My Rants and Thoughts

I haven't posted here in a LOOOONNG time but I had a random thought I had to share somewhere I was once interviewed by a client who wanted me to work for him full time - give up my self-employment as a consultant to work exclusively for him. At the time I thought this was great - I'd be rolling in the cash - this was a big company (I thought) so they could afford to pay me lots! He asked what my hourly rate was.  At the time it was $50/hour - about average for my industry. He then went on to say that if I make $50/hour - 8 hour day - 5 days a week - I must be making a couple thousand dollars per week.  Was that the case? No it wasn't - I was spending a good part of the time doing non-paid promotions as I was still trying to build my business. So then he asked me to figure out what my "actual" hourly rate was.  Turns out it was closer to $20/hour once I factored in all the non-paid stuff I was doing to fill out my week. He then offered me $20 per hour...

I live in British Columbia, and as many people may be aware, our biggest city Vancouver is hosting the 2010 Olympics. Well short drive north of Vancouver is the mountain community of Whistler where they will be holding many of the alpine events. To get to Whistler from Vancouver you generally take the "sea to ski" highway. Earlier this week the highway was closed from a massive rockslide which they think will take another 4 or 5 days to clear. This really sucks for those planning a trip to Whistler for our long weekend, but what of those people trapped up there? I should tell you it's not totally isolated - there are other routes in and out of whistler. All this rambling of mine leads up to this: There is apparently a group of Mozilla developers "trapped" in whistler. They were there for a conference. As developers usually do when they hit a snag, they filed a bug report on their software bug tracking system: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448...

I watched a woman drive into the parking lot at work today and completely wipe down her vehicle. She had a chamois and she went around and polished the whole thing before she went in to work. At first she started on the inside - I saw her polishing the door panels etc. But then she wiped down the doors too - not just the inside and outside but the edges as well. She then went around and did all the lower parts of the vehicle - chrome, bumpers and wheels. Normally I'd expect this from a guy who has a hot ride or something, but you don't usually see women fuss over a vehicle to that extent do you? I mean, she spent at least 15 minutes wiping it down.

Do they call it Chinese Food in China? Or Italian Food in Italy? What is considered "American Food" or "Canadian Food" outside North America? Do they actually call it that there?