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Las Vegas Travel Diary: What Happens in Vegas Gets Automatically Recycled for You in Vegas

Las Vegas Travel Diary: What Happens in Vegas Gets Automatically Recycled for You in Vegas

Accordion Guy - Take a look at this sign, located right by Mandalay Bay's elevators: That's right: rather than provide separate bins marked paper , plastic , organics and trash , you simply use the trash cans...

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Las Vegas Travel Diary: Everything You Need for a Visit to Vegas

Las Vegas Travel Diary: Everything You Need for a Visit to Vegas

Accordion Guy - This vending machine in the men's room in Accordion City's Pearson Airport dispenses everything you need for the perfect weekend in Las Vegas: The offerings from the vending machine are outdone...

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Las Vegas Travel Diary: The Gun Store!

Accordion Guy - It's still here after all these years the ad for The Gun Store, which greets you at the baggage carousels at Las Vegas' McCarran airport....

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Back to Daylight Saving Time!

Back to Daylight Saving Time!

Accordion Guy - I'm in Las Vegas to catch Microsoft's MIX10 conference, where a lot of big announcements are being made. The combination of having just come from the Confoo conference in Montreal, flying to...

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My Chair, My Enemy

My Chair, My Enemy

Accordion Guy - Your chair is your enemy, starts the New York Times article Stand Up While You Read This! To give you the thesis of the article, here are the next two paragraphs in the article: It doesn't matter if...

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Skates Like Teen Spirit

Accordion Guy - For your Monday entertainment: Scott Williams figure skating to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. This guy would've been a hero at Clark Hall...

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Music Video of the Day

Accordion Guy - Some things defy description, and this Lawrence Welk-esque music video from the 1970s is one of them. You're just going to have to watch it. The...

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Names I Have Been Referred to By at the Gym

Names I Have Been Referred to By at the Gym

Accordion Guy - Names at the Old Gym (Mostly people in their 20s 30s) From summer 2005 to the start of 2009, I was a member at a gym located a ten-minute walk away from home. The crowd is made up mostly of people in...

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If the Restaurant Industry was Like the Record Industry

Accordion Guy - Don't get the reference? See the Wikipedia entry for Home Taping is Killing Music .

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Tom Brokaw Explains Canada to Americans

Accordion Guy - At the start of every Olympic games, there's always an extended news piece if you can call anything under 10 minutes extended describing the host...

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Farewell, Old Friend

Farewell, Old Friend

Accordion Guy - Amos wasn't my dog he belonged to my friend Chandra but I've spent many a fine evening hanging out or running in the park with this big, good-natured yellow dog. I am but one of many who'll...

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Adam Giambrone's Stories

Adam Giambrone's Stories

Accordion Guy - And so, with both a bang and a whimper, Adam Giambrone's campaign to become mayor of Toronto came to an end, a mere ten days after it began. What fascinates me about the whole thing isn't the...

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Yes in the Same Way Hinckley Missed Reagan

Yes in the Same Way Hinckley Missed Reagan

Accordion Guy - Perhaps you've seen the photo above floating about the internet. It turns out that the billboard is real and that it's not mere Photoshoppery. You'll find it on I-35 near Wyoming,...

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It's a Portal Day Today

Accordion Guy - Today is all about virtual meetings; I'm spending most of it sitting at the home office with a headset microphone clamped to my head, bouncing from...

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Cirrhosis of the River

Accordion Guy - You say worst boat name ever , I say greatest party boat evarrr!

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