Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning April 12, 2009

➠ April 17, 2009

Happy Birthday SuperPoke! Pets!

Happy Birthday SuperPoke! Pets!

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CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP

Contains your recommended daily amount of cuteness and sleepiness.

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➠ April 16, 2009

The Backlash Tracker: Build 'Em Up, Knock 'Em Down, NEXT!

Great analysis of memebacklash by Linda Holmes

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➠ April 15, 2009

Effing strange

Effing strange

Grauniad article with both instances of "ff" replaced by the "ff" ligature. Very odd looking!

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Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

Having a Linux box is apparently just cause for the Boston PD to confiscate all your equipment.

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Tree Style Tab :: Firefox Add-ons

Ooh, this I like. Moves your browser tabs to the left pane, and groups them by the tab that launched them.

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Waiting for the BART home

Waiting for the BART home

My wife? She is a cutie.

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Complete Game

Complete Game

Wakefield pitched a complete game, which I'm sure was a relief to the bullpen who put in 11 innings of pitching last night!

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The end of the no-hitter

The end of the no-hitter

Wakefield pitched 7 no-hit innings, but the second batter in the 8th broke the run.

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Joy, behind the screen

Joy, behind the screen

She *might* like the Red Sox. Hard to tell.

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Bay hits a 3-run homer

Bay hits a 3-run homer

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Youk gets intentionally walked

Youk gets intentionally walked

Having a batting average over .500 will do that to a guy.

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Tek!

Tek!

Walked *right* past us!

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Jackie Robinson Day

Jackie Robinson Day

Every player wore number 42, which made it nearly impossible to work out who was warming up in the bullpen!

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McAfee Coliseum (Formerly Network Associates Coliseum)

McAfee Coliseum (Formerly Network Associates Coliseum)

Our seats? Pretty, pretty good.

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➠ April 14, 2009

Nick Swisher and his 0.00 career ERA

This made me smile. Another of Billy Bean’s “Moneyball” characters proves his value on a big $$$ team.

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Bruins Hockey Rules

Brilliantly silly commercial, featuring Matt McLaughlin from ImprovBoston.

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Spreading like wildfire: Twitter, Amazon and the social media mob

I saw this unfold on Sunday, fairly sure it was a storm over an Amazon user error. Man, the Twitter crowd sure like their torches and pitchforks.

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Yahoo! - An error has occurred

Yahoo! - An error has occurred

Getting this error when I try to renew my Flickr Pro subscription. I hit "OK! I'M READY TO PAY", enter my Yahoo password, and get this error.

Any Flickr employees reading this are encouraged to help me give you more money!

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➠ April 13, 2009

The Tweets Of Roland Hedley

“Proposal: World media mock N. Korea missile dud 24/7. Shamed Dear Leader shoots top scientists, crippling program for years. Flaws?”

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➠ April 12, 2009

Tweenbots: Cute Beats Smart

Humans instinctively help a dumb-but-cute robot on its journey across a park. I’d like to see these in a race. Perhaps against one un-cute robot with a frowny face..

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.

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