It was that time of year again, when SharkBoy got discounted tix to the City of Toronto's BBQ at Canada's Wonderland. This year we dragged JTree and Fortress of Solitude along with us.
For some reason, I was asked to digitize out FoS and only to refer to JTree as "Turdmorton Sheffield the Third" or something. I don't get it.
Anyway. Pics here. All pretty self explanatory. I got super sick after the 15th ride. Go figure.
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He's recovering at home from a metal knee replacement. Go cyborg!
His boredom is our reward:
And this little ad from the Yellow Pages. Note the name and the third bullet point. Some swishy graphic designer is laughing his way to the......
From some of my fave blogs/sites/internet crash zones:
What happens when you re-upload a video to YouTube a 1000 times? A watery blob yells at you! (via Gizmodo)
Good Show Sir has the cover for a book called Plunder. My comment: "After the American channel AMC released the rights to The Prisoner, the only buyer was the economically challenged lizardoid people of planet Gleebanx."
BoingBoing brings me a link for Stormtrooper Action Figures 365. A shot a day of troopers getting into serious predicaments? I like. I may steal...
Via @TorontoPolice on Twitter: "[video] LRAD is NOT a use of force option for police-it is communication tool-Public Order Unit S/Insp Bill Neadle" A communications tool? That's like saying a hand gun can be used for a......
Had to take down my contact form due to spammers. If you want to contact me, try dead robot at the mail of google dot calm......
I just went through my blogroll and cleaned out a few Celeb blogs I stopped reading (bye, Thomas Dolby) and added a couple more. I blame Twitter for the waning list.
If I’ve removed yours you’ve either haven’t updated in 3 months or I have a shaky hand and deleted it by mistake.
And whoever signed me up for a Topsy feed… Sorry. I’ve classified you as trackback spam. Get a real RSS feed.
Oh and HOLY CRAP! Someone Gmail me now and you’ll be MR/MRS 10,000!...
postbear has far too much time on his hands:...
A couple of years ago, the social media press release was all the rage. No longer would companies send tree-killing press kits to reporter, or issue boring press releases with canned quotes from senior executives that no one ever used.
Instead, the social media press release would revolutionize everything by providing reporters and bloggers with an engaging, interactive and user-friendly to get information, audio clips, photos and videos – everything that a time-strapped reporter or blogger needed to do their jobs, while giving companies a way to really tell their stories.
As important, it was also seen as a way for PR firms to charge clients premium fees because, after all, there’s a lot more work to prepare a social media press release compared with a 400-word text-only...
I think I’m wearing a nice shirt. I think I look good. I walk into the room and realize I’m about 20 years too old and 20 minutes too late – the meeting had started long before I arrived. Oh hello…?
Foto from smojoe.com
Back in May, I was invited to an informal meeting of “Toronto’s Top Bloggers” as defined by Rob Campbell, a kinetic social media guru who, when he walks into a room, sweeps you up into his schemes with his charm and charisma, like a Canadian Steve Jobs without the temper. I looked around the room at the top bloggers and recognized …no one. We all took turns to speak about our sites, our styles and our future plans/desires when it came to blogging. As we spoke, a camera was focused on us as we addressed the group. Whoosh,...
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You might recall SharkBoy and I are locked in immortal combat in a contest forever known as Who can hide the panties the best. We’ve lost the Spongebob undies somewhere – one of us hid them too well for the other to find it. The funny part is that neither one of us can recall who’s “turn” it was. I wonder if someone out there in the big wide world is opening a used lunchbox bought in some garage sale and come across this poor rag.
But no fear, we have found a new participant: green ugly and lyrca. Go take a look at SharkBoy.ca. I have escalated this war.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!
(Update: Site has reverted. Link still......
I’m not one for Podcasts. They’re quaint, like blogs, and only a certain kind of person can pull them off – usually someone with a good microphone and the ability to edit out people talking over each other.
I tried to get into Hey Ash What You Playin’? showbecause their videos were uber-gamer geek funny but their podcasts were overwrought with analyzing the mechanics of creating comedy video game gags. I swear the two episodes I listened two was like discussing early Woody Allen movies with current day Woody Allen. Yarg. I’ll stick with the videos, thanks.
I have to start listening to WDWRadio.com for reasons I will not offer. Yet. I will say that I am reading “Walt Disney – An American Original” and even though it has more schmaltz than a...
Canada has a vibrant high-tech economy so it seems strange that there are so few Canadian bloggers actively writing what’s going on. By active, I mean people writing blog posts a couple to a several times a week about Canadian and non-Canadian tech news.
There’s StartupNorth, TechVibes, Telecom Trends, and myself. But where’s everyone else?
I know they’re out there because once in awhile you run across a blog with great content. The problem is they’re difficult to find because Canada lacks a good blog directory. This makes it challenging to find any Canadian blogger, let alone high-tech bloggers.
My interest in putting the spotlight on Canadian high-tech bloggers is two-fold.
From a personal standpoint, I’m a high-tech enthusiast, and always looking...
I think I’m going to push a shopping cart through someone’s colon.
Please hold all your Dufferin Mall jokes. I’m sure they’ve heard them all before.
Via......
