A Brief Section of Events

Necklace means gay

A girl I have the fortune to work with, looks at me and says, "Leo, like, either I'm really strange or you are really gay".

"Why is that?" I ask surprised (couldn't help it).

"What's with the necklace? I mean, it makes you so gay" pointing at a little necklace with my zodiac sign.

What do you answer to that? So I said, "Head's up, I'm super gay, and apparently my girlfriend doesn't mind".

"Oh, what's that supposed to mean? Men get married and then admit they are gay".

"Well, she is more masculine, while I am more feminine, so we compensate for each other, don't you think? I think that you are just jealous because I get to hang out with all the cute greek boys while you are stuck on cash with those nasty customers..hah hah! I get the Souvlaki and you don't!" and I walked away.

"No, Leo, wait, that's not what I meant..!"

So, after a statement like that, I kinda set myself up for being made fun of, but oh well.

Life on Europa

According to scientists, at a conference in Seattle, Europa, Jupiter's second moon, could sustain life forms. Bacteria and worms are what science believes lives beneath 200 kilometers of ice.

What's wrong with cash?

Tried to make reservation at Hotels in Quebec City, but apparently without a credit card, they wont accept it. I guess that cash has lost it's fascination, while primitive countries, like France, still think that the funny looking paper I was offering them, has some sort of value.

Weather gets better

Forecast reports that weather in the Toronto area will get better in the next few days. Truth is, that after a Sunday where a snow storm covered an almost ready for spring city with a good 20 cm of snow, anything else the weather will throw at us will remind us of Bermuda.

Don't you bitch at me

Monday, 8:38 AM, rush hour, Eglinton West 32C bus, on my way to work. An Afro-Canadian woman enters the bus and says to the driver

"There is ****ing snow all over the ****ing bus stop, and even snow inside this ****ing bus"

"I'm sorry," replies the driver "but unfortunately it's still snowing and we can't keep all the bus stops clean"

"Like you care, you ****ing bitch" replies the woman to the driver. The driver, a tall, blonde woman, probably in her early forties, slams on the brakes, opens the front door, gets out of her seat and just says "Get out of my bus".

Suddenly the Afro-Canadian woman starts speaking perfect english, asking why she should leave.

"I'm not here to take your verbal abuse. Get off this bus". says calmly the driver.

"I'm not getting off" replied the woman, looking around for support.

"Then this bus is out of service". And so, for half an hour the bus sat on the side of Eglinton West. When finally the woman got up and left, not without first saying "It's because I'm black, that's why. 'Cause I'm black..", the driver called dispatch and informed she was back in service, and started driving again. Ironically, nobody said a thing. Everyone just sat there reading their papers or looking elsewhere. The other Afro-Canadians not wanting to get involved, the Canadians of European descent to avoid being accused of being racist.

After all, we all got to work, didn't we?

FACE it

The CyberAngels, that force on the net made to fight pornography and protect kids from sites which contain inappropriate material, want to create a database with pictures of the faces of the kids that have been used for child pornography. CU-Digest considers this a double victimization (first you get abused, and then your face is there for everyone to see), but CyberAngel Gabriel Hatcher is sure that this can be done well with the help of authorities. "FACE" = FREEING ABUSED CHILDREN from EXPLOITATION (Computer Underground Digest #9.09 by David Smith )