Taber
& the daughter, overdue, is needing me to get her to Taber to do her driver's test. Cold day, windswept, grey and snowy, and Taber, all of a single story at it's highest point, every shop window blacked out against the relentless summer sun, wide streets that offer no shade, a tired thrift shop with nothing of value, killing an hour while she does her test, an hour in Taber is like a week anywhere else in the world, not a single independent coffee house, the hour runs slowly through the glass and it's time to leave...
I don't know if I've ever been so glad to get out a place before, ever.
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Hammershoi
Rather like his work, brooding, atmospheric, and I admire him for generally not painting faces. The people - alien, distant, there's a tension in their action, in their turning from the painter. Brilliant.
Links: Wikipedia on Vilhelm Hammershoi & a BBC article
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The Thoen Stone
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoen_Stone
Why don't we have this stuff in Canada? Time for a road trip...This is what keeps me alive...
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YouTube: We gave you the problem, now want to sell you the solution
I'm growing a bit irate with YouTube, their whole "Buy a Subscription to remove the ads" strategy is pissing me off. A subscription for original content? Sure, why not. But monetizing each and every fucking video that goes online, then, after you've clicked past your 50th ad of the morning offering you a chance to upgrade to premium, without the ad, well, it's nothing short of insolence...It's not like they weren't making money, but greed always outs and 5 or 6 ads into a 60 minute video and I've had enough.
Google offers an interesting study, how a company grows from great ideals into the darkest of all possible dystopias, the same story with every tech startup (Apple included!!), how the desire to benefit users is perverted into the desire to make ever more money.
I'm glad I haven't thrown away my CD's...
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