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Via Reddit — this photo was taken yesterday on the 407 by the southbound Yonge Street ramp. Nobody looks hurt, but I’m sure someone’s bank account has been severely injured.
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Here’s the cover of this week’s TIME magazine for Africa, Asia, Europe, the middle east and the Pacific…
…and here’s the U.S. cover for this week’s issue of TIME:
Found via Antonia Zerbisias.
Here’s your Friday productivity-killer: You Think You’re a Man by the one and only Divine. It’s so incredibly 1980s, and one of the best breakup songs ever made (especially that bit where Divine growls “Mister, you just made a big mistaaaaaaake”):
This is a big festival weekend in Toronto, with not one, but two Eastern European cultural street festivals, featuring dancing, pierogies, and accordions, accordions, accordions!
Toronto Ukrainian Festival
The Toronto Ukrainian Festival is North America’s largest Ukrainian street festival, and it’s one big party! It starts tonight and runs until Sunday, with Bloor Street West closed off to traffic between Runnymede and Jane.
Parking will be at a premium at the event; you’re better off taking the subway to the Festival — you can go to either Runnymede Station, which is at the Festival’s easternmost end, or Jane Station, at the Festival’s westernmost end.
Along with the food and traditional Ukrainian cultural performances, there are lots of rides for the kids, and musical acts. Trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard Hotel California in the original Ukrainian:
If you’d like to find out more, visit the Toronto Ukrainian Festival’s site and check out this TV program below, featuring highlights from last year’s Ukrainian Festival:
Roncesvalles Polish Festival
The Roncesvalles Polish Festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, taking up Roncesvalles Avenue from Dundas Street on the north all the way down to the Queensway.
Parking will be a bit hard to come by at the Festival, so you should either take the subway to Dundas West Station and walk a short way to the north end of the Festival, or take one of the Queen Street or King Street streetcars there.
There’ll be the usual food and Polish cultural performances, and “Roncey’s” merchants will also be out there in full force.
Polish folk-rockers Brathanki will perform on Saturday night:
And the event is being sponsored by Sobieski Vodka, who oddly enough have hired Bruce Willis as their spokesdrinker:
If you’d like to find out more, visit the Roncesvalles Polish Festival site.
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Third-Graders’ Behaviour, Explained
So that’s why they’re acting all crazy.
My office, as it looks right now. Click the photo to see it at full size.
I’m cranking away on a last-minute project that has to be done for a client by the morning, which means that I’m going to be working late into the night. I’ve had this dropped into my lap by people who expect it to be done in the morning, and I’m not certain they appreciate the level of detail and thinking that has to go into designing a program — their idea of project management is asking “is it done yet?” via Skype every 45 minutes. I’m living off savings and I’ve had all of two paycheques this year. Well, actually three, but one of them bounced.
When it gets like this — and really, if you do good work and get known for doing so, it gets like this sometimes — I bear down, stock up on my favourite caffeine source, and put something on in the background that keeps me going. Sometimes it’s music, sometimes it’s a podcast, sometimes it’s an audiobook, but tonight, it’s something that’s always inspired me when I’m feeling the odds are stacked against me terribly: Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”. I first gave it a listen on my first night out of the hospital after my long week there, and it’s been a source of “if you’re going through Hell, keep going” inspiration.
If you need it, I’ve posted it below:
And yes, I’m working on a plan to improve the work situation. If you’re curious about the kind of stuff I do, you can always check my LinkedIn profile.
Update
2:38 a.m.: 30-page design doc, complete with illustrations done! Fortune favours the prepared. Now to bed.