Musicstar

Thanks to the good boys and girls at mozilla.org and their release of Firefox 2.0 today my blogs should have no spelling mistakes: That means smrt becomes smart!

A game I play from time to time is come up with alternative names for bars and venues in Toronto. The best ones I have come up with so far are:

• Lee's Phallice
• Ho' Shoe
• Flee Times
• Sneaky Disease
• El Macarena
• Choke and Stagger

I am sure I'm not the first one to use “Sneaky Disease”. I wonder what other creative alternates there are out there?

Just some random thoughts on the muggy walk to work today (I have the sweat stains to prove it):

• I was surprised to notice an increase of walkers compared to bikers on the streets today. I guess this makes sense as those that can/will bike already normally do this on a daily basis.
• The downtown core was a flood of people walking north, obviously from Union Station, which reminded me of the sea of people witnessed during the blackout.
• I am reminded of a concept for a “bicycle highway” which is envisioned to run down the Don Valley and feature a 5km/hour jetstream to push bikers efficiently along. Utopic but inovative.
• Those that drove were either fustrated, ticked off or not used to city driving. Case in point: I was almost run over twice at two different intersections while crossing on a green lights with little white men telling me where to go.
• I just can't help putting this into the perspective of politics and consider the Conservative government's mass transit tax credit for those who buy Metropasses and such. A credit such of this is useless if the mass transit system you rely on can't afford to pay its staff and run its service for those Metropass-tax-credit-getting riders. The same money could have be given directly to the mass transit operators. Mass transit gains ridership following the “if you build it they will come” philosophy. The cost of a Metropass is still by far less expensive than owning a car and driving daily.