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March 29, 2009

what a day! in Vancouver

Wind and sail boats in English Bay, warm sun, everybody's out walking and happy. Fantastic day! The air full of positivity and the salty scent of the sea. Vancouver has to be one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.

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March 11, 2009

brave in Vancouver

Yesterday (March 10/09) it may have been 3 degrees below zero celsius in Vancouver (BC, Canada), but I don't think this brave and glorious cherry blossom tree was gonna let a few cool degrees spoil its spring fever. First blossom I've seen this year! For you Vancouverites, Ms. CherryTree and her best friend, also in blossom, are down on Pendrell near the Sylvia.

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February 21, 2009

BoomerAng!

Boomerang as analogy.

Whatever we throw out there comes back at us.

I'm a baby-Boomer. At this time in my life, mid-life (they tell me), I'm at the curve of my BoomerAng, rounding the bend toward the other half. I know the best part is yet to come. The unknown; looking forward to all of it.

It feels true that everything I've "thrown out there" in my life so far will come back to me in some form, will shape the other half of my life.

BOOM-er-ang! BOOMER-ang!

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February 20, 2009

are you shy? know what I mean?

I pretty much live at my computer and online. In "real life" (I dispute the meaning of that term BTW, so let's instead say, in the world of face-to-face), I continue to let my social shyness rule, thus my ongoing avoidance of calling up people from my past. What's up with that?

Anyway, now I'm hoping I'm taking a step in the right direction. I hardly ever make "new year's resolutions". So when I do, they usually work. One year it was to never procrastinate again. THAT was a success; it stuck; it has truly changed my life. This year's resolution was to get it touch with a few people from my past, people I truly liked, loved, enjoyed being with, but have drifted away from. But I still miss them a lot. People who, when I think about them and their place in my past, I get a flutter of excitement. And want to see them again.

I guess when we get "old" we get to realize better who really matters among those in our history. There's no good excuse for not doing something about this, so here I am, trying to stop leaning on my shyness crutch. Screwing up the courage; I know, that's truly weird, but hey, that's me.

(The image here is a collage I made one week when I was working on freeing my "self", letting the inner me become the outer me.....)

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February 17, 2009

From the height of this place

At Google we are all technology optimists. We intrinsically believe that the wave upon which we surf, the secular shift of information, communications, and commerce to the Internet, is still in its early stages, and that its result will be a preponderance of good.

via googleblog.blogspot.com

The whole article strikes a chord within me. If you haven't read it, do. I'm impressed by its optimism. There's wisdom, too, in the author's predictions for the future of the internet. I'm blown away by Google's "observations on the future of the Internet for all of us to assess, consider, and carry as we do our work."

THIS is the kind of article that leads.

Describing Googlers, the author is surely describing all of us who live and work online: "We are standing at a unique moment in history which will help define not just the Internet for the next few years, but the Internet that individuals and societies around the world will traverse for decades. As Googlers our responsibility is nothing less than to help support the future of information, the global transition in how it is created, shared, consumed, and used to solve big problems. Our challenge is to steer incessantly toward greatness, to never think small when we can think big, to strive on with the work Larry and Sergey began over ten years ago, and from this task we will not be moved."

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January 15, 2009

switching to a hybrid makes little sense for me

I own the car I've dreamed about owning since I was a teenager (and that was a few centuries ago): a Mustang convertible. Gas guzzler, polluter, all those thoughts just ran though your head, right?

So, finally I get it all paid off last year and in the same year I start getting the guilts about the environmental impact it's having.

There are lots of alternative, "environmentally healthy" cars to choose from. Go green, "they" say.

But here's the thing. The two things, actually.

1. My car is paid for, and I'd have to add a minimum of $20,000 to what I'd get if I sold it in order to purchase one of the alternatives (one that meets my needs in terms of size and features). So "going environmental" is going to cost me a lot of money. Guilt money, I suppose you'd call it. Money I can't afford.

But now to the more important point. And in everything I've read (a lot), nobody in the media has ever mentioned this, so call me THE FIRST. I hope more people start to get this, and soon:

2. If I sell my car and get an environmentally correct alternative, I'm NOT helping the environment because...

2.1....I'd be encouraging car makers to make yet another car, and car-making adds to negative environmental impact;

and

2.2....after I sell my gas-guzzling, pollution-emitting dream-car, it's still going to be guzzling gas and emitting stuff! Somebody else will be driving it around! A change of ownership changes nothing, in terms of the environment.

So I'm going to save the environment at the level I'm capable of and keep my car. I'm not going to buy an alternative until my current car is ready for the junk heap. In which case, it will still add negatively to the environment by adding to the pile of dead cars. It won't be biodegrading. But then, neither will all those hybrids and electrics that the car manufacturers are busy pumping out from their assembly lines.

Instead, I'll drive less, walk more, and keep my dream-car, ok? I'll actually be "saving the environment" more than all those people out there who have become victims of the media harangue, have sold their politically incorrect cars to somebody else who'll drive around and pollute, and have assuaged their guilt while lining the pockets of new-car manufacturers.

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January 13, 2009

OMG!!!! and Hallelujah!

Of all the verions of Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright's has always been my favorite, with k.d. lang's a close second. However, today I think I have to change my mind.

My front runner now, I think, is this one by Lind, Nilsen, Fuentes & Holm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM

(They've disabled the 'embed' function for this video; boohoo because I'd love to host that rendition on my prePosterous page.)

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October 29, 2008

Remembery

I love the changes of season. I want to always live in a place that changes seasons several times a year.

Every autumn is like the first. Every colored leaf is beautiful.

I wanted to try out the picture gallery feature here, so you get to see my autumn colors.......My photos are nothing special, but walking in these scenes was. Photos are a remembery.

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