This season, Flickr has two easter Eggs…
Adding notes to images containing the text “ho ho ho hat” and the “ho ho ho beard” will instantly transform your mundane and normal picture into a bona fide santa fide photo…
BEFORE:
AFTER:
(Original images at: http://flickr.com/photos/urbanmixer)
Happy flickring, people and merry non-denominational holiday season!
According to WorldNetDaily (bible-thumping news site), Soy is making kids ‘gay’. You see, soy apparently contains large quantities of estrogens which suppresses that testosterone which makes us male. I can’t find any evidence of any WWE wrestlers actors out there that endorse soy but next time I have the chance, I’ll have to check into it. (For you mission control people, the terminology would be NVNVEDL)
In the interim, the original article by Jim Rutz, HERE.
Keep your pets away from grass! Who knows what effect pot smoking might have on your pet?
Or so the eBay listing is titled. What’s unique about this listing is that in the package, you also get to pay for someone’s breast augmentation and tummy tuck. Oh, and she’s married and looks to be committed so it ain’t that kind of deal.
Here’s the meat of the listing:
BEFORE I GET ALL THESE MESSAGES ABOUT BEING GREEDY OR TRYING TO MAKE IT RICH, LET ME EXPAIN BEFORE ALL THE PRE-JUDGING BEGINS. I AM A STAY AT HOME MOM WITH A 12 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND TWO BOYS 3 AND 10 MONTHS. I HAVE MADE ALL THE SACRIFICES THAT I NEED TO MAKE TO GET BY AND STAY WITH THEM. I CUT AND COLOR MY OWN HAIR, CUT THEIR HAIR. I SPEND HOURS CLIPPING COUPONS AND LOOKING FOR SALES. I DO EVERYTHING THAT I CAN TO KEEP THEM OUT OF DAYCARE. I’M NOT LAZY, I USE TO WORK 3 JOBS FOR ABOUT 7 YEARS. BELIEVE ME, ITS EASIER WORKING THEN STAYING AT HOME! ANYWAY THE REASON I’M ASKING SUCH A HIGH PRICE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A TUMMY TUCK AND BREAST AUGMENTATION. MY HUSBAND TELLS ME IF I WANT TO HAVE IT DONE WE WILL JUST FINANCE IT. I CAN’T DO THAT WITH OUT GUILT. SO MAYBE I’LL GET LUCKY AND SOMEONE WHO HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO SPARE WILL ALSO LOOKING FOR A NINTENDO. WHO KNOW’S?? I FIGURE IF YOU DON’T ASK…YOU WON’T GET IT. SO I’LL TAKE A SHOT AND MAYBE IT WILL BE MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT. SO THANKS FOR READING MY STORY, AND PLEASE DON’T BE SO MEAN AND SEND ME NASTY EMAILS.
The Q&A section, especially comical:
Q: You’re so broke but it’s completely necessary for you to get a tummy tuck and a breast augmentation. What are you SMOKING?!
A: i’m not crying poverty. i simply don’t have the extra cash for selfish cosmetic surgery. I don’t smoke.
Q: Seriously, if this is an attempt to get attention the from everyone, then this is it. This is quite GENIUS actually…very BOLD to boot. Don’t worry, this is NOT a hate mail. It’s just hard to believe that you actualy want to sell this item for THAT much…in addition, you want the money for a tummy tuck AND a breast augmentation???…WOW, you couldn’t even lie about a heart surgery instead???, which led me to believe that this was just some publicity stunt. I have a feeling that I’ll be hearing about your auction in the near future. It is unfortunate though that you spent your hard earned cash to put this auction up, which is MOST likely NOT going to sell. So…is it worth it? or…WILL it be worth putting this up? Because so far you’ve ruffled up a bunch of peoples feathers. As for the sale…well, good luck to you there.
A: I don’t want publicity, actually I’m shy. I’m honest and I know what I want, I don’t have the resources for it at this moment. I will eventually have the surgery done, when I go back to work (4 years, if not before). Yes its bold, but if I don’t ask I won’t get. I know that most likely someone won’t buy it…it’s like playing the lottery, if you don’t play you won’t win. Its a chance. That’s all it is. Judge me all you want because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter.
Q: You might want to try getting a non trailer-trash bitch to sell your shit, crazy asshole.
A: Merry Christmas! Thanks for looking! Thanks for the GREAT advice. I’m sure it will help, ZEUS-ALMIGHTY. How tall are you?
Finally, the original listing can be found on eBay HERE. For archival purposes, I’ve also taken a ‘snapshot’ of the listing and have posted it HERE.
Vancouver Coastal Health Region has lifted the advisory on Vancouver’s water. Previously, the CBC reported that Tests were expected to disprove E. coli in Vancouver and now they report that Greater Vancouver’s boil-water advisory lifted. I guess I have to find some new Britta filters now.
From: Zanocco, Viviana [CORP] On Behalf Of VCH Communications
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:55 PM
To: VCH Communications
Subject: Water quality advisory liftedPLEASE POST FOR THOSE NOT ON EMAIL
To: All VCH and PHC staff and physicians
From: Dr. John Blatherwick, Chief Medical Health Officer
Dr. Patricia Daly, Medical Director, Communicable Disease ControlRe: Update on Water Quality Advisory
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On the advice of Medical Health Officers of Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health, the boil water advisory that has been in effect for Vancouver, parts of the North Shore and Burnaby is now lifted for these areas. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an alternate drinking water source. There is no boil water advisory for any area receiving water from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD).
