• Archive for January, 2010

    Sleeping Beauty works for the TTC

    by  • 1/15/2010 • Toronto • 2 Comments

    Sent the following followup email to the Toronto Transit Commission after hearing nothing for nearly two weeks on a report that I filed early this year. They have you fill out a web form, and list explicit instructions to send an email to followup@ttc.ca if you don’t hear back. I wonder how frequently anyone hears [...]

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    Fark Headline of the Year 2009

    by  • 1/3/2010 • humor • 0 Comments

    Fark’s annual headline competition has some great candidates; Suicide bomber strikes Iraqi funeral. At least two dead Peephole in door of girl’s dorm room reversed; police are looking into it Baghdad’s National Museum reopens six years after looting. Featured displays include mostly a bunch of really heavy stuff Plane crashes in Florida panhandle, no pilot [...]

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    Crappy Advice for 2010 from The National Post

    by  • 1/2/2010 • insanity • 0 Comments

    The National post has a series of section pages that are covered in printed post-it-notes offering tips on how to live the good life. While there are some interesting and amusing pieces, like “How to perform the Heimlich on a cat” and “Know how to pull off a con, most of them are silly or [...]

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