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Flying Back to Toronto This Evening
It’s been a fun three weeks — first Montreal for ConFoo, then Austin for South by Southwest and finally Tampa to visit the New Special Friend, but it’s time to head home. I’m on Air Canada’s direct flight back to Accordion City tonight.
The recent articles about high-profile resignations — one from Goldman Sachs, another from Google — reminded me that it was about a year ago when I decided to move on from Microsoft and join Shopify. I don’t regret that decision at all: look at the difference it’s made! (Microsoft me is pictured above on the left, Shopify me is the guy on the lower right.) I’m living a rather untethered, start-uppy life, playing with cool tech, making a difference in ways you might not expect, and smiling all the way — expect when I’m showing my violence/porn/rock “O-face”, of course.
I don’t think it’s quite time to put the whole story of my departure in print, but it should suffice to say that it’s high-larious and spoken of loudly and with much laughter over beers in many a pub, and quietly with much side-to-side glancing within the halls of The Empire. What I will say is that I signed my Shopify offer letter in the lobby bar of the Omni Austin Hotel in the wee hours of the morning at South by Southwest 2011 and filed my resignation over a Shiner Bock at the bar by near my gate at Austin Bergstrom airport. I’ve been knee-deep in violence, porn and rock ever since!
These days, it’s probably Facebook instead of Solitaire.
Also seen yesterday afternoon at Tun-Du-Ree in Tampa. Florida is weird, man.
Two questions come to mind:
- What kind of person posts a framed kama sutra poster in an Indian fast-food restaurant?
- What kind of person steals a framed kama sutra poster from an Indian fast-food restaurant?
(I must say, the chicken saag and chicken tikka masala at Tun-du-ree are pretty good.)
I saw this yesterday in Tampa while the New Special Friend and I were heading out to dinner. Keep in mind that live stripping — er, I mean exotic dancing — is one of those things that you just can’t offshore.
Super typeface genius Ray Larabie lives in Japan and likes to keep people informed of the weirdness that they’re famous for. The latest thing is this commercial for candy featuring members of the all-girl idolsinger group AKB48 passing candy mouth-to-mouth. It airs during prime time and features a triple pun: “Chu” is the name of the product (“chew”), the Japanese onomatopoetic sound for a kiss, and a term for a promotional campaign.