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Saturday, December 13, 2003
It's A Wonderful Life
The popular Christmas classic showed on NBC tonight. It was as heartwarming as usual but wouldn't you really rather spend an evening in downtown Pottersville than in boring Bedford Falls?
Labels: Christmas
Free Wi-Fi
Here's an interesting nerdy article: TechTV | Free Wi-Fi Blankets San Francisco.
Labels: places, San Francisco, technology
A Song on Christmas CD
Click the player to hear the 2:48-minute song mentioned in one of yesterday's blog entries. It is Santa Baby sung by Eartha Kitt. (This Windows Media Player file requires a 56K modem connection, at minimum.)
Labels: Christmas, Mediaplayer, music
Friday, December 12, 2003
----- Original Message -----
Date: Friday, December 12, 2003
Time: 09:45 AM PST
Submitted by: Tim Conklin
Browser Info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Subject: Dennis Hurd's Web Form
It's 9:44 Friday morning and a slow day at work. Dennis, I'm going to give you two of my favourite links. The first is a link to the Penlovers website. I use it to navigate to Stylophiles on-line magazine. They have excellent graphics. The second link is to the Beowulf in Cyberspace website. It too has good graphics and a lot of information about the Beowulf story as well as interesting info on Anglo-Saxon England. I hope you and your bloggers (blog readers) enjoy them.
Best regards -- Tim
www.penlovers.com
www.heorot.dk
----- Response -----
From: Dennis Hurd
To: Tim
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:21 AM
Oh lord, how do I collect friends with such antiquated ideas? Timothy loves fountain pens! He believes that thoughts should be scratched out on smashed, dead trees with dark-coloured pigments. Yikes, it sounds rather archaic, doesn't it? To add insult to injury, earlier in the morning, it was suggested that I put this blog on parchment and lock in a vault for safekeeping.
How quaint, the both of you are! I feel like I'm swimming against the tide.
Anyhow, I appreciate your participation and links, Tim. : -)
Date: Friday, December 12, 2003
Time: 09:45 AM PST
Submitted by: Tim Conklin
Browser Info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Subject: Dennis Hurd's Web Form
It's 9:44 Friday morning and a slow day at work. Dennis, I'm going to give you two of my favourite links. The first is a link to the Penlovers website. I use it to navigate to Stylophiles on-line magazine. They have excellent graphics. The second link is to the Beowulf in Cyberspace website. It too has good graphics and a lot of information about the Beowulf story as well as interesting info on Anglo-Saxon England. I hope you and your bloggers (blog readers) enjoy them.
Best regards -- Tim
www.penlovers.com
www.heorot.dk
----- Response -----
From: Dennis Hurd
To: Tim
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:21 AM
Oh lord, how do I collect friends with such antiquated ideas? Timothy loves fountain pens! He believes that thoughts should be scratched out on smashed, dead trees with dark-coloured pigments. Yikes, it sounds rather archaic, doesn't it? To add insult to injury, earlier in the morning, it was suggested that I put this blog on parchment and lock in a vault for safekeeping.
How quaint, the both of you are! I feel like I'm swimming against the tide.
Anyhow, I appreciate your participation and links, Tim. : -)
Labels: Tim
Santa, Baby!
I really didn't know the song, Santa Baby.
Eartha Kitt's rendition ended up on this year's Christmas Compilation CD. (I think cards are rather dumb, so I send out a personalized, yearly music disc.) If you'd like a copy, there's still time before the holidays. Just email a request with your postal address, and I'll pop it into the mail!
Now, I've heard that song playing in stores and mall. I've discovered that it's also been sung by Marilyn Monroe as well as Miss Piggy!
Eartha Kitt's rendition ended up on this year's Christmas Compilation CD. (I think cards are rather dumb, so I send out a personalized, yearly music disc.) If you'd like a copy, there's still time before the holidays. Just email a request with your postal address, and I'll pop it into the mail!
Now, I've heard that song playing in stores and mall. I've discovered that it's also been sung by Marilyn Monroe as well as Miss Piggy!
----- Original Message -----
From: b.wirta
To: Dennis Hurd
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Gimme a New Blog Topic
Dennis, I read your blog this morning all the way back to the final exam photo. All your work on your blog seems so transient. You need to print and save. Some future historian will love you.
Bret
----- Response -----
From: Dennis Hurd
To: b.wirta
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: Gimme a New Blog Topic
Print out and save? Pfff. Lame. What 20th century thinking that is! ... or maybe 18th?
If you look under my picture, you will see access to the archive vault. No information is lost .. but only the last seven days are on the main screen. Search works too .. so if I want to go back and see about when you visited .. I type in BRET. (One cannot do an easy search on paper.)
Bret, I'm betting that electrons will last longer than a leather binding.
==Dennis
From: b.wirta
To: Dennis Hurd
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Gimme a New Blog Topic
Dennis, I read your blog this morning all the way back to the final exam photo. All your work on your blog seems so transient. You need to print and save. Some future historian will love you.
Bret
----- Response -----
From: Dennis Hurd
To: b.wirta
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: Gimme a New Blog Topic
Print out and save? Pfff. Lame. What 20th century thinking that is! ... or maybe 18th?
If you look under my picture, you will see access to the archive vault. No information is lost .. but only the last seven days are on the main screen. Search works too .. so if I want to go back and see about when you visited .. I type in BRET. (One cannot do an easy search on paper.)
