Today’s Toronto Coffee and Code – and by “today”, I mean “Friday, August 14th” – will take place at The Roastery (401 Richmond West, just east of Spadina) from noon until 6 p.m.. Come on down, shoot the breeze, ask questions, get help with Microsoft developer tools and tech, hang out!
And it’s spelled properly, too!
I love the webcomic XKCD’s twist on those Dos Equis “Most Interesting Man in the World” ads (which I also love):
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
This newspaper clip made the internet rounds about six months ago, but it’s new to me:
I look forward every day to working the jumble, unscrambling jumbles to make “ordinary” words, which then provide an answer to the picture drawn.
On Thanksgiving Day, R U S U Y was one of the jumbled words. My 9-year-old grandson and my sister worked for hours. He became so frustrated because he could not figure it out.
The next day the answer was “usury” – no ordinary word, not even in the dictionary.
I think you should stick to using “ordinary” words.
Patsy Lyon
Loretto KY 40037
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one reminded of the episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa gets a pony. There’s a scene in which Homer applies for a loan from Mr. Burns to buy it:
Mr. Burns: …By the way, are you acquainted with our state’s stringent usury laws?
Homer: Yoo-shoo-ree?
Mr. Burns: Oh, silly me! I must have just made up a word that doesn’t exist!
The anime-girl outfits that the YouTube user “hjfreaks” wears may be a little off-putting, but if the bass tracks on these video are really of him playing, he’s pretty good:
Sometimes a guy wants to take a break from blistering bass runs and just dance:
