Metal Detecting
This, a link to an unending stream of links of treasures found with Metal Detectors on You Tube. Which would be inspirational if I didn't live in Calgary. The first video's OK, but follow the related links on the right....
Link: You Tube Metal Detecting
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Sailor Martin
And here's another one, too weird to embed - Sailor Martin in a Peeping Tom's Paradise. A 1950's stag film I gather, although it's far more disturbing than even slightly sexy. Something about that puppet narrator...
Link: http://www.archive.org/details/Sailor_Martin_in_Peeping_Toms_Paradise
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First day back
And nothing's changed. Well, my schedule has somewhat, but the regulars are the same, there's the rotating half-wits through the kitchen, a new sous-chef (try out, he's not making it...), a new dishwasher (simple and I'm curious as to what the other dishwasher, my old roomate, thinks of her).
Otherwise it's exactly the same. Lots of work to be done, the dead hours in the afternoon in which to do it. A couple of new girls under perpetual molestation from the boss and his nephew and G. In a way it's kind of nice to be busy, puts the pressure on me when I get home to advance other causes, in another way I just want to cry .... but there are an abundance of bills and this will come in handy. And that's it.
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Inside Job
IFN and tonight's pick is "Inside Job", a documentary about how the banks orchestrated and profited from the economic collapse of 2008. Now to be fair, a movie about the corruption and greed within the banking industry and Wall Street probably isn't a 14 year old's cup of tea, but he sat through it and had some good questions afterwards. And the film itself was good in a nothing-I-didn't-know already but appreciated the bar charts and infographics sort of way. It was good. Well narrated, with a good soundtrack, some nice awkward moments interviewing the key people, and a proper sense of outrage as you see them all rewarded - in the hundreds of millions of dollars - and with key government positions - for a job truly terribly done. And worth it to see how corruption is spreading itself throughout the US Universities and educational systems. Not a happy film, but a necessary one. And sadly it probably won't change a thing. But we can't say we weren't warned.
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