From the garish (but hey, I like it) lightshow of the Honest Ed’s discount store at Bloor and Bathurst to the shot in the arm he gave to theatre in this city to his funding of the arts to teaching staid old Toronto and its locals (myself included) about salesmanship and showmanship, he was one of those people that made this city a better place.
So long, and thanks for all the flash, Honest Ed.
The Ginger Ninja and I were doing a little dog-sitting for a friend last Saturday. While taking the dog for a walk in his Swansea neighbourhood, we saw this very elaborate hopscotch setup in a driveway:
The machinima videos that people have made for Jonathan Coulton’s geek anthem Code Monkey haven’t impressed me; unlike the Red vs. Blue series of animations, the visuals feel poorly matched with the storyline.
Better by far is this video, which does an excellent job of repurposing clips from the Japanese animated TV series Black Heaven. If you watch only one fan-made video of Code Monkey, watch this one:
The Milwaukee Brewers play at Pittsburgh and end up booked in the same hotel as Anthrocon, the big furry convention. Hilarity ensues:
“That one was just a little bit outside.”
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Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Photo by Will Pate. Click to see the original.
When I got onto the elevator in my building this morning, an older man and woman were already in the car, discussing the repair work being done on the building, which is showing its age. When the woman left at the ground floor, the man turned to me.
“Young man, when you’ve lived in this building for a while, you see the same people, year after year. They get older, and you see it — they’re going down, down, down.”
As he said “Down, down, down,” he pantomimed a falling leaf with his hand.
“Well,” I said as I shrugged, “it eventually happens to everyone.”
“That,” he said as he left, “is the only good thing about it.”
You know how to bring down a room, big guy.
Over at my tech blog Global Nerdy, I’ve got all sorts of articles that explain why: