Dyslexia haiku

I made a nice vase

Dyslexia isn’t bad

Great poetry course

Single male grocery starter pack

 

Small things 25 Mar

• Here’s what I was half expecting: The cops come to arrest Donald Trump and just as it’s about to go down, aliens burst onto the scene and say “Sorry humans, our experiment has failed, we must take him back to the ship now,” as Donald slowly morphs from speaking English to some alien gibberish.
• Pedro Pascal for Calgary Stampede Parade Marshall 2023. Just do it.
• There's a mortgage store at the mall now.
• Am I perfect? No. But am I striving to be? Also no.
• The news is basically someone saying ‘good evening’, and then giving you a list of reasons why it’s not.
• Imagine if books had bloopers pages with typos from before they were fixed.
• Some day, we’ll tell our kids that we used to know relatives who put clear plastic covers on their furniture so it wouldn’t get dirty or worn.
• Imagine that you screamed into the abyss and it responded with “This could have been an email…”
• When you watched Cookie Monster ‘fake eat’ those cookies, did you cringe at all the cookies that were wasted on that show?
• Never follow the phrase, “I’m speechless” with a long rant.
• Fun: taking a random person with you to couples’ therapy and waiting to see how long it takes for them to realize you’re not really a couple.
• Hootin’. The gateway drug to hollerin’.
• If by clubbing you mean do I like eating club sandwiches, then yes. I love clubbing.
• Employer: What’s your biggest weakness? Me: Probably the warm bread basket and butter they give out before the meal.
• I love how the government thinks that young people hate capitalism because they were corrupted by their teachers and not because it’s hard to afford a house. And on the flip side we get to see what rich people do just because they can.
• Have you ever been sad and found two more sad people and formed a cryangle?
• Why are they called red onions? They are clearly purple.

Unexpected item in bagging area

It's not unexpected, you digital dolt. You literally just told me what it is. It's right there on the screen. I did the wavy-wave, you did the bleepy-bleep; up until the point where you decided to have an electronic stroke, things were going exactly according to plan. 

What you mean is that you haven't been programmed right. Don't go putting this on me, like I've somehow gone out of my way to surprise you. I've got places to be. I cant be playing hide-the-actual-salami with the Terminator's younger, dumber cousin.

Oh, and now you've sent for backup. Well done. Now I have to deal with a human person who thinks I'm either an imbecile or a thief for not being able to work what's effectively a bathroom scale with delusions of grandeur. A human being is about to take over your job, loser.

Is Tim Hortons losing sight of their core business?

Remember when Tim Hortons specialized in two things? Coffee and donuts. That’s it. That’s all. They made that a successful business model and even prevented Dunkin’ Donuts from getting a foothold in Canada (beyond Quebec). Tim’s did so well, competitors like Country Style and Robin’s Donuts come to mind.

Timbits were introduced in 1976. Muffins and cookies were added in 1981. Soup and chili were added to the menu in 1985. Sandwiches were put on the menu in 1993. Bagels in 1996. Flavoured lattes in 1997. Now they sell breakfast sandwiches (2006) and wraps, flatbread pizza, bowls, potato wedges, and they even tried hamburgers in 2017, which lasted all of 2 years.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think Tim’s for lunch or dinner items. Baked goods, coffee and breakfast sandwiches at best. Tim’s even used to have a pretty great oatmeal, which is now gone. I really think Tim’s should find its way back to its roots and stop trying to be another Subway or something like that.

Trivia:

In 1964, a donut cost 10 cents.

A whopping 1.4 million donuts are served per day in Canada.

Canada is the number one donut consumer in the world at around 1 billion annually, followed by Japan in a close second.

When Tim Horton opened his first store in Hamilton, ON, only two varieties of doughnuts were served, dutchies and apple fritters.

Before there were donuts at Tim Hortons, there were burgers and chicken at a small chain called Tim Horton Drive-In. This led to the opening of another franchise called Your Do-nut, which eventually became Tim Hortons Do-Nut.

