Saturday Night at Hooters, Explained Concisely in a Diagram

A guy named “Ikes” has created some strange diagrams on his site. I used to live near a Hooters, and for a while, I worked across the street from one, and from casual observation would say that the diagram below is fairly accurate not just of the downtown Hooters, but most places in Accordion City’s club district:

Strange diagram of a Saturday night at Hooter's, depicted using electrical plugs and sockets.

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He Failed the Saving Throw

Found this photo this morning under the title You might need to be a level six cleric to resurrect a ford focus.jpg. I added a caption to it and posted it below:

Two guys in Ren Faire outfits looking at their broken-down Ford Focus on a highway shoulder.

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me Music

Know Any Accordion Players in Kansas City?

This one’s a bit of a long shot, but here goes: someone emailed me with this:

I’m actually looking for an accordion player to play at my wedding reception — my fiance is Italian, and I thought it would be lovely to have an accordion to help ‘set the mood’. However, I’m not having any luck locating one in Kansas City. Would you have any ideas on where I might look?

I suggested looking up accordionists on Gigmasters and PartyPop, but just in case one of you readers out there know of a Kansas City-based accordionist who does weddings, drop me a line so I can pass along your info.

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The "On Notice" Board Generator

The 'On Notice' Board Generator, based on 'The Colbert Report'.
My personal “On Notice” board, created with the “On Notice” Board Generator. You may need to Google some of the items in that list.

Here’s the latest in online sign generators: The On Notice Board Generator, which lets you create your own version of Stephen Colbert’s “On Notice” Board from The Colbert Report.

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It Happened to Me

The Cleaned-Up Blogroll

Still Under Construction

If this blog currently looks half-done, that’s because it is. I’m generally pleased with the look of the content section — that’s the middle column — but the sidebars need a lot of work, and that temporary title graphic has got to go. Work and life have conspired to keep me busy as usual, but my inner Japanese engineer keeps looking at the blog and yelling “Kansei!” and “Kaizen!” and won’t let me rest until this thing looks just right.

Accurate and Up-to-Date

I just completed the clean-up task that involved the most drudgery: the cleaning up of my blogroll, the list that appears in the right-hand column. I’ve gone through every blog in that list and for each one, I checked to see:

  • That the blog still exists
  • The the blog is still being maintained (I treat having at least one new entry in the past 12 months and not having announced that it is shutting down as “being maintained”)
  • That a link to this blog exists in a permanent list on that blog

Any blog that met all three criteria stayed on the blogroll and any blog that didn’t was removed. I also added a few new blogs that met the criteria. As of this writing, the blogroll is up-to-date.

“He’s Vewwy Highwy Wanked in Wome, You Know.”

A Roman centurion, Pontius Pilate and Biggus Dickus from 'Life of Brian'.

If you’ve got a blog that meets the criteria listed above, let me know! Having your blog appear in my blogroll is good for your Google ranking. This blog has a Google PageRank of 7. For comparison,

Google’s algorithm gives your page a higher ranking when people with good PageRank link to you, so if you’d like to give your blog a boost, link to me and let me know about it!

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Blogging for Dollars

For those of you who have Blogware-based blogs and are looking to make a little extra money with Google’s AdSense, I’ve written the first two articles in a series titled Blogging for Dollars.

You can find the articles at:

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Maria’s Photos from Kickass Karaoke

Joey and his accordion, upstairs at the Rivoli.

Over at Naked KnitGirl, Maria’s got photos of last weekend’s special edition of Kickass Karaoke, which was a farewell party for Postmodern Sass, who’s leaving Accordion City for a new job in San Jose. Sass sent me a whole pile of photos, which I’ll gather into an album and post online soon.