Month: June 2014

One bedroom, ensuite bath (outdoor) available for immediate occupancy. Beautiful garden setting in desirable Beach Hill. Won’t last, act fast!

Danica supplied the photo today when we went to hear 4 authors interviewed about their thriller murder novels. Norway’s Thomas Enger, Sweden’s Dan T. Sehlberg and Denmark’s Jakob Melander were billed as The Striking Vikings. Dutchman Herman Koch rounded out the panel, even though he’s a neighbour, not an actual Scandinavian. Glad they included him. He has a good sense of humour.

This complaint about internet censorship comes on top of the disastrous flood news.

Perfect weather. Sunshine and gentle breezes. Gifted entertainers, happy crowds, lots of good eats, colourful costumes, drums from all kinds of cultures. Let’s go back tomorrow for lunch.

She inspects the merchandise carefully, asks shrewd questions, then negotiates a bargain… in this case, a large jar of lotion for the price of a small.
And then she walks over to Queen Street and back with a bag of ice she purchased for the vendor. She noticed that his products were melting in the hot sun, so returned the favour of a good deal with a gift of practical kindness. This is the Danica I love.

I don’t know any car drivers who are patient with the TTC, but Danica saw humour in the sign, so I snapped it.
I suppose the thanks is intended to be for suffering torn-up roads during streetcar track construction, but the illustration suggests aggravations to come, from those 30 metre long, all-door loading streetcars.

Torontonians shouldn’t travel. They only find out how slow and backward our city is. Lloyd Cooke made the mistake of visiting Madrid recently and created the comparison map above. The Spanish city is similar in size to ours, buy they’ve figured out how to make and fund a 21st century transit system.
We’ll get there, but by that time, it’ll be the 22nd century.

Ready reference for what’s happening and when:

I was quite pleased to capture this flyby today at Ashbridges Bay. Even got a bit of motion blur in the background as I tracked the bird. The Canada geese were completely unimpressed and the one in the middle mooned me.

I haven’t heard from these lowlifes for years, but apparently they are still out there. Hostpapa just sent warnings to its customers. (BBB report)
The scam involves sending out what look like invoices asking for absurdly high prices to “renew” a registered domain name. It’s just an attempt to get people to pay far too much for domain registration. Even though the renewal form looks “official” it’s not. See a sample below.