Ryan Joseph deVilla-Choi at 12 hours old.
Yesterday at 8:57 a.m. EDT, my sister Eileen gave birth to the newest addition to the family (and third boy!): Ryan Joseph deVilla-Choi.
Eileen thought he looked like a “Ryan”, and as for the middle name,
“Joseph”? You get three guesses as to [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
May
26
2005
Welcome to the World, Ryan Joseph deVilla-Choi!
May
25
2005
New Articles at IndieGameDev
For those of you who are indie game developers (or hope to become one),
there are a number of new articles on one of my other blogs, IndieGameDev:
MSDN Coding4Fun’s Webcasts on Writing a 2-D Shooter Using Visual C# Express
At Last, a Console for Us!
A Gamer’s Manifesto
MSDN Coding4Fun’s “Beginning Game Development”, Part II
New Book: Physics [...]
May
25
2005
Waiting…
Right about now, my sister should be giving birth to deVilla-Choi boy #3. More details as they come in.
May
25
2005
Bon Voyage, Paul! / End of an Era
Paul relaxes in Deenster’s kitchen, December 2004.
My housemate Paul sets off today for a summer-long trip to Europe, where he’ll divide his time between vacationing and working on a web application called Campsite.
He’ll start off in Prague, then spend some time in Warsaw, and his final weeks will be spent in Paris. Safe journey, Paul, [...]
May
25
2005
It Sounds Like a Ron Jeremy Comic Book, But It’s Not!
Every now and again, Marvel Comics would release a special edition comic book with double the number of pages and dub it “Giant-Size”. Comic book fans will remember Giant-Size X-Men #1, which introduced many of the X-Men from the movies and revitalized the series, which was in a slump at the time. There were a [...]
May
24
2005
Oh, What Terrible Things Happen to Comic Books When Slang Changes…
This Archie comic is even more unintentionally hilarious that the old Batman comic that kept using the word “boner” over and over:
They’re beat off, all right: disoriented and blind in one eye!
If Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing’s queen of all matters related to rumpy-pumpy doesn’t link to this, I shall be [...]
May
24
2005
“Crunch Mode” and Sleep
Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons is an article that I meant to link to ages ago, and is presented here for the sake of completeness.
“Crunch mode” — working extra hours each day for extended periods in order to meet a (usually arbitrary and unrealistic) deadline — is a term that’s familiar to [...]
May
23
2005
Three Bedroom, Two Bath Downtown Toronto House Apartment — Available This Summer!
What with the departure of my housemate Paul for Europe for the summer,
my housemate Rob getting married to his girlfriend Leslie in October,
and me and Wendy getting hitched in September, the time has come for
all of us to seek new places to live. What that means is that my [...]
May
23
2005
Richard Cheese Album Out Tomorrow
Speaking of humourous lounge-y covers of pop tunes, Richard Cheese’s
new album, Aperitif for Destruction, hits the stores tomorrow.
The album will feature lounge-versions of the following pop/rock tunes:
Me So Horny
Man in the Box
Let’s Get It Started
You Oughta Know
Brass Monkey
Welcome to the Jungle
People Equals Shit
The Girl is Mine
Add it Up
Do Me
American Idiot
We are [...]
May
23
2005
Even More Paul Anka Wrongness
I found some more Paul Anka goodies (see this entry for his cover of The Cure’s Love Cats)! Richard Cheese, you’ve got some serious competition now!
Hello, originally performed by Lionel Richie [4.8 MB, MP3]
Jump, originally performed by Van Halen [3.4 MB, MP3]
Wonderwall, originally performed by Oasis [3.4 MB, MP3]
May
21
2005
So Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully, Wonderfully Wrong!
For your easy listening pleasure, here’s Paul Anka doing his rendition of The Cure’s Love Cats [3.7 MB, MP3]. Go on, annoy your goth friends right now!
May
20
2005
Found at Bay Street Video
Bay Street Video (1172 Bay Street, just south of Bloor) is one of the best damned video stores/rental shops in Accordion City.
Not only does it have a great selection of videos — many of which
you’ll never find at your local Blockbuster — but the staff are free
to make their [...]
May
20
2005
The Best Laid Plans…
While searching for images of the cantina at Mos Eisley (the bar in Star Wars Episode IV), I stumbled across this scan of People magazine from August 1981 (I was 13 years old then):
Yes kids, for Episodes V (1980) and VI (1983), Yoda was a foam rubber muppet, not computer generated.
[...]
May
19
2005
Best "Star Wars" T-Shirt Ever
Billegible has created what has to be the best Star Wars T-shirt ever. It says “Geektease” on the front, and this on the back:
