Ankles, Hotdogging, and a Strange Discovery

Above: view from the cab on my way into the city from YYC. Despite its horrendously low winter temperatures, Calgary is famous for having beautiful clouds and sunshine year round.

I had a really lovely weekend back in Chicago. Except for the part where I sprained my ankle and had to hobble through O'Hare this morning (my gate was F13, which is literally the farthest away from security, of course) lookin' all sorts of demented. That is what I get for knocking back one too many whilst wearing high heels at a party.

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We at ThoughtWorks regularly play a prank on each other known as "hotdogging", where when somebody leaves his or her laptop unlocked and walks away from its vicinity, the rest of us will invariably mess with its settings to "punish" the CPU abandon-er. I hotdogged one of my colleagues this past week by rotating his screen 180 degrees and he had the most awful time trying to figure out how to change it back:

 

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I ate at a McDonald's today for the first time in Canada. And look what I found:

The presence of this maple leaf upsets me greatly. It looks like the golden arches are undergoing puberty and have grown a large and unsightly pimple on their face. I've been to McDonald's in Japan and India before and they sure as hell don't have silhouettes of uh, sumo wrestlers and Shivas on them. Who does Canada think it is, scarring our scared national culinary treasure like that!!!