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Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 27, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Meeting time – this isn’t awkward at all. #
• Seeing 4G more and more lately. Its like the future will actually happen by 2010 in Philadelphia. #
• I accidentally made myself want a treo pro after selling it to a customer. Whoops. #palm #
• I am north of the po valley, and I vote! #
• 36 takes for a training video!!!!!argh #
• Pow-pow-powerwheels! #
• I need rogue for blackberry – and a franklin computer brand keyboard to smash in, too. #
• The United States Dollar ($, USD) has been El Salvador’s offical currency since 2001. In 2008, workers sent home 17% of GDP from abroad. #
• Something tied into the ritual of smoking that really resonates with me. Soft packs, zippo maintence is very zen-like for me. #
• Taking lunch to work – and bringing the pepperoni and cheese action for snackin action. #
• I should totally blog about something. But I’ve done nothing interesting lately. #
• whelp, that uk map quiz did not work out well. #
• “Getting Things Done” was a fascist slogan from 1930s Britain. via Walter L. Arnstein, 2001′s Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 to present. #
• If Hitler invaded hell, it’d be desirable to find something nice to say about the devil. – Churchill in the wake of alliance with the USSR. #
• Seriously missing my macbook pro yet! #
• My commute to college is opiate abuser soap operas at least twice a week. Today’s episode: He took the pills because they were free. #
• I make the best time to Temple when I’m definately late: when I might be late, I always will be. #
• Being well-spoken will forgive a lack of content, to a certain extent. #
• http://twitpic.com/2fm0l – @jdotames and it gets more channels than your computer (:P) #
• Whoops, forgot to read the first half of the Aeneid. #
• Math test. I think I’d rather go to the dentist. Or lose a bar brawl and have my pants stolen. In Dublin. #
• Think I need a copy of Link’s Awakening for the game boy. Never beat it when I was a kid. #
• Got my macbook pro back! Reunited and it feels so good. #
• Why you (and I) never have time to read: #
• http://blog.inexactitu.de/archives/69 (why you and I never have time to read) #
• Installing the Windows XP for some boot camping. Partitioning this drive was entirely too hard. #
• Thinking about seeing “Hunger” this Sunday with @jdotames. #
• The 1800FLOWERS ads on the Broad St. line are home to the ancient ad sales/proposal trick: Put the founder on the ad. #
• @williamblake that’s about what I pay in taxes in a month. #
• I need pictures of the Irish Civil War – from Dublin for a project. #
• @williamblake keep in mind I pay for my own health insurance to the tune of 20% of my gross income, though. #
• i’m really impressed with myself that I knew that Aeneas fled with his dad and son and left his wife behind. Why? Because I never read it. #
• (via Wikipedia) To fall upon the triarii was a Roman idiom – meaning to use one’s last resort. Hate it when my granddad fights my wars, too. #
• Please, college girls: Just say no to boob tattoo. #
• I compared the Aeneid to that North Korean Godzilla ripoff. Because both are remakes with heavy nationalistic theme meaning Virgil = Lil Kim #
• @hotdogsladies if that happens, hope SEPTA is in charge of taking you to hell. You’d end up in heaven some manner of hours later. #

I never have time to read?

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 26, 2009 . 9:19AM

Or so it would seem lately. Then, I got to thinking, “what is it that I read all day?” as I often catch myself in that situation. So, I made a list on a handy post-it note instead of reading the Aeneid.

Print:

• The Economist
• Portfolio
• Wired
• Business Week

Web:

• Web Worker Daily
• Gizmodo
• Engadget
• Engadget Mobile
• Mobile Phone News
• Phone Scoop
• ZDnet
• Penny Arcade
• PVP
• Order Of The Stick
• Digg (just the frontpage)
• LIfehacker
• 43 Folders
• Kotaku
• Joystiq

Podcasts:

• CAGcast
• History Of Rome
• Joystiq Podcast
• Bloomberg On The Economy
• This Week In Tech
• Diggnation
• Totally Rad Show
• Dungeons And Dragons Podcast
• Downloadable Content
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann
• Co-Op

This is why I never review books as often as I want to.

