While looking through my photos last night, I found this one of me from July 2000, during those heady dot-com days:
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Investors’ money on fire
off the shoulder of El Camino Real. I watched C code crash in the dark near
the Golden Gate. All [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Mar
31
2005
I am Rutger Hauer
Mar
31
2005
The Blogware Mechanic
It’s not all beer and posting songs about butts on this blog — sometimes, I promote some of my work-related activities!
For those of you with Blogware-powered
blogs (there are lots of ‘em, and they’re not necessarily sold under
the name “Blogware”), you might want to check out a new series of
[...]
Mar
31
2005
Owner of a Lovely Butt
Here’s a lovely mash-up by Lionel Vinyl for your enjoyment: Yes’ Owner of a Lonely Heart as the bed track and Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back as the vocal track — Owner of a Lovely Butt! [3.9MB MP3, enclosure]
Mar
30
2005
Canada’s Coolest Band Plays the World’s Coolest Instrument
Proof: This photo from Exclaim! magazine’s article on The Arcade Fire:
Mar
30
2005
Safe Trip, Gwai Lo!
Richard “Just a Gwai Lo” Eriksson,
who’s been crashing on my couch for the past couple of days, returns to
“Vangroovy” this afternoon. It was good meeting the guy behind the
blog, Richard, and I hope you had a fun time here!
(For those of you curious as to what kind [...]
Mar
30
2005
Ellen Feiss Unreleased PowerBook G4 Ad
[via ellenfeiss.net] I stumbled across this unreleased “Switch”
advertisement [1.7 MB QuickTime, enclosure] featuring the Stoner
Princess of the Macintosh, Ellen Feiss, slurring the praises of her
Powerbook G4. She doesn’t seem as stoned as she did in the ad that made her
famous, but she still sounds like everyone at [...]
Mar
29
2005
Today’s Developer Blog Entries
On The Farm:
Computer Programming Quotes
Date and Time Calculation
On IndieGameDev:
Crimes Against Mimesis
Mar
29
2005
Happy Fourth Anniversary, "pony"!
I met Deenster a little over five years ago when we were both working
at OpenCola during those heady dot-com years. A bit later — four years
ago today, Deenster started her own blog, pony, which has been going
strong ever since. I — and a number of other pony readers — [...]
Mar
29
2005
Make-up For Food
A couple of Fridays ago, after doing the opening stand-up act for Peril from Beyond Space,
I joined Scott Watkins and company at a restaurant/bar across the
street. There, I noticed something unusual about the label on the
bottle of Heinz ketchup that was sitting on the table…
[...]
Mar
29
2005
On the Other Blogs…
On The Farm:
Hosting PHP Applications with IBM’s Version of Apache
GoF Patterns in Python
“We Had to Code Uphill! BOTH WAYS!”
And on IndieGameDev:
What About Flash?
Mar
28
2005
Blasts from the Past
In the past few days, I’ve run into a couple of friends — either directly or indirectly — whom I haven’t seen in a while:
George Justus
found me while Googling for our high school alma mater, De La Salle
College “Oaklands”. He and I were part of a small group, the “Eight
[...]
Mar
28
2005
"Just a Gwai Lo" Coming to Town
Richard “Just a Gwai Lo” Eriksson
from Vancouver is coming up to Toronto and crashing on my couch on
Monday and Tuesday nights. I’m hoping to show him around the
beighbourhood and wondered if some of you might be interesting in
joining in and giving the ol’ Gwai Lo some Accordion [...]
Mar
27
2005
Happy Easter!
He’s back from the dead and ready to par-tay!
Happy Easter, everybody!
Among other things, Easter in my family also means brunch at the
Boulevard Club, which includes among its attractions someone in a
Easter Bunny suit to hand out candy to the kids. Here are reviews of
[...]
Mar
25
2005
I Know! I Know!
It’s happened without fail since this blog got its first mention in
BoingBoing in late 2001: every Good Friday, I get email that goes
something like this:
Hey
dude, I heard you were born in the Philippines and thought you might
not know that every Easter, they do an actual re-enactment of [...]
Mar
25
2005
Six Months to Go!
I just checked the calendar and realized: “March 24th? Whoa!” I’m getting married
in exactly six months! Six months from the time I’m writing this –
about 10:00 p.m. eastern standard time — I expect that the ceremony,
reception, dinner and speeches will have concluded and that the dancing
will have [...]
