Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

I question the accuracy of this result since I usually score about twenty points lower. Of course it is normal for a test as short as this one to be wildly inaccurate at the extreme ends of the scale. Not to mention it is probably skewed up to encourage the average idiot to gleefully give up their e-mail address and demographic information to a website whose only revenue model is advertising, and to willingly post links to drive in new traffic and increase the site's search-engine rankings.

Anyway, the Huge, Souless Banking Corporation's Festival of Light Dimwits from Surrey is over and most of them have found their way back to the SkyTrain (I wonder if the hooting and screeching is an aid to their navigation? They do it more at night - perhaps it is a bat-like form of echo-location...), so I'm off to bed.

Dead Bus

The bus just overheated on the Barnett Highway :-/

Dead Bus - The Whole Story

The bus decided to die about halfway along the Barnett Highway today. For those not familiar with Vancouver, the Barnett Highway is a coastal road running along the north side of Burnaby Mountain. It was originally built for military purposes and for the most part there is bugger all along it since what little level land there is is mostly used up by the road and a rail line. It's a pretty crappy place to be stranded. Fortunately after the bus initially died the driver was able to get it started again and quite literally stagger on for several kilometres, with the engine dying again a couple times along the way. The driver was trying to get to the end of the highway and the beginning of Hastings Street. We didn't quite make it. We were still about half a kilometre away from Hastings when the engine completely gave up the ghost. Not great, but not as bad as it could have been. If the driver had not been able to squeak a few more kilometres out of the engine is would have meant waiting half an hour in 35° C heat for the next bus. In my game of transit roulette, I keep betting red or black, and the marble keeps landing on 0 and 00. When I used to commute from Kits to SFU I honestly don't remember it being this annoying and unreliable. It still sucked, but it really does seem worse now.