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Tomorrow, I start a new blog!

Tomorrow, I’ll be starting a new blog called Toronto Type. Within it, you’ll find photos of Toronto buildings/storefronts with particularly awesome signage. I’ve started this as a hobby, and a reason to get out of the house more.

Now that I’m almost done university, I feel like I should break out of my bubble of Downtown/The Annex/College St and actually get to explore.

Enjoy, follow, reblog, comment. I love you all.

[edit] Now with proper link.

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So, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (330 lbs) pledged that he would lose 50 pounds  by June 18. His brother Doug (275 lbs), a Toronto councillor, pledged to do the same. A site had been set up in order to pledge money to “Your charity of choice” and “Help the Ford brothers cut the waist.” However, if you type in a charity with the words “bicycle” or “gay” in it, it comes back with the above image. Not so surprising from the mayor who said “I can’t support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day” and who didn’t attend the Pride parade.

So, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (330 lbs) pledged that he would lose 50 pounds  by June 18. His brother Doug (275 lbs), a Toronto councillor, pledged to do the same. A site had been set up in order to pledge money to “Your charity of choice” and “Help the Ford brothers cut the waist.”

However, if you type in a charity with the words “bicycle” or “gay” in it, it comes back with the above image.

Not so surprising from the mayor who said “I can’t support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day” and who didn’t attend the Pride parade.

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Gamers play Tweetris at Toronto GamerCamp 2011. Two players use a Kinect to make shapes that the two players at the computer use for a game of Tetris. Co-op mode gives the partner of the player on camera exactly what he/she makes a shape out of Speed match mode means that the player on camera must make the shape that’s being dropped in order for it to be lowered quickly/placed Competive mode means that the people on camera generate pieces for their opponent, letting them make the most awkward shapes possible. Naturally, someone figured out how to make a penis Tetris block. All bets were off after that. Longer post for Torontoist is TBA; I’ll link it when it gets posted!

Gamers play Tweetris at Toronto GamerCamp 2011. Two players use a Kinect to make shapes that the two players at the computer use for a game of Tetris.

  • Co-op mode gives the partner of the player on camera exactly what he/she makes a shape out of
  • Speed match mode means that the player on camera must make the shape that’s being dropped in order for it to be lowered quickly/placed
  • Competive mode means that the people on camera generate pieces for their opponent, letting them make the most awkward shapes possible.

Naturally, someone figured out how to make a penis Tetris block. All bets were off after that.

Longer post for Torontoist is TBA; I’ll link it when it gets posted!

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