23Oct 2009 by R&O 3 Comments

1988 Port Moody

Life in Port Moody, Of Interest
Have a look at this 1988 video of a drive along Ioco to St. Johns. The video is over 7 minutes but provides a fantastic look at Port Moody 22 years ago as 'classic' rock music plays on the car radio. Thanks to Jon at thev3h.com for making me aware of this video. [youtube]dkesuk-AJuQ[/youtube] And here's an updated side-by-side version of the video: [youtube]CfZJVm1UhuA[/youtube]
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23Oct 2009 by R&O No Comments

Notes On The News

Of Interest, Olympics, People, Politics
A few notes on the news over the last few days: - Liberal Olympic Tickets: These clowns make it too easy for me by presenting another pathetic example of how the Winter Olympics is nothing more than a cash grab by politicians and select business owners. A few of the brightest bulbs within our elected Liberal government decided to allocate approximately one million taxpayer dollars to purchase Olympic event tickets to be used by Liberal MLA's and Cabinet ministers. How galling is it that we're forced to pay for this fiasco ONCE then pay again to purchase tickets for the very idiots that got us into this financial mess. Minister of State for the Olympics, Mary McNeil, responded to media questions regarding the cash payout by assuring "None on these…
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20Oct 2009 by R&O 3 Comments

The Death of Digital Discs

Technology
I sold my large vinyl record collection in 2002 after lugging boxes of records from home to home, maintaining each with brushes and special liquid cleaners and praying I or someone else wouldn't scratch one of my beloved records. I held on to my vinyl records for 14 years after abandoning them for the smaller CD format in 1988. I abandoned the CD format in 2006 and converted most of my CD collection to high quality MP3s, replacing my CD players with 8 streaming audio players located in various rooms in our house. Digital audio is fantastic, my entire music collection is stored on a 4-disc NAS 1TB RAID the size of a small toaster and I can access any album or song instantly along with Internet radio stations and…
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16Oct 2009 by R&O No Comments

What’s The Real Deal?

Olympics
The Vancouver Teacher's Association are considering a request to allow the Teaching 2010 Resistance to hold a workshop to educate teachers about the evils of our upcoming Olympic Games. The Olympic Resistance Network has distributed posters for the event wihich depicts a cartoon child dumping an Olympic mascot into a trash can with security cameras and razor wire in the background. The poster states "This is an open invitation for teaching professionals to review our critically-minded Olympics workshop, to collaborate in adapting materials for elementary students, and to learn about eh existing and growing teaching resources currently being developed." In other words this group wants their chance to teach elementary kids to hate the Olympics as much as they do. For those that have read my past rants on the…
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