Big Fat Hairy Living

Men have such hot names: Mike, Dave, John, Brian, Matt, Mark, Sean, Dan. When I chat with men online, I love calling them by their names just because male names sound so sexy.

Of course, when they look like this, it also doesn’t hurt:

I bet he has a sexy name. Maybe something like Paul.

Update: His name is Mike. Sexy.

The impression I got of this company over the two month long, four-interview hiring process was that it was completely, utterly lacking in anything approaching comptence or professionalism. Yesterday, the company moved to a new building. The move has done nothing to change my mind.

This move has got to be the most disorganized, poorly-planned move I’ve ever experienced. I arrived Monday morning to a desk with boxes and equipment stacked on it and my computer system still in pieces. I had to set it up myself, borrowing a monitor from someone who’s away this week. A day later, nobody knows where my monitor is or if I’ll ever get it back.

There’s no new furniture. The cubicles that we were using at the old office have been recycled in random fashion. The fabric cubicle walls are made of hodgepodge of 20 year-old mismatched panels placed haphazardly with no thought as to appearance.

Power is being fed to cubicles via a system of 100-foot long extension cords. This is not temporary. When the phone technician arrived at my desk to hook up the phone, he said that he didnt’ know how he’d wire it. In a competent company, the wiring would have been planned out before people started moving in. My phone was finally hooked up this morning, via a 50 foot long phone cord to the nearest phone jack. Most of the phones are finally working today.

If I were running the company, I’d be embarassed to have people visit. It looks like shit.

Fortunately, as I said then, I don’t require my employer to be competent. I just require regular cheques.

I just love having an older boyfriend. Daddies are so hot.

I just wanted to say that.

Funny: A drag queen makes fun of bears.

Funnier: Bears get their knickers in a knot.

Funniest: A commenter refers to Les Wright’s Bear Books as “scholarly.”

Update: Check out the constant stream of cut-and paste the guy is posting all over Livejournal. Buddy needs to focus on more important things.

Nelly Furtado says she’s “bi”:

Meanwhile, Nelly Furtado tells a European gay magazine that she’s bisexual. “Women are beautiful and sexy” the singer tells Gus Magazine.

Futado says she believes all people are essentially bisexual and that all people should have the freedom to experiment with their sexuality.

“I’m reading a book about Chinese medicine, which claims that people are inherently bisexual to balance their energies,” she tells the magazine.

“And, in a way, that makes so much sense. As humans we have both male and female energies.

I wish I could come up with a better response than “Shut up, you imbecile.”

How to make money off web advertising:

1. Tell all the computer news sites that you’ve started a blog to petition to Apple to release Mac OS X for generic PC hardware, even though any sane person could tell you that Apple will never be swayed by a lame Internet petition.
2. …
3. Profit!

Bonus points for extra special brazenness: He writes “If you really want to make a difference in today’s world, then please sign our petition and think about sending us a donation.”

Hear that kids? You can make a difference in today’s world by signing this guy’s petition! Because running an operating system on a new computer will make a difference in today’s world! And you can make a difference in today’s world by sending money to some anonymous guy on the internet. Because giving money to strangers will make a difference in today’s world!

Kodak used to have a large industrial plant on Eglinton West at Black Creek Drive until they closed it to move to Etobicoke. So what’s happening to the site? Big box retail stores:

Ward 11 Councillor Frances Nunziata (York South-Weston) agreed [that the development is good news], noting residents and businesses in her ward will benefit greatly from new retail development in the area with more jobs and services brought into the surrounding community.

“It’s exactly what we wanted,” said Nunziata, who was dead set against any residential use for the land, which may have been more profitable for the purchaser.

On its website (www.metrusproperties.com), Metrus highlighted some of the retail, industrial and office properties it has planned, designed and leased, including banks and restaurants, most of which are located in York Region.

The prospect of a new commercial centre in the former city of York has local residents satisfied as well.

“It’s very, very exciting,” said Jean Boutot, president of the Mount Dennis Community Association. “We wanted something that will bring people from Toronto into the neighbourhood.”

Can we talk about how horribly awful that last statement is? Who seriously thinks that a desolate cluster of big box stores that are just the same as all the ones everywhere else will attract people to the neighbourhood? Why would people come from downtown to visit the same old stores they can get anywhere else?

This area could have been redeveloped into a high-density, mixed residential-commerical neighbourhood that would form a real downtown in the former city of York. Instead there will be drive-through banks and large parking lots. What if this kind of thing had been allowed to happen, historical architecture aside, to a place like the Distillery District?

Is there any hope for this city?

Snakes on a Plane!

Dutch customs detected a live poisonous snake that was sent by airmail on a flight from Hong Kong to a collector in the Netherlands, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

Inspectors thought the snake was a gag rubber gift when they first scanned the package, which was labelled “toy goods.”

But then they scanned it again and saw it move, ministry spokesman Kees Nanninga said.

The snake was a Fea’s Viper, found in the forests of southeast Asia. It is rare but not on endangered lists, and known as highly poisonous but not usually aggressive toward humans.

Nanninga said he did not know whether the snake could have posed a threat to passengers, as in the film.

SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!

Can someone please explain the bizarre logic this asinine blog post to me?

It’s stories like this that make me want to hurl. What possible justification could there be for anyone to rape an eleven year old girl who’s going out for a leisurely stroll in the park?

The scary part is, because she was under the ridiculously low age of consent of fourteen, the motherfucker who did this will get off with a misdemeanor sentence — less than two years. I wrote about the age of consent last August — and my opinions on it haven’t changed. It’s not enough to make the age of consent at least sixteen (with an exemption for consenting teenagers). Sexual assault should draw a life sentence, whether it causes bodily harm or not, and whether the victim is of the age of consent or not.

The "closer age" exception needs to be worked on — but this is one Harper initiative I support in principle. It’s time for the nonsense to end. Kids needs to be protected.

Because raising the age of consent to 16 would have protected this girl, who was already under the age of consent, and who was sexually assaulted, which is against the law at any age.

Can someone please explain how raising the age of consent who have protected this girl? And can someone please point out the section of the Criminal Code where sexual assaults on under-age children are subject to a lesser sentence? Because according to what I can find, they aren’t.