I knew we should’ve dropped most of the kitchen stuff from the wedding registry and put the Roland Digital Accordion on it instead*! According to this New York Times article, “$200 can equip a basic kitchen that will be adequate for just about any task, and $300 can equip one quite well.”
* Just [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
May
09
2007
The $200 Kitchen
May
09
2007
The Imaginary Internet: Far Better Than the Real Thing
Here’s another dirty little blogger secret — we’ve all had moments like this:
Click the comic to see it on its original page at full size.
Also: on the imaginary Billboard charts, I’ve been the number one rock star for the past 39 years, 6 months and 4 days.
May
09
2007
Tucows: Avoiding "Center of the World" Syndrome" and Making Our Services Easier to Sell
There’s a “sea change” going on at Tucows (where I function as the company’s Technical Evangelist) and Product Manager Grant Spradling has written an article covering some of its aspects in an article titled A New Direction for Enablers: Making our Services Easier to Sell. He talks about “Center of the World” syndrome — [...]
May
08
2007
"The Behaviour of Houses": This Thursday at the Brunswick Theatre
This Thursday, May 10th at 7:00 p.m., my friends from Crazy Go Nuts University David W. Scott and Andrea Medovarski will have a screening of their new film, The Behaviour of Houses at the Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Avenue).
Here’s a synopsis:
Melinda, an aspiring artist with a dead-end job, lives in the city with Colum, who [...]
May
08
2007
Today is "Replace My Stolen Passport in a Hurry!" Day
What a helluva day. Once I’m caught up with my work, I’ll tell you folks about how I spent the morning and early afternoon: scrambling to replace a stolen passport in order to be able to fly to the States next Wednesday for RailsConf. It’ll be educational: if you ever need to replace a Canadian [...]
May
07
2007
Belarusian Movie Posters
In Manila, the city in which I was born, movie poster billboards have tended to be hand-painted affairs, with the renditions of the actor’s faces varying with the artist. While their renditions of faces in Filipino movies are within the ballpark, sometimes the faces they paint for stars of American movies are hilariously unrecognizable (I [...]
May
07
2007
Geeks and Guitars at The Press Room Tomorrow Night!
Tomorrow, Tuesday May 8th, another Geeks and Guitars event will take place at The Press Club (850 Dundas Street West), a lovely little bar on Dundas Street West, a bit east of Trinity Bellwoods Park:
It’s their weekly open mic jam night; Mark Kuznicki gave it a name by which we TorCamp people refer to it. [...]
May
07
2007
”I Can Has Cheezburger?”, Featuring Cats and David Hasselhoff
If you like ”lolcats” — pictures of cats with humourous captions, often written in the bad grammar we imagine that cats have — you’ll love I Can Has Cheezburger?, a site that provides a daily dose of lolcats. Here’s one from today, featuring that strange English cat who makes a daily routine of riding the [...]
May
04
2007
Learn These Two Chords for Next Tuesday at the Press Club
If you plan to attend next Tuesday’s open mic night — a.k.a. “Geeks and Guitars” at the Press Club (850 Dundas Street West, between Manning and Euclid), you have an assignment.
Make sure you are familiar with these two chords, E and A:
Those two chords are all you need for a number of songs, including one [...]
May
04
2007
Saturday, May 5th is Free Comic Book Day!
Tomorrow is the first Saturday in May, which means that it’s Free Comic Book Day!
2007 will mark the 6th annual Free Comic Book Day. For those of you not familiar with it, here’s an excerpt from their FAQ:
1. What is “Free Comic Book Day?”
As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day [...]
May
04
2007
The Mesh Conference Schedule Has Been Published
I just noticed that they finally posted the schedule of events for the Mesh Conference (which takes place on May 30th and 31st, smack in the middle of Toronto Tech Week).
Each of the conference’s days has a theme:
Day 1, Wednesday, May 30th, is Media and Society day.
Day 2, Thursday, May 31st, is Marketing and Business [...]
May
04
2007
Just a Quick Announcement…
After a long period of relative inactivity, I’m getting back into accordion practice and plan to play way more often this year. It’s time to kick the ol’ squeezebox old school!
May
04
2007
Diandra’s “Goodbye Toronto, Hello Jerusalem” Send-Off
If you’re a regular at Kickass Karaoke, you probably know Diandra, pictured to the right in a pirate outfit.
What you may not know is that she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance at an interesting job working on a film — in Jerusalem. The job will take her away from our fair Accordion City for a [...]
May
03
2007
Ten Things to Watch For in Tonight’s Republican Candidate Debate
“Aleupp”, whom I know by way of Miss Fipi Lele, says that he’ll be watching for these 10 things during tonight’s Republican Candidate Debate…
Whether Duncan Hunter can out-anti-immigrant Tom Tancredo.
If anyone brings up Giuliani’s cross-dressing stunts, or his 3 marriages, or his ties to questionable figures in NYC.
How often Reagan’s salad is posthumously tossed.
How [...]
