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I really like these photo finish images. So cool.
(via olympics)
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My parents and I arrived in Grande Cache, Alberta, in 1976, the year I was born. The town had been recently carved out of the dense wilderness to service the new coal mine where my father had found a job. From the back window of our bungalow, the boreal forest stretched north, largely unbroken, for hundreds of kilometres to the tundra, a dark tangle of trees, mysterious and forbidding.
As dark as it appeared from my kitchen door, the forest became something very different when I entered it: an endless web of soft-floored rooms, each one unique, connected by narrow trails rising, falling, and weaving throughout the pine and spruce. It gave me a deep feeling of well-being and excitement. These hidden places, the mottled sun on the forest floor, the fresh smell of so many plants and trees, formed my strongest childhood memories in the Alberta foothills.
Eamon Mac Mahon, Amazon of the North
I was a reluctant outdoor kid but now when I drive back into the tall pine trees childhood memories like this hit me hard.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad about god, mad about dads, mad about the state, desirous of everything, and totally bored at the same time, the ones who pretty much always yawn, and say whatever the shit they fucking want to because fuck you. blah, blah, blah, some shit about roman candles, go find out where the jack kerouac archive is and set it on fire.
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Just planning my CRAZY LONG WEEKEND!!!1!
(seriously stoked for reading and drinking in the sun)
(life is really simple sometimes)
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Of those surveyed, 76% believe that diversity makes Edmonton a better place to live […]
Survey Says Edmontonians Believe a Diverse City is a Better City :: City of Edmonton (via mastermaq)
Listen up, y’all, I’m a data scientist and have subtracted 76 from 100. 24% of folks surveyed didn’t feel that ethnic diversity makes Edmonton a better place to live.
Nearly one in four. Factor in those who replied in the affirmative to appear “progressive” to a surveyor, and the true number is likely even more ugly.
(via doug)
Yep. Just ask yourself how many people you know that would answer this question in the affirmative despite regularly saying racist BS. They would be so nice and polite to a stranger on the phone. To friends though? “Yes, I’m all for diversity in theory but _______ as a neighbour? I mean have you heard… I just think…”
The survey (pdf) is interesting but this particular stat is one of the least useful parts.
(via doug)
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I’m starting to think group messaging exists just so siblings can discuss family obligations and annoy the shit out of each other.
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Canada, the inferiority complex routine is exhausting. Didn’t you learn anything in jr. high? All you have to do is pretend that you’re too cool to care.
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- realistic flesh tone
- cable and padlock
- Mountain Dew hitch cover
- dually truck
- Heath Works store
- not a parking spot
- baby in car seat
- Ontario plates
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See this young child in the wheel well of the truck.
