The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

I’ve been rather busy lately — hence the light posting — so in the meantime, I’ll leave with this lovely photo of the best-looking weightlifter in the history of the sport, Marilou Dozois-Prevost, representing Canada at the Olympics right now…

Marilou Dozois-Prevost
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, the most whimsical programming book ever written.

Here’s a great quote from the enigmatic programmer known only as “why the lucky stiff” on why you should create:

when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

Very true, especially since there are whole industries and professions that specialize in manipulating your tastes in order to get you to line other people’s pockets. Well put, why!

Click the comic to see it on its original page.

[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]

Attention Toronto-area developers! If you’ve got good PHP/MySQL chops (having a little experience building WordPress templates and plugins would be a bonus, but not absolutely necessary), perhaps you’d like to do a little contract work for my company, b5media. Our regular programming staff has its hands full with our core projects, so I’m using my authority as the company’s Nerd Wrangler (a.k.a. Technical Project Manager) to cast a net for local developers who’d like to work on a project or two.

I can’t go into details here on the blog — here’s what I can tell you:

• We’re a network of about 300 or so blogs and our revenue is based on advertising, which in turn is based on our readership.
• Our blogs are based on WordPress. Mark Jaquith, one of our programmers, is a WordPress core developer. As you may have already reasoned out, our stuff is based on MySQL and PHP.
• I have a couple of projects:
  • A WordPress-based promo site using a customized template and featuring some custom widgets and plugins, and
  • An ecommerce site that makes it easy for people to purchase ads on our blogs

If you’re picked to do the job, you’ll be working from a pretty complete spec written by someone who understands both the business and technical sides of the job: me! You’ll also be reporting to me, and I’m told that I’m a pretty good guy to work with.

There’s something to be said for face-to-face meetings and being able to walk up to the project lead and ask questions, so we’d rather hire a developer in town.

Interested? Drop me a line at my work email address — joey@b5media.com — and I’ll be happy to tell you more.

[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]

Feeling nostalgic for “Ate My Balls”, “I Kiss You” or “All Your Base are Belong to Us”? The Internet Memes Timeline’s got the cure for that.

Two of the most popular articles on Accordion Guy are the ones featuring Food Network chef Giada di Laurentiis: the inspirational poster parody and the Esquire photo. Every now and again, I get asked if I’ll post more sexy chef photos. To those people, I say: today’s your lucky day!

And now, for your viewing pleasure, Nigella Lawson…

Photo from ExpoSay.

Red Alert! Containment failure imminent!

When wearing a nice tie, it has never occurred to me that a lot of it goes hidden under my shirt collar. Luckily, an enterprising (and probably insecure) fashion genius has come up with a shirt with a “woven collar” that exposes more of your expensive neckwear to the world:

Picture courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

If you’re the sort of man who feels the need to put a spoiler on the Honda he uses for his daily commute, this is the shirt for you!