This architectural detail -- three rings and a cube on a stick -- crowns a little shopping plaza on the south side of West Broadway Avenue just a block east of Oak Street.
These kinds of decorative doo-dads appeared on a few 1990s-era buildings -- not all of them, just a select few. They look pointless now but just wait until the alien invasion Click the images to enlarge them.
This is my new feathered friend and constant biking companion. Since being rescued from a dumpster a few days ago he or she has been keeping a watchful eye on traffic for me -- my rear view bird, if you will.
It doesn't talk to me of course (that would be crazy), but it does speak to me if you know what I mean.
This is a worldly bird with a unique way of looking at things -- both direct and a little unnerving. I pity the poor driver who tries to stare it down. Click the images to enlarge them.
Yesterday afternoon I was stopped with the rest of the traffic at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Cambie Street and watched as a fellow triumphantly strode down the middle of the northbound lane of Cambie. He was preceded by a phalanx of Vancouver police on motorcycles and trailed by a gaggle of happy hangers-on, apparently celebrating his achievement.
If you were S.H.I.E.L.D., a supranational, super-secret organization with flying cars and stuff an a brief to contain and neutralize alien threats
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Charlie Chaplin making his film debut as a ladies man who should be in cuffs.[/caption]
A hundred years ago it was a good time to go to the movies.
Yesterday marked the one hundredth anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance in a film -- a one-reel silent film called Making A Living, released on February 2, 1914.
When the 24-year-old, London-born, Chaplin signed on with American film producer Mack Sennett and the Keystone Film Company in 1913, movies were a burgeoning phenomenon. Chaplin was already an established vaudeville star with the Fred Karno panto troupe in both England and the United States.
In that first movie, Making A Living -- a "farce comedy," Chaplin's famous tramp was nowhere to to be seen. The 13 minute film had him playing a mustachioed, swindling Lothario with a monocle and a top hat, who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops.
Charlie Chaplin making his film debut as a ladies man who should be in cuffs.[/caption]A hundred years ago it was a good time to go to the movies.
Yesterday marked the one hundredth anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance in a film -- a one-reel silent film called Making A Living, released on February 2, 1914.
When the 24-year-old, London-born, Chaplin signed on with American film producer Mack Sennett and the Keystone Film Company in 1913, movies were a burgeoning phenomenon. Chaplin was already an established vaudeville star with the Fred Karno panto troupe in both England and the United States.
In that first movie, Making A Living -- a "farce comedy," Chaplin's famous tramp was nowhere to to be seen. The 13 minute film had him playing a mustachioed, swindling Lothario with a monocle and a top hat, who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops.
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Be vewy, vewy, quiet. Hunting the wascally Windows XP -- and penguins.[/caption]
Microsoft has a habit of using fear marketing to keep Windows customers from leaving the fold; for nearly 20 years they've tried to hold back the threat of open source software by sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about the Linux operating system; belittling it, calling it a cancer and ultimately claiming it infringes Microsoft's patents.
Lately, Microsoft has taken to throwing mud, or "FUD" as the technique is known, at its own popular operating system: Windows XP.
XP is still, after 13 years, the second most popular operating system, used on an estimated half billion computers.
But, except for a small percentage of enterprise customers using embedded XP under long-term service contracts, XP is dead to Microsoft. Both they and PC makers can only see a lot of potential new computer sales.
Be vewy, vewy, quiet. Hunting the wascally Windows XP -- and penguins.[/caption]Microsoft has a habit of using fear marketing to keep Windows customers from leaving the fold; for nearly 20 years they've tried to hold back the threat of open source software by sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about the Linux operating system; belittling it, calling it a cancer and ultimately claiming it infringes Microsoft's patents.
Lately, Microsoft has taken to throwing mud, or "FUD" as the technique is known, at its own popular operating system: Windows XP.
XP is still, after 13 years, the second most popular operating system, used on an estimated half billion computers.
But, except for a small percentage of enterprise customers using embedded XP under long-term service contracts, XP is dead to Microsoft. Both they and PC makers can only see a lot of potential new computer sales.
What are we disposed to think this might be? Creative personal expression; grade school assignment worth a C-plus, or perhaps a kind of memento mori? I can't decide. The only thing I can say for sure is... it's a piece of garbage, and I mean that literally. Click the image to enlarge it.
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