Kam
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Post by Kam on Sept 15, 2011 23:41:15 GMT -8
Thought you guys might enjoy a video tour of the emergency generator at my Malahat transmitter site.
This was taken while our annual pre winter service was being preformed.
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Kam
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Post by Kam on Sept 16, 2011 8:37:05 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 20, 2011 21:33:55 GMT -8
I'm going to be getting an oil painting on canvas stuffed and mounted stretched and framed sometime in the next week. Does anyone know any places in Metrovan that do it inexpensively but with good quality?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 4, 2011 20:09:00 GMT -8
Take a listen to what Gord Downie starts to talk about at approx 0:43 of this Youtube video.
yes, the sound quality is poor, but he's talking about ferries....
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 8, 2011 8:17:35 GMT -8
...but I also know that rules often tend to not apply to me. No trespassing? Oh, that just couldn't mean ME! ;D Thinking of this quote and your ever-present signature warning about using your photographs: - I think there somewhere else in the world there must be another guy like you, and I'd like to see the reaction when that other guy takes and uses one of your photos. haha ;D I think you need to ditch your signature warning...
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 8, 2011 9:17:42 GMT -8
\ Thinking of this quote and your ever-present signature warning about using your photographs: - I think there somewhere else in the world there must be another guy like you, and I'd like to see the reaction when that other guy takes and uses one of your photos. haha ;D I think you need to ditch your signature warning... I think I'll keep the signature warning, at least until the internet becomes more friendly about image-poaching. I see how it could seem a bit over the top, but if it means the difference between having your photos poached or not, I'm willing to keep the red writing.
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FNS
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Post by FNS on Oct 8, 2011 13:06:03 GMT -8
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Post by Barnacle on Oct 8, 2011 14:45:12 GMT -8
I was thinking more in terms of a bad sci-fi movie, but okay.
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Oct 14, 2011 19:18:11 GMT -8
Hey... no fair. Not nice to tease.
I wanted to be the first to post in the Barbra Streisand thread, but I can't.
So, as Babs would say...
People People who need ferries they're the luckiest people in the world.
...and before Canadian Viking weighs in, sternly wagging his finger... it's Barbra Streisand.
=========== [moderator edit to change thread-title]
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 14, 2011 19:44:40 GMT -8
for a limited time only....
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Oct 14, 2011 19:49:44 GMT -8
for a limited time only.... ...like the Chilliwack on Route 17.
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Oct 14, 2011 20:08:20 GMT -8
for a limited time only.... ...like the Chilliwack on Route 17. Seems appropriate, somehow.
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Post by mrdot on Oct 14, 2011 20:23:49 GMT -8
:)Barbara on the wack! I don't believe it, but one of her early songs, second hand Rose, reminds me of many coastals, but we never bought for 10cents on the dollar, ours are more like Greek tragdies, as in second hand Sonja! :)mrdot.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 14, 2011 21:12:10 GMT -8
Memories, light the corners of the Chilliwack Misty watercolor memories of the way ships were.
Scattered pictures of the cars we left behind Smiles we give to one another For the way ships were.
Can it be that ships were all so simple then Or has time rewritten every chine & line?
If we had the chance to build a fleet again Tell me would we? Could we?
Memories, may be beautiful and yet Ships too painful to remember We simply choose to forget
So it's the ferries we will remember Whenever we remember The way ships were.
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Post by Curtis on Oct 14, 2011 21:41:05 GMT -8
Okay... to give a "Beatles are Bigger than Jesus" style comment... Barbra Streissand is bigger than Yip-Yips and Uh-Huhs. I'm sure this creation is a result of what I'm doing right now (Insert proper emoticon... Wait found it, ) So in the Spirit of British Columbia (or Perhaps Vancouver Island) I guess all I have to say is... DEBORAH MARSHALL!! ;D (Insert the oooOOOOooooOOOooooOOOooooOOOO's right here) My Apologies for the "Why the Sky is Blue" off key stuff in this post, but I can't resist. P.S. Anybody who spots the hidden 'Barbra Streissand' Easter Egg on the forum that didn't know about it before has the status of "So Awesome (Only Better)." Here's a Hint, It's not me. P.P.S. Who likes the new Message Icon for Laugh at the top of this post? P.P.P.S. I don't know if this Board is a combined Mod Creation or a Skier, Horn, or Scott Creation, But, I apologize again for being a part of the origin of this... how you say it, WCFF Meme. P.P.P.P.S. My Question/Suggestion Post was never answered or heavily discussed a few days ago... Okay, Best I Stop.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 14, 2011 21:47:44 GMT -8
P.P.P.S. I don't know if this Board is a combined Mod Creation or a Skier, Horn, or Scott Creation, But, I apologize again for being a part of the origin of this... how you say it, WCFF Meme. Well, this thread name "Like Butter" is the initials "L.B.". I think that gives you the hint as to who created this new page. - or maybe not....
