An occasional piece on the trashy movies I like to watch. Over the weekend I watched two movies that must be the precursors to the Hunger Games (a popular book trilogy and now a new movie for those not in the know.) The movies I watched come in a fancy “book” format containing four DVDs. The first is [...]
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Battle Royale, the precusor to the Hunger Games
Posted in brandy, Church, Human relations and mining, tagged battle royale, Cuba, hunger games, mining, syria on April 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Mining the mining wisdom of the old
Posted in brandy, consulting, tagged glasgow, mining, plumbing, wisdom on March 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
His father was a plumber in Glasgow. He is one of the best geotechnical engineers I have been privileged to work with. Here is what he emphasized to me many times as I sought to go to the field to collect data: Old men collect data to prove what they know; young men collect data to [...]
Friday Night at the Bar. Mining Motives, Memories, and Misdemeanors.
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, consulting, People, tagged infidelity, miining, misdemeanors, Pebble Mine, pub, vanvuver on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Scene: A pub in the nether part of Vancouver.
Selfishness Defined. Mining Overload.
Posted in blogs, brandy, Investing & Finance, opera, tagged Bahrain, Phoenix, Snadton on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Instead of writing this blog posting, I should be on a plane to London and hence South Africa. From there the ticket would have taken me to Bahrain and in three weeks time back to Vancouver. Instead, I sit drinking a glass of wine and typing. You may justifiably conclude I am mad.
Groundwater Modeling in Decision Making About Mine Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach Facilities
Posted in acid mine drainage, brandy, consulting, environmental, Geotechnical, Heap leach, Software, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged decision making, groundwater, Heap leach, modelling, Tailings, Waste Rock on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Introduction Today I went to HR Block and had my taxes calculated. It is a disaster: I owe lots and the total taxes I paid is more than the average Canadian salary. I am seriously considering selling up and moving to Las Vegas. And stopping working. Why work to merely pay great sums to the government [...]
MET Opera’s Gotterdammerung Belongs to Deborah Voigt
Posted in brandy, opera, tagged deborah voigt, gotterdammerung, jay hunter morris, MET, opera, ring cycle, siegfried on February 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today’s MET production of Gotterdammerung, The Twilight of the Gods, belongs to Deborah Voigt. She steals the show. Maybe Siegfried belongs to Jay Hunter Morris, but Gotterdammerung belongs to Voigt.
Cultural Norms Affect Mining
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, First Nations, Human relations and mining on February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Friday. An early end to the day. A quick stroll to a disreputable pub amidst the glass towers of Vancouver. Four miners around a small round table, heavy with IPA ale and serious talk.
Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in Gold, Oil sands, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, brandy, consulting, tagged East Geduld, Ekati, Fort McMurray, Greens Creek, Guatemala, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, marlin mine, cooking, free state, escobal, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, food, hawk inlet, bull cook, bhp billiton, tro on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Most mines have a place where the miners eat. Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about. If you like [...]
Die Liebe Der Danae: Opera Gold, Love, and Lust
Posted in brandy, opera, tagged Gold, liebe der danae, love, lust, opera, richard strauss, sex on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Music, in particular opera, has brought me far more pleasure than gold. I have a few ugly gold cufflinks—can you find shirt to wear them with these days? I have many gold rings; one sporting a one-carrot, yellow, Australian diamond. They are beautiful, and still fit my fingers after many years. But they are empty [...]
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