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Grampa Ken
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Inflation Calculator - Bank of Canada
Started Nov 10, 2011 0 Replies 0 Likes
Compare your net worth then and now. The Inflation Calculator uses monthly CPI. Enter any dollar amount,…Continue
Tags: RRSP, investing, CPI, calculator, inflation
Oiled pelicans photo takes top award
Started this discussion. Last reply by Grampa Ken Oct 21, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
It is a picture that seems at first to be quite beautiful. Only as the eye lingers do you fully realise its shocking context.This image of brown pelicans smothered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon…Continue
Tags: oil, life, wild, nature, environment
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Grampa Ken's Page
Retired since 1997 Ken has been able to spend more time on his favorite internet projects and his topics of interest: self-help and social advocacy. In 1999 he completed a review of his thoughts on self-improvement and placed them online. 32 KEYS is a free to read summary of positive suggestions about worry, happiness, stress, confidence. 3,000,00+ page views to date.
In January 2008 he began a social change blog about where we have arrived and where we might be going as a society. He is concerned about bad food, environmental rot, programmed consumerism, corruption, wars and poverty.
Social Fix presents articles on some of the problems and solutions available to society.
He loves to cycle and take photos around White Rock beaches and trails.
Camera setting on 'Auto'.
He also doodles up (free) images related to his sites,
has a few related T-Shirts available at The Tee-Pot
and he yaks all about life at 7 DECADES.
What Zoomers Are Doing Now
Rusty replied to Grampa Ken's discussion My first in the group Computerites - The trials and tribulations"I started with an Osborne 1 back in 1982. CPM operating system, two floppy drives with 184K capacity. Drive A held whatever app one was using, drive B was for whatever you wanted to save. Touted as 'portable', it looked like a…"
Suzanne commented on Grampa Ken's blog post Of Course Marriage Isn't All Fun And Games"This post has been posted a while, but it never changes with time--. Well Grandpa Ken I could have told you that a-long long time ago about marriage. But it has its fun moments, though once is enough for me. I love your page!"
Doug Lewis replied to Grampa Ken's discussion My first in the group Computerites - The trials and tribulations"
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Grampa Ken's Blog
77 and Wondering About Life and Society
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:04am 3 Comments 3 Likes
So as another year passes I'm still wondering; what the heck are we doing with society, our planet and the people on it? What are we leaving for future generations?
And if this is the era of plenty and so much for so many, why are millions living in poverty or starving? As we gobble up natural resources and dump massive amounts of waste into our environment, why do we work so hard at competing for yet more of so much? That we don't need! Why are the big free enterprise machines…
Of Course Marriage Isn't All Fun And Games
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:40am 1 Comment 1 Like
Married life has it's problems.
There are conflicts about ideas, choices, extremely annoying habits and more.
Some of these are easy to overlook while others can be continually upsetting. Certain mannerisms of one may never suit those of the other, compromise seems unreachable and parting ways looks inevitable. But a rethink of the whole picture from another viewpoint might be worthwhile
Acceptance
There are various definitions of love and one…
Oversized Consumption and Waste
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:48am 1 Comment 0 Likes
The wasteful production and consumption of over-sized houses, cars, meals, services... have created over-sized headaches for society and the world.
The big roomy house requiring comfortable transportation to and from the suburbs is a prime example of things gone wrong in our social development.
There is an increase in life stresses to earn money to obtain products and services that are more than we comfortably need. There is also waste and the environment to consider. As… Continue
The big roomy house requiring comfortable transportation to and from the suburbs is a prime example of things gone wrong in our social development.
There is an increase in life stresses to earn money to obtain products and services that are more than we comfortably need. There is also waste and the environment to consider. As… Continue
TV Addiction
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:53am 2 Comments 1 Like
Remember when television was in the living room and a place for the family to get together to watch a family program, and the choices were quite limited? Since then it has 'progressed' in such a way that huge amounts of programming are now directed at different segments of the family. As a result most of it is not watched as a group and may be viewed separately at different hours or in separate rooms.
Over the years TV has brought into the home entertainment, news and commercials.…
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 6:22pm on May 13, 2011,
Sedona said… Beautiful photos Ken
I just saw some Canada Geese
the other day while out
yesterday in fact, with babies
Sedona :)
- At 2:15am on May 30, 2010,
Rachel Lambtender said…
- Hi Grandpa Ken: I think you are a man who is a deep thinker and the type of person who is able to unravel some of lifes mysteries so I wonder if you can help me out with one I've been working on for a while. It is this: Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?
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