By: The Philosophical Fish|29 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: life's like that
Not impressed. So I made it to Victoria Sunday night. Hobbled onto the plane and then a cab to the hotel where I plopped myself down with a bag of ice on my ankles all night. Monday’s meeting went OK, except that I had my feet on the floor all day, and then stupidly hobbled down to the cafeteria for…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|27 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: life's like that
We went to the fireworks last night. Wednesday night was Canada, last night was the US. Sadly, I think the US actually had a better display than we did. I imagine China will go all out this coming Wednesday…..though I’m not sure I’m game to go downtown again… Vancouver’s Celebration of Light We had decided to make an afternoon of…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|27 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: reading
A somewhat random collection of books on my personal bookshelf that I either can’t live without, or have recently read. Living Conscientiously The 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck Ecoholic by Adria Vasil Fiction Factory The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham The Midwich…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|26 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: pets
Week one has been an unqualified success with the new litter box! Maybe it was money well spent….can’t say for certain yet…but I’m hoping! It doesn’t clean itself until about 10-12 minutes after it’s been used…and for the first 5 days the cats would rush is and stare at it when it would turn on…now they have become a little…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|24 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: music
My iTunes kicked this onto a playlist. Haven’t heard it for awhile and it always makes me pause and think about a lot of things. A lot of good advice in here. Sunscreen – Baz Luhrman ________________________________________ Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|23 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: critical thinking
Around the world there are weird laws that are buried in the archives. Most of these are obviously not in effect, but they just haven’t been taken off the legal books. A short search of the web turns up all kinds of oddities. We have a few strange ones in Canada….. and obviously if push came to shove they would…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|23 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: photography
Good grief, NO! I am NOT doing another degree. Kirk and I are taking a short night class in field photography. Neither one of us has ever taken a photography course and it’s always been pretty much a case of trial and error for us both. We had our first class last night. What fun to sit in a high…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|21 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: pets
Apparently …….this one. We are still struggling with “Milo issues” and our newest thought is perhaps that he needs a spotless litterbox…..if that’s the case, how does one clean the litterbox after every use? We tried two boxes…and still had issues….so…enter the automatic litterbox. What the heck, we have Roomba… But $200? Well, it’s a small price if it works….…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|21 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: critical thinking
And yet we blindly do believe things because we inherently trust this magazine, or that newscaster, or the a specific newspaper. We fail to do the most basic human thing…question. One of the first things we should do when we read any story, or hear any newscast, is question the source of the information, question the facts. Blindly following the…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|19 July, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: behaviour
When did people forget how to say “Excuse me” and “please” and “thank you”? When did it become acceptable to fail to hold a door open for someone? When did it become OK for a young person to fail to give up a seat to a senior ar a less able person? When did people start flipping you the bird…
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