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Cool: Sculptures, Lights and Comments At 11:02 PM by: Hiro |
Winterlude started on Friday and it goes for a couple of weeks here in Ottawa. Apparently there's some cool stuff that's supposed to happen. Last night Nana, Tony and I walked down to Confederation Park across the street from city hall to check out some ice sculptures. Overall experience rating: cool. Here are some of them:
On our way out of the park, we crossed an intersection that employs that loud chirping sound to signal a walk.
I joked: "Haha, imagine if you recorded that sound and then played it through a megaphone while a blind person was waiting at the lights...when the lights were red. Man, that'd be so cruel."
Nana's response: "Don't you mean cool?"
And so the three of us laughed and continued walking.
Also, in case you haven't noticed, I spent some time today adding in a really cool feature. If you look on the sidebar to the right, you'll see a "Recent Comments" section. It will list the latest comments people have posted. No longer shall comments be made only to be ignored by everyone else.
Some people got together and threw around an oval shaped ball made of leather. There was also some scoring system involved indicating that the "White team" beat the "Green team" by a score of 24-21.
Cleaning chemicals somehow made its way into cartons of 1% chocolate milk produced by the company Natrel. The company immediately recalled them all on Wednesday when it found out about the mishap. Now some loser is launching an $11 million class-action lawsuit against the company. Ok first off, if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency or some government body wants to slap them with a fine to teach them a lesson, then that's cool. But if this guy thinks he deserves millions because he vomitted for an afternoon, he needs a slap upside the head. (Scientists have say the chemical would cause such stomach upset but nothing longterm). He apparently also "suffered psychologically and experienced economic losses." Right, losses of the $1.50 he paid for his carton of milk. I bet that guy isn't even worth $500 if he was out of work for 2 months. Now this isn't the most extreme case of stupid lawsuits (and fine, you can even argue that it's not stupid), but you know what, I'm just getting really sick and tired of all this shit in the court systems.
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On our way out of the park, we crossed an intersection that employs that loud chirping sound to signal a walk.
I joked: "Haha, imagine if you recorded that sound and then played it through a megaphone while a blind person was waiting at the lights...when the lights were red. Man, that'd be so cruel."
Nana's response: "Don't you mean cool?"
And so the three of us laughed and continued walking.
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Also, in case you haven't noticed, I spent some time today adding in a really cool feature. If you look on the sidebar to the right, you'll see a "Recent Comments" section. It will list the latest comments people have posted. No longer shall comments be made only to be ignored by everyone else.
In Other News,
Some people got together and threw around an oval shaped ball made of leather. There was also some scoring system involved indicating that the "White team" beat the "Green team" by a score of 24-21.
Cleaning chemicals somehow made its way into cartons of 1% chocolate milk produced by the company Natrel. The company immediately recalled them all on Wednesday when it found out about the mishap. Now some loser is launching an $11 million class-action lawsuit against the company. Ok first off, if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency or some government body wants to slap them with a fine to teach them a lesson, then that's cool. But if this guy thinks he deserves millions because he vomitted for an afternoon, he needs a slap upside the head. (Scientists have say the chemical would cause such stomach upset but nothing longterm). He apparently also "suffered psychologically and experienced economic losses." Right, losses of the $1.50 he paid for his carton of milk. I bet that guy isn't even worth $500 if he was out of work for 2 months. Now this isn't the most extreme case of stupid lawsuits (and fine, you can even argue that it's not stupid), but you know what, I'm just getting really sick and tired of all this shit in the court systems.
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2 Comments:
Amen brother! Oh, and I love the descrip "waste your time" lol. ::snort:: ::trip:: ouch!
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Manda, at 2/07/2005 12:53:00 AM
I like the blind as much as the next hu-man, but it had to be said.
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Nana, at 2/07/2005 01:43:00 AM
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