It all boils down to this picture, taken in New York in February 2000:
The full explanation is on my work blog, in which I cover possible job moves for programmers.
The deadline for requests for squshy cows has passed. I’m afraid that due to demand, I can’t fulfill any more requests, but keep in mind that this won’t be the last time we have such an offer!
Thanks to everyone who participated — your cows will be in the mail soon!
Due to the demand for squishy cows (see this entry), I have to impose a deadline. If you want me to send you a squishy cow free of charge, you must:
- Email me your mailing address before 12:00 a.m. Eastern (GMT – 4), Wednesday, July 12, 2006
- Promise to take a picture of the squishy cow in some interesting locale and post it online
Hurry up, because the clock is ticking!
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Exciting New Doritos Flavour!
Never mind “Cool Ranch” or “Black Pepper Jack” Doritos — all the cool kids eat “Swift Kick to the ‘Nads” Doritos!
But seriously, if any of you can read Japanese or know what’s going on with the packaging, please leave a note in the comments and explain what’s happening here.
[Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele]
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Rannie Captures Cronenberg
At Saturday night’s exclusive-to-bloggers gathering where we got to have a one-on-one with David Cronenberg, guest curator for the Andy Warhol “Supernova” exhibit, Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan took this photo which captures Cronenberg at his Cronenbergiest. I couldn’t help adding a caption:
A deliciously eeeevil photo of David Cronenberg, taken by Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan. Click the photo to see it on Rannie’s blog.
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The Canadian Tech Mob
Yesterday, I got some email about something called the Canadian Tech Mob, a grassroots movement to raise the profile of Canada’s presence in the tech sector. The first step they took was to form a webring, to which I added my personal blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century and my professional blog, Tucows Farm. As their site implores, “if you are a blogger, entrepreneur, VC, or other member of the Canadian Tech ecosystem, we hope you will join with us to support the “spilling” of the secret of the Great White North . Let’s show the world what Canada is made of!” As one of the team who helps out with the DemoCamp effort and other initiatives to boost our local tech scene, I’m more than happy to support this effort.
If you’re a techie with a blog, why not join their webring? You can join by clicking here.
I’ll do one better than simply join the webring: I’ll provide a nice attention-grabbing graphic — a remix of the first issue of Marvel Comics’ premier Canadian superhero team, Alpha Flight!
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Squishy Cows on Parade
(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.)
Let’s consider Tucows’ most prized swag: the venerable squishy cow:
The squishy cows I took to Railsconf.
Although t-shirts, baseball caps, stickers and USB keys with the Tucows logo are nice, our most asked-for piece of swag remains the foam rubber squishy cow. In my nearly 3 years here (it’ll be exactly three years this Friday), I’ve given away more of these creatures than I can recall — the number should be in the hundreds. I believe I last gave one away to Damian Conway just before his Fun with Dead Languages presentation last week.
The squishy cows I took to Railsconf, taken from a slightly different angle.
One idea we’ve been bouncing about the office is to try and get squishy cows photographed in interesting places or with interesting scenery as a backdrop, not just in our head office city of Toronto or in Starkville, where our other office is located, but all over the world. One of my standing orders is to make sure I get squishy cow photos with interesting scenery whenever I’m travelling on business, whether it’s for a meeting or attending a conference.
While I do manage to travel quite a bit, there are more scenic spots for squishy cow photos than I could ever hope to travel to. However, a squishy cow is a pretty small and light thing, and it travels far more easily than a Technical Community Development Coordinator could ever hope to. And that’s where you come in.
“I can see my pasture from here!” Taken on the flight to RailsConf.
If you’d like to have a squishy cow of your very own, I have a proposition for you: send me your mailing address and I’ll send you a squishy cow. All that I ask in return is that you:
- Take a photo of the squishy cow, preferably in an interesting place where you live, work or play.
- Either post it online — on your personal page, blog or photo-sharing site like Flickr or BubbleShare — or send me a copy of the photo to post online.
- If you posted the photo online yourself, send me a link to your photo.
- If you posted the photo to a site that supports tags, such as a blog or Flickr, give it the tag squishycow.
That’s all there is to it. If you want a cow, email me with your mailing address and get ready to post some photos!