I’m a bit busy revamping the Tucows developer sites, so there’s little time to write. That doesn’t mean you’ll leave empty-handed: I’ve saved this guide to things that were considered swear words and phrases over the past few hundred years. I figure it’s timely: with an election on the horizon, there are bound to be [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Nov
30
2005
Today’s the Last Day to Vote for Me
Voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards closes tonight. If you haven’t cast your vote for Accordion Guy (under the category “Best Blog”), do so now!
Nov
29
2005
One Last Note…
(Don’t get the joke? See here, here and here.)
I’d write more, but dinner beckons. I’ll simply say that you can expect more election-related postings starting tomorrow and running right up to the big day, Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Nov
29
2005
David Janes’ Remix of “America: A Brief Parable”
David Janes, friend and right-wing blogger, remixed the Tom Tomorrow comic (America: A Brief Parable) that I posted earlier and posted it to his blog, Ranting and Roaring:
He also writes:
Remember the Afghan invasion … the brutal Afghan winter? The millions of refugees that were going to spill out from that war? The hundreds of thousands [...]
Nov
29
2005
Vote for Me!
A quick reminder: The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century has been nominated for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards “Best Blog” award! Vote for me today!
Nov
29
2005
Preview Scenes from Rob and Leslie’s Wedding
Just for kicks, a photo of me in my role as Best Man at Rob Strickler’s and Leslie Thun’s wedding last month:
And while we’re at it, one of my lovely wife:
And here’s one of the bride and groom after the wedding rehearsal dinner:
I’ll post whatever photos I have from their wedding and various pre-wedding celebrations [...]
Nov
29
2005
America: A Brief Parable
File it under “It’s funny, because it’s true”: the latest edition of the This Modern World comic:
Nov
29
2005
A “Best Of” Page
I used to have a “Best Of” set of links in the sidebar of this blog that listed what I thought were my best blog articles. The sidebars are a little crowded these days, but there’s a “Best Of” page.
It’s not complete — I still have a few more articles to add — but it [...]
Nov
28
2005
The Cthulhu Circus [Updated]
[via Superfrankenstein] The mash-up the world’s been waiting for — Family Circus comics with captions taken from H.P. Lovecraft!
Nov
28
2005
My Canada Includes Maria!
Congratulations to fellow blogger Maria “Adventures in Downtown Toronto” Davo on becoming a Canadian citizen today! From one immigrant to another, welcome!
Being a well-known blogger in Accordion City, Maria is probably the second best-known Mexican immigrant to Canada. The mantle of best-known Mexican-Canadian goes to “Ren”, from Ren and Stimpy, pictured below:
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Nov
28
2005
“Don’t Put Your Pizzle in That Cha-Chizzle or You Might Get an Illegizzle!”
When public service announcements try too hard to be hip, this sort of train wreck is usually the result:
Nov
28
2005
To Get Ahead, You Have to Wear More than the Minimum 15 Pieces of Flair
Click the photo to see it at full size.
Nov
28
2005
“Grover Demands Sacrifice!”
Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a few thousand people are sacrificed in Manhattan to appease the angry god Grover. Luckily for me, I was in Boston…
Nov
28
2005
What World War III Might Have Looked Like
Here’s something fascinating yet spooky: the newly-elected Polish government has opened its military archives from the days of the Warsaw Pact, which includes a 1979 scenario called “Seven Days to the River Rhine” based on the ridiculous assumption that NATO would be the aggressor in a nuclear exchange. Here’s a map that outlines the scenario…
According [...]
Nov
28
2005
Vote for "Accordion Guy" for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards!
It’s blog awards time again: voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards
is open until this Wednesday, and The Adventures of Accordion Guy in
the 21st Century is nominated for “Best Blog”! Won’t you please vote
for this blog, which presented these goodies over the past year?:
The Beer Hunter, the [...]
