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Quick Notes to Close a Vacation Day
Mar. 10th, 2015 10:09 pm1. Nice to see Agents of SHIELD moving at a quick pace. Long story, and I want to discuss it further later.
2. Not nice to see all the payphones stripped out of the Rideau Centre. There's two left in the Bay store attached to said shopping mall, and the Customer Service people at said mall advised me to take it up with CRTC. Not sure what happened between them and Bell Canada to allow it to happen, but I do not like it. I may have a cell phone now, but I can't count on always being able to afford access to any cell provider's network.
3. Which reminds me of my ongoing concern about the push of all levels of government to...how do I phrase this? "Ensure that citizens need to have internet access for as many services as possible"? Maybe that would do it?
Feeling a little like Skye from Agents of SHIELD in tonight's installment. No one wants me as a specific person dead, mind you...
2. Not nice to see all the payphones stripped out of the Rideau Centre. There's two left in the Bay store attached to said shopping mall, and the Customer Service people at said mall advised me to take it up with CRTC. Not sure what happened between them and Bell Canada to allow it to happen, but I do not like it. I may have a cell phone now, but I can't count on always being able to afford access to any cell provider's network.
3. Which reminds me of my ongoing concern about the push of all levels of government to...how do I phrase this? "Ensure that citizens need to have internet access for as many services as possible"? Maybe that would do it?
Feeling a little like Skye from Agents of SHIELD in tonight's installment. No one wants me as a specific person dead, mind you...
Rain. In December. Again.
Dec. 2nd, 2012 05:53 pmI've said what I think of it before. I'm saying it again: there is something Wrong about rain in Ottawa on the 2nd of December.
More on other stuff later on...
More on other stuff later on...
Speaking of Civic Perils
Jan. 25th, 2011 07:43 pmCourtesy of Eric Darwin: a concern about pedestrian safety, focused on street-crossing signals.
I'll let him and those who answered him save me some energy in ranting.
I'll let him and those who answered him save me some energy in ranting.
Another rant on "obsolete" tech...
Jan. 22nd, 2011 10:09 pm...in response to a discussion at National Capital Freenet entitled "Rest in Peace, CD, We Hardly Knew Ye":
I'm not done with the tech yet, dammit!
And I still want to have the option of buying gadgets that double as *portable* AM/FM radios and CD players. Like the old Discman-type gear, you know? I've got an old Panasonic model that's still working okay for now, but I want to be able to keep buying replacement gear if the mood takes me and the finances hold up.
Rant over now.
Oh, and here's the note that set off the thread that set off my rant:
http://web.ncf.ca/adamandruth/ubuntu2.html#20Jan11
I'm not done with the tech yet, dammit!
And I still want to have the option of buying gadgets that double as *portable* AM/FM radios and CD players. Like the old Discman-type gear, you know? I've got an old Panasonic model that's still working okay for now, but I want to be able to keep buying replacement gear if the mood takes me and the finances hold up.
Rant over now.
Oh, and here's the note that set off the thread that set off my rant:
http://web.ncf.ca/adamandruth/ubuntu2.html#20Jan11
A Quick Sinus Rant
Aug. 23rd, 2008 09:06 pmThis is an annoyance that hits about twice a year on average: allergy issues. May and August, almost like clockwork nowadays. The usual pollenating suspects are at play, to be polite about it. To be impolite, the damned plant life under suspicion are having a wild time in the yards of the city at my expense. I know other people who prefer more explicit metaphors, but you're reading my blog. NOT anyone else's.
It's playing havoc with my manners, my mood and my ability to concentrate on drawing. Strangely, writing doesn't seem as much of an issue. Not sure why this is so, but it's so. Several of my friendlisters - you know who you are - are dealing with similar, (semi-)related problems right now. Which stinks on ice in some respects, even allowing for the dictum of "misery shared is halved" per Mr. Robinson. Speedy recovery to us all, I say. Enough of this misery, shared or not. We've got stuff we want to do!
