Original arrival time – 9:47
Estimated arrival time – 1:05
four hours after original arrival time – 1:47pm. NOT 4 hours late.
But – how are we making this time?
Actual departure time – 8:45pm (from Dorval)
ETA at Toronto (with milk train stops) 1:05
Estimated total travel time with milk train stops – 3 and a half hours.
If [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Reflections on Via rail schedules…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back to Toronto, “Via” some delays
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the longest train delay you’ve ever experienced? Sitting in Dorval station, at 8:39pm, we are 3:39 minutes late and we haven’t technically left Montreal yet. The real kicker, a Train des Banlieus just passed by, and I realized that there is a station of trains des banlieus in the Central Station, where we sat [...]
Montreal Week
Posted in Art, Capitalism, coffee on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last week in Montreal at my friend Nell’s place. It’s been quite excellent getting to know the city I’ve always loved, but never for very long in person. I saw the Tam-Tams, hung out in the cemamtery with an old friend drinking Unibrou on the Molson tome, spent two days in the [...]
Heidegger’s Nietzsche Volume 1: The New Interpretation of the Sensuous. P212-213
Posted in Being, Philosophy, Things, beginning on May 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
“The sensuous in itself is directed towards overview and order, toward what can be mastered and firmly fixed”
The sensuous is form engendering – it finds in itself a “direction” towards abstraction, idea, for the sake of getting a hold on, fixing. The sensuous grasps and calcifies, sediments. The direction is towards enhancement as an increase [...]
Coffee shops, and why it’s easy to get them wrong.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sitting in a Starbucks, what rules is the prevalent neutrality of the standard. There is nothing distinctive about a Starbucks. While they are often different in slight ways, trying to fit into the neighborhood decor, the overwhelming sensation is one of repetition, identity. The space is amenable to life, it is an easy place to [...]
Intentions and action: grasping the practical propositionally?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The question – what is the status of an intention in an action? Or, how should we speak of the presence of an intention in an (intentional) action. We act constantly, and see others act. We say of other’s acts that they are either intentional or not – we don’t know with certainty, but we [...]
Vancouver to Portland – By public transit alone
Posted in Capitalism, Pragmatics, Technology, coffee on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why do things just seem more adventuresome out West? Maybe it has something to do with the people I know there. My UBC friends Mike Kushnir and Aaron Palm, and Mathieu from Quebec, are on a transit odyssey. The project: to travel from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Portland Oregon – by public transit alone. It’s [...]
