Six months ago, I noticed a young woman sitting across from me on the subway sketching caricatures of people as they entered the train. I asked to see “me” (it was remarkably good for a 30-second sketch), and we’ve been good friends ever since.
If there’s one thing I excel at, it’s talking to strangers.
For that […]
January 2008
Three things you can give to strangers
Speaking in tongues
I recently joined the cast for a small community theatre production. As part of my role, I need to spend a good chunk of the production speaking in a Central Asian accent.
If you’ve never tried to adopt a realistic foreign accent before, you’d be surprised how hard it is to learn.
These links came in handy, […]
Two free web services I WANT to pay for (but can’t)
Five days ago, Tumblr ran into some downtime because of problems with their web host, Rackspace. While the service disruptions were minimal and the problems were completely out of his control, Tumblr creator David Karp was extremely apologetic about the slowness and outages.
As part of his apology on the Davidville blog, Karp offered compensation to […]
Should the Toronto Archives be on Flickr Commons?
Earlier this week, the U.S. Library of Congress made a huge splash on the web when they announced that they had decided to collaborate with Flickr and share their photo collection on the web. With one of the largest publicly-held photo collections in the world, this is not only big news for The Library […]
One day, Heath Ledger made me smile
Today, I have a lot to talk about.
Today, I could talk about the Oscar nominations. I could talk about how Madame Tutli-Putli is an absolute lock to win Best Animated Short. I could talk about how I’m glad the Academy agreed with me and nominated Cate Blanchett for both I’m Not There and Elizabeth: The […]