egress
noun
1. the act of going out or leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure.
2. a means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet.
3. to go out; to depart; to leave.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
the move approaches
geezes! it's been busy around here this morning!
it's like today is the first time everyone ever heard that we were moving and now they're all running around in a panic like chickens with their heads cut off! 3 months of packing condensed into 1.5 days... this is possibly going to be the worst move in the history of the world.
alas, the people are coming soon to take away our precious computers! what are we to do with out computers? it's archatic i tell you! who knows what's going down tomorrow... it's akin to a wasted day. maybe they'll just tell us all to go home? highly unlikely.
it's like today is the first time everyone ever heard that we were moving and now they're all running around in a panic like chickens with their heads cut off! 3 months of packing condensed into 1.5 days... this is possibly going to be the worst move in the history of the world.
alas, the people are coming soon to take away our precious computers! what are we to do with out computers? it's archatic i tell you! who knows what's going down tomorrow... it's akin to a wasted day. maybe they'll just tell us all to go home? highly unlikely.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
word of the day - jul 30 08
tarradiddle
noun
1. a petty falsehood; a fib.
2. pretentious nonsense.
that previous post was complete tarradiddle.
it's a direct line to the CEO in charge of dicking around.
noun
1. a petty falsehood; a fib.
2. pretentious nonsense.
that previous post was complete tarradiddle.
it's a direct line to the CEO in charge of dicking around.
picture of the week - jul 30 08
here's a picture of the one and only phone in the new office:
it's a direct line to the director of no-one-gives-a-shit.
go thoughts...
i'm thinking of becoming a jemima's witness...
have you accepted pancakes as your personal savoury?
have you accepted pancakes as your personal savoury?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
down mexico way
"Toronto a hot spot for Mexican tourists"
When the writers for the racy Mexican soap opera Tormenta en el Paraiso ("Storms in Paradise") decided to send their heroine abroad, only one backdrop came to mind - the CN Tower.
(although, that was probably because the US had some sort of opposition to mexicans working in THEIR country... taking jobs for deserving american lazy-asses! it's just ain't patriotic! they don't take to kindly to strangers in them parts)
This past May, the show's 9.5 million viewers watched the lissome adventurer from Mexico tour the Royal Ontario Museum, study English at the University of Toronto, eat street meat, go shopping and brave the CN Tower's glass floor.
The city's TV exposure down south is likely to bolster an already booming market from Mexican tourists. Since 2004, Toronto-bound travel from Mexico has increased by 50 per cent.
the americans would have you believe that the only reason they'd come up here is to sneak into the states from the north where the immigrant watch is not as vigilant. so not only do americans have to needlessly worry about terrorists sneaking in from canada, they now have to worry about canadian tourist mexicans too!
too bad canadian/american television can't reciprocate for mexico's tourist industry... anytime you see a character going to mexico, they are inevitably going for drugs, or guns, or drugs, or money, or drugs. oh and don't forget the drugs! and you gotta know someone is going to die if the show take a detour down south. hurrah mexican tourism!
When the writers for the racy Mexican soap opera Tormenta en el Paraiso ("Storms in Paradise") decided to send their heroine abroad, only one backdrop came to mind - the CN Tower.
(although, that was probably because the US had some sort of opposition to mexicans working in THEIR country... taking jobs for deserving american lazy-asses! it's just ain't patriotic! they don't take to kindly to strangers in them parts)
This past May, the show's 9.5 million viewers watched the lissome adventurer from Mexico tour the Royal Ontario Museum, study English at the University of Toronto, eat street meat, go shopping and brave the CN Tower's glass floor.
The city's TV exposure down south is likely to bolster an already booming market from Mexican tourists. Since 2004, Toronto-bound travel from Mexico has increased by 50 per cent.
the americans would have you believe that the only reason they'd come up here is to sneak into the states from the north where the immigrant watch is not as vigilant. so not only do americans have to needlessly worry about terrorists sneaking in from canada, they now have to worry about canadian tourist mexicans too!
too bad canadian/american television can't reciprocate for mexico's tourist industry... anytime you see a character going to mexico, they are inevitably going for drugs, or guns, or drugs, or money, or drugs. oh and don't forget the drugs! and you gotta know someone is going to die if the show take a detour down south. hurrah mexican tourism!
for john...
a fun story about john's favourite television show ever aired.
