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Dec 6, 2012










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A rough draft of a journal entry on the current road trip (for paulh)
Aug 25, 2012

Communities so far (about 1200 kilometres)

Edmonton
St. Albert
Morinville
Ligal
Vimy
Clyde
Nestow
Tawatinaw
Rochester
Perryvale
Colinton
Athabasca
Sunset Beach
White Gull
Island Lake South
Island Lake
Honto
Slave Lake (Lunch)
Kinuso
Dritpile
Joussard
Sucker Creek
Enilda
High Prairie
Kathleen
Mclennan
Donnelly
Jean Côté
Reno
Nampa
St. Isidore
Peace River (Sleep)
Grimshaw
Berwyn
Brownvale
Whitelaw
Bluesky
Fairview
Dunvegan
Rycroft
Spirit River
Gordondale
Bay Tree
Dawson Creek (Lunch)
Farmington
Taylor
Fort St. John
Hudsons Hope
West Moberly Lake
Moverly Lake
Chetwynd
Groundbirch
Progress
Arras
Dawson Creek (again)
Pouce Coupe
Tomslake
Demmit
Horse Lake
Hythe
Beaverlodge (drive-thru dinner)
Huallen
Wembly
Grande Prairie (Sleep soon)

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Winter in the Great White North
Mar 1, 2012

It snowed heavily last weekend for effectively the first time this winter and the forecast is for snow tonight and tomorrow, but . . .


"This year's mild, dry winter has prompted the Alberta government to move the start of wildfire season a full month earlier than usual to March 1."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...on-alberta-start-early.html?cmp=rss


That's tomorrow!


The people of Slave Lake are probably having a feeling of something French all over again: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ph...fire+devastation/4793449/story.html

(1 reply, Latest reply: Mar 1, 2012)

masks on a closed thread
Feb 20, 2012

I unsubscribed from F19585?thread=8290361 last night about seven or eight hours before it was deemed to have gotten out of hand and was closed, but, I have a thought I'd like to get down about the thought experiment of being asked to look for the masked individual in some sort of British store. . . .


If I were asked to find the person wearing a mask in a large store I would wander around for days before I thought "maybe they mean the woman with the niqab."


To me, a niqab is not a subset of the class "masks". A veil is not a subset of the class "masks" either. Calling a niqab a "mask" is roughly analogous to calling a Wellington boot a "sock" -- sure, you were it in the same place, but it's simply not the same thing.

(36 replies, Latest reply: Feb 21, 2012)

on first looking into ...
Feb 8, 2012

Stoppard. The Invention of Love.




It came in the mail two days ago.



Oh, my.


What a piece of work!


Propertius, for goodness' sake!


Stoppard has moved from his youthful Shakespeare phase into a phase in which all of Western Literature is a simple and vitally necessary background to his totally modern voice.

I'm breathless after a first reading of a third of the play.

Oh, marvelous!

(3 replies, Latest reply: Feb 26, 2012)