Disappearing Radio

This story has been moved to my other blog, The Happiest Geek on Earth. You can read it here.

Photo of the week

I’ve always liked the gravity–defying hairstyles sported by anime characters, so when I woke up Saturday morning and saw this, I had to take a picture:

The difference

The difference between playing to not lose and playing to win may seem subtle, but it’s everything. Hopefully Marshall isn’t too mad at me for playing to win. You know how it is once I get my Sun Tzu on.

(Yup, another unbloggable entry. If you really must know, I will tell it to you if you buy me drink, and yes, the accordion is involved.)

It had to be said

Damn, those girls at the health food store near Queen and Peter Streets are cute!

More stories are forthcoming

To my faithful readership: sorry the posts haven’t been as substantial and as full of Joey goodness as usual — things have been a little hectic for your ‘umble accordion player over the past couple of weeks, what with work, housemate hunting, getting my finances in order and of course, girl-chasing. The good news is that all this activity means that I have stories to tell, most of them tellable on this weblog. I’ll get to the telling in short order. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Smoke gets in your eyes

When I stepped out to go to work this morning, there was a smoky haze everywhere. It turns out that a fire on the waterfront has been blazing out of control all morning, and the smoke has been pouring everywhere. The surprising thing is that the fire’s a good distance away — the fire’s east of the Don Valley, and over here in clubland, the smoke is everywhere (although it’s no thicker than light morning fog). The smell of hickory is everywhere.

There are news reports here and here.

Accordion City’s shantytown

Here’s a New York Times story on Tent City (free registration required or login using the name “metafilter”, password “metafilter”), a shantytown near the undeveloped dock area by Cherry Street. I’ve seen it, and it looks like it’s been getting larger over the past few months. Along with the increasing number of panhandlers on the streets — Queen Street is getting up to two or three per block — it’s a bad economic sign.