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May you enjoy a short discussion, based on four chapters of Farley Mowat’s Lost in the Barrens: No Man’s Land, The Rapid, Alone n the Wilderness, The Great Stone House. Joshua : Two boys. Jamie was from Toronto. Awasin lives in northern Canada. Tina : How did they become friends? Joshua : Jamie moved to northern Canada. … Continue reading “The Great Stone House” →
This is a reference chart showing symbol encoding.
I enjoyed my first book review here. Now, I am enjoying the book Lost In The Barrens by Farley Mowat, published by McClelland & Stewart. Jamie was a young person who left Toronto “to take up a new life in the subarctic forests of northern Canada.” He met his uncle, Angus, who was confident that Jamie would … Continue reading “Leaving Toronto for northern Canada in the 1940s” →
The following tables are for a developer’s reference, to show the Date Format in Swift 4. Using dateStyle and timeStyle properties let formatter = DateFormatter() formatter.dateStyle = .full formatter.timeStyle = .full let dateString = formatter.string(from: Date()) Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 9:48:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time Using format strings let formatter = … Continue reading “Date Format” →
A book review I have been reading a fascinating book about European navigators who charted many continents and oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. The name of the book is Sextant, by David Barrie, published by HarperCollins. One such interesting explorer was the English man named George Vancouver. One of his goals was to map large … Continue reading “The island of Quadra and Vancouver” →
Basic Operators in Swift Addition (+) Subtraction (-) Multiplication (*) Division (/) Remainder Operator (%) (similar to the Mod or Modulo operator in some other languages) The Remainder Operator Here is a brief explanation of the remainder operator (%) as it works in the Swift language, quoted from Swift’s website: The remainder operator (a % … Continue reading “Remainder Operator” →
Sometimes it is useful to have a chart of some of the traditional Japanese colors:
Welcome to Gray Whale and Blue Heron! Not much here yet. But that will change.