Reading through The Hamilton Spectator site today, I came over this headline:
Would her sidekick be Alimony Payment Boy?
The Eyeopener is Ryerson University’s student newspaper. Like other university newspapers (not McMaster though) it is updated online and allows comments to be left if you have an account. To create an account though you must provide:
- Username [OK]
- Password [OK]
- First & Last name [WHAT?]
- E-mail [OK]
- Birthday [WTF?]
- Postal/Zip Code [WTF? x 2]
- Province/State [WTF? x 3]
- Country [WTF? x 4]
Also to accept some terms an conditions. I understand some of the fields required but whiskey tango foxtrot guys, why do you need my postal code? Brock’s paper doesn’t.
Screen cap of The Eyeopener’s account creation fields after the jump.
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Feb 062008
Here’s a question for my McMaster friends: Why hasn’t The Silhouette online been updated since March 30 (I can only assume 2007) (see the screenshot below)For those that don’t know, The Silhouette is the McMaster University weekly newspaper. I wonder why it hasn’t been updated like EVERY OTHER NEWSPAPER.
(My guess is that it’s because of Joey Coleman. The second article on the online front page mentions the beginning of his involvement with Maclean’s so he wants to keep it that way.)
I stumbled upon TOTALLY CRUSHIN’: Juno McGuff on the Brock Press site and after reading it I am a bit creeped out and amused.
I’m not sure if this is a regular column published in the paper but I still think it’s really weird to write a letter to someone (fictional nonetheless) and tell them you want to
“…ride my bike to your house, guitar strapped to my back, Sunny D in hand, and we could strum and sing and kiss and cuddle and you could tell me all about who you are, who you want to be and what you believe in and I could tell you how pretty you are, how much I appreciate that you exist, that you’re awesome and sassy but not sassy in that awful, daytime TV way and we could kiss again and snuggle and talk about it on your hamburger phone and exist for no one else but each other and I could love you forever and forever and forever until the world ends, the universe explodes and until the very last neutron of hope and love and wonder spirals through the galaxy and drifts into oblivion.”
That falls under the REALLY creepy category for me.
If you don’t know who Juno McGuff is, first of all get out from under your rock and while checking out show times in your area YouTube the trailer or watch it below.
If you go to the movie’s IMDB site, and check out the forums (or really check out any forum where Juno is discussed) you’ll find a lot of people saying the film promotes teen pregnancy and gives teens the impression that it’s as easy as having the baby and giving up for adoption. This is the main criticism I have found on the tubes and quite frankly it’s bull. Sure the movie isn’t exactly accurate in depicting the whole pregnancy experience (I don’t know what exactly that is since I don’t plan on experiencing pregnancy) but if you look at it as a whole EVERYTHING is treated lightly and humorously. Juno isn’t meant to be a “cautionary whale” but a “light-hearted feel good movie” as my sister called it.
On last check, people are complaining that the movie is over rated. It all depends on your expectations going in. Knowing Michael Cera’s performance in Superbad, the year’s MAJOR comedy motion picture, I wasn’t expecting a very serious movie on the subject. To be honest I would have been disappointed if it had been. Definitely the cheese to the macaroni of movies in 2007.
Jul 022007
I love RSS Feed Readers. When the feeds work, I grab a lot of very interesting articles, tips, etc. I happened to read this piece by my friend Joey. I’m going to categorize it as one of his opinion pieces.
Any way, in it he toys with the idea of the drinking age in Ontario (19 years) being lowered to the age of majority (18 years). His view is that the government won’t lower the age because “this would be political suicide for any government that has the courage to treat adults like, well, adults.”
I am inclined to argue that’s not the reason. Apart from the whole political and maybe financial sides of things there are social issues to consider. Underage drinking is a reality. Unfortunately so are young drunk drivers. Keeping the legal drinking age where it is now is not hurting anyone. The government has no reason to change it. It is a well established age of passage in our current culture. Everyone knows the age to drink is 19. Many respect it and many don’t.
Joey suggests the age should be lowered since it was set this high due to highschool’s grade 13 which does not exist anymore. That’s hardly a good reason for it.
