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Go Check Out Global Nerdy!

The photo above, plus interesting stories about the tech world, are good reasons why you should head over to Global Nerdy right now.

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Remember, that’s "www.joeydevilla.com"

This is just a quick note to let you folks know that the old URL for this site, accordionguy.blogware.com isn’t going to be active for much longer. Make sure you’ve bookmarked the new URL, which is…

www.joeydevilla.com

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The "Bye Bye Boobies" Party

On Saturday, Wendy and I attended our friend C.’s “Bye Bye Boobies” party, an event to celebrate her upcoming breast reduction surgery (which takes place today).

The party featured a lot of breast-themed food presented in a lovely spread, pictured below:

The spread of boob-themed food.

Among the items were this lovely chocolate boob cake:

Chocolate boob cake

…and this bodacious lemon boob cake:

Lemon boob cake.

…and, of course, melon bowls:

Melon bowls.

Wendy and I wanted to contribute, so we used our ice cream maker to prepare some appropriately saucy flavours. Before heading to the party, I took out a Sharpie marker and whipped out some signs for the ice cream. When this computer fad blows over, I could go into the sign making business for ice cream shops and coffeehouses.

Here’s the sign for the first flavour: “Plain” Jayne Mansfield, better known as vanilla:

Sign for the 'Plain Jayne Mansfield' (a.k.a. vanilla) ice cream.

The next flavour was made with one very ripe canteloupe: Melons sorbet:

Sign for the Melons sorbet.

Here’s the one for the ice cream with a banana base (Wendy pureed two very ripe bananas into the standard ice cream mix) and chocolate chips made from a chopped up fancy-pant high cocoa content bar — Touch My Monkey:

Sign for the Touch My Monkey ice cream.

And finally, here’s the sign for the Oreo Cheesecake ice cream. It had 10 smashed-up Oreo cookies in it, and the base contained cream cheese, sour cream and the juice of a lemon, which gave it a distinct cheesecake flavour. You probably shouldn’t have this fat-licious flavour too often.

Sign for the Oreo Cheesecake ice cream.

Our thanks to C. for throwing a great party, and best of luck with the surgery!

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"I LOVE DURAN DURAN!"

“I fuckin’ love Duran Duran!” he says, but in the video below (shot last night in Accordion City’s Koreatown neighbourhood), I’m actually playing Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole. Still, a compliment is a compliment…

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It’s Accordion Awareness Month!

Diagram showing the parts of an accordion.

It’s the first of June, which means that once again, we’re in Accordion Awareness Month! I strongly urge everyone to celebrate it by playing the accordion, enjoyign accordion music and even sending Accordion Awareness Month greeting cards.

I plan to celebrate by playing some accordion karaoke with friends tonight at Clinton’s. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please drop by!

(Big thanks to Nicole, who reminded me that I should post something today.)

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Schrodinger’s LOLcat [Updated}

Update — Sunday June 3, 2007: Now I know who created this LOLCat image — see below the image for details!

Tired: Schrodinger’s Cat. Wired: Schrodinger’s LOLCAT!

Schrodinger's LOLcat: 'I'm in ur box...maybe.
Click to see the image on its original Flickr page. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

(Wondering what a LOLcat is? Start here, then go here.)

Who’s Behind This Picture?

Three people are behind this image:

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Do the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work

Over at at my tech blog Global Nerdy, I’ve got a new essay titled Do the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work, which you might find interesting if you’re wondering about the future of tech and software development.