"'Makeover' house faces foreclosure"
More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.
Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.
dopes took out a HUGE loan using the house as collateral for a shitty business that fell flat. i wonder if they also spent the money the community raised and the kid's college funds...?
"'Makeover' house faces foreclosure"
More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.
Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.
dopes took out a HUGE loan using the house as collateral for a shitty business that fell flat. i wonder if they also spent the money the community raised and the kid's college funds...?
word of the day - jul 29 08
soporific
adjective
1. causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2. of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness or lethargy.
gawd, eating even a portion of that muffin was soporific.
adjective
1. causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2. of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness or lethargy.
gawd, eating even a portion of that muffin was soporific.
thoughts...
do you know what it feels like to eat a 520 calorie muffin?
well i don't... i couldn't finish it!
every time i thought about it, i inevitably thought of it as '520 pounds' instead of '520 calories'
i think that's what it would feel like to finish it - eating 520 pounds.
and it's not even big! it's small and dense. oh so dense. like a dark matter muffin!
well i don't... i couldn't finish it!
every time i thought about it, i inevitably thought of it as '520 pounds' instead of '520 calories'
i think that's what it would feel like to finish it - eating 520 pounds.
and it's not even big! it's small and dense. oh so dense. like a dark matter muffin!
Monday, July 28, 2008
word of the day - jul 28 08
mephitic
adjective
1. offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odours.
2. poisonous; noxious.
so, my office still stinks like a bog threw up in here...
moving day countdown: 5 days to go!
adjective
1. offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odours.
2. poisonous; noxious.
so, my office still stinks like a bog threw up in here...
moving day countdown: 5 days to go!
a giant leap for feminism
a giant leap backward...
i'm not usually all about 'girl power' and the like... i don't spew it like an erupting volcano but still...i believe in equal rights and treatment. it's just something about this alanis morissette quote just rubs me the wrong way. i think it's a bad association for the word 'feminine' and a bad stance to take on being a woman.
"I have spent most of the life behaving like a man. I had money, power and I wanted to control everything. I would be the one slamming down my credit card at the end of a meal and opening the door so the man didn't have to. It's just not attractive. It's not how a woman should behave.
I am getting back in touch with my feminine side. I dress to show off my curves rather than hide them with boy clothes, I let men help me down steps and I sit back and wait for the man to pay for dinner. I may have more money, but I don't need to prove it by being in control all the time. It's nice. It makes me feel sexier and more feminine."
i'm not usually all about 'girl power' and the like... i don't spew it like an erupting volcano but still...i believe in equal rights and treatment. it's just something about this alanis morissette quote just rubs me the wrong way. i think it's a bad association for the word 'feminine' and a bad stance to take on being a woman.
"I have spent most of the life behaving like a man. I had money, power and I wanted to control everything. I would be the one slamming down my credit card at the end of a meal and opening the door so the man didn't have to. It's just not attractive. It's not how a woman should behave.
I am getting back in touch with my feminine side. I dress to show off my curves rather than hide them with boy clothes, I let men help me down steps and I sit back and wait for the man to pay for dinner. I may have more money, but I don't need to prove it by being in control all the time. It's nice. It makes me feel sexier and more feminine."
Friday, July 25, 2008
in other news...
after cleaning out my office area today in preparation for the BIG MOVE i threw out a whole bunch of stuff and put all my precious belongings into a big packing box. my stuff looks so small and lonely sitting in the bottom of the box, barely filling it...
but now my work station looks almost like it did when i moved in over a year ago!
but now my work station looks almost like it did when i moved in over a year ago!
tgif... why isn't it the end of f yet?
sweet baby jesus in the manger...
why isn't it friday home time yet?
i'm putting my head down on my desk - wake me before everyone leaves.
why isn't it friday home time yet?
i'm putting my head down on my desk - wake me before everyone leaves.
word of the day - jul 25 08
sempiternal
adjective
of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.
does it EVER end with you people??
adjective
of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.
does it EVER end with you people??
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