How to identify a cult

My brother and sister and I were in a car stopped at a light and he points to one of those blue air freshener dolphins hanging from someone's mirror and he says suspiciously pointing at it "I see those dolphins EVERY where in cars now. I think it's a cult."

I thought my sister and I would have to get out and sit on the curb we were laughing so hard.

A few weeks later I reported to him that I saw a car with about 10 dolphins and a plastic cherry thing, that it must have been the leader. Not so funny, he thought.

The thing about the bus is...

I really wanted to say: You are in charge of transit for a million people city, plus outlying areas. You should start acting like this matters. Run your transit on a German Time Clock and throw on a few extra buses. Or else you'll never win over more riders. We WOULD pay more money gladly for service that rocks, but right now that 59 bucks is like paying for someone to come and kick you in the shin every day for a month. It doesn't hurt that bad, it doesn't make us cry, but twinges every day.

School and if I were in charge

Sometimes going to NAIT is like going to high school. Someone got a lab extension because: no ink in printer at home. Also someone got an extension for visio crashing their computer at home so they couldn't complete the lab to hand in. Meanwhile, the instructor has already marked & handed them back today... and they are still not handed in for the special crew.

I'm not sure if the instructor is scared of this student or what, because if I was an instructor I'd be like "you FAIL at problem solving" - seriously, memory stick or email or something, bring it to school, they have printers here. Also The Future Store sells ink.

I'd be a mean instructor, I'd kick people out all the time and make fun of lousy work and people who don't know how to double click.

So what happens at the University if you have to hand in a CD and it is blank? Hahaha, lab extension at NAIT!

I <3 Nasan

warning -- incoming chatlogs

me: hey can I ask you a question about your resume, I wondered all through supper about living on your own hump.
what does that mean? is that a Chinese saying?
S: hum.....
it's from an online dictionary....
andd I just copy & paste it....
me: haha really?
i thought about it for the last hours and am trying to figure out if it relates to a camel's hump and living off one's own resources or what
S: lol
it's like
hump means back, right?
me: you can have a hump on your back, but generally no...
S: it's like, 'I'm on your back' that's means I'm supporting you
me: no
hump = bump
S: and my hump maybe means, support myself...
me: no
Steven: hump = bump ?
.....
me: like a big bump when old ladies and men don't stand up straight
like the humpback of notredame
S: but, sometime hump also means carrying something?
you got me?
i guess no lol
me: no, hahaha
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+hump&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
good try though
S: During nearly for weeks in this glorious place I have lived on my own hump.
me: NO
hahahhaa
S: tha'ts what on the dictionary!
me: that doesn't make sense!
no way
bring in your dictionary... I will cross it off, it doesn't mean that
S: I dont enjoy humping heavy furniture around all day.
lol
it's an online dictionary~
me: hahaha
HAHAHAHA
S: is that make sense?
me: nononono
it's so bad! :)
S: but you are laughing, that's means it at least means somthing :-o
me: people sometimes say hump when they mean have sex with.
and unless you say hump+back
or hump and mean camel
S: what???
have sex with???
hump?
me: sex is humping
S: oh!! but it's not the only way of have sex
me: to say sex? no there are others
S: ppl can have sex in different ways...
me: did you click on the link I sent you?
S: yes
me: ok well there you go.
S: haha~~yeah, you did really good job to correct that for me!
I don't want the employer thinks I want to have sex with them
me: i'm sure most people would spend the night like I did thinking about camels
S: yeah, boy camels have 2 humps...
me: I bet you they wouldn't think about sexx
boy camels have 2 humps??
oh I don't know if I want to hear the rest of this story!! hahahaha
S: camels have humps right? and boy camels have 2 , and girls have 1?
me: no it depends on the type of camel
hahahaha
S: really???
......
me: what do they teach you in Chinese zoos?
S: sorry about that ...x-(
me: hahhaa
the 2 hump is a dromedary?
no the 1 hump is the dromedary
I just looked it up
S: yeah, me too lol
me: hahah
i forget what the 2 hump is
S: yeah, chinese is much more simple in this case
me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel
S: dromedary is called '1 hump camel'
me: that's the 2 hump one
hahhaa
really? and everyone thinks it's a girl?
S: I think just me...
me: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hump
S: Hump is the lump on your ass....
me: YES
exactly
like the song
bubble butt
S: lol~
interesting
me: hahaha
it's funny to read
S: yeah, english is interesting
like, bush , it's bush, but it can be a name
me: yes it can be a language or a name
S: yeah, but I think the reason why Bush is looks like a monkey it's because of his name
me: hahahaha
bushes are small though, not like a tree
S: and jackson, HiJack, jack's son
me: monkeys wouldn't like bushes
S: Jackson
me: that's how the name probably came about
S: they like!! coz trees like bushes....
me: there's a lot of xxxson's
S: yeah, a lot of interesting name in english
Jason
Nason
W/eson
me: Nason?
S: nasen?
Nesion?
me: Nathan?
S: na sen?
nei sen?
me: hahaha I think you must mean Nathan
S: I forget how to spell it, it's like Jason, but a N instead of J

On Mazdas

I <3 my sunroof... um I use it all the time because it makes the car less like jail. And sometimes truckers standing next to me at lights look down into my car when it is open and that is funny. I cannot imagine owning another car without sunroof, I am not kidding.

