Tempus Fugit

Latin (tem-pu̇s-ˈfü-git): Time Flies

Category: Grab Bag

Stuff about stuff

  • Hot time in the City

    Heat wave hits Winnipeg! I’ve just walked from Portage Place to Winnipeg Square and its hot and humid in the ‘Peg.
    I think I’ll take the air conditioned walkway back to the office, after my chai latte break. 😉

  • What could be more annoying than PWC?

    At most lakes, the PWC (Personal Water Craft) is one of those annoying noisy things you put up with, unless you’re an owner or happen to be operating one, in which case they are great and a lot of fun. You didn’t think I meant this PWC did you?

    Well this weekend I discovered something even more annoying that the buzzing of a PWC, and it’s the roar of a G-164A! Specifically, this one!

    At 7am on Sunday morning this guy was making friends with a few hundred cottagers by flying up and down Big Stone Bay for about one hour, just above the tree tops. He passed directly over our cottage 3 or 4 times and in the general area another 3-4 time. While the plane seems to be equipped for spraying, I didn’t see any evidence of spraying in action and the flight pattern seemed to be covering the same area again and again. Hopefully he was working, otherwise it was just plane annoying.

    UPDATE: It turns out the guy was working! I emailed the Kenora Airport and got this reply.

    Hi Garry
    The Ministry of Natural Resources is
    doing Jack Pine Budworm  spraying in the Kenora area, they start
    flying around 5:00am and they also fly in the evenings.  Here is a contact
    number for the MNR     Mike Dawe @ 807-219-0422

    Grumman G-164A Super Ag-Cat

    Grumman designed the G-164 in the 1950s and it first flew on January 20, 1959. Grumman sold this and other programs to American Jet Industries in 1978. The new company was named Gulfstream American Corporation, but in early 1981 the program was sold to Schweizer who was a sub-contractor for many years. The G-164A numbered 1325 aircraft (c/n 401 to 1725), N48489 was manufactured in 1976.

  • Coffee on the dock

    It’s 6:30am and I’m just about to head down to the dock with a couple of cups of coffee and some reading material, it’s a clear sunny morning.

    Yesterday was a bunch of firsts for the year as we wend into Kenora by boat to pick up a few things. First boat trip, first Starbucks in Kenora, first sighting of a water skier without a wet suit, first time we docked at Annishinabie Park and walked up to Wal-Mart. I can’t believe how much shopping we did on such a nice summer weekend. Well, some of it was almost mandatory as we needed eggs and a wireless router. Yeah, the Linksys was acting funny the lat time we were out and this weekend it was dead, no lights, no blinking no nothing.

    I thought I’d just get another Linksys, but ended up with a Belkin and saved $25 plus it has a couple of features the Linksys doesn’t and a life time warranty. That could come in handy.

    I can hear the eagle out the front windows, so I think I’ll take the camera and my reading material and head off to the dock. There is a light breeze building, who knows, perhaps there will be some sailing. Where is my sailing buddy?

  • Google as a Spell checker

    It’s faster that going to dictionary.com and more fun too, except for the extra time you spend chasing random links that show up from your misteak.

  • Comuting by bike

    Today is the first day of the Commuter Challenge for 2007 where you’re encouraged to commute using sustainable transportation, like a bike.
    After dropping Shirley off at the airport at 6:30am I biked to work. I enjoyed passing all the traffic in the construction zones which are everywhere in Winnipeg ( two seasons, winter and construction).
    Bike commuting does have it’s challenges. I was greeted with a flat tire when I picked up my bike for the ride home. This was the first ever while commuting. Time to stock up on tubes & patch a few.

  • Stuff around the house

    Maybe I should use this technique? update

  • Automated Comment Spam

    Wow, is this stuff wicked!

    I turned of the Akismet spam filter for a few minutes while I upgraded my WordPress blog to 2.2. In those few minutes some automated system was able to squeeze in 4 spam comments to my low traffic site. What happens to popular sites?

    Sidenote: America’c Cup yacht race is warming up as the Louis Vuitton Finals get under way on June 1. I’ll be watching live on TSN Broadband.

    32nd America’s Cup Official Website

    All three teams training
    All three teams remaining in competition at the 32nd America’s Cup were on the water training on Wednesday afternoon. The two Luna Rossa Challenge boats sailed together, while Emirates Team New Zealand and Alinghi had two races against each other.
    » More

  • Bug Cloud




    Bug Cloud

    Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo

    We’re at the lake for an impromptu vacation and as is typical for the first could of weekends there are a few bugs. Well, actually, there are more that a few bugs, I’d say there are billions of bugs!

    Thankfully, they don’t bite but they are thick around the waters edge so there is not too much hanging around the dock right now. This isn’t too much of a problem as it’s misty/raining most of the time so far.

    I think today will be a day for doing some tree transplanting.

  • Hungry for Starbucks

    The sign in the Kenora Safeway

    Open in 7 days.

    Staff are training furiously, good stuff!

  • Stormy

    It was a dark and stormy night…
    The late night drive to the lake was highlighted by non-stop lightening and intermittant heavy rain. Not too much different today. We’re in Kenora shopping for something to do and picking up some movies.
    The wireless is broken or messed up but the cable connection to the net is still working. I think a nap is a very good possibility.
    – I’m just hanging out in the car, working and playing. Perhaps, nap… Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz.