According to New York magazine’s restaurant blog, Grub Street, Ben Curtis, the dude who starred in those “Dude, you’re getting a Dell!” ads is now a waiter/bartender at Tortilla Flats in New York City:
For nostalgia’s sake, here’s an old Dell ad featuring the Dell Dude:
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I think he and Ellen Feiss [...]
[This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]
The latest videogame to get featured on South Park — and lampooned a little to boot — is Guitar Hero, in an episode (in)appropriately titled Guitar Queer-o. The episode guide has this brief summary:
Stan and Kyle are hooked on Guitar Hero. But Stan’s superior skills on the video game damage [...]
Well, they’re not exactly new digs. We’re doing a little people-shuffling here at Tucows, and the Communications Department (of which I am part) has been moved to a new location within the office.
It’s the most-dimly lit section of the office, and this is becoming more so with the return of Standard Time and the [...]
My wife, the Ginger Ninja, will tell you that I have wondered out loud if anyone has tried using alternate sauces in chocolate fountains, such as gravy or barbecue sauce. I suppose if you disable the heating element, you could also use such a fountain for cold sauces, or in the case of the photo [...]
It’s just an idea; nothing’s carved in stone. Besides, I don’t think it’ll fly with the wife…
Click the photo to see it at full size.Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Neufmusic, a music download site in France, has put together some clever collages using just a few album covers…
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
As a guy who loves to travel and take lots of pictures of all sorts of things while doing so, this story and its implications about what a nice country like America is turning itself into are disturbing. It’s about a Japanese tourist on an Amtrak train from New York to Boston. He was taking [...]
…isn’t too bad.
I decided that since I wanted the party to rage into the night, I would drink the official cocktail of wacky impresarios, vodka and Red Bull. Yes, yes, I’m aware of the warnings about mixing energy drinks and booze — a false sense of how drunk you really are, and so on — [...]
Since May 1st, 1999, the accordion has proven to be a handy not-so-little thing to have handy. I now present a couple of moments last week that were made better by the ol’ squeezebox.
DemoCamp 15
On Monday, we held DemoCamp 15, the 15th regular gathering of the Accordion City tech community. The idea behind DemoCamp is [...]
Here’s a scene from Sunday night’s Kickass Karaoke, a regular karaoke event that takes place upstairs at The Rivoli, located by Accordion City’s club district. It’s me playing accordion and singing Adam Sandler’s so-wrong-it’s-right love ballad, At a Medium Pace (warning: contains not-safe-for-work lyrics!), with the Ginger Ninja helping with the accordion microphone:
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Saturday’s birthday party was fantastic — I think I’m still recovering! Luckily, I arranged to take a personal day today tp hang out with the Ginger Ninja and Dave.
Photos are forthcoming, but here’s a quick preview:
Look at that suave expression — it’s proof that they should have cast me instead of John Cho as “Mr. [...]
That’s what this is — I’m taking Friday and Monday off to celebrate, hang out with Wendy (and Dave, who flies in from Chicago on Saturday afternoon), enjoy my birthday and play a couple of XBox 360 games I just bought: Beautiful Katamari and Bioshock.
And, of course, on Saturday night, there’s this…
If you’d like to [...]
“It’s too big and too heavy to hide”, said the Ginger Ninja as she walked in the door from her shopping trip, “and I don’t think you’d mind getting your present early, so here it is!”
It was the keyboard pictured above — the Axiom 25 by M-Audio. It doesn’t make sounds on its own; rather, [...]
My brother-in-law Andy Ramoniac and his wife Sue came up to Toronto last weekend for a visit (I had a great time, guys — come back anytime!), and they brought me a birthday present — a USB webcam with integrated microphone shaped like a Dalek — the dread creatures from Doctor Who who scream “EXTERMINATE!” [...]
Here’s a faux panoramic shot of DemoCamp 15, the 15th show-and-tell event where the bright lights of Toronto’s high-tech community show off their projects to their peers, which took place on Monday:
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For more on what happened, see this entry in David Crow’s blog.
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.
