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Timbit for baby costs job

“They said, ‘Remember, Monday you gave out a free Timbit,’ ” she said. “I had to think, then I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’ and I smiled because I thought I’d get a warning.”

Instead, she was fired for theft and told to sign the accusation before leaving.

“I was crying. I was like, ‘I’m a single mom with four kids and you are going to put this on my record?’ You should bring all the staff in here and fire them all and yourselves, too. People give out Timbits to dogs in the drive-through all the time.”

Timbits, little balls of the hole missing from the doughnut cost about 16¢. The corporation scrambles real fast! Fired for handing out free Timbit, woman re-hired

Nicole Lilliman — canned for offering a free blob of dough to the child of a regular customer earlier this week — has been offered a job at another store by the company.

A press release sent out this morning blamed an overzealous manager for firing the 27-year-old employee, who has worked at Tim Hortons for three years.

“Unfortunately the action of the manager of this location was not appropriate, nor grounds for dismissal,” said the release. “With an apology from management, Ms. Lilliman has been rehired by the franchisee.”

An almost satisfactory resolution because I hope her previous manager gets a good kick in the shins.

“They said, ‘Remember, Monday you gave out a free Timbit,’ ” she said. “I had to think, then I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’ and I smiled because I thought I’d get a warning.”

You gave away a ball of flour, fat and sugar! Have you seen the cost of flour recently? Soon it’ll be double cups for tea or two napkins! Where will this end? A second serving of water? Spoons? Washroom access? Asking customers to not idle their cars in the drive-thru? We have to end this now. You’re fired!

The solution? Disguise your baby as a sweet adorable dog!

Very funny twist on those “You are here” cartoon clichés.
You resonate at 7 mhz so does the earth
Google maps London Ontario
Self and Brain

A cartoon image server is kind of running again. I’m putting up images at Flikr - see the link at the top right there. I am not so sure that I am going to go back through all the old posts and relink the images. Most of the hits here seem to come in from Google searches related to the tags and text, and then from references from links in the blogroll. High hit posts will get the cartoons linked back in, and/or, I suppose, posts with discussion and comments. The Flikr page with the photostream allows a real quick browse with many images on the page at once - much better for the archive kind of reason I set up this blog in the first place. Well, we’ll see.

From this tiny link discovered on the new Kate Bush forum at the homeground and kate bush news and info forum. Since this blog is alos about stuff I like :-). Kate’s birthday is coming up soon, a week after my daughter’s and for whom she has one of her names.

I too can’t bear to leave the washing up in the sink. :-) So much living gets in the way, doesn’t it?

Yes, the images were stored off a server which has been taken down. I’m working on recovering the cartoons.

WTF happened to the Londoner website? Huge blankets of white space! It’s like Mr Clean came by with his Magic Eraser and scrubbed it clean of personality. Half the front page is ads ‘above the fold’. Content is practically half-a-dozen clicks deep after two or three summaries about what you’ll get when you finally get there. Text banging tight against the edges of the browser window. Margins people! Great gaping holes! What? Is this some bargain basement auto template thrown together in Silverlight off some third world server? Ohmigod, please don’t look. Don’t let anyone think I drove traffic to that disaster!

“Scientists decided to move the hands on the so-called “Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight. It’s sparked a debate over whether environmentalism has become all about raising awareness about the earth by scaring its inhabitants half-to-death.”

From CBC’s The Current’s podcast page on Earth Day, 22/04/2008: “Catastrophizing” Earth Day [mp3 file: runs 23:59] - an interview with  Marq De Villiers on his book Dangerous World Understanding Natural Calamities and Protecting Human Survival.

Is calamity a motivator? or just anxiety producing?

If Tungusta hit London, it would wipe it out. Nudge it out of the way first. Earthquakes and terrible building codes would flatten Tehran. Enforce better building codes. Overdue eruptions out of Yellowstone calderas could wipe the US clean. Do we have the willpower, the political will, to prevent the problem?

Are people a cancer destroying the Earth organism? Do we have the means to distribute the resources to deal with this? Is apathy the problem? Do we need a shock?

Do we have a “pornographic eagerness for apocalypse?”

Interviewed after the break, and not on the podcast, was Brian Fagan, authour of The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.

“In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to settle the remotest islands on earth. But in many parts of the world, the warm centuries brought drought and famine. Elaborate societies in western and central America collapsed, and the vast building complexes of Chaco Canyon and the Mayan Yucatan were left empty.”

I think the summary is: Worry less and do more. Argue less and fix the obvious problems.

Found off of Karmacino, this post is a link to a Google video of a BBC Dispatches episode about Tibet. And this post from Asian Window covers an article from The Daily Mail.

Just moments ago we received an email from Narayan Chitrikar, the Thangka artist living in Bhaktapur, who is visiting his children in Michigan. He included this photo of the great chariot rolled out for Bisket Jatra. Sunny’s Guest house is to the left of this great temple in the background. The wheels for the chariot were stored across the road from the guest house, just behind the temple. Happy New Year 2065!