Small start-up producing reasonably-priced stand-up comedy DVDs from comedians who aren’t mainstream enough for high-street stores. Starting off with a set the splendid Stewart Lee. Ordered!
I was pondering what license I apply to Twadget. I think I’ve found my man.
I’ve knocked out a sidebar gadget for Vista which displays your friends’ statuses on Twitter.
As an occasional insomniac, I am massively jealous of Clyde's ability to just fall fast asleep, no matter where he is. Middle of the hardwood floor with no mat? No problem.
A “theme” for Firefox on OSX which adds Favicons to the bookmarks toolbar, where they belong. Hurrah!
Nice unobtrusive non-interrupty Dashboard widget for tracking and posting-to Twitter.
Inappropriate beverage dispensers, spotted in Target.
This is a cool new feature in ZoneTag: Gather up your location information in your cellphone (either with a Bluetooth GPS, or just by cell-tower/location matching), then upload photos taken with your regular camera to Flickr and have ZoneTag geotag them automagically.
Four Miis currently inhabiting our Wii.
Top left, it's me. Top right, the missus
Bottom left, the prince of darkness. Bottom right, some Austrian bloke.
New from The Onion: Elaborate boxes for really crappy-sounding gifts (“Salt of the Month Club”, anyone?), which you hide your real present inside. Genius!
Patrick Smith’s mother causes confusion at the airline security counter: Is it OK to take marinara sauce (which is a liquid) onto a plane if it’s frozen (which makes it a solid)? Ah, I feel safer already.
The rumoured “All Star” edition of The Amazing Race is confirmed. I’ll wait to see the full cast-list before I get too upset.
Research project from the music & neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel Deaconess. Test your musical memory.
One of the advantages of working at a location with the street address of "The Mountain"? Getting to see some gorgeous sunsets from the parking lot.
Good article by Joel — Why *does* the Vista shutdown menu require *seven* options?
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If you want to see my scruffy, portly (and endearingly accurate) Mii strut his stuff in your Mii Parade, or just want to send rude messages to my TV screen, let me know your friend code.
I wore my kilt into work today, for reasons that aren't terribly interesting (let's just say I agreed to it on Saturday night after I'd imbibed some Harpoon Barleywine.)
If anyone asked, I told them it was "Sean Connery Day".
AIM/Jabber/MSN client for cellphones. Seems nicely designed, but not sure it’s worth €25 a year for the service.
“Puppet Up” — a recording of the Jim Henson Company’s puppet improv show — will be shown tonight on TBS. Improv on TV never quite works, but I’ll be watching this regardless.
I’m having lots of fun with Twitter. My “Emergency Snark Broadcast System”, if you will.
The story’s kind-of interesting (Screw-ups at the Copley Mall meant that people who waited outside for three days didn’t necessarily get a PS3, and the CT robbers), but the reason I’m blogging this? The fantastic photo illustrating the story.
Home, unpacked, and rawkin'! Four hours in the cold? Worth it!
The Wii bundle (the console plus Excite Truck and Zelda, neither of which I really wanted, but which I should be able to sell on eBay no problem), plus Super Monkey Ball and Rayman: Raving Rabbids. In my car boot. Mine!
I'm a happy camper.
Updated to add: Zelda and Excite Truck both sold on half.com in about 10 minutes, recouping my $90. Ace!
Twelfth in line. My Costco had 48 to hand out, and everyone in line at 9am got one. In fact, the manager had to stand around outside with a spare ticket until a family showed up at 9.31am and claimed the final system!
This kind gentleman showed up with a Box of Joe and donuts to share amongst the line.
The line for Wii, outside Costco in Everett MA at about 7.30am.
Originally, I was planning on going to Target, but when I got there about 6.30, they'd already handed out tickets to the line for all the systems they had. (Some students were offering to sell their places in line. I didn't bother asking for how much)
The official word from Costco earlier in the week had been that they weren't stocking Wii's in their retail stores, to avoid lines. This turned out to be untrue, as when I wandered round the corner, there were 11 people waiting, including an off-duty Costco employee who said they had 48 in stock!
I'm Rod Begbie -- A 31-year-old Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
Fire Eagle thinks I'm currently in Daly City, CA, and have been for around 1 hour, 48 minutes.
