Posted in brandy, British Columbia, consulting, health and safety, tagged dockers, Fort McMurray, keg, powell street, strathcona lodge, tk burgers on May 27, 2013 | 4 Comments »
On the way to the airport this morning, I passed Dockers. It is a nondescript place to eat on Powell Street right besides the Vancouver docks. I have often stopped at this place to eat after a long ride on a sunny Sunday. The interior is “original” with no pretensions. The service is rough and ready. The food is extraordinary: large; substantial; and cheap. A great way to end a ride. A great place to eat—try it sometime. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, tagged consultatants, proposal, scope of work, statement of qualifications, work plan on May 25, 2013 | 2 Comments »
This week I was at a mine that has operated for decades. Almost every consultant I know of has, at one time or another, written a report or produced a design, for some part of the mine. We are but the latest in a long succession of experts come to help the mine. (more…)
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, Enviromental, tagged electric bike, lonsdale quay, stromer, uss lake champian on April 28, 2013 | 3 Comments »
A standard Sunday bike ride: down the hill, along the treed lanes, and to the Lonsdale Quay for lunch. There along the pier was the USS Lake Champlain and thousands of people in line to get closer to see it. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Geotechnical, Hydrology and hydraulics, People, tagged bc guidelines, dutch portal, edumine, eileen poeter, groundwater. modeling, international hydrology on April 7, 2013 | 2 Comments »
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Why pay if you can get it free? A simple and profound question in today’s e-world where there is so much that is free and so much that is expensive. I ask this question because I have just been alerted to a free course on groundwater modeling. It is on the Dutch Portal for International Hydrology. This is what they say of their course: (more…)
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, mining, Open Pit, People, Peru, Software, Tailings, tagged bc guidelines, bernard brixel, edumine, groundwater. modeling, mines, mining, soilvision on March 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Live today on EduMine is a new course: Introduction to Groundwater Modeling for Mines and Mining. The authors are myself and Bernard Brixel. Murray Fredlund and his folk at SoilVision contributed good computer models. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Mining history, opera, tagged North Vancouver, purcell woods, un giorno di regno, Verdi on March 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Estate planning is on our minds. This past week a senior colleague spent long periods with his lawyers debating how to dispose of his estate: if I go first then….If my wife goes first then…..What complex solutions they devised. For there are four houses and four kids plus nine grandkids. Who gets what and how to avoid punitive taxes all round? (more…)
Posted in blogs, brandy, British Columbia, environmental, opera, tagged attila, mining, opera, porn, Verdi on March 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a picture of a child’s play ground in Iowa. Better we revel in the games of children than contemplate the outcome of these games: tribes, battle, war, death & devastation, or at the least indulgence in opera & brandy. Here are some thoughts from today on these topics, blogged lest the demons of Hades torment our sleep. (more…)
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, California, opera, People, tagged cognac, handel, hobbit, monteverdi, music, philippe jaroussky, purcell, quilts, Vancouver on February 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Back in Vancouver after six weeks in Orange County, California. Loved the sun, the beach, the heated pool, and the family. But it is great to be back to the expense, beauty, and banalities of a city. And the pleasures of self-indulgence of the senses sans censors. (more…)
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, opera on December 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tonight with my second-eldest grand-daughter we watched the DVD of Stephan Sondheim’s Company. A modern opera—as she said: ” This is opera, grandpa!?” (more…)
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, opera, safety, tagged aida, aspergers., connecticut, coquitlam, death, don giovanni, grandchildren, gun control, met opera, roberta alagna on December 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today was a sad day. The MET opera, watched live in a quiet and safe place, Coquitlam east of Vancouver, BC, was Aida. Yet the national tragedy of the twenty-eight deaths in Connecticut overshadowed the tragedy of the opera. (more…)
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