This site is pretty cool – a band created a crowdsourced music video comprised of people who visited their site following the instructions on screen. Try it yourself!
A friend in Vancouver posted this story on Facebook mentioning that the story of a local man who’s going across the border, buying hundreds of thousands of dollars from Trader Joe’s (which doesn’t have stores in Canada) then re-selling the goods at his “Pirate Joe’s Store” is apparently a big deal out there.
I’m obviously very interested in copyright but this story provides an interesting take on the related issues around trademark, corporate “rights” to enforce their regional territory, the doctrine of first sale (eg. once you buy a product, its yours to do with as you please) and so on.
This young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book. This is how he makes a living.
Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…
Went out to our farm today and got to spend some time watching the family friend who we now rent our land to and his crew harvesting. Lots of fond memories for Shea and I watching the combines go around the field (okay, it was usually just a single combine when we were growing up – not three!)
Meanwhile, our seven year old “city kid” son got to have the first combine ride of his life! 😉
Here’s all of us posed in the field (mom’s in BC visiting her sister so couldn’t join us today unfortunately.)
Pace playing in the crop…
Going for a ride on the combine…
Posed in front of a piece of machinery that’s probably worth more than our house! 😉
Sasha watching the combine (note the flag that’s proudly flying!)…
Faded road sign with our farmyard in the background…
One of my cousins has received a number of old photos from her mother (my dad’s oldest sister).
My cousin has posted a few of the photos that she’s digitized onto Facebook so the entire extended family can see them.
Here’s one that has most of the Hammond family as it stood, likely sometime around 1955 or so – my grandpa and grandma (back row, far right), pretty much all 10 of the kids in dad’s family including eight girls and two boys (dad’s in the back row middle, the younger of the two boys shown), and probably a few of the kids of that eldest aunt and her husband (back row, far left)?