Remember how I decided I wanted one acknowledgment of my 6+ years of blogging? That site tanked pretty fast right after I announced that, didn’t it? After being on the web for over 12 years now (Christ on a toboggan… the internet IS for porn!) I find these kind of award sites either way up on the long tail (meaning they serve only to highlight 1million hits-a-day blogs) or they’re a group of friends who act like those mean girls at lunch hour out by the parking lot who use to point at my dandruff and bad skin…
There’s a Canadian version out now and the LGBT section is a bit lacking in content (no offense to the people who are there). Of the 6 listed, two are written by Americans living in Canada, one is living in Ireland. Why not nominate moi? That’s...
Fuzzbelly over on Flickr is doing an illustration of a bear a day and he used me as one of his models!
I love this guy’s style: sort of like a drunk Paul Pope vs a stocky Roy Lichtenstein with his use of tonal patterns, while looking through bear beer goggles.
Thanks Fuzz! It’s an amazing drawing!...
Via BigMak1969's Flickr......
Laughing… too hard… for snarky… comment. Just go:
Sketchy Santas - Go!
Via BearPupUK via......
And everyone is putting out an Xmas album:
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Or should I say “Rip Off Fridays”? I stole this idea from StevieB
Here’s my current desktop:
Make Shawn of the Dead Larger! CLICK!
I got it from here where some are suitable for Desktopping (tee hee I said......
The 2009 Weblog Awards have extended their voting process to the end of Sunday!
Please go vote for DeadRobot.com and vote (click the “+”). Make me all tingly warm, like the end of a Robert Zemeckis CGI Christmas......
I’m sexy,
I’m cute,
I’m popular to boot!
I’m bitchen , great hair!
The boys all love to stare.
I’m wanted, I’m hot,
I’m everything your not.
I’m pretty
I’m Ted!
I dominate the web!
Who am I? Just guess! (Duh! I just said it!)
Guys wanna touch my chest!
I’m rockin’!
I smile!
Many think I’m vile!
I’m flyin’!
I jump!
You can look but don’t you spam!! (woo!!)
I’m major!
I roar!
I swear I’m not a whore!!
I sizzle!
I scorch!
and now I pass the torch!
The ballots are soon and one site has to win!
It’s perky!
It’s fun!
And now it’s number one!
K-kick it, Deadrobot.com!
d-d-d Deadrobot.com
Woooo!!!!
And now you need to go vote for my blog: Click and hit the......
I want you to vote for me over on the 2009 Weblog Awards. I’ve placed my own nomination (all perfectly legal, on the web) in this post. Scroll down and hit the little “+” icon. I’ve never been one for self promotion of this blog but I’m looking at Raymi in the Minx and thinking… I can do that.
Actually, thinking about it, one year I did make 1000 stickers with the URL on it, hoping to blanket Toronto like some Banksy on acid. That was back when this blog wasn’t a blog, and was more web comic.
Actually – thinking about it, I’m past 6 years now, since April, if you count that comic.
Regardless. I want an award. I command you readers to go and vote. I will give you a......
Artist jamming on YouTube culture to utter brilliance? Real shut in who gets her mom to edit the videos? You decide....
I just want to say that OneMinuteGalactica is a comic timing genius with his clicking and mouse dragging and cutting and pasting and shit:...
Via Nice to see StevieB: The Atari 2600 Label Maker...
Last night, while walking back from the grocery store, SharkBoy was about 4 steps ahead of me and I was overcome to do something to his ice cream (come on, he made ME carry it home and I can’t have any of it!). I quickly ripped off the top and looked down at the pure ecru tub of sugary goodness. I must act fast! What to do? Plant my face into it a la Mrs Doubtfire? Well, close…
I stuck my face/teeth into it and dragged my upper jaw across the top and scooped out a healthy chunk. Lid back on, wipe my face, act natural. Smile!
We get back into the apartment and I put down the tub. I put away the rest of the food and innocently ask “Are you going to have some ice cream during Dexter?”
“ICE CREAM!” he shouts and pulls off the top.
He stops.
He does a...
You may recall I was a bit harsh on Cabbagetown the other day. All in jest, really. Sort of. Maybe.
Oreo Cookie Monster
Saturday was the big 1000 block garage sale (exaggeration) that has bargain hunters flocking to Cabbagetown to find exotic and useful tchotkes. While watching people purchase other people’s stuff I fantasize that there are only 6 things in the entire world and that these 6 things rotate between all of us at one point in our lives. A nail clipper I had for 5 years and sold in a garage sale last year has had 27,000 owners by now. You get my drift… there’s a lot of crap moving out there. Except for (hopefully) the family who thought it possible to sell half used cleaning products and those free shampoos you get at hotels.
I digress. I didn’t want to...
What an orgy of geek. This year the event seemed to have doubled in size, made evident by the crush between vendors in the main room. Too many sweaty nerds out there need to learn about Axe Deodorant spray. I think it’s time for the organizers to bite the bullet and increase the room size. I wonder if more “serious” attendees would show up if they did (like they do for Seattle – I’d pay to see 25 min of Avatar then dis it on my blog afterwords!) Don’t get me wrong – the Expo is my Xmas. I can only imagine how “inappropriate” my dwelling would look if I were allowed to shop, untethered to reality. How “single” I’d be with display cases of “action figures” littering all my wall spaces if I were to go...
Scott is going to chuckle upon seeing this, but I just can’t resist commenting on the latest on developments in the Suaad Hagi Mohamud story. During a bbq held this past week for Progressive Bloggers the discussion of both her and Abdul Razik came up a few times, and the subject invariably came to [...]...
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