In my part of town it was the Lucky Key. I remember seeing Starsky and Hutch and wondering if the same stuff went on there as went on at Huggy Bear’s. Friday nights we’d go to Dad’s place and order a large combination pizza from Lorenzo’s. They threw in the glass bottle of RC Cola. Here in Montreal, of course, they’re “aldress”.
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I came across an
interesting fact the other day when I looked at a fundraising prospectus: last year, the Beastie Boys were relatively important contributors to Santropol Roulant, a local Meals on Wheels service. Santropol Roulant is very cool – they’re based just up the street and take their name from one of my favourite restaurants in town, where I’ve been going for over a decade now. They are “intergenerational” which means that a specific part of their mandate is for young people to do the work – cooking, packaging, delivering, fundraising, etc. – delivering meals to the elderly. It’s almost poetic. And it’s one of the largest such services in the city.
I don’t normally post
about sports here, but then this isn’t really a sports story for Montrealers: Molson’s is selling the Canadiens.
I missed this
the other day: Mindjack (a really nice web magazine) reports that Shift Magazine‘s future is uncertain. Frankly, it’s not a surprise, although the magazine is excellent and its publisher (former?) Andy Heintzman is a good guy (or so I recall – we were casually acquainted in University). A quick look at Shift’s parent company’s history tells the fuller story, no matter what spin he’d put on things.
That was a bit
of a rant this afternoon and glossed over lots of stuff – in the post about MS. So let me clarify one or two things. First, yes, I do think it’s a complete smokescreen, that MS has no real intention of doing any of this, at least in the complete, all-encompassing way they are trying to sell. Second, for 99 percent of companies in the world I agree that it’s a GOOD thing not a negative that there are tons of others in this space already. Microsoft just doesn’t seem to be one of them, based on past performance. Third, if they were really serious about this, practically the whole presentation would have been about wireless. dot-NET type systems only make sense when you’re talking about a radically different landscape made up of massively-deployed wireless networks using standards-based protocols like IPv6. Microsoft has a good record with their browser to date, but I don’t see them betting the farm on external standards. Which means, to me, that it’s either not serious or will never happen regardless.
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