Billy Corgan, a.k.a. “That Guy from Smashing Pumpkins“.
Never let it be said that you can’t find a little amusement here on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. For your amusement, here’s Stephen Lynch’s comedy routine, What if that Guy from Smashing Pumpkins Lost His Car Keys? [1.6 MB MP3].
I’m surprised that the Toronto Police have to crack down on pocket bikes; I could’ve sworn that the shame of riding one of those dorky little things would’ve been a sufficient deterrent.
“Organizers call the ‘un-conferences’,” says the teaser line for the article titled “This one time…at BarCamp…”, “with no PowerPoint, unpaid guest speakers and lots of audience participation. Find out how they’re spreading across Canada, and beyond.”
So begins an article over at IT Business that features an interview with some of us involved with Toronto BarCamp and DemoCamp activities: David Crow, Jay Goldman, Bryce Johnson and Yours Truly. We did a phone interview with the article’s author, Grant Buckler, last Tuesday before DemoCamp 8.
Welcome to August! And by the way, today’s the day!
Today we’ll be holding the third “Ask Tucows” online chat session of the year. I and a number of my coworkers will participate in an online chat session where you’ll be able to ask us questions, make comments and suggestions and get to know us and the company a little better. Whether you’re a customer of ours, one of our customers’ customers, a developer who’s either building or thinking of building applications on our platform, an investor or just curious, you’re welcome to participate in the chat!
The chat will be held on the Tucows Chat site at chat.tucows.com today between 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (that’s 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific Daylight Time, or 16:00 – 19:00 UTC). The chat system is built right into the web page, which means that all you need is a browser to participate. Join us!
Inspired by the photo of the Boing Boing brain trust, my friend Eldon put together this photo with Boing Boing’s expert on all matters rumpy-pumpy, Xeni Jardin, attending my hot tub party of 2003:
For the curious, here’s the photo album of the hot tub party in album form and in slideshow form. Note: some photos may not be safe for work.
In this comment, Bicyclemark wrote that he took this photo of a table of accordions in Lisbon in my honour. Obrigado, Mark!
Click the photo to see the original on Flickr.
I thought I’d already blogged it, but I hadn’t: my friend John Bristowe, developer evangelist for Microsoft and brother of Ashley Bristowe, whom I met fourteen years ago at Crazy Go Nuts University, interviewed me for his podcast, Developer Night in Canada. We talked about DemoCamp, BarCamp and the development of the Toronto tech scene, and you can catch the podcast on his blog.
John, my apologies for not blogging this sooner!