Here’s Sutha Kamal of Ambient Vector (and part of the DemoCamp brain trust) working on his “What to Expect from a VC” presentation during Om Malik’s keynote.
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Social Calendar
On Saturday and Sunday
(I have to attend a christening on Saturday at 11 and a cocktail party that evening, but should be able to catch a good chunk of BarCamp for a while in the afternoon and possibly later in the evening.)
Sunday Night
Once Mother’s Day dinner has concluded, we’re off to Kickass Karaoke at The Rivoli (334 Queen Street West), starting at about 9 p.m.. I understand Tara and Chris will be there too!
On Monday and Tuesday
Monday Night
Schmoozing at The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen Street West) with the rest of the folks from the Mesh Conference. Might drop by The Rhino to say hi to the folks at the Rails Pub Night.
Tuesday Night
Chicken wings at Sneaky Dee’s.
Here’s a photo that someone snapped of me last Friday at the Gladstone Hotel during the Contact photography festival:
Click the image to see the original photo on Flickr.
For no real reason at all, here’s me, Wendy and a giant pita at the 14th Good Food Festival and Market, which took place a couple of weekends ago:
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The Fuzzy Experiment, Part Deux
It’s been two weeks since the start of The Fuzzy Experiment, in which I decided to test the theory put forth in this article that states that you don’t need shaving cream. Since Tuesday, April 25th, I’ve been skipping the shaving cream and using only a razor. Since I shave immediately after coming out of the shower, it’s not a major change and so far, so good. In fact, not having the shaving cream makes it easier to shave around my trademark goatee and sideburns; I can actually see what I’m doing. Better still, Wendy hasn’t noticed any difference.
I should invest in a shaving mirror for the shower. I suspect that I’d great an even better shave in a nice hot shower. I don’t think I’ll go so “old school” as to add a straight razor to the mix; I can imagine all kinds of unpleasant shaving accidents, especially a few involving “Mister Wiggly”.
The most noticeable effect this experiment has had: a MetaFilter discussion on the topic, which as of this writing has 76 comments! Who knew that shaving was a topic near and dear to the hearts of so many?
The Toronto Ruby User’s Group is having its first Hackathon tomorrow at the Tucows offices. Tomorrow’s goal is to implement the functionality of libarchive and libtar as both a pure-Ruby version and as Ruby/C bindings to the libarchive and libtar libraries.
The hackathon will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Tucows offices (96 Mowat Avenue, near the corner of King and Dufferin). Ruby local hero Austin Ziegler will provide the pizza; Yours Truly is the Tucows host. If you’d like to participate, sign up on the wiki!
Every couple of weeks, Carson T. Foster, host and creator of Kick Ass Karaoke, hosts a karaoke night at The Social, one of the spots that’s making West Queen West an increasingly popular destination. Not only do you get karaoke; you also get spaghetti (meat or veggie) at $2 a bowl and there’s always a chance that Rachel McAdams, who hangs out in the area, will drop by. Wendy and I dropped in early, which gave us a chance to hang out and chat with Carson, which is always interesting and always a pleasure.
I like the crowd at the Social, and Carson’s karaoke night there has an interesting feel to it that I think has been missing from the Sunday karaoke nights — it feels like his nights at the original venue, the Bovine Sex Club, circa 1999 when they were still new. Maybe it’s the crowd (a rather indie rock hipsterish bunch), perhaps it’s the Social’s nice open space; it might even be just having a new crowd to surprise with the accordion. I can’t put my finger on it, but I really like the vibe.
The other thing I like is the projector, which allows the lyrics to appear in large type behind the performer. With my flash turned off and the exposure turned up high, I was able to get some pretty nice arty shots:
