Category: Life Musings
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Do You Support Local Business? Unconditionally?
In the past I have blogged about how I love to support small, local business. However, like Chris Brogan, my support for small, local business is not unconditional. We have two cats in our house. (when you read that sentence, you can imagine the tone of voice to be me saying, “we have pests in…
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Wordless Wednesday; Spences Bridge
Traveling through Spences Bridge today I was struck by the beauty of the deserted buildings along the highway.
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City Home, Suburban Home
It is interesting to see what kind of a home you can buy in downtown Vancouver compared to a suburban community like White Rock. So I asked went on Realtor dot ca to find two homes to compare, one with a nice view in downtown Vancouver and the other with an equally nice view in…
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Marketing Genius…
I always enjoy marketing genius, that is unless I am the one paying for the marketing genius. Take the example of shampoo. Marketing genius is the sales person who wrote the instructions on the side of the bottle, “Pour shampoo into your hand, apply to hair, lather, rinse and then repeat.” The “repeat” part just…
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Musings on K-12 Education
Here is a snippet of Seth Godin’s blog posted by one of my favourite education bloggers, Chris Kennedy; K-12 is not about collecting credits — it is bigger than that. A K-12 education is about learning content, but it is also about experiencing citizenship, being part of a community we call “school”. Classes are about…
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Granville Island Encounter
If the young couple, he from London and now residing in Victoria, BC and her from Denmark, who I met near the entrance to Granville Island do visit me here on my blog, would you post a comment to let me know if you made it to the bus and the ferry on time today?…
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Canadian Tire Customer Service FAIL
My Canadian Tire adventure began with the following tweet that I sent out; @canadiantire if you don’t have people in your stores to help customers, they won’t buy anything from your store. #fail #customerservice I then received the following tweet in reply; @srobinsmith could you please contact customerservice@canadiantire.com with your contact info about this? We…
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The International Tailgating Experiment
People may or may not know this, but for many years there has been a scientific experiment about the practice of tailgating taking place on our city streets, highways and freeways. The hypothesis and experimental practice was that if a car was traveling at a rate of speed slower than the person driving in a…
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The Bay Towne Leather Giveaway Winning Number
And the winner of the Bay Towne Leather credit card holder is…
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A Hilarious Look at Healthy Eaters
An absolutely brilliant and hilarious look at the eating habits of “Healthy Eaters” … All you want to do is eat a little healthier. Really. Maybe get some of that Activa probiotic yogurt or something. So you look around and start researching what “healthier” means. That really skinny old scientist dude says anything from an…