A great photo from Satan’s Laundromat, a New York City-based photoblog:
Pondering
over the conundrum of the sign will prepare you for many things,
including dating, quantum physics and trying to make both marketing and
engineering happy.
Yesterday morning, David Akin in his CTV News guise (he’s also with the Globe and Mail) asked if he could drop by Tucows along with intrepid camerman Lucien and interview both Boss Ross and me about Google as part of a piece on their IPO. We said “come on down!” and an hour later, he was here conducting interviews.
Here’s Boss Ross in his office.
And
here I am. While “Technical Community Development Coordinator” is my
actual title, it’s just too hard to explain and wouldn’t fit on the
screen anyway.
“Carpenters need hammers, internet guys need Google.” Hah! I slay me! I am the Soundbite King!
Ross has posted the video in his latest entry — you can either get the video there or download it from me [1.9 MB Windows Media]. Take your pick!
If you’ve been on the Secret Swing in Accordion City, you can put this button on your blog:
It was created by David “This Boy is Toast” Petite of the GTABloggers.
Start swingin’!
The Clarke Axiom — named after the guy who coined it, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke — is well-known to geeks:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
You may remember seeing the Clarke Axiom mentioned on this blog before. I quoted Maciej Ceglowski, who remixed it to become:
Any sufficiently advanced society is indistinguishable from Canada.
(I can already hear the whining coming from the bloggers at the Western Standard. All I can say to those folks is: if you take your meds, the voices will stop.)
I don’t know how I ended up looking at a page in Everything2 (imagine a less academic Wikipedia written by LiveJournalers), but someone has come up with a geek lament treatment of the Clarke Axiom:
Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes you.
Bonus bragging point: This blog is currently the number one Google result for the phrase “Clarke Axiom”.
I bring my lunch to work most days, but once a week I like to go out
for it. One of the lunch spots in Liberty Village (the former stomping grounds of a reasonably well-known blogger, internet/copyright freedom agitator and science fiction author) the neighbourhood
where Tucows is located, is the Warehouse Grill. The food’s quite good
(they make a really mean calamari) and on Thursdays, they have live
jazz on the patio. Here’s a movie [1.8MB QuickTime] that I shot a couple of Thursdays ago, featuring my co-workers Scott and Darryl at the beginning.
The two weddings that I’ve attended with Wendy have both been for
Canadians of my generation, which meant that the DJ played Spirit of the West’s Home for a Rest (a song where they managed to beat The Pogues on their own turf) and a couple of
big hits that she didn’t recognize. I’ve decided to give her a hand by
making her a mixed CD of the essential Canadian rock and pop tunes for
people out age (specifically people who went to high school in the
mid-to-late eighties and university in the late eighties to
mid-nineties).
So far, I’ve come up with:
I need more songs! If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments. Some guidelines:
Oh, and could someone tell me if the Dream Warriors‘ My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style was or wasn’t a hit in the Excited States? It did well here in Ontario and was also a minor club hit in the UK.
Your suggestions, please…