There’s not just one way to do it, either! Loads of noisy fun, but when you finally get in synch, so very fine. The cold’s a drag, though. You have to […]
Wouldn’t It Be Great to Be a Canada Goose?
The Kings and Queens and Queens and Queens and Queens of Vernon Go On Parade
Welcome to the Vernon Winter Carnival. It all started around these parts with a stagecoach some 150 years back. We have evolved since then, I tell ya. Wonderland, we call it […]
Vernon Winter Carnival Parade 2018
Everyone gets to put on a show. Blocks the street, though. Rush hour.
A Midwinter Day’s Dream
Today, the Vernon Winter Carnival Parade. We are celebrating colonial culture today, with gas. As you can see, Shakespeare was at work in the costume shop, updating all those old scripts for […]
Artificial Intelligence and You: Part 2
So, artificial intelligence, eh. On Monday, I introduced some thoughts about it, here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/01/29/artificial-intel…e-and-you-part-1/ Today, an exploration of the language surrounding artificial intelligence. If it sounds like a language game, and as […]
The Dry Dry Earth of Home
It would be nice to think of water soaking into the soil, and all that ground below us being recharged with rain and draining down to the lake and cycling around. The […]
Economic Viability, Environmental Sustainability and Elon Musk
I have been challenged to explain how my beautiful observations can be economically viable. This one in particular, this beautiful rock melting the snow away. Well, there are many dimensions to economic […]
The Okanagan’s Dirty Secret
Is it the Dirty Laundry Winery? No. That’s actually a little bit of colonial Canadian culture using the Okanagan to market Canada to itself by romanticizing prostitution. That’s easy. No, no, I mean […]
Getting Down to Some Serious Fun in the Kitchen
There are close to 20,000 acres of wine grapes planted in the ruins of the Okanagan Valley, immensely attractive to tourists and restauranteurs alike. The wine? Well, some is fine and most […]
How to Beat Global Warming By Turning the Grasslands Upside Down
Water has a surface tension. It divides light into bands of energy. It keeps some and sends more away, but not evenly. So does mullein. In mullein’s case, it covers its pulpy, […]
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