I've been making a lot of helpful packing suggestions to Sally & GVB in regards to the wilderness of Northern B.C. Actually none were helpful really. Unless Edith Wharton was going to be there, and her servants forgot to pack something in one of her 4 trunks, and Sally wanted to suck up to her by offering to share a bunch of back issues of the New Yorker ...that she would have missed reading since she's dead and all.
And then after I finished asking some really unhelpful questions about natural disasters, water purity and suitable flatware, she assured me that there was a satellite phone at the site and if any natural disaster takes place, they'll phone me, so I can google it, AND WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I THOUGHT THEY SHOULD WORRY ABOUT?????.
At that point I voiced some concerns about the SUPERNATURAL, but then I decided it would be quite advantageous if they were to befriend a magic talking crow that could forage for snack food.
i have that radio. it's really essential - when the power goes out and you need some dancing music. our power goes out quite often - apparently from "animal contact". (eek)
the hand crank feature on that radio is pretty good for playing hot potato since i've never managed to get through an entire song after powering it up with the crank.
my parents got it for us after the big outtage a couple of years ago - which i think should happen once a month even if its' just so neighbours know each others names.
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I bought mine in anticipation of more power outages too. (and because I'm a pathetic news junky) The only time I've used it was this past June when I was at a cabin in the Kawarthas. I sat on the dock with it and every hour or so I yelled, reassuringly, to the other guests that our beloved Prime Minister (and new BFF of George Bush) hadn't been beheaded yet.
Such a horrible fearful time that was.
OK, I have that radio too. I bike all the way up to Lee Valley - the Steeles location (read FAR), this was before the store went urban and opened up on King Street. It worked for about a week and it hasn't worked since. I hate it.
arhhh...that's me. nanmac
The very same nanmac who recently walked to the zoo (also FAR).
I offered my dynamo radio to Sally & GVB. Sally was willing to humour me but GVB pointed out that they wouldn't be able to pick up a signal anyway. I may have been all confused with that first season of Lost on ABC, thinking they could always hack into it ...to make it into something useful ...in an emergency (like when a polar bear leaps out of the jungle to attack them).
funny you should point that out, M. Jean. I'm reading through Jane Jacob's "Sytems of Survival". She has a description of cultures who make rich use of leisure. These are traditionally hunting cultures. Hunting is "sporadic, demanding intense and energetic burts of concentratin and energy" and therefore these cultures had enormous amounts of leisure time by our standards. My energy level prefence definitely leans this way. Much prefer binge-style activity in order to have lots of time to sit on my hairy ass, especially in this crazy heat.
I guess the "hunting" intensity equivalent in our culture would be those folks who win three minutes of shopping in a supermarket.
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I've been making a lot of helpful packing suggestions to Sally & GVB in regards to the wilderness of Northern B.C. Actually none were helpful really. Unless Edith Wharton was going to be there, and her servants forgot to pack something in one of her 4 trunks, and Sally wanted to suck up to her by offering to share a bunch of back issues of the New Yorker ...that she would have missed reading since she's dead and all.
And then after I finished asking some really unhelpful questions about natural disasters, water purity and suitable flatware, she assured me that there was a satellite phone at the site and if any natural disaster takes place, they'll phone me, so I can google it, AND WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I THOUGHT THEY SHOULD WORRY ABOUT?????.
At that point I voiced some concerns about the SUPERNATURAL, but then I decided it would be quite advantageous if they were to befriend a magic talking crow that could forage for snack food.
- L.M. 7-31-2006 7:33 am
i have that radio. it's really essential - when the power goes out and you need some dancing music. our power goes out quite often - apparently from "animal contact". (eek)
the hand crank feature on that radio is pretty good for playing hot potato since i've never managed to get through an entire song after powering it up with the crank.
my parents got it for us after the big outtage a couple of years ago - which i think should happen once a month even if its' just so neighbours know each others names.
- anonymous (guest) 7-31-2006 4:37 pm
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- myfanwy (guest) 7-31-2006 4:38 pm
I bought mine in anticipation of more power outages too. (and because I'm a pathetic news junky) The only time I've used it was this past June when I was at a cabin in the Kawarthas. I sat on the dock with it and every hour or so I yelled, reassuringly, to the other guests that our beloved Prime Minister (and new BFF of George Bush) hadn't been beheaded yet.
Such a horrible fearful time that was.
- L.M. 7-31-2006 6:29 pm
OK, I have that radio too. I bike all the way up to Lee Valley - the Steeles location (read FAR), this was before the store went urban and opened up on King Street. It worked for about a week and it hasn't worked since. I hate it.
- anonymous (guest) 8-01-2006 5:46 pm
arhhh...that's me. nanmac
- anonymous (guest) 8-01-2006 5:47 pm
The very same nanmac who recently walked to the zoo (also FAR).
- M.Jean 8-01-2006 9:09 pm
I offered my dynamo radio to Sally & GVB. Sally was willing to humour me but GVB pointed out that they wouldn't be able to pick up a signal anyway. I may have been all confused with that first season of Lost on ABC, thinking they could always hack into it ...to make it into something useful ...in an emergency (like when a polar bear leaps out of the jungle to attack them).
- L.M. 8-01-2006 9:40 pm
funny you should point that out, M. Jean. I'm reading through Jane Jacob's "Sytems of Survival". She has a description of cultures who make rich use of leisure. These are traditionally hunting cultures. Hunting is "sporadic, demanding intense and energetic burts of concentratin and energy" and therefore these cultures had enormous amounts of leisure time by our standards. My energy level prefence definitely leans this way. Much prefer binge-style activity in order to have lots of time to sit on my hairy ass, especially in this crazy heat.
- nanmac (guest) 8-02-2006 4:37 am
I guess the "hunting" intensity equivalent in our culture would be those folks who win three minutes of shopping in a supermarket.
- M.Jean 8-02-2006 8:23 am