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Yuck!

So, I’m at the Carleton Place Dragon Boat Festival today and the weather here is rather exciting. It’s been raining almost constantly since we arrived and there have been delays because of lightning....

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A wee bit o’ rain

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The ocean says hi

It’s the darndest thing — I was walking along the beach at Riviera Beach in Florida and I’m sure it said “tell the people I say ‘Hi’”, so I pulled out my iPhone and recorded it:  

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This morning’s implosion

I headed out to Dow’s Lake this morning to watch the Sir John Carling Building be demolished. Shortly before 7am the sirens went for the last time, there were some booms and the building disappeared...

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Documenting Holland and Scott for OSM

A comment on OpenStreetMap about turn restrictions at the intersection of Holland and Scott that I’d resolved was reopened because information on Mapillary suggested there were. (To be fair, there used...

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Watching a satellite being launched

I used to work in the space field when I was the operations administrator in Satellite Acquisition Services at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in the late-1990s. While I programmed various...

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Up a creek with a paddle

I started writing this on September 26th, but I set it aside because my browser was giving me grief. Apparently, I didn’t return to it until now. I went kayaking one nice day a couple of weeks ago at...

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Night photography

I love taking pictures at night because the low light lets you take long exposures and get some rich colours and other effects that you simply can’t get during the day, so I headed out Saturday evening...

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Weekend geocaching wrap up

So, I had a busy geocaching weekend. Saturday, I took part in SNCITO7, a Cache In-Trash Out (CITO) event in Spencerville. CITOs basically combine roadside cleanup-type activities with geocaching. The...

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An afternoon of geocaching and unexpectedly chasing a storm

After editing photos for most of the morning, I decided to head out and do a little geocaching. My first find was a puzzle cache in the Experimental Farm that I had solved a while ago but hadn’t gotten...

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