An open and frank declaration
Superficial
Oh Halifax, and Canada
0Oh Halifax,
Things I don’t expect to ever see elsewhere and hope to remember.
more h-fax photos
- Accordion buskers
- Rubber boots with pink bows
- Man with guitar on shoulder buying groceries
- Plaid rubber boots
- Two normal people walking quickly on busy street, barefoot. Maybe not normal… earthy.
- Pink polka dot rubber boots.
- Oxford Theatre, an artsy old single movie house, with balcony.
- One armed guitar busker
- A homeless dude who yelled at me for spitting in a garbage can.
- Beer branded double decker tour buses.
- Homeless dudes who open the door to tim hortons for you.
- A public park with Michael Jackson dance-offs, carnivals, video game contests, and paul mccartney.
- Good bagpipe buskers
- A waterfront with very ordinary boats that somehow become a big attraction.
- A snowboard competition with trucked-in snow in a tiny downtown one block park. and hundreds of people standing around trying to stay warm enough to watch it.
- Bald drumming busker monks
- Ancient victorian houses with modern businesses inside
- Fun hurricanes.
And oh Canada…
- Andreanne Sasseville’s music minute before a movie, why do i pick her out? She’s just an advertising talking robot, but I still like her. French Canadian pleasantry goes a long way. She was the first to mention Lights to me, so props to her.
- George Strombo nobody interviews like him with legitimate edge, and legitimate mainstreamity.
- Racial acceptance. It just seemed like it never came up negatively, just like the cool cultural parts of people’s background. Haters were the weird ones (or the foreign ones). Plus, there were more asians , even in halifax… sadface. To all asians, if you move to phoenix, i’ll buy you some of those pretzel sticks that don’t taste very good. Or maybe some fishy snacks that are awful.
- Snow. Note that Ice Rain is definitely not on this list.
- Leaving your door unlocked and not freaking out about it.
- Second Cup.
- Hockey. (duh.)
- A government bureaucracy that seems like they put in effort to be helpful.
- Decent public school system.
- Colored money. – I don’t miss coins though. It is nice to never carry change.
- Cultural food. More than one Thai restaurant in the whole city, and actual sushi…. sigh. A real mediterranean restaurant would be nice.
- Political pleasantry.
- Cora’s. A breakfast place that won’t cause heart disease.
- Cheap, entertaining football.
- Winter Heart. Watching a football game while in parkas and multiple blankets, or even a sleeping bag for warmth, that’s Canadian heart.
Bo Peep
0Is Bo Peep really an appropriate name for a female? Is there a big bo peep?
Stupid name or not, she has aged extremely well. I’d like to throw out there the suggestion that nobody has aged finer in history. In 1902 and then today, (in 3D no less)
Who can resist that bonnet and sheperdess crook?
new gig, and a hammer.
0So I’m in Phoenix, kicking it with my own place, my job is fun. Things are up. I have some bloggings in the draft phase. No thrilling stories, but I could spice up my scorpion killing. I did whack it with a hammer. My weapon of choice. (no connection to Captain Hammer in Dr Horrible)
Palma and Murcia
02 years ago
by Sheridan
in Superficial
Oh Palma, quaint town of the sea. How I’ll miss thee. Maybe I’ll go back….
Murcia, I am pretty sure I won’t go back. Not to say it was bad, but its more of a living city than a touring city. (Oh, and The Prodigy amongst others certainly delivered.)
(my photos soon)
In classic blog style, I regurgitate my travel experiences… (more…)
Hammering
0I haven’t written here in a while. I should get my Spain things down in a jiffy, but in the meantime, here is a Jack Handey story.
I remember I was hammering on a fence in the backyard when Dad approached. He was carrying a letter or something in his hand, and he looked worried. I continued to hammer as he came toward me. “Son,” he said, “why are you hammering on that fence? It already has plenty of nails in it.” “Oh, I’m not using nails,” I replied. “I’m just hammering.” (more…)
All over the map – time
0I have been traveling all over the map but in doing so, my wake times have been all over the map. Everything is at a whim, and it just fits how it fits.
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Productivity Tips
0My productivity has waxed and waned. I remember my dad telling me about moons that have phases where they wax and wane. I am not quite sure which is which, but wane means to fade?
I want to be productive, in hours when I dont have to be productive. So how do I push even when nobody is there to push?
1. Music, new music is waaay to distracting, unless its ambient wordless techno, I can’t handle this ROCK n POP cast even though its quite good. I need something with a good tempo, but not too stimulating to become foreground.
