Showing posts with label Good Point Well Made. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Good Point Well Made. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

University Dream Torture

This is so true, you can't even believe it. I wake up feeling like the world has been lifted off my Atlas-ian shoulders.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

June

You know what I just realized? There is no long weekend in June. How long have things been going on like this? I thought the great thing about working in Canada was that there is a long weekend every month during the summer. Well apparently not! This just hurts my soul.

On a related note, I'm about a weeks short of holidays for what I want to take off in the first two weeks of July. How about that. It means I will need to work more than one extra day a week in June to make up for this. I'm not sure that is going to fly. What is a man to do?

Friday, April 27, 2007

Check mate!

UPDATE: for some reason, the distance from Saskatoon to Yorkton is 50 km shorter on google maps than on the yellowhead highway website. that is some bulllllllshit. I don't know who's right.



Upon yesterday's pointless discussion, Ryan estimated the distance along the Yellowhead highway as being a shorter route to Winnipeg than going through Regina. Now, I'm no arithmetician, in fact, I'm not even a medical doctor, but here is what my web-research has shown:

Yellowhead (source):


Saskatoon to Winnipeg (Through Regina - source)


So, if you do the calculus, Ryan was right in his assertion that the Yellowhead was a shorter route, by a whopping 2 km. But if you take into consideration that you get to go 110km for the Regina drive on double highway and that the Trans-Canada is close to being totally twinned, then clearly, you should never go to Winnipeg. Dirty, dirty, Winnipeg. (Sorry Blair, its true).