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. Results are consistent with turbidity events in previous years, where bacteriological testing has also been negative. The results provide reassurance that while this event produced much higher levels of turbidity than usual, disinfection has not been compromised.
Immune compromised individuals should always boil drinking water or ensure their drinking water has been treated to the same level as boiling.
Viviana Zanocco
Senior Media Relations Officer and
Regional Communications Leader, Richmond Health Services
Vancouver Coastal Health
604.612.8053 cellular
email-address-suppressed
Latest update – the advisory as posted earlier HERE is still in effect. They did some testing earlier in the week for E.coli – it appears that the tests came up negative. I’ll post the latest VCH update on Monday.
Splashy . . . Tojo Hidekazu, who took home the bronze medal at the Gold Medal Plates competition at the Hyatt this week (behind Rob Clark and Pino Posteraro), announced that he’s moving premises mid-January four blocks west–near Alder. It will be a 185-seater with a Morimoto-like tab approaching $7 million – a budget that will only be outdone by David Aisenstat’s (Hy’s and the Keg) new fusion entry in the podium of the Shangri-La .
West 4th’s Gastropod is getting ready to fire burners; the finishing touches are just being applied – it’s a gorgeous small room that will add weight to the eastern end of Kits Village. 1938 West 4th Avenue | Vancouver
Tel: 604.730.5579
Cuisine: European Regional
Nish aka Boy Mongoose has put out an Indian rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas:
For those of you who can’t understand the thick Indian accent, here’s what he got for the twelve days of Christmas:
A totally insufficient dowry
2 nosy inlaws
3 butter chickens
4 Hare Krishnas
5 Indian Games (5 minutes of fame on the 12th day)
6 IT Graduates
7-Eleven Workers
8 Bollywood Workers
9 Telemarketers
10 minute yoga
11 syllable names
12 cricketball tamperers
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Muslim cab drivers are refusing service to infidels who violate Islamic laws—for example, blind people with guide dogs. (Hat tip: Pierre.)
Read the blog posting entitled Vancouver Shari’a Watch HERE and the comments associated with it on DIGG HERE.
I wake up this morning and see that the water’s brown. Naturally, I let the tap run a few minutes, nothing. After that, I check the web – the usual news sources, 24 hours, Metro News, Vancouver Sun, nothing.
So, I turn to the next best thing – Vancouver Coastal Health:
—–Original Message—–
From: Blatherwick, John [VC]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:16 PM
To: Zanocco, Viviana [CORP]; VCHA SET
Cc: VCHA Executive Assistants
Subject: FW: Here comes the BROWN WATER
Importance: HighHere comes the Brown water. Seymour is off line due to a water line break and so Capilano is in full use. Capilano is traditionally our worst source. It has a huge head of water that is brown heading for the intake. They are damming it and trying to hold as much of it back as they can but sometime tonight, the brown water will hit.
This will affect all the North Shore and most of Vancouver and much of Burnaby and probably Richmond. The North Shore will be hit for sure – they can mitigate Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby somewhat with Coquitlam water. But I expect the brown water (over 10 NTU) will hit sometime tonight. I’ve asked for an advance warning to go out to the media for tonight’s news and tomorrow’s papers.
My message is – I don’t drink brown water. I’m not issuing a boil water order as that causes more problems than it’s worth – when it’s this brown – people aren’t going to use it. Get your stocks in bottled water. This is why we built the filtration plant!!!
Most of Fraser should be OK – but Burnaby will get some of this water – maybe even New West.
Thank you,
John
John Blatherwick, CM, CD, MD, FRCP(C)
Chief Medical Health Officer
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
#800 – 601 West Broadway
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4C2
Phone: (604) 675-3804
Fax: (604) 736 – 8651
E-Mail:We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.
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An official advisory, as well:
November 16, 2006
To: All VCH and PHC staff and physicians
From: Dr. Brian O’Connor, Medical Health Officer
Dr. Patricia Daly, Medical Health Officer
Re: GVRD water advisoryWith the heavy rainstorms over the past 48 hours, water in the reservoirs that supply drinking water to homes and businesses throughout Greater Vancouver is cloudy and brown. Turbidity readings are at unprecedented highs. As turbidity increases, there is a potential for increased risk of gastro-intestinal illness. On the advice of VCH’s Medical Health Officers, the GVRD has issued a water advisory for all communities it serves. This advisory suggests that residents may wish to use an alternate drinking water source such as bottled or boiled water.
VCH and PHC, however, are advising hospitals, long term care facilities, school districts, child care facilities and restaurants to use only boiled or bottled water for consumption, for teeth brushing, and in the preparation of fruits and vegetables. This means patients must be provided with these alternate sources of water.
VCH and PHC Supply Chain staff are aware that there will be increased demand for bottled water until the advisory is lifted. Orders for additional water (and other fluids) can be placed through regular channels.
The difference between the GVRD advisory and the instructions being provided to care facilities is that the latter REQUIRES the use of boiled or bottled water, as opposed to merely recommending it. This is a standard precaution in health facilities where patients are under our direct care.
Please remember that tap water is acceptable for uses other than drinking, brushing teeth or washing fruits and vegetables. GVRD staff will continue to monitor water quality closely. This advisory will remain in effect until VCH’s Medical Health Officers are satisfied that drinking water quality has returned to an acceptable standard.
So now you know. Don’t drink the water – it tastes and smells bad.
