The Pixies – having a tough time deciding between better acoustics up top or getting closer to the @ Métropolis http://instagr.am/p/DIHdN/
Month: April 2011
The fucking Pixies. Let’s rock.
The fucking Pixies. Let’s rock.
@luxuryluke Been looking forward to…
@luxuryluke Been looking forward to it for awhile. Don’t know about lighting at the venue, but a few shots should make it up on instagram.
Pixies concert tonight, woot. Trying…
Pixies concert tonight, woot. Trying to make some headway on projects, so I don’t feel guilty.
Video portrait of Stephen Sasson
David Friedman posted a video portrait of Stephen Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. I mentioned the camera last year, it might be worth revisiting his discussion of its development and the patent file (via df).
Headed downtown to pick up…
Headed downtown to pick up Pixies tickets, should’ve just had them mailed to me.
Unicode video
If you ever wondered what it would be like to sit through a video of 49571 unicode characters, now’s your chance.
Ugh, what a failure of…
Ugh, what a failure of a ball game #bluejays. I was going to stop watching when it was 7-0 and head to bed. We all make mistakes.
@jblanton probably better than forgetting…
@jblanton probably better than forgetting to eat dinner, and having a beer instead. Or is it?
Glad to know Stephen Harper…
Glad to know Stephen Harper thinks so highly of Canada & the office of Prime Minister, he’s definitely not a hypocrite: bit.ly/eVadNU
At that point where you’ve…
At that point where you’ve seen a word so many times, you start to wonder if it’s spelled wrong.
Ikea’s cheap American labour
Ikea workers in the United States get paid less and have fewer vacation days than their Swedish counterparts.
Laborers in Swedwood plants in Sweden produce bookcases and tables similar to those manufactured in Danville. The big difference is that the Europeans enjoy a minimum wage of about $19 an hour and a government-mandated five weeks of paid vacation. Full-time employees in Danville start at $8 an hour with 12 vacation days — eight of them on dates determined by the company.
Insert joke about how the tables have turned, albeit with a sprained-wrist from two hours of wrestling flatpack furniture.
Update: Joe Clark indicated to me that the company isn’t “Swedish”, so it’s not like the Swedes are getting any sort of preferential treatment — most European countries get a lot more vacation time than North Americans. Also, it’s interesting to note that Sweden doesn’t actually have a minimum wage — their salaries are set by collective bargaining (that’s where it helps to have unions).