• when people wait until they are at the counter to decide on what they want to order
• when people insist on using the wrong word/form of a word/pronunciation of a word and refuse to be corrected (eg: “Starbuck” vs. Starbucks, “irony” vs. what you actually meant which is probably more like “just kind of unlucky, I guess”)
• when people walk really slowly (especially in the middle of the sidewalk or in parking lots, same goes for people standing in the middle of escalators)
• when people don’t finish their
• when people arbitrarily make you pay for other people’s mistakes/rule-breaking (examiners Jim and Linda all of you at the GTA MTO on Lawrence Ave. East, this one’s for you)

It’s kind of a huge herp and/or derp moment to realize that people in first world countries (with all our fancy edumacations) still voluntarily submit their bodies to this destructive habit, so that they can breathe dirtier air that is more expensive than cleaner air and then clog up the health care system with their lung/heart/etc… diseases.

Here’s a thought, let’s start a new industry. One where our principle product creates zero productive/lasting benefits for our consumers or the economies that buy it. There’s nothing wrong with glamorizing it in popular media. That way, kids will grow up with role models that we’ll sponsor with our products, ensuring fat, wholesome profits for generations to come, at least until we get taxed to hell and anyone with a scruple for how to spend their money/health/life will avoid us like the plague. Then, we’ll start a NASCAR team!

The experience of crushing a real-life, integrated case from presentation of the problems faced by a business to group presentations of solutions addressing all those issues into exactly one week’s worth of time is pretty unique. While I question the validity of how the internal boards were formed and the quality of their decisions, I do believe that this whole exercise was a pretty sweet learning opportunity. I mean, there were so many things to consider and for once it was possible to work on a case solution that dealt with an entire business, from its theoretical organizational structure to its daily production scheduling. While the mini-cases that BBA students have to work on for individual courses like Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, and Finance are good for applying very specific concepts to specific situations, nothing can really take the place of a fully integrative exercise like ICE when it comes to training students to think about problems and solutions holistically.

All in all I’m pretty happy with my group and our final product of a solution. We may not have advanced, but a lot of other strong teams with great ideas also did not make it through the first round (much to everyone’s surprise). I’m proud of the solution that my group came up with and how well we developed the plan around the core idea. Whether or not a panel of judges shares the sentiment is really inconsequential at this point. In the end, I came out of ICE having learned a bunch of things I did not know beforehand, and that’s all that will count a year from now. I still wanted to win, instead of just knowing in my head that our idea is actually the best out of all 72 teams’.

COCOA was so young, cut down before her prime. She never even saw the light of day, and now ______ Inc. will never know she could’ve awesomified their business model.

5 things I hate about public washrooms:

• mysterious puddles on the floor and counters dare you to ask why
• hand-drying boxes always leave your hands still a little damp and many times dirtier than before
• toilets usually flush omega-hard, causing tons of turbulence and collateral splashing
• urinals force you to choose between having privacy and keeping your pants from touching the bottom rim (guys know what I mean)
• questionable hairs distributed haphazardly throughout the place

Today’s is a minor-major update. Minor in that the changes to the theme’s look are minor and mostly imperceptible. Major in that it was a major pain in the ass to get jQuery to jook and jive with my WordPress plug-ins.

I’ve gotten jQuery up and running on the P.Pole and I am using it to handle most of my document element selecting needs in my common.js file. I am also using its handy-dandy class selector and .css() function to change/toggle font-family settings for entry contents and titles (go on, click the “⊗” in the top right corner of the content box and see what happens). The sidebar toggling also uses jQuery to do its fun and fabulous CSS tricks.

As a side-note, I have also taken the time to redo the code that sets up my image gallery pages. Using a <table> to wrap my <div>s up made positioning them all in-line while floating them a breeze. It was formerly a pain in the ass to get the previous, current, and next images all in a line using only <div>. Thus, resorting to the old-school tactic of using <table>s to define a page’s structure seems to do the trick rather handily.