My quite-delayed flight back from Boston landed only an hour ago and
I’m now at the office getting caught up on my email and all the other
things I have to do as the holder of the best damned job in town. Some
quick updates:
Country
fried steak and beer on Friday [...]
Happy 18th (you can buy beer in Quebec and Alberta now!) to Josiah “Si” Adam! Also, happy birthday to Richard “crysflame” Soderberg (who has forgotten more Perl than I will ever learn)!
I’m going to be in Boston this weekend to hang out with Wendy, who will
be my fiancee for only another 211 days (according to the countdown
clock on our wedding blog).
I’ll be at the Berkman bloggin group dim sum thingy on Sunday and will eat chicken feet on request.
[...]
David “Ranting and Roaring” Janes reminded me that there’s a gathering of Accordion City’s and elsewhere in Canada’s more right-leaning bloggers tonight at The Bishop and Belcher (361 Queen Street West, between Peter and John Streets). Things get started at about 8 p.m.
The “Belcher” is a mere couple of blocks from my house, [...]
[via Jamie Zawinski]
You’ve probably seen those adapters which have a 1/8″ stereo audio jack
at one end leading to a cable leading to a cassette-shaped thingy at
the other end. They’re handy for situations in which you have a
portable MP3 player that you want to hook up to your [...]
[via stridingcloud and xophylia] This is what the subway map of Accordion City actually looks like (click to see a larger image):
A good chunk of the city — particularly the north end — is underserved by it. Here’s what it probably should look like (once again, click to see a larger [...]
While most things happen in New York City in the Marvel Universe (the milieu of most Marvel Comics), its superheroes often go to other cities. I’ve only recently read Wolverine/Doop (Wolverine’s the most popular X-Man, and Doop is a green mutant blob — kind of like Slimer from Ghostbusters — from the X-Men spinoff comic [...]
Yup, new articles (finally!) posted to one of the blogs I get paid to
write, IndieGameDev, a blog for independent game developers. There are
three articles today:
Digger: A “Boulderdash”-Style Game Implemented in .NET
The Women’s Game Conference, which takes place in Austin, Texas on October 26th - 27th
The cheapest book on game authoring for [...]
Spacing magazine and the Toronto Free Gallery are presenting PUBLICity,
a five-week photo exhibit featuring the work of the city’s top photobloggers:
Jonathan Day-Reiner
Sam Javanrouh
Adam Krawesky
Davin Risk
Matt O’Sullivan
Gayla Trail
Rannie Turingan
The exhibit will show their photos of Accordion City’s “urban landscape and
public spaces” and “showcase the variety of life that [...]
Travelling westward on King Street West between Spadina and Bathrust
this morning, I saw a lineup about five blocks long made up almost
entirely of good-looking, well-dressed women in their 20s and 30s.
Among them was my friend Angela, who’d just arrived to take her place
at the back of the [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
