It's Friday, it's a long weekend. Time to kick back, relax and enjoy the waning days of summer vacation. What better way to put your mind in veggie mode than this excellent collection of observations and commentary with absolutely zero nutritional value for your brain. It's my tribute to all the students going back to school, except for the fact that reading this blog will likely undo years of higher education.
Glad I could help.
Ever a city on the cusp of innovation, New Yorkers have found a new way to cool down this summer: dumpster diving. Quite literally, the city has taken dumpster containers and converted them into portable swimming pools. Talk about lemonade from lemons. I think the city of Montreal should do something similar. Instead of spending tax dollars on infrastructure, the next time a gaping hole opens in a city street I say fill it with sand and water and open a downtown beach. Even better, we could convert the Turcot interchange into a waterslide or the Big Owe into a mammoth hot tub.
I'd be willing to oversee a feasibility study for a mere $20 million.
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Speaking of the roads, Transport Quebec is floating the idea of creating a radio station to report traffic conditions in the Montreal area. Not sure if they've thought of any call letters yet, but might I suggest CRED.
I'll give you moment to figure that one out.
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Berlin tour guide Anna Haase has come up with a unique way to see the German capital. She is taking groups on a tour of the city's most notable toilets. The tour features loos ranging from the oldest and most primitive to the newest and most technical. Among the highlights of the toilet trek is an area referred to as the toilet block, which dates back to the late 19th century, and a trip to the Kaiser's fully restored bathroom at the Potsdamer Platz square.
Her M.O. is to draw attention to the lack of toilets for tour groups in Berlin, because nothing helps you forget about having to go quite like standing in a bathroom with twenty foreigners.
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A study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School claims that attractive women face discrimination when applying for jobs where appearance was not seen as important. These included job titles like manager of research and development, director of finance, mechanical engineer and construction supervisor.
They were also overlooked for categories like director of security, hardware salesperson, prison guard and tow-truck driver.
In the study, photographs of both attractive women and men were shown to prospective employers. In most cases, the men were considered over the women across all sectors. Kind of a backwards form of social discrimination.
I get why someone would be upset about limited access managerial positions, but something tells me no matter what your gender, attractive is probably not an asset for prison guards.
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Okay, so before you get all hot and bothered, Carey Price is the Canadiens goaltender. Deal with it. The $5.5 million dollar man will be around for the next two years so we can either sit and mope or suck it up and give him another chance. The Habs organization had to deal with an extremely unpopular reality. Keep Halak, the hero of the playoffs with a proven track record, or keep Price, a player that even Scotty Bowman is convinced will become an elite goaltender. In either case, the reality of a salary cap system meant they simply could not keep both. There was no way to please everyone, the decision is made. Time to move on.
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Fictional movie title of the week, courtesy of Virgin radio's Breakfast Show with Cat and Lisa. The male version of Eat, Pray Love:
Run, Hide, Drink
Enjoy the long weekend.
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