Monthly Archives April 2007

(Free) Tickets to GO!

For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a series for GO! on CBC Radio One. In it, I solve problems in my personal life by hiring professionals. Two weeks ago, I realized that no one laughs at my jokes, so I hired a drummer to follow me around for a day and punctuate my […]

A Tuna Kahuna and a Pistons superfan

Congrats to my pal Tom who made a guest-blogging appearance on the Detoit Pistons’ site.
Having season tickets is just about being a more informed fan that stays on top of things and follows the importance of a particular game or matchup and the health of the players. On Wednesday I won my fantasy basketball league, […]

Less than one week until Reading Series part deux

Well, the second installment of Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids is less than a week away. My pal Tristan was nice enough to create a Facebook event for the night, so if you plan to attend, RSVP, si vous plait.
Also, through an email from Neil at Mortified, I learned that our fledgling reading […]

How Democracy changed everything, and what the CBC needs to do to compete with the pirates

Well, perhaps Democracy hasn’t changed everything, but it certainly has changed the way I watch television shows.
Democracy is a free, open-source, Internet television platform. Its guts are made of:

An RSS aggregator
A Bittorrent client
A video player based on VLC

When you put these three things together, magical things start to happen.
Let’s say, for example, that I’m a […]

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids 2

I’m really excited and happy to let you know that we’re doing Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids again.
8:00 PM on Monday, April 30, 2007
Upstairs at The Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street, Toronto
That means you have about three weeks to clean out your closet, or dust off that shoebox of work from grade school, […]

My vast penny collection

So, how many pennies do you think this is:

Turns out it’s 2053 pennies. Though CoinStar skims a large percentage off your total, I figured their service was worth it for my vast penny collection.

The Canaries play the Horseshoe

So I’m in this rock and roll band called The Canaries.
Turns out we’re playing the Horseshoe this Monday, April 2, around 10pm or so.
Now, I know it’s a Monday night, but there are at least three good reasons to come to this show:

We’re opening for a band called The Manvils, who seem pretty cool. The […]