I
thought I’d use an old “Tucows Games” graphic to introduce this entry,
which is, as you might have guessed, about my place of employment,
Tucows Inc.
Exercising Our Options
The announcement was made yesterday, but in case you hadn’t yet heard, I’ll repeat it here:
Tucows Inc. completes closing of over-allotment option
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It’s a gorgeous and sunny-but-cool day here in Accordion City, and although there’s lots to do at work, things are going nicely both in terms of my own productivity and today’s trading…
In the comments to this entry, faithful Accordion Guy reader and my boss’ boss, Elliot Noss writes:
ok, the way you cropped the photo of me the slide looks like it says
“always need capital” on the bottom. that was NOT what it said!
the fact that I look like I am kind of [...]
One of the best ways to get up my nose is to accuse me of not knowing
what I’m talking about. This happens in my comments once in a blue
moon, and I usually have to become the commenter’s Dad and “take him or
her to school in the car of pain”. [...]
Around 1985, when I was in high school, I caught a lecture at U of T by
a futurist who was talking about careers in the 21st century. He talked
about jobs that already existed at the time — such as computer
programming and biomedical engineering — but he also made some
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[via Fark]
Okay: I’ll admit that during my move, I bought some replacement stuff at Wal-Mart. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of buying a Costco membership just yet and I needed a good deal on a few hundred bucks’ worth of replacement items such as a microwave oven (my old place had one [...]
[via Media Matters] Brit Hume, Washington Managing Editor for FOX News on the London bombings in conversation with newscaster Shepard Smith:
SMITH: Some of the things you might expect to happen, for instance,
a drop in the stock market and some degree of uncertainty across this
country — none of that really seen today, [...]
Evan Robinson, author of the IGDA paper Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work, commented on my entry about it. I thought it was worthy of getting promoted to its own entry. Thanks, Evan!
I didn’t hammer the point home in Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work, but sleep deprivation is much, much, much worse than long-term Crunch Mode. [...]
Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons is an article that I meant to link to ages ago, and is presented here for the sake of completeness.
“Crunch mode” — working extra hours each day for extended periods in order to meet a (usually arbitrary and unrealistic) deadline — is a term that’s familiar to [...]
Before I go run out and enjoy this somewhat chilly Friday evening, I
thought I’d make one more entry, and this one goes out to anyone who’s
got shares in Tucows. I don’t know if any of the shareholders — who
were directed here from the Raging Bull site as a result [...]
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.
