Entries for week beginning December 20, 2009
➠ December 26, 2009
Watching “The Hangover” for free thanks to Amazon - $4 “Video On Demand” Coupon: http://bit.ly/6oHWHr
Posted to Twitter at 1:38 p.m.
Android Starter Kit
According to CNet, three of the top four must-have Android apps are: A file manager, a process killer, and an app uninstaller. Because, as everyone knows, the kids LOVE to kill them processes.
➠ December 25, 2009
Finishing Xmas day with the traditional Chinese food (@ Yuet Lee) http://4sq.com/4DSmxA
Posted to Twitter at 9:57 p.m.
Owen Gleiberman’s review in Entertainment Weekly sums up how I felt about Avatar: http://j.mp/7pnZEg Very pretty, but stupidly mundane plot.
Posted to Twitter at 7:12 p.m.
Fucking hell, Avatar is DREADFUL. Left early, cause I couldn’t take another hour of that characterless predictable horseshit.
Posted to Twitter at 6:03 p.m.
Was hungry enough to actually pay insane cinema prices for some junk food. Lines at concessions were 30 deep. Fuck it. $15 saved. Thanks AMC
Posted to Twitter at 4:34 p.m.
Catching “Up In the Air” — at Century San Francisco Centre http://gowal.la/s/wed
Posted to Twitter at 1:45 p.m.
Timing my call home to family in the UK so I don’t interrupt the Dr Who special. THAT’S HOW CONSIDERATE I AM!
Posted to Twitter at 10:33 a.m.
➠ December 24, 2009
Listening to “Endtroducing” this morning, I was reminded of one of my favourite things ever: http://rdbgb.us/OYa “Shadow Percussion Project”
Posted to Twitter at 1:02 p.m.
Shadow Percussion Project
One of my all-time favourite things: A high-school percussion group performing DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” live.
➠ December 23, 2009
Tonight, I intend to engage in my most favouritist of all Christmas traditions: http://twitter.com/rodbegbie/statuses/1515163
Posted to Twitter at 2:44 p.m.
Working on first draft of my autobiography. A gripping tale about my addiction battles.
Working title: “My Bejeweled Blitz Hell”
Posted to Twitter at 1:02 p.m.
Amused by “news” reports that Kindle DRM has been cracked.
Um.. it has been for over a year. Google for mobidedrm.5.py
Posted to Twitter at 11:49 a.m.
➠ December 22, 2009
Wow, the “Best Tech Acheivement” category for the techcrunch awards are a steaming great pile of vapor and horseshit: http://tr.im/InVU
Posted to Twitter at 6:39 p.m.
“The Freemium Summit - The Business of Free”
Ticket price: $349.
#thingsthatmakeyougohmmmm
Posted to Twitter at 1:19 p.m.
➠ December 21, 2009
Listening to Lady Gaga for the first time.
What’s a discostick, and why does she want to ride one?
Posted to Twitter at 10:57 p.m.
Today’s SF Groupon is for “Opaque” - The pitch-black restaurant experience with blind serving staff. http://www.groupon.com/r/uu645007
Posted to Twitter at 3:39 p.m.
Still wide awake at 3.12am
Unrelated: Bought a new coffeemaker this afternoon.
Posted to Twitter at 3:13 a.m.
➠ December 20, 2009
Dawning realization after agreeing to go with Joy to Target:
It’s the weekend before christmas.
FFFfffFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Posted to Twitter at 3:57 p.m.
Sales of “Playboy’s Fully Clothed Playmates” were presumably disappointing
Annabel Scheme
Robin’s novella is now available as a CC-licensed PDF file. I’m about halfway through reading my copy, and proud to have been part of the Kickstarter project that funded it.
Perfect for copying onto your Kindle before you board a flight this festive season!
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