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 20, 2009 . 9:59PM

• I have some serious planning, cleaning, and organizing to do tonight. #
• Sally is an awesome name. Just sayin’ #
• This dude shoplifted here a few months ago. Today, buying a phone. That’s not wierd. #
• I’m considering this whole one-man shop thing pretty seriously. A “real” office instead of a home one. This economy, though. #
• what’s good/easy iin the non-unlimited prepaid market nowadays? #
• Well, if I had some spare time, I’d be blogging about some tech issues facing me: specifically the crappiness of netbooks. #
• Crap, out of stuff to read and I got an hour before I get home. #
• Only in Frankford do you see cars turning left on a yellow. In front of a siren-ing ambulance. #
• Thinking about my household’s carbon: I ride public transpo, but the gf drives 3 hours/day by herself for work. I think that’s an Earth fail #
• @wigu I’d reccomend a lenovo x200: led-backlit, same resolution as a 15″ macbook pro – epic battery. Oh, < 3lbs w/battery for portability. #
• @1rFkZr thanks for the pro tip. You’re the best! #
• This is sunday. This is too early. #
• Without my macbook pro still – its really biting into my productivity. #angst #
• On line at the bank. Which is online on the web. Zomgheadsplosion. #
• Read 80 pages of British Imperial history. Let’s deal with the death of Cicero instead. #
• Yo, this big snapple seletion isn’t propa at all. Just peach, fo real? here I am all on a raspberry tip. #
• Twitter lacks support for IE 4.5! Dudes, how am I supposed to use this imac as a 20lb twitter machine? #
• hey, do twitter’s offical widgets use the same API as third party ones? #
• Wow, that busy just came outta nowhere. #
• World War I’s causes: not enough europeans saw shiloh. Or elmira. #
• Gonna install Baldur’s Gate on my Bondi Blue iMac and enjoy myself immencely. #
• @jdotames needs to bring that cracker/pepperoni and cheese action over. And a book to read. #
• I’m playing Civilization IV and having.a good time doing it. #
• Playing rogue. Nethack is too complicated. #
• Omg THE Scott Kurtz is coming to MY town!!! #
• Moved out of the dungeon, now studying British geography. I never remeber the Irish counties, cept Ulster. #
• This morning: missed 4 busses and a trolly. #
• Quiz time! Let’s see if I know whereabouts stuff is in the UK #
• Take off take off your damned coat, we are indoors and its at least 73 degrees in here! #
• @jdotames told me last night that we share 376 square feet (320 really). 47sqft/PC in the house, 54/game console, 25/ip address on the lan. #
• Oh, and 7.2GB of hard disk storage/square foot. More if you count flash memory, which I’m not about to undertake. #
• Looking at Walter Reed Hospital’s archival flickr feed was an experience, boy lemme tellyouwhot #

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 13, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Obligatory weather tweet. #
• Well, if this Wendy’s isn’t situated on the mouth of the 3rd level of the abyss, I don’t know what is. #
• Argh post-fast food angst. #
• My shirt tuck situation today has taken a dangerous turn. #
• oh noes, i just figured out how to do the htmls! http://bit.ly/Vf3T6 <= “dreamweaver is dead, long live drupal” (he meant wordpress) #
• The soon-released Motorola Stature i9 feels as good as it looks. We’re passing one around at the store today and sentiment’s running great. #
• Note to self: Look into installing fonts on smartphones. I really want candy script for my blackberry. Or maybe a my-handwriting font. #
• today, productivity. time to hunker down and – oh wow, a new history of rome podcast #
• where to find a 4:3 (800×480+) lcd monitor no larger than 10″ ? #
• i’m asking because I’m going to stick a MSI wind into my mac classic (after a totally rad paint job, of course) http://bit.ly/ENiV #
• Why doesn’t blackberry’s browser have javascript turned on by default? #
• I am not an expert on the curve (okay, maybe a little) or metro pcs, but I have an awful sense of gloom re: their soon-to-be get together. #
• At the notion of concluding my workday, I am jubilent. Currently, though I am harangued by telesales shenanigans. #
• Reading the Economist about Britian’s economic troubles – its 1870 all over again. #
• pope paper. papal pentultimate. #
• thank god bill maher is back on itunes. #
• new profile pic -> Ness from the SNES classic Earthbound. #
• I rarely go to mcdonalds at all, especially for breakfast. Now that I’m here, I remember why. #
• There’s that Roman civ book! I should look in the bathroom at work first next time! #
• Lees hoagie shack for the lunch today. Again. #
• Good job Microsoft/Sprint on that take home offer for Office 2007! #
• How sweet it is to leave work while the suns still in the sky. #
• On my way to see watchmen with @jdotames #
• Waiting for the 15 trolly with @jdotames. #
• At manny brown’s on south street, getting our greazy on. #
• What’s going to be our cocktail out the door? Stay tuned! #
• Ohkay looks like a 77 for me and something called a swedish lemoade for her. #

