The Shared Experience of Absurdity

A way to start the New Year

Lissa Rankin talks about Healthy Living

Vancouver+ V3 update

Holger delivered his primary components in October, with some bits left to come.

Meantime, I’ve been dealing with health challenges that have delayed integration. I hope to get on top of these soon, and carry on with pulling it all together.  Will check back in, in a month or two.

Meantime, all the best of the season to you!

Gratitude

New BC Place roof

For Vancouver+ V3, we’ve plopped the roof supporting infrastructure on the existing model.  Thanks to BC Pavilion Corp. for the reference drawings.

New Roof for BC Place

Vancouver+ V3 update

We’re getting there, but nothing to report yet!

Fudging Vic+ to work in FTX PNW

Bert Pieké has had some success combining key elements of Victoria+ with FTX PNW.  This is for the knowledgable user, not recommended for folks not used to manipulating folders and files.  No warranties expressed or implied!!

1. Create a new folder in Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery called VicPlusLite

2. Create \scenery and \texture subfolders in Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\VicPlusLite

3. Copy all files from Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FSAddon\VictoriaPlus\VicPlus Higher Priority\Texture to your new texture folder.

4. Copy just the files listed below found in Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FSAddon\VictoriaPlus\VicPlus Higher Priority\Scenery to your new scenery folder

5. In your scenery library be sure you do not have VicPlus enabled, and add VicPlusLite to your library.  Order should be:

• CYYJ (2011) – top (if you have it.  Be sure this is installed with the PNW option)
• VicPlusLite – next
• ORBX PNW – lower

Files to copy from scenery folder (step 4):

The surprising math of cities and corporations

Convention Centre with Cauldron – day view

Vancouver Convention Centre with Olympic Cauldron

Playing with fire

A new goodie for Vancouver+ V3.

Olympic Cauldron

From the water

Olympic Cauldron

Night textures on North buildings at CYNJ

Night textures done, bric-a-brac added.  As I’m done until Holger gets his bits done, this will be the last screenshot for a while.

Vancouver+ V3 - CYNJ North Buildings - Night

FTX PNW compatibility strategy

Holger is working on his bits for Vancouver V3 this summer, and taking an approach that modifies FTX PNW to make add-on compatibility simpler.  So at some point there will be a new Service Pack for PNW that will be Vancouver V3 compatible, available prior to the V3 release.  No release dates to announce.

Night textures for the new buildings are now done.  I’ll post screenshots here once I’ve added the smaller objects.

New Review of Vancouver+ V2

Thanks Brian Buckley for this review.  Note that the top-down shot labelled CYPK (Pitt Meadows) is CYVR, and the one labelled CYNJ (Langley) is actually CYPK.

Building 41 at CYNJ

The basic work on the new CYNJ (Langley Airport) buildings is complete.  Just night texturing and ancillary objects (like jacks, cars, garbage bins, etc.) to add.

Here’s the Harbour Air/MC Welding building and an overview of the four buildings.

Harbour Air and MC Welding

 

 

 

 

 

CYNJ North area overview

 

 

Building 42 roof updated

Even though the roof of Building 42 at CYNJ was photoreal from the actual building, it looked terrible and I’ve updated it with another texture.  And Building 41 (the last new building) is modelled and just awaits texturing.

CYNJ Building 42 roof updated

Building 42 at CYNJ

Building 42 at CYNJ - Groundside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building 42 at CYNJ - Airside

 

Humanizing Data

Transforming how we look at things, from flight monitoring to music.

More modelling at CYNJ

Some time after these photos were taken, I’ve gotten around to modelling some of the CYNJ (Langley Regional Airport) buildings on the North side, thanks to Ron Silcox taking some more photos.

Langley Aero Hanger at CYNJ

CYNJ Hangers, groundside

RDM Hanger at CYNJ

A study in duality

Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight.  For those who don’t embrace spirituality, Jill’s right-brain experience provides an alternate explanation.

Vulnerability – the follow up video

Further to Brené Brown‘s exploration of vulnerability, as with many theories I was left wondering how her theory could be applied in everyday life.  I wanted the 18 minute how-to video.  But I know that this next video is one we each shoot for ourselves.

So what’s mine look like?

As a first step, I distilled her theory down to its essence (as I saw it through my lens).   (It’s best to ensure you’ve watched the video to flesh out this summary).

Our influences

• Desire for connection: that’s why we are here
• We’re taught if we can’t measure something, it doesn’t exist, invalidating intangibles
• The shame we experience is based in fear of disconnection: that we’re never good enough; “Who do you think you are?”

Our strategies

To try and avoid shame:

• We blame others, bad luck, fate, etc.: this a way to discharge pain and discomfort
• We numb out vulnerability: (but we cannot be selective about emotions, so we numb joy, gratitude, happiness)
• We try to make everything that is uncertain, certain
• We strive for perfection, and we try to make our children perfect
• We pretend that what we do doesn’t have an impact

Of course these strategies actually result in disconnection.  To connect, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, to be vulnerable.   Those people willing to do so Brown calls, “wholehearted,” asserting that these people feel worthwhile solely because they believe they are worthwhile.

So these wholehearted people who believe they are worthy, and as a result they feel worthy:

• Have courage; they tell the story of who they are with their whole heart: they have the courage to be imperfect
• Let themselves be seen, love with their whole hearts even though there is no guarantee of return, practice gratitude and joy, believe that they’re enough
• Recognize that connection is a result of authenticity; they let go of who they think they should be, to be who they are
• Have compassion: they are kind to themselves first, only then can they be kind to others
• Are willing to take emotional risks, are vulnerable, they let go of controlling
• Teach their children that they are worthy

As a next step, I created affirmations for the key points:

• I am worthy
• I tell the story of who I am with my whole heart
• I have the courage to be seen as imperfect
• I let myself be seen
• I love with my whole heart
• I am grateful
• I practice joy
• I am enough
• I let go of who I think I should be, to be who I am
• I am compassionate to myself
• I am compassionate to others
• I am willing to be vulnerable
• I let go of controlling
• I teach my children that they are worthy

To these I add some other affirmations that are meaningful to me.

Finally, as I go through my day, when I catch myself blaming, resenting, ruminating, shaming, etc., I stop myself, and see which of these affirmations come up for me.

Film at 11.