What was the worst part of my day, the part where when walking back from Starbucks a mysterious and unseen bird decided to poop on the back of my head OR the part where after a co-worker helped me wash it out in a bathroom sink, I managed to get my hair caught in the hand dryer we were using to dry my hair? Pro-tip: cartoon solutions do not work. [...]
I have somehow managed to melt the numbers on my Bayern Munich kit. I threw this thing on late Wednesday night while watching the Bayern Munich vs Barcelona final in the Audi Cup. When I got up to go to bed, that’s when I noticed that was something was amiss because the shirt wasn’t hanging right on my back. I reached around to tug it down but found that I [...]
I’m just putting this out there: political parties post their platforms on their websites. You don’t look like an engaged voter simply by asking a candidate “What is your party’s position on the environment / crime / taxes / elephants?”, you look like something who cannot do basic research. By all means, ask policy specific questions that cannot be answered by the website content, but for the love of all [...]
I woke up at 6:30am yesterday morning so I could go on down to the pub for the Liverpool vs Wolves match. Imagine my surprise and joy when I discovered that one of the assistant referees was a woman! Surprise because I didn’t know there were any in the EPL and joy because, hey, that’s awesome! But, of course, not everyone thinks this is awesome. Before the game started the [...]
Ugh. Vix let me know that evidently I’m suffering from the Google cloaking hack on my website. Joy! If you’ve had the misfortune of encountering this, my apologies. So far none of the solutions have fixed the problem as I cannot find any trace of this thing on my site. The last straw seems to be to basically removing and reinstalling everything, which I find to be an undesirable solution [...]
Remember when I complained about Disney deciding to rename “Rapunzel” because boys won’t see a movie about a girl? I saw the trailer in front of Toy Story 3 on Friday and guess what? The male hero Flynn Rider dominates about 90% of the trailer, with Rapunzel not showing her face until halfway through and then getting a single line of dialogue (“Woo! Best day ever!”). Does it count that [...]
Things that annoy me: not having a “Ms” option when being forced to select a courtesy title when signing up for a service. I resent being forced to choose a title at all (what if I don’t identify with any of the options, period?) but for the love of god if you’re going to go the rather antiquated route of forcing me to have a heteronormative title, could you at [...]
I was on the subway last night and there was an ad for Plan Canada’s Because I Am A Girl campaign on one of the subway walls. The ad features two sets of stats: the first is about ways in which girls are discriminated against and oppressed around the world, and the second is about ways in which investing in girls improves the general health of a community as a [...]
This just in: according to an old white guy we encountered at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club today during Doors Open, there are no longer any social strata in our world. Fancy that!
Oh, and another thing: I read through several dozen resumes today and found someone who apparently held the position of “Educator” at Lululemon, yet the job duties performed in this position were clearly listed as standard sales associate duties. This struck me as being moderately weird, so I Googled it and confirmed that yes, indeed Lululemon calls their sales associates “educators”. The person selling you your over-priced sweat pants is [...]