Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
America is grey line on the horizon beyond Wolfe Island to the south east as viewed from the mouth of the Little Cataraqui River. The highlands, beyond Watertown, in the south-east of Jefferson County, New York, fifty some miles away, rise to 1,500 feet and form the western edge of the Adirondacks.
figure that if I spend about 12 hours I will be able to find a full set of uppercase, lower case and numerals from the Gutenburg Bible and revert this into a 15th century blog. Any uncertainties can be resolved though alt tags.
Two, Three, Six and Seven
How does that look?
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This is an interesting item from the BBC:
In his report, Conspicuous Compassion, author Patrick West said people were trying to feel better about themselves by taking part in “manufactured emotion”. Describing extravagant public displays of grief for strangers as ‘grief-lite’ Mr West said these activities were, “undertaken as an enjoyable event, much like going to a football match or the last night of the proms”.
This is similar to my problem with movies – the group emote. Abstractions from reality.
Training my children to aspire to industrial park design.
Being the only one in the house not sick or three, I am the only one awake this afternoon. I find myself listening to Acts of Volition Radio show #6, watching the sunny melty day outside moving on, wondering whether it would be so wrong downloading Counterstrike for moments like this, surrounded by the snoring, communicating only with headphones and screen.
[Four gerunds and a gerundive in one sentence…wow.]
With all the other news last week, one that may affect the Maritimes as much as the US ban on beef imports is the proposed effective ban on US firms using call centres located in other countries. In the heady 90’s many politicians in the East lunched out on the concept that call centres were IT jobs…something akin to pumping gas being part of either the oil or auto parts industry sector.
Still, a job is a job and export dolalrs are better than local ones if you want economic growth. Ruk had a great thread about the issues surrounding these employers a few weeks ago. Here is a list of the Nova Scotian call centres. How many depend on the profit margin from US work to stay open?
Martello towers guard the mouth of the Rideau. There are actually three in the picture, the third hidden by the trees to the left. It stands out in the mist better here. Built in the 1840s to protect the then high-tech canal technology of the Rideau accessed between the nearest two towers, the theory was similar to Halifax Harbour’s defences – a killing zone of miles deterring any thought of attack. One gun in the red roofed tower to the left had a range of 7 miles. Greater detail and a harbour map can be found here.
