Fringe Festival Night

I haven't been doing too much leading up to the weekend, just plenty of working, unfortunately. It's really been cramping my style. Also, my cat really hasn't been into it and for the looks of things, she's really been plotting something while I'm away. I think the photo below is proof of that.

Of course, sometimes at work, when there's nothing to do, everyone enjoys when I grab a few markers and start making video-game montages on the white-board. It's pretty fun and can sometimes kill 15 mins pretty quickly.

The Halifax Fringe Festival is going on this week. To be 100% honest, I'm still not entirely sure what a Fringe Festival is about. From the brochure I grabbed, it seems like it's a collection of obscure plays and artsy stuff. But there are also a lot of good comedy shows going on --which seems like a pretty normal thing, really. I went to one last night at Pier 21. It was pretty great! Hosted by Bill Wood and had some of the other Picnicface'ers in the mix, as well as some other great local comedians. Had a really great time! Unfortunately, forget my camera... so I thought I'd post this picture instead. Adios!

(Bad Hair Day)

New Bank Notes and a Survey for Point Pleasant Park

Hello everyone!

I know it's been a while. What with work and my general laziness, blogging hasn't exactly been on my mind for quite some time. But I thought, as it's such a nice day out there, I may as well barricade myself indoors and write up a blog post to ease my online guilt.

So the Bank of Canada is unveiling these new bank notes that we'll be using by the end of 2013. The $100 bill is already in circulation and the $50 should be out by the end of November. However, shortly after the release of the $100 bill, a couple focus groups got a little crotchety over the lady on the back, peering into the microscope as they thought she looked  a little too Asian. I don't think these people have been to Vancouver or Toronto recently.

Similarly, these same groups have alleged to have seen a skull and crossbones on the new $50 and the Twin Towers in NY with three naked ladies on the new $20 --in actuality, the image on the $20 is of the Vimy Ridge Memorial site in France, which does depict some naked ladies.

First of all, I gotta wonder where the hell the Bank of Canada is getting these folks! Are they just walking down the street and are burlap-sac'ed into a black van? Are they from the country? Why are they seeing all these strange things in our new notes? I just don't get it. I've looked them over and don't really see the Asian women, or the skull and crossbones they are talking about on the $100 and $50. And so what if there is an Asian person on the $100?!

Apart from this, HRM has a new survey out about Point Pleasant Park. It's pretty quick. I thought I'd share my answer to a question with all of you. Click here for the SURVEY.