North LRT from Churchill to NAIT… a video from the City of Edmonton
Back Into Hibernation
As quickly as it became active again, it looks like this blog is, once again, going on hiatus. Why? Because I’ve discovered the Press This bookmarklet for WordPress.
That little bookmarklet will, in essence, let me do with WordPress what I’ve been doing with Tumblr—-quickly and easily posting little tidbits from around the ‘net.
Tumblr is great fun. But I like the power and functionality of WordPress, and the Press This feature has made it so that I can easily “tumble” to my WordPress blog.
Personally, I think the idea of a high-speed bullet train running the Edmonton-Calgary corridor would be awesome. It would open up a lot of economic opportunities for people; depending on how much it cost to ride the rail, I could see people choosing to live in Red Deer—-where they would presumably pay less for housing—-and then commuting to Edmonton or Calgary for work (and for play).
More info on the fire mentioned in my previous post. Turns out I got the info wrong. The fire was yesterday afternoon, not this morning.
That would explain the plume of smoke I saw coming from the northeast when I was driving around on Sunday (though, I had guessed it was coming from somewhere farther east than it actually was).
Edmonton Auto Spring Works, a historic building whose original occupant is believed to have been one of the first auto shops in Edmonton, burnt down today. Here’s how it looked before the fire.
UPDATE - 07/12/2010 - The link to the source for this image no longer appears to work, but I must still give proper credit to @adampatterson for the picture.
Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn has apologized for a joke he’s not sure he made, responding to a complaint from a politician who didn’t hear it.
I love it when a real news story sounds like it came straight from the Onion.
