smart car anyone?

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Originally uploaded by bender folksinger

ok, so in the past post it was a lamp post, not a tree that the scantily clad teen was about to walk into.

in this pic we see a couple of interesting things about the new development - the first is the fact that people are parking as far as possible from the stores. i think this is because they are trying to stay as far as possible from the smells emanating from boston pizza...

the second is that there are two smart cars parked about ten car lengths apart. in both cases the driver backed into the spot... don't really think that's interesting but it allowed the graphic designer to use a different cgi car.

risque view of king's crossing

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Originally uploaded by bender folksinger

the new power centre that's starting to take shape up by the 401 is called king's crossing and the k-cap website has a few pics of what the whole mess of shopping paradise it's supposed to be. the pics are the regular computer generated type with the same people walking about rather aimlessly and cars evenly distributed throughout mile wide parking lots... but there are a few interesting elements of the pics that are interesting.

first up is this innocuous looking pic.. until your eye takes in the jail bait at the right side. not only is this miss wearing a very short skirt but there seems to be an opportune breeze passing through that's upping the pedophile quotient of the pic 10 fold. she also might just walk into a tree that's been placed in the middle of the sidewalk.

drowing rabbits

so i'm at the pool last night - an insane venture at the best of times because it would seem than no one in this neighbourhood has anything better to do than hang out at the pool and stand around in the shallow end and adjust their goggles. each lane had like 6 swimmers and another 4 or so bystanders sort of hanging out and trying to decide whether they would try and actually complete a lap or not. not that i'm a huge swimmer but come on. there's a whole lane dedicated to 'leisure' and usually full of people doing impressions of kelp or other stationary aquatic creatures. yet, these other manotee (sp?) refuse to take advantage of the leisure lane - they mock the leisure lane. i hate these people.

so anyway, as i mentioned there is one lane marked leisure. the other two are 'fast' and 'slow'. i'm assuming this refers to the speed at which you are expected to swim in these lanes and does not refer to the mental competency of those doing the swimming. the pictures, however, on the sandwich boards referring to the lane speed are a bit more puzzling. on the slow lane there is a turtle, which, i admit, makes some sense. turtles are slow. however, in the water they can be pretty quick. not fin shark quick but fairly speedy. but i get the point.

the fast lane though makes little to no sense. there is a picture of a rabbit under the word fast. rabbits are fast, but can they swim? ok, so some right-wing psycho rabbits have been known to go on homicidal sprees but normally fluffy white mammals do not come to mind when i think of speedy watercraft. in fact, i think a turtle would rightly kick a rabbit's ass in a swimming race (unless the rabbit happened to be the rabbit of caerbannog in which case it would have gone psycho medieval on the turtle)