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September 29, 2005
Worst spam
Here is the text of the worst written spam I've ever received:
From: Monte Gabriel
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Bad English; bad grammar; it's from three different people ... the 'bifurcate' in the URL made me chuckle as well. ;) Anything else wrong with it?
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September 27, 2005
Well worth getting wet
Here are some of the images from our weekend camping and shooting in Presqu'ile
A great weekend of camp fires and deer and sunsets and torrential rain (who knew my tent wasn't waterproof). Thanks to David for suggesting we go here.
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September 18, 2005
Summarizing the week that was:
I had a longer version of this written but Zempt ate it before I could post it. I am not about to type it all out again. Therefore, to summarize:
Sunday: We found an amazing Spanish restaurant near our houseboat. Everything they use is trucked in from Spain. Yum.
Monday: Dazed and confused sitting in the booth at the IBC show.
Tuesday: Wasn't able to contact my home server. Immediately decided it was because the cat sitter had stolen everything and sold it on ebay.
Wednesday: Wandered and photographed the streets of Amsterdam full of rattling bicycles rode by supermodels.
Thursday: Woke up in Amsterdam, went to bed in Toronto. Had three breakfasts.
Friday: My final guppy died.
Saturday: I bought shoes.
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September 09, 2005
Message in a bottle
We're saying on the houseboat in Amsterdam and we notice a bottle with a note in it floating by. We fish the thing out and here's the note:
Here's the translation from my dad:
"In contrast to girls of the beach,
With salt of the sea in their hair, and sand,
I cry freshwater tears to exchange(?) canals
Of the city, and the rivers of this land.
Sand
between my toes, not from the beach,
But from between the stones of the street,
Makes a trail through my house, from bath-tub to tap,
So you can see where I have been, and where I stood still.
In contrast to the girls of the beach,
With dunes at their feet, and shells in their hand,
I walk with shod feet on the bridges over the canal,
I go along the side of the piers, I stand on the edge."
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September 02, 2005
Another from the Ex
This is another pic that caught my eye today as I was going through the pics from The Ex this past weekend. I love how the little guy at the back is peeking over everyone else to see what's going on.
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New Orlean's after Katrina
I'm not the first to say this, but it's amazing that the images coming from New Orlean's are of a city in the richest country in the world. It looks like Bangladesh.
Forgetting for a minute that officials and the Army Corp of Engineers have been warning various levels of governments for years that the levees could fail, could aid have reached the people in New Orleans any faster than it has? FEMA was prepared to deal with the results of a hurricane but didn't count on a flood. It's not like there is a branch of the army just sitting around in one place waiting to deal with this sort of catastrophe. Plans have to be made and people have to be mobilized. Equipment has to be moved into place. That takes a certain amount of time. I'm sure there was action on some level from the beginning of the crisis but on a scale that wasn't obvious. While lessons can be learned from earlier storms or disasters, each crisis is different and has to be dealt with as it arises. No doubt bad decisions were made, but I'm sure mostly people who were there did all they could do as soon as they could.
Having said that, it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall as Bush and cronies were discussing their response. Did it matter to them that most of the affected people were poor? Did they hold off sending aid or support while trying to find a way to do it on the cheap? Was having so many troops in Iraq have an affect on the kind of response they could make or the speed they could make it? I'd like to think that the welfare of the victims was paramount in the minds of officials and bureaucrats, but who knows.
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