Google Street View, in Whistler.
Drop the litle guy anywhere on the mountain, and BAM! There you are skiing.
Olympic Torch Relay.
Feeling some serious pride of being Canadian right now.
Why Zipcar Rocks
The plan: get a rental for sunday around 7am, go snowboarding, be back by 4ish, give car back.
The first result: no results.
So I altered the plan to get it from 8pm the night before, and rent the car for 24 hours.
The result:
I am a bit baffled by this.
They’re not open on sunday. How can they not be open? And I tried other methods, rent it from the night before, tried maybe a bit later in the morning… all results are met with a barrier. I either can’t rent it early, or they’re not open, or the location is at an airport, or the car has to be back by noon.
How do you plan for a trip like mine?
I went to Zipcar. I found the closest car to my house (conveniently located a 20 second walk away), and all I have to do is show up sunday, swipe a card, and I’m in the car.
Sure its a bit more expensive, but hell, at least I’ll be driving a Mini, or a Wolkswagen, and all I have to do is show up to the car! My credit card gets billed automatically, and I will have nothing else to worry about.
I will get up an hour earlier than you so I can shower, make breakfast and get the kids ready before you even get up, I will make some fruit for your breakfast so you can stay healthy and alive, I will shave almost my entire body for you and pay someone to rip hairs out of my most sensitive parts, I will work 24 hours a day, every day, I will sit through 2-hour midnight feedings, I will let it roll off my back when I’m treated differently in my workplace. I will work just as hard as my colleagues but make much less than half of them, I will say yes (most of the time) even when I don’t feel like it, I will take your call, I will listen to your mindless chattering about sports, I will listen to your friends mindless chattering about sports, I will be civil to your mother, I will usually ignore it when you leave the seat up (again), I will go see The Fast and The Furious 27: Badass Tricycles with you…
—Haloof Curls, YouTube commenter on the “Man’s last stand” Super Bowl ad (via robot-heart-politics)
Overheard in Toronto
Overheard on the southbound Spadina streetcar, from “a group of college-age girls, one a French exchange student,” the rest apparently locals.
French student: Why do you call eet a—how-do-you-say?—street car?
Other girls, laughing at her: Yep, it’s called a streetcar.
French student: Is very strange, eet is not a car, eet is a train. Are you sure there is not another name? In England, I believe is called “tram.”
Other girls, all at once: “Tram? Never heard of it.” “I don’t think tram is a word.” “Nope, tram is definitely not a word. It’s a streetcar.”
One girl, as the streetcar passes College: Oooh, this is a neat neighbourhood. There’s a great restaurant here: it’s super fancy, very high-end and elegant. It’s called the Red Room. I think it has a bar too.
via torontoist
You will see characters in movies use the iPad. Jack Bauer will want to return for another season of 24 just so he can download schematics and track vehicles on it.
—Stephen Fry, in his blog iPad About
I dont care if it loses 90% of visitors, we cant have a skip on the website intro, we paid a lot of money for that and everybody has to see it.
—(via clientsfromhell)
William Tam: He’s like that Cute Ignorant Uncle That Everybody Cringes At
Lawyer: You told people that next will be legalizing sex with children. That’s the homosexual agenda. Do you believe this?
William Tam: Yes.
*head desk*
