In this episode: A short ride on Christmas Eve, voiced on Ukrainian Christmas day wherein I ramble about my new camera, the closing of the local garden shop as a result of the housing crisis in Vancouver and point out the worst of the criminals…
In this episode: I take advantage of another break in winter rain to get a quick ride in. I had a hard time voicing this one. I babble about Christmas ornaments and why I am not going to decorate my tree this year.
#dailycolonist1914 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
Looking on the bright side for Christmas Day by focussing on the 100th anniversary of the end of the War of 1812, "Century of Peace Is Being Celebrated" between the…
It's December now and the Santa Claus parade has just marched by this ancient brickpile we call home. Valerian has suggested the idea of a Gothic BC float next year playing this:
To which I immediately responed that we would also need to play this:
22 vintage Chirstmas cigarette ads ranging for the late 1930's to the 1960's ...and one for a lighter from 1954, because with all those smokes, you have to have a lighter!
I was listening to the CBC this morning and realizing that no-one is going to wax poetically about video-game hockey like they do for the old slot-hockey tables.
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust…
Our Christmas lights are up. Last year's LED lights did not perform as advertised so this year we are back to incandescent. On the balcony are big, fat, old-school, 7½-watt, screw-mount bulbs. Woo!
