For more information:
- Possibly the best Wikipedia article title ever: Butt (unit)
- Also Wikipedia: English wine cask units
- The difference between a buttload, boatload and shitload. One of these measurements is more informal than the others.
Author: Joey deVilla
“RESOVLVED [sic],” the resolution reads, complete with a sloppy typo that would’ve been caught by an attentive proofreader or even a word processor from the previous millennium, “That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention…”
In short, they say they’re doing a great job, they’d like four more years of doing said great job with Trump nominally at the helm.
This election’s no longer a referendum on liberal vs. conservative — it’s been reduced to a choice between semi-competence and a toxic, self-serving, half-assed autocratic cult of personality.
Further reading
- Business Insider: Republicans will not adopt a new platform at this week’s convention and will instead pledge to ‘enthusiastically’ support Trump
- New York: GOP Will Not Write a 2020 Platform, Pledges Undying Trump Support Instead
- Slate: Republicans Announce Their 2020 Platform Consists of Supporting Whatever Trump Wants
- Esquire: The Republican Platform Is a Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of Unreason
- Mediaite: ‘Cult of Personality’: RNC Mocked After Announcing They’re Totally Abandoning a Party Platform, Just Supporting Trump
It could also mean that your dad’s “legitimate business” had a body count.
While reorganizing my files, I found these photos of me with the accordion in various situations and decided to post them here, just for fun.
The one above is from the karaoke competition at the 2015 edition of the GIANT Conference, a great UX conference in Charleston. I’m doing Young MC’s Bust a Move, and won an Apple TV as a result. I still have it, too!
The photo below is from a party held at Social Game Universe’s offices on Toronto’s King Street West when I found a unicorn mask and decided to try it on:
Here’s a couple of pictures from a 2004 meetup with technology journalists Amber Mac and Leo Laporte:
For a brief, shining moment, I was in an earlier version Lindi Ortega’s band:
These photos are from two DEF CON conferences, DEF CON 8 and DEF CON 9:
These final photos are from Year One of the accordion — the year when I first took the accordion out into the world, yielding some surprising results:
