, would have made CAD-ing it and getting hold of enough LEGO pieces almost impossible. I do provide it as instructions-only, as well as a kit, so if you or your kids have lots of LEGO, you could build your own. When I take it to birthday parties here in Powell River the kids love it; of course, as a ferry-access-only community they have all ridden the ferries and see them frequently. Anyway, glad you enjoyed it, it was interesting to read your comments. Safe voyaging Kevin Wilson Powell River
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Sept 28, 2007 19:09:22 GMT -8
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 29, 2007 13:07:48 GMT -8
Something to keep in mind that next time a ferry goes into dry-dock. Or is that dry dock, or drydock? Hyphens perish as English marches on Shorter Oxford English Dictionary tells the tale of an evolving languageReuters Updated: 12:57 a.m. PT Sept 23, 2007 LONDON - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby). The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books. "People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week. Designers' distasteAnother factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words. "Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography," he said. "The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned." The team that compiled the Shorter OED, a two-volume tome despite its name, only committed the grammatical amputations after exhaustive research. "The whole process of changing the spelling of words in the dictionary is all based on our analysis of evidence of language, it's not just what we think looks better," Stevenson said. Researchers examined a corpus of more than 2 billion words, consisting of full sentences that appeared in newspapers, books, Web sites and blogs from 2000 onwards. For the most part, the dictionary dropped hyphens from compound nouns, which were unified in a single word (e.g. pigeonhole) or split into two (e.g. test tube). But hyphens have not lost their place altogether. The Shorter OED editor commended their first-rate service rendered to English in the form of compound adjectives, much like the one in the middle of this sentence. Where, when?"There are places where a hyphen is necessary," Stevenson said. "Because you can certainly start to get real ambiguity." Twenty-odd people came to the party, he said. Or was it twenty odd people? Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition: Formerly hyphenated words split in two:fig leaf hobby horse ice cream pin money pot belly test tube water bed Formerly hyphenated words unified in one:bumblebee chickpea crybaby leapfrog logjam lowlife pigeonhole touchline waterborne Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. URL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20925013/
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 29, 2007 16:33:29 GMT -8
So the hyphen is dying. Before we dash out and lament the passing of our language, we can take comfort in the fact that the much-beloved apostrophe is still alive and in use.
Karl hasn't been able to kill the apostrophe yet, but that might be his next target! But do you wonder if "MORONS" and "LOL" are in the Oxford English Dictionary yet?
Behold the item of much-admired beauty: '
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 30, 2007 18:39:40 GMT -8
So the hyphen is dying. Before we dash out and lament the passing of our language, we can take comfort in the fact that the much-beloved apostrophe is still alive and in use. Karl hasn't been able to kill the apostrophe yet, but that might be his next target! But do you wonder if "MORONS" and "LOL" are in the Oxford English Dictionary yet? Behold the item of much-admired beauty: 'I wasn't aware Karl was behind this conspiracy, but now that I know he is, you better tell him to watch it, because I'm on to him...
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Post by BreannaF on Oct 2, 2007 7:00:34 GMT -8
Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears! I have an issue to deal with that involves both public transport and theology, so I figured this would be the right place!
Background: I'm involved as a part owner of a transportation that operates a number of wheelchair accessible vans. Our local transit agency operates a fleet of small buses (as most such agencies do in our region) where people who have difficulty using the regular transit buses and trains can call a day ahead for rides to medical appointments, shopping, or whatever purpose. The transit agency schedules these trips each day to make efficient use of their buses, but there are always odd trips or hard-to-deal-with customers for whom it just makes more economic sense to send someone out to just pick them up and take them individually, rather than sending the whole mini-bus for one person. We have the contract to service these "extra" trips as the agency assigns them to us when they need to.
Anyway, I have on my desk a complaint from a passenger. She says that while being transported on a longish trip from her home at the edge of the suburbs to a downtown hospital for a medical appointment, our driver, a devout Muslim, stopped his van on the shoulder, politely excused himself, and proceeded to perform his morning prayers on the side of the road. He then returned to work and proceeded to the destination.
Now, I would like to think that we cater to the religious needs of our employees. I support the rights of anyone to practice their religion as they see fit. On the other hand, we do have a policy that passengers be delivered promptly to their destinations, and this incident did make her late for her medical appointment.
So..................... what would any of you do?
