Come to think of it, Safety Not Guaranteed would be a good movie title answer to this challenge.
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In case you don’t get the reference, this should help:
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Why “Good Ol’ Rock” Always Wins
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“No, Luke, *I* am Your Father.”
“And Luke…stop having impure thoughts about your sister.”
Photo by Matthew Paul Turner, found via io9. Click to see the original.
I wish I’d thought up this display back when I was in Catholic school.
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I must say that The Green Mile is my favourite. I’ll give honourable mentions to Fat Albert and Blood Sport.
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Brad Feld, managing director at Foundry Group, cofounder of TechStars, investor, entrepreneur and author of so many books with colons in the title:
- Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup,
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist,
- Brad Feld’s Burning Entrepreneur: How to Launch, Fund and Set Your Startup on Fire!
- and the just-published Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
is appearing in Toronto on Tuesday, October 30that 6:00 p.m. in the Toronto Reference Library at an event being put together by the find folks at Startup North and with the help of a lot of sponsors.
The evening will feature cocktails, networking and a discussion on how to make Toronto a better place for startups. There’s a $25 registration fee for this event, which includes a copy of Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City in either dead-tree or DRM’d PDF format (the Canadian list price for the hardcover edition is $30, so it’s a pretty good deal).
William Mougayar recently wrote a review of Startup Communities in the Startup North blog, in which he explains Feld’s “Boulder Thesis”, which he describes as “a fresh framework that is based on pragmatism and lower barriers of entry” and “all about on-the-ground reality as a lever to making things happen.” Feld prefers real get-stuff-done events such as “hackathons, New Tech Meetups, Open Coffee Clubs, Startup Weekends, and accelerators” over more-fluff-than-stuff ones like “entrepreneurial award events, periodic cocktail parties, monthly networking events, panel discussions, and open houses”, arguing that they “go deeper into the entrepreneurial stack”.
I’ll be in Mirvish Village tonight to catch the book launch of NewTown, the new novel by my old Crazy Go Nuts University classmate A.G. Pasquella. His previous novel, Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, a tale of science gone wrong and primate televangelism gone even more so, was a hoot; I expect no less from his latest offering.
Here’s a quick description of NewTown:
As The World burns: a cybernetic man-plane does the dishes. A chef muses about the best way to cook space horse. A mad scientist bemoans the loss of his robot army. Another mad scientist plots to create fireproof cows. A teenage boy teleports toward the girl of his dreams. Can any of them unlock the secrets of NewTown?
The launch takes place tonight from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Victory Cafe (581 Markham Street, just west and south of Bathurst Station) and will feature readings and performance from A.G. himself, along with special guests Shari Kasman, Michael Murray, Jacqueline Valencia.