A letter to ETS

I've never written a complaint to ETS, but I have written commendations over the years. This morning was a pretty terrible ride, so here's my first complaint ever to ETS.

What happened this morning:
Bus #4395 - NAIT special, left Millwoods Transit Station at 7:05. It arrived at NAIT not at 7:45 but at 8:05.

Some of us leave our houses at quarter to 7 in order to make it to school/work on time. It would be helpful to have bus drivers, routes and schedules that would accommodate us getting there on time.

First the bus driver drove down 23rd Avenue until he reached Calgary Trail when someone asked him where he was headed. Then he drove down Calgary Trail to 34th Ave, where he turned onto 34th Ave and pulled over twice to read his map. Apparently he had trouble locating Lakewood. When he nearly turned right instead of left someone got up and stood by him for the rest of the drive to make sure he knew where he was going. It arrived at Lakewood at 7:22 and left Lakewood 3 minutes later. No one got on. No one got on at Millgate either. One person got on at Bonnie Doon. Problems locating Downtown happened after that. Despite the helpful rider pointing out which exit to take in the Bonnie Doon traffic circle the bus driver still took the exit into Forest Heights. A complicated backing up procedure happened after that.

I have 4 points to make about the bus driver assigned to our route this morning:

* Better route training - Drivers should know where the Transit Centres are & where they are in relation to the others. Know where you're headed when you leave a transit centre, because your riders DO. If you don't, ASK.
* Better city training - the city layout is the same in the dark as in daylight, Downtown always is in the centre of the city, from Millwoods that is north. ALWAYS.
* Map reading skills - consult your assigned route, preferably not while driving. It has a map, check it before you leave.
* Problem solving skills - 20 or more minutes after you've missed a transit centre no one there is still waiting for YOUR bus, they've found alternate routes that know where they are headed. Just get the people STUCK on your bus to their destination without being MORE late.

While I'm still at it, I have some observations:

* Lakewood Transit Center is the only Transit Center without a clock. Why? It would be helpful to have a clock.
* Downtown Transit Center digital clock inside the shelter is still on daylights savings time. It is now 2 weeks past the time change. This is annoying.

I realize that transit gets me to where I'm going every day. I do appreciate that. These complaints come from a place that wants more people to rely on the great service ETS does provide 99% of the time.

260 - The History of the Internet. 3 times a week. Today's agenda: introduction to Web Design.

As if I hadn't already been bored...
Here's my chat log:

Me: hahahha, the history of the internet prof is talking about the internet.com today and he's calling them "EARLS" (that is: URLs) phahahahha
J: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you should tell him that the term url is deprecated and he should be
using URI instead
pfft history indeed
Me: In class example:

This is a paragraph that tries using underlining, italics, and bolding
together with a line break.

J: ummmmmmmmmmmmmm
em is for emphasis, hth!
Me: u is deprecated -- hth! hahahhaa
Me again: {text-decoration: blink;} HTH!!!
(css itt!)
J: Oh yes! swoon!
Me: HAHAHA, oh man after I sent that we have actually just added blink to our style sheet... HAHAHAA Oh my I'm going to love this class... Snoooze! Ohno! :pencil:
J: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaha watch your eyes! :pokepoke:

It's just too early for this in the morning, is what it is.

Nerds 2.0.1

260 - The History of the Internet. 3 times a week. It is enough to make me >:( most days.

You have no idea but in this class today we are watching a video on the history of the internet made by PBS in 1998. >:( It contained the following quote:

it's not a hula-hoop, the internet is not a fad

I dunno but this class sucks. It's the history of the internet OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I want to run screaming from the room. Also he announced the rest of the itinerary for that class... XHTML. Awesome. I guess I might do alright in this class if I don't fall asleep and impale myself on my pencil!

Le Soup

My mom made a lot of French Onion Soup growing up because some people apparently really like it -- I call it Tape Worm Soup.

Dilemma itt.

It's windy and cold. It feels weird to walk and have wind blowing up your nose when you're trying to breathe out of your nose. You're breathing out of your nose since you don't want gravel to hit your teeth. Dilemma itt!!

Power Attack

We had a power outage this night, luckily the smoke detectors woke me up in the middle of it :heartattack: to alert me to the fact that the power was out. I didn't want to know but I learned something: I need new batteries for my alarm clock. I also could use a fresh pair in my flashlight.