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2013-05-17 18:36:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Aww... I wanted Google to Auto Awesome this for me.  Oh well, you can arrow through it quickly and it's sort of like it being animated.  And by sort of, I mean not really at all.  

Anyhow, it's the new Ingress book available on Google Play and Amazon, for those of us who like all things Ingressy.

+Joe Philley  #Niantic   #NianticProject   #Ingress   #NianticProjectIngress     #JoePhilley   #NianticProjetIngress  

2013-05-17 13:45:53 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

COOOL... #earthquake  in Toronto.  Building just did the swaying thing

2013-05-17 00:16:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The new Google Maps-  some cool new stuff.


I do love that we now have airplane directions in addition to walking, car and bicycling, and that it is hooked into Google Flights :)  No more "swim" instructions  lol.   

One thing I use quite often though is the ability to right click on any point on a map, and send that location to a Garmin GPS device.  It came in super handy on a major roadtrip last year, where I plotted out a bunch of points and uploaded them to my motorcycle gps in one easy step.  I'd hate to lose that functionality, so I'm hoping that the fact that its missing just means it hasn't been added to the preview yet.

As +Ralph Uy pointed out to me:

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My Places, My Maps, and classic Google Maps

Since this is just a preview of the new Google Maps experience, we’re still working on addingfeatures, ... more »

2013-05-07 11:43:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Single shot GoPro jpg, tonemapped in Photomatix and exposure corrected in Photoshop.   It could probably benefit from playing with layers to reduce the blowout over my right shoulder a bit, but I really like the reflection in the face shield.

2013-05-06 12:26:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Very, very sad news from the Toronto Marathon yesterday. An 18 year old woman collapsed about 3k from the finish. Passers-by did CPR until the paramedics came, but they were unable to revive her.

Rest in peace, Emma.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-teen-dies-after-collapsing-during-toronto-marathon-1.1268424

2013-04-13 22:36:40 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Today was the start of week 16 of our 18 week training plan heading into the Toronto Goodlife Marathon on May 5th.   

It started out shockingly well- both my running buddy and I were feeling good, we had a nice pace going, and even though it was wet and chilly out, all was right with the world.

Until Leslie Spit and the lighthouse.  As we came up the east side of the loop around the light house, we noticed two geese in the middle of the gravel/rock/broken brick road.   Hey, we remarked to each other, there are some geese in the road.

Hey, I remarked, as we got closer, they aren't moving.  Hey wait a minute, yes they are, they're running right at us.   

We slow down, they keep coming. We stop, they keep coming.  And picking up speed. And spreading their wings, and finally when it was all a little too late to do much of anything, they kind oflaunche... more »

2013-03-22 00:46:46 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

I watched this video twice and cried both times. 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/honoring-students-with-special-needs

I'll donate $1 for each public share of this post up to, say, $2,000. Let's bring a little joy into these kids' hearts.

Hat tip to +Chris Brogan 

2013-02-21 12:33:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Here in reverse order, are 34 of the 35 beautiful blue L8 portals launched last night by the Toronto Resistance. I'm missing a screen shot of one, the Zipcar location at Empress Walk in North York- we were moving reasonably fast at the time.

I have two personal favourites.   North York Civic Centre, as it was our 5th and our jolly green opposition had only managed to put up 4 L8 portals a couple of weeks back, and the final one, Casa Loma.  The symbolic home, if you will, of the Greens and one of their first L8s. Stopping by there was a 'how you doin?" kind of move and it was both fun and funny.

Great teamwork last night, solid co-ordination, and a beautiful blue path of L8 portals up the spine of Toronto, into York University and back down to Casa Loma.  A good time was indeed had by all, despite the wind chill. 

2013-02-08 11:22:54 (14 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

RRRRollll up your pennies, my Canadian chums.

Now that the government has started to withdraw pennies from circulation, what do you want to keep that big ol' jar of chain for? I humbly suggest that you roll up all those coins, take them to the bank, exchange them for real money, and then take that real money and loan it on Kiva. You won't miss it, since it's just getting dusty as it is now, and you'll help a would-be entrepreneur or farmer somewhere in the world who needs your small loan to get going.

But Kevin, I hear you say, rolling coins is a major, major pain in the ass. True. So plan B for lazy folks like me is to take your huge bucket of change down to your local Loblaws and dump it into the Coinstar machine. You don't have to roll diddly, they spit you out a nice credit to use on your groceries, and then you can loan the money you otherwise would have spent... more »

2013-02-07 14:04:10 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This video starts off with what must be the understatement of the year:  "Ida's been training for weeks for the 100 metre dash, but she's still 97 and crossing a finish line is not as simple as it once was"

All I know is, I want Ida for a grandma.

