Author name: Arcterex

Foggy Vancouver

Wow, it’s been a weird week of weather (or two weeks now) where pretty much the whole lower mainland has been foggy (think thick like pea soup) morning and evening. The following picture was passed on from someone from someone from email spam. Super-cool. This is apparently a view of Downtown Vancouver from Cypress Mountain

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More Toys

Another weekend almost over, another couple of days of vegging and relaxing done. Sadly not much was actually accomplished this weekend. I did get my new camera a few days ago (had to get it from B&H in New York as it’s impossible to get in the lower mainland. The plan with this camera is

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Snow, Snow, and More Snow

Holy crap, will this white stuff ever end? I thought it was over and suddenly today it started coming down again, something like three weeks now, which is insane for the lower mainland… normally we get a day or two of snow, turns to rain the next day and is turned into a grey sludge

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Merry Christmas Eve

I did try to get to work today, I really did! I have (some) legitimate work to do, and a bottle of rum just waiting to be mixed with a drop of eggnog in my drawer (to make the day for the poor schlubs who are in on a Christmas Eve that much easier), but

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I Can Haz Car!

Well, I have my car back, at only a bit more than I expected to pay. However I do have a car back, fixed with various new pumps, hoses, and belts. Many thanks to my folks for helping me on their end and the guys at Fraser Valley Sports Car for their quick work. Weee…

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The Fails of the Season

sigh So what else is going to go wrong. So far in the last little while: Got a note from the tax man saying there was missing paperwork from my taxes (due not to H&R block screwing up, but from the company I was working at that was acquired not giving me a T4, and

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An Evening with Joe McNally

So thanks to a tip from a friend taking a course from him, I found out that The Joe McNally is in Vancouver and was doing a lecture downtown. Being that I’ve read and pimped his book before, and he’s done picture for oodles of places, including National Geographic, it was a pretty good idea

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New Location

In addition to some hardware juggling, I’m finally moving my blog off of my cable modem connection and onto the UFies.org server. If this is up and you’re seeing it, then that means it’s all over and done and DNS is updated and I haven’t blown it all up 🙂

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