[This article was also published in Global Nerdy.]
Technology, media and pop culture writer Douglas Rushkoff, who’s got a guest writing slot at the uber-blog Boing Boing, points to an essay titled Riding Out the Credit Collapse. Published in the spring 2008 edition of Arthur magazine, it:
Provides a layperson-friendly, non-drowsy explanation of how the credit crisis [...]
Oh, snap:
The ad on the left is a skin cancer ad, which reminded me of a term I’d only recently encountered: the “sun scare industry”. It was a term used in a news release by the Indoor Tanning Association (yeah, I went “Really?” too) that saluted Sarah Palin for putting a tanning bed in the [...]
Yearly statistics for the Accordion Guy blog, courtesy of StatCounter.
StatCounter says that sometime within the half-hour before I wrote this, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century got its 2 millionth page view for 2008. My thanks to all of you for making this possible!
Hint, Hint…
Hey, web advertisers! I get 100K pageviews/month and [...]
(That’s Hebrew for “A good and sweet new year!”)
It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish holiday often referred to as “Jewish New Year”, is the start of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar and the beginning of the Days of Awe. Like many other cultures’ new year traditions, it’s a time to reflect on the past [...]
I found this while cleaning out receipts from my wallet. It’s from my last fortune cookie:
[This article also appears in my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
Introduction
Hello. My name is Joey deVilla, and I am unemployed.
Hmmm. Let’s try that again.
Hello. My name is Joey deVilla, and I am between jobs.
That has a much better ring to it. An optimistic, “this too shall pass” kind of vibe. Maybe the third time will be [...]
Actor, director, car racing enthusiast, humanitarian, creator of a pretty good salad dressing, beer aficionado and master of the steely blue-eyed stare Paul Newman died yesterday at the age of 83 after a long battle with lung cancer.
What you may not know is that when artist Gil Kane was re-designing the superhero character Green Lantern [...]
Life in a startup is full of adventures with its fair share of ups and downs. Budgets shrink and grow, teams shrink and grow and strategies constantly evolve. During these challenging economic times, it’s the companies who maintain their focus while controlling their spending discipline that will survive.
b5media lives and dies by these [...]
I love the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly! It features Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart and recreates the infamous “Obamas” cover of the New Yorker:
My career has been shaped by what I like to call “hobbies that have spiralled out of control”. The first was computer programming, which I took up in the eighties. Accordion playing came in the nineties. In the “naughties”, after submitting suggestion after suggestion to Cory Doctorow to post in Boing Boing, he said “Joey, [...]
The building next door to my workplace — 176 Spadina Avenue — is being demolished (presumably to be replaced by a newer, shinier building). It’s too close to the surrounding buildings to use a wrecking ball (which would’ve been cool) or explosives (which would’ve been even cooler) to take it down. Instead, they brought in [...]
I pointed a friend of mine who works in finance — I’ll call him “Senor Gumbo” — to my earlier post in which I explained “longing” and “shorting” to see if I’d explained it properly. He said that I’d nailed it, but he also said that I should more clearly explain what happens if you [...]
It’s a bit too geeky to cover here on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, but if you mosey on down to my tech blog, Global Nerdy, you’ll find my report on Friday’s Ruby on Rails Project Night, which featured:
James “Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants” Robertson, who talked about Seaside and WebVelocity, and
Paul [...]
There seems to an endless supply of tasteless wedding cake toppers:
Our parents would’ve loooooved this one.
This is a standard porn position. So I’m told.
Not even if the couple are both marine biologists.
The marital bed as cake topper! Bow chicka wah waaahhhh…
Ooh! It’s Sarah and Todd Palin!
For more on the tradition of breaking the glass at Jewish weddings, see this article.
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
