Eastenders

A call out to Toronto’s east enders, or people who enjoy crossing the Don every now and then: Tonight is the first of a Queen East music night we’re calling Eastenders. At least for now. Come by the Blue Moon at Queen and Broadview (south side, just west of the Opera House) for some good electro, hip hop, and synth pop. Constance will be testing out the sound system and I’ll be testing out the draught, plus my gig hyping skills (thus far evidenced by a facebook group and this post - look out out promoters, kyra’s on the scene!).

Anyway, it’s about time there was some up tempo night life east of the Don - come take part.

Oh! And it’s BYOV(inyl), in case you’re in the mood for sharing your boppables.

CBC: RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser

RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser

Pop-up alphabet

Over at YBread — the blog of ingenius Information Architect, Jenna Yim — there’s a nifty video find that you should check out.  Or, you can watch it below, blog poached.

Toronto’s local bike shops

List to grow.

Urbane Cyclist: Easy, friendly conversations; no sales pressure; willing to talk highly of brands they might not carry. Suggest ways to take full advantage of Ontario’s PST exemption on bike gear. Good selection of bike styles, mass brands and custom options. Link.

Trek Toronto: Won’t return. Didn’t get a welcome or eye contact acknowledgment, let alone a moment to talk with a sales rep in the 20 minutes I waited. Don’t know how the other four people waiting for service felt. Did like the merchandising: road and cyclocross bikes arranged by price was helpful.

Duke’s Cycle…

CycleSolutions (Beach)…  

Audio update: Robyn, Yelle, Tepr and G.Marnier

Conk has set us up with tix to the upcoming Robyn and Yelle (also featuring Tepr and Grand Marnier!!) shows in Tronno.

Stereo gonna lighting strike!

Dundas crossing

ToDo: Aquaint self with 150 blogs recco’d by AdAge

Power 150 - Ranking the top blogs and bloggers in advertising, marketing and media. - Advertising Age

Nightwalk

Nightwalk, originally uploaded by Kyra Savolainen.

 

Sean Dixon: no banjo, no death row, no otter

Sean says (11:10 AM):
nope
KYRA says (11:10 AM):
oh god - excel?
Sean says (11:10 AM):
we’ll be using the full feature graphic application powerhouse called excel
Sean says (11:11 AM):
i don’t know
Sean says (11:11 AM):
I suppose we can pretty it up afterwards
Sean says (11:11 AM):
keep in mind, you can do gradient fills in excel
KYRA says (11:13 AM):
i’m not sure if you like excel or not from this conversation.. and so i will remain silent.
Sean says (11:14 AM):
I love excel
Sean says (11:14 AM):
It’s always there for me
Sean says (11:14 AM):
i appreciate its gentle scoldings when i create a circular reference by accident
KYRA says (11:15 AM):
can i post the convo to my blog? seriously. you are hilarious.
Sean says (11:15 AM):
I want credit
Sean says (11:15 AM):
and a gnu license thingy
Sean says (11:15 AM):
creative commons and wwhatnot
KYRA says (11:16 AM):
haha oh - i can give you credit. pick the link and it’s yours.
Sean says (11:16 AM):
no link, just the name
Sean says (11:16 AM):
maybe I’ll show up in Google
KYRA says (11:16 AM):
i’m going to ctl+c/v this
Sean says (11:17 AM):
right now i”m against some playwright and banjo player, as well as a former Hockey player (drafted by the canadiens) whose career ended with school and the Erie otters
KYRA says (11:17 AM):
you’ll live on forever! albeit cached and visited by only 30 ppl a day….
Sean says (11:17 AM):
also, some kid on death row in tennessee
KYRA says (11:17 AM):
this is a jPod conversation.

Reading: Watts vs. the hush puppies

Through the week, I’ll be leafing through this article at Fast Company. It’s all part of my evolving pre-09h00 info gorge.

L’article:
Thompson, Clive. FastCompany. February 2008.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company