2. Convince yourself you should. I sometimes think laying down might be nicer. I know its not really what I should do, but my brain and body aren’t convinced. I sorta stab ‘conventional wisdom’ all the time, so when ‘conventional wisdom’ tells me to water a plant, that doesn’t necessarily mean I am compelled. I have to be convinced its a good idea. Like how my plant has tips that are turning a bit crispy 
Tim needs some water, I am convinced. I need to work, right now I’m convinced.
3. Schedule realistic work amounts. If I really wanted to amp up, I _could_ work for like 8 hours straight, but thats not realistic. I have breaks, talk to this person at this time, play a short game here at that time. It sorta works as long as I keep things in their boxes. Without work scheduling and fun scheduling, time gets lost.
4. Mental health therapy. If you’re stresed or tired or sad or angry, you often need to take care of that first. Well, maybe the paying job comes first, mental health second, and then ‘fun’ job third. It can’t be pushed to the pits of the stomach, people aren’t wired that way.
5. Short term reachable goals. This is huge. I’ve been told this a billion times, but if you dont feel progress you will quit. I can not relate to anyone that works at something for more than five years. Lab scientists with their chemical testing can work so hard, with no results! How! That is foreign to me, and most people. I write todo lists all over the place, short quick things.
6. Have hope! 
Things can change, your goals can be met, you can do it.
iphone?
0Well, I’ve been looking to upgrade my portability and improve my techological wiredness.
I know people like iphones, people at work have them. It makes them happy. The interface to use media looks great. Apparently some of the apps are useful (or at least are marketed well) because lots of people are buying them. But I thought to myself, what is important to me?
A keyboard is important.
- I dont appreciate having to type on a touch screen, but I suppose its possible. I don’t blind TXT like some people.
Cost is important.
- To get a iphone contract costs in the area of a thousand per year. For two or three years minimum
Online apps are more important than nononline ones.
- I’ll be browsing the internet, maps, reading rss feeds, going to youtube, facebook, maybe even making notes.
- Multimedia apps, puzzle games, musical instruments don’t have much appeal. I have other devices which do that better.
- I’ve seen the iphone browser, the squeeze zoom is not something i really want to be doing constantly. The resolution is also low.
Phone is important.
- It might be nice to not need my phone, especially since its not charging very well anymore
Battery life is also important.
- When not in use, iphone seems to be ok. But for extended browsing or whatever, I’m not so sure.
Interface is not really important
- Function matters, not really how nice sliding things are. I want to be productive, not happy.
- Handling rotation, slideyanimations,
Music playing is not really important
- My 80gb zune has that just fine and I couldn’t be happier with it (aside from crashing 3 or 4 times)
Being apple is not important
- Infact, I hate their attitude of pushing products people don’t need and getting away with it.
- I also loathe any proprietary apple software. Their ‘best’ app, itunes, drives me crazy.
So, what are pros to use the iphone, that is specific to me?
Widespread, large community.
Its a phone.
Clean design.
What other options do I have?
I can go more internety, like a tablet. Full slide out keyboard style.
—-except I’d really like it to be a phone
Or a flip phone with full keyboard.
—-except they are handicapped in all non keyboard features
I can go more keyboard phone, like a keyboard blackberry with small screen.
—-except a nice screen is fun, webbrowsing works better
I can get an alternative touch phone, htc, samsung, LG have their own kind.
—-except its windows mobile?
Well…. actually I like WinMo. I used to have a pocket pc, and it was fun! I got a fold up keyboard for school and used MSN, SNES emulators, document readers, MS Office. Good memories!
So I went for the HTC Diamond, top reviewed non-iphone at cnet. I watched youtube videos and it looked spiffy. Its also smaller by length and height.
New todo list
2- Do something
- Don’t stay home
- Go to Greenland
- Go to Denver
- Bury treasure in St Louis and St Paul
- Go to Moscow
- Go to Tampa
- Go to Boston in the Fall
- Hoist the mainstay
- Swab the poop deck
- Veer to starboard
- Sail
- Walk the gangplank
- Own a parrot
- Go to Boston in the fall
- Pluck a rooster
- Become good at ping-pong
- Throw mashed potatoes against the wall
- Kiss a chipmunk
Get headlice- Go to Boston in the fall
- Lick a spark-plug
- Sniff a stink bug
- Paint daises on a big red rubber ball
- Bathe in yogurt
Look good in leggings- Go to Boston in the fall
Ice 1
1I walk very quickly. Ice slows me down a little, but not that much. I mean I’m a Canadian; I should be able to walk across hockey rinks, frozen sidewalks, roofed igloos and the like.
But today I was like this man — on a large slanted parking lot, my nimbility failed me.
Sheridan 56024 Ice 1.
