Archive for December 9th, 2006

09 Dec 2006 Are You Wondering Where Your Cable Guy Is?
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are you wondering where your cable guy is?

A film shot from this afternoon, in Campbellford, Ontario (180kms east and north of Toronto). Which seems like a long way to drive to take a photo of a rusty old van, but all will be revealed after some shuteye. I’ve been up since 3am.

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09 Dec 2006 St. Jacobs, Ontario
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St. Jacobs

A rather unusual sight in 2006, but not so in the area around St. Jacobs and Elmira, Ontario, apparently. I took this photo back in August when Berit, Jez, and Justi were visiting from Germany and wanted to get a first-hand look at the Amish/Mennonite way of life. I totally drew the line when Berit told me to follow one buggy because she wanted to see inside a house.

“No way!” I said. “They just want to be left alone. Plus, we haven’t been invited!”

David would’ve chuckled at the anachronism; that they’d come from the motherland to observe the Amish and see a horse-driven buggy that isn’t used solely for tourism.

I stumbled on a page about the Amish lifestyle in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which is quite informative. (I was there last week.) It answers quite a few common questions regarding dress and the significance of social practices, such as why Amish men have beards but no moustaches, or what happens at Amish funerals.

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09 Dec 2006 My Current Crop of Favourite Photos (Collage)

There are some wonderful applications using Flickr’s API. These are from my photoset called (you guessed it) ’some faves’. Mouse over a picture to see its title in Flickr.

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09 Dec 2006 Flight in a 1939 DC-3 Dakota (unedited)
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November 4, 2006: Worth the Price of Admission

This is a large file (69MBs) hosted on Blip.tv, seven minutes in length, so you might have to wait for a bit before it begins to play.

The edited version is still a work in progress, so I thought I would string together most of the 15 short clips (including a few frames of my fellow passengers; there were 12 of us in all) minus some of the taxiing along the runway, and post the unedited version. One of my favourite parts is around the 5:05 minute mark, when we fly over Hamilton Airport and the museum.

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