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The list of the most affordable/expensive US cities have been released and well, I'll list them (listed 10-1): Indianapolis IN, Dayton OH, Lakeland FL, Modesto CA, Grand Rapids MI, Buffalo, NY, Ogden UT, Syracuse NY, Akron OH, Cincinnati OH. Not too bad, except Buffalo (sorry, no offence). I absolutely love Indianapolis and Syracuse and have always kinda dug Cincinnati, probably because of WKRP and the legendary Big Red Machine Reds teams of the seventies. But the coolest thing, to me, is that Cincy has a subway system underneath the city that has never been used. You can see entrances to tunnels sealed up throughout the city as they completed seven underground stations but the three above ground ones were demolished to make room for the I-75 in the 1960s. They run tours twice and year and since the track beds were dug but no tracks were ever laid it would probably be super, super creepy. Talks have been had since the project was abandoned during the Great Depression, but nothing has ever came out of it and remains "Cincinnati's Biggest Failure." Got off topic, but Cincy is the most affordable city in the US and below is the wiki page of their subway system.
The most expensive cities are Orange County CA, Washington DC, Truckee-Nevada County CA (where?), Stamford CT, San Jose CA, Queens NY, San Francisco CA, Honolulu HI, Brooklyn NY, Manhatten NY. Three of New York City's borough's in the top 5. Holy crap.
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Why can't Canadian restaurants make it big? Nine years in a row now the World's 50 Best Restaurants does not have any Canadian content, and for the second straight year, we didn't even make the top 100. Adrian Brijbassi, a judge for the World's 50 best, has put forward some reasons as to why Canadian cuisine gets no love. Main reason: Toronto. Brijbassi says that the best dining experiences are outside of the city because the city's most noted restaurants and chefs "play it safe" because it's quite expensive to do business in Toronto and need to appeal to everyone to be successful and thrive. That is why on every menu in the city you can get steak & potatoes, chicken breasts and grilled salmon, which must be super boring to the chef who isn't doing anything innovative so in turn he's doing nothing to set him, or the cuisine in Toronto apart. So when all the top judges for the World's Fifty Best come to our biggest and most visited city (which should have a dynamic, exciting culinary scene) they will be unimpressed. The highest rated restaurant in Toronto is The Black Hoof at 928 Bathurst St. There is also an apparently lack of promotion both locally and internationally, as well as a "Canadian inferiority complex" where we undervalue what our country has to offer as a travel and cultural destination. And another key point is that Canada's restaurants already have a safe reputation that hurts us before we even start. It takes lots of things to make a great chef: talent, money to back said talent, supporters getting the word out and a little lucky, but most of all the judges want to sees chef's being inventive and risky. Toronto's best, and newest restaurants and some hidden gems are reviewed here: Caroline's Culinary Delights
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Speaking of awesome food, a Niagara Falls, New York gentleman went into a Denny's at about 2AM to get his eat on after a night out, and buys $9.91 worth of food at the downtown Niagara Falls location. Reaching into his pocket it seemed he was a little short so he offered that cashier one dollar and a small bag of marijuana. The clerk, ironically, wasn't having any of it, refused the mans payment. No big deal, he turns around in line and tries to sell the baggy to other customers behind him in line. They were no takers and then the man fled into a nearby wooded area once the cashier called the police. Unfortunately for the fleeing pothead, he was recognized by another Denny's patron who provided police with his name and address. The officers went over to his house later in the day but he wasn't home. Maybe check McDonalds or Jack In the Box? Chipotle staff would be all over that too.
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Tom Schaar may have been born in the year 2000, but this 12 year old has landed skateboardings first 1080 (which is three full revolutions in the air). He performed the stunt several times since he first pulled it off in March and was even given a Guiness Book Of World Record for the 1080, garnering accolades from skate legend Tony Hawk. But that's not all… earlier this month in Shanghai, Tom became the youngest XGames champion of all time, managing to pull off the 1080 again in competition against some of the best skateboarders, Andy McDonald and Bob Burnquist (both Tony Hawk 1 alumni!) and last years champion Pierre-Luc Gagnon. I'm not the hugest vert skating fan but here's the kid's 1080 and just because, my favourite skate clip ever, Rodney Mullen's segment from Second Hand Smoke.
