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Taber
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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& the daughter, overdue, is needing me to get her to Taber to do her driver's test. Cold day, windswept, grey and snowy, and Taber, all of a single story at it's highest point, every shop window blacked out against the relentless summer sun, wide streets that offer no shade, a tired thrift shop with nothing of value, killing an hour while she does her test, an hour in Taber is like a week anywhere else in the world, not a single independent coffee house, the hour runs slowly through the glass and it's time to leave...
I don't know if I've ever been so glad to get out a place before, ever.
Hammershoi
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Rather like his work, brooding, atmospheric, and I admire him for generally not painting faces. The people - alien, distant, there's a tension in their action, in their turning from the painter. Brilliant.
Links: Wikipedia on Vilhelm Hammershoi & a BBC article
The Thoen Stone
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoen_Stone
Why don't we have this stuff in Canada? Time for a road trip...This is what keeps me alive...
The Theory
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I've been working on it for a month or so, starting with the premise: "People are lazy, stupid, greedy idiots", generalizing it to a few industries, then working out how I might exploit that to my advantage.
Gathering data, surreptitiously, walk-through's and making notes, trying to be unobtrusive, if the theory proves itself I can arrange disguises, to be more discrete, will have to because I'll be upping the idiots game.
And, today, a quick review of the data. And I might - just might - be right. And there's the thrill when you discover something that you'd predicted, verified, and the payoff - well, it could be good, great even, but I'll only get a couple of chances...
So, for the moment, enjoy the theory, the possibility that I just might be right, tomorrow or the day after I'll have to make the trip to verify it, then maybe take it to the highway, fingers-crossed...
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