Cool! One of my photos appeared in the summer 2015 InfoBurnaby.
Not so cool, they forgot to credit… Sigh.
City of Burnaby staff asked if they could use photos from my blog post from a few months back to promote Parks-organized nature tours. I said sure, but that it would be great to be given credit.
Giving credit is easy, so I wonder why it seems so hard to remember to do.
UPDATE: Aug. 13, 2015. Thank you! In a new brochure, the City used five of my photos — and there were five photo credits!
Let’s make some noise! Quietly… or not.
I now have my main computer set up with a stereo dual-output adapter on the audio output.
One signal is running to my Logitech THX-certified speakers/woofer that can greatly annoy the neighbours if turned up to even a third of their potential, and the other signal is running to the dock for my relatively new Sony wireless headphones.
No more plugging and unplugging. The Logitech speaker setup has a remote volume/on-off switch, and the headphones have their own built-in on/off and volume controls.
Happy boy!
Another photo ramble at Stewart Heritage Farm in south Surrey. It’s one of my favourite places in the lower mainland to take photos.
We attended the 2015 Powell Street Festival in Vancouver today. Super sunny day. Great events and food!
My Flickr album here.
My lovely wife prepared a roll-your-own sushi feast for my birthday, You will also note the portion-controlled birthday cupcake :-).
Our local MP Peter Julian and MLA Raj Chouhan hosted their annual summer BBQ in Ron McLean Park in southeast Burnaby today. It was great fun, with local band Rainshadow providing entertainment.
Here’s my Flickr album of the event.
I was happy to see that water temperatures have eased in Byrne Creek in southeast Burnaby.
Today I got readings of 10/11 C in the ravine, and a high of 13 C at the downstream end of the sediment pond. That’s off from 17+ a few weeks ago, which was getting high for the health of salmon and trout.
It was also interesting to note that the air temperature in the thick, tall woods of the ravine was 15 C, while the air temperature standing on the median of Southridge Drive, a four-lane road running past the ravine, was 24 C.
Another example of the natural services provided by woods and forests!
Wondering if I should upgrade my Samsung SIII phone to an S5 model, while the S5 is still available.
The reason I’m thinking about this is because I hear Samsung has gone Apple — as in “bad Apple” in the sense of constraining user access — on us, and made the S6 a sealed unit with non-user-replaceable battery, a la iPhone.
I have a second battery for my SIII, and it takes just seconds to pop the back off and switch batteries, or, for that matter, swap memory cards.
I like that.
And no, I’m not a knee-jerk Apple fumigator. I’ve had Macs since the mid-80s. I just don’t like Apple’s steadily increasing drive to shut out hardware hobbyists.
Or Samsung’s moves in that direction.
We got ten cobs of fresh corn at HMart today for, I think it was $5.98. A minute or two in boiling water and it’s fantastic, not even any salt or butter, just natural sweetness.
Choco wanted out on the balcony to lap fresh rainwater off of leaves. When I went back a few minutes later to check on her, I found her mesmerized by a snail.