Fashion for drunks

 

Things I learned lately 25 Mar

• Nordstroms inventory liquidation put things on sale at 5% off. Wow. I bet there’s nothing left.
• ChatGPT became the fastest growing app in history, attracting 100,000,000 users in 3 months by January 2023.
• The Canadian government has a website about disinformation and tools you can use to see if something you’ve encountered has been debunked: canada.ca/disinformation
• The 2023 Audio A6 e-Tron electric car will come with a supposed range of 700 km.
• “Secretary” origin: late 14c., secretarie, "person entrusted with secrets or private and confidential matters" (a sense now obsolete), from Medieval Latin secretarius "clerk, notary, scribe; confidential officer, confidant," a title applied to various confidential officers, noun use of an adjective meaning "private, secret, pertaining to private or secret matters".
• Statistical trends indicate that by 2041, Calgary’s Asian population will have reached over 35% of the total demographic.
• Muffins were once called moofins. I think we should bring that back.
• The Macdonald tunnel at Roger’s Pass is the longest railway tunnel in North America at 14.9 km.
• Since 1945, the top 3 countries whose citizens emigrated to the US were Canada, Germany and Italy. Then in 1972, Mexico took the #1 spot and proceeded to leave the other countries in the dust.
• The average 60-year-old male typically farts between 14 and 22 times in a typical day.
• You're not imagining it, blinding headlights are a real problem. It's because North Americans keep buying taller vehicles.
• The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti. It has an estimated radius of 1.188 billion kilometers. If UY Scuti were at the center of our solar system, its photosphere (outer shell), would reach just past the orbit of Jupiter. It is a red hypergiant, meaning it has an enormous mass and luminosity. These types of stars are harder to find, however, because of their short life spans. About 5 billion of our suns could fit inside UY Scuti. Unlike other stars which last for billions of years, hypergiants only exist for a few million years. UY Scuti was discovered in 1860 by German astronomers. This star can be found near the center of the Milky Way, around 9,500 lightyears away from Earth.

No, it's a real Toblerone, why do you ask?

You can order a custom Toblerone that spells out anything you want.

Like I would order it spelled like this and then gift it, knowing that most folks would think it’s a Chinese knock-off Toblerone.

DST or ST?

Since the subject of Daylight Saving Time, which just came back on March 12th, seems to be on a few peoples' minds right now, I'd like to weigh in.

Very few people seem to be against the idea of abolishing the switch twice a year. We appear, in fact, to be very close to convincing enough politicians to abolish the tradition that we may see it go away in the years to come. But the question remains, are we asking to stay on Standard Time, or are we asking to remain on Daylight Saving Time. Note that I did not call it 'Daylight Savings Time', as that is not what it's called. [Thanks Randy V for the insight] The reason I ask is because half of y'all seem to want to stay with ST and half want to stay with DST. Until we have a consensus on this, we're never going to get the change removed.

I propose we stick with DST. Hear me out. In the winter, under normal time, it gets dark early enough that many of us end up both going to work and returning home in the dark. This is depressing. If we were to stay with DST, we might have to wait another hour for the sun to rise in the winter morning, but at least it would still be light out when we go home at the end of the day. It is for this reason that I believe we should stay with DST.

For those of you who don't get to enjoy very late sunsets like we do in northern latitudes, you will also have to watch the sun go down an hour earlier in the summer. I know that it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to see the sun go down at 8:55pm instead of 9:55pm in June where I live, but do you really want to see sunset at 7pm rather than 8pm in southern California? Also, how'd you like a sunrise at 4:40am? I didn't think so. You need your beauty sleep.

Keeping DST will allow folks to play golf and other sports later in the day. A later sunset gives you time to watch it long after you've cleaned up after supper, or drove home from the restaurant after supper. How many times have you missed the sunset because you were busy doing other early evening things? Again, not to rub it in or anything, but you could also move to northern Canada and get sunset at like 11pm. Or if you keep going, like no sunset at all. Good luck sleeping though.

So I think it makes more sense to keep DST. Then we would stop calling it daylight saving time and just call it what it is. Sunset time. Same abbreviation too (ST).

You can pants if you want to...

 

Small things 18 Mar

• California: I wish the universe would erase our drought, uggh! Universe: As you wish. California: OMG! Not all in the same season!
• Recently I asked a server at one of our local restaurants what it’s like to work there. He said, “It pays the bills.” So he must be getting a really good wage because man oh man, have you seen the cost of bills lately?
• A property that used to be used as a halfway house in our neighbourhood was advertised as follows by the realtor: “Here's a unique opportunity. Prime location & offers great 'cash flow' with long term tenants willing to stay. 2581 sq ft main structure with a 2 storey carriage house on the garage offering 4 tenanted units! The building is split into a 3 bed + den / 1 bath main floor unit, plus a 2 bedroom, 1 bath suite on the 2nd level and an illegal basement suite with 1 bed + den / 1 bath. The illegal 2 storey garage suite has another 1 bed + 1 bath. It needs some TLC but no doubt is an amazing revenue property. This one piece of real estate generates over $4000 per month in rents! A savvy 'house hacker' can move into one unit & have the others cover the expenses.” For what it’s worth, it did sell.
• If you get a bigger bed, you have more bed room but less bedroom.
• Whose idea was it to let the King’s horses try to put Humpty together again?
• I almost made the mistake of buying ‘organic’ spice. You get half the amount for a higher price and I bet dollars to donuts that shit came from the same country/plants/factory as the regular stuff.
• The coolest thing about horses is that they are basically grass powered engines. Grass goes in, fast comes out. Most things that produce fast (like cheetahs and cars) need much more heavily processed grass, like horses or oil. Yet here horses are, producing the fast with only the grass. 
• -273.15C. Totally chilled…
• Compact cassette tape brands: AGFA; BASF; DENON; FUJI / AXIA; GoldStar / LG; Hitachi; JVC / Victor; Maxell; Memorex; National / Technics / Panasonic; Philips; RAKS; Realistic/Radioshack; Scotch; SKC / SMAT; SONY; TDK

The bourgeois

 

My thoughts on the dawn of publicly available AI

If you haven't heard by now, there is a publicly available AI tool called ChatGPT. A lot of people are very excited by what it can do, and not just people, companies too. For example, Microsoft and Google are practically tripping over each other to try to bring a tool like ChatGPT to market as an assistant to both search and their productivity and document creation apps.

If you've never heard about any of this before, I'll try to get you up to speed with what has been developed so far. If you already know about these AI tools in their current form, you may as well skip a paragraph or two. ChatGPT is a natural language AI tool developed by a company called OpenAI. The tool was trained with an extraordinary amount of information available online in every topic, subject, and discipline, including computer programming. The tool itself was then designed to provide an answer to any plain English question in the most helpful manner possible. You can ask it for a type of recipe, and it will give you one. You can ask it how to create an Excel formula given very specific parameters, and it will give you that formula. You can ask it to generate a stand-up routine on a specific topic in the same style as a known comedian, and it will generate one. You can ask it to generate a three page essay on the benefits of universal basic income, and it will give you that essay. In an amusing, yet fascinating turn, you can then ask it to grade that essay with the critical eye of a 20-year tenured English Literature professor. It will then proceed to tear that essay apart.

But this is only scratching the surface. Many people are only trying this tool using two-dimensional thinking. In other words, it's one thing to ask the tool to help you with choosing a new career path, it's quite another if you prepare the tool by instructing it that it is a seasoned professional career advisor who has been advising people on career transitions for over 20 years, and prompting the tool that before offering any advice, it must ask a question first to focus the conversation on what the user wants to discuss. It really is something to behold. It is not perfect, however. A friend told me that he had asked it to generate a string of numbers in a Fibonacci sequence and it got some of the numbers wrong. Only when he instructed it to perform the same task, but show the proof of how it arrived at the result did it get the numbers right. Another time, I asked it to list all the years that the Toronto Maple Leafs lost in the Stanley Cup playoff finals and it gave me a list that wasn’t accurate. But then I realized that it had misinterpreted my query to mean ‘all the years that the Leafs lost in the playoffs’, period. Not just the final series. Then the list made sense. As a good friend of mine put it, “ChatGPT is like an autistic savant.” It knows a lot of stuff, but it sometimes has difficulty answering your question.

But this new AI reality isn't just about answering questions and solving problems. There now exist tools that will generate new art based on whatever you ask it to create, as specific as your instructions. So if you asked the tool to generate a picture of a human being, it will decide the gender, the pose, how much of the body is in the frame, what is in the background, the style of the image, etc. But if you ask it to create a picture in black and white, of a lumberjack standing in a dense forest, holding an axe, in the style of a horror movie, that's pretty much what you will get. The results may be extraordinary, or downright bizarre, and if you don’t like what you get, you can tell it to try again. As you begin to recognize what prompts produce certain results, you can generate some mind bogglingly superb art. Pictured below, is an AI generated image based on my prompt, "Two robots arguing with each other and one of them is emanating smoke."

This has some people quite worried. There is a potential for students to cheat by asking an AI tool to perform work on their behalf. There is a potential for workers to ask an AI tool to perform work tasks on their behalf. Journalists have already proven that the tool can be used to generate entire news articles on a particular subject, so long as the AI is aware of and has been trained on the subject in the first place. Early adopters even tried to use the tool to instruct them how to do unethical things. As a result, the folks behind the tool’s creation had to implement ethical blocks to prevent misuse, which clever human beings have found a way to circumvent in certain circumstances. The point is that this tool, like any other tool, can be used for good and bad. For example, if a university student just isn't quite getting a specific topic in chemistry, it could ask the AI tool to explain the topic at the level of a high school student, and that's exactly what they will get. I love this particular aspect of the tool, because I love using analogies to explain complicated topics, and ChatGPT is superb at explaining things at the level of a child, which then inspires me to come up with my own analogy that I can call my own.

Lately, a colleague of mine showed me how he was using an AI art tool to ‘suggest possible minimalist icons for an application brand name featuring a bee’, and lo and behold, the stuff it came up with was incredible. Absolutely astounding.

The possibilities truly are endless, and keep in mind that this is just the first phase of AI tools. Within months of this writing, the tools will have evolved to be more capable, more accurate, with better context. The people behind the magic have planned specialized tools that will help diagnose health symptoms, add helpers to your productivity software to make your documents more readable, generate presentations based on existing documents, find bugs in programming code, analyze architecture designs for structural strength, and so much more. If you trained the AI on the entire tax code for a country, it would potentially do the absolute best job of figuring out your tax return to get the most deductions while remaining legal. An AI could potentially tell a diabetic how much of a type of food they could eat, given their current blood sugar level, without going over a certain threshold.

The question has been posed, “How are students going to learn anymore when they can rely on an AI to give them the answers that they need?” Simply put, schools are going to need to change their approach to learning and testing. The same problem arose many years ago with the invention of the pocket calculator. But a student could also rightfully ask, “What is to stop my teacher from using AI to grade my test in a manner bereft of empathy and humanity?”

The reason why I am excited about this technology, is because the Internet has made it possible for us to access an awful lot of information, but the existing search tools haven't really made it possible to access that information without us having a full understanding of a search site’s syntax. I have seen numerous examples of this, when I speak to people who can't find something online, yet I have no trouble finding it using a better combination of search terms. In other words, access is not equally available to all participants. AI changes this, by making it possible to get answers using plain English queries. We already live in a world where a growing number of people don’t say the words ‘I don't know’ very often. AI is going to make it possible to eliminate that phrase from our vocabulary forever.

Perfect fireman's name

 

Things I learned lately 18 Mar

• Montreal will soon have 184 km of traffic-separated bike lanes. Oulu, Finland has over 900 km.
• As of 2018, over 43% of Ontario’s electric grid was generated from renewable sources.
• Remember when the only electric cars were the pulled EV-1 and the Tesla Roadster? Well, as of March 2023, there are 40 models of electric vehicles you can buy in the US.
• There are only around 20 Ponderosa and Bonanza restaurants left in the US. There used to be hundreds.
• It is not legal to fly a drone in Banff National Park (or any national park for that matter). The fine is as much as $25,000.
• The number of transistors in a 1970s era 8080 CPU: 4,500. The number of transistors in a 2022 era i7 CPU: approximately 1,500,000,000.
• Only one NHL team predates the founding of the NHL itself - the Montreal Canadiens, which started out in the NHA (National Hockey Association).
• Les Canadiens and the Maple Leafs are the only remaining teams that were in the inaugural year of the NHL (1917). Interestingly, the Leafs didn’t get that name until 1927. They had been known as the Arenas and St. Patricks.
• The first American team to join the NHL was the Boston Bruins in 1924.
• The Vancouver Canucks were named after a fictional 19th century political cartoon character / folk hero, Johnny Canuck.
• The Buffalo Sabres could have been called the Mugwumps.
• Atlanta lost its NHL hockey team twice, the only city to do so.
• The WHA Edmonton Oilers began as the Alberta Oilers and were going to permanently split time between Edmonton and Calgary.

