Last night I was bored and trying to think of something to do when suddenly I decided it was time to be a little more proactive in my quest for the Cube.

At this point in the contest, we’ve been asked to fill out our “Facebook-like profiles” on Hypercube.ca and we’ve been told that we have until April 9th to do so. Well, me being me, I got mine done about 20 minutes after I got the e-mail with my login info and I’ve been pretty much twiddling my thumbs ever since.

So as I said, last night I was sitting around with my thumb up my butt, wondering what I was going to do for the next 13 days when suddenly it came to me: promote the contest anywhere I can so other Canadians can get in on it before it’s too late! And how do I do that? By spreading the word on Canadian websites and forums. Sure it’s a little spammy, but worded right, I figured the odds of having my messages deleted were 50/50 at best and the worst that could happen is that is that my messages would be ignored or I’d be banned from forums I don’t even participate in, so no big deal.

I figured I’d start locally first, so off to 102.1 The Edge‘s website (Toronto radio station that meets the general demographic of this contest) I went and discovered that they had a whole page with ways to connect which included both Twitter and Facebook.

So…I sent messages to @the_edge, @1021edgegirl and @InsideEdgeChick with the contest information all hypercubists have been retweeting for almost a month now and encouraged all hypercubists to do the same, hoping some of them would see the cube signal via the #hypercube tag.

Then I hit Facebook. I posted a message on the wall of The Edge’s Facebook fan page and then I started a thread about the contest on Dean Blundell’s (morning show host) Facebook group, asking him to mention the contest on the air. I doubt he will, but I figured it would be worth a shot and again, I encouraged other hypercubists to keep the dream alive by posting in that thread, again, using the #hypercube tag in the hopes that others would see my message.

As I was doing all that, my faithful and trusty sidekick, Blake, who I happen to be married to, was looking up whether or not City TV (Breakfast Television – their morning show – in particular) and Much Music (Canada’s MTV) had forums or Facebook groups and e-mailing me links.

Breakfast Television didn’t have a forum to speak of, but we did discover that they had a Twitter account, so I sent them a Hypercube @message too, informing them of the contest.

As I was thinking about City TV and Toronto in general, a really good idea came to me: SPEAKER’S CORNER! So I tweeted, again using the #hypercube tag, that Toronto hypercubists should totally hit up Speaker’s Corner and spread the word as there was probably enough time to do that and get on the air next weekend, a full 4 days before sign ups close.

After I did that, I signed up for City TV and Much Music forum accounts and patiently awaited my confirmation e-mails.

As I waited for these e-mails, Blake & I went to a bunch more Canadian websites looking for places to put the hypercube message, when suddenly it dawned on me that hey, I happen to know the guys over at Bite TV fairly well, so over to their site I went only to discover that they had taken their forums down during the last site redesign. Bummer. So, I did the next best thing: I dug through old e-mails with them, copied the addresses and sent them an e-mail telling them of the contest. Truthfully, this one probably won’t bear fruit due to the nature of the station (they have no live content and in-house content seems to be only created maybe once a month, last I watched) but I figured “what the hell” and did it anyway. Maybe they’d make a blog post about it on the site or something.

So as I did that, the confirmation e-mails from City & Much came in, but just as that happened, Blake informed me that Canada.com had CLASSIFIEDS. Oooooooooooh I thought, so I asked what kind of classifieds? Could anyone post? Were they free? So we both looked and found that the answer to all of the above was YES and not only that but they had a CARS section in the classifieds. So, I placed this ad, which was confirmed and is live, so you can see it here, but in case it gets taken down, I took a screencap:

(Canada.com classified ad, click here to enlarge!)

Truthfully, there’s a very good chance that human eyes may see this before it goes up and nix the ad and there’s more than a good chance that human eyes will see it once it’s up and nix it for not being a “real” car ad, but I figured I’d so it anyway and hope for an “A for effort”.

By this time, I was exhausted (I’m currently on Tylenol 3 and it knocks me on my ass) so I decided to save City TV and Much Music for today.

So, when I woke up this morning, the first place I went after checking my e-mail and Twitter was MuchMusic.com to make my thread on their forum, which you can see here. But just in case they take it down, I screencapped it for posterity:

(Much Music thread I started, click here to enlarge.)

Again, this could be considered a little spammy, so there’s a good chance the mods will delete it, but i’m hoping I worded it in such a way that they won’t. It’s hard to say. The same could go for the thread I started on the City TV website, which you can see here, but again, I’m hoping that won’t be the case and of course I screencapped that one “just in case” too:

(The City TV thread I started, click here to enlarge!)

So, that’s what I spent my Friday night and Saturday morning doing, hopefully my messages are heard and my threads are fruitful, so some more hypercubists are added to the fray and we can make this community of ours a little bit bigger. :o)