Calgary
If you've read the "About" you'll know I live in Calgary, AB. A few words about Calgary - population, roughly 1 million people. Area: 726.5 sq KM. It's a masterpiece of Urban Sprawl, if such a thing is to be valued. Calgarians are proud of the fact their city is "bigger" in land area than New York. Strictly speaking this isn't true, but urban sprawl is one of the many major issues that remain unaddressed by local politicians. Currently in Calgary we have a Quimby for Mayor, Dave Bronconnier, whose success can only be accounted for by his nickname, "Bronco". He campaigns with a platform of environmental concerns, these apparently based on the fact that he personally takes his bottles in to be recyled.While currently in his 3rd term in office there is still no recycling policy in place in Calgary, citizens are merely encouraged to recycle, making Calgary the only major North Amercan city to not have one. Bronconnier believes Calgary has a world class transit system, by which he means your chance of being stabbed or mugged while on our transit system is as great or greater than any other major North American city. In terms of getting around public transit is poor to extremely poor, most points in the city being a minimum of 1 hour away, further on weekends, evenings and holidays. Transit is for those who can't afford cars or parking, or have impaired driving convictions, and the use of it is explicitly discouraged by civic policy.
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1st Post
This is without doubt the most procrastinated of blogs. By which I mean to forestall further procrastinations by beginning, today, the process of putting into print the the hundreds of thoughts that assail me, to organize into piles the heaps of ideas, illegible post-it notes, napkins, envelopes, and anything else that has taken an impression, to begin upon a mountain of opinions, facts, memes and ideas, to sort, categorize, to write with a minimum of revisions (and here I chortle, because with every sentence I review the paragraph and revise, rewrite, redraft. . . ).
There have been 10, 000 things come between me and this first post, 1 million fritters, 10 million excuses. . .
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