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'Inflation' isn't always bad news ...
The view outside our front windows has changed again - since the 'pfffft' (previous entry), the BC Place Stadium Dome has been reinflated following its 'fart' two weeks ago. Not great architecture, but it's an important site for city conventions, large concerts and the 'BC Lions', of course. A combination of this winter's heavy winds, snow and an ( Read more... ) -
Pffffffft ... Vancouver Farted
The world's largest air-supported dome stadium went 'poof' at noon today.
The 'marshmallow' has dominated our skyline since 1983 and is known as "BC Place" seating 60,000 spectators for football games, concerts and other events. No one was hurt and the teflon-coated fabric & cable roof is suspended in reverse without touching the seats or field.
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11:28 pm - Dec. 21, 2006
Last two minutes of 2006 ( Read more... ) -
The bastard lived for 91 years ...
Some deaths are regretted, as when family elders pass on (my previous post). Others are welcomed and celebrated - as in the case of General Augusto Pinochet, self-appointed President (dictator) of Chile from 1973 until 1990. What was to have been a two-year adjustment to the economic rubble of the Allende years (less than three years 1970-73), ( Read more... ) -
Josephine Wong 1928-2006
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Borat in U S and A - for make glorious laughter and puking ...
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Well, it was family pressure, don’t ya see. An outing on a rain-washed Sunday in the Vancouver swamp - where nobody can drink the water for a week or two
and tens of thousands are without power after recent storms. “Kazakhstan-North”.
Visiting friends and my son & wife suggested we go to see the Borat film - grudgingly, I went along, perhaps to ( Read more... ) -
REMEMBRANCE DAY - November 11
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And the carnage continues! Young men - cannon-fodder - still dying far from home for the same tired old reasons.
I was named for my uncle who died in the trenches in France during 'the Great War' - WW-I. He was only 22.
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A late and fascinating night looms ...
It’s an interesting night … as the polls begin to close and, hopefully, there will be a significant change in the balance of power in the House and Senate. Yes, we Canadians are just as interested as Americans in the outcome of our great neighbor’s elections ( Read more... ) -
Yeah - and I'm LEFT-handed too ...
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I never do these things ... but weakness overcame me.
Now ... ALL of you are to do this and post it. Out with it! Show your TRUE colours.
You are a
Social Liberal
(68% permissive)
and an...
Economic Liberal
(21% permissive)
You are best described as a:
Strong Democrat
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Late summer visits ...
August and the summer are nearly gone. And I almost missed my chance to keep up my monthly (at least) update in here. “Cool_Moose” and, before that, “Tomcan”, are the places where I’ve tried to extract little stories from my decades for later editing - and to keep in touch with this fascinating list of LJ-friends in recent years - since 2000 ( Read more... )