Category: Local
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Local Man Plans to Keep Working Even After Lottery Win Despite No One Wanting Him to
Long time North City resident Randy Smith just broke the bank! Smith is the newest winner of the provincial lottery taking in over one million dollars. Despite the massive windfall, Randy says he’s going to continue working at Paramount Management Services, where he has been an office supervisor for more than twenty years. All this…
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North City Developing Guided Tour of City’s Gravel Pits
Visitors have a brand new attraction to check out when they visit North City. North City has always been known for its’ gravel pits. And what better use of a gravel pit than as a tourist attraction. With that in mind, North City council has proudly announced that a guided tour of many of the…
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IT Coder Guy Says Updating Profile Pic to Include Ponytail and Sweats Big Part of Job Search Strategy
Today’s job market is perhaps more competitive than ever. With the advent of AI candidate screening technology, on-line resumes have to be finely tuned if they have any chance of attracting a potential employer. Case in point: Joey Hack, a coder living in North City, was getting nowhere with the thousands of e-resumes he was…
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Avant-garde, Off-the-grid Hipster Wants to be Seen as Just Like Everyone Else
Self-described off-the-grid hipster Zen Forrest has been a member of North City’s counter-culture community for his whole life. His alternate lifestyle includes everything from a following a vegan diet, being a Flat-earther and wearing used clothes to doing hot yoga and listening to obscure indie music. But, until recently, he never knew the extent of…
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AI Search Finds Portion of Term Paper Human Written
Is the modern university graduate going to be ready for the real world? That is the question that came out of a recent AI review of term papers submitted in an introductory History class at North City University. Dr. T. Wellington of the university’s History Department noticed that one or two of the end of…
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Local “Folksy Philosopher” Says People Could Learn a Lot About Living From Their Dog
Henry Willows has always been interested in the human condition. The self-proclaimed “Folksy Philosopher” has been giving his insight on how to live “the good life” in North City for as long as anyone can remember. Throughout the years he has drawn his philosophical inspiration from many sources but lately he has found inspiration from,…
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We Asked Four On-line Health Experts Which Weight Loss Diet Was the Most Effective and They All Picked the One We Paid Them To
It is one of the most confusing areas to research on the internet. Which of the hundreds of diet regimes is going to be the most effective way to lose some pounds quickly. Should we eat more fruits and vegetables or should we eat more protein and less carbs or just eat less? Should we…
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Fast Food Chain Admits That In-store Menu Display Not Really There for Customers to Read
Due to a pending law suit, The Fallen Burgers Co. were forced to admit that they had no intention of providing a digital display menu that was readable by their customers. Many customers have noticed for a while now that the menu items on the digital menu appear only just long enough to make you…
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Self-Serve Checkouts Now Come With Tipping Option
Some shoppers might be a little surprised to find that local grocer Partial Foods and their subsidiary Save On Bulk Super Presidential Budget Food Mart, have gone completely self-serve at their checkouts. Those same shoppers may also be surprised to see that those new checkouts now come with a tipping prompt on all their debit…
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Local Man Dedicates His Life to Online Shaming People Into Parking Straighter
They say that everyone has a calling in life. Some work to cure cancer, some work to feed and protect the venerable, some may even work a lifetime to invent just a single life saving technology. Finding that calling is one of life’s greatest gifts. Local resident Steve Wicks likes to think he has been…