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 6, 2009 . 9:59PM

• Meatball Parm, sour cream and onion, can of coke. Nom like a mothafucka #
• Argh facebook on opera mobile. #
• Losing blackberry usernames is quite a bummer. #
• Blackberry user name? The only way to get it back is to call bb support. #
• its the best time of day, light wise for the next 15 minutes or so. #
• I think I’m going to write a paper about the death of Pope John Paul II. Because I am at a loss for good ideas. #
• My local Target seems to be doing a brisk business today. #
• I daresay it’s a little demeaning to be stuck in a computer lab. I can afford a laptop! It just needs a lil repair action. #
• blah math class #
• Sanyo’s newfangled qwerty thing I scoped on engadget mobile looks pretty keen. #
• Spring break next week! That means I get to do all the things I’ve been putting off because I didn’t have time. #
• Always busy 4-6 PM round here. #
• End around the fraudsters with the smoothness, go me. #
• Put on some steely dan, make a drink and studustudystudy. #
• One midterm down (if I don’t get an a for the performance I just put in, ima be quite mad) – one more to do. What’s the panopticon again? #
• Of all the things to stick on the iphone from the kindle, books ranks last. Let me have evdo or a real keyboard instead. Or a big-ass lcd. #
• These new propel bottles make me feel like I’m smuggling estrogen. #
• Chuck Norris’s milkshake brings saber-toothed tigers to his yard. #
• 100 minutes, two midterms. Feel like my right hand is gonna fall off. #
• Q: Why haven’t the hobos sold rails for the 15 trolly for scrap?
  A: Whoops, already pawned their jackhammers. #
• @3Dingo nope. just gin. in reply to 3Dingo #
• significantly enjoying mc paul barman’s track called Body of Work http://www.mcpaulbarman.com #
• Meant to get my computer’s serial number so I can send it out. #
• I’m glad I don’t have a baby to feed right now, there’s a lot of broken stuff in my house. #
• Yo dawg I heard like your cousin so I didn’t put nothin in nothin so could do nothing when you nothin. That’s gross. #
• Say what you will about citi’s subprime holdings – but their atms are PLUSH. #
• watching jon stewart’s bit on twitter. this seemed timely. #
• kinda miss my blackberry 8350i today, which seems to be my primary twitter machine. can’t blame me, it has a kick-ass keyboard. #
• That makes 2 mice, 1 set of earphones, and a flashdrive lost/broken this semester. #
• @DeanBrophy heck to the yiz-yeah on the Jameson’s. #
• omg lenovo x200s are like $750 and I utterly can’t justify buying one. Sad Face, USA population: me. #
• back to writing a review I don’t have to write for a book I didn’t have to read. people still do that crazy stuff. #

[Review] The American Way of Death (Revised) by Jessica Mitford

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 6, 2009 . 5:11PM

Having been told it’s morbid to even think about, I naturally got really curious about death as a youngster. Not having to deal with it (until pretty recently), I’m now taking a class (in Religion, obstensibaly) about Death and Dying. The whole death-ingorance thing behind me, I forgot the number one rule of book club: never read a book on recommendation given during a lecture. Now, with the vague disappointment of breaking a self-made rule behind me, I’m at the end of a throughly useful tome by the psychologist Jessica Mitford. “Side splitting,” as the back of the book promices? Clever, sure, but my sides stayed intact throught the volume examining what happens to us between when we kick the bucket and when we’re biodegraded.

The post-life sevices providers formerly known as American undertakers are definately not paying attention to neither actual religious dogma or inflation, for that matter. It would be poingant to mention at this juncture that I’d call this book foremost a book about consumer advocacy than actual death. Death, along with coffins, corpses, and the like are actually replaced by nicer words, like passing, caskets, and “Mr. Jones,” by those in charge of funerary services in America.

Frankly, I share some amazement that the British had the American funeral, which cannot be called traditional unless you think a Super Nintendo is an antique. Mitford’s best work is in the sphere of breaking down the service, following “crade to grave” the path of our dearly departeds. Other topics surrounding death Mitford touches are on embalming (which I am to understand isn’t common knowledge), cremation, memorial societies, and even the aforementioned look at British funerals.

Overall, I’d definately have to agree (with that religious studies professor) that its an important book, and even a good one. Reading this after you are in charge of a funeral will result in a facepalm, reading it before one will result in one by some mortician.

Google Video Closing? What am I to watch at work?!?

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 4, 2009 . 7:41PM

This is hardly more than tweet-worthy, i understand that Google Video isn’t REALLY closing, but just to stop accepting downloads.

If you have filtered Internet access – there’s only a few ways one can do it. My work has what’s called “whitelists” of sites that can be accessed. Because we might have to use gmail for whatever reason (i think to set up some customer’s email accounts) the domain http*://*.google.* works – I have access to video.google.com. Every other video site on the internet is not on the whitelist. If I want to, eh, i dunno, watch a full length interview with Richard Nixon, let’s say – I can do that. Also, the “just download this right fast” link is useful for getting video on my PSP, which is difficult to find the right format for.

Anyways, google video, besides the obvious reasons why it’s better than youtube (slow to take down protected IP, bigger, longer, and downloads) – don’t forget about those still under the yoke of filtered internet 35+ hours a week!