The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

And yes, surveillance is one of those words that English borrows from French.

Found at This Isn’t Happiness via Marvin Ryan Vista.

Recently seen at a Guitar Center store:

Yes, accordions are for nerds. I’m cool with that. I’m less cool with Guitar Center’s inability to spell “accordion”.

As for attracting the ladies, your mileage may vary, but in the accordion’s defence, I present exhibit A:

When life gives you heat, make cookies!

My only nitpick with this poster: the kid should be wearing at least one polo shirt with a popped collar, and better yet, two or three of them in layers. And where’s the backwards baseball cap?

Thanks to Duty over at Certified Bullshit Technician for the image, who says “Ask yourself daily…are you?“

This “extra scene” from LOST made its debut at Comic-Con in San Diego. For it to make any sense, you’ve got to have at least the first five seasons under your belt.

Creative Commons photo by Kris Krug.

Vancouver’s photog-about-town Kris Krug took this photo of me at South by Southwest Interactive in March. You’ve got to put this big smile into context:

• Only two months before, I was in the ICU with a nearly fatal case of the flu (see the story titled My Hospital Week). I remember sitting on the plane on the way to Austin and just marvelling at how easy it was to breathe. It wasn’t anything special about the pressurized air on the plane; it was just that the memory of that feeling of drowning on dry land was still pretty fresh in my memory. At that point, I was only halfway to the Half-a-Versary of all the big changes in my life.
• Only a month before, it became clear to me that it was time to move on to the next step in my career (see Departure).
• I was in a party town, at its biggest party, two days away from signing a contract with Shopify, which would mean moving to Ottawa for the summer and a lot of travel.

(By the bye, be sure to check out Kris’ site. He does a helluva a lot of interesting things, and I hope to catch up with him when I’m in Vancouver in August.)

It’s another episode of “how did I not know this?” This is a deleted scene from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in which they explain why the Terminators look like Arnie, as well as the Austrian accent.

It got removed because it doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of the movie. I’m inclined to agree with the commenter who said that they should’ve kept this scene and deleted the rest of the movie.