The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Although it looks as though we’ve finally escaped the seemingly endless runs of rainy days, it’s a good idea to keep this advice in mind.

“Blah, blah, blah, rightness or wrongness of an action or divine command, holiness of an object, yadda, yadda, yadda…the real question is: Where are the kitty treats?”

This weekend, I went back to the scene of the crime — Crazy Go Nuts University — to celebrate the 20th anniversary of my graduating year, Science ’91 (Yes, I started off my academic career as an electrical engineer, and followed the grand tradition of switching to computers). It was great seeing all my classmates, whom I met waaay back in 1987, and we had a grand old time and some of the old haunts: Clark Hall Pub, Alfie’s, Wolfe Island and AJ’s (it’s since been renamed "The Ale House"). Although I got so engrossed in conversations and catching up that I took nowhere near as many photos as I should have, I did take some, and I’ll post them later this week.

It was great seeing the gang, and my special thanks to Kelli Pallett and Dave McDonnell for organizing the engineering reunion!

Pictured above: Kelli Pallett, Yours Truly, Todd Armstrong (he’s technically Science ’92, but he’s one of us!).

I’m about to set off on a drive to Crazy Go Nuts University, where this weekend my original class — Applied Science ’91 — will be celebrating their 20th anniversary. It’s kind of hard to believe that we started post-secondary back in September 1987.

In honour of this milestone, I present Geordi LaForge doing Jay-Z. The use of a character from Star Trek: The Next Generation is no coincidence; he’s an engineer wearing a gold uniform just like we did, that show debuted in the fall of ’87, just like we did (as did the very first rough version of Photoshop, which was likely used to create the picture above).

Somewhere, in the woods near Mount Rainier…

Thanks to Jeannie for taking the photos!

…I just haven’t had a chance to update this blog in about a week. But I’m back!

A Muppet adaptation of the X-Men? I could get behind that. I can just imagine Miss Piggy as Emma Frost.

Kudos to Razzah for creating this (click the image to see the original).

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.