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Startling Stories 1952

Wed, 2009/08/05 - 10:18pm



Illustration by Peter Poulton for "Proposal" by L. Sprague de Camp, Startling Stories, Novermber 1952.


[Gothic BC] DJ Casperella is OK

Wed, 2009/08/05 - 9:42pm

DJ Casperella has is home, safe and sound.


[Gothic BC] Casper is Missing

Tue, 2009/08/04 - 11:00pm

DJ Casperella has been missing since Saturday, August 1st.

UPDATE: Wednesday, August 5 - Casper is home safe.


Too Hot to Go To Bed

Tue, 2009/07/28 - 11:06pm

Tomorrow's puzzle will be getting to a 4 p.m. interview in North Van in the heat, on transit, wearing a suit, and not turning into a puddle.

I will  cross that bridge when I come to it (literally, since I'll be going over the Lions Gate.)

For now, the "15 books" meme:

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that left a lasting impression. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.


[Gothic BC] "Barwatch" Ruled Illegal

Sat, 2009/07/25 - 1:24pm

On July 21, 2009, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis ruled that the amount and type of information and the length it is retained by the "Barwatch" system used in many Vancouver and Victoria nightclubs is in violation of Section 7(2) of the B.C. B.C.?s Personal Information Protection Act.


More From 1992

Fri, 2009/07/10 - 10:54pm


Cathedral Place (left) has only just replaced the old Art-Deco glory of the Medical Arts Building as a monument of fibreglass, post-Modern crap (can you tell I don't like that building?) There is no Olympic countdown clock in front of the VAG. Eaton's is still Canadian and spelled with capital letters. There are no towers in Yaletown and the Expo '86 site is still a vacant wasteland while Concord Pacific and the provincial government argue over who should pay for the site remediation. And if you look at False Creek at the far right of the picture you can just make out a white smudge that is the ill-fated McBarge, which now floats derelict in the Burrard Inlet. Oddly enough I happen to own a complete set of blueprints to the McBarge.


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