Month: September 2010

Tonight at HacklabTO: Cooking for Geeks!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 20, 2010
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If you’re in or around Toronto’s Kensington Market area tonight, you might want to drop by the Hacklab (170a Baldwin Street, above Graffiti’s) to see O’Reilly author Jeff Potter as his book tour for Cooking for Geeks stops at Toronto’s downtown hackerspace. He’ll be there, talking about his book and possibly treating us to a demo or two, and I’ll be there, helping to host the event. Jeff says he’ll have a number of books on him for sale – but note that it’s first come, first serve, and I’m buying one!

Here’s a video of the author showing you how to make ice cream in 30 seconds (with liquid nitrogen!):

The event starts tonight (Monday, September 20th) at 7:00 p.m. – be there!

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Tags cooking, geek culture, Meetups

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I Need “Booth Brains”!

you could be here

I need “booth brains” at the Windows Phone 7 booth at FITC Mobile 2010 tomorrow (Saturday). “Booth brains” are like “booth bunnies”, but smarter (and of either gender).

If you’re technically inclined and curious about Windows Phone 7 or a Windows Phone 7 developer who’d like some deployment time with a real Windows Phone 7 device, this is your opportunity! I need to maintain the Windows Phone 7 booth at the FITC Mobile 2010 conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. Right now, I’m the only person available to take care of the booth and I need help! You don’t need to know everything about Windows Phone 7 – I can brief you. I need enthusiastic people who can help me run things, and I’ll feed you, too!

(And yes, helping me gets you into FITC 2010, and we can take turns minding the booth so you can catch a session or two.)

Interested in helping me out? Drop me a line – and as soon as possible, please!

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Tags FITC Mobile 2010, help, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, WP7

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They Know Us Well

These stickers are posted above the urinals and toilets in the men’s rooms at Vancouver Convention Centre:

dont drink from the urinal

Also: That thing in the urinal that looks like a big mint? It’s not a big mint.

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

Tags funny, urinals

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My Answer is “Yes”, But You Knew That

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 15, 2010
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I’m with the bird:

Comic by Tom Gauld for The Guardian. Click it to see it on its original page.

Tags comic, happiness

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In Vancouver September 11 – 16

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 11, 2010
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I’ll be in Vancouver starting this afternoon and staying there until around noon on Thursday. I’m there to help run Microsoft’s TechDays conference, and with a little luck, catch up with some friends. See you there!