Did your food preparer wash their hands?

Sarah and I walked into a Subway a few nights ago and observed the sole employee rolling up a very wet, salty, disgusting floor mat while on the phone. The employee’s call ended with a few foreign words and the sound of sucked teeth. She then walked around behind the counter and put the phone away.

 

I observed the employee very carefully as she had just been handling the rubber mats. She made it to the sink, but not to the soap. Her hands darted under the running water as if she was washing sand off her fingertips. No soap, no amount of time, just a quick flick under the tap. A pair of gloves were handled, and instead of looking at them to be careful not to contaminate them, she rubbed her hands all over the surface that was about to touch my unmade sandwich.

 

“Whart kind of surb would you lirke?” the foreign lady asked me.

 

“Actually… I’ve changed my mind, we’re going grocery shopping instead.”

 

We saved a few bucks and didn’t get the shits from Subway in Kildonan Crossing that night.

 

Radiator under the counter

I have a hot water radiator that the previous owner thoughtfully
installed a countertop overtop of. The heat used to absorb into the
countertop and dissipate out through the exterior wall.

To remedy this, I've installed foil backed bubble wrap on the
underside of the counter. Now the hot air rolls right out into the
middle of the room where the counter top ends instead of being
absorbed into the wood.

Future herb garden

Update: Google Expansion

Well I've got 200GB of Google-Room now. Time to backup those photographs.

 

In addition they're sending me a special little prize that Sarah will like at some point :)

Busy?

I can tell when I've been busy based on what time of the day I actually get around to reading http://www.lifehacker.com

Please Rob Me

I've recently received a Facebook message.

 

Just for you
http://www.pleaserobme.com

 

Come on people. It's an interesting project for sure, but do you really think that the average thief is going to be sitting at "their computer" waiting for you to post that you're anywhere but at home? More likely they'll be studying your habits, finding out when you're at work and generally watching the house. I'd be more worried about telling everyone you're going to FolkFest; every hippie with a drug problem knows you're there. 

 

Really think about it, who do you know that has been robbed in the last little while?

• Someone had their van stolen.
• Someone was robbed blind by their roommate.
• Someone was mugged.
• Someone had their car towed from their place of work by a police officer who had been cut off by said person two hours earlier while off duty
• Someone had their iPhone stolen

Now I know alarms aren't foolproof, but how many of those people had a monitored alarm (with cellular backup in the case of a cut line) protecting that property? Police respond priority on two zone trips, and I have plenty of zones for anyone bigger than a cat to trip. Priority response? Well basically if there isn't a riot or a report of a violent crime in progress they're going sirens blaring to my house. What happens after that? Well the motion detection camera I have set up sends me an email with a video and snapshots of the perp. Sure you might have a hoodie, but if you're robbing me based on my twitter, chances are I probably know you. No, I wont show you the device.

 

But you know, better safe than sorry right? Maybe I should also start:

• parking my car in the garage 
• leaving at staggered times through the week 
• always take a different route to work
• get a job where I can work shifts so it's harder for thieves to find out when I'm not home
• stop going out
• get a doberman
• forward my home phone to my cell phone so that people can't tell that I'm not at home
• get a doorbell that barks
• not have people over so they can't case the joint
• board up my windows
• get a gun

My house is alarmed so that I don't have to be. But I mean if you want to be alarmed for me, go nuts!

 

Just a test

Testing.

Mah Fuggin Hexacopter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrfwryxC7c&feature=player_embedded

 

Holy balls.

Will the Jets rise from the ashes?

OK, here's the rumour: Wealthy David Thomson of Toronto, the man who most of the shares of the MTS Centre and True North Sports and Entertainment in Winnipeg, has purchased the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League and will move them to Winnipeg for the 2010-11 season. The Moose will move to Saskatoon. The announcement will be made right after the Olympics. Thoughts?

Terrorism and Anti-Semitism

If you're an anti-semite in America, you're just that. If you're against Christianity, you're probably going to be labelled a terrorist. The term anti-gentile never is used, possibly because the only people who could possibly be are a minority in all countries but Israel. So I wonder does the term anti-gentile get thrown around in Israel? Or are there enough self-identifying groups in the 1/4 of the population that isn't jewish that anti-gentile is a broad spectrum term to be lost in the annals of histroy.

 

All the place I'd love to go.