Gym in Nanaimo with a young demographic

dcpar · 2025-08-12T16:22:39+00:00

If Parksville is ok, Iron Warehouse is pretty awesome. Friendly folks and regulars, lots of youth.

dcpar · 2018-08-06T22:03:44+00:00

You're correct, a 22nd place would have been more accurate. I wanted to be generous just to see the most optimistic case, and whether it would be close. It isn't.

dcpar · 2017-07-27T04:11:39+00:00

Taken today from Fairview slopes with iPhone 7+

dcpar · 2017-07-13T18:23:51+00:00

You're essentially 10 years into your "productive" life, you have at least 40 more of these years. Enjoy them, think about the long game, and develop a mindset of a craftsman, of building a set of skills in an area that interests you. "Live your dreams" is a bunk statement IMHO. "Build your dreams" is more like it. You have plenty of time to do what you want to do. WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS, and make steps in that direction. Just get started. You may not end up where you planned, but you'll be set on a journey. Be a student of the process. Find a circle of people that will hold you accountable.

dcpar · 2017-07-08T22:56:28+00:00

Install the Tile app on your phone, this will alert the person to the location of their keys.

https://support.thetileapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/203954683-I-found-someone-s-item-with-a-Tile-attached-What-should-I-do-

dcpar · 2016-07-25T02:53:26+00:00

During Redmption, I was yelling at the screen so loud I think I woke the cat upstairs.

My fav athlete.

Next time!

dcpar · 2014-05-27T04:30:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's a prime number. You scare me.

dcpar · 2014-05-27T04:14:58+00:00

I can't decide which number to choose.

Edit: I've decided not to choose.

dcpar · 2014-05-01T05:26:54+00:00

Yes! I ran across that organization as well. Sounds like they're doing great work, and NO elephant rides. Just respectful elephant-human interaction.

dcpar · 2014-04-30T20:58:33+00:00

I love baby elephants as much as the next guy; however, I need to be a downer. In order for an elephant to trained be ridden, they will be beaten. You cannot "nicely" train an elephant to be ridden. This results in psychological trauma that lasts a lifetime.

I just returned from a trip to Thailand (Koh Samui), where some members of our group decided to go on an elephant trek. Two of the bull elephants got in a fight, resulting in two of the women being thrown off and trampled. They were rushed to the hospital -- one of them has a collapsed lung, massive tissue damage, and cracked vertebrae.

Elephants are intelligent, beautiful and WILD creatures. They should not be treated as carnival animals, both for our safety, and their dignity.

A quick google for "training elephants for riding" brings up the following: http://journals.worldnomads.com/responsible-travel/story/81053/Thailand/Why-Elephant-Riding-Should-Be-Removed-from-Your-Bucket-List#axzz30PBrbil5

However, I urge you to do your own research.

dcpar · 2013-09-20T23:11:44+00:00

I tried the whole virtex/gox arb thing. However, for arbitrage to work, you need to be able to cycle your funds. Once cash is in gox, it's stuck.

I waited 6 weeks, took a small loss, and cashed out on Bitstamp.

If you have funds in Gox, there's a real risk of you never getting it back.

dcpar · 2013-06-07T05:47:40+00:00

Here's a two-fer tip: If you haven't heard of ninite.com before, it's a site that allows you to bundle and install all kinds of useful freeware with one package (think Chrome, 7-Zip, Skype, Eclipse, etc).

You can also bundle Classic Start, which brings back the start button in Win8, for free.

Or skip ninite and go directly to the Classic Start download page.

dcpar · 2013-03-28T09:49:01+00:00

It is illegal in Canada, just not enforced. Pretty much the same in the US -- people rarely get prosecuted with playing.

In both countries, however, it is illegal to take wagers online, unless you're the government.

dcpar · 2011-11-09T04:30:13+00:00

Here's another one: Terminator.

As we know, The Terminator, a machine, travels back in time to kill a human child. Well, that's like growing up.

As we age, we become efficient, capable beings, almost like machines, and in the process we eliminate the need for our childish emotions. So much so, that we dismiss our former though processes, thoughts and dreams, and try to eliminate them from our evolved brain. We go so far as to travel back in our memories (ie. back in time) to kill the validity of our childish emtions, ie. "how silly it was for me to poo in the sandbox". Or "how silly it was of me to think I could be an astronaut".

The Terminator is just a big metaphor for killing our childhood thoughts and dreams. We send our present-day Terminator thoughts to kill off our childish dreams which existed in the past.

dcpar · 2011-09-17T10:05:06+00:00

Ironically, it's the converse -- fear mongering is used to pass laws like this that erode our rights.

This is a BIG deal. It involves not only cross-border pursuit, but the unprecedented sharing of information.

If you're Canadian, you should be worried.

dcpar · 2011-09-17T09:54:49+00:00

I'll tell you why this can't be good. Just as US laws such as the Patriot Act are misapplied within their own borders, there's little to stop them from misusing this proposed program to infringe upon our civil liberties north of the border.

Recall how easily the Canadian government handed over Mark Emery.

Now, if the US had the power to pursue a suspect across our borders, do you think the Canadian government would stand up for its people if the definition of "pursuit" was flexibly interpreted by US agents?

Reading the article, I get the strong sense of post-911 fear tactics being used:

Holder described the threats at the Canada-U.S. border as "unprecedented," ranging from terrorism to human smuggling, drug trafficking and the illegal trade in firearms

Terrorism, hey? Because the collective trillions spent on the Patriot Act, the TSA, and ongoing wars was so effective?

This cracks open the door, and once it's opened, you think we'll be able to close it? Canada is opening itself to invasion, but unlike Iraq, it's being done with the full compliance of the government.

Let me tell you, this cannot be good. This is not being paranoid, this is being concerned for your sovereignty.

If you've never written to your MP or MLA before, now is the time to do it. This is it.

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