The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan took this photo of me at the megaswanky King Edward Hotel, where Min Jung Kim threw a little impromptu get-together. We had drinks, pizza, conversation, command accordion performances, Min Jung trying to find out what was beneath the Accordion Guy persona (caramel and a crunchy cookie, last I checked) and of course, photography.

Rannie just emailed me a photo from that evening, and damn, I look as though I could be in a scotch ad! Call my agent!

Thanks for the photo, Rannie! Maraming salamat po.

Try to imagine the chain of events that led to this.

Got lots of work today, so if you’re sitting at home in your underwear, watching Dr. Phil and looking for Web entertainment (I’m lookin’ at you, Eldon Aitken Brown). may I suggest elevatormoods?

(You’ll need Flash to see the films.)

My friend Chris Cummer has entered the blogging world with ObBlog. It’s some programming, some slice-of-life and some “what the hell, people?”. Go give it a look.

Somebody get this man a milkshake!

Vancouver/Whistler won the bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics by a 3-vote margin. Congrats, guys!

This is good news for lots of people, including those of us who like snowboarding (or if you really must, skiing), as this will probably lead to the addition of facilities and runs at what’s been called the world’s best mountain. It’s where I learned how to snowboard.

Three Python postings in The Happiest Geek on Earth:

• Eckel on Python. After writing two of the most highly-regarded books on C++ and Java, Bruce Eckel’s discovered his new favourite programming language…you get three guesses as to what it is.
• Baranowski on Python. After writing one of the most talked-about censorship-bypassing applications in C++, Paul Baranowski says that he has a new favourite programming language…which language is left as an exercise for the reader.
• Guido on Python. You’ll never guess what programming language this guy created! C’mon, guess!