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funny

Christopher Walken Roasts a Chicken and Pears

Over at the cooking video website Im Cooked, there’s a great video of none other that Christopher Walken showing his technique for roasting a whole chicken with some pears. Somebody get this man a show on the Food Network!

Screencap from the “Walken roasting chicken” video.
Click the picture to see the video.

One thing I love about the video: after seeing so many celebrity kitchens on shows like MTV Cribs, it’s nice to see a celebrity doing some actual cooking in kitchen that looks rather ordinary.

Bonus Walken

If that video isn’t enough Walken for you, click on the picture below to see a mind-bending animation of Chris Walken in space. If you’re susceptible to epileptic seizures, you might not want to watch this animation — there’s a fair bit of flashing…

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

Scenes from the High Park Organic Market

The High Park Organic Market has become a Saturday morning ritual with me and the Ginger Ninja. We set out for the market — located beside the Grenadier Restaurant, a nice ten-minute walk south of Bloor Street — to buy vegetables to turn into a salad or stir-fry from lunch, as well as some homemade bread and cake loaves.

I took these photos during our shopping trip yesterday.

Broccoli and cauliflower

Eggplants

Green onions

All the fruits and vegetables in the market are organically grown on smaller farms, and many are grown locally. This usually means that what you’ll find at the market is fresher and often tastes much better. We once bought some locally-grown garlic that was very flavourful — the kitchen filled with the smell of fresh garlic after we’d only cut the garlic; we hadn’t even cooked it yet.

Peppers

Tomatoes

Turnips, beets and garlic

It’s not just fruits and veg, they’ve also got homemade bread, cakes and pies. We’re really fond of the banana-chocolate chip loaf.

Loaves and pies

The High Park Organic Market is open through the summer:

  • Friday 12 p.m. -7 p.m.
  • Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Broccoli

Zucchini

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funny

But More Immediately, You Need Pants

Man holding up a “You need Jesus / It’s hell without him” sign in a park as he talks to an old nudist.
Click the photo to see the non-bowlderized version.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Judging from the background and what’s happening in the photo, my guess is that it was taken in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. When I lived there I spent at least some portion of every weekend biking through the park.

If you really must see the whole, unbowlderized version — perhaps you have a jonesing for an image of old guy cottage cheese butt — just click the photo. Don’t say I din’t warn you.

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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Blast from the (Recent) Past: Queen Street Man

Stills from “Queen Street Man”
Click to see the video.

In honour of local hipsters and the lively discussion taking place in yesterday’s post, We Need More Toronto Blogs, I’m going to point to a video that was making the rounds on Accordion City blogs and discussion boards: Queen Street Man.

If you’ve got any more comments about yesterday’s article, please feel free to have your say. Be advised that any attitude will be met with at least an equal and opposite attitude.

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Geek

Getting Started with Facebook Application Development

[This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]

Woman at vintage computer with 8-inch floppy disk Photoshopped to have a Facebook label

If you were looking for a quick and easy way to get started developing Facebook applications (perhaps you’re attending the upcoming Facebook Developer Garage/Camp in Toronto), you’re in luck: I’ve written the first of a number of articles that tackle that topic. Head on over to the Tucows Developer Blog and check out Getting Started with Facebook Application Development.

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Geek Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Facebook Developer Garage/Camp: Tuesday August 7th

[This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]

Facebook Developer Garage Toronto
Click this logo to see the event’s Facebook page.

Facebook Camp Toronto
Click this logo to see the event’s wiki page.

It’s the event so anticipated that it had to have more than one name. Whether you call it Facebook Developer Garage Toronto [this links to its Facebook page] or Facebook Camp Toronto [this links to its wiki page], so many Toronto-based developers have expressed an interest in attending that they had to change to a larger venue.

Originally scheduled to take place at No Regrets Cafe and Restaurant (home of a number of DemoCamp Toronto events), Facebook Garage/Camp will now take place at the MaRS Centre (101 College Street, Toronto, just east of Queen’s Park subway station). The event takes place on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, formally starts at 6:30 p.m. and the schedule is listed below:

Facebook Garage/Camp Description and Schedule
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Please join us to thrash out Facebook Platform: share ideas, troll for partners on your latest project, check out app demonstrations, seek developer support direct from Facebook Developers, or just socialize with people like you.

The Facebook Platform Team will give an introduction to Platform, discuss best practices around product design & viral marketing techniques, and hold a technical Q&A.

Please come ready to share, participate, and absorb new ideas along with other Facebook app developers.

  • 6:00 – Social/Mingling
  • 6:30 – Introduction by Colin Smillie Roy Pereira and Andrew Cherwenka
  • 6:40 – Best Practices around Product Design and Viral Marketing (Meagan Marks, Facebook.com)
  • 7:30 – Anatomy of a Facebook Application (Jay Goldman and Michael Glenn, Radiant Core)
  • 7:50 – FBML Overview (Sunil Boodram, Trapeze Media)
  • 8:10 – FQL Overview (Craig Saila)
  • 8:30 – Updating the Facebook Profile (Colin Smillie, Refresh Partners)
  • 8:50 – Demo: .Net Sample Application (Ricardo Covo)
  • 9:00 – Demo: Carpool by Zimride (Rajat Suri)
  • 9:10 – Demo: Ogrant by Shachin Ghelani
  • 9:20 – Wrap-up and drinks

The event is free to the public, but they do request that you sign up for the event. The problem is that there are currently two sign-up rosters — one on the Facebook page and one on the wiki page. If you’d like to attend, I suggest that you sign up on both.

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funny

Now I Know What the “Vaccuming the Kitty” Photo is All About

If you like checking out sites that feature interesting or humourous pictures, chances are you’ve stumbled across this photo:

La Shinda Clark’s photo of a boy vaccuming a cat with a Dustbuster
Click to see the photo on its source page.

I’ve always wondered what was going in the photo — often captioned in LOLcat-ese with something like “TIEM TO VACUME TEH KITTYNUTS” — and who took it. I had no idea that it was an award-winning photo:

La Shinda Clark, photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer and 1995 Scholar, won third place for feature photos in the National Press Photographers Association 2003 Best of Photojournalism contest. In the photo, volunteer Cameron Tarzwell, 13, cleans loose hair that has been shaved from an anesthetized cat, Princess, in preparation for an operation. Tarzwell has been assisting a veterinarian for four years. The photo was one in a picture story on a spaying and neutering program in Chester County in Pennsylvania.