Home
Bankview Puppy Rentals
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 2503
Just throwing it out there, but what the SPCA should be doing is setting up rental agencies in fashionable neighborhoods where those dogless tenants can rent a puppy for an hour or two...walk it through the parks, up and down the streets, let the owners listen to the cooing of admiring singles...
...nothing breaks the ice like a cute little puppy. Maybe offer a variety of breeds, with higher rates for the more attractive and rarer ones, hourly walk-rates, the puppies would love it, outdoors all day, playing fetch, sniffing other puppy-butts, and the renters, well, they could pretend they cared about dogs and enjoy the invited attentions of hundreds of admirers, picking from them the most suitable for mating...
Hell, in the event of a successful coupling you're practically guaranteed a sale at double what most retail outlets would charge, who would want to admit to renting a puppy to meet girls/or boys?
If you start one up, give me credit. And a few free rentals, after all, it was my idea...
Nazi Gold
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Lost
- Hits: 2222
A long read courtesy of the New York Times that details the search in Lower Silesia, Poland, for Nazi Gold. Abundant clues, found treasures, and the standard nut-jobs. It reads like an Indiana Jones script...
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold
Dissolve
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 2588
The acid test, over time, well, they all dissolved, and while I'd set up my camera to do some time lapse photography it wasn't in a convenient location, the light sources varied, overall not a success. But I've learned, mebbe, and next time it'll be better. Meanwhile, a few photos of the vanishing implausible shapes and impossible lustres ...
2 rather well formed pyrope garnets, the one on the left orange, on the right deep red/purple. Not diamonds...
Alberta Burning
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 2482
Another beautiful day in Alberta, Calgary, and you can see the haze over the city, smell the smoke from the wildfires, Fort McMurray's on fire and it's the perfect metaphor for what's happening to this province...
...business, at the restaurant, up and down, still don't think he's turning a profit but he's hopeful. Oil's up to $45.00 a barrel. Everywhere on buses and the radio there are ads for debt consolidations, restructure, reorganize, house prices are 10% down and there's still a long ways to fall, no one can remember ever having seen it this bad...
The landlord, meet him in the hall, this building, 4 stories, 6 units per floor, at the moment 7 are vacant. That's 25%. "There's a lot of competition out there now," he tells me ruefully, "We've managed this building for 30 years, never seen it like this...". Now would be a good time to bargain on the rent, but I haven't the heart, the fuse is lit...
We have our busy nights, the waves of people not related to oil and gas, but they're few and far between. In the afternoon, trying to doze, the phone rings, short term business lenders wondering if we need a quick injection of cash, everywhere the vultures, the scavengers are circling, there's a whole economy devoted to mining the chaos and misfortunes of others...
"Blame the NDP", "Blame the Liberals", ""Blame the Saudi's", the finger's quick to point, never a thought to blame ourselves, our province, like it's citizens, has overspent, lived beyond it's means for too long, and now we're all beginning to pay the price...
The lunch customers, lone stragglers, all complaining, there's a lot to complain about, a good many of them are here on stolen credit and borrowed time, filling our ears with denials about climate change, merely a good warm winter, El-Nino, it's propaganda, this carbon tax, environmental bullshit, Alberta needs industry, business, Oil and Gas, Coal, and the sky fills with smoke and I'm thinking it's time to get out of town...
Page 670 of 1086