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7 days

By admin | Published: March 19, 2009
I’m not sure what he was raving about, this old hobo on the corner of Cordova and Seymour. He was in a wheelchair of sorts a buggy in front of him with a huge pile of found treasures. He went on and on, to no one in particular, about welfare payments. Most people it seems [...]
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15.5 million

By The Prisoner | Published: June 29, 2008
Technology meets art here : “waterfalls” this is a very, very cool installation. I love these big assed artworks, you can also see the Angel of the North from a link on the forum, and I think both are fantastic. The more art we have the better. I was really pleased, when watching the [...]
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iPod number 2

By The Prisoner | Published: April 8, 2008
Well its a good thing she’s so sexy because she has terrible taste in music. Ok that’s not fair but anyone following my iPod-ed self will know that I liked the monkey that lived inside the small white wonder and selected music for me. That little guy was great at finding really choice random songs out [...]
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40 bucks

By The Prisoner | Published: February 6, 2008
The Vancouver council has finalized a tax cut to city property owners and businesses to repay them for the lost services from the Civic employees strike. Funds will be coming from the money “saved” by the city for not paying the staff. Homeowners will be able to see a reduction of their taxes by 40 [...]
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330,000

By The Prisoner | Published: January 25, 2008
The VANOC people want this to be the greenest Olympics ever. That number (points up) is the number of tons of carbon emmisions that will happen as a direct result of the Olympics in 2010. The figure comes from the David Suzuki Foundation and so we can assume its a bit padded, but its as [...]
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two are missing

By The Prisoner | Published: January 21, 2008
Or will be anyway. (OK I surrender, this site is always going to be about politics) <? rant> It seems there is a manual that is used by the Canadian Government to train diplomats. In this manual is a section on countries that might use torture. It’s a section used to help our diplomats understand the nature [...]
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15 per year

By The Prisoner | Published: July 30, 2007
That’s the average number of Hurricanes reported in the Atlantic between 1995 and 2005. The interesting fact is that this number is about three times larger than the reported average annual huricanes between 1900 and 1930. There has been a steady increase in the last century of huge storms. Just in case anyone needed even [...]
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a single idea

By The Prisoner | Published: July 17, 2007
I’m going to try to focus a bit. Rare for me, I admit, but I want this site to be about something. And so I will stop writing about politics here and get on with the business of technology vs life. My politics will be found in the forums.
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Zero

By The Prisoner | Published: July 6, 2007
One thing I noticed on my recent trip to Europe was the vanishing garbage cans. The old bin with the lid and a hole to toss junk in is all but gone now. The replacement is a pole with a clear plastic bag attached. Sad, ugly, messy and unpleasant, it provides security to those of [...]
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one for the record books

By The Prisoner | Published: May 31, 2007
For God’s sake, this is so sick. The trend toward making really dumbass TV is bad enough but this just makes me cringe. What the hell would you say to the poor woman with the kidneys? “Hey, pick the one with the big boobs!” ick….its just impossible to tell you how offensive this is to me. [...]
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