Not Waiting For The Asteroid

I guess my next job as a paper boy is not going to happen....

Wow, at first I didn't know what they were.
So many!
Can they be recycled into affordable housing?

LOLOLOLOLOL

related:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090318.wcomartin19/BNStory/specialComment/home

Good riddance .Welcome to the future . If your willing to look the truth is there for all to see.Get past all the spin and b@##sh## and you sometimes get lucky and end up here at SDA.

I actually know the guy in Milton, Ontario who refurbishes newspaper boxes and mailboxes. Me thinks he better look for a new line of work!

I live in a small town of 1500 people. For many years, I walked to the corner store, bought the the National Post. I later had it delivered to the house, the Leader Post boy brought it to us. (NP and LP are the same Corp.)
Then one day, the National Post just cut us off. "Not enough customers" they said. The NP was printed in Regina, it came on the same truck as the Leader Post. How much work is to insert a dozen newspapers in a pile?
Today I have no use for the National Post. I read the Leader Post online. I am somewhat disappointed at the fact that the Leader Post has cut back (drastically) on it's letters to the editor. I guess they no longer value our (reader) opinion. The best comments however are on blogs such as this one. As for the empty boxes, they can shove them, no pun intended, where the SUN don't shine.

Hey Jack,

FYI, the NP is in very limited distribution in the Maritimes as well. No longer printed locally, (it used to be associated with the now defunct Halifax Daily News - go figure), it gets 'flown' into Halifax and is avaliable around noon for about $2.10! Fortunately, I moved to Ottawa several years ago so for now, I can still get it delivered.

I feel for our Maritime brethren though. For the luddites, their source of news remains the (IMO) left leaning G&M, Chronically Horrid, er Chronicle Herald, CBC or CTV. No wonder they took umbrage at PMSH's 'defeatist attitude' remark. I'm not discounting the 1000's of Maritimers who work long hours and in conditions that would make a central Canadian twist in the wind, but as a region, they've been on the public teat for so long, they believe their entitled to, you guessed it, their entitlements.

To wit, Danny Williams, please go stand in the corner.

Considering most of it's former content it looks to me like a couple hundred abandoned outhouses.

I'm sure there is some worthy, government subsidized artist who can make the discarded metal boxes into a tragic art piece that will fetch a grandiose price and be placed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. I want a small cut of the proceeds for my brilliant suggestion. My retirement income has taken a severe hit and I need the cash (preferably under the table so Revenue Canada can't tax it).

Was just in San Fran. People would just walk by the paper boxes without a glance, go inside the building (Denny's, Comfort Inn, ect) and pull out their no-subscription iPod Touch. Presto !! Free Wi-Fi and a world of information - including sda.

Ron, you hit the nail on the head. Throughout history, most of mankind has been unable to comprehend the dramatic changes occurring while living during those changes.

I envision a world not too far off when free or low-cost wireless Internet access will become available to all of us in the major metropolitan areas.

When the newspapers started publishing opinion and bias instead of news I stopped buying. Ditto CBC/CTV.

No way fernstalbert any credit$ are all mine.
For some reason the image of them dangling upside down is what I'm envisioning! lol
Need to recycle them into bat houses, seriously real bat houses.
Think of the environment!

Little modification and they'd be perfect, nice long lasting homes for millions of bats, no trees killed, this should have the gaia ghouls drooling all over it. Can be used to jump start community improvement projects all over the country, materials at hand-cost savings, people can work AND feel good about themselves, yes they can!

for god's sake let's not be too hasty here folks....thimk for only a moment on the law of unintended consequences....in this newspaperless future what am i going to put in the bottom of my parakeet's cage......what am i going to wrap my fish and chips in ?

Priceless and telling, those images, eh? Maybe Kate could make it a graphics contest, for the best captions for those images.

Den Tandt seems to think the plunge is due to free content and too many crossword puzzles and comics being cut out. Not a word on bias. Sad really. http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2009/03/20/8816456-sun.html

they could probably save their arses if they used a toilet paper quality paper to print the news on, tho white swan might get upset a little :-)))))

What an appropriate image.

The outer diversity and inner conformity of a dying medium.

