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 About the news, British Columbia, consulting, People, tagged bicycle, consultant, mining, Vancouver on September 25, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Posted in British Columbia, tagged art, bike ride, grafitti, santiago, Vancouver on September 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few photos taken on today’s bike ride. Some are art, some graffiti. I prefer the graffiti.
First pure graffiti on a wall along the bike path—and in a place where the Vancouver graffiti police cannot see it and blot it out.
Posted in British Columbia, tagged harbor, ship, Vancouver on July 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in British Columbia, tagged fisherman's trail. lower seymour conservation reserve, seymour river, Vancouver on July 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Just a few photos from today’s mountain bike ride along Fisherman’s Trail that follows the Seymour River in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, opera, tagged bard the beach, death, macbeth, old men, Vancouver, Verdi on July 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A week of firsts. The one I can write about is the start of summer and the first Bard on the Beach. Macbeth in all its gory. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, health and safety, People, tagged bicycle, bridge, ironworkers memorial, second narrows, Vancouver on June 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Each evening on the ride home from work, I cross the Second Narrows Bridge. It is a spectacular ride up to the crest of the bridge and down at great speed over the bumpy construction joints. The bike lane is narrow. Two bicycles cannot pass in opposite directions. The cyclist coming up has to stop, pull to the side, and let the cyclist going down pass. Each such encounter is a friendly passing, with smiles and thank-yous to all. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, Oil sands, People, Tailings, Waste Rock, tagged daryl hockley, michael davies, mine waste, sean wells, Tailings, Vancouver on November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A great many great presentations yesterday at the Tailings and Mine Waste 11 Conference here in Vancouver. The keynote addresses were topical and provocative. There was applause when in reply to a question, Ransford Sekyi of Ghana said that artisanal miners dig and destroyed the environment and then move on to another place to dig and destroy, and that they should be dealt with “with the full force of the law.” A bold approach that echoed the ongoing occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery by what is rapidly degenerating into an unruly band of homeless ruffians biting the police who are trying to prevent a conflagration. (more…)
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, opera, tagged don pasquale, drugs, mining, opera, police, tea party, Vancouver, vancouver prostitute, walll street, west vancouver on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Those demonstrators who are destroying the grass to the north of the Vanouver Art Galley probably never have seen an opera. The probably regard opera as a pastime of the rich. Maybe they should watch Don Pasquale and learn that there have always been the rich, the poor, the lazy, the parasites, and the ambitious. (more…)
Posted in British Columbia, consulting, tagged consulting, mining, miniong plus, sushi, Vancouver on October 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I lunched with three young engineers. Two have master’s degrees and the third is well on his way. Food was ususal Vancouver fare for hungry men: bento box filled with rice, sushi, tempura, and meat in deep, dark sauce. (more…)
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