In case you haven’t been looking at the address bar on your browser, this blog isn’t located at accordionguy.blogware.com anymore (although that address will work for a few months). From now on, the official URL for The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century is:
What better and more graphic way could I illustrate the change than by using now-and-then images of the Governator himself, Mister Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Most accounts of last night’s DemoCamp say that it was a good one, and it seems that the new format is helping. David’s got all the details in this entry on his blog, which not only covers what happened but also what can be done to improve DemoCamp.
If you were there, you might have noticed that it was easy to hear the speakers. That’s thanks to the new TorCamp sound system, which I picked up at Long & McQuade earlier that day. It consists of 2 80-watt individually self-powered speakers, which can be used either in tandem (for large gatherings) or separately (for 2 break-out sessions where some voice amplification is desired). It will be used at DemoCamp events, and it’s available for anyone who wants amplification for an event that falls under the “TorCamp” umbrella.
I paid for $376 for the speakers and expected that it would take 3 or 4 passing-arounds-of-the-hat at DemoCamp events for me to recoup the costs, but last night, we collected $316.44 from all of you, with BubbleShare’s Albert Lai stating that he would match the funds raised out of his own pocket. Since we did so well, Albert, what say you can I split the remaining $60?
The generosity of the DemoCamp community is wonderful. I thank you, and so does my VISA card.
Some of us went from DemoCamp to Geeks and Guitars, which is just Mark Kuznicki’s name for what happens when we geeks descend on the open mic jam night at a lovely little bar called The Press Room (850 Dundas Street West, between Manning and Euclid). That was fun, and I’ll post a story later about how we had not one but two accordionists rockin’ out last night.
Don’t forget: Another Open Coffee gathering takes place tomorrow (Thursday the 26th) at Tequila Bookworm (512
Queen Street West) from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. I’m going to try and catch the first hour, but I’ll have to run after that to catch a meeting.
Open coffee takes place every Thursday and is an informal gathering where people in or interested in Accordion City’s startup scene — entrepreneurs, developers, investors, students, or the curious — can get to know each other, chat face-to-face, exchange ideas and have coffee and/or breakfast.
Oh, the high-larious differences between British and North American English…
Click the photo to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Fipi Lele and wxsnoozle.
My friend Fipi Lele has provided me with a scan of old German postcards with illustrations depicting what life would be like in the year 2000. I posted one of them below — “Theatre in the Year 2000”:
Click the photo to see all the postcards.
Note how practically everyone in the audience is on the phone, which is pretty much what the movie-watching experience in 2000 was like. It’s eerily prescient.
Now you conservatives can’t say I never did nuthin’ for ya…
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Click the photo to see the original on its own page.