Monthly Archives: February 2007
Feb
17
2007
Scenes from a Vacation, Part Four
It’s always nice to have a cooperative subject when taking photos.
Feb
17
2007
Scenes from a Vacation, Part Three
Saw this on a shelf in San Francisco and couldn’t resist taking a picture: Betty Crocker’s “Warm Delights” cake. A little water, a couple of minutes in the microwave, and you have a tasty snack. Like Patrick Henry said: “Give me convenience or give me death!”
In case you were curious, here’s a review of Hot [...]
Feb
15
2007
Scenes from a Vacation, Part Two
We visited the Ginger Ninja’s friend from college, Jasmine, in Oakland yesterday. We took the BART to Rockridge station where I saw all this Valentine’s Day-themed chalk grafitti outside the station:
Feb
14
2007
Scenes from a Vacation, Part One
Having fun. Hanging out all day with the Ginger Ninja, enjoying cloudless skies, springtime temperatures and ridiculous hills. Did some fancy-pants shopping at Nordstrom. Bought Chances Are… and Survivor from City Lights. Ate some good Korean food and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream. More later.
The Chinatown gate on Grant Street in San Francisco.
Interior of City [...]
Feb
13
2007
Photo: Bored Bears
The original title of the photo is Bored Bears, but I think they’re more relaxed than bored…
Click the photo to see it at full size.
Feb
12
2007
The Police, Live at the Grammy Awards
Old fart alert: Yes, I bought the Police’s first album, Outlandos D’Amour, when I was a teenager (a too-young-to-drive one, at that). On a format that involved dragging a diamond needle over grooves on a spinning vinyl surface.
(For those of you are thinking, “Oh c’mon, record players aren’t that ancient!”, here’s something that will shock [...]
Feb
12
2007
Song of the Week: "California Stars" by Billy Bragg and Wilco (1998)
The Ginger Ninja and I are going on vacation for a week starting quitting time tonight. Expect posting up until next Tuesday morning to be a bit on the light side. There may even be an automated post or two made in my absence.
In celebration of this vacation, I present to you this week’s song [...]
Feb
10
2007
Helvetipalooza!
What with the current state of Web 2.0 design, the upcoming release of the documentary film Helvetica and this soon-to-be-available timeline poster below, I’m ready to declare 2007 “The year of Helvetica”.
[Cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]
Feb
10
2007
The "X is the New Y" Chart
Here’s a chart, courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele, shows which X is the new Y (as in “blue is the new black”, “Park Slope is the new West Village“, “gin is the new vodka”, “Samsung is the new Sony”). But where’s “accordions are the new guitars”?
Click the picture to see the whole chart.
(Got any theories [...]
Feb
10
2007
Your Valentine’s Day Warning
Here’s a public service announcement for you gentlemen who are married, engaged, dating or “attached” in some way: this weekend is probably your last window of opportunity to book dinner reservations for Valentine’s Day, which is this Wednesday. Book as soon as possible and stay out of the doghouse. Don’t say I never do you [...]
Feb
09
2007
Job Opportunity at Tucows: Network Engineer
Here’s another job opportunity at Tucows: Network Engineer! If you’d like to know more, go check out this entry in the Tucows Blog.
Feb
09
2007
"You Can’t Rap" by Example
I was amused by the single by Example titled You Can’t Rap, which sounds like a strage gene-splice of the Gorillaz and Fiddler on the Roof, peppered with Alison Moyet’s laugh from Yazoo’s Situation. I heard it earlier this week on Tom Robinson’s show on BBC 6 Music. Here are the lyrics to its chorus:
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Feb
09
2007
Tucows Job Fair Tomorrow!
Job Fair!
Tomorrow, Saturday, February 10th, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the company for whom I work as Tech Evangelist — Tucows — is having a job fair! We’ve got openings for the following positions:
Customer Service Representatives
Technical Support Analysts
NOC Analysts
“Tucows? You Mean the Shareware Company?”
If you’re thinking “Tucows? You mean the shareware company?”, make sure [...]
Feb
09
2007
If You Can’t Argue with Your Friends, Who Can You Argue With?
After some relative quiet in the comments of this blog, we’ve got ourselves some good ol’ fashioned internet-style arguin’!
Last week, we had my high school friend, who prefers to go by “Ignatz” in the comments, go on about his dislike for Accordion City Mayor David Miller and his appointment of a mere 29-year-old slip of [...]
