“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning October 4, 2009

➠ October 10, 2009

The “Where the Wild Things Are” soundtrack by Karen O is outstanding. Far better than the last Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. FACT!

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Posted to Twitter at 12:59 p.m.

➠ October 9, 2009

“This is what my lifetime of achievement has been reduced to. Clive Sinclair: The man who brought you Jet Set fucking Willy!”

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Posted to Twitter at 11:18 p.m.

The two App Stores

Really interesting perspective on the division of customers, developers and apps in the iPhone app store.

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Filed under : app store : iPhone : marco arment

I just TOTALLY used my Bacon Wand to transfigure Joy’s Water Nagi into a piece of bacon! http://screencast.com/t/bKmA2HShSMP #superpocus

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Posted to Twitter at 2:19 p.m.

Installed Tweetie 2. Can’t seem to find the setting to enable the fart sound effects. http://j.mp/t2itunes

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Posted to Twitter at 1:56 p.m.

Yes, I know the difference between Times and Courier, damnit! OK, how long do I have to play typewar.com go before it becomes fun?

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Posted to Twitter at 12:19 p.m.

Following “Cupcakes for Life”, I’m tumbling down the rabbithole of bizarre pro-life sites: http://www.savethestorks.com/

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Posted to Twitter at 11:23 a.m.

15 Ladies Who Look Better In Mustaches

Michelle Obama? Wicked hot in a moustache.

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Filed under : bizarre : moustaches

“These cupcakes represent the 50,000,000 children who weren’t allowed to be born, who never had a birthday.” http://rdbgb.us/iY5

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Posted to Twitter at 11:06 a.m.

Rock Band Coming to iPhone/iPod Touch

Will be interesting to see how this compares to the just-released Tap Tap Revenge 3. TTR3 costs $0.99 and has a fairly weak collection of free songs, and a small but decent music store. Rock Band will come with 20 tracks from bands you’ve heard of, but will likely be in the $10 range.

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Filed under : games : iPhone : music : rock band

➠ October 8, 2009

October baseball! Woooo! My prediction: Whichever team wins this game, will sweep the ALDS. #redsox

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Posted to Twitter at 6:38 p.m.

Doing everything I can to earn my Bacon Wand, and the Bacon Transfiguration hex. #superpocus

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Posted to Twitter at 4:59 p.m.

Night Cheese

My favourite kind of t-shirt: Hilarious to those who get the reference, nonsensical to everyone else.

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Filed under : 30 rock : glarkware : tshirts : working on my night cheese

➠ October 7, 2009

Stonking dinner tonight at @SFMaverick. Heavenly porkchop with brussels sprouts and gnocchi. Completely full and happy.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:24 p.m.

Good omen: First result on a Google search for the name of a forthcoming @SlideInc application? A Super Furry Animals b-side!

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Posted to Twitter at 3:54 p.m.

➠ October 6, 2009

Who’s up for a “Las Vegas” road trip? http://rdbgb.us/pGZ

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Posted to Twitter at 2:31 p.m.

ESPN 30 for 30

ESPN is producing a series of documentaries about notable, potentially forgotten, moments in recent US sports history. Some of these sound fascinating, and it might be worth recording the whole set, just to become more sports-conversant.

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Filed under : 30 for 30 : documentary : espn : tv

New Dr Who Logo

Love love LOVE! the new Doctor Who logo. As timeless as is appropriate for a show about time travel.

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Filed under : bbc : design : doctor who : logo

Glims for Safari

Safari “plug-in” which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world!

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Filed under : download : free : os x : plugin : safari

Ran an impromptu usability lab in my apartment tonight using @silverbackapp. Now editing down Joy’s reactions in iMovie. I ♥ my MacBook Pro.

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Posted to Twitter at 12:27 a.m.

➠ October 5, 2009

Ever-hopeful

Clyde shows his interest in the meat platter Joy and I shared to celebrate our 6th anniversary.

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Filed under : basset : bassethound : clyde

Canabalt

Rather ace Flashgame, now available for the iPhone. Interesting sidenote: Reviews in iTunes are rather overwhelmed by their stupid decision to include a review in the app description containing the word “faggotry”.

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Filed under : download : flash : game : iPhone

Not at all impressed with the Fitbit. Its step and sleep logging is so inaccurate as to be unusable. Think I’m going to return it.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:57 a.m.

➠ October 4, 2009

CupcakeCamp

Yes, that is a piece of bacon in my cupcake!

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Filed under : ccsf : cupcakecamp : cupcakes : san francisco

Optimizing cupcake acquisition strategy.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:53 p.m.

Norwegian Wood - No Fun Games

How do you legally release a game based upon a Beatles song without incurring the wrath of Apple Corps? By asking the user to supply their own MP3!

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Filed under : beatles : video games

You’re not going to care about any of this…

… but I’ve spent a Saturday night working on this stuff, so I’m going to share.

I’ve spent the evening getting groovymother.com up and running on a new VPS box from VPSLink.

Of potential interest to other nerds is the fact that the whole shebang is now running Apache-free. The Django app that powers the site runs under the coroutine-tastic Spawning. In front of that, and serving static files, is the still-sexy nginx.

The Spawning processes are started and managed by Supervisor, which also takes care of running and monitoring the jobs that pull in feeds and grab screenshots.

All in all, a tremendously productive, if really rather sad, Saturday night.

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Filed under : meta : nginx : python : spawning : supervisord : threequarters : vpslink

Even by my own standards, tonight has been a remarkably geeky affair. What’s got two thumbs and a home network which is IPv6 accessible?

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Posted to Twitter at 1:52 a.m.

PCalc Prevents iPhone Profanity

Thank gawd at least ONE iPhone developer is Thinking Of The Children!

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Filed under : funny : iPhone : pcalc : profanity : swearing