The South Bayview Bulldog

Well, this is the big day. The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival is on and seldom have more thrilling dreams been spun of unlocatable and unattainable “galas” or of standing behind barricades to watch for people you don’t know. Would you like them if you did?  This is interesting from NOW magazine. It is about something called Wet Bum, Dry Humour. Cute, cheeky title.  Also, King Street West will be closed between Peter Street and University Ave.  Really, TIFF dillys, knock yourselves out.  Twitter

There appears to be a small window of opportunity to fill up at a somewhat better price on gasoline in Toronto. Prices for regular blends stand at about 129.9 c/L Thursday morning (September 4, 2014) but are expected to go up again this evening. 

Family restaurant Mr. Greenjeans in the Toronto Eaton Centre has closed down. In shutting the doors after 34 years the owner Maury Kalen sounded a somewhat sour note. He told the Hamilton Spectator: “The Eaton Centre has no Eaton’s, it has no Sears, it has no anchor.”  The Spectator 

FaceBook was down this afternoon for an estimated 18 minutes and as we have come to know, it made the lives of the FaceBook generation something slightly worse than death by a thousand cuts. Users began reporting the social network down around 3.30 p.m., bringing interaction on both Facebook’s website and mobile apps to a grinding halt. “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can,” read an error message on Facebook’s desktop site. According to reports, the outage appeared to affect users in the U.S. and Canada, as well as other parts of the world.  Later, in a statement, Facebook said: “Earlier today we encountered an error while making an infrastructure configuration change that briefly made it difficult for people to access Facebook. We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect.” Facebook had major outages in May, June and August. TechCrunch’s Josh Constine estimates Facebook loses at about $22,453 every minute it’s down around the globe. Mashable put the total downtime at 18 minutes. 

Rosedale’s Glen Road pedestrian bridge has been closed for an apparently unknown period of time for emergency repairs. The City issued a release this morning (Wednesday, August 3, 2013) that the well-used footbridge connecting the southern reaches of Rosedale with Bloor Street was found to require urgent repairs during a routine inspection. The news release says only that the bridge will be opened again once repairs are complete. The bridge extends from the intersection of Glen Road and Dale Avenue, across the Rosedale Valley Road to Bloor Street East just east of Sherbourne Street. The closure means that pedestrians will now have to walk out to Sherbourne St. along Maple Ave. and use the Sherbourne bridge to reach Bloor.

Word has come that the Route 66 Roadside Grill and Bar in the Eglinton Square Mall has closed. The landlord’s notice shows rent in arrears by $109,000. Route 66 featured what was called Canadian cooking with burgers and pizza. The burger business is alive and well in Leaside but the pressure on some eating spots is intense.