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  1. â??Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.â? â??Well, itâ??s my job.â? â??Whatâ??s your favorite?â? â??Oh, I couldnâ??t choose. But hey, want to see one to set your skin crawling?â? It was the flush end of a pleasurably hot day â?? 85 degrees in March â?? and we were all sipping bitter cocktails out in my friendâ??s backyard, which was both his smoking room, beer garden, viticetum, opossum parlor and barbecue pit. I was enjoying the warm dusk with a group of six of my best friends, all of whom seemed interested, except for my girlfriendâ?¦ who immediately grimaced. â??[URL="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/girls-around-me-foursquare/id468059309?mt=8"]Girls Around Me[/URL]? Again?â? she scolded. â??Donâ??t show them that.â? She turned to our friends, apologetically. â??Heâ??s become obsessed with this app. Itâ??s [I]creepy[/I].â? I sputtered, I nevered, and I denied it, but it was true. I [I]had [/I]become obsessed with Girls Around Me, an app that perfectly distills many of the most worrying issues related to social networking, privacy and the rise of the smartphone into a perfect case study that anyone can understand. Itâ??s an app that can be interpreted many ways. It is as innocent as it is insidious; it is just as likely to be reacted to with laughter as it is with tears; it is as much of a novelty as it has the potential to be used a tool for rapists and stalkers. And more than anything, itâ??s a wake-up call about privacy. The only way to really explain Girls Around Me to people is to load it up and show them how it works, so I did. I placed my iPhone on the table in front of everyone, and opened the app. The splash screen elicited laughter all around. Itâ??s such a bitmap paean to the tackiest and most self-parodying of baller â??cultureâ?; it might as well be an app Tom Haverford slapped together in [I]Parks And Recreation[/I]. But it does, at a glance, sum up what Girls Around Me is all about: a radar overlaid on top of a Google Map, out of which throbs numerous holographic women posing like pole dancers in a perpetual state of undress. â??Okay, so hereâ??s the way the app works,â? I explained to my friends. Girls Around Me is a standard geolocation based maps app, similar to any other app that attempts to alert you to things of interest in your immediate vicinity: whether it be parties, clubs, deals, or what have you. When you load it up, the first thing Girls Around Me does is figure out where you are and load up a Google Map centered around your location. The rest of the interface is very simple: in the top left corner, thereâ??s a button that looks like a radar display, at the right corner, thereâ??s a fuel meter (used to fund the appâ??s freemium model), and on the bottom left is a button that allows you to specify between whether youâ??re interested in women, men or both. Itâ??s when you push the radar button that Girls Around Me does what it says on the tin. I pressed the button for my friends. Immediately, Girls Around Me went into radar mode, and after just a few seconds, the map around us was filled with pictures of girls who were in the neighborhood. Since I was showing off the app on a Saturday night, there were dozens of girls out on the town in our local area. [URL="http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-without-their-knowledge-its-a-wake-up-call-about-facebook-privacy/"]Rest of the article here[/URL].
  2. BP = British Petroleum. would be my guess :) after all they were smack in the news for ages.
  3. It was in the past, 4 in my recollection with 2 visiting Ottawa on a regular basis and 1 residing in Ottawa at the time.
  4. Unfortunately according to the rules lifted from the Rules & FAQ we can't.
  5. A number of ladies do vacate for a year or two then come back. Plus there is the whole policing of it that is time consuming.
  6. [quote name=adambigallow;321294 Do you think the girl will allow me to do it in this way for the whole session ? Do I need to tell the agency or the girl in advance ? Is it normal/ or not normal' date=' is there people call an escort girl in this way. [/quote] It is normal and you can inform the lady after providing her with her full compensation and before the session begins.
  7. Visiting Victoria Jolie and Crystal are both tall.
  8. Nathalie Lefebvre use to offer this service. According to her profile she is taking a short break. Have a look at her previous schedule posts and recommendations for an idea of what she offers.
  9. No bucket list for me. As a teen I read about the alleged death of a beggar which lead Attar of Nishapur take up the mantles of sufism. The, potentially fictional, account had a marked effect on my view of living and death.
  10. errr ummmm the monster under my bed was Maurice as well.......ummmm Dad ?!? seriously he was.
  11. What you are looking for is commonly called being a Sugar Daddy or pre-paid retainer. Usually you met a few ladies and come to an agreement after establishing a common ground/interest. It would be rare for someone to jump into this arrangement without prior meeting. My suggestion is to find at least 3 ladies that capture your interest, schedule some play time with each and take it from there. Alternative: Bethany Massage is organizing the next Ottawa social in Feb which would be a nice low key means of meeting the ladies.
  12. The idea with a pre-paid credit card is to just book the room with. However someone mentioned Ottawa hotels no longer accept them for bookings. Anyone can confirm this ?
  13. Are you guys referring to Michaella's Caress ? http://www.cerb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?ltr=M&t=44589
  14. LTE very likely. Flash very unlikely. HTML5 for the win!
  15. The lag time has to do with your number of post and membership. Once you pass the 10 posts threshold the approval requirements drops. The nice bit about Cerb is advertising is free unless you want a banner.
  16. its 12:42 am and i just finish dinner. does that count ?
  17. AFAIK the law only says sewage can't exceed a certain density per cubic meter of water flow. Victoria BC is another 'dumper'. Their treatment facility isn't to be operational until 2016.
  18. It depends on the sewage treatment system in place. In St John's they didn't treat the sewage until 3 years ago. Straight dump into the harbour.
  19. The Motley Fools address this in Oct 2011. See their article.
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