On Having Vision

8.8.08

On Thursday, when I went into surgery, my lense prescription was about 20/600 (-4.75 diopters). On Tuesday, when I went in to have the temporary contact bandages removed, my vision was 20/30. And its just gotten better every day. Unfortunately, for the state of California, it hasn't. See, a couple of weeks ago, ...

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Transport 2040

7.19.08

The other night, I went to a townhall meeting with TransLink where they presented their Transport 2040 strategy. Now, at the risk of sounding forgiving, you have to realize that they've been given a nearly impossible task. On January 1, 2008, some new legislation kicked in that said they had to ...

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You got $100 from the government. Now what are you going to do?

6.28.08

Climate action dividend cheques are arriving in the mail. Apparently, they're to help people make green choices. And on Monday or Tuesday a new 2.4 cents/litre gas tax goes on (oh and it also goes on natural gas, so even if you don't own a car, you're getting hit with ...

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Word to the Wise

5.24.08

I posted earlier about my blog being hacked. Earlier this week, I was retrieving some posts from Google's cache, and hanging out at the Momocrats’ live chat about the Kentucky (boo!) and Oregon (yay!) primaries, and mentioned my blog was hacked. John J. was in there and said this has ...

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Bloggy stuff

5.19.08

I have a question out there for anyone and everyone who might have an answer. It seems my blog, Resolving Timeline Issues, has been hacked. Its currently down while The Mastermind tries to find it. Odd phrasing? Well, its GONE. Poof. Disappeared. Its gone from the internet (except for some pages cached ...

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So, the budget

2.22.08

A few weeks ago, the BC Liberal government had a press release - and it was huge. $14 billion dollars for transit improvement (you should say "billion" like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers). That's nice. The Tri-Cities will get the long sought-after Evergreen line to extend rapid transit to that area. ...

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