Mia has pointed out all that is wrong with my city. This is Toronto’s public web site. This is Okotoks, Alberta’s public web site. It has a Flash intro, because they are l337. The mayor is Bill McAlpine, and I’d post his email address so you could go “d00d!”, but I don’t want anyone to get spammed anymore, so instead, why not give him a call at 403-938-5336 and thank him for the only government site I’ve ever seen with a link to a Fraggle Rock page.
You know what sucks? Getting to work 5 minutes late to find out that your 10 o’clock meeting is actually going on right now in a building that you passed 10 minutes ago. Of course, every meeting I’ve been to this week has started 15 minutes late, and I don’t know if this one was an exception, but I sure didn’t miss much. Except breakfast. It was waiting for me when I got back to my desk at 11. I’m eating my lunch right now, and expect to have supper around midnight, except I’ll call it “noon” and wink dramatically.
I just found out that Billy Dee Williams and I are going to be working side by side in August! This is very exciting! Ok, it’s the building beside mine, but that’s still a side which complements my side nicely. He’s going to be at some sci-fi convention. I think it would have been interesting if they’d combined the smaller than usual Comdex with something like that. Instead, they’ll probably have room 101: some sci-fi convention, room 102: parking lot management symposium. I’m not making that up, they had a parking lot symposium a few months ago. It was fascinating, they had seminars on hospital parking lots, municipal parking lots, shopping centre parking lots, and probably a range of certification options, because certifications are necessary for all things, and you don’t want a hotel parking lot manager taking on a casino parking lot without proper retraining.
When are they going to have certifications for stuff people care about? I want to be a certified “guy who can pick a ripe canteloupe from the pile”. I’d pay money for a membership card along those lines.