Apparently, the gods themselves have seen fit to honor my efforts to drink tap water by contributing huge quantities of white flakes of ice from the sky.
Because it’s so light and fluffy and easy to blow around, I think I’ll call it “blow.”
There’s a lot of blow in Vancouver. It’s all anyone can talk about. On the weekend, it’s fun to have blow to play with, build snowmen out of, roll around in.
But on Monday, if there’s still a lot of blow lying around, I bet there’ll be a lot of people who can’t make it into work. There might even be some businesses shut down. Schools will be canceled because of too much blow and the danger of driving with blow everywhere.
I went out late last night and took a bunch of pictures of all the blow. They turned out rather nice.
Oh, and I’m still drinking the tap water and I’m still just fine. It’s basically cleared up, but the city hasn’t called off the advisory yet. Tonight, when I checked the turbidity report, the montiro was broken. Maybe the person who’s supposed to be monitoring it, slipped and fell into a big pile of blow.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
I just got an email at work that the water advisory's been lifted: "Water may continue to appear cloudy or discoloured for some time. While increased turbidity can be associated with increased risk of gastrointestinal illness, our extensive monitoring and testing leads Medical Health Officers to believe the water in the above areas is now safe to drink."
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)