North Sydney.
PS16 - Miscellaneous
Some pictures my mother took in Cape Breton this past summer:
North Sydney.
The ferry terminal that grants eventual passage to the island of Newfoundland
in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nina and her horses (Ross Ferry).
What follows are some pictures Uncle Shane's nieces and nephews took when Mark brought in a tuna. I think I was too tired to accompany them.
And Jenny (left) apparently was, too, but she doesn't get a vote yet.
=)
Mark and his tuna.
From left to right: Deanna, Uncle Shane, Jenny, Tyler.
One of the many things the kids like about having an expert tuna fisherman for a dad is that they get all the tuna they can eat. Of course, the Japanese take most of the main parts, but there are still lots of good cuts left over for even the most discriminating pallate:
Eat up, kids!
You know what would really go well with raw tuna? A 7-Up, of course!
Hey, nice coat of paint there.
From "Sponges" by The Arrogant Worms:
There's lots of songs of peace
Lots of songs of love
Even songs about peaches and Valkyries
No songs about
Tuna fish, tuna fish, tuna fish, tuna fish
They're real big and swim in oceans
Come in cans like hockey pucks
Tuna got their names 'cause they don't swim in pairs!
Get it? Tuna. Are there two of those fish? Nah! Two-nah! Two-nah! It's funny! Hee hee! No? I like tuna.
Winning eight (useless) 1-ups in the Super Mario World bonus game.
The points score is more important here; I had a weird thing going on with
my cart where it just poured the points on whenever I reached the goal
with the timer on an odd digit. Eventually I just kept playing Star World
3 (the game's shortest regular course) again and again until ten million
points was within reach. I wanted to see if the game could handle that
big a score, but I didn't get the chance - it soon came time for me to
go to PEI, so I just said "the heck with it" and turned the game off after
a few weeks of constant power-on and a few minutes of play nearly every
day. Now, here's a real Mario feat - have you seen the Super Mario
Bros. 3 Time Attack video? You haven't?!?! GO! Your life depends on it!
(Thanks to Paul Fox for bringing this gem to my attention.) One way to
see it is by downloading an emulator, the rom, then applying the instruction
set available here (I'm not sure
how
this works, but I think I got the jist of it) - then you get to see it
done 'live,' so to speak. Alternatively, look for a video recording of
it on Kazza with a search like "mario 3 beat in 11 minutes" - you'll find
it eventually. I'm carrying it myself - my Kazaa (lite - but good luck
finding that again!) username is nova_one.
Me, playing with my Polariod, a gift from my late Uncle Ronnie. It's
unlikely that I'll take any Polariods until I get easy access to a scanner
again. I gotta tell you, this thing has one heckuva flash. I set it off
a few inches in front of my face to see how bright it was - I saw, alright
- the image of the flash bulb was burned into my retina for nearly an hour
afterward. It changed colours and everything! And this is without
drugs!
This is um, informative:
So I could figure out how I was able to see the error message
(or, rather, the comment in an error message - where the heck is
the error message?), but of course there is no clue given to me about what
the heck caused it. Oh, well. I guess politics are more important than
things that work in the computing world nowadays.