Peaceful on Deer Lake, originally uploaded by Elwin Witzke.
While taking a stroll around Deer Lake we saw a number of people enjoying this quiet jewel in the middle of Burnaby. It’s a beautiful place to come an spend an hour in a busy day.
Category: Just for fun
Up close and personal – Obama inauguration
David Bergman used a Gigapan Imager to take a 200 photos of the inauguration. The Gigapan service stiches the images together to create an extremely large image (this one is 1,474 megapixels).
I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama’s inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It’s made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels.
Inauguration
You can view the image on his blog or in fullscreen at
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=15374
Zoom in and pan around. It’s lots of fun.
Oops!
The recent snowfall in Vancouver brought out the best in us. My son and others in our neighbourhood help our RCMP when they got stuck on our street.
Telus marketing is not smart
Ah, the wonder’s of smartphones, internet in your pocket and a really, really big dead spot.
I was in the Skytrain station (Granville) a few days ago and noticed all the Telus ads. New smartphones, Blackberrys and all kinds cell phones. Stay in touch, access the internet etc, etc. Kinda makes me want to visit my local Telus dealer to get something new.
But wait!
Telus doesn’t have any service in the underground Skytrain stations in Vancouver. Hasn’t had it ever that I can remember and I’ve been a Telus customer for at least 15 years. I see lots of people using their phones – I wonder who they are with? Definitely not with Telus or Bell, our local CDMA carriers.
Why is that Telus can’t get it together and get the appropriate antenna system installed in the tunnel? Not enough high-paying business customers? They seemed to be able to do it for the tunnel by the PNE. Well, the worlds a-changin, and more and more of those high-paying business customers are moving transit (ie. Skytrain).
What a joke, advertising your phones and the cool ($$) services in a place that has no signal.
I think Telus marketing needs to have a heart to heart with Telus engineering and infrastructure delivery.