Children Fall

I read this article about Sand vs. woodchips in the playground. It's amazing the amount of work that goes into keeping children safe at play. We'll never get back to the good old playgrounds that we used to have as kids. Stupid progress. Whatever happened to culling the heard?

You're Fucking Retarded

Every Monday I get way more questions than usual and they're all stupid. It seems as though people forget how to use the equipment they use every work day of their lives over the weekend. Things are magically unplugged, the power button needs an extra 2 seconds of love, whatever. Either way I'm left pissed off at the fact that you're a fucking dummard.

The Monday after holidays is the king-kong of stupidity. It's not even 10am yet and I've had three really fucking stupid questions and one question that could have been answered if you read the documentation you made me write for you.

People are only human, but I guess that means I hate humans on Mondays.

You're Stupid

Torrents should never contain a billion RAR chunks you useless script kiddies.

Annoying Web Folk

A friend of mine gave me a call because one of his clients is having trouble getting hits to his web site. It seems that he can't get the search term "lawn care Burlington" to link to his site.

His so called expert isn't. Using his desired search terms as alt tags on the images of the page as if that is supposed to suck the traffic in. Then I started looking at the content of the page and discovered that all of the actual text of the page is located in lovely little iframes instead of being located in the page itself.

Looks like I have my work cut out for me if we're going to get this guy's site locatable on teh intarwebs.

You have to move around?

No one told me that if you're in a tanning bed you're supposed to move around. I had a hard enough time trying to figure out if you're supposed to go au naturel or not, then I walked out of my first tanning session and I had white lines on my ass. (I think I want a bronze bottom, so I decided au naturel was the only way to go if I wanted to look sexy.) Then after I get out of my second session, the girls I was with asked me if I moved around, as if it was common knowledge that you're supposed to move around on a tanning bed. I'm glad they waited until I was done the second time to tell me that <sarc>, at least I'm not stupid and I figured it out after the first time. I'd prefer to not need a tanning bed, but 12 minutes inside beats the crap out of 45 outside. Plus there's the whole bronze butt thing, can't really do that outside unless I want to blind some neighbours or something. Bless Florida for having great weather though, seems odd to come here for an extended period of time from Ontario. I keep thinking it's like an Indian summer in September or something. Not looking forward to going home next week, I've been hearing how ball-sacky the weather is back home since I've been here.

New Trap for a New Rule

I saw a new one yesterday. In Ontario there's a new speeding law which says that if you're doing 50 over the limit there's an immediate vehicle seizure and a $10,000 maximum fine. So I was driving along the 407 and I saw a cop hiding off to side so everyone slowed down and after we passed him there were 5 tow trucks lined up just waiting for him to bag 50+'ers and tow them away. That's taking this to a whole new level.

Personally I think the law is dumb. I concentrate more the faster I go. I'm going to pay more attention at 150 than at 120. I think it should be a caveat based on the weather. If it's shitty out then 150 is ludicrous but otherwise, as long as you're leaving lots of space it's not all that dangerous if you know what you're doing and not weaving and getting close. At the same time, if you don't know what you're doing to begin with or you're sleepy or something you shouldn't be going those speeds anyway.

teach me to be as awesome as you and...

It comes every year, the day the boss asks what the theme for the following year should be. Usually I try to look busy drinking my beer at the Christmas party, but this year I'd already had too many so I piped up; "The year of Awesome!"

Having spent the last few months catching up on missed episodes of How I Met Your Mother I've become completely involved in using the words "awesome" and "legen... wait for it.. dary" in daily speak. As well as the phrase; "it's going to be a thing".

So anyway, the boss went with it and next year at our company is the Year of Awesome. I've already gone ahead and found a bunch of NPH photos so that I can make some awesome posters which say "Awesome" and "2008, the year of Awesome" on them and I'm going to look into making some t-shirts for staff. It's going to be legendary!

...and what?

PS: As as side note, it looks like it's not just me. Strong Bad's seeing an influx of awesome which could also be due to HIMYM.