It's playing havoc with my manners, my mood and my ability to concentrate on drawing. Strangely, writing doesn't seem as much of an issue. Not sure why this is so, but it's so. Several of my friendlisters - you know who you are - are dealing with similar, (semi-)related problems right now. Which stinks on ice in some respects, even allowing for the dictum of "misery shared is halved" per Mr. Robinson. Speedy recovery to us all, I say. Enough of this misery, shared or not. We've got stuff we want to do!
Newspapers
Jan. 21st, 2007 11:58 pmI've been musing for a while that Ottawa needs a third daily paper operating on a variant of the Toronto Star's Atkinson Principles. Now imagine my pleased surprise when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexjay points out a links page full of freebie educaational URLs.
Which leads me to this one: How to Run a Newspaper or Magazine at WikiBooks.
Wondering if anyone I know in this town's going to take a run at such a project if they find that last link at all useful. Also wondering if that last link could be useful enough...?
alexjay points out a links page full of freebie educaational URLs.Which leads me to this one: How to Run a Newspaper or Magazine at WikiBooks.
Wondering if anyone I know in this town's going to take a run at such a project if they find that last link at all useful. Also wondering if that last link could be useful enough...?
Open Mic II(or "I've had it today")
Aug. 11th, 2006 02:13 pmYou looked at the front pages of the newspapers?
Fine. There's one of my reasons for being fed up in a nutshell. And I've noticed other sane people by the thousands in a similar state for related reasons.
(And then there's the spam everyone finds themselves coping with, and on and on...)
So, I'm going to do something sane.
I'm posting a link to a particularly pleasing spaceref.com article I read recently. Some good news for today at least.
Then I'm going back to drawing pages whilst leaving the mic open. Share some other good news I may not have heard yet.
Please.
Fine. There's one of my reasons for being fed up in a nutshell. And I've noticed other sane people by the thousands in a similar state for related reasons.
(And then there's the spam everyone finds themselves coping with, and on and on...)
So, I'm going to do something sane.
I'm posting a link to a particularly pleasing spaceref.com article I read recently. Some good news for today at least.
Then I'm going back to drawing pages whilst leaving the mic open. Share some other good news I may not have heard yet.
Please.
Okay, I've had a few warm welcomes from some of the allies and friends. I'm somewhat over the shock of making the decision, and have decided to stick with it.
That said...it's good to feel welcome.
It's also good to know that the CBC Lockout of 2005 is over and done. We've had enough disruptions of the National Fabric of late, given the entire NHL season that already went into the toilet thanks to both sides of that mess not giving an inch until after it was too late.
Whoever saw sense at CBC Management, the Canadian Media Guild, Parliament...my thanks to you all for solving this part of the mess. You know who you are.
That said, I'd very much like to see CBC more securely funded. It's our National Public Broadcaster, our institution for recording history "on the fly"(as opposed to the National Library and Archives, which serves the historians of "sober, second thought"...not unlike Parliament's ideal view of the Senate, but more egalitarian in structure). And our main forum for telling our own works of audio and video fiction to ourselves, at least for the moment. Improvements are already being worked out by the formerly-Locked Out and their saner and smarter managers(and I know such are out there). The stabilized funding will make it easier in some ways to get those improvements done, as far as I'm concerned.
I think I'm done for the moment. More in a little while, hopefully on comic books.
That said...it's good to feel welcome.
It's also good to know that the CBC Lockout of 2005 is over and done. We've had enough disruptions of the National Fabric of late, given the entire NHL season that already went into the toilet thanks to both sides of that mess not giving an inch until after it was too late.
Whoever saw sense at CBC Management, the Canadian Media Guild, Parliament...my thanks to you all for solving this part of the mess. You know who you are.
That said, I'd very much like to see CBC more securely funded. It's our National Public Broadcaster, our institution for recording history "on the fly"(as opposed to the National Library and Archives, which serves the historians of "sober, second thought"...not unlike Parliament's ideal view of the Senate, but more egalitarian in structure). And our main forum for telling our own works of audio and video fiction to ourselves, at least for the moment. Improvements are already being worked out by the formerly-Locked Out and their saner and smarter managers(and I know such are out there). The stabilized funding will make it easier in some ways to get those improvements done, as far as I'm concerned.
I think I'm done for the moment. More in a little while, hopefully on comic books.
