The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Found via Joseph Puopolo.

While technically not true (introverts actually like other people; it’s all explained quite nicely here), it’s a good battle cry.

The story of Toronto’s mayor gets even stranger — Rob Ford and his skeevy pals have been followed by a police surveillance plane as part of an ongoing investigation into drugs that he clearly says he or his friends don’t do or have anything to do with:

As reported by the Star in August, a special squad of Toronto police detectives has been investigating Ford for some time. The probe, which has included surveillance from the air, led to the arrest Tuesday of two men on drug trafficking charges: Lisi, Ford’s friend and occasional driver, and Jamshid Bahrami, owner of an Etobicoke dry cleaning store.

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The unusual step of air surveillance, using a Cessna contracted to the Toronto police, was employed to follow Ford and other people in Etobicoke.

One person with a connection to Ford said he noticed the plane following him and said it flew low and was noisy. The airplane was last seen in the air Aug. 15, two days before the Star published a story revealing that police were investigating Lisi.

“It was the strangest thing. I would leave my driveway and start heading somewhere, maybe north, maybe south and I would hear the plane and look up and see it following,” said the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Where have we seen this before — a suspicious, careless, seemingly too-chummy-with-criminals and allegedly too-close-to-drugs guy being followed by air surveillance? Where? Oh yes, I remember now:

Titled as found. Samuel L. Jackson sure knows how to have a good time, but then again, it’s hard not to have a good time at Oktoberfest.

When even the cat disapproves, it’s a sign you’re into some really messed-up stuff.

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I’m in Tampa for another week, hanging out with the Significant Other and working remotely. I also squeeze in a daily exercise break in a pool that I rarely see used by other people in the complex.

The weather for the new few days should be sunny during the morning and early afternoon with a high about about 30 degrees C (almost 90 F) with a break for rain in the mid-afternoon, and clearing up before dinner, which should give me enough time to do a little grilling:

Life is pretty good.

The initial reports are just beginning to appear all over the ‘net that spy-thriller author and rubber-stamper-of-his-name-on-videogames Tom Clancy has passed away. So long, and thanks for the reading material I enjoyed in my teenage years, the Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger films, and all those Splinter Cell videogames.

In his honour, this classic scene from The Hunt for Red October:

I like CollegeHumor’s graphic of the Seven Deadly Sins, with each sin rendered using the logo of the a suitably-matched site:

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