Joey deVilla

Why I blog (well, one reason anyway…)

It allows me to control my online identity. And, as the Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet comic strip for May…

23 years ago

Another cabbie story, this one from the vault

This happened a little while back -- shortly after I'd graduated from Queen's, which puts it sometime in 1995, but…

23 years ago

The worst cabbie in Accordion City…

...was driving Diamond Taxi number 3091 yesterday at 10:45 a.m.. You get three guesses as to who his unfortunate passenger…

23 years ago

A cross they don’t want to bear

On the discussion Web site Plastic, some evidence that atheists have their own annoying fundamentalists too:A state historical landmark in…

23 years ago

Salam Pax’s return?

It would seem to be that way: MetaFilter reports that Salam Pax, the pseudonymous (Salam and Pax are respectively Arabic…

23 years ago

National Accordion Awareness Month: your first warning

I didn't know this until I stumbled across it: June is National Accordion Awareness Month. Established in 1989 to promote…

23 years ago

Hacking, painting, writing: two perspectives

In The Happiest Geek on Earth: It's synchronicity -- Paul Graham and Eric S. Raymond write on the relationship between…

23 years ago