December 2009
107 posts
Installed FEVER RSS reader on some free web hosting. Takin’ it for a spin.
Werner Herzog and Nic Cage. Bad Lieutenant. Mind grated and served up as a garnish for breakfast.
Watching the season finale of Dexter.
Checking out Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
Got my productivity mojo back when I needed it the most. Hi mojo.
RT @jcmeloni: The Layar Android app would be awesome if I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere. Oh look - some wheat! A moose! Yeah. Wil …
New @canabalt update out!
I ran 5926m before hitting a wall and tumbling to my death on my iPhone. http://www.canabalt.com/
Demonoid back online? Oh, happy day! Oh, happy DAY!
I watched Jersey Shore and Steven Seagal: Lawman last night so you wouldn’t have to.
Dinner & Dessert Party http://post.ly/Ept5
Not sure “Jersey Shore” makes the best background noise at a dinner, dessert shindig.
Oh dear, I’m watching Steven Seagal: Lawman.
Everytime I hear about “Wendy Williams” I don’t think about the BET host but the late, lamented Plasmatics frontwoman, Wendy O. Williams.
Wolfram Alpha iPhone app now reduced to $20 for the holidays. Still a little much.
Never thought I’d say it but I’m getting excited about the prospect of seeing Avatar. First, though, need to take in matinee of The Road.
No more Flight of the Conchords? Sadness.
Oh Michael Steele, you ARE the “best boss ever.” http://bit.ly/5vV99D
Follow @Drobo to win a FREE Drobo S! http://bit.ly/5c27c6
RT @GreatDismal: RT @tweetmeme Dr Peter Watts, Canadian SF writer, beaten and arrested at US border http://bit.ly/6nGsQL
Great Matt Taibbi video via digby on the Obama/Rubin Wall St. bailout. http://bit.ly/4o8qlV
Yay, being followed by Broken Social Scene, one of my absolute favorite groups. Check them out at @bssmusic!
UPDATE: Space heater continues to valiantly battle back the cold.
An iMDb iPhone app? Woot!
Space heater struggling gamely against the cold.
Feeling as spry as a young Charles Foster Kane hoppin’ around a party in the newsroom.
Owls + iPhone = HootSuite on the go! #HootSuiteiPhone http://hootsuite.com/iphone
RT @theMuffs: So fun! The Pixies and me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Y78S9gepg
I’ve given up on Glee. Guess I’m out of the cultural convo.
Reading David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism making me more than a little depressed.
First day back home and all I want to do is stay in bed.
Colder in the Bay Area than Tuscaloosa. Breaking out the woolen crap.
Heading home from the airport.
The talking supergerbil flick G-Force is suitable for cretins of all ages. Dangerously inane flick.
Houston airport
RT @fantagraphics: Basil Wolverton t-shirts by Stüssy: http://is.gd/5hiay
Sitting in Birmingham Airport, waiting for my flight to Houston and then San Jose. Long day.
Just purchased the Merge benefit CD for Chris Knox, “Stroke.” Jay Reatard, A.C. Newman, Stephen Merritt, & The Chills my highlights.
For Neutral Milk Hotel fans, Jeff Mangum has a cover of “Sign the Dotted Line” on the Chris Knox benefit CD I tweeted about earlier.
Last full day in Alabama.
Urgh. Congested.
Boxee Box is awful purty. http://bit.ly/75Jd2b
Finished McCarthy’s The Road yesterday. Finishing the second volume of Lewis’s W.E.B. Du Bois bio today.
Thai food lunch in Tuscaloosa. Needed some spicy broth to counteract congestion.
Disappointed that I needed to ask for more time to finish a piece of writing I promised my advisor.
RT @mlaconvention: Spots still available in Workshop on Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion http://www.mla.org/conv_listing …
RT @rontoledo: RT @popcandy: Amazon has Arrested Development: The Complete Series on sale for $28.99 today. Huge deal!
At the same time, said piece of writing was driving me a bit batty.
Letter From Johannesburg: Bafana Bafana http://tinyurl.com/yzm93uf
Finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.