Renaissance Faires, which I consdier to be one of the lower rungs of the geek hierarchy are just one of those aspects of geek culture that I just can’t get into (and remember, I can put up with a lot of crap: I sat through Spanglish and a Reform Party student meeting). Swordplay, jousting, mead, [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Feb
20
2006
Now Available at CafePress…
…the “I Went Hunting with Dick Cheney and All I Got was This Lousy Flesh Wound” t-shirt, for US$13.99. Also available in other styles.
Feb
19
2006
Lost Camera, Bad Samaritans
“Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel, / When the right people stay back home?”– Noel Coward
[via Boing Boing] An American who lost her camera in Hawaii thought that she’d been dealt a lucky break: a park ranger phone her to let her know that a Canadian family had found her camera and gave [...]
Feb
19
2006
It’s That Cold Out There
This weekend in Accordion City, the temperatures have dropped to -10 degrees Celsius (that’s 14 degrees for my American friends who insist on using Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s quaintly outdated system). If you’re in the area and are planning on stepping out (like Boss Ross, who’s going ice drink…er, fishing), bundle up!
Failing that, find a buddy [...]
Feb
17
2006
Cheney’s Got a Gun
Click the image below to get treated to the best mash-up of a bunch of pop culture concepts: Nintendo’s Duck Hunt cartridge (click here for a faithful Flash reproduction), the Dick Cheney hunting accident and Aerosmith’s song, Janie’s Got a Gun.
Feb
17
2006
The BubbleShare Bubble Wrap Photo++ Contest
Albert Lai is the CEO of BubbleShare, a software company that makes a web application bearing the same name. Albert’s and my path have crossed time and again ever since I graduated from Crazy Go Nuts University and entered the working world. We first met eleven years ago during the interactive CD-ROM boom at Mackerel [...]
Feb
16
2006
DemoCamp 3.0 at Tucows - Monday, Feburary 20th
(Originally
posted at Tucows
Developer.)
DemoCamp
3.0 — the third in an ongoing series of gatherings of
developers demonstrating projects on which they’re working — takes
place on Monday, February 20th at the Tucows offices (96
Mowat Avenue, just east of King
and Dufferin Streets in Toronto).
The
first [...]
