25Mar 2010 by R&O 2 Comments

The King Of Cassiar

Observations, Of Interest, People
On most days Jerry Dzikowicz hung out on the median at the corner of Hastings and Cassiar, wearing his bright fluorescent safety vest and waving at passing cars. To some he was known as The King of Cassiar, to others simply the nut that waved at drivers. He had his own page on Facebook and Mike McCardell did a couple of his short stories about Jerry but didn't offer too much information as to where he was from and why he stood on Cassiar waving at cars. Jerry died of stomach cancer on March 11, 2010. According to a story by Pete McMartin in Saturday's Vancouver Sun, Jerry had a checkered past, a girlfriend of three years and was estranged from his two sons and six grandchildren. His girlfriend, Michelle…
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17Mar 2010 by R&O No Comments

Today’s Death Stories

Of Interest, People
There's two interesting death stories in today's paper that you may, in a macabre way, find interesting: A man convicted of strangling an elderly woman was executed in Ohio on Tuesday, eight days after he tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose. The execution of Lawrence Reynolds, 43, had been postponed a week after he was found unconscious in his death-row cell and hospitalized to recover from an overdose of medication. They actually took the time and resources to nurse this sap back to health so they could kill him. Let me see hands for those that think this is completely and totally nuts. A Georgia man was running and listening to his iPod on the beach on Hilton Head Island when he was struck and killed by an…
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16Mar 2010 by R&O 2 Comments

The Old Days

Of Interest, Technology
On July 25 1994 I visited International PC on Main Street in Vancouver to purchase 4 one megabyte memory modules for my old 386 computer. I purchased lots of hardware for my various computers in the 1990's including a very expensive tape backup drive, cases, CD drives, hard drives etc. and estimate I spent well over $10,000 on parts. I came across the receipt above stuffed away in an old hardware manual and thought it may be interesting to those that only been using a personal computer in the last decade or so. Haven't times changed.
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03Mar 2010 by R&O 5 Comments

Update #1

Life in Port Moody, Of Interest
After the recent attack on Benjamin by a neighbour's unleashed dog and their refusal to pay the resulting vet bill, we've officially initiated Operation A-Hole: Step One - Submitted a statement to the city outlining the event in detail and supplying a photo of poor Benjamin's injuries. The city can deem their dog 'aggressive' which would increase their annual license fee. Step Two - Sent the vet bill via registered mail to the A-holes with a cover letter stating that we would wait 7 days for payment after which we would initiate a claim in court. We intend to ramp it up and drag them into court if they don't respond to our registered letter and pay the vet bill. But will they leash their dog in the future? Who…
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