So they’re knocking down the building across the street from my old house. A few weeks ago, fences and concrete barricades surrounded the sidewalk, and suddenly I couldn’t park my bike there anymore.
Then, sometime over the past couple of days, they started knocking it down. Last night, on our way to the Imperial, I took […]
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Trivial Pursuit ketchup
On Saturday afternoon, Jenna and I went to the Hero Certified Burger at King and Yonge for lunch. I grabbed a handful of those little ketchup packets, and noticed that Heinz now prints Trivial Pursuit questions on their single-serving ketchups:
This is a great idea.
But it falls short online. As far as I can tell, the […]
Apple logo carved into Vista ad
David Topping over at Torontoist has a nice write-up and several photos of the Apple logo carved into a Windows Vista ad I saw last week (image above and on my Flickr):
A little over a week ago, one user of the tribe.ca forums found the word “LINUX” carved out of a huge Vista ad at […]
Straight back to ‘88
Just in time for my poorly named evening of reading (Adults Read Things They Wrote as Kids), a package from my Mom arrived in the mail:
Inside, I found five scribblers.* They were all journals from elementary school at Sackville Centennial. There’s some great stuff inside, and I’m looking forward to reading from these on Monday. […]
Ketchup on your RRSP
This past Friday, after work, I went to the TD Canada Trust to pick up some cash for the weekend. When I looked down, I noticed an unopened bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup on the counter in front of the teller.
Then I looked down the length of the counter. There were bottles of ketchup in […]
Free over-the-air HDTV in Toronto
On the front page of Digg today, a link to Prick Up Your Rabbit Ears. It’s an article from Newsweek about over-the-air HDTV.
When cable TV arrived in the ’70s, rabbit ears seemed destined to go the way of the polyester pantsuit. So, too, the clunky outdoor antenna, a rooftop fixture that once upon a time […]
“Send him the money. Thank me later.”
They night after I moved to Toronto, my friend Laura took me to Graffiti’s in Kensington to see Kevin Quain play. It was a Monday, I remember. Earlier that evening we watched the sun go down and the city light up from the top deck of a ferry on its way back from Centre Island.
And […]
Smog Dog
I’ve lived in Toronto for almost three years now. The whole while, I’ve never purchased (much less consumed) a hot dog or sausage from any of this fair city’s ubiquitous street meat vendors.
Last night, all that changed:
Special thanks to Jenna for getting me intoxicated enough to make it all happen.
Hey you with the floss! Don’t even think about flushing that down the toilet.
A few (maybe five) dentist appointments ago, I resolved to floss my teeth every single day. The first month was really tough, but once I got into the routine, it stuck.
For as long as I’ve been flossing regularly, I’ve been disposing of my dental floss in the toilet. I mean, it makes sense: I floss […]
My Secret City
In my inbox today, an announcement about “My Secret City,” which is a part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche “all night contemporary art thing.” It starts at sunset at 7:01 p.m. on September 30 and runs until sunrise at 7:15 a.m. on October 1, 2006.
I’d never heard of this before, and I really like the idea, […]
