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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me

A Scene from the “Give Me Liberty” Street Party


Photo by Frank Lemire. Thanks, Frank!

Details later.

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It Happened to Me

I got a 70

[ via diveintomark ] Mark got a 77 on the Life Assessment Quiz, while I got a 70. I don’t quite understand this, as I can imagine this conversation taking place only a few years ago:

Mark: David Crosby! You’re my role model!
David Crosby: You mean I’m your favourite musician?
Mark: You’re a musician?

Okay, I kid. A little. And you probably know that I stole that scene from The Simpsons.

My strongest area was “relationships”; my weakest is “money”.

Give the test a try, and try to make a game plan based on the results.

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Geek It Happened to Me

I’m one of the cool kids now

I’d received an earlier invitation to Google’s GMail
service (which currently is available by invitation only, guaranteeing
that only the cool geeks have it right now), but I told the guy who
invited me that there was someone who needed it more than I.

Later, I got another invitation, which I was going to accept, until I remembered that I owed Boris a favour for his loaning me his apartment in Montreal for a weekend last September.

Last week, I got a third invitation — this time from Adam Hill — and I finally took it. I plan to use it for blog-related communication. It’s accordionguy {the-ubiquitous-at-sign} gmail {the-equally-ubiquitous-full-stop} com.

Thanks, Adam!

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me

Scott’s Birthday Party…

…is now available for the first time in photo album or slideshow form.


Happy birthday, dude!

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In the News It Happened to Me

Welcome, Toronto Star Readers!

Today’s edition of the Toronto Star has an article in the I.D. section titled Flogging Blogging. There’s a sidebar that didn’t make it into the online edition that has this snippet:

http://accordionguy.blogware.com
Joey, the country’s foremost Filipino-Canadian blogger. His 26/05/2004 response to an anti-immigrant www.enterstageright.com article proves that My Canada Includes Accordian [sic] Guy.

 My thanks to the Star and author Showey Yazdanian!

If you’ve come here for the fisrt time, there are two and a half years’ worth of entries. You’ll find some of the “best of” entries catalogued here. Feel free to look around!

P.S. It’s spelled “accordiOn”.

P.P.S. My apologies for the use of the <blink> tag, I believe it is warranted.

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It Happened to Me

By request: A better (and more recent) picture of Rob

Rob didn’t like the last photo of him I posted,
so let’s try this again. Here’s one I took last week; not only does he
not have a spaced-out expression, he’s looking pretty macho with a big
power drill as he constructs his Murphy bed:


If he looked any tougher, he’d be jumping out of the screen, drilling a hole in your head and feeding on the goo!

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It Happened to Me

For the Redhead’s Amusement

Here’s a photo The Redhead has never seen: it shows the longest I’ve ever had my hair (and the last time it was red.
This photo is from February 2002 and the guy to the left is Rob
Strickler, the newest member of our house.


I like to refer to hairstyles like this as the “I Want to Hump Duran Duran” look.