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Flickr Workshop Anyone?

garym — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:12:34 -0400

Today's piping plovers caused me to pause and ask, "Would anyone be interested in a one-evening mini-seminar on 'How to use Flickr to post your SBP Photos'?"

Doesn't need to be anything fancy, we could do it over the Peninsular chat-channel (or over gTalk for those of you with our free SBP 'teledyn.com' email accounts), or we could even meet in our local beach-side Internet Café on some warm pre-season evening.

True, we already have our quick guide tutorial How To Photo-Blog To The SBP that sets out the whole process step by step, but maybe that's still a bit of a jump-ahead for those new to the whole shared digital imaging thing.

I was just thinkin' how, when we started this website most folks were still using film cameras, but today most everyone has a digital, and a good many have photo-phones, and, well, once you get past the sign-up process, sharing the SBP you see with the world is really really easy, literally a one-click thing for most phones, at worst a tidy two-step for the home-uploaders, and as you can see from the photos already in the SBP group, this place has ample beauty to share!

So what do you think? Online chat or at MacBeth's? Before the 2-4 or after? If there's interest, I don't mind sparing the time to get y'all up to speed!

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

sorry bub

wayne tanner — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:33:54 -0400

As soon as I hear the term Satin Sheets I think of, well something , and I can't stay focused long enough to provide a cereberally(sp?) responcible and ethically viable responce.
Give me time my friend,,,, give me time

Vinylgirl!!

bub — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:12:48 -0400

Wow..you really read that wrong.That blog title can be found HERE
heheh

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Gee

vinylgirl — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:35:16 -0400

I thought the link read OPIUM STRATEGIES FOR CREATIVITY AND LONGEVITY.

Satin Sheets..

bub — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:47:34 -0400

Im waiting for Wayne to comment on that part of it ;)
and we'll see how google ranks the title "satin sheets" on this website now lol.
:D

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Escape of the Neo-Luddites

garym — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:37:59 -0400

I wouldn't call it any inability, any sense of being not up to the manly task of withstanding in the steamroom, far from it, as I wrote some ten years ago, it is far more likely the dawning realization that there is more to life than plastic flowers and bad coffee, and the attendent realization that all of those years in the hamster-wheel didn't actually lead anywhere.

As I explained in that article, I'd come to that realization a long time ago. It's hard for me to say exactly when. Could have been when I watched my father toe the line for decades for the patriarchal and patronizing corporation who duly dumped him as soon as he ceased to be convenient to them, or maybe when I read how the inventor of the cubicle publicaly apologized for the Dilbert dystopia he'd helped to architect.

Or maybe it was the day I'd cut through all the disinformation and found out precisely why Ned Ludd and his followers gave their lives trying to save us from precisely the world they said would follow and which did.

There comes a time, so my theory goes, when people reach that certain age where toys don't matter nearly as much as a smile, when 'the finer things in life' aren't satin sheets and wine and imported exotica but real things like sunshine and birdsongs on the wind, clean air and a safe place for the children to play. They start remembering old Cat Stevens songs, Crosby Stills and Nash and two cats in the yard.

Not surprisingly, that's the reason I most often hear from others who, like myself, scrambled and scrimped and chose to live way up here, after having seen far and wide the world away.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

John Britt reading at Two Chicks

garym — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:10:29 -0400

Local Sauble author John Britt will be reading from his latest book, "Bob's Ichthyosaur" at the Two Chicks cafe on the Saturday of this coming August Civic weekend. Musical interlude to be provided by May Ip and Gary Murphy.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

You think YOUR job sucks

garym — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:45:52 -0400

Here's one I just discovered from the author's own semi-anonymous posting on the ad-laden SBP Chamber of Commerce forum website:

