South Bruce Peninsular - Two Chicks on the Beach - Comments

Bart on Base

garym — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:53:19 -0400

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

oh..and btw

bub — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:43:43 -0400

I live 2 minutes from you ac430 :D

All our stories are interseting too ;)

bub — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:44:02 -0400

I hope that cleared it up for you ac430, Gary gave you the readers digest abbridged version of the real answer!:)

All our comments are belong to us

garym — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:30:16 -0400

An astute observation, you're absolutely right, of course, in a sense, gramatically speaking, and you're right to ask that question and I'm glad someone has finally asked.

I would put it into the FAQ, but that would spoil everything :)

the short answer is to recommend you place the following query into google: all *our * are belong to us

The long answer is that the many and various variants of the original Zero Wing subtitle phrase All your base are belong to us have become deeply entrenched into the modern Internet -- psychologists and sci-fi fans will call it a meme, but by whatever name, it is powerful juju when it comes to things online.

All Your Base is to our Digital Millenium what Kilroy was Here was to the age of global travel. Watch for it. It is everywhere ...

For example, if you have highspeed access (or a lot of patience) I highly recommend a leisurely jaunt through that defacto homesite of all things all-your-belong-to-us-ish including the very famous All Your Base video: Planet Tribes

meanwhile, back on the South Bruce Peninsular ...

My vision for the South Bruce Peninsular is a community journal, a neighbourhood diary that collects and presents the combined scrapbook of everyone who lives here. This isn't what the newspapers see fit to print, although we all know our local papers are amazing champions of keeping community archives, but newspapers do have an obligation to the publisher, they have to move units, make the charts, gain share ... and to do that, to lesser and greater degrees, they must throw their focus on the heros, on the 'news-makers' and on The Really Big Events.

Not us. We don't get paid, and no one pays us, so it doesn't much matter to us to get the maximum readership. We're not pleasing advertisers, so we don't have to be bigger and better and bigger than life, we can just relax, be ourselves. Anyone who takes the time to fill out a membership (a process that weeds out spammers) is free to add their bits -- I might advise on how a story should be written (first person and neighbourly, not 'press release') but I've never told anyone they couldn't post what was on their mind, whether that's welled up bile over waterworks or what's happening at a bake sale.

Because these are our stories. This is our family album of memories, of stolen moments, of the lives we really live and share, it's our stories, told by us and as told to each other, adding up one by one to paint a true portrait of who we are and what it meant to us to be the people, the real people who work, play and live here in the Town of South Bruce Peninsula.

And nobody says whether we can or cannot. Nobody says we can't print a picture of the beach with snow on it or a rant about the mayor or that we can't review some business or other. This is the internet: We don't need any journalism degree, we don't need a business plan, We don't need no stinkin' badges

These are our stories, and all our stories are belong to us.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

Web Feed

a tourist — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:12:08 -0400

I use the sbp web feed on my own web site. Is it supposed to read," South Bruce Peninsular - All our stories are belong to us". Shouldn't it be " - All our stories belong to us"?

Two Chicks on the Beach

garym — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:14:44 -0400

Out on a pre-rush stroll on a pretty quiet main stretch of the village this evening uncovered another newcomer to the community, a little healthy choices café tucked in a cabin's space just off main street north on 2nd Ave, a hip new oasis called the Two Chicks Café

I suppose the very retro-Euro moped parked out in front should have been more than enough of a first clue; open since this just passed May 2-4, Two Chicks sports seating indoors and out, chess-tables, patio umbrellas, wraps and smoothies, iced cappicino and iced tea ... all of it pretty welcome fare from what's traditionally found within this easy barefoot distance of the shoreline.

But you're going to really love this: what caught my eye even more was the casual notice sign of the added perk ...

... e-mail access ...

Well, a bit more than that actually, the café sports a 3Mb/sec Bell DSL line connected to a machine in the side room, and it's open and available for the cost of a meal!

You can't beat a deal like that in this town, and as if that weren't enough, the café is open 7 days a week from 8am to 11pm.
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