The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

If you watch only one YouTube video today, watch Heroes of the Pandumbic, The Daily Show’s fantastic supercut of Republicans and their propaganda wing Fox News downplaying or outright dismissing the coronavirus threat earlier this year.

Canadian readers for whom the YouTube version is blocked can watch it below:

Then you might want to watch Pandumbic (the trailer), which was released on March 10…

…followed by Pandumbic 2, a March 12 follow-up:

Also worth checking out

“Exponential Threat”: The COVID-19-themed ad that the Trump/Pence campaign doesn’t want you to see:

See how quickly Fox News pivoted once Trump took COVID-19 seriously.

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I’m now half-expecting a story about Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband’s body being found beneath a private cache of ventilators, N95 masks, and toilet paper. This is yet another bit of evidence for my theory that we’re living in a simulation whose player got bored and set all the controls to “maximum”.

Thanks to Chris McGinnis for the find!

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If I can find out where you can get one of these, I’ll let you know.

Thanks to Ryan Rossman for the find!

Yours Truly, in the front yard.

Good morning, stay-at-homers! A number of friends from my old home town, Toronto, have been asking how we’re doing down here in Tampa, and what our days are like. I thought I’d post a couple of reports with photos, starting with this one.

Other seasoned remote workers may say that they work just fine in their pajamas, but I prefer to dress up as if I was still living in the “before times”. Luckily for me, I work in tech, so wearing an aloha shirt, jeans, and deck shoes, isn’t just dressed for work — some techies might assume I was dressing for a job interview.

We do have an indoor room designated as the home office. Anitra uses it during the day, and I use it in the evening to work on non-day-job projects. During the day, my work for the day job — building Lilypad’s mobile app — happens on the office that I’ve set up on our screened-in front porch. I get lots of light, enjoy the cognitive benefits of being around our yard’s greenery, and even get to say “hi” to the neighbours from a safe distance as they go about getting their exercise or walking their dogs.

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Here}s the view from my chair, panning from left to right. (Yes, you might be able to make out what’s on my screens, but none of them are displaying anything sensitive in these photos.)

The left view. Tap the photo to see it at full size.

The center view. Tap the photo to see it at full size.

The right view. Tap the photo to see it at full size.

Tap the photo to see it at full size, man.