Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
The best way to get to know me is in my sidebars.
I’d like to throw a KeriBlog party, and I’ll print off all my sidebar art and nail them along a wall in one long continuous row, tada, now my party is an artshow, too.
Don’t bother clicking through, I haven’t yet linked them up to their proper destinations.
I keep a list on my phone of sidebar art ideas. It’s 50+ strong.
Click here and here for past sidebar art posts.
I spent my flights making sidebar art, I love to make sidebar art.
Made 15, which will get their own post.
Both those I like very much. But not Vegas.
Also, it’s like everyone packs their inner douchebag, and boy does it ever come out here. That and binge drinking. I don’t understand any of it.
TTYL have a great Sunday
Around now, then 6 months from now, because those are retail’s “make everything 70% off” cycles.
Right now a proper quality t-shirt is the proper price of $20.
I went this week. I’ve never loved shopping. Much of what you see me in is a decade old. I love malls for the people and atmosphere, not for the stuff.
Surprised myself, too.
Think I’ll wear it next Saturday night in Vegas at DefCon – the world’s largest hacker conference.
Remember last year’s video Inside DefCon19 and the interview series (which is almost edited, and includes the best highlight reel I’ve ever made).
On the rare occasion I require an opinion, I text a photo.
I have the toughest time finding simple, classic clothes. Why does everything needs a ruffle or pocket or some accoutrement?
Fact: it’s North America’s oldest company :O
Go to the third floor in the Eaton Centre one… endless labels, open and airy, no one bugs you, massive sale on.
Victoria’s Secret dressing rooms are beautifully lit #NoFilter.
‘Plain’ would definitely copy their lighting scheme. Sales ahoy.
While looking at this:
Non-nerds – you’re looking at a brand-new, pristine WordPress site. I’m going to port KeriBlog over when I’m finished building it. Comments will work again, one analytics log-in instead of 5, ONE SIDEBAR oh guys, so happy.
The red AI – that’s After the Deadline: an artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker. Check the * box to be warned when your writing is too passive. Seriously. While in Washington in January, I met one of the developers who wrote it; he was funny.
And I’m repeating myself, but AI and mind control and thought-power, it’s coming. It’s closer than you think. This huge shift of the last 5 years when the world got online, it’s nothing compared to what’s around the corner.
Friday night.
People-watching with a beer on a street is one of my favourite things.
Saturday night.
#SundayCleaning
Found this awesome FinalCut filter.
This week’s flowers.
They smell like cloves. If your home smells like fresh flowers, that’s classy.
See you online.
Finally made it inside. It’s been on my list every year during ‘Doors Open Toronto’, and 4 years later, tada!
It’s the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, inside the University of Toronto.
6 floors housing 700,000 books and 3,000 metres of manuscripts. It’s the largest collection of rare books and manuscripts in Canada.
Some of their best books:
How it works:
You tell them what you’d like to read, and they retrieve it for you (only librarians go into the shelves, the “stacks”).
You’ll meet up in the ‘Reading Room’, and be under constant supervision.
I asked them: do I wear gloves when handling the books?
Nope, and I quote, “We are a library, not a museum”. I like that.
I have a Books category here on KeriBlog.
Website: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Twitter: @Fisher_Library
Address: 120 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5
Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm
Here’s their catalogue.
