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Year: 2009
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Time Travel Cheat Sheet
If you somehow manage to get your hands on a time machine and subsequently find yourself trapped in the past, the Time Travel Cheat Sheet, should come in handy. It lists some important discoveries, inventions and advances that we enjoy today; all you have to do is “invent” them and you’ll be running the show in no time:
You can buy the Time Travel Cheat Sheet as a poster or t-shirt from TopatoCo. Maybe I’ll buy the poster for the Hacklab.
Artwork courtesy of "Spoon".
Just a quick reminder that I’m holding a Coffee and Code today at The Roastery at 401 Richmond. I’ll be there between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.. If you’ve got questions, comments or suggestions about Microsoft, Windows 7, Visual Studio, the Mesh Conference, the industry or anything else, drop by!
This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy.
It looks as thought the Twitter user going by the handle of betbot is going to spend the next little while absorbing a very important lesson about managing one’s online persona after making this tweet at the Mesh Conference:
betbot’s profile vaingloriously proclaims that he has three Master’s degrees:
Self-proclaimed marketing guru trying to put my 3 hard-earned Masters to work
If you;ve spent any time on a university campus, you know that having that many Master’s degrees is not a boasting point; it’s a cry for help – it means you’re a shiftless pedant majoring in life-avoidance studies. As for putting “marketing guru” in your Twitter profile; it’s a cliche on par with “I like long walks on the beach” in the personal ads.
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Hussein and Kumar Go to White House
Kal Penn, whom many of you know and love as “Kutner” from the TV series House and from movies like The Namesake and the awesome Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, is joining the Obama administration. He’ll be a liaison between the administration and arts and entertainment groups as well as with my own demographic, the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.
The comments on the CNN News page reporting the story have been filled with howls of derision from the usual right-wing teabagger – er, I mean “tea party” types – but he’s quite qualified (espeically since he was an adjunct professor teaching courses on Asian images in popular media), and a damned sight more articulate and on-the-ball than Chuck Norris, who served as Mike Huckabee’s sock puppet during his campaign.
From one stereotype-busting Asian/Pacific Islander to another, I salute you, Kal Penn, with a filet mignon on a flaming sword!
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Coffee and Code Events This Week
There are a number of Coffee and Code events taking place this week:
- In Ottawa, as part of the EnergizeIT cross-Canada tour: join Christian Beauclair, Rick Claus and Pierre Roman on Tuesday, April 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Bridgehead at Bank and Albert.
- In Guelph: Cory Fowler’s hosting a Coffee and Code at the Albion Hotel on Tuesday, April 7th from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m..
- In Toronto: Yours truly will host a Coffee and Code at the Roastery in 401 Richmond on Thursday, April 9th from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m..