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Morning Brew: October 27th, 2008
Photo: "Dirty little spoons" by andyscamera, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
What's happening in the GTA:
Not a good weekend for Mayor Miller to try to focus our attention on the reduced gun crime this year, although it's hard to blame him for trying in the wake of two more homicides. On Saturday it was innocent bystander Baily Zaveda caught in the crossfire of a gun battle in Leslieville. There's already a Canada-wide warrant out for the arrest of Kyle Weese, who is a very familliar name to police. Then on Sunday it was a man found dead in a car, the city's 61st homicide victim of the year.
Canadians generally support Obama south of the border, but does Canada have its own Barack Obama? How about Argo CEO Michael "Pinball" Clemons? Some Liberals and political headhunters think he's got what it takes. It's not a bad idea, I hear Pinball looks great in front of Greek columns.
In the "I'm exhausted just thinking about it" category, thousands of people ascended the CN Tower this weekend - on the stairs. It was all for a good cause, but I'm left wondering, at what point do your legs start yelling "next time just write a cheque!"
Peter Tabuns, Toronto-Danforth MPP, announced his bid to be leader of the Ontario NDP. The former Greenpeace Canada leader wants to bring jobs and focus on "the environmental crisis." I care about the environment as much as the next guy, but these days it's the wrong "e" word - it's the economy, stupid.
Parents and children had fun in High Park this weekend carving and floating pumpkins. The children opted for more traditional Jack O'Lanterns, but I wonder if older Toronto residents will have the US election on their minds when it comes time to carve the big orange squash. Obama fever isn't limited to rallies and buttons south of the border; there's an Obama stencils on my refrigerator, and a big pumpkin out front. For those looking to really scare their neighbours, I recommend the Palin stencil.
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About ten steps into it or when you think you are at the top but then magically there are 30 more steps to go before you actually at the top.
I did the climb two years in a row and that was plenty. Although, everyone should try it at least once, it's quite the experience.
I sure am not going to call him Canada's Obama, just because he's black and is good with an audience. That's a silly, cynical idea -- the same type of thinking that decided Sarah Palin could woo disgruntled Hillary votes, just because Palin's a woman.
Let the analogies roll out...
The CN Tower stair climb covers 144 stories.
Every time I do the climb I forget how many stories there are, so I'm never sure where to start my final sprint. A google search on Saturday morning turned up one link to a blog which said there were 110 stories. That wasn't quite right, so I sprinted early while there were still 34 more to go. D'oh!
So if you climb the CN tower there are 144 stories (one gross stories). The number of stairs is apparently 1,776 steps (1776 steps) which doesn't divide evenly by 144 but remember the last few stories are slightly different than the vast majority of the 144.
United Way does an excellent job organizing the event and the volunteers have great energy and spirit. Good job. The web co-ordination is a bit off this year, www.cntower.ca still points to stairclimb.org which wasn't functioning this year. Instead everything was at www.uwgt.org.
FWIW: That was my 5th time and 5th t-shirt. With my best time yet 13:37 ('leet). :)
What's all this google gibberish...
Pinball would also be inappropriate because despite being a great father, husband and speaker, he is still American-born and very, very religious (whether he tries to foist it on people is immaterial).
In a generation or two, it could be a Sergio, Vasilios, Chung-Wei, Donovan or Jasjeet - but not just yet.
I'm gonna post my resume here so that employers on google can find it, thanks... see below
Nick I think you're way off. While Prime Minister has never been a visible minority, if you look at the ethnic makeup of the members of parliament, the multicultural mosaic of Canada is well represented.
One needs only look at our Governor General of Canada to see sample of diversity in our political system.
Wendy's Baconator
Six strips of hickory smoked bacon piled high atop two 1/4 lb.* patties of fresh, never frozen, beef. Complete with two slices of American cheese, mayo and ketchup for a mountain of mouth-watering taste. Go on, obsess a little.
Yeah, screw the planet, screw your children and future generations. Who gives a damn that global warming is no longer a threat but a reality. All that matters is cheap gas for my SUV. Who cares if we're doomed to extinction within a generation or two, all I care about is the current returns i'm getting on my dodgy investments in raping the third world. F*ck you tree-huggers, I'm losing money here. Apres moi, la deluge - who cares about what's coming, as long as I'm comfortable.
The GG position is an appointed figurehead, so that doesn't count.
Hehe :) well now this page is the 6th result on google for "CN Tower Stair climb stories". Yeah I'm obsessed a bit, but this is useful info for people who do the climb.
As Tim Burners Lee said, "serve useful stuff", it is how we create the web.