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Post by Northern Exploration on Oct 2, 2007 8:08:00 GMT -8
A Muslim can get a dispensation from their Immam when their work interferes with prayers. What about a pilot who is airborne during prayer time? What about a police officer on duty? Stopping the vehicle and making someone late for a medical appointment is not acceptable. These days there is a fine line between racism, reasonableness and labour laws. I would recommend speaking to a very good labour lawyer about this. There is no doubt that the driver is in the wrong about this, however could get messy for all involved if it is not handled correctly.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 2, 2007 18:14:17 GMT -8
Anyway, I have on my desk a complaint from a passenger. She says that while being transported on a longish trip from her home at the edge of the suburbs to a downtown hospital for a medical appointment, our driver, a devout Muslim, stopped his van on the shoulder, politely excused himself, and proceeded to perform his morning prayers on the side of the road. He then returned to work and proceeded to the destination. Someone once spoke a parable saying "... You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things." The gist of this, in your employee context, is that if the driver is that committed to his prayer-times, then you'd likely see that same level of commitment in his work...making him a super employee. ps: the fact that the customer was delivered late is an issue that supersedes what I just said. Again, based on his prayer-commitment, you'd expect a customer-service commitment to be something that he understands. ie. he understands the concepts of loyalty and commitment. ....or maybe he's just religious "in a religious way" only, without it impacting the rest of his life. That would be sad.
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Post by Mill Bay on Oct 2, 2007 19:27:09 GMT -8
Someone once spoke a parable saying "... You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things." The gist of this, in your employee context, is that if the driver is that committed to his prayer-times, then you'd likely see that same level of commitment in his work...making him a super employee. ps: the fact that the customer was delivered late is an issue that supersedes what I just said. Again, based on his prayer-commitment, you'd expect a customer-service commitment to be something that he understands. ie. he understands the concepts of loyalty and commitment. ....or maybe he's just religious "in a religious way" only, without it impacting the rest of his life. That would be sad. I agree with flugel on this one... that is probably the best and most logical understanding anyone can give to it in a context that any one who has a particular faith can understand reasonably. I wonder if that parable is known to Muslims though... Apart from that, it causes one to speculate on a religion that seems disrespectful of its own followers... i.e.: to the point that it would penalize them for not following the letter of the law when they are simply trying to make a living and perform a service for others.
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Post by BreannaF on Oct 23, 2007 11:09:11 GMT -8
My "Why the sky is blue?" question for the week is this: Apparently, there is a tradition in the Vancouver area (and virtually no where else in North America) for individuals to procure and set off fireworks on Halloween. I've never heard of this (until an hour ago), and as usual, enquiring minds want to know! - So, is this something that really happens?
- How widespread is it?
- Does anyone have any background info on why or how this became a tradition in parts of BC and nowhere else around these parts?
- Who thinks that consumer fireworks are more a nuisance than anything else? (I do!!)
As my cat would say, just curious................
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Post by Dane on Oct 23, 2007 12:37:17 GMT -8
My "Why the sky is blue?" question for the week is this: Apparently, there is a tradition in the Vancouver area (and virtually no where else in North America) for individuals to procure and set off fireworks on Halloween. I've never heard of this (until an hour ago), and as usual, enquiring minds want to know! - So, is this something that really happens?
- How widespread is it?
- Does anyone have any background info on why or how this became a tradition in parts of BC and nowhere else around these parts?
- Who thinks that consumer fireworks are more a nuisance than anything else? (I do!!)
As my cat would say, just curious................ It happens in extreme moderation, it has already begun for this year in my neighbourhood, I know that! I didn't know until I read your post that this doesn't happen everywhere? The whole city is like a war zone. A lot of the fireworks are sold on Indigenous lands where restrictions are considerably lax compared to Provincial legislation that doesn't apply to Reserves... there is also a large and abundant supply of legal foreworks and crackers that are somewhat easily accessible however their size and access is restricted.
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Post by Retrovision on Oct 23, 2007 15:13:56 GMT -8
It happens in extreme moderation, it has already begun for this year in my neighbourhood, I know that! I didn't know until I read your post that this doesn't happen everywhere? The whole city is like a war zone. A lot of the fireworks are sold on Indigenous lands where restrictions are considerably lax compared to Provincial legislation that doesn't apply to Reserves... there is also a large and abundant supply of legal foreworks and crackers that are somewhat easily accessible however their size and access is restricted. Although major cities on the Island and the Lower Mainland have in recent years started to crack down on their sale, banning them most recently in places such as Victoria and I think Nanaimo. I would be surprised to find out that our local trigger happy ways when it comes to firecrackers are unique in North America, but yes, it's always just been a way of life around here. I can't remember a Halloween season without atleast a few bottle rocket screeching days. In my youth I remember that it was quite the norm among certain circles, and for my later days in high school my friends and I had a good time hammering down some fireworks for the enjoyable bang, though we were never as foolish as some who would aim things like roman candles and bottle rockets at each other.
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Post by Scott on Oct 23, 2007 16:12:13 GMT -8
Wow, I didn't know this was a Vancouver/BC thing. From my experience only, I'd say the use of fireworks and firecrackers has gone down a bit in recent years - partly due to tighter restrictions. But I can remember growing up in East Van when there would be "wars" going on in the parks and the smoke would be as thick as fog in most neighbourhoods on Halloween night.
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