Here’s a selection of my favourite political editorial comics of the week:
Bloomberg: Canadian Health Care, Even with Queues, Bests U.S.
Allan B. Bevere: On Why the Church in America Cannot Speak Truth to Power
Cogitamus: Wingnut Values on Parade
The Root: Jimmy Carter, True Son of the South, Hits Nail on the Head
FiveThirtyEight: IBD/TIPP Doctors Poll Is Not Trustworthy
[Thanks to AZSpot!]
The scene: one of the tables at the teppanyaki restaurant Kobe in downtown Vancouver. We’d just wrapped up running the TechDays Vancouver conference and were having a celebratory dinner.
Here’s a classic bit of teppanyaki stagecraft, the onion volcano, getting put together:
Here’s chef Eric filling it with cooking oil as my co-worker Rick Claus looks on:
We have ignition…
…and banzai! I love Rick’s expression in the background. That’s an IT pro’s reaction to illumination from natural sources: “The light! It burns!”
Steamworks’ Gastown pub, located right by Vancouver’s waterfront, is falling distance from the Fairmont Waterfront hotel, which is where I usually stay when I’m flying in for business. They brew some tasty beer and serve great pub fare and in my experience the service goes above and beyond what you’d normally expect.
A couple of nights ago, I got rather, er, beerlarious at Steamworks and in the process managed to leave my camera there, along with its case. Luckily for me:
Steamworks left a message on my phone informing me that they found the camera and that I could pick it up when they opened the next day. The camera was assigned to me by Microsoft, and they saved me some hassle and the embarrassment of losing company property, so I must thank the fine people at Steamworks for finding it and letting me know! You’re definitely getting return business from me.
Seen outside Smart Mouth Cafe in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood:
That’s right, you want to join FailCamp Toronto 3, the celebration of FAIL taking place on Tuesday, September 29th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre! Take it from Kanye, you don’t want to miss this event. For more details, see the FailCamp event page and my earlier article on FailCamp Toronto 3.
R.I.P. Patrick Swayze. (In case you don’t get the Kanye West joke, here’s the backstory.)
Yesterday, while setting up for the TechDays conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre, my co-workers Rick Claus (pictured below on the left with the red netbook) and Rodney Buike (pictured below on the right with the blue netbook) and I couldn’t resist playing around with the Dell netbooks that we were using to do PowerPoint donkey-work. John Bristowe, who was doing the photography, suggested striking a Charlie’s Angels-style pose and we were only too happy to oblige:
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