arcane

To the person who doesn't want to be contacted: I'm hitting you with my cluebat. If you go to the expense and effort of getting a court order, take 30 seconds on Facebook to block the person you find offensive.

If a poke comes from a new account, that's another matter, but if it's from a known quantity, I'd hope the judge gives them both the hairy eyeball.

Congrats

Yeeeaaahhhh, that's my kid ... but you'll have to ask Steve the Owl to tell you why that picture is particularly funny.

Talk like a pirate.

That is all.

ME!

RJ is with her father tonight, and I could use the distraction as I have cause to worry. Beer me ... but not too much; he returns her at 10 am tomorrow

This event sounds like fun ... putting it in my calendar

I drawed Marge Simsin.

The Works

Shawarma (I never found decent shawarma in Montreal ... but I didn't look that hard)

Dusty Owl

Junkyard Symphony

Gatineau Park

Wakefield

For example, I could see those people given a task once a month (or once a week, or both, with the weekly tasks being easy ones, and the monthly tasks harder ones) that they have to complete without the use of their (or their families') vehicles. The task would be randomly chosen, and would be the equivalent of an errand:

Go grocery shopping with a toddler or infant and no stroller. Oh, wait ... that one is better suited to the knobs at STO.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Bacon is the candy bar of meat.

Ironic, isn't it?

If irony is the new hypocrisy, yeah, I'd say so.

At least STO is still running, otherwise drunk people would have to throw up in cabs.

:susel:

This has to be some kind of record for reviving a discussion

It stinks.

The fact that they can claim innocence by saying they don't give sales preference to specific resellers is a red herring. The fact is that their business model is based on the expectation that a pool of people will buy from them and then give them a second payment to resell through their services. They make their money with the first sale, and the rest is low-risk gravy skimming.

That they don't name specific people doesn't change the fact that they are aware of a pool of people (even if they don't know exactly who) willing to go along with this skimming exercise ... otherwise, I seriously doubt that they would have built the site in the first place.

If they're going to behave like a wholesale operation, then they shouldn't be allowed to position themselves as a retail monopoly. That's the real crime: They are a monopoly, and they're using that to profit not just once but twice.

Simply put, have a look at the supply and demand curve. They've used service charges to skew the price point upward by being a monopoly, they're making as many sales as is theoretically possible at that price point (we're looking at a sell-out situation, remember), THEN they're going back and taking a cut off the HIGHER part of the cost curve. If you have scalpers driving up the price even higher by buying up resales and putting them back on the market at a profit, then Ticketbastard can keep collecting gravy for what it sold out as a monopoly in the first place. (Can someone tell me if the resale site allows this? I haven't looked that closely, but I could see scalpers wanting to do that.)

Voting day Thursday

The bottom line is family life. Family, family, family. If we let this go through, it's the end of you and your family,

"If you don't do as I say, you will die." Yeeaaah, okaaay.

RJ just kinda *stared* at Dave for the first set ... she was right into it.

"Where's da baby? I have to see da baby!!" Yeah, she likes him. Talk to me in 16 years ...

Hi, hon!! I'm back in the area; we should go for 'za or something ... less boring than typing

My kid is as skeptical as her mom (see profile pic), and she's taken a liking to Mr Lauzon

I just close my eyes.

RJ and I had an awesome time! She was absolutely taken with everyone, especially Mrs Owl, Mr Owl, Dave, and Trey. And Matt, Trey is the sweetest little guy

A good time was had by all, I think ... but now I'm dealing RJ's sugar crash (and yes, she did fall asleep on the bus) ...

This is frickin' insane:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/heston_blumenthal/article631377.ece

Thanks, Steve. STO is calling last stop at Wellington and Lyon (I'm assuming that's due to the OC strike); I was estimating 4 blocks as a generous cut to accommodate any weirdness in the map

Bus strikes suck, and I have no working stroller. Ugh. At least I'm in Hell and not Ottawa.

Hey mattm --

Wee kidlings have been in the audience at past Dusty Owls and particularly Chocolate Houses, so feel free to carry on the tradition...

Hope all three of you can be there! Miss youse!

Rock on! I should bring Princess RJ, then. STO should drop us what, 4 blocks from the place?

Bradm, can you be a sweetie can give me a call on Saturday evening? I'd forget my head if I didn't leave it under my hair.

Shit, is that what I set as my sig? Cool.