I drove from Vancouver [400km round trip] to walk with my dog in the snow at Joffre Lakes Provincial Park. She loved it!

These videos were taken with my camera phone and the quality is very poor when you view them at any size larger than what is shown here.

This was the first time in dozens of years that I walked across a frozen lake.

Other observations: Snow appeared at roadside level exactly 100km [60 miles] from my starting point.

In Whistler there are tons Olympic volunteers in their spiffy blue uniforms. They look like smurfs.

I found out about the passing of Lhasa de Sela on New Year’s Day 2010 early this morning on CBC Radio 1. I couldn’t sleep so I was distracting myself by configuring a new tech device and wasn’t paying attention to the content. However, I did hear the announcer mention her name and death before playing an interview from April of last year made around the time of her latest album release.

I’m not sure how it happened but all of a sudden the name clicked and I realized who I was listening to and felt immense sadness. I remember reading a review of her first Vancouver appearance in the late 90’s and how the critics were blown away by the emotional depth of her singing for someone of such a young age [25]. This video is a song from that first album:

So what did Lhasa do after her first album? She went to France and joined a circus.

I had the privilege of seeing Lhasa perform at the Vancouver Jazz Fest in June 2004. It was a great performance even though I understood very few of the words she sang. This is a video from that time:

Lhasa talent is almost ineffable and she will be missed by many, including me.

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Downfall is a 2004 film depicting the last days of Adolph Hitler, Fuehrer [leader] of Nazi Germany,

isolated from the world, desperately ordering counterattacks that will never happen, from armies that exist only on maps, commanded by men who are most likely dead. Played by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, Hitler is presented as he was in the last months of World War II: a sick, exhausted man but dreaming still of a Greater Germany amid the ruins of war-ravaged Berlin and callously ranting against the ‘weakness’ and ‘deserved destruction’ of the German citizenry. Source

A few creative people on the ‘net have taken one scene in which Herr H. loses all composure, rages against his staff and added there own subtitles to match the event that they want to parody. Earlier this summer, Twitter was experiencing a severe disruption in service and someone posted this video on July 1, 2008:

For another view of Twitter, take a look at Lisa Nova’s Twitter Whore

Fast forward a few months to the Financial Crisis of 2008 and we get this gem posted September 15, 2008:

Here’s a sequel.

Not to many people like Hitler for a number of reasons, but what these people did with this material is brilliant!

“Desperate times call for drastic measures.” Well played. What I really want to see is if G.O.P. supporters can come up with something similar. Anyone know where to find it/them?