Food, phones and toxicity
Today, while reading the “local” English language newspaper (from the other city down the road), I felt a great cultural chasm open before me. With all my experience in the world, I have never seen, let alone tasted, a “matzoh ball“. The paper had three pages of coverage, not counting the front page headline; there’s a divide among the “sinkers” and “floaters”. What to do? Where to turn?
Reading recipes and checking out the images from Google doesn’t answer my questions. Is it something like a Won Ton soup? Should I be imagining a dumpling? Perhaps we’ll forget about our planned supper of pork chops and noodles and I’ll start looking for a restaurant in this area that offers something other than tourtière as a cultural repast. I mean, if it merits three pages (which a boiled dinner with salted beef never seems to receive), then there must be a good reason. Why didn’t my granny teach me Gaelic Yiddish?
Today, I almost saw an iPhone. The evidence is apocryphal, but a school principal had one in his pocket. Unlocked, not yet bricked, with a SIM card from the competition’s lowest cost plan. Able to surf the web and send text messages; he can now leap tall buildings in a single bound (as can most school principals, but that’s not pertinent). A real, honest to goodness, use two fingers to pinch a picture iPhone. I feel faint. After all, my first reference to this marvellous example of technology is here. Over a year, and it remains as rare as a sighting of a provincial premier that hasn’t retired.
Did you know that I can burn forty DVDs in just over four hours with the machine at work. I didn’t know (before today) because the need had never arisen. Today, a rush order; the examination files that should have been in the schools yesterday. At least I didn’t have to label the discs; it’s so embarassing when you spell something wrong down about the thirtieth time. People judge you on your errors.
In Orillia, the MURF saga continues. So far, the expenditures to see if it should be built at a particular site are over $6,312,798 dollars (that’s over a seven year period). I seem to remember a neighbouring country putting some guys on the moon in about the same time, without spending significantly more. Time to give the heads a shake.
