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Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Film; Published: 12 May 2020; Hits: 1045

Mostly nonsense. I mean, I'm away, then I'm catching up. News, Trump, USA, Canada, UK, The World, NZ, Australia, Sweden, Covidiot type shit.

Reddit. The Daily Grail. Digg. Boing-Boing. Refresh. Again. And again. And the news is always worse.

In other media, catching up on the world of inane TV. Watched: "Don't f**k with Cats". Meh. "The Hurricane Heist" - D-Movie on Netflix, which I loved because it was like a weatherman (picture Steve Carell) on the weather channel decided he wasn't getting enough respect and decided to write his own action movie. With him as the star...

I dunno. I needed a break from the news.

Episode 1 from "Upload" on Amazon Prime. OK, but it annoyed me because I had thought of all this easily 10 years ago - by which I mean, the digital afterworld, the idea of ads, subscription, tech support, etc. And it annoys me that someone else realized it. But it makes me recognize - when an ideas time has come, if you don't realize it first you're last. And so I'm watching it to see how someone else has realized "my" ideas.

"Vivarium" - interesting concept, not so thoroughly developed. Liked, but "so-so". Some good ideas.

Finished watching "Ozark" season 3. Nope. No good news there. And I really, really, didn't care.

And, finally, "The Good Place". I like the tidbits of philosophy, but it's all too dumbed down. Episodic, as if each episode was written only after the previous one had aired. Reminds me of "The Magic Tavern" in it's improv/didn't make a plan/let's just wing it approach. I'd give it a miss. But - on the plus side - I didn't want to kill myself afterwards...

North of Revelstoke, etc

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Images; Published: 12 May 2020; Hits: 956

North of Revelstoke, still too much snow to reasonably explore. Next week again:

Bears, bears, everywhere. Fortunately looking sleek and well fed. 6 in one day!

The road North towards Mica Dam...

End of the road about 20 km past the Mica Dam

Staffs in the sand, resembling dragons, campsite.

Snowy river...

Promising vein of rotting, rusty quartz. West of Trout Lake, beside the road, I should have gathered some of the degraded rust and panned it, but as it was beside the road I told myself that it had doubtless been done before. That's piss-poor reasoning.

Copper in the ore. Promising. Should have panned it...Next Week!!!

Spray of Black Tourmaline (Schorl) in pegmatite. Mighty fine, but no other gems, and the tourmaline was largely crumbly.

Found my safe injection site...

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Miscellany; Published: 30 April 2020; Hits: 1445

Perfect place to try the Trump Cure and shoot up on Lysol and Bleach...

(Back) into the wild

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Images; Published: 30 April 2020; Hits: 1086

So far, a nightmare of Ticks, hordes of other as yet unidentified biting insects, and very few finds. A new pegmatite, no gems...anyways, let the pictures tell the tale: