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America's Next Short Model?

Fall is officially here. How do I know? Because it's time for America's Next Top Model! But wait - something is amis in the land of fierceness.....Tyra has only allowed short future models to enter the competition. What the deuce?

Does it lessen my heterosexuality if my night includes watching ANTM and then Glee? Maybe I don't want anyone to answer that. ANYWAY. I have to watch this season of ANTM because in the preview, one girl said "...I was born with a bloody eye. My nickname growing up was 'bloody eyeball'..."

That's not a nickname - it is an acurate description of you. You have a bloody eyeball. If you had one ear and they called you "Picasso" then that would be a nickname. There's a girl on crutches. If they call here "gimpy", then once again - valid nickname.

I've had multiple nicknames throughout the years. Some I've not minded...others i've fucking detested. It all started with my parents who insisted on calling my brother and I by our middle names. I was always "Scotty" and never "Alex"....until I got to university when I gave up trying to explain that to people.

When I worked at Comcast Cable, my boss called me "Coleslaw" because of my pronounciation of my last name. The "e" is silent, it's not my fault.

In university, it was "Al", "Big Al", and then there was "Klex". My roommate liked to switch the first letters of your first and last names. I was "Klex Ainsella"....and "Klex" just stuck. For many, many, many, many years.

But after university, the nicknames dropped off (thank goodness) and it's just been plain old awesome Alex for a while now. There's one guy at work who calls me "Alex Trebek" but it hasn't caught on. Still, it's better than "Bloody Eyeball".

Air Canada BlackBerry web signal takes flight!

Air Canada BlackBerry web signal takes flight!

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BlackBerry App World Launch - More Countries!

BlackBerry App World Launch - More Countries!

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BlackBerry App World 1.1 - New Features, More Countries

BlackBerry App World 1.1 - New Features, More Countries

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Hot and Cold

Spank my ass and call me Charlie

Holy cow. Nicole has reappeared in the blogsosphere. Maybe I'm jumping the gun - she hasn't posted. Yet.

Robots are evil.

As many of you know, I live live my life in constant fear.

Bird Flu? No.

Terrorists? No.

BackStreet Boys reunion tour? No.

I live in fear of robots, evil robots. I know that many of you were swayed by WALL*E. But don't let them fool you - all robots of evil and they want to take old people's medicine.

The good folks at Gizmodo report this morning that the Japanese have the most robots of any nation on Earth. I have no scratched Japan off the list of countries I would like to visit.

Spring Cleaning Delayed

I decided that now would be a good a time as ever to clean out my desk drawers at work. I've just moved desks and we have these rolling mini filing cabinets. For backstory purposes - when I was a consultant, I had a folder for each client. In that folder I would a Google map from the airport to customer site, a copy of the contract, notes, and then all receipts for when I was on site. Hotels, airfare, rental cars, restaurants, Starbucks, etc...

It has been almost three years since I was a full time consultant, so today is the day that I finally broke down and started to go through the folders and throw stuff out.

Not a good idea - because now I know how many times in a 3 year period that I went to -

• Chilis
• Starbucks (so many venti cafe mochas....)
• Outback
• Chipotle
• Harveys in Mississippi (delicious sweet tea)
• Sophie's Thai Kitchen in Davis, CA

The list goes on and on and on and on....you get the picture. In honour of desk cleaning day - here are the top 5 coolest receipts I found -

1. LCBO #417 (Waterloo, ON) - Jan 4 2004. Bought a bottle of wine, two Singhas, two Kingfishers, and two Baltikas.
2. Sophie's Thai Kitchen (Davis, CA) - Nov 30, 2004. Had a Singha and a massaman chicken curry.
3. Do-Drop-Inn (Hatrona, PA) - Feb 4, 2004. Seriously - the Do Drop Inn. Awesome!!!
4. Tiki Lounge (Pittsuburgh, PA) - Feb 3, 2004 - I remember going there with Jason S from Lancaster. Good times.
5. Primanti Brothers (The Strip - Pittsburgh, PA) - Feb 3, 2004. This is where we ended up. They are famous for this sandwich which consists of grilled meat, a vinegar-based cole slaw, tomato slices, and French fries between two pieces of Italian bread (thanks Wikipedia for the reminder).

Well, that is it for late spring cleaning. Have a great weekend.

Giving product management a bad name

I am a product manager.

This is an example of when product managers make bad decisions.

Don't parents spend hours teaching their kids not to eat LEGO bricks? How on Earth could this get past consumer safety?