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Chrysanthemum

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…)

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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…)

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Stromer Schwarz

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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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…)

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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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