[via Torontoist] Accordion City lawyers say that Segways are catch-22
victims:
They’re motor vehicles, which means they can’t be used on sidewalks
They lack the safety equipment that meets the standards of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, which means they can’t be used on roads (the “Highway” in the Act refers to any road).
Thanks to this [...]
I’ll be speaking at the blogging workshop of the CASCON 2005 Conference
which takes place next Wednesday, October 19th from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre in Richmond Hill.
Here’s the abstract for the workshop:
Many components of pervasive computing are already in [...]
We’re smack dab in the middle of Yom Kippur,
which started last night at sundown and runs until sundown tonight.
It’s the most important holiday of the Jewish calendar, analogous to Easter in the Christian tradition (you might think it’s Christmas, but technically it’s not) or XBox 360 Day
if your religion [...]
We often don’t see eye-to-eye politically and we’ve traded pot-shots
(she called me an egomaniacal dimwit, which is half-right) on our
blogs, but in real life, we get along. Having been a blogger for five
years this past Tuesday, she’s been at it for longer than I have,
during which time [...]
Google for the phrase “Rodney Dangerfield of instruments” and you’ll get results for:
accordion (of course)
harmonica
banjo
viola
trombone
double bass
and the ukelele
This one goes out to Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Boing Boing and uke player — Today’s edition of the National Post covers the poor ukelele, an instrument whose reputation was nearly destroyed without hope for rehabilitation by Tiny [...]
Crazed reactionary politics, a dislike for gays, revulsion for places like Ontario and most places east, claims to a surplus of money and oil, oil, oil. If it weren’t for the general support for Israel, all-out distrust of Islam and the fact that some dear friends call it home, it might be fair to [...]
[by way of Ashley Bristowe]
At the risk of turning this blog into The Wedding Blog (”All weddings,
all the time!”), I’d like to congratulate John Bristowe, friend and
fellow techie, on his engagement to Fiona. Nicely done, you two!
The Western Standard, a Canadian conservative magazine, is hosting a writing contest:
Do you have a hot news story that you’d like to write about? Or maybe a strong opinion about something in the news?
Well, now’s your chance. Enter the Western Standard’s writing contest,
and you could win cash [...]
The official photos (taken by Joe Demb) for the best damned wedding ever are now available online. Friends, family, guests and extremely curious strangers can pruchase prints online too!
[I originally posted this to The Farm, but thought that it might be of general enough interest to post here.]
This one got pointed out to me by Alain Chesnais, Tucows’ new Director of Product Management. Google the following phone number:
(214) 748-3647
There are nearly 19,000 results for this phone number at the time of this writing. [...]
More later, but in the meantime, here’s the link to the story (free registration required)!
My thanks to these Blogacatmas participants, who posted cat pictures on their blogs in honour of this very special day:
Random Bytes
What’s the Story?
Tris Hussey
Boscolicious
Moxilicious
Easternblog
Davezilla
Sales Mindset
FuzzyCo
Photojunkie
Mike’s Web Log
JPiercy and Darryl (by way of comments)
The Ice Queen
Update: Rannie’s posted a great photo up on Photojunkie.
Yes, even more cat pictures…
Single girl + living alone with cat = big trouble. I know this from experience.
“I know kung fu!”
The trick is to gain the baby’s confidence, after which kitty can suck out its breath at will.
“Put [...]
More pictures with cats…
There’s some kind of Wizard-of-Oz thing going on here…
“It’s not what it looks like, honey…I can explain…”
Looks comfy. But should a sudden storm hit…
“If those things in Raisin Bran aren’t really raisins, THEN WHAT THE HELL [...]
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.
