I like the simple, playful design of these new posters for the Toronto Humane Society:
Click the image to see the article about these posters.
There’s more on these posters at The Fruits of Imagination, the blog of the Leo Burnett agency’s Toronto branch.
It’s a bad week to be an airline, and a worse week to be an airline passenger:
And last but not least, the Bile High Club:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
In Metroblogging NYC, Dana Bushman has a blog entry about flying on Continental Airlines from Amsterdam to Newark, a tale of delays, bad service and bathrooms leaking bilge into the cabin:
On Wednesday June 13th at around 2:00 pm my boyfriend and I boarded Continental flight 71 from Amsterdam to Newark along with approximately 250 other passengers. Despite that fact that the flight was only scheduled to be 8 hours, it wasn’t until 32 hours later that we arrived in New Jersey. What happened in between is a tale of massive mismanagement, awful customer service and downright inhumane, unsafe and unsanitary conditions. This was a massive clusterfuck on Continental’s part–a screw up of Jet-Blue proportions; maybe even worse.
Luckily for Dana, she’d cashed in her points and was flying first class, away from the leakage. The economy passengers weren’t so lucky:
“To be blatantly honest, I was more nervous than I had ever been on a flight,” said [passenger] Collin Brock. “I’ve never felt so offended in all my life. I felt like i had been physically abused and neglected. I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours,” said Brock.
Consumerist has a video of a news report covering the Continental story. In the report, a stewardess had to improvise a little mask due to the smell from the leaking sewage.
Although I generally prefer taking Air Canada on my Toronto-Boston flights (my reasons being that the jets are more roomy and Air Canada flies out of sparkly Terminal 1), I sometimes take American Eagle when they’re offering a better rate. Hence my concern at the big news here in Boston today about the American Eagle flight from Toronto that developed landing gear trouble.
According to local news reports, the plane tocuhed down normally until the pilot noticed sparks coming from the bottom. He then performed an emergency ascent and the plane proceeded to circle Logan airport for pver an hour to burn off excess fuel and to give ground inspectors a chance to look at the landing gear. Once the fuel had been burned off and the runway cleared, the plane made a successful and smooth emergency landing with no injuries.
In keeping with the tradition on this blog, I’m posting a photo of the fried dough cart in Boston Common:
The Ginger Ninja and I are in the Boston area for the week. We’re catching up with family and friends for most of the week, and this weekend, we’re part of the wedding party of her brother, Andy Ramoniac.
If you’re thinking of robbing our place while we’re gone, let me assure you that you will fail. Our building is protected by the best crime detection system I’ve ever seen: cranky retirees who like to watch the closed-circuit lobby channel on their TVs.
For those of you who can’t get enough Schrodinger’s Cat-based humour, I suggest you check out the Schrodinger’s LOLcat entry, followed by the kitty below:
