Found this photo this morning under the title You might need to be a level six cleric to resurrect a ford focus.jpg. I added a caption to it and posted it below:
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This one’s a bit of a long shot, but here goes: someone emailed me with this:
I’m actually looking for an accordion player to play at my wedding reception — my fiance is Italian, and I thought it would be lovely to have an accordion to help ‘set the mood’. However, I’m not having any luck locating one in Kansas City. Would you have any ideas on where I might look?
I suggested looking up accordionists on Gigmasters and PartyPop, but just in case one of you readers out there know of a Kansas City-based accordionist who does weddings, drop me a line so I can pass along your info.
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The "On Notice" Board Generator
My personal “On Notice” board, created with the “On Notice” Board Generator. You may need to Google some of the items in that list.
Here’s the latest in online sign generators: The On Notice Board Generator, which lets you create your own version of Stephen Colbert’s “On Notice” Board from The Colbert Report.
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The Cleaned-Up Blogroll
Still Under Construction
If this blog currently looks half-done, that’s because it is. I’m generally pleased with the look of the content section — that’s the middle column — but the sidebars need a lot of work, and that temporary title graphic has got to go. Work and life have conspired to keep me busy as usual, but my inner Japanese engineer keeps looking at the blog and yelling “Kansei!” and “Kaizen!” and won’t let me rest until this thing looks just right.
Accurate and Up-to-Date
I just completed the clean-up task that involved the most drudgery: the cleaning up of my blogroll, the list that appears in the right-hand column. I’ve gone through every blog in that list and for each one, I checked to see:
- That the blog still exists
- The the blog is still being maintained (I treat having at least one new entry in the past 12 months and not having announced that it is shutting down as “being maintained”)
- That a link to this blog exists in a permanent list on that blog
Any blog that met all three criteria stayed on the blogroll and any blog that didn’t was removed. I also added a few new blogs that met the criteria. As of this writing, the blogroll is up-to-date.
“He’s Vewwy Highwy Wanked in Wome, You Know.”
If you’ve got a blog that meets the criteria listed above, let me know! Having your blog appear in my blogroll is good for your Google ranking. This blog has a Google PageRank of 7. For comparison,
- Little Green Footballs’ PageRank is 6
- Reddit and Digg have a PageRank of 7
- MetaFilter’s is 8
- BoingBoing’s is 9
Google’s algorithm gives your page a higher ranking when people with good PageRank link to you, so if you’d like to give your blog a boost, link to me and let me know about it!
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Blogging for Dollars
For those of you who have Blogware-based blogs and are looking to make a little extra money with Google’s AdSense, I’ve written the first two articles in a series titled Blogging for Dollars.
You can find the articles at:
Over at Naked KnitGirl, Maria’s got photos of last weekend’s special edition of Kickass Karaoke, which was a farewell party for Postmodern Sass, who’s leaving Accordion City for a new job in San Jose. Sass sent me a whole pile of photos, which I’ll gather into an album and post online soon.
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That Feeling of Deja Vu
Heading to work this morning, with the sun in a bright cloudless sky, the temperature unusually cool for the middle of August (23 degrees C, or about 73 degrees F for my American readers) and a cool breeze blowing about, I got hit with deja vu. Then it struck me: this is what the weather is usually like when it’s time to go back to school.
It’s funny how that feeling came up; I haven’t been in school since the end of 1994, when I wrote my last final exam ever. It was for my fourth-year databases course, and to commemorate the end of an era, I wore a suit to the exam, after which I joined my database prof, the late Dr. McLeod, at Crazy Go Nuts University’s Grad Club for some Glenfiddich.
I toasted the Good Doctor with John Belushi’s line from Animal House: “Christ! Seven years of college…down the drain!” [52 KB .WAV sound file]
Good times.
Do you still get school-related deja vu? Or anxiety dreams? (Very occasionally, I still have the nightmare where I’m being hit with a surprise exam or realize that I’d never even heard of the assignment due today.) Or are you still in school? Comment away!