And spoiler alert:  She doesn't just beat her age group record, she crushes it :)


via:  http://www.runblogger.com/2013/02/97-year-old-woman-sets-100-meter-age.html

2012-12-26 16:48:32 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Single shot, processed in Photomatix and briefly in Photoshop ( to remove something I had left on the ground in the shot)

2012-12-24 05:12:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

A parliamentary postcard.

2012-11-24 03:27:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Now this looked like a portal when I was out there today!

vive la #resistance   #ingress   

2012-11-17 03:34:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Out for a little #Ingress stroll this evening and it's true- the world around you is not what it seems. If it was, why is there a zamboni out on the rink at York Quay when it's so mild? 

#azamboniisnotaportal #resistance #Toronto

2012-11-16 22:10:35 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Okay! Now I really can not wait to see this episode. Hurry up time.  
Thanks to +Andrea Laford for posting this. I would have shared it from her
page but it is set to limited so I re-posted it from YouTube. Thank you +Andrea Laford so cool of you to post this. I enjoy your page.


~Dalek Shell

2012-11-09 19:07:32 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Oh my stars... Mississippi and Alabama had the most racist tweets after President Obama's re-election?  That's so unexpected that it leaves me, I say it leaves me with a case of the vapors.

http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/mapping-racist-tweets-in-response-to.html

2012-10-29 22:56:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Bounty, in Toronto for a tall ships festival during the summer of 2010. 

Fantastic work by the US Coast Guard to rescue 14 people when she sank today, Godspeed to the Captain, who is missing and presumed lost.

2012-10-14 11:37:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The phone company, Bouygues Telecom, initially told her there was nothing they could do to amend the computer-generated statement and later offered to set up instalments to pay off the bill."
                                                                                             
Let's see.. on our 100 euros a month plan it'll take  117,210,000,000,000 months, or 9.7675 trillion years to pay off, not accounting for interest.  Does that work for you, ma'am?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19908095

2012-09-16 14:27:12 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The Basilica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence, as seen from the top of the Duomo.   (With the Accented Edges Brush Strokes filter in PS Elements 10).

For #SacredSunday , curated by +Manfred Berndtgen +Robyn Morrison +Steve Barge +Chatchai Rombix +Carolyn St.Charles and +cesare casadonte   +SacredSunday™ 

2012-09-16 12:43:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's a nice up-tempo start to your Sunday. I like that the banjo isn't overpowering, as banjo often is, and love the '70's feel to the videography.

#AvettBrothers

2012-09-15 20:09:52 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

It's starting to look and taste like Fall!

2012-09-15 14:27:47 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

for #PanoPoker  Theme: Roads  

Curated by +Barry Blanchard  +Mike Spinak 

Going to the Sun Road,  Glacier National Park, Montana USA

2012-09-09 20:51:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm reminded, for some reason, of the Simpsons' song about New Orleans in the episode "A Streetcar named Marge":

Wiggum: Long before the SuperDome,
        Where the Saints of football play,
        Lived a city that the damned called home,
        Hear their hellish roundelay...

Cast:   New Orleeeans...
        Home of pirates, drunks, and whores!
        New Orleeeans...
        Tacky, overpriced, souvenir stores!
        If you want to go to Hell, you should make that trip
        to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississipp'!

        New Orleeeans...
        Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile!
        New Orleaaans...
        Putrid, brackish, maggoty, foul!
        New Orleeeans...
        Crummy, lousy, rancid, and rank!
        New Orleeeans!



#NFL #fr... more »

2012-09-09 15:28:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Iglesia la Merced, Antigua, Guatemala-  for #SacredSunday , curated by +Manfred Berndtgen , +Robyn Morrison , +Steve Barge +Justin Hill  and +Chatchai Rombix   +SacredSunday™ 

2012-09-08 13:30:54 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Caught in the act-  for #squirrelsaturday  

+Squirrel Saturday 

2012-08-31 13:13:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Great news! There's a 'global strategic maple syrup reserve'.

If Al Qaeda attacks with French toast and pancakes, we're all set.

2012-08-19 16:43:33 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

For #SacredSunday ,  curated by +Manfred Berndtgen , +Sherrie von Sternberg , +Robyn Morrison +Steve Barge +Justin Hill and +Chatchai Rombix   +SacredSunday™ 

Our Lady of the Rockies, at Butte, Montana