If you missed the first set of photos, they’re in this entry.
I didn’t get a photo of Anneke trying out the accordion, but Michele did:
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Photo courtesy of Michele Perras.
We can’t forget Yours Truly, pictured below in his Accordion Happy Place…
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Photo courtesy of Michele Perras.
There are more photos in Michele’s photoset of the party.
I attended Tom and Michele’s housewarming party on Saturday and took some pictures. Here are my favourites…
Tom did a little birthday dance number to entertain the crowd — first solo, then joined by Michele. It concluded with this smooch, which just cried out for the Robert Doisneau black-and-white treatment:
Coming soon to an Imaginus poster sale near you!
I’m always happy to let a friend try on the accordion, and since Michele asked, I got these photos.
She hasn’t hit that moment of accordion transcendence yet…
…ah, there we go!
Last week, my friend Mark Askwith, a producer at Space — the Canadian sci-fi channel — dropped me a line asking if I’d like to talk about a couple of cool gadgets in a segment for HypaSpace, Space’s “geek news” program. It sounded like a fun idea, so I said I’d do it.
Mark and Space camera guy Darcy came over to the TSOT offices last Wednesday to do the shoot, which some of my co-workers starred in. The segment will air during the year-end installment of HypaSpace; I’ll post the broadcast date as soon as I found out when it is.
I took some photos during the shoot — they appear below.
Darcy, the camera guy from Space. In this shot, he’s setting up his camera prior to the shoot.
Strike! Darcy films a segment where my co-workers Mariko and Adam play a round of Wii Bowling.
Wii action. Mark and Darcy watch and Mariko and Adam bowl on the office Wii. Gotta love the perks in the place.
“Music is where I’d like you to touch…” My co-worker Alex demos his iPod Touch as Darcy films.
Alex is a hand model now! Mark watches as Darcy shoots an iPod Touch segment — I’ll do the voice-over.
The “beauty shot”. Darcy gets a shot of the featured gadgets, using the office video game screen as the background.
For the curious, I’ve got a Flickr photoset showing my current workplace, TSOT’s temporary office (we’re moving to the permanent office in January).
Click the photo to see the whole photoset.
I’ll be updating it from time to time, so check it often!
I noticed something strange on a sign on Bloor Street, just west of Avenue Road:
Note the services offered: “Imagineering”?
I read the sign: “Accupuncturist, cardiologist, dentist…imagineering? As in Disney ride engineer?” (Clearly Cory Doctorow has rubbed off on me.)
It turns out that Imagineering is also the name of a multimedia company. Ah well.
Switching jobs from Tucows to TSOT means that for the first time in four and half years, it’s quicker to commute by subway than by bicycle. Hence for the past couple of weeks, I have been doing something I haven’t done in a long time: I’ve been riding the subway during rush hour on a regular basis. I’m concerned by what I’ve been seeing.
It’s been a while since I was a regular subway rider, so my memories may be wrong. Could someone tell me if there’s been a downhill slide in the Toronto Transit Commission’s service? I’ll admit that my commute is incredibly quick — it’s a quick walk to High Park station, 10 stops to Bay station, then a quick walk to the office — but even in that short trip, I’ve faced trains too full to board, trains running at half-speed and trains sitting idle at the station, sometimes for five minutes at a time.
I know that when it comes to its website and to promoting itself through merchandise, the TTC often tempts me to declare “Toronto Transit Commission, Thy Name is Half-Assery!”. The TTC’s apparent attempt to mimic San Francisco’s MUNI’s core incompetency at public transport worries me.
Conservative columnist Mark Steyn declared me his reader of the day on his site:
The quote comes from my recent article on the Conrad Black case. Alas, thanks to some sloppy editing on my part, my quip is missing a couple of key words. It should read (and after editing, it does now):
While I have not been following the details of the Conrad Black case, the fact that such questionable characters such as Mark Steyn and Elton John defend him doesn’t help his case as I am concerned.
I don’t often agree with him, but I’ve got to hand it to him for taking it with good humour. Cheers, Mr. Steyn!