Greetings, folks. I was fortunate enough to have my first novel published a while back. It is entitled 'Timothy's Take-Out' and "sort of" takes place in the Sauble Beach area. It is a humourous tale about a shy loner who is seduced (by the prospect of 'summer at the beach') into taking a job at a loud, repulsive fast food joint. Needless to say, the experience almost drives him crazy.
The town names in the novel are more or less fictitious, but anyone from your neck of the woods reading it would probably put 2 and 2 togethor!
Anyway, just wanted to let you guys know about my book. I spent many happy summers in and around Sauble as a child, and I think this is reflected in the book.
Cheers
Pauley
from the SBPCC Forums

No idea who Pauley is or even any further details on the book. Their post points us to a website at dontlikemyjob.com but the page has no links, the icons were all broken, and apart from the synopsis of the book (and some links to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and all) that's all you get.

Still ... it's intriguing ...

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

but what about the copyright??

bub — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:30:26 -0400

Gary..I see in photo 139 the sign sauble beach..maybe they/he/she will be sued for using that now copyright sign?? I hear also the dunes are also copyright..and bids are taken for permission to cruise over them in snowmobiles..mind you that is just a rumour I heard..have to laugh at those rumours..things from sunken islands to UFO's to who knows... maybe even a far out idea of some type of centre..like a marine..or bird or ecology..no..wait..that is too far fetched....maybe convention..naaaaa couldnt be...
maybe just a parkette with toilets..now THAT is far fetched!

How to make popups,Joan Irvine

bub — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:29:06 -0500

MY kids..when they were kids..loved this book.Its a cottage staple, and the books that followed are too.Joan is so talented and explains the how to, and the why, and the results so clearly.I recomend any of her books about popups , its a great way for kids to learn and to enjoy some quiet time.(There is a link at the far right sidebar as well)
http://www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/books.html

The Stone Collection, by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

bub — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:09:34 -0500

This along with Star Trails won the 2005 prestigious Northrop Frye award in literature.Kateri, from Cape Croker(Neyaashiinigmiing) is a native author/poet from the Nawash Chippewa.Congratulations Kateri!

Support your local authors and publishers

sabrinus — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:09:27 -0500

The Brucedale Press publishes and supports local authors.

The Ginger Press publishes and supports local authors.

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"The Earth does not belong to Man.Â Man belongs to the Earth.
Man does not weave the web of life.Â He is merely a strand it it.
Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself."

Chief Seathl

At The Crossroads(A History of Hepworth) by William Stewart

bub — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:51:34 -0500

Recommended reading for anyone interested in local history, available from Mr. Stewart directly(rumour has it he will even drop it off at your abode!)He is a member of the bruce county historical society, and can be contacted through them.

Bob's Ichthyosaur by John Britt

garym — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:10:11 -0500

Our friend and neighbour John Britt's novel is one definately worthy of a top slot in your list of winter must-reads; for a really in-depth review, read the Destinations & Discoveries review ...

"Sauble Beach resident John Britt recently released Bob's Ichthyosaur, the story of an old farmer known only as Bob who, while walking by the local bay one night, is convinced that he has seen a giant ichthyosaur swimming in the blackened water. The image haunts Bob for some time, as well as the group of seniors whom he hangs out with at the Legion, until he decides to catch the creature - not for fame or glory, but to fill his freezer with steaks and then give the rest away to his buddies. Henceforth he unknowingly enters into the fold of the local Old Boy's club, becoming a legend through his modest actions."

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

helpers / nurses names on the deployment list.

Laurie watkins — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:11:43 -0500

Laurie R.P.N

Garym I think it is so great that there are education

materials to discuss Tsunami's.

I went to My nurses meeting in Toronto 2 weeks

Â ago . there were 30 nurses from all over . Oliphant, Niagara falls.

Niagara falls. They told what to do if we are

deployed. Ie shots, supliesÂ ect. The update is we went from 500 Ontario nurses willing to being a VIA nurse for Ontario only and also

127 nurses willing to be deployed to Tsunami hit areas.

We went from numbers. Now the government has our names. I will keep the community posted.Â A nurse willing to count,Laurie