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tweets for the week 2010-07-31

by zach @ . July 31, 2010 . 4:59AM

• What To Do With an Old G5 Tower?: http://bit.ly/cP0K9k – If you want this problem, I have a G5 laying around the house for sale. #
• @metroidbaby when Ed Cullen can cast level 9 spells he can have shit on Raistlin. #
• Wow, I've been performing some pedantic life maintenance tasks today. #
• That NES I bought in April is finally refurbished. And, unlike most of my efforts, I didn't have any extra screws. Cleaned up and playin FF. #
• Bases loaded, 2 outs. I'm out of fingernails here, #phillies #
• and Lidge is now 42/45 in saves at home! #phillies #
• Gmail's "Send and Archive" feature should get out the labs like yesterday. Its changed how I work my inbox now. #
• Starcraft II tomorrow. I'm going to be really mad if the Apocalypse is anytime before September. #
• Seven uniques on my portal site today? Look at me, I'm Mr. Internet popular. #
• So typical. I bought Ni-MH two days ago – http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC500LL/A #
• You could get 2.2 of these for the price of a PSP GO – http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/augens-99-genbook-smartbook-preview/ #
• Admittedly, its a much better value than a PS2 for the same price, especially when you figure in having to buy a display. #
• An engadget commenter said the new 12 core Mac Pro costs mad cheddar because of "engineering dollars being spent on the case" – YEAH IN 2001 #
• There is two kinds of people in the world: Those who think Louie is the funniest show ever, and unfunny people. #
• Heroic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose #
• Huzzah now there's only 5 macs in the house! #
• Barber for a shave and haircut, then a light lunch before my interview today. #nomeatballs #
• 1996's Garbage = the best kind. #
• Oh noes, not teachers! http://digg.com/d31YPGy #
• The fourth optical drive i tried read my Starcraft 2 dvd. Which is good because I only had one other one to try. #
• Two crashes in 5 hours of sc2 which ain't bad, considering I was warned about my video drivers at install. #
• Is it weird that omnifocus on the iPad is the first app I wish I had an iPad for? #
• The ending to Starcraft 2 had me misty eyed #
• A mist of "aw, shit now its gonna take another 9-11 years to play a new Starcraft game again" #

tweets for the week 2010-07-24

by zach @ . July 24, 2010 . 4:59AM

• It is quite a nice afternoon here in Port Richmond. #
• hey I've told photographers this before (I'm looking at you @jessicaames) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6EQo6it7Y #
• oh just shut up and pay your damned taxes. #
• The trouble with jogging is that all the ice falls out of your Gin and Tonic. #
• I love me some METRO UI and think I'm going to let it inspire my next blog redesign (although I am no good at WordPress theming) #
• I know a special lady who will be looking forward to this! http://bit.ly/cCFJtF #
• Storms a'brewin. #
• Oh, sweet: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151199 these got cheap when I wasn't looking. #
• If you believe that government is the problem, why are you trying to be elected to the US Senate? As a sleeper agent? #
• ASUS is making a Windows Phone 7 Phone. Phone. #
• I saw two physicists get married at Our Lady of Perpetual Motion. #
• @pvponline todays (I: TFW) 2nd panel could of had lolbat wish he had a dislike button. #
• Peanut Butter on my MBP's LCD bezel. This is why I'm going Lenovo next time. #
• I know two SSDs taped together when I see it http://bit.ly/9GejjB #
• Hey, you know what show is still consistently awesome? Rescue Me. #
• Amazon must love 2-day shipping me 2 pens for $3.59 with Prime. #
• If the theory of many universes is true, that means there is a world just like ours where instead of the Bible, they use Battlefield Earth. #
• I'm an Obsessive Wooter and I'll get help right after I check the next deal… #typeAwooter http://woot.com #
• Don't laugh, this is how we got SkiFree: http://bit.ly/bphEf9 #

So, I’m watching Lake of Fire

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . July 22, 2010 . 8:22PM

“They show you how things used to work back in the day. Like with the gays and the lesbians – look at what he did to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

tweets for the week 2010-07-17

by zach @ . July 17, 2010 . 4:59AM

• whoops, I meant – multitasking: you aren't doing this right http://www.icanhasinternets.com/2010/07/congrats-cortney/ #
• I like kittens a lot. Jenny won't let me have one. #
• I have an idea for a Vonnegut-ian end of the world story that begins at the Moose Lodge in Elmira, NY. #
• Could go for a drink or four. Is anywhere in this county my scene? #
• Hilarious http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/01/xorn-history-comic-lbfa/ = This is for a minor/new Marvel character, not a headliner. #
• Read the Erevis Cale trilogy in 2.2 days. It refused to leave my grasp until I ran out of pages. #
• Still worried about this: http://bit.ly/9PUH0K #
• Man, RIM really backed up the truck on this BBM campaign, or the campaign is just really tailored for my media habits. It's been everywhere #
• Wonder if I could get neverwinter nights working on the eee pc. #
• Oh, easily. #
• Still reading at a breakneck pace. For me, that is the meaning of summer. #
• X300s will always have a place in my gadget-lustin heart, although I have been feeling the lusty discrete-gpu'd T410 http://bit.ly/a5YxOr #
• I saved 72% off retail for my discrete math book – and got the 3rd world (for India) edition. Being American is expensive! #
• Never trust a "scienceman" using Comic Sans @wigu @pzmyers #
• Another example of how the China-buying-the-US via government debt alarmist crap is just that: http://digg.com/d31X07g #

tweets for the week 2010-07-10

by zach @ . July 10, 2010 . 4:59AM

• who doesn't have a dollar for this? http://family.1saleaday.com/ #
• Hey, the venture bros are totes borrowing too hard from circa 1967 batman in the form of Deadman. #
• They didn't have these in Red Dawn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-DT_Underwater_Assault_Rifle #
• screