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When I’m yelling, it’s usually for more than a nickelback.

Instagram is the standard way to reach people in their 30s and early 40s. Anyone older or younger, traditional methods should bring more repeat business.

First Apple has to figure out how to hold on to its DS talent.

Do local networking the way we used to do it before social media — make up business cards with QR codes advertising what you can do, and leave the on public and semi-public bulletin boards (community centers, sports and fitness places, churches and shopping malls, parks that have boards set up, farmers markets, etc.). If you need to, try going door to door. If you can afford it, buy bulk mail and distribute a flyer locally. Let your friends and neighbors know what you can do. Take a few jobs below cost at first ifyou need to, listing your regular rate and a promotional or loyalty discount.

Personally I never made enough money to survive on doing this, but it was enough to keep me above water between contracts.

I see it like being overtaken on the highway — there are very few reasons for aliens to expend the energy needed to physically interact with us in the first place. And the reasons to do such a thing include:

1. Halt our expansion into the universe because of our penchant for destruction
2. Claim our planet for their own after destroying theirs
3. Extract our resources
4. ???

After expending the energy and resources to get into Earth’s orbit, it’s probably a lot more efficient to subjugate or destroy the dominant life form than to try and figure out how to communicate with it to achieve the above objectives.

Back to the highway analogy: most aliens wouldn’t want war with us… but we’re unlikely to ever cross paths with such beings in this vast universe, due to either time or distance.

I don’t think that line will pull any weight with Trump? At least not in the direction they want….

He’s obviously looking to leave “journalism” for a career in insurance.

“I biked over this bridge a couple times in 1990 when I was in university, and then I found better routes. Since then, I’ve walked over the bridge hundreds and hundreds of times, and I would say, people call me brave. When I talk to other people, they’ve basically walked or biked over the bridge once because it was terrifying,”

I’ve walked, biked and run across Granville, Burrard, Oak, Knight, Queensborough and Patullo bridges. I’d list Patullo as the scariest, followed by Granville and then Knight.

Of course, Patullo’s getting completely replaced, so hopefully this is the change that’s needed.

I do wonder if the new layout for vehicle traffic over the Granville bridge will improve traffic flow; it puts the bottlenecks in saner places where they won’t disrupt local traffic as much.

I’ve done this for decades. While everyone else switched to streaming music, I keep my entire collection on my phone. It’s only 40GB, but it makes up the majority of my music listening, with streaming radio supplementing it to find new stuff… which I then purchase and download if I like it.

So avoid beaches… between 10:30 and 1:30 tonight.

Er, shouldn’t that be “Ottawa’s National Arts Centre cuts ties with Chinese dance group Shen Yun over controversial ties to Falun Gong?”

We used to start with random objects; usually something nobody would want.