@ivortossell Torch website claims relay will "inspire the world by delivering extraordinary events that truly celebrate the possible." Guh?
Fake band names: http://bit.ly/tQAS (choice selections: "Surprise! You're An Orphan", "Pepto Dismal")
@shawnmicallef, @ivortossell, Facebook requires mutuality, so it's an obligation. Twitter's asymmetry makes it more about genuine interest.
@tiffing I cycled through all the themes and then went back to the default. Am I boring? Perhaps. Can I stand to look at the screen? Yes.
@ivortossell Let's spend $20 million and then we can race them! Also, they can, like, breed, which is a way cheaper way to make a mammoth.
My Gmail theme has changed, yet I have no Themes tab that would let me change it myself.
Maybe Woody Allen makes good movies in even-numbered years.
I think I've been overusing the word "fraught" recently. But it's useful in so many instances.
@kattancock I really dislike digital editions — an inconvenient, ersatz format with a clumsy interface.
Lunch place playing 'White Christmas.' Gah.
Going to see this new AGO that I've heard so much about.
@ivortossell Now this is how you make a viral video. http://bit.ly/9iTy
This Mag podcast is twice as long this week. I can see how this could get out of hand.
I suggest killing two memes with one stone and having the Obamas buy one of the six famous Shiba Inu puppies.
The PR people at the Defence Department seem oddly chipper.
@shawnmicallef What's the verdict on Walker Court? I worried about the plans for the big staircase chopping it in half.
Anyone have recommendations for a good web host?
Going for an audience with the cover guru
I wish Life magazine still existed so I could read about Obama that way.
I am the owner of the Inbox Of The Damned.
Signed up for LinkedIn and instantly hated everything about it.
@TheGATE Hint seen and noted. You're on my list now...
I just made issue outlines for the next 13 months. Now if only I knew some writers...
Successfully used http://a.viary.com to make a little web graphic. Not bad.
New issue arrived at the office today!
@kattancock You'd think so — but no, it's just cold.
My office is so cold it's like I'm working in a Dostoyevsky novel.
No matter what direction I walk, the wind is always blowing directly in my face. I'm starting to take it personally.
R.I.P. Frank Magazine (1989 – 2008)
"Going rogue" is to 2008 what "flip flop" was to 2004.
Does it make me an effete urban twit for being surprised at how incredibly cheap cabbage is?
Skinhead numerology (88, 14) is just as stupid as you might expect. http://bit.ly/1A5ELg
"Sneak peak" has got to be the typo I notice most often these days, and it still drives me up the wall.
The F.A.O. Schwartz make-your-own-muppet service: I can't believe the world went this long without it. http://bit.ly/313BVa
Had to stop following @huffingtonpost on Twitter. Too many posts.
Never expected so many newspaper writers to inform me of the meaning of "synecdoche" in one day.
Going to talk to a George Brown magazine feature-writing class to talk about, uh, magazines.
RIP Masthead Magazine (1987 – 2008)
Spent a beautiful day in Stratford yesterday seeing Hamlet (meh) and Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" (fun. Also: Orientalist nightmare)
Stratford Hamlet. Meh.
Wishing I got my weather updates by going outside instead of seeing twitter messages.
Just back from the GG awards finalist announcement. Blog post up shortly...
@ivortossell Boo-urns Porter Air.
@kattancock No deal.
This Magazine now uses Google Apps. Gmail bliss, finally.
@typeter Of course. I'm only thankful for two days' worth of stuff, not three.
Finally finishing up a massive Flickr-dump. Haven't uploaded anything in about six months.
On the Greyhound to Cambridge for belated Thanksgiving.
Very flattered that the Ontario Arts Council, @oac_cao, is following me on Twitter. But why? And how?
On-hold music that's meant to be calming is so infuriating.
Walked to work as the sun rose. Awfully nice.
@ivortossell oh god is right.
@ivortossell have you seen the United Church of Canada's social network? Weird. http://bit.ly/1fIQiv
Rewriting my editorial to reflect the "results" of this "election"
Invites you to come to the This Magazine election-watch party at the Rivoli, 7 pm
Going to vote now.
Back from rehearsal thanksgiving dinner, gearing up for the real one next week.
Cleaned the bathroom, did three loads of laundry, and Windexed my windows. Editing video now.
Back from coffee and Guardian Weekly, doing some fall cleaning
Going for a little walk because it's too beautiful out not to.
November/December issue is so close to being done, I can *taste* it.
Just net Clive Thompson. Neato.
@kattancock Election, shmelection — who cares when there are new Macs to ogle on the 14th?
Invites you to This Is Not A Conservative Party tonight: http://departmentofculture.ca/concert
Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer" for the Republicans: http://bit.ly/487sV6
@typeter, don't blame iTunes — you're the one who put all that Jim Croce on there.
debate. This format is torturous. John McCain he an uncanny knack for turning his back to the camera.
A headline I wish I had a story for: All politics is yokel.
Proofreading.
Just back from the Tiny Alligator Large Band gig at Trane Studio. Brilliant, as usual.
#wcto08 I'm not sure that Q&As are the most efficient way to collect feature requests...
@cathybutler Welcome to the neighbourhood
At WordCamp Toronto. Cenntenial college is in the middle of nowhere.
@ivortossell Hey, big spender.
recovering from sticker shock at the Toronto International Art Fair
Done liveblogging the Canadian debate. Now catch up on the Biden-Palin gong show.
@DeptofCulture the youtube link didn't work. Relink?
now a multimedia ninja after a brief rampage through Henry's outlet store
Those puppies were terrorists.
@omarharedeye thanks for the heads-up on that NYTimes piece.
Setting up our booth at Word On the Street. Stop by and say hi he you're in the neighbourhood.
You never realize how much you need a database until it's gone.
This really is the perfect gift: Sock of the Month club: http://bit.ly/3uk3lz
Pitney Bowes: epic fail
Now 0.64% Burrito.
@ivortossell groan.
Capping a surprisingly productive day with a beer at the Horseshoe.
@HeatherLeson That's what make me think of it. My first thought was "I am *so* sick of zombies."
Aren't zombies just so 2005?
Making typos.
Some of the late David Foster Wallace's nonfiction writing ('Shipping Out') is particularly good): http://bit.ly/1HRjFA
Looking for a loaner video camera. Anyone?
May actually get some editing done today.
Never had any doubt about the Large Hadron Collider.
Green Party shut out of leaders' debates. Boo! http://bit.ly/3dMkSx
@ivortossell Same article, but I prefer the "Dunbar number": the cognitive limit to the number of 'friends' a human brain can accommodate.
@apgalbraith I'm a fan of election.rabble.ca and mediascout.ca.
Looking for bloggers to cover Election 2008. Email or tweet your interest!
Anyone want a Dropbox beta invitation?
Election called. See you in October.