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 14, 2011 22:11:10 GMT -8
Barbra Streisand has been on the MV Coho, really.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 15, 2011 7:36:58 GMT -8
A quote from a Nanaimo community internet-forum, from someone how has lived most of her life in poverty (and still is in hardship):
My challenge to the various "Occupyers" who are doing protests today is for each of them to find in-need people to help, and then DO IT.
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Quatchi
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Post by Quatchi on Oct 15, 2011 11:59:03 GMT -8
Is there some sort of illness plagueing BC that I dont know about?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 15, 2011 12:35:35 GMT -8
Here's the song that launched a 1,000 ferries.
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 16, 2011 15:35:54 GMT -8
I dropped by Photo Express this morning and finally purchased my new camera! I bought the Nikon D7000. In the photo, my old D60 is on the left, with the new D7000 on the right. The Viking is excited.
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Oct 16, 2011 15:46:19 GMT -8
I dropped by Photo Express this morning and finally purchased my new camera! I bought the Nikon D7000. In the photo, my old D60 is on the left, with the new D7000 on the right. The Viking is excited. Welcome to the D7000 club!
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Oct 16, 2011 20:28:01 GMT -8
Question for Mr Horn... care to expand on your avatar remark about being a 'different 1%' ?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 16, 2011 20:46:36 GMT -8
Question for Mr Horn... care to expand on your avatar remark about being a 'different 1%' ? No problem: - it's part of my reaction to the "Occupy" protests around North America where the slogan for some is "WE are the 99%". It's my understanding that this slogan is meant to differentiate the huge majority of regular people, from a small minority of ultra-wealthy people (and some who are both wealthy & greedy). So I tried to find a clever alternative. - certainly I'm not part of the 1% ultra-wealthy people in North America. But I likely am part of the 1% for affluence if we take a world-wide approach and include all of Earth's people. Or maybe it's top 5%, but my point is that compared to the overall world, I'm a typical North American and so I'm actually near the top of global affluence. Or maybe it's not as skewed as that, because I haven't really researched this at all. My other meaning for being "a different 1%" is that although I'm part of the North American 99% in terms of wealth, I do try to be a contrarian in my ideas and values. - so although I'm included in the big 99% group, I'd like to think that I have some minority ideas too, mainly around living within my means, choosing a smaller lifestyle so that I can give more to my community, deliberately avoiding personal-debt, and looking for responsible stewardship in all that I do and spend. I don't always measure up to all that, but those are my ideals. I suppose to say that these contrarians are only 1% of North America people is arrogant; surely there are lots of ordinary people who subscribe to the ideals of a simple-living lifestyle. So this was mathematical-license for dramatic effect. So to sum up, I recognize that I'm part of the "Big 99%" which is garnering attention lately, but within that I'm still looking for ways to find my own way with my own ideals. For some reason, I seem to desire contrarian ways, or at least to consider myself unique even within a broad group. I think this is another example of that. Whether I'm really that different, I'm not sure and it probably doesn't matter how I categorize myself. But when I see big groups, I shy away from seeing the large group as my identity. So the "WE are the 99%" was something that I instantly felt uncomfortable about, even though there's truth in it.
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Oct 17, 2011 11:50:30 GMT -8
But when I see big groups, I shy away from seeing the large group as my identity. So the "WE are the 99%" was something that I instantly felt uncomfortable about, even though there's truth in it. I think I understand where you're coming from, but I'm not quite clear on why you would feel uncomfortable identifying with the 99%, in the way the movement has been described. Seems to me that the idea behind this is to incorporate many different groups, individuals, and trains of thought, under the unifying umbrella of everyone being outside of the 1% of Americans and Canadians who control more than 50% of the wealth. I haven't got the sense of this being the promotion of any rigid belief system, aside from the belief that the inequity in our economic system is bad and getting worse. And when you look at the growing divide in both our countries between the lower income earners and those at the top, it's hard to argue against that. Problem is, I don't know if this movement really has any prospect of tangible results. The concerns and aims are so broad, and the direction is ill-defined. I think it's wonderful that the prevailing message of the corporatists and their media spokesmen is being challenged, but the fact remains that this is a very small percentage of society that is out protesting. Not to mention that winter is coming on. I don't really know what Paul is on about with his remarks about cell phones, cameras, and coffee. It's the twenty first century, Paul. Protesters and people on the left use technology, too, and they drink coffee. And how terrible for Jim Sinclair to earn a decent wage as head of the BC Fed. He's only representing half a million working people, after all.
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