"hearst mouthpieces say they're going web all the way ?...like that will help eh?

....they don't seem to understand the problem yet do they....what's that tag about 'shit vs sunlight'?

Wolf, wolf, wolf, can't anyone hear us anymore, cried the MSM into the cyber-darkness. Finally a sharp witted conservative yelled back,"you've lied one to many times. They just don't get it, following every loser and detailing scams like global warming and your, all going to die journalism, approach has been your own demise, look at Fox, throw out your social engineering Kevin Newman/Robert Fife/Lloyd/Peter/Olbermann etc reporting, or go broke! Frankly I hope you go broke, without a dime of TAXPAYERS money wasted on you!

A sign of the times: Perhaps the only use for newspaper machines will be for scrap, decoration, or for plinking.

Its crazy, I know, but The Onion has their black boxes all over Chicago.

bartinsky
'Wolf, wolf, wolf, can't anyone hear us anymore, cried the MSM into the cyber-darkness. Finally a sharp witted conservative yelled back,"you've lied one to many times. They just don't get it, following every loser and detailing scams like global warming and your, all going to die journalism, approach has been your own demise, look at Fox, throw out your social engineering Kevin Newman/Robert Fife/Lloyd/Peter/Olbermann etc reporting, or go broke! Frankly I hope you go broke, without a dime of TAXPAYERS money wasted on you!'

EXACTLY....
WE MAY NOT BE PIPERS BUT WE CAN TELL THEY ARE OUT OF TUNE JUST BY LISTENING....
my Bagpipe anology.....

That picture might make a good Screen Saver.

John...wrap your fish and chips in toilet paper.That what newspapers are worth.

They certainly are colorful.

The best part is that the Big Politically Corporate Media (one of Big Brother's assistants) will no longer have virtually exclusive access to the Peoples' minds. No longer must we read what we're offered in the form of papers/magazines, nor will we have to watch/listen to just what's available on the dial. Online, WE are in control- it's a consumer market, no longer a broadcaster/publisher market. Good. And I predict that, like their Axis of Evil idols, they'll try to restrict the internet somehow... sort of a "Fairness Doctrine" or a "Human Rights" Commission for the internet... they'll try, no doubt.

I prefer to have a choice btwn electronic or paper format.

Sentinel, I think this is what you just said

Why this blog?
Until this moment
I have been forced
to listen while media
and politicians alike
have told me
"what Canadians think".
In all that time they
never once asked.

This is just the voice
of an ordinary Canadian
yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me.

It sort of looks like big lego blocks. Perhaps some artiste could stack them up into a big memorial...

Today I'm seriously considering firing a guy for lying to me. Its going to cost me -money- to do it, and yet I'm making calls anyway. If I can I'm going to replace him, probably at higher cost, with a guy who doesn't lie.

Newspapers have been lying their asses off to me for -decades- now. Still are, even with the humongous pile of formerly lucrative paper boxes rusting expensively into a field someplace. Mute testament to the number of people who have got sick of being lied to, day in and day out.

Hey, monkey boys! I'm not paying money for your crap. Got it?

Call me old fashioned but I still like a real paper to read on a saturday in the car while wifey is shopping. Crossword is easier too (hard to get the ink off the monitor).

for real news I go online and tune in fox News.

I agree with an earlier statement that the pictures, for colour and composition, are worth it. I think that in 50 years each one of those items is going to be worth big $$$ as an antique curious...maybe, if Valerie Pringle drinks enough coolade, it will be an item on a future Roadshow episode she holds.

If Obama stays there much longer, you can wrap your fish or line the parakeet cage with US dollars!!

They could be lawn ornaments.
Suzuki , who encorages recycling, could recycle them as momentos in celebration that fewer trees are now being killed,putting these gizmos out to pasture, and these lovely testaments will be awarded to all the tree huggers who made this possible....

Never mind.

Lumpy: "I guess my next job as a paper boy is not going to happen." Actually, my little local newspaper is having trouble finding carriers. An opportunity for some.

paint the metal ones black put a vent in the top and use them for burning trash.

Wonder if I smoke a whole turkey in them?