What’s with the trend of teeny-bopping iPod users walking down the street in a group, each of them with one ear bud in, while chatting away amongst themselves. I don’t understand the need of listening to their music while together. There is a reason they are called personal audio players.
If you’re a regular Slashdot reader, you will likely already know what I’m talking about. This year, the editors changed the site to an all-pink layout in dedication to ponies (of all things). The site was riddled with useless news pranks that weren’t even funny. Some were okay, some were terrible. Wikipedia has a summary of pranks. Why?!
I realise this is an old tradition. Sometimes funny things happen. But who are they really fooling anymore on sites like Slashdot? And even Google. It’s been done. And it’s not funny anymore.
This is exactly why some people need to find new hobbies.
1. My cellphone emits a lot of light.
That doesn’t mitigate my next point, however:
2. Buy a flashlight.
The past two days: random spurts of snow. At UBC on Friday morning (~ 9am), there was a couple centimetres of snow on the ground. Two hours later, there was none left. The temperature rose to nearly 10 degrees. It was bright and sunny. And the north shore mountains were clear and you could see the snow-capped trees.
Did you know that the new Tim Horton’s commercial for the roll-up-the-rim-to-win contest is filmed in my home town, Mission BC?
It’s a fact.
