Category: About the Author
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Phones and Messaging in the Modern world
Remember the good old days when you got 1 LETTER, and that 1 letter you’d carefully reply with a well worded response? This is still how I view anything sent to me in written form, and if I feel I don’t have the time and energy that message deserves to be answered with, I don’t…
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Spicy Sausage Pineapple Dish
I’m all about simple cooking. I hate having to spend 5 hours in the kitchen for a 15 minute meal! I grew up cooking with what was on hand, knowing we had to be frugal, my parents only buying the necessities and supplementing the rest with my dad’s large garden and his mini orchard. We’d…
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Video-Games = The New Parent?
The next time I hear a parent complain about how their child never listens to them or how they can’t tell them no, I’m going to point out an AI does their job better. Yes that’s right, our generation is being raised by video games instead of television. At least with video games these kids…
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Don’t Use Quora – Access to your Google Searches
I made a google search yesterday, and the hair on my neck rose when I received this email this morning at 10:49 am: Stories from your activity Which dual rear camera combo will do a better photography, 16/5 or 12/12 or any other? Shivam Trivedi, I am a mobile photographer. Written Jul 17 The answer…
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Tech Support
I’m a computer nerd. I’ve spent a considerable amount of my career helping people who’ve never touched a computer learn the difference between a monitor and a computer, and what a mouse is! If something goes wrong at work, or someone’s having an issue over the phone, I get the call. I’m reminded that these…
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Fear Mongering Vegetarians
I have many vegetarian friends…well we’ll see after this, but I do hope they realize the point I’m trying to bring across, and that I’m not attacking their stand, but rather questioning the tactics used to pull people to their side, and to point out the fact that we’ve got a much bigger problem then…
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Sumac
This plant grows in my backyard in Vernon, British Columbia. I started researching what uses it had, and to my surprise, I found out that there are more then just a poisonous Sumac! (As you can see, my yard can be a bit of a desert, so this is not the kind that grows in…
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Kasugai Gardens
1435 Water St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1J4 ★★★★★ I’ve been coming here since my Memere took me downtown and we got lost when I was 2, this place is a moment of serenity while the city rises around it. My eyes welled with tears as I saw the parkade become it’s new background. But it…
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Artist Callum Matthers!
Hey all! I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine who has a unique way of playing some of your favorite Celtic tunes! Using Ableton and a variety of pipes, he puts together quite the show! Here is a video of him performing at Muninn’s Post here in Kelowna! To book him for…
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Piano Doodles – Volume 1 – Track 1 – Sounds of Rain
When I was younger I used to calm my sisters by playing piano while they sat on my lap. I’d not play anything in particular, but just let the music flow from my fingers, and most times they’d start to curl up and sleep. I named these Piano doodles, and some of them stuck with…