.@SusanFelucifer @acoyne We have a deep seated fear of high places, since none exist here. Closed off top floor public observatories too.— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) July 24, 2014 While reading news page comment sections, even hopeless trolls who’d normally mock people saving trees by “hugging” them, have seen the light
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mandatory Fun Time
It occurred to me today how ironic it is that Weird Al releases Mandatory Fun at the same time as I’m given a mandatory break from work for months. Today's cartoon in The @NewYorker http://t.co/uJZnYUNnRd— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) July 21, 2014 I’ve got lots of time for mandatory fun right
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Surviving Death Going Well
My death and quick resurrection made it into the local newspaper on the front page. There will be a followup coming later too I think.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Well Out of Hospital
On medication to slow my heart, and with a modern device to reset rhythm if it’s lost, I’m cool as a cucumber now. There are so many people to thank, and not enough paper.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Woke up
I woke up this morning thinking of the Weird Al tune: “I’m So Sick of You”. Probably tired of being poked and vampired every morning already. Hope today goes well.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cardiac Canada Day
[This is written August 2nd, 2014, but published July 1st, 2014, as it wasn’t possible for me to write a first-hand account of this year’s Canada Day.] Canada Day started out like many other vacations spent in the city, with me volunteering an hour at a community booth. I was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar Tour 2014
Cowessess wind turbine. 800kW at 32mi/h Has Li-ion batteries. Solar farm and home system of 10kW Inverter anti-islanding. Prevents electrifying the grid while grid is down. Isolation ring for the meter can be installed so you can attach a generator to the house to let the inverter keep working during
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Alberta P3 News #skpoli
Here’s some news hot out of Alberta. Only one of them is satirical. The other satirical bit is that Saskatchewan’s Sask Party recently announced they’d be saving taxpayers millions of dollars by starting a P3 Bike Share like Stettler had. No wait, they said they were going to build P3
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Interchange a Highway
Atlanta isn’t known for being a walkable city. Florence, Italy has a better reputation. This is kind of mind blowing, and should have people thinking about overpasses and cloverleaf highways in a different way. Auto-sprawl has many costs. Florence Italy and a highway interchange in Atlanta at same scale. @stevemouzon
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Plan Designed To Fail Is No Plan At All #skpoli
“While it’s not immediately clear what impact the Obama (climate change) plan will have on the province, the government of Saskatchewan has taken measures to address the greenhouse gas issue through the development of programs and policies that will reduce our CO2 emissions,’ Wall said. “We have our (GHG) emissions
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hotel comedy
https://mobile.twitter.com/fbiagent4hire/status/478379393996169218 I saw this a few weeks ago, and also think you hold see the Budapest Hotel.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: +11 Wedding
Three large tents in the backyard and a propane heater saved the day. Real rain stayed away too.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: All By Myself – In An Airport
Here’s a very clever music video made by a Dion fan, in Vegas airport. There is some smart use of the moving sidewalk, and escalator, along with some nice video editing. Take a pair of Canadians, mix with @Vegas and @LASairport and magic ensues. Keep 'em coming south, @WestJet. vimeo.com/97634383—
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hide The Numbers, They Suck! #cdnpoli
Conservative Minister: “Why is that the only question that interests you?” Journalist: “Because you wont answer it, that’s why it’s interesting!” “You want the one question that I won’t answer because it changes every day. “We’ve been asking this for a year now,” Off says exasperatedly. … “click”. That's a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #PCloadLetter The Ontario PCs Send Misdirecting Mail #VoteOn
.@kady @KrankyKanuck @Mary_OGrady @1223Chuck Wouldn't you rather unmarked envelopes tell you where? twitter.com/LibPressSec/st… #PCloadLetter— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) June 11, 2014 (PC Load Letter is from printer displays of the past, and the comedy Office Space. It indicates the paper tray is empty. It was the best pun I could come
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Take a Narrow Health Site Survey
This sort of survey isn’t going to make the best website possible for our country. I found the survey easy to take, but the results will be skewed toward the menu options listed, instead of answering the question ask which was “where would I look for X”, which is “Google”.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: People Are Not Pigeons
You needn’t go farther than the comment section of a UK rag to find the sort of people who are okay with torture devices beging designed into their buildings. Is that where we are now in Britain? "How can we rid ourselves of the problem of homelessness?" – "Little spikes
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: On The Playground
Kids play hide and seek. A lack of good hiding places led to one boy climbing to the top of a tree. I almost didn’t see him.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wikileaks welcomes the CIA to the Tweeter
Originally posted on Pressed by Sol Chrom: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/475121451511844864 Possibly the most epic burn ever. View original
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Peak Oil Is Not Coming…
It’s here. This IEA report spells out peak oil as being in the past. “Days of cheap energy over, IEA figures show” The IEA’s annual outlook on investment, released today, shows annual investment in new fuel and electricity supply has more than doubled in real terms since 2000. Costs to
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