“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning November 23, 2008

November 29, 2008

Introduced Joy to her first Tower Defense game (http://itunes.com/app/TapDefense). Like waving crack in a junkie’s face.

Posted to Twitter at 11:59 p.m.

Auditorium

Gorgeous swooshy musical flashgame

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Filed under : flash : game : music

November 27, 2008

Outstanding Thanksgiving with @dlinder, @fabulouspants, @uncleloki, @stoptypingnow, @laughatlantis (and others). Thanks to you all.

Posted to Twitter at 11:27 p.m.

The Rock Band has been Broken out. Burning off a minute percentage of the calories consumed this afternoon.

Posted to Twitter at 8:52 p.m.

On the Bart with a toy guitar. Acting cool. “I’m a cowboy. I’ve got a plastic guitar in my hand. I’m going (going) to play some Rock Band.”

Posted to Twitter at 1:35 p.m.

November 26, 2008

Starting to suspect that some of the audience members at this screening of Milk at the Castro might be… (whispers) gay.

Posted to Twitter at 10:05 p.m.

Milk At the Castro Theatre

Filed under : Castro : castrotheatre : cinema : Milk

Milk - Photo: http://bkite.com/02Dib

Posted to Twitter at 9:52 p.m.

Heading to the Castro to see Milk with @shaunlandry, who plays Gwen Craig in it. I love having talented friends.

Posted to Twitter at 8:22 p.m.

Helvetireader

Rather gorgeous minimalistic skin for Google Reader, by Jon Hicks. Had to tweak it to get my all-important “Mark All as Read” button, but apart from that, perfet.

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Filed under : design : google reader : helvetica : jon hicks

Picking up Thanksgiving Day treats - Photo: http://bkite.com/02CN7

Posted to Twitter at 2:43 p.m.

My Athiest Bus t-shirt (http://rdbgb.us/oga) is unflatteringly cut. THERE IS NO GOD!

Posted to Twitter at 10:13 a.m.

Had an extremely productive day. Assuming “plowing through my pile of to-watch DVDs” counts as productivity. Which it bloody well does.

Posted to Twitter at 12:01 a.m.

November 25, 2008

CD Purchase: BBC Radio - On The Hour - Series 2

CD Purchase: BBC Radio - On the Hour, Series 1

November 24, 2008

Have spent the evening fighting with Python, Django, Lucene & Xapian. Now my head hurts, and search is still broken on my blog. Double-bah!

Posted to Twitter at 11:42 p.m.

Worth following: @Glinner — Graham Linehan, writer of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, presently twittering from the International Emmys.

Posted to Twitter at 5:20 p.m.

The original shareware version of Doom, cross-compiled (not emulated) into a Flash app. Not quite playable on my Mac (pressing Space fires the gun instead of opening doors), but still pretty danged impressive.

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Filed under : doom : flash : id games

I received my first ever unemployment cheque today. Feel oddly proud. Now to blow it on hookers and gin…

Posted to Twitter at 3:44 p.m.

When I grow up, I want to be Creed Bratton. I think I’ll be great at “Quabity Ashwitz”.

Posted to Twitter at 1:53 p.m.

Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.

Upcoming Qix-like iPhone game from ngmoco. While I didn’t care much for MazeFinger, these guys are clearly putting a lot of work into making the iPhone a respectable gaming platform.

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Filed under : dr awesome : iPhone : ngmoco : video : video games

AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book

Update your OS X Address Book with photos and birthdays from your friends’ Facebook pages (sadly, Facebook bars it from doing anything useful, like updating email addresses and phone numbers)

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Filed under : download : facebook : free : os x

November 23, 2008

YouTube - Toby y Sheila: pata adopto perrito!!!

If “Weekend at Bernie’s” was remade with a beagle and a duck…

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Filed under : beagle : bizarre : duck : video : wtf‽

b3ta.com challenge: recreating album covers

The “Screamadelica” salad is my favourite.

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Filed under : albums : art : b3ta : music

Joy, working on her Xbox avatar: “That makes me look like Hillary Clinton!”

Posted to Twitter at 10:15 a.m.