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Slice of Life: “Big Balls” at the Mesh Conference

At the Mesh Conference held earlier this year, I was asked at the last minute to play an opening number for the big panel discussion on using social media for marketing. I decided to get cheeky and played AC/DC’s Big Balls, since having them is a quality that you need to really use social media and social networking to advantage. As I played, Kaz Ehara shot these photos:

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Photos by Kaz Ehara.
Click the photos to see them on their Flickr pages.

For those of you unfamiliar with the song, here it is, synced to clips from Spongebob Squarepants:

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Life

Tina Fey’s Fashion Statement

On the right person, even the lamest T-shirt looks pretty good:

Tina Fey wearing jeans and a baby blue Snoopy and rainbow T-shirt

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Life

The Right (and Wrong) Way to Roll Up Your Sleeves

sleeve-rolling_guide Found via Space Ghetto, via Certified Bullshit Technician.

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It Happened to Me Slice of Life Work

Slice of Life: Conference Call

Here’s the view from a conference call I participated in on a recent sunny day:

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It Happened to Me Slice of Life Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Slice of Life: Deep-Fried Oreos at the CNE

cnePhoto of the Canadian National Exhibition courtesy of Wikipedia.

Yesterday, the Ginger Ninja and I went to the Canadian National Exhibition (a.k.a. “The CNE” and “The Ex”, Accordion City’s annual fair featuring shows, rides, shopping and amusements. According to Wikipedia, it’s the largest fair in Canada and the fourth largest in North America.

Part of the fun of going to the Ex is the junk food, and they’ve got that stuff in spades. There are few foods that can’t be made better by deep-frying. Even Oreos, which are pretty good as they are, benefit from being covered in batter and then dunked into a vat of hot oil. We ordered some deep-fried Oreos; here’s what they looked like:

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The batter becomes a crispy shell, while the heat of deep-frying turns the Oreo into a gooey, tasty mess of chocolate and cream.

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Wendy liked them more than she expected she would, and more than the deep-fried Twix bars I ordered later.

I’m hitting the gym later today.

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Geek It Happened to Me

The TechDays $299 Deal

A quick announcement for Canadian techies who read this blog:

For the price of this (an Xbox 360 Elite or $300), you get all this (conference sessions, opportunities to meet people, a supercharged brain, Microsoft TechNet subscription, developer resources, a happy cat)

The early bird price period for Microsoft’s TechDays conferences in Vancouver (September 14-15) and Toronto (September 29-30) ends soon! For more details, see Canadian Developer Connection or Global Nerdy.

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Damn, Nelson Mandela, You Smell So Good!

Andy Warhol got it slightly wrong. He should’ve said “In the future, everyone will have 15 items with their own personal brand”:

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Yes, the Nelson Mandela car air freshener is real, smells like cookies and is available online for a paltry US$2.99.