Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge by Eric Jamieson
Ideas for the airport, transportation to the North Shore, and proposes a University of Vancouver as a fully-qualified post-secondary institution located downtown.
Social Media Quarterly Review: Q1 2009
Talking about social media is boring, but what else do I have? For someone who wonders about the definition and value of productivity in the social applications era, and for someone who claims not to actually do much, my activity stream would make me appear like an active contributor to the world's knowledge. If that's the case, then here's how to follow me around online. The aggregated feed of my shared items (which includes Vimeo Likes, YouTube Favorites, Flickr Favorites, Diggs, Last.fm Loved Tracks, Twitter Favorites, Yahoo!
Every search or arrest should be observed and, if safe and possible, recorded by citizens. They work for us.
The music
is most recognized by rumbling, guttural, often off-beat, low-end, bass frequencies. Tracks juxtapose half-time echoing dub drum patterns with the dark, haunting melodies of sweeping synths.No mention of aerosol flamethrowers, however.
Every Day is Ada Lovelace Day
Suw Charman, whom I met on IRC some years ago and later met at Northern Voice, tipped me off a few weeks ago that today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating both the woman heralded as the "first programmer" and women in technology generally.
![Steven Heller talks with Stefan Sagmeister about taking year-long sabbaticals every 7 years [PDF]](https://image.thum.io/get/http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/print_dialogue_stefan_sagmeister.pdf)
Sounds like something designers with rich clients can do more feasibly than small company employees. Still, we need not reserve "retirement" for the retired.
Vintage Toronto Streetcar Notes
On a trip to Toronto in 2006, during the Canadian Pacific Exhibition, two older Toronto streetcars passed by Karen and me while we were walking the mean streets of The Big Smoke. Some years later, these informative comments from a user called booledozer appeared on the Flickr versions of the photos.
Reichardt's film is based on Raymond's story, included in the book of short stories about Pacific Northwest life, particularly set in Portland Oregon.
Monoculture, overconfidence, gender, and history led "bankers" from the Land of Fire and Ice to switch a nation from something they knew (fishing) to something they didn't (international finance).
Notes of Pete Quily's Talk on Goal-setting and Following Through, Part 2
You've seen part 1 of my notes on Pete Quily's presentation on setting goals and following through. Part 2 takes us through Pete's coaching demonstration. He took a volunteer from the audience and demonstrated for 10 minutes (enforced by his $20 timer) how he would coach someone through setting a goal and following through on it.
Northern Voice Microblogging Presentation Debrief
Here are the notes I took of a self-debrief about my Northern Voice presentation last month about microblogging. I follow most of the advice Joe Clark gives about giving presentations and agree with all of it. Every presentation, including this one, I close anything that makes a unanticipated notification or unwanted sound, load up every website I intent to show in a tab well before the presentation. I don't do this often enough in a year to get smooth at it.
From Haida Gwaii to Gregor Robertson to North Vancouver, he experienced a lot of what this city had to offer in just one day.
