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Toronto Developer Lunch Today

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If you’re near Accordion City’s downtown Chinatown area, drop by Sky Dragon restaurant (top floor of Dragon City mall on the southwest corner of Spadina and Dundas) for Developer Lunch today! Kristan “Krispy” Uccelo has been organizing this series of lunches for the past year as a way for local developers to get together and make connections over a tasty dim sum lunch. I’ll be there, along with the other programmers, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.. If you don’t spot an obvious-looking table of nerds, ask the hosts for the back room; that’s where we’ll be.

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“Snakes on a Plane’s” Signature Line – The TV Edit

Snakes on a Plane, even when you take into account that it’s supposed to be a big dumb action movie aiming to be a cult film, wasn’t all that good. Apparently it’s been made worse through its bowdlerization for TV, where Samuel Jackson’s famous line has the profanity (and personality) drained from it:

“I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane?”

That’s painful.

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Endorsed by Dr. Gregory House

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Toronto Coffee and Code – Friday, April 24th

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Yes, I’m holding a Coffee and Code today – Friday, April 24th from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. – at the Dark Horse Cafe at  215 Spadina Avenue (at Sullivan Street). C’mon down!

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Spaghetti Dogs: The Cheap and Cheerful Treat

The recipe shown on this website is simple and inexpensive: insert dry spaghetti into hot dogs and boil until the pasta’s done:

Hot dogs slices with spaghetti noodles coming out of them

The author of the original post speaks Russian, but posted this note for English readers:

i collect in this lj blog photos and links to this new form of food art, we tentatively call "hot dogs strikes back". it is primarily made by inserting dried spaghetti into the hot dogs and then boiling the resulting concoctions. it is fun to make and fun to eat for the whole family and the variations seem endless. if you do engage into experimenting with different forms of this "art", please take photos and drop me a link. i will post it here, so we can keep the project alive.

You can go “upmarket” by using fancier noodles, such as those made with spinach or squid ink:

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I just might have to try this out for lunch next week. I’ll bet I can do something interesting with dry noodles and cooked meatballs.

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Borat Seksy Moustache

“Very nice. How much?”

"Borat Seksy Moustache" (French Packaging)

"Borat Seksy Moustache" (English packaging)

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Amusing Blogs of the Moment

Eye on Springfield features stills from seasons one through nine of The Simpsons, “when it was still funny”.

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Look at this Fucking Hipster features reader-submitted photos of…well, you know.

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Hey, skinny liberal arts major on the moped in the skinny yellow pants on Spadina just north of Queen on Friday around 6 p.m.: if Lee Dale’s picture of you came out all right, you’re so getting into this blog!