Author: Joey deVilla

It’s been five months since I’ve been using a Windows Vista-based computer as my primary machine (after having used a Mac for years). My opinion can best be summarized with a “Successories”-style poster utilizing that horrible new photo of Paris Hilton attempting to channel Audrey Hepburn:

If work won’t provide me with a Mac laptop, I may end up just buying one myself. The refurbished ones are available at pretty good prices.

In case you’re too young to get the reference in the Paris Hilton photo, here’s the original — it’s a still from a scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

While most people think of Hyundai as a car company, they actually started as a construction company and over time turned into a conglomerate producing everything from semiconductors to ships (other examples of such companies include Mitsubishi, which makes everything from fruit juice to jet engines, and General Electric, who make everything from lightbulbs to jet engines to NBC/Universal).

I’ve seen all sorts of things bearing the Hyundai brand, but I had no idea they made accordions (or other musical instruments)! Better still, their C-level execs seem to “eat their own dog food”: here’s a video of Mr. Kim, president of Hyundai Music Corporation, playing When the Saints Go Marching In on a green Hyundai 12-bass piano accordion:

[Thanks to chiamattt — owner of the blog smokehard — for telling me about Hyundai accordions!]

“Engrish” — the gramatically and often hilariously incorrect English that you often see in East Asia or on East Asian products — typically makes at least a little sense. Not this t-shirt, which I spotted on an outdoor rack at the corner of Spadina and Sullivan Streets:

“Enquired? Bump? Brush culuff?” Feel free to theorize in the comments.

(This stores sells other shirts with Engrish, such as this one from back in May.)

Here’s nature’s answer to gummi lighthouses — I saw this yesterday at the High Park organic farmer’s market:

What do they label the aisle with the adult diapers? I guess I should go check the next time I’m in the drug store…

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

If they were still making chips with Olestra, the “chips” and “incontinents” aisle would be the same.

I was at the corner of Queen and Sherbourne early Friday morning to drop my car off for maintenance (it’s at the 100,000km mark, which isn’t bad considering it’s ten years old and still looking good) and saw this mural:

Here’s a slightly wider shot: