TFC 1 Montreal nil

Big thanks to J for the ticket. I went to my first TFC game last night. It was awesome. Great game. Montreal is not an MLS team (yet) so it was just a friendly, which means that the crowd was "lighter" than usual. Well they were still singing and chanting and screaming and cheering. Montreal does not have a great team. But the TFC was just okay. They dominated in passing and possession, but should have scored more than one goal. I also thought the reffing was a bit amateur.

Still, I enjoyed the $10 beers and my $30 T-shirt. I hope to go to more games in the future. I'm really happy Toronto has a professional football team.

Life imitates sci-fi fantasy

The more mature our race becomes, the closer we get to the science-fiction fantasy worlds we were writing about yesterday. People have gone on about "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Farenheit 541". I have noticed that mobile phones are getting smaller, soon they will pinned on to shirt fronts, rely on speaker phone technology, and include GPS locators, basically turning them into Star Trek Comm. Badges.

This article indicates that Warp Speed is possible, but the energy required to execute it is the problem. It goes on to say that the more our race matures, the more we develop technology and efficient uses of our resources, the closer we get to making it real. So it's kind of like in Back to the Future, when Marty went back in time, and Doc needed to figure out how to capture enough energy to send Marty back to the future. "One point twenty-one giggawatts!?"

I guess the point is that contracting space in front of a space craft and expanding it behind a space craft is do-able, and that within a few generations, someone will have figured out a way to capture the energy to contract and expand space on demand, and then we'll be zooming faster through the universe.

Congratulations L

Ladies and gentlemen, stay off the sidewalks. Toronto's latest licensed driver, L, will soon be coming around the bend. Huge congrats and much pride go out to her for working very hard to achieve something she wanted. I recognize the amount of work she put into this, the focus, the time, the effort, the patience. And she got it! Way to go L. You can do anything you want if you put your whole self into it.

City of Toronto recycles plastic bags and foam packaging

To all of those I've been having on-going debates about this with, as well as to those who are uninformed but ought to know, the City of Toronto DOES accept plastic grocery bags and foam packaging in the blue box program.

So they changed their rules after the recycling calendar and rules were distributed, and they didn't announce it very well; strike one. It is still the case that you can proceed to put styrofoam meat packaging, and all the stuff around your new stereo in the blue bin. Being uninformed is not an excuse.

From the City of Toronto web site: "Blue Bin Program now accepts plastic bags and foam polystyrene You can recycle plastic grocery and retail bags without drawstrings, metal detailing or hard plastic handles. Remove receipts. Place all plastic bags in one grocery or retail bag and tie handles together. You can also recycle foam polystyrene. This includes foam protective packaging, foam meat trays, foam takeout food containers, foam plates, foam egg cartons and foam coffee cups. All food residue must be removed."