Category Archives: Culture

Quantum of Dynamite trailer

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Easily the most hotly-anticipated film of 2009, and potentially the most explosive spy thriller of all time, the tsunami of testosterone which is Quantum of Dynamite is the tentpole holding up the hopes of an entire industry. If it succeeds, it will take entertainment itself to a new level. If it fails, all of the major studios, who collectively have invested over three hundred quintillionbillion dollars in the extravagant production, will be sold to roving gangs of Uzbek pawnbrokers, to be broken up and sold for scrap in the bazaars of the former Silk Road breakaway republics (Sharmuzistan, Szatinia, Kraypistan, and Georgette).

We at the ol’ raincoaster blog have obtained a worldwide exclusive, procured at great personal cost (I know it was only one child, but everyone loves their eldest, don’t they?) an exclusive print of the fabled trailer for this monumental motion picture. Pour yourself a chocolate milk, shaken, not stirred, and settle down to watch the film that is to change the entertainment industry forever:

Welcome to the Web!

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Truly hath the wise man written, We are born wireless, yet everywhere are tethered by power cords.

World Wide Web Worker

Upcoming Twitter and Social Media Courses

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Classes run each Saturday on a rotating schedule. See our main course page for the full list

To register, please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com in advance to make sure the class is not sold out. When your registration is confirmed, please pre-pay via the Paypal button in the top right-hand corner of the blog. Paypal will give you a receipt and I will email you one as well. Lunch is included in all of our four-hour courses.

If you would like to register for both of these courses, the price for two is only $100, a savings of $50.

Twitter Tools

is a hands-on seminar designed for beginning and intermediate Twitter users who want to learn improved ways to manage their accounts.

Who: Raul Pacheco (@hummingbird604)

Twitter BirdWhat: Twitter Tools, a two-hour introduction to Twitter, HootSuite, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and Power Twitter
When: 12-2pm, Saturday, February 28th. Repeats every fourth Saturday (next class March 28th)
Where: Tradeworks Training Society, 2nd floor, 87 West Pender Street, Vancouver at the corner of Columbia and Pender in Chinatown
Why: learn four powerful applications that can save you time and help you get the most out of Twitter
How: much? $75

The basics of Twitter and the applications of three Twitter tools will be reviewed in the first 30-45 minutes with a hands-on session in the remaining 1:15, where the instructor will be available to guide participants through the basic elements of using each one of the following tools – HootSuite, Twhirl, TweetDeck and Power Twitter.

Class size is strictly limited to 8: please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to pre-register. Payment in advance via Paypal or by special arrangement. In this case, lunch will not be served but snacks and coffee will be available.
Social Media

Introduction to Social Media:

a two-hour, intensive introduction to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other popular social media platforms. Covers the etiquette unique to each, how to set up your profile, privacy concerns, how to promote via social media and how to connect with real friends. This course is not a hands-on, lets-get-you-signed-up-on-Facebook course; it’s more to make you aware of all the different services out there and to give you some perspective to make an informed choice about your participation in the social media space.

This is a $75 course which runs on March 28th from 10-noon. There are only eight places in each session.  Please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to pre-register. Payment in advance via Paypal or by special arrangement.

SO not seeing the problem here

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I mean, really. I just don’t get it.

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Fairy Evidence Discovered!

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Yes, Virginia, fairies do exist.

This is a controversial issue we’ve covered frequently in the past. You will note the comments of the doubters; never supplying a single shred of evidence to support their theory, they deal in third-hand rumours and blatant pig-headedness to support their outrageous hypothesis that fairies are imaginary. It’s a scandal that so-called “rationalists” could indulge in unsubstantiated rumour-mongering of this nature.

Do you think Shakespeare, who wrote about Julius Caesar and the dubious merits of Scottish hosts, would make shit up? Do ya, punk?

Now, from TackyRaccoons, comes clear photographic proof of the existence of these delightful sprites. Polaroids, as everyone knows, cannot be faked.

Fairy Evidence Photo

Not only do we now have real proof that they exist, but we are beginning to understand how they reproduce. In this comment I suggested an hypothesis of fairy generation, and not long after that pictoral evidence surfaced to support my theory that they were not gestated in banal fashion like so many mortals, but instead crawled out from between the petals on the undersides of mushrooms. And here is the picture that proves it.

Fairy Ring Evidence

Case? Closed!