A while back I wrote an post jesting that street cleaning in St. John’s is a big money scam for the city to make money off of your parked cars.
Last night there was street cleaning on the street (and there will be again tonight). Most people on the street continued to park as they normally do, unaware of the ticket they were about to receive.
It absolutely kills me that the city does not provide more notification about street cleaning. If everyone is still parked in their usual spots, the street isn’t going to get cleaned, so why bother?
No other reason I can think of than money.
From GregPike.ca: Street Cleaning – St. John’s Biggest Money-Making Scam
Local News, Rants, Service
St. John's, Street Cleaning
The Globe and Mail is not usually known for speaking well of Newfoundland but this week there is a spotlight in their travel section regarding the music scene here in St. John’s.
From Globe and Mail: Rocking the Rock
Local News, The Web
Music, St. John's
Anyone can get emotional when they talk about politics, but when you are a public figure you have to be especially careful not to say anything nsensitive, offensive, and unfounded.
Glenn Beck joined the crew of those who have crossed the line a couple weeks ago when he announced Obama as a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.”
Wow.
That’s not what I found impressive about this situation. Word on the street is that many of Fox News’ major advertisers like Geico Insurance, Walmart, Best Buy and more are pulling their ads from The Glenn Beck Program.
Other ads which have run during that slot in error have sent PR departments scrambling to announce those ads were a mistake and never meant to be aired with that show.
The Consumist is asking if these companies pulling these ads affects your perception of them. Personally I feel that any companies that make business decision based less on projected revenues and more on principles are ones that have shown their human side making them a favorable place to do business, even if thier motive was only ever to appear as such. I think one can’t help but have their perception altered by such a story.
From The Huffington Post: Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GMAC Among 8 Major Companies To Pull Ads From Glenn Beck Show
From Reuters: Fox News’ “Glenn Beck” loses advertisers
Politics
Fox News, Glenn Beck, Obama
This man has built his own custom go-kart to a similar design to that of the Batmobile from the latest Batman movies, Begins and The Dark Knight.
It looks very cool. As Jason said, “I would proudly drive that around the city.”
Unfortunately it has not been fitted with the ability to leap from rooftop to rooftop yet.
Videos, Wacky
Batman, Batmobile, Go-Karts
If you are a developor chances are you either use or ignore Regular Expressions or you are some slick breed of the two. I fall into the latter. I have a basic understanding of regex but I couldn’t write a regex to save my life.
Regexs are intimidating to the untrained eye. That’s why I’ve only ever bothered with a regex cheat sheet.
I happened upon these two great resources for learning and applying regex. One teaches to understand the basics of regex. It makes regex easy to comprehend.
The other is a list of five important regex tools that no developer should live without.
From I’m Mike: The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions
From I’m Mike: 5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know
The Web
Regex, Regular Expressions
From my Facebook feed:
Gina Samantha Reid is absolutely shocked with Chris Cornell — lead singer of Soundgarden, lead singer of Audioslave. Holy cripe. Not that I don’t like a good dance song, I am just shocked!
Music, Videos
Chris Cornell, Timberland
The decision-makers at Tim Horton’s have decided to establish their popular donut organization as a homophobic one.
According to online sources, Tim Horton’s is co-sponsoring a rally on Rhode Island for the National Organization for Marriage. The NOM is an organization that is fighting for the preservation of traditional marriages.
It’s especially notable because it is a direct violation of their own policies:
Tim Hortons does not sponsor individuals, those representing religious groups, political affiliates, book endorsements or traveling sports teams. Tim Hortons does not provide cash donations.
Is this a strategic move or an accident for Tim Horton’s? Either way I hope the message spreads the this donut shop supports anti-gay rallies on marriage.
UPDATE: Tim Horton’s has pulled funding for this event. It was the result of a franchisee ower violating their policy.
From Truth Wins Out: Doughnut Chain Tim Hortons Violates Its Own Policy, Sponsors NOM Antigay Fund-Raiser
Politics, Rants
Tim Horton's
Trent sent this around the office today. I thought it was funny.
Apparently the conversation went like this:
Walmart Employee: Hello ‘dis be Walmarts, how can I help you?
Customer: I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.
Walmart Employee: What you want on da cake?
Customer: ‘Best Wishes Suzanne’ and underneath that ‘We will miss you’.
Wacky
Walmart
Everyone has seen the JK Wedding Dance by now. If you haven’t, you should.
Now there is a JK Divorce Dance. This is very cool. Hats off to Jill and Kevin. You are now officially Greg Pike Heroes.
Congratulations Jill and Kevin and good luck!
Heroes, Wacky
JK Divorce Dance, JK Wedding Dance
