Monthly Archives: February 2019

The guy minus a forearm who built his own working forearm out of Lego from 18 on. Now that’s creative technological innovation.

The top CBC TV foreign reporter of all time who survived the Holocaust, got educated at UBC, and worked for CBC up till recently. Went to all the trouble spots of the past last half-century. Amazing guy, amazing life.

Any more doubts about climate change?

It had been months since he had seen his parents and home. The city skyline gradually came into sight after a long flat prairie drive. Suddenly he was passing the familiar landmarks as he entered the outlying district where he … Continue reading →

Way-Way Beyond Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock Life and lifestyles today–how fast-changing everything is everywhere, all the time. ‘Give us this day our multitudinous daily changes’. The present shocks these are creating are more numbing, distracting, and confuting than anything Toffler … Continue reading →

(excellent recording with Trial by Jury bonus) (an indelible memory) (two of the school leads) (I and some of the male chorus dressing in Home Ec room) (In Brigadoon, I played Jock McVeigh and was used as a ‘serving tray’ … Continue reading →

for Don Iveson and the last three Edmonton city councils, it would be the recurringly-closed LRT over by the Royal Alex/NAIT and the funicular as well as the polluted accidental ‘beach’, the permanent ripped-up roads, and the calcium chloride decomposing … Continue reading →

Doh! Ain’t no apps for: -common sense -intelligence -sense of humor and wit -decency -sensibility -personal depth -natural capacity to respond to beauty -creative consciousness -empathy and sympathy -civility and courtesy -gentleness, kindness and caring -natural innocence, awe, and wonder … Continue reading →

Old eyes and an unending view of cynical frost not recalling the newborn simpler days. A story of spring before the long, cold suppression and firm denial of flowers. Listening to distant children play before they sounded like parents or … Continue reading →

The tv advertisers of meds with dire side effects often resort to one gimmick now, simple-mindedly using dogs or puppies as props to sell their wares and offset the innumerable small print and voiceover warnings. update: Subaru has done a … Continue reading →