No car neighbourhood - in Canada!

The only desirable car-free neighbourhood in Canada (and why you can't live there).

It used to have 600 homes and now it only has about 250. It's a quiet, car-free, pothole-free neighbourhood off the coast of downtown Toronto, but you will never get the chance to live there. Nor will you ever see another neighbourhood like get built, even though people would love to live there.

Check out the story of the Toronto Islands.

What would you call this shape?

 

Texagon!

Small things 10 Mar

• “There’s only one thing I hate more than lying. Skim milk. Which is water that’s lying about being milk.” ~Ron Swanson, Parks & Recreation
• “90th birthday. [Willie Nelson] is a great advertisement that marijuana is not bad for you.” ~ Conan O’Brien
• There's nothing better in life than when you're full on laughing with someone, and you both keep adding things that make it funnier, and you can barely breathe.
• Almost every quote presented to you on Facebook, especially by entities who are not a friend, are false attributions. 60 seconds of verification is all it takes. Incidentally, if you ‘like’ one of these falsehoods, you’ve just sent a signal to them that you’re willing to accept a lot of falsehoods as truth. You have very likely become a marked target for misinformation.
• You can never tell a dog a knock knock joke. As soon as you say ‘knock knock’, they start barking.
• Dad joke: Lance isn’t a common name now, but in medieval times, guys were named Lance. A lot.
• The next time you see a Tesla pull up, wait for the driver to get out and say, “Wow! The new Toyotas look so cool!” They will lose their mind.
• Dad joke: Who’s the jazziest, most elusive creature in the forest? Saxsquatch.
• When you don’t want to get up and pee because you’re comfy, but you can’t get back to sleep because you have to pee.
• Old people be like, “Let me be the one who breaks the seal for the rest of the party guests by being the first to declare ‘Well, I’m heading out.’”
• When you arrive at the car wash to a lineup and nobody has noticed the empty bay at the nearest end except you.
• Live life on the edge. Don’t wait for Windows to tell you it’s safe to remove that USB drive.
• When you stare at your phone waiting for it to stop ringing because you don’t use it for that.
• ‘No alcohol beyond this point’ is code for “Bet you can’t chug that whole drink right now.”
• When they open the PowerPoint file before the presentation starts and you see ‘slide 1 of 143’.
• When people assume that when you are reading a book, that you are “doing nothing” and therefore can be interrupted. Repeatedly.

Toe pain

 

Correct me if I’m wrong

Racism. Sexism. Misogyny. Entitlement. Many white guys claim that they don’t have any of those characteristics. Let’s be real. We all have it to varying degrees. We may try to avoid saying and doing the things that make others squirm, but we’ve spent, in some cases 6 decades or more, learning the behaviour. So no matter how we try, we slip up. Some of us more than others. Sometimes we say or do things not even realizing how wrong they are. 

I met a hilarious guy at Loose Moose who wasted no time calling me or anyone else out for saying something racist, even if by accident. You might know him from Kim’s Convenience and The Burbs. I met another guy at Loose Moose who has made it his mission to help folks unlearn these toxic behaviours and he inspires me to try to do the same.

So if you catch me saying something inappropriate, say something. In public even. And I promise to do the same with you. Not to judge. Because I believe we can be better.

Let’s be better.

Thanks to Andrew P, Josh B and Bernie MD for inspiration.

Steepin' tea

 

