In the nineties, I ran the Artsy Fartsy Bulletin Board System out of my home for several years. Those were the days of 2400 baud modems and the scree scraw weeeeeeeeeekkkk!!! sound of the connection soon became a part of my every waking and sleeping moment.
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Roxanne Tellier – Whatever Happened to the Artsy Fartsy BBS?
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 2400 baud modems, AOL, Artsy Fartsy BBS, BC, Billie Sue Mosiman, CN Tower, CompuServe, DBAWIS, Dennis Havens, eBay, f Laurie Campbell, Facebook, FidoNet Region 12, FidoNet Writing Echo, George Willard, Iain Grant, Jerry Springer, JJ Cale, Leisure Suit Larry, Mark Matthews, Pakki Chipps, Pamela Dean, PayPal, Prodigy, Rich Veraa, Rocky Frisco, Roxanne Online!, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Sooke, sysop, We Compute, Writing Tavern, YouTube on July 14, 2019 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – A Sunday Pot Luck
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags BC, Canada, cannabis, civil rights, climate change, DBAWIS, edible, First Nations, First Past the Post, Indigenous, Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia, Kinder Morgan, legalization, Marijuana, Native Americans, North Dakota, pipeline, pot, Reefer Madness, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Supreme Court, THC, United States, Voting on October 14, 2018 by segariniYou ready, Canada?
Legal weed can go on sale at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2018. Cue the screaming and yelling from those who have never seen a Reefer Madness poster that didn’t give them a semi-erotic frisson of fear.
Roxanne Tellier – Looking Through A Glass Onion
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags BC, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Family, farm, goat, politics, Travel on October 2, 2017 by segariniSee how the other half lives. It’s good to go away, and it’s lovely to come back. I have a new respect for where and how I live, as well as a new outlook on the miracle of flight. I’m not saying I lost my fear of flying, I’m just saying my fear and I have come to a better understanding.
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Roxanne Tellier – 2 Dogs, 2 Cats, 1 House Chicken ….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags BC, Bob Segarini, Coqquitlam, DBAWIS, Family, Grandchildren, Granville Island, Greg Simpson, Jenson Ackles, love, Roxanne Tellier, Supernatural, Toronto, Vancouver, White Rock on September 24, 2017 by segariniGreetings from the westiest coast, where the weather just ‘is,’ no matter what’s predicted. Will it rain or shine? Be sunny and warm or chilly and damp? Stay tuned, weather fans – we’ll have your sun after this brief rain shower!
Last Monday I stepped out of the Abbotsford airport into an almost Floridian heat and haze. But by the time we’d driven out of the airport, the day had settled into a damper, greyer miasma, and has mainly stayed that way, with brief and wholly unpredictable flirtations with the sun sprinkled in for good measure.
Roxanne Tellier: Cheap Eats, Hot Jazz and heymacs
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bandcamp, BC, Bill Parsons, Bob Segarini, Chinook, DBAWIS, El Furniture Warehouse, El Furny. Whistler, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Glass Orchestra, Humber, Miles Davis, mukluks, Pat Blythe, Pat Matheny, Roxanne Tellier, Shawn O’Shea, shotski, Tangents, the heymacs, The Old Spaghetti Factory, the Royal Conservatory, tuque, Weather Report, York on November 8, 2015 by segariniRemember the heyday of The Old Spaghetti Factory? Massive as the place was, there were always lineups, and you’d eagerly await that call of your name … “Smith, party of 4!” “John, party of 3!”