Hamish Grant posted a link to my polemic about Critical Mass on the Tribe magazine message board, and five pages (thus far) of discussion has ensued, featuring a die-hard Critical Masser, a number of unbelievers and more than the recommended daily dosage of internet forum snarkiness. But as George C. Scott said when playing the [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Sep
29
2006
Critical Massholes (or: Why I No Longer Ride with Critical Mass)
Before I Begin…
…let me first show you the Scorpion King, my bike, which I bought immediately after getting hired by Tucows back in 2003. She’s still running well:
My bike. Yup, that’s a keytar in the rear basket.
Now let me point you to a couple of articles by Accordion City’s favourite Crazy Biker Chick, Tanya:
Things a [...]
Sep
28
2006
Today on the Tucows Blog…
Spped Bumps Indeed…
Steve Yegge: “Good Agile, Bad Agile”
BusinessWeek on .mobi domains
Fun with the Kiko API and Ruby, Part 1
Sep
28
2006
25 Signs That You’ve Grown Up
Here’s a list of 25 signs that you’ve moved on from your crazy university days and into adulthood. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your lust for life has to end — my thirties represent some of the best and wildest times I’ve had (”He doesn’t need a bachelor party, his goddamn life has been a [...]
Sep
27
2006
Meeting with ICT Toronto
Squeaky wheel, meet grease!
In response to my last article on ICT Toronto, in which I cast some serious doubt on the efficacy of the initiative to boost Accordion City’s profile as a high-tech hub, a meeting has been called. I was contacted by local techie consultant and DemoCamp regular Mark “Remarkk!” Kuznicki, who was contacted [...]
Sep
27
2006
AGO Extends its Hours for the Warhol Exhibit (plus: Dress Like Warhol, Get in Free?!)
The Art Gallery of Ontario’s exhibition of the darker side of Andy Warhol’s works, Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962–1964, has proven to be so popular — over 55,000 visitors have come — that they’ve decided to keep their summer hours for the duration of the exhibit. Those summer hours are 10 a.m. to 9 [...]
Sep
27
2006
David Topping’s Toronto Malaise
On Monday, I posted a link to a personal ad posted in the “Rants and Raves” section of the Accordion City edition of Craigslist, the free online classified advertising site. For the benefit of those who didn’t check out the ad, it’s titled
I LOVE TORONTO, DAMMMIT! and is a laundry list of [...]
Sep
26
2006
The Attractiveness/Relationship Graph
[via reddit] Here’s further proof that everything under the sun can be expressed mathematically: the Attractiveness/Relationship graph (it’s not as complex as it sounds). To those of you who are going to waste the next couple of hours classifying people they know along the graph, I apologize in advance.
Sep
26
2006
Recently in the Tucows Blog…
Here’s a quick run-down of articles that have recently appeared in the Tucows Blog:
Blogs and the Thailand Coup
Why Come to Our Job Fair?
RSS, Explained the Oprah Way
If Programming Languages Were People
Ruby Library for the Kiko API
The Six “P’s” of EMail Newsletters
Larry Wall’s “State of the Onion 10″ Presentation
Day 1 Highlights Of Hosting Transformation Summit [...]
Sep
26
2006
Burlesque (and More) for a Good Cause — Tomorrow Night!
Geez, it’s been a dog’s age since I last saw my friend Meryle. You may remember her from the photos from my 36th birtday hot tub party.
(You know, I’ve never written about what happened at that party when the cops came in. It’s not truly a party until The Man gets involved. I need to [...]
Sep
26
2006
"Woke Up This Mo’nin’…"
Although High Park is the neighbourhood in which the Ginger Ninja and I prefer to live — it’s a good balance between the niceties of the near-burbs and proximity to Accordion City’s gooey nougat-y centre — our current residency in a condo building is a temporary situation. The plan is to eventually buy a house [...]
Sep
25
2006
"I Love Toronto, Dammit!"
There’s lots to love about Accordion City, and it’s nice to see that someone singing its praises got onto Craigslist’s “Best Of” section.
Sep
25
2006
Big Sister is Watching You
I suppose if I ever run across this book at a yard sale, I’d pick it up for laughs:
For the benefit of the search engines, I’ll quote the text from the graphic above:
Big Sister is Watching You—Hillary Clinton and the White House Feminists Who Now Control America And Tell the President What to Do:
This stunning [...]
