CBS has announced that How I Met Your Mother will “suit up” for a sixth season.
I have only started watching recently but I am already on season three and I can’t get enough of this show.
From Buddy TV: CBS Picks Up ‘How I Met Your Mother’ for Season 6
Anytime it’s snowing in St. John’s and the roads are in hard shape I always hear people say “I’m not taking the highway” referring to Pitts Memorial Drive.
Everytime I hear this I feel like defending the highway in poor driving weather.
The “Arterial” as it is called is part of the Governement of Newfoundland and Labrador’s highway infrastructure and thus it’s snowclearing is managed by the provincial government. Compared to the City of St. John’s those roads are immaculate in the snow.
Additionally the highway swurves around the turns of the hills on the southern side of St. John’s and is surrounded on both sides by thick coniferous vegetation which prevents virtually any blowing snow.
To top it off this is a popular highway where there is a lot of traffic. Even when the plows cannot keep up on the accumulation of snow the flow of traffic keeps the roads clear.
When it comes to driving in poor winter conditions I am confident there is no safer road to drive on. Outer Ring Road is a completely different story.
The Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl, AAMP, is currently accepting short films from local artists for their annual Frosty Film Festival. Here is the announcement:
On February 7th the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl will be hosting the 5th annual Frosty Film Festival and I’m hoping to make this the biggest and best year yet. I’m reaching out to a few of my favorite artistic people to look for some help.
AAMP is all about giving local artists opportunities and while we try to have a few bigger names in our line up, we like to put a focus on first time filmmakers.
So, primarily I’m looking for any local film makers who you may know that have a short film that they would like played. If you do, please pass my name on to them and we can work on getting their film shown.
For info on AAMP, you can go to AAMP.ca or you can reach me at info@aamp.ca.
Also, if any of you have any ideas or suggestions on what we could do to increase knowledge of the event and, of course, attendance I’d love to hear about it.
Thanks for helping and I hope to hear from you soon!
Angela
To learn more check out the Frosty Film Festival section on the AAMP website.
On January 4th St. John’s began issuing snowclearing tickets as promised. They advertised on the radio and on television. I rarely pay attention to either, but even I was aware of the snowclearing date.
All the same, 300 motorists found themselves with hefty $45 snowclearing tickets the next morning.
Needless to say, many were not happy.
You leave your vehicle on the road overnight when snowclearing is in effect and you deserve a ticket. I agree with this. Otherwise we have messy streets in the morning because plows were unable to maneuver properly through them.
But 300 tickets on a clear night? City Council is just going out looking for people to ticket needlessly. Random sweeps are fine. The odd ticket for a violator will prevent people from parking on the road overnight. Obviously if it snows, nail them with a ticket. Otherwise, frig off.
There is no need to ticket so many people on a night where there was no snowclearing and the weather forecast indicated no chance of snow.
But if the city must ticket absolutely everyone with a tire on the road, then why not put the money they make to snowclearing?
In one night of ticketing they raised $13,500.00. Take out the expenses for ticketing those violators and you have a significant profit from one night’s work. Surely this kind of cashflow could be put towards improving the city’s dismal snowclearing efforts.
If St. John’s put as much effort into actually cleaning the streets as they do ticketing parked vehicles we’d have wonderfully clean streets.
I am not sure if this is a regular thing, but I logged into Twitter tonight to find a flood a updates from @thescopeNL regarding discussions during the St. John’s City Council Meeting. Real time updates of important issues as they are addressed.
Cool!
I recently started watching The Big Bang Theory based on the recommendations from several friends. I am still trying to make up my mind on how I feel about the show, whether I really like it or not, but I look forward to the intro every time it comes on.
The intro music is by Barenaked Ladies, one of my favorite bands, and the song the show uses is called The Big Bang Theory.
The lyrics to the intro are:
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait…
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang! BANG!
The Barenaked Ladies are incredibly clever and I never tire of their wit. I thought I’d share the song because until I started watching this show I was unfamiliar with it. I figured there were probably some people out there who would appreciate it as much as I do.
