“Suddenly it inspired me that we should learn from this dolphin to enjoy the live no matter where our circumstance is and to use our intelligence to the highest possible level it could be.”
Well done grasshopper.
Archive for January, 2008
Dolphins Play Bubble Rings
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Davy Jones Locker
Friday, January 25th, 2008Don’t often see a boat that has gone to the briny deep brought back up again, and not sure what to expect watching the retrieval of a wooden sailboat yesterday in Snug Cove. It had been under repair and the upper structure was mostly missing so introducing air and bags to it and floating was out of the question, instead a barge with a crane came over.
Setting up didn’t take long, after waiting for the ferry and its wash to leave the boats in the vicinity were untied and moved out of the way and barge positioned alongside the dock. Not a huge float, perhaps 60 feet long and about a 5 ton crane welded to the ramp end. Slings were brought out and the diver suited up and down into the cold January sea. Experience showed when in less time than it took to eat breakfast he had done the job and broke the surface with news that there was a large hole near the stern on the starboard side.
Not a good sign. The diesel buried in the bowels of the barge cranked up hydraulic pressure, and before long the top rail appeared and then about halfway down to the boat’s water line they stopped and waited for it to drain. The poor thing was in rough shape, the hole in back was easily 12 feet square and ended just below the waterline and then back to the stern edge. In addition, the bow was breached and split almost to the water line too while the top rails of the deck were crushed.
The top of the boat had been mostly removed for repairs, and so much of the structural integrity of the hull was missing as well. It warped and popped and cracked from the strain of the slings, bending and plainly showing that this craft was not going to float period with out a new hull. A pump was brought into play, and it wasn’t long before the crane was able to hoist it almost completely out of the water, and when light enough it was towed to a beach for salvage. A real bummer of a day for the boat owner, it’s never easy to say goodbye.
Wireless Kill Switch
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Internet went down shortly after 6 am and I don’t have the information from the home owner (he’s still asleep) to phone them and find out what is going on. No storm, the power is on and Shaw cable TV is working too so hopefully it is just a short outage and can get back to reading the morning funny pages, might as well blog something.
Have a new house sitting gig coming up at the end of the month for a couple weeks, and some more animals to take care of to go with it. Guessing that is a common scenario as the easiest way to not disrupt the lives of your pets is to let them be, and after finding out what the local dog boarding house charges per day am charging myself out accordingly.
The location is not nearly so close to the job at the building centre so glad that is only three days a week instead of five. Also means the Mazda GLC needs to have what ever needs to be done to it done if possible – between the dogs and the part time job are more than a few hills and the first one is a real doozy.
LOL! Turns out that on this HP Pavilion there is a switch at the front of the case that allows you to physically turn on and off the wireless card separate from eth0 and the wireless connection. After rebooting into Vista and not having any wireless connection there but okay on the ethernet cable as Kubuntu was, the crinkles in the forehead came out. The hardware is too new and had a real good burn in, so started looking for configuration problems but every corner turned brought up all the information expected except that wireless was disabled. My only problem was inadvertently flipping the switch at the front of the case while adjusting the laptop sitting on the table. Apparently it’s a fairly common thing with laptops, learn something new everyday.