Entries for week beginning October 11, 2009
➠ October 17, 2009
I had less than no interest in seeing the Jim Carrey Scrooge movie. Then I sat through the trailer three times.
Now I want to bomb cinemas.
Posted to Twitter at 9:31 p.m.
IMAX Where the Wild Things Are. Kid in the audience in a “Max” suit? Adorable! (@ AMC Loews Metreon 16 in SF) http://bit.ly/hGjuk
Posted to Twitter at 4:06 p.m.
Plan to see “Where the Wild Things Are” and the Toy Story double bill this evening. Childhood fantasies FTW!
Posted to Twitter at 2:16 p.m.
Using Twitter’s new features to replace their old useful-but-removed features:
http://bit.ly/eg3Qp
Posted to Twitter at 9:17 a.m.
Another reason why @charltonbrooker is a fucking hero http://flic.kr/p/788wm2
Posted to Twitter at 8:48 a.m.
Charlie Brooker’s hidden message
www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/17/charliebrooke...
"The line 'kicking ratings...' was originally a standalone sentence, but got subbed. Puzzle fans! Spot my hidden 'free speech' message." -- @charltonbrooker
➠ October 16, 2009
Amazon has a 3-for-the-price-of-2 offer on recent video games: http://rdbgb.us/3G4. Three new DS games for $60 is not to be sniffed at!
Posted to Twitter at 1:21 p.m.
➠ October 15, 2009
Archive Team: Under Construction
A collection of of-their-time webpage detrius: The “Under Construction” graphics of geocities.
McSweeney's Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet
“McSweeney’s No. 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet — a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.” Sounds fabulous.
Dicking around with the Twitter Lists beta. @RodBegbie/girls-i-have-crushes-on is going to be EPIC!
Posted to Twitter at 3:48 p.m.
It frightens me to think that, had I carried along my pre-2004 career-path, I might be attending OracleWorld right now.
Posted to Twitter at 3:08 p.m.
Catching up on Twitter, I find I slept through the SF citywide earthquake siren test this morning. Bodes well.
Posted to Twitter at 11:33 a.m.
unix-jun72
The original source for Unix 1st Edition, scanned from a printout, ready to run in a PDP-11 emulator. This fills me with geeklove.
➠ October 14, 2009
Why does no-one send me DMs about how I can earn $300 a day? If you guys were really my friends, you’d TOTALLY do that.
Posted to Twitter at 8:28 p.m.
Lunch with the missus at her favourite spot (@ L’Eataliano in SF) http://bit.ly/2WSNNU
Posted to Twitter at 1:47 p.m.
➠ October 13, 2009
An iTunes Genius playlist seeded with Nancy Sinatra’s cover of Day Tripper may be the best thing that has ever existed: http://rdbgb.us/bkh
Posted to Twitter at 6:22 p.m.
Attn San Franciscans:
It’s only a bit of rain. Calm the fuck down.
Cheers,
Someone who grew up in Scotland
Posted to Twitter at 11:16 a.m.
Found out that Wells Fargo stiffed us out of $100 over the last year.
They’re about to find out how stubborn and petty I can be with banks.
Posted to Twitter at 2:10 a.m.
Pleased to see #Trafigura trending during the UK-waking-up/US-slumbering period of Twitter Trends. Fuck #CarterRuck! #streisandeffect
Posted to Twitter at 1:10 a.m.
➠ October 12, 2009
Deleted the “MLB At Bat” app from my iPhone. Won’t be needing that again until April.
*sigh*
Posted to Twitter at 5:09 p.m.
“LinkedIn has the interesting gossip with hardly any mentions of Julia Allison.” — @graysky
Posted to Twitter at 4:24 p.m.
“Person X has updated their profile” and “Person Y has recommended Person X” are good leading indicators of Person X being on the job market
Posted to Twitter at 3:45 p.m.
My LinkedIn feed is a fine source of gossip. Like a personalized version of Valleywag, without all the “who’s shagging who” horseshit.
Posted to Twitter at 3:43 p.m.
Completely unrelated to previous tweet: http://rdbgb.us/hl5 #streisandeffect #Trafigura #toxicwastedumping #carterruck
Posted to Twitter at 2:45 p.m.
UK “privacy” laws are getting insanely nutso: http://rdbgb.us/LEs. The Guardian is blocked from reporting a question asked in Parliament.
Posted to Twitter at 2:43 p.m.
Most productive use of Google Wave so far:
A Wave managing the list of co-workers who want invites to Google Wave.
#metametameta
Posted to Twitter at 2:01 p.m.
➠ October 11, 2009
JoCo performs Flood (1/9)
When Jonathan Coulton realised that his concert in Chicago would collide with a They Might Be Giants concert, he did the only sensible thing: Together with his support act, learn the whole of “Flood” and perform it.
ZOMGmazing! Cheetos that turn your tongue green. Wish i’d been in the brainstorm that came up with THESE! http://twitgoo.com/41iqr
Posted to Twitter at 5:09 p.m.
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