Author: Joey deVilla

If you’re looking for a house here in Accordion City and…

• You live alone or with one other person
• You don’t have much stuff
• You miss that cute little apartment you lived in while teaching English in Japan

…then this is the place for you!

Photo taken by Alexandra Samur, courtesy of Torontoist. Click the photo to see the Torontoist post.

This house, located near the intersection of Dufferin Street and Rogers Road is believed to be Toronto’s smallest house. Occupying what used to be a driveway, it’s a one-bedroom, one-bathroom house that sits on a parcel of land 7.25 feet (2.2 metres) wide and 113.67 feet (34.6 metres) long and has an interior area of just under 300 square feet (under 28 square metres). The asking price is $179,900.

Here’s another look at the front:

Here’s the living room, looking towards the front of the house:

Here’s the living room again, looking towards the back…

Here’s the kitchen. Note that despite the small space, they’ve managed to fit a washer and dryer into the place:

Here’s the bedroom. It comes with a Murphy bed, which is a necessity in such a space. This is what it looks like with the Murphy bed down:

…and here’s the bedroom with the Murphy bed retracted:

You also get some patio space out back. Here it is, looking towards the front of the house…

…and here it is looking towards the back:

Here are the house’s listed features:

• “Completely Re-Done Top-To-Bottom, Front-To-Back!”
• Tumbled stone entrance walk
• Renovated Bath
• Renovated kitchen with newer stove, new cabinets and new stacked washer/dryer
• Bedroom with Murphy bed + “Built-Ins” — doubles as den!
• Walk-out to fenced patio
• 100-amp service
• 2 satellite dishes and receiver
• “Window A/C Available”

If you’d like to know more, here’s its real estate listing, and here’s an entry about it in a local realtor’s blog.

Omage courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Here’s what Chairman Mao would probably think of this:

In case you need it, here’s an explanation of the acronym “ROFLMAO”.

And here I thought “Cola Wars” was just a figure of speech:

State police in Indiana, Pa., are investigating after a Pepsi employee allegedly assaulted a Coca-Cola employee while making a delivery at a Wal-Mart in White Township on Oct. 1.

According to police, Robert Koscho, 48, of Ebensburg, and the Pepsi employee, David Paulina, 42, of Clymer, were bickering back and forth while making their deliveries at the Oakland Avenue store. Police said the two are also accused of trying to run each other over with pallets full of soda bottles.

Pepsi fired Paulina, which is ironic, since judging from their ads, they encourage a little smacking down in the name of competition:

Well, that’s it for the last surviving member of the Rat Pack lineup that mattered: Joey Bishop (nee Joseph Abraham Gottlieb) died on Wednesday night. Rest in peace, son of a gun.

This LiveJournal entry has some interesting scans of Chinese propaganda pamphlets from the 1940s and 50s. Here’s an example:

Click to see the image at full size on its original page.

Although the illustration was made in 1951 and that’s supposed to be Harry S. Truman dancing on a cannon and waving a bomb while people drown and lose their homes, I can’t look at that image and not be reminded of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.

Want to know more about this shipping container that transforms into a cafe? See this entry in my tech blog, Global Nerdy.

Welcome to the first installment of The Excited States, a series of articles in which I look at the antics of our wacky-but-lovable neighbour to the south, the Excited States of America!

Programmer Mark Pilgrim sums up my opinion of FOX News quite nicely:

I think liberals should thank Fox News for indirectly providing a valuable service. It is now possible to rank the batshit-craziness of American conservatives on a single linear scale, based on when they stopped watching Fox News.

Speaking of FOX News, here’s a screen capture of their front page from Tuesday:

Screen capture of the FOX News website from Tuesday, October 16th, 2007.

Note the article titled Which State Will Be First to Legalize…SEX WITH A ROBOT?, which I presume is aimed at getting people all riled up about gay marriage again.