(… and ipod touch, and blackberry…) Bixi is the new community bike service here in Montreal. Lots of brewhaha around launchtime, but to me, the really annoying shortcoming of the system so far was not being able to check the status of stations on the go. According to a message I read on the facebook [...]
I like the people working at my usual supermarkets. Nice, friendly, helpful people. I have a special fondness for the people, often kids, working on packing the customers’ purchases into bags. That’s a fairly dull job, quite likely awfully paid, and yet they do the job, and they do it well. My only problem is [...]
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Banksy – Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall I would love to side with Banksy here. He has a point: art at a bus stop has a mathematically greater chance of touching more people than would a museum (minus [...]