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Toronto starts it quest for the Cup on Friday. You read it right. Unfortunately it's not the Leafs, but they might be the Leafs in two years (maybe next year?). And the Cup in question is the Calder Cup, given to the AHL champs. The Marlies won their Western Conference series in five games against the Oklahoma City Barons (farm team of the Edmonton Oilers) to move onto the Calder Cup finals against the Tampa Bay Lightning's farmhands, the Norfolk Admirals. The Admirals had a 28 game winning streak to end off the season and are opening up the series on their home ice. Don't know much about the Admirals, or where Norfolk is (Virignia somewhere), but I know their roster does have a former Leaf, Keith Aulie so I'll be looking forward to see how he plays against his former team considering the Leafs basically gave up on him. Marlies Matt Frattin and Jerry D'Amigo are tied for second in AHL playoff scoring with 13 points apiece, trailing only the Admirals Alexander Picard. Frattin however, will not be available for the finals after sustaining an injury scoring an empty net goal in game 5 to seal the series for Toronto. The series opens in Norfolk on friday night.
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I needed a topical comedic monologue for class this week, so I chose Mark Zuckerbeg, our favourite 28 year old billionaire, in his first shareholders meeting after the facebook IPO and his wedding go public, and it might just be funner than spewing out more statistics on how the stock is failing anyways. Hopefully.
[MARK ZUCKERBERG, FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK, ENTERS AN AUDITORIUM NOT IN HIS USUAL HOODIE BUT AN EXPENSIVE CUSTOM TAILORED SUIT AND WAVING TO THE APPLAUSE, BUT THE APPLAUSE IS SCARCE AT BEST, BUT HE'S WAVING LIKE THE ROOM IS DEAFENINGLY LOUD AS HE MAKES HIS WAY TO HIS PODIUM - CENTRE STAGE]
Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to our first shareholders meeting since going public. It's a gorgeous day out, so we'll get down to business, but first things first, did you check out that catering spread? My God the lunches are incredible around here, don't you think? [PAUSES] Well, guys, give yourselves a hand. Facebook was founded in 2004 and we have over 12 billion users including spam and fake model accounts of course. We opened as the biggest public IPO of all time. Now I know the first week hasn't been to kind to us, I personally lost 1.3 billion dollars from the end of trading Friday night to when I woke up Monday morning. And there's no trading on the weekend. But as the internet's most visited and popular website, rest assured that we'll rise back up to our original trading price of 42 dollars a share up from what it currently sits at: 14 cents.
[STRAIGHTENS HIS TIE]
It hasn't been all bad, my friends...
[WHIPS OUT ONE OF THOSE COLLAPSABLE POINTERS FROM HIS JACKET POCKET AND POINTS AT A CHART HE PULLS DOWN FROM ABOVE]
... let's take a look at the pie chart. Now as you can see, the company as a whole did quite poorly during it's first trading week, losing a few billion dollars, but a good piece of fortune struck us yesterday when a 36 dollar bank error, in OUR favour helped us recoup some of the losses, so as you can see... [PAUSES TO PULL DOWN ON CHART AND IT RETRACTS ITSELF] ...we are on the right track. The track to profitability. I agree that I could have been more available this week since the slight downturn of our stock, but I was getting married.. [WAVES, WAITS FOR APPLAUSE - NONE] ..on a mountain top in the far reaches of the Greek islands where Elton John played a piano made of gold as we exchanged our vows. For dinner we had Wagyu rib eye steaks at $2800 a piece for 76 guests (75 but my father in law has an insatiable appetite and wanted seconds) It's Wagyu Steak for God's sake! Those cows are only fed beer and are massaged by hand to ensure the meats tenderness. And the watermelon, holy crap, it's a black watermelon from the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It weighs 17 pounds and is much sweeter than it's green North American counterpart. $6,100 a piece! Dinner and dancing was great, we loosened everyone up with a bottle of Ace Of Spades champagne at each table before Pink Floyd - original lineup - came out to play our reception. After that me and my love boarded our private jet, whisked off to Hawaii where we rented the island of Oahu for a week, and actually, it's left me a little tapped out, so if anyone is looking to buy some stock I have some for sale. And, in no way is this me trying to get out of this train wreck before it's too late and I have to go back to living in a dorm sized room again. Thanks again everyone, I'm Mark Zuckerberg, good day.
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Stanley Cup Finals start tomorrow night in New Jersey.
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