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29 Oct 2006 David at 17: Leave No Hair Uncurled
Author: Gail |  Category: Ancient History, David, David at 17, film photography  | 7 Comments

Table of contents for David at 17: The Journal Assignment

  1. David at 17: The Journal Assignment
  2. David at 17: Ennui, Apathy, er, Irony
  3. David at 17: Frost
  4. David at 17: About That 55mph Speed Limit
  5. David at 17: Change, Knowledge
  6. David at 17: Leave No Hair Uncurled
  7. David at 17: Monday

These photos serve to prove how widespread perms were in the ’80s. A global follicle scourge, if you ask me.

By the time this photo was taken — probably Spring ‘85 ‘84. David’s had grown out, but you can see it better in the earlier photo below.

David at 17

From the journal writing assignment:

Journal 12/3 (1984)

I feel much better now that my hair is curly. I took (with help) 2 rolls of film for the Pontiac for paint study and “before” pictures. I’m not sure if I have work today. Have you noticed that nothing I’ve said thus far goes together? I just love winter. I just love corduroy. I just love Tums. I wish I could write in color. *Freeeee kpow kpow Lots of colour all over your eyebrows and chrome fringe freeooooow ahhh ahhh.*

David with his 1953 Pontiac Chief

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Journal 10/18

I have a job interview this afternoon at JC Penney’s. I hope I get it. Wasn’t that an interesting topic? No, there’s more. It’s a job in the stockroom for the Christmas season. Pretty clean work, righteous bucks. I’ll need it; because I bought a car – another car, and not just any car, a 1953 Pontiac Chief. I’m keeping my Vega for driving and restoring the Pontiac. If the Pontiac gets cleaned up and running OK, maybe I’ll drive it daily. But maybe not, because mileage is terrible.

Righteous bucks! Hee!

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29 Oct 2006 SQL Database Repaired
Author: Gail |  Category: Unabashed Geekiness  | Leave a Comment

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at….

*siren!*MaydayMayday!*

Multiple errors…

Words that strike terror in the heart of anyone who manages his or her own website. I don’t know what broke the posts table, but thankfully I was able to repair it this evening. Whew. Disaster averted. The more content is hosted on this website, the more backups I do, hoping there will never be a day when the whole thing breaks beyond (what I can) repair and I have to start over.

Knock on wood!

29 Oct 2006 Last Rays of the Day
Author: Gail |  Category: Reel + Screen, cameraphone  | One Comment

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Nokia 6682

It’s been a blustery day here in Toronto. The windows were rattling since last night and I wouldn’t be surprised if trees were downed.

Between laundering, household choring, and the lightest of cooking, I watched the Taiwanese film Yi Yi, which I would highly recommend over A Prairie Home Companion, which I watched last night. Granted, they are not comparable films, but storywise Yi Yi takes the prize.

Prairie is not unwatchable — in fact, Meryl Streep is as watchably talented as ever, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly make a great cowboy strumming duo — but when David and I heard they were making his favourite radio program into a movie (Lindsay Lohan? Say it ain’t so!), we adjusted our expectations accordingly: fair to middling. In that respect, expectations were definitely met. Lily Tomlin’s attempt of a Midwestern accent was admirable.

Yi Yi runs nearly three hours long, but it look me literally all day to get through it because, as with all films not in your native tongue, you have to watch every second of it if you want to catch all the subtitled dialogue. I refuse to watch dubbing on DVD, so I ended up backtracking a lot today. It’s worth it, though. I don’t even remember why I didn’t manage to see it in Vancouver the first time around (I even remember the trailer); I think it was one of those many titles in my Netflix queue that I had to abandon when I left Pennsylvania. We don’t have Netflix in Canada.

29 Oct 2006 The Flying Mystique
Author: Gail |  Category: Books, David, Flying  | Leave a Comment

Av8r Dave

From David’s aviation library:

How the World Goes Away

And now a strange thing happens. It is so delicate and ephemeral that even to recognize it and allow it to enter our consciousness may destroy it. It is that, while flying, the rest of the world disappears. We suddenly have no past or future. Our lives have been erased from our minds. We have only our flight. We are existing completely in the here and now. By increasing our concentration, through the paradox of not concentrating, the mind is empty of everything but the immediate moment of experience; it is open, clear, and fully alert, and at the same time free of everything but the present.

- Harry Bauer, The Flying Mystique