The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Dim Sum Pop’s Guide for Dim Sum Virgins

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If you’ve ever gone for dim sum and had trouble picking items, you might find this guide handy.

The only suggestion on the chart that I disagree with is chicken feet, simply because it’s a scam: it’s the restaurant’s way of getting you to pay for bones. Unless you’re ordering and eating them to either freak out your less-adventurous dinner companions or win a bet, don’t bother ordering them.

Dim Sum Pop’s Dim Sum Badges

They’re like merit badges, but tastier! Dim Sum Pop, the people behind the guide above, have also created these 1″ badges featuring some dim sum favourites. I may have to order the pack.

The Return of Toronto Techie Dim Sum!

It’s time to bring back Toronto Techie Dim Sum! How does Thursday, May 16th at Sky Dragon (Spadina and Dundas) grab you?

There’s really no story behind this photo. Does anyone need an excuse to post a lovely picture, especially one of bacon?

Ann Friedman’s Disapproval Matrix. Click to see the original.

Here’s Ann Friedman’s Disapproval Matrix, a quadrant chart that she created in her “ongoing quest for the perfect framework for understanding haters”. You may have seen her piece on haters earlier this year in New York magazine, which featured this other clever chart of hers:

The two axes that span the Disapproval Matrix are:

• Know you / Don’t know you, with people who know you intimately on the left end, and complete strangers on the right.
• Rational / Irrational, where the disapproval is completely rational at the top end, and completely irrational at the bottom.

These axes create four quadrants, which Friedman covers quite well in her article. Her recommendation is to listen to the negative feedback coming from the upper half, and pay no mind to the negative feedback coming from the lower half.

I love this graph. Be sure to read Friedman’s post!

Found thanks to AKMA, on his Facebook feed.

Photo by Yours Truly, taken March 2013.

…is seeing the multi-purpose institution known (and loved) by locals as Florida Food, Fuel and Fried Chicken. The photo above is mine; the photo below was taken by a Flickr user going by the handle “xvm”:

Photo by “xvm”, taken October 2011.
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It’s actually a BP station. It looks as though the proprietor decided that the BP name was mud in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill and decided to rebrand. I think it’s a pretty good idea: the vinyl overlay was probably the most cost-effective way to redo the sign, the name is certainly memorable, and the use of Impact (“the official font of memes everywhere”) gives the sign a sort of home-spun feel. And hey, fried chicken!

If you ever find yourself in need of gas, chicken (according to this review, they even have chicken gizzards and livers), locally-grown produce and electronic cigarettes, this place has you covered. Here’s a handy map in case you want to head on down:

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Of course, there are times when you want the scenario in the bottom picture. Say, on a Saturday tryst.

Found via Tom Bailey via Karen Lee.

…and I am observing all baggage restrictions, having left my chainsaw at home.

Yipee!