Today, Saturday 25th of February 2006, we will reach 6.5 billion people living on this planet. Considering the problems we have with wars and other crap today, I don't want to think about what happens with even more of us...
BTW; have a nice weekend!
The worst of the worst analogies:
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
The Winter Olympics in Torino 2006 grows on me every day. Grows in me in the way that it is a big lump in my stomach that I want to throw up. The first day of the events were as bad as my "pre-Olympics" experience.
After a -lot- of hunting last year I found a hotel ~1 hour away from Pinerolo by car (1 1/2 by train). Pinerolo is on the plains close to the alps and it is the starting point for the bus shuttles going up the valley. The pre-event marketing promised increased public transport, in particular trains, so I was hopeful naïve. I checked during Christmas but the train schedules were just as bad as ever, but I was hopeful stupid. The cross country events on Sunday 12/2 started at 10 in Pragelato. The official guide recommends arriving on the event 3 hours in advance but let's ignore that for the moment. You need a minimum of 1/2 hour for clearing security and 1-1 1/2 hours by shuttle bus from Pinerolo. In the best case you have to be in Pinerolo by 8 in the morning. A shame that the first trains from the area arrive at 9.26 because the first trains are cancelled on Sundays. Great planning.
Taking a train was out of the question, I went to the backup plan and decided to leave my car to my family during the Olympics. Or, at least that was my idea…
I arrived in Pinerolo on Saturday 11/2 around lunch time and went straight to the train station to get more information. There was no information available anywhere so I asked the guy in the ticket counter for more info about the shuttle but was met by the reply: tsk, I don't know anything about busses. Ask in the news agent.
I got the info I needed in the end but it is sad that 6 hours are wasted each days in transport and security controls :-(
The only cool thing I have seen so far: Segway has sponsored the police in the Torino Porta Nuova train station with a couple of Segways.
Friday Monday 13th
I didn't get around to posting until today as I have been way too busy
Let's see. What can possibly go wrong on Friday Monday 13th:
And several other events that I don't even want to think about, far less write about.
The old smileys are not always enough to describe how people look:
There are cyber butts
(_!_) a butt...
(__!__) a large butt...
(!) a thin butt...
(_._) a flat butt...
[_T_] a square butt...
(_*_) a farting butt...
(_o_) a butt that "has seen many"...
(_O_) a butt that has seen even more...
(_$_) a valuable butt...
(_:_) a strange butt...
(_@_) a cyber butt
(_?_) a mysterious but
(_#_) a hurt butt
(__) a closed butt
(_%_) a butt with hemorrhoids
As well as cyber tits:
(o)(o) perfects breasts...
( + )( + ) breasts with silicon implants...
(*)(*) tits with high nipples..
(@)(@) tits with big nipples...
(oYo) "push-up" tits...
(^)(^) frozen tits...
(:o)(o) tits bitten by Dracula...
( - )( - ) tits squeezed against the walls of the shower...
()() the tits of Kate Moss...
( o Y o ) tits on the Playboy centerfold
Talk about being service oriented; Pooper Trooper does the dirty job nobody wants to do and cleans the garden from dog crap eh… biscuits.
The only problem is that I cannot get Pooper Trooper out of my head as it reminds me of the ABBA song Super Trooper. I close my eyes and I see the guy dancing around the garden collecting biscuits while singing Super Trooper in falsetto. Help me!
