Hey kids! Ya, I know, not much blogging this week. Lucky sods. Well, there's always time to slap together a Friday blog ...(ahem) I mean carefully craft a masterful piece of writing. Well, you're reading it, so no need for the whitewash.
You probably heard about the RCMP arresting three suspects in an alleged terrorist plot to attack landmarks in the Ottawa capital region. One of the suspects, Khurram Syed, is a McGill University trained physician and a former contestant on Canadian Idol. Probably didn't think the doctor thing was going to work out.
I presume when he got to the question 'Are you, or have you ever been, a terrorist?' on his Idol application he ticked 'No'.
Devious little bastards those terrorists.
Has anyone checked Bieber's background?
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Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren are officially single again. Their divorce was finalized this week. The media is already clambering to get details of the settlement, but honestly I don't really care. I think the larger question is Tiger's reputation and public image which is in tatters. Is there anything he can he do to make himself marketable again?
'Hi, I'm Tiger Woods for eHarmony' ...just a thought.
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Montreal City Council has put the kibosh on installing air conditioning on city busses and Metros. While it sounds like a nice idea for passengers, councillors concluded that the financial cost of installing the units would be significant. Of course, it wasn't really the money that was the big issue, since City Hall can always find cash for the things it wants (usually in brown manilla envelopes), the decision had more to do with the environmental impact from increased greenhouse gas emissions.
Good for them, I'm sure they all felt better as they rode home from City Hall on public transit, or their Prius, to their eco-friendly, solar powered, zero-emission mansions.
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The Hockey Summit wraps up today in the T-Dot with NHL and World Hockey executives, owners, officials and consultants spending the week in conference rooms discussing rule changes and plans for the future (I'm picturing a big table littered with empty coffee cups and a half finished box of Timbits).
One of the proposed changes was adding an off-ice referee who would call the game from a platform between the two penalty boxes. The refs concluded that the vantage point didn't provide a better perspective.
Maybe they should combine the two ideas: elevate the refs by attaching their skates to stilts. That way they can follow the action and get a better view. We could even recruit refs directly out of the Cirque du Soleil or Disney On Ice.
Or maybe we should just stick them all in a room with hi-def TVs, because whatever game their calling on the ice doesn't look anything like the one I watch at home.
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British Airways is apologizing profusely to passengers on a flight from London to Hong Kong. While cruising over the North Sea the intercom suddenly played an automated message declaring that the plane was about to crash into the sea. Flight attendants responded quickly, assuring passengers that the message was played in error.
So, they actually have automated systems to inform you that you are about to crash. Who knew. I looked it up and it turns out that it's called the High-tech Overhead Low-Yield Final Urgent Communications Key system. I'll let you figure out the acronym.
Have a great weekend.
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