Bret, I'm betting that electrons will last longer than a leather binding.
==Dennis
Labels: Bret
Thursday, December 11, 2003
East to the Land of Oil and Beef
Jay and I have some time off, so we'll head over to Calgary on the weekend. It's a bit over 1,050 km (650 miles) away. If not skiiers, who goes for a stay in Calgary in December? Many of its residents are probably on their way to Arizona, Mexico or a 'tropical' destination! That's okay; it's been a while since we've headed over the Rocky Mountains.
We last passed through Calgary in 2001. On that trip, we saw a lot of
Canada. In this picture we're at the big Falls. We did a 15,000 km
Vancouver-Newfoundland-Vancouver, camping trip for two months
of the summer.
We last passed through Calgary in 2001. On that trip, we saw a lot of
Canada. In this picture we're at the big Falls. We did a 15,000 km
Vancouver-Newfoundland-Vancouver, camping trip for two months
of the summer.
Labels: Alberta, Canada, Niagara Falls, road trip, travel planning
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
New Feature: When I occasionally glimpse a weird, useful, cute, or interesting blog (at www.blogger.com), I'll post it.
The Illustrated Librarian
The Illustrated Librarian
Bigger IS Better
I bought a monthly air-time voucher for my cell phone yesterday. I use a 'pay-as-you-go' service that doesn't have a monthly bill, but requires the purchase of time. While there, I was looking over things at the London Drugs electronics counter.
Do people really need to play games on the tiny, colour screen of a telephone? And is there REALLY a need to take and send mini-photos with one's phone? I've never even bothered to download ring tones for my present phone. Maybe, I'm just more involved in other things; but honestly, trying to 'keep up with the Jones' phone' seems somewhat frivolous.
I was a bit shocked by the size of the new sets nowadays. My Nokia is a few years old and if I were to replace it, I'd have to go to something roughly half its size. Then if I sneezed during a conversation, I might end up either snorting or swallowing the thing ...
Do people really need to play games on the tiny, colour screen of a telephone? And is there REALLY a need to take and send mini-photos with one's phone? I've never even bothered to download ring tones for my present phone. Maybe, I'm just more involved in other things; but honestly, trying to 'keep up with the Jones' phone' seems somewhat frivolous.
I was a bit shocked by the size of the new sets nowadays. My Nokia is a few years old and if I were to replace it, I'd have to go to something roughly half its size. Then if I sneezed during a conversation, I might end up either snorting or swallowing the thing ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Shopping at 6th & 6th
The majority of New Westminster photos that I've placed in this blog have been from the downtown area. The apartment is here, so it is most common for me to take a walk around here.
Yet, for over twenty-five years most business development has taken place uptown. This term must be taken quite literally as it's a fairly steep incline to the top of the hill. That could be one reason why my 'walks' are along the river rather than uptown! Yet, when I want to go to the library, hit the mall, visit my dentist, or sneak in to the closest McDonalds, I drive about a mile up 6th Street.
The area near the intersection of Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue is the
city's main shopping area.
Yet, for over twenty-five years most business development has taken place uptown. This term must be taken quite literally as it's a fairly steep incline to the top of the hill. That could be one reason why my 'walks' are along the river rather than uptown! Yet, when I want to go to the library, hit the mall, visit my dentist, or sneak in to the closest McDonalds, I drive about a mile up 6th Street.
The area near the intersection of Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue is the
city's main shopping area.
Labels: dentist, New Westminster, Royal City Mall
Monday, December 08, 2003
Tell It Like It Is
I'm finishing up the final exams right now. Marking twenty-one papers is a real chore! I find Aaron Neville's music helps provide a suitable environment for this task ....
Labels: music
Doh
Vancouver Courier
Hole Lotta Love
Michael Kissinger
Friday, December 05, 2003
Rick Farmer, Tyson Konecny and Alishia Hebert are on a mission.
Piling out of a gunmetal blue 1969 Ford Falcon station wagon, the three walk with an air of determination common in these parts. Like many British Columbians, they've come to Burlington, Wash.--an innocuous strip mall of a town between Vancouver and Seattle--for one thing. Dozens of things, actually. Doughnuts. And not just any doughnuts. Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
(Click here to continue the article. LINK NO LONGER ACTIVE!)
Hole Lotta Love
Michael Kissinger
Friday, December 05, 2003
Rick Farmer, Tyson Konecny and Alishia Hebert are on a mission.
Piling out of a gunmetal blue 1969 Ford Falcon station wagon, the three walk with an air of determination common in these parts. Like many British Columbians, they've come to Burlington, Wash.--an innocuous strip mall of a town between Vancouver and Seattle--for one thing. Dozens of things, actually. Doughnuts. And not just any doughnuts. Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
(Click here to continue the article. LINK NO LONGER ACTIVE!)
Labels: sharing
Sunday, December 07, 2003
Bucks in a Buxton
The new, Queensborough Wal-mart was fairly packed. Wal-marts usually are. I just returned from buying a new wallet. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but I can only remember buying about three wallets ... ever!
I wonder how long an average guy keeps the same wallet.
I wonder how long an average guy keeps the same wallet.
Labels: New Westminster, Walmart
Light Rain
Hundreds of folks came to watch last evening's parade on Columbia
Street. The rain was very light.
Labels: Christmas, New Westminster, weather
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