Posts tagged “Toronto”
.ca -> .fr
Here’s the news: Jenna and I are packing up, leaving Toronto, and moving to France. For an entire year. Starting in January 2012. If you’re family or a close friend, this is probably not news. We’ve been planning this for almost three years, and though we haven’t kept it a secret, we also haven’t widely [...]
Free DIY PVR workshop
As a follow-up to my piece, Your PVR is an insomniac, Ushnish from Free Geek Toronto email to let me know about a free workshop on building a Linux-based PVR: What: MythTV (building your own Personal Video Recorder) Course When: Thursday July 14th Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm Location : Free Geek Toronto, Unit B, 51 [...]
The Bloor
Via Joey deVilla’s blog, a link to The Bloor, a documentary film about The Bloor Cinema. The Bloor is a pretty special place for me. It’s where I met Jenna back in 2005, and it’s where I proposed a few years later. You can watch the whole doc in two parts on YouTube:
An extremely pleasant customer service experience
Sometime in 2007, I bought a pair of Blundstones from the Australian Boot Company. They were great boots, and they became very very comfortable over time. This morning, I noticed that the sole of the left boot was coming apart: I sent a quick email to the Queen Street location, with a link to the [...]
Screeching redux
Yup, the screeching is back, as of this morning: The TTC has scheduled streetcar service to resume along the Queen Street East bridge across the Don River at 5 a.m. today. Construction at Church and Queen Streets continues to disrupt streetcar service. Via Transit Toronto
Pine cones
We’ve been to Ed’s Real Scoop in Leslieville several times this summer, and I can’t believe I didn’t notice this visual gag sooner: According to this week’s Now, Ed’s is one of Toronto’s top ten ice cream shops. Personally, I prefer the gelato.
The diversion has itself been diverted
The horrible streetcar screetching at Queen and Parliament that I wrote about? For the past week, we’ve been spared. It seems that the previous diversion has been diverted by more construction on the Queen East bridge. So until August 27, the 501 will take this convoluted route: 501 Queen Streetcars will divert eastbound, from Yonge [...]
Pickering Enthusiast
Compliments of Mr. Tristan Homer, a new episode of Jim Dupree: Enthusiast. This time, Jim is enthusiastic about the city of Pickering, Ontario:
Come see my brand new rock and roll band play this Thursday (please)
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in a brand new rock and roll back band called The Sweat. We play Spinal Tap-inspired tough-guy rock, with tongue planted firmly in cheek. We’re playing our first ever full-length show this Thursday, July 9 at the El Mocambo with two other bands: Huron and Sandman Viper Command. We’d love [...]
This way to freedom
I like the underlying tension of my new iPhone wallpaper. Steve Jobs’s smooth, shiny slider beckons me to head right, to unlock the phone and start fiddling around on the internet. But at the same time, crudely painted Bain Avenue graffiti suggests I should put the phone back in my pocket and continue to live [...]