From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Toronto Coffee and Code: Friday, July 31st at the Dark Horse Cafe (215 Spadina)

by Joey deVilla on July 30, 2009

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If it’s Friday, it must be time for another Toronto Coffee and Code! This one will take place at the usual location – the Dark Horse Cafe, 215 Spadina – and will run from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m..

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Coffee and Code is my Friday afternoon ritual (a phrase that my classmates at Crazy Go Nuts University will find hauntingly familiar) in which I work out of a cafe and announce that I’ll be there. I’m making myself available as both a Developer Evangelist working for Microsoft Canada and a member of the Toronto Tech Community to answer your questions, take your comments, bounce ideas off or just chat with. Come on down, have a coffee (or tea, or juice) and say hi!

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Fashion Warning

by Joey deVilla on July 30, 2009

"School crossing" sign marked: "Beware: Guys with Purses" Found via Certified Bullshit Technician.

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The Eyes Have It

by Joey deVilla on July 30, 2009

point_and_shoot Photo courtesy of “rem”.

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One of the Problems of Space Travel

by Joey deVilla on July 29, 2009

I’m at the Science 2.0 conference today, the conference for scientists and what they need to know about how software and the web is changing the way they work. In honour of the conference, here’s a comic about one of the problems of space travel:

Old comic: "There are many problems of space travel you have to learn about"

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FOX News Doesn’t Know Where Iraq Is

by Joey deVilla on July 28, 2009

In a comment to an earlier article of mine showing FOX News’ tendency to mislabel badly-behaving Republicans as Democrats, “RODAN” pointed me to this map of the middle east shown on FOX News in segment where Neil Cavuto interviewed John Bolton on Monday – note the country marked “Egypt”:

FOX News' map of the middle east, putting Egypt where Iraq is.

The problem is: that’s not Egypt, that’s Iraq! Here’s a real map of the middle east:

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You’d think that with their obsessions with terror, Muslims and safeguarding the nation, not to mention the presence of a former representative to the U.N. present, they’d know where Iraq was.

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Medical Afflictions of the Cartoon World

July 28, 2009

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City of Toronto and Unions Made a Deal

July 27, 2009

…which means that if it’s ratified on Wednesday, the strike will well and truly be over. If that happens, garbage collection and other services provided by the people represented by CUPE Locals 416 and 79 could theoretically be back by Thursday. For reasons unknown and unfathomable to me, it has been said that services [...]

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Sign of the Day

July 27, 2009

 Photo courtesy of Fukung.net.

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A Busy Week

July 27, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection and Global Nerdy.
It’s gonna be a busy week for me — there’s a lot going on!

Monday: Damian Conway and The Missing Link
On Monday evening, I’ll be catching Damian Conway’s presentation, The Missing Link. There’s nothing quite like a Damian Conway presentation – they’re equal parts computer [...]

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Filipino Heritage Workshops Starting in September

July 26, 2009

Are you looking for “Juan de la Cruz”? Let us help you!
“Juan de la Cruz” is a symbolic name used to refer to the Filipino in general. The closest North American equivalents are names like “John Doe”, “John Q. Public”, “Joe Schmoe” or “Joe Blow”. According to Wikipedia, the term was coined by Robert McCulloch [...]

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The Job Opportunity You Can’t Refuse

July 26, 2009

Allen Stern blogs about a sign that’s outside Rice to Riches, a rice pudding place in New York City’s East Village:

The sign reads:
Help Wanted
Start a career in the fascinating, fast-paced lucrative pudding business

Long hard hours
Very low pay
Lots of heavy lifting
Work for a ball-busting asshole
Dead-end job
No benefits
No advancement
Must be college grad

Start immediately

It’s attention getting; Allen [...]

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Even More on the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos

July 25, 2009

If the taste I gave you of the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos yesterday left you hungry for more, I’ve got good news. There’s a full 14-minute infomercial that covers the upcoming event in greater detail:

Paste magazine goes into a little more details about the infomercial in their article Thirty Reasons Why the Insane [...]

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The “No Accordions” Sign

July 24, 2009

I don’t normally vandalize signs, but I’d make an exception for this special case:

Stefan Arentz, a co-member of HacklabTO, sent me the photo. He says that it was put up by a Dutch cafe owner to ban accordion-playing gypsies.

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The 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos

July 24, 2009

Every now and again, I get an email or a phone call from someone doing a story on technical evangelism, community-building or some other Tipping Point-y matter. I’m always happy to answer their questions, and they usually take my answers seriously until they ask me for examples of people, organizations or groups that have [...]

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To Boldly Go Where No Macaroni and Cheese Has Gone Before

July 23, 2009

Saw this stuff for the first time last night at the grocery store — “Spicy Szechwan Kraft Dinner”:

(For readers in the United States, what gets sold as “Kraft Macaroni and Cheese” where you’re from is sold as “Kraft Dinner” in Canada.)
I can’t imagine it being any good, but I feel compelled to give it [...]

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