Things I learned lately 10 Mar

• Mammoth Lakes CA has already had over 500 inches of snow this season. There's no end in sight.
• Australia expects to have as little as 66%, maybe even as much as 83% of its power generated by solar and wind and other renewables by 2030.
• In Australia, roughly 1 in 3 houses have solar panels.
• Glasgow Montana is considered the ‘middle of nowhere’ in the US, because it is 4.5 hours away from any major centre with over 75,000 people in every direction.
• There are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on earth.
• The largest recorded temperature change in 24 hours happened in Montana, when it went from -47C (-52F) to +10C (50F).
• Lahore Pakistan now has a Tim Hortons.
• The Dutch supermarket chain "Jumbo" has "slow lanes" for customers at checkout that like to converse with the cashier.
• On average, you fart enough in one day to fill a party balloon.
• Thailand used to be called Siam and Myanmar used to be called Burma.
• The NIST atomic clock can keep time to within one quadrillionth of a second, or to within a second over the course of about 30 million years.
• On a typical day, besides Canadian destinations, YYC has flights to Portland; Seattle; Salt Lake City; Houston; Dallas; Denver; Minneapolis; San Francisco; Las Vegas; San Diego; Palm Springs; Phoenix; Los Angeles; New York; Newark; Chicago; Atlanta; Orlando; San Jose Cabo; Cancun; Puerto Valla; Mazatlan; Manzanillo; Belize City; Nassau; Kahului; Honolulu; Amsterdam; Frankfurt; Liberia; and London.
• Until you see the results of an e-transfer deposited in your account (as the recipient), the sender can possibly cancel the transaction after sending the funds.
• In 1974, Elton John released a cover version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as a single. Recorded at the Caribou Ranch, it featured backing vocals and guitar by John Lennon under the pseudonym Dr. Winston O'Boogie (Winston being Lennon's middle name).

Small things 4 Mar

• Birds everywhere are trying hard not to look like a balloon.
• Do you ever hear a party in the neighbourhood, and you’re like aw crap, but then you realize they’re playing Led Zeppelin and you think, no problem, they’re old. They’ll be done by 10.
• I am very grateful that I have enough money to pay my bills. Truly. If I can continue doing this, that will be grand.
• A paperback is a soft hard copy. An e-book on a tablet is a hard soft copy.
• Wearing Carhartt work gear is a vague fashion statement. Are you a student? A hipster? A licensed forklift operator? Nobody knows!
• When you’re at The Keg and you’re so damned full from your meal but then the server says they’re going to comp you dessert and you’re suddenly like “I’m in!”
• “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journal (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), 206 (entry for Nov. 8, 1838)
• You’re never going to feel good about your to-do list unless you put stuff on there that you’re actually going to do. Start small. Things like ‘wake up’, ‘take a dump’ and ‘have breakfast’ are perfectly valid entries and will make you feel great about yourself.
• Dumb single guy wanted to try the carbon dating app.
• Dear card reader manufacturers: Pick a spot to tap our cards on and make that the spot for ALL READERS. That is all.
• Dear AI researchers: The first AI application needs to be grocery self checkout machines. Make it your next mission that we never have to hear the words “Unknown item in bagging area” ever again. Also, how about it asks for our loyalty card right away, or just waits until the end of scanning all the items.
• Do you ever swear at the thing you dropped like it’s the thing’s fault?
• A guide to eating fish in the workplace:  Swedish fish: YES.  Goldfish crackers: YES.  All other fish: NOPE

Wasn't school fun though?

 

If George Lucas made 2001: A space odyssey

“It is a period of space exploration…” 

Very clever.

Keanuvirus

 

I believe in you

AudioPhil plays vinyl on YouTube and I love a lot of what he plays. 

Like this classic lo-key Talk Talk number.

Just no. Also, it’s March, not October.

 

Things I learned lately 4 Mar

• Meteorological winter 2022-23 in Calgary was the 2nd snowiest in the last 10 years, and sixth snowiest on record (139 years).
• A US Supreme Court judge is blocking the President's initiative to forgive student loans because it's not fair to other people with loans.
• Soda Springs CA got 52 inches of snow in a 48 hour period.
• Huntington Lake CA in the Sierra Mountains got walloped with 144 inches of snow over a six-day period this past week.
• Music sales on pre-recorded audio cassettes in the US have jumped 443% between 2015 and 2022.
• Now that the UK has been out of the EU for a while, polls indicate that 54% feel that it was wrong to leave the EU, versus 34% who still think it was the right move. 20% of ‘leave’ voters now regret their decision.
• 11+ medical trials that included over 600,000 people concluded that wearing a mask (of any kind) does little to prevent catching the flu, H1N1, SARS or Covid. It definitely wasn’t the outcome that was expected.
• The same guy who invented leaded gas also invented freon refrigerant (Thomas Midgley).
• Canada was one of the first countries in the world to ban leaded fuel (1990).
• The majority of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet (unless you’re pregnant).
• If you pinch your nose, you cannot hum.
• One thing that is quite different between American and Canadian grocery and drug stores is that American stores lock up a lot more products than we do.