Mike Abasov

This winter has come to Vancouver very early and, at least for me, unexpectedly. I should still change my tires or else I’m risking to be spending twice as much time on commuting, which would be the total of 5 hours daily.

Seeing how fellow students start wearing hats and being a considerably style-conscious person, I want to give you 2 very short pieces of advice.

1. Take your hat off when indoors.
It’s not cool to wear a hat, lid, cap or anything else like that indoors, unless dictated by your religion. If you don’t believe me, ask GQ’s style guy:

“In a public building, a man may keep his hat on in the corridors and in elevators. When one enters a room, one should remove one’s hat.”

2. Put your hat on before you leave the building.
Hats don’t generate heat; they only keep your own heat contained nearby. If you go outside and then put the hat (or scarf, or gloves, or coat) on, you have already lost a part of that body heat that is so valuable. So do yourself a favour and put all clothes on before you leave.

Deal?

More pictures by photodreamz on Flickr.

I just loved the yesterday’s meetup, met so many interesting people, who are as geeky and social-media-style weird (in a good way), as I am. There were no presentations, and I didn’t really have a chance to chat with Shane Gibson, who, as I understand, was an important dude at this event. But, on the bright side, I had a opportunity to meet and talk to such awesome people, as Jason Baker,  Rina Chong, Wendy Hartley,  Wayne Racine, Andy Baryer,  Richerd (from HootSuite), Irina Shestak,  Eric Buchegger,  Meena Sandhu,  Alex Aleksandrov,  Ariane Colenbrander, and others. Oh, I guess I have my Follow Friday list for tomorrow :-).

Networking rocks, and you know that. So get out of your cubicle or home office once in a while and go meet real people. Because, no matter how much the social web influences all of us, we are the same human beings we were a thousand years ago.