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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Viva Vivi

Tonight at the Drake Hotel (1150 Queen Street West, two blocks east of Dufferin) my friend Diana Galligan will be performing a one-woman comedic play she wrote called Viva Vivi! Here’s her synopsis:

It’s 1928. Meet Vivi Vitaly – a silent
film star with big problems. A runaway husband, a mountain of debt and
one shot to turn her life around. A comic look at changing with the
times.

The show starts at 9:30. I’ll be there a little beforehand to mingle
with the crowd, enjoy a pint of the darkest beer they have on tap, say
hello to my fellow members of the Thirsty People of Toronto and make sure I get a good seat.

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It Happened to Me

All in a Single Frame

Here’s a single frame from the “at the desk” sequence of my CTV interview from a couple of days ago, annotated. It tells a lot:

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Uncategorized

Mixed Messages

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.

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Geek It Happened to Me

CTV Appearance

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!

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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

A Blog Button for People Who’ve Been on the Secret Swing

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’!

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It Happened to Me Music

Where the action is

It’s all in the comments section of the
post in which I ask people to list some “must-know” Canadian rock and
pop tunes from the 80s and 90s that never made it outside our borders. Check it out.

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The Clarke Axiom, but for geeks and flirting

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”.