Mock-up 2 Vertical
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Lake Lovely Water: just a float plane away...
The day we got married
(a) click on the photo to see the rest of the photos and our canoe trip-honeymoon.
(b) scroll down to see two short videos of where we got hitched.
(a) click on the photo to see the rest of the photos and our canoe trip-honeymoon.
(b) scroll down to see two short videos of where we got hitched.
Getting Hitched on the Southwest Coast
Here's video of where we landed for our wedding in August 2008. Below you find a quick shot of the crime scene.
Blog Hiatus!
Well as you can see my last blog entry corresponds with my latest job teaching geography at Douglas College in Metro Vancouver. They certainly keep me busy there! Luckily I have been able (like most of the faculty) to teach two semesters and have the third one off! YAHOOOOOOO!
Last year (2008) I had much of January to the end of April off! Technically I must spend 21 days in 'Professional Development' but I think I spent a whole lot more, especially in developing all the courses and lessons. However, I did spend a month over January and February in Ontario! Yay for the freezing cold winter. Sounds crazy but I had a blast: visited friends in Toronto, stayed with family in Millbrook, and took a four day dog sledding course with Outward Bound in Algonquin Park. After this wicked intro to winter camping my hubby and I have taken to overnight snow camping in the North Shore Mountains. BBQ coals, sausages, mulled wine, and an 80lb mutt-foot warmer.
This year (2009) I'm taking a month to re-visit Belize. I only got a glimpse of this English-speaking nation a decade ago and look forward on heading back. I'm bringing my hammock tent... yes, my hammock tent (Hennessy Hammock Backpacker Asymmetrical), my snorkel gear, and my hiking boots. I have some trips booked including the three day Indian Creek Trail (park of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor), the seven mile cave tubing through Caves Branch, some hikes and kayaking in Cockcomb Jaguar Preserve with the Chun family at Tutzil Nah Cottages, a tropical island getaway to Thatch Caye (I'll camp there) and finally an 8 day organized trip with BC-based Island Expeditions to Lighthouse Reef. The rest of my days will be flexible: Belize Zoo? Lamanai Ruins? Canoeing? Horse rides? Bicycle rentals? Marie Sharp's Hot Sauce Factory? More hiking? More Snorkeling? Hammock surfing?
If you have any recommendations for places to go and see, stay at or eat in then please leave as many comments on this site or email me at globalhammockatyahoodotca
Cheers!
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Women know your limits!
"I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science." Ron Burguny, Anchorman
Friday, June 22, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Independent media in a time of war
an excellent presentation by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow.org (independent media organization- tv, radio and internet) and accompanying videos and photos. Please watch this.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Five Ring Circus trailer
I saw this film tonight in Vancouver. It's more than you thought you know about the olympic farce that's taken over Vancouver. If you have a chance to see the whole film then get out there!!
Saturday, May 19, 2007
crackbook
Hmmmm, facebook is like crack. Now that I'm on facebook, I'm neglecting this blog.
I've been told that the feds (US that is) are watching me now that I've signed my soul to facebook. Oh no! Now they know that most of us are liberals!?! Oh and atheists. And that lots of people don't call themselves hetero or homosexual. Geez, they might sell this info to some defense company that nike and aldo subcontract for and the two will join forces to produce a non- gender specific shoe which they'll market to us by analyzing our personal interest sections and make millions and millions in sales.... that is, if we buy the shoe.
Okay, so there is something creepy about defense departments monitoring our online info. I admit I don't like the idea, but at the same time, there seems to be this obsession in so-called liberal worlds with top down control of big business and and government without any attention to the ways in which we are all imbricated in the production, maintenance and reproduction of these worlds... the ways in which we are all complicit in the (re)production of business and government. Yes, there is reason for concern about collusion between government and corporate in terms of political neutrality and I recognize this... but what about all the other players in society, economy, politics. As a reaction to neoconservatism the liberal speakers have waged a massive blame game....so the conservatives blame the liberals and in reaction the liberals blame the conservatives and vise versa. Things don't change. Actions are reactionary, not revolutionary or subversive.
Instead of only focusing on the government and the businesses that "control us", why not ALSO look at the ways in which we are complicit in this '"controlling"-- the ways in which we are all imbricated in processes of governmentality. Wikipedia is just a starting place... for more info google "foucault and governmentality" or better yet, get ye to a library.
So why isn't there some other non-defense related, non-governmental copycat to facebook which we can all transfer over to? Would the world then be a happy place. We could build a global village and sing kumbya. Yes, yes, I am being cyclical here.
I've been told that the feds (US that is) are watching me now that I've signed my soul to facebook. Oh no! Now they know that most of us are liberals!?! Oh and atheists. And that lots of people don't call themselves hetero or homosexual. Geez, they might sell this info to some defense company that nike and aldo subcontract for and the two will join forces to produce a non- gender specific shoe which they'll market to us by analyzing our personal interest sections and make millions and millions in sales.... that is, if we buy the shoe.
Okay, so there is something creepy about defense departments monitoring our online info. I admit I don't like the idea, but at the same time, there seems to be this obsession in so-called liberal worlds with top down control of big business and and government without any attention to the ways in which we are all imbricated in the production, maintenance and reproduction of these worlds... the ways in which we are all complicit in the (re)production of business and government. Yes, there is reason for concern about collusion between government and corporate in terms of political neutrality and I recognize this... but what about all the other players in society, economy, politics. As a reaction to neoconservatism the liberal speakers have waged a massive blame game....so the conservatives blame the liberals and in reaction the liberals blame the conservatives and vise versa. Things don't change. Actions are reactionary, not revolutionary or subversive.
Instead of only focusing on the government and the businesses that "control us", why not ALSO look at the ways in which we are complicit in this '"controlling"-- the ways in which we are all imbricated in processes of governmentality. Wikipedia is just a starting place... for more info google "foucault and governmentality" or better yet, get ye to a library.
So why isn't there some other non-defense related, non-governmental copycat to facebook which we can all transfer over to? Would the world then be a happy place. We could build a global village and sing kumbya. Yes, yes, I am being cyclical here.
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