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Life in the 21st century (before COVID-19)

These days, you get both bad screen and good screen in the comfort of your own home!

See what like in the 21st centure will be like after COVID-19.

Thanks to Tyler Johnston for the find!

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funny Geek Life

N00b Boyfriend

What happens when a girl from a l33t family brings a n00b boy home to meet her parents?

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

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

“It’s Alive!”: Sheridan College’s 2009 Interactive Multimedia Open House

It's Alive!

This afternoon, I’m going to be at what I consider to be one of Accordion City’s best toy stores: Function 13 (156 Augusta Avenue), a place in Kensington Market that is part tech store, part art shop and part gallery.

I’ll be there for It’s Alive!, an open house featuring the work of Sheridan College’s Interactive Multimedia program. The event is open to all, and judging from some of the stuff I’ve seen on display at Function 13 and from Sheridan, it should be pretty interesting.

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“Everything is Amazing Right Now, and Nobody’s Happy”

This article originally appeared on Global Nerdy.

Over at Kevin Kelly’s blog, The Technium, there’s a video of an amusing interview on Conan O’Brien where comedian Louis CK talks about how we take today’s technology and the way it improves our lives for granted. Kelly describes it as "a cartoon version of a more serious argument that we become blind to progress".