Accordion City is a pretty great place to live, but the folks at City Hall and their committees are downright incompetent when it comes to extolling the city’s virtues. Case in point: the recent “Toronto Unlimited” ad campaign, launched last summer:
Widely regarded as a disaster except by the blinkered idiots who devised this campaign [...]
For no reason at all, here’s a Tucows “Squishy Cow” enjoying a little Dim Sum with some of the Berkman bloggers at Chau Chow City restaurant in Boston. Thanks to j for putting it together!
Here’s yet another reminder of the “Ask Tucows” Chat taking place on Tuesday, May 2nd from 12:00 noon to 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (that’s 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific and 16:00 - 19:00 UTC). That chat will take place on our brand-new chat page:
chat.tucows.com
The “Ask Tucows” Chat is a chance for you to [...]
[via Justin Mason] You might not find this funny, but I do: a comparative graphic showing how rocks would be depicted in various video games [1 MB]. Some samples:
Everyday rocks:
The same rocks, as seen in Duke Nukem 3D:
and in Katamari Damacy:
and in the text adventure Zork:
Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan’s opening for his show of Accordion City photographs, Toronto Squared happens tomorrow from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Le Petit Dejeuner restaurant, 191 King Street East. If you want to see some stunning photography in a place where I hear the food’s quite good, check out this event. Wendy and I will [...]
Those of you from the Philippines, Thailand or Singapore are familiar with the “spoon and fork” style of eating. The fork goes in the left hand, spoon in the right. The spoon can be used as a cutting implement, and the fork is used to push the food into the spoon which then goes in [...]
These somewhat cryptic posters have been put up all around the Parkdale area of Accordion City (my office is just east of Parkdale). I assume they’re to encourage ho — erm, I mean sex trade workers — to call upon the local constabulary when the clientele cross the line. Does anyone know?
This is a priceless moment in Canadian rock history: John Mikl Thor, better known as “Thor”, performing on Merv Griffin’s show in 1976. Not only does he perform a number called backed by Merv’s band, but he also performs his trademark hot water bottle stunt. This is rock cheese at its best and worst.
Standing behind [...]
Although I am Asian, a phenotype that often means less facial hair growth than caucasians, like my Dad, I’ve got the same beard power as “The Man”. Maybe it’s a fluke, or perhaps the goatee and splendiferous sideburns are my Irish-American great-grandfather’s gift to me. Either way, shaving is a daily ritual if I don’t [...]
If you missed last night’s Colbert Report, you might be unaware that as of today, there are 999 days left in the Bush administration. In honour of this event, here’s a pointer to a comic I found amusing: Everything I Know I Learned from the Bush Administration. Some samples…
I love the “comic book convention” joke:
Last night marked the fifth DemoCamp, Accordion City’s monthly gathering of the tech community where we show off our current projects to our peers. It took place at the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre for Information Technology; use of the auditorium was arranged by Greg Wilson, whom I wish was my prof back when I [...]
Here’s the view from the window on our flight to Boston last weekend, just before landing at Logan airport. We were neck-and-neck with the Song jet, which was also coming in for a landing, then pulled ahead. A little closer, and I would’ve been able to watch the in-flight movie on the other jet…
We’re coming up on that time again: the next “Ask Tucows” online chat takes place in just one week — Tuesday, May 2nd.
The first chat was quite successful and went well over the “official” scheduled length. Based on the response and length of the conversation, I have decided to lengthen the “official” time of the [...]
Jane Jacobs died today at the age of 89. Among other things, she was a champion of liveable cities, a citizen of Accordion City and the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Robert Fulfold said of her: “Jacobs came down firmly on the side of spontaneous inventiveness of individuals, as against [...]
Whenever an airplane manufacturer releases a new model plane, they always trot out special versions showing planes equppied with cocktail lounges, massage stations and sleeping berths. However, the airlines who purchase these planes see things differently: their goal is to pack as many people as possible on a flight. Seat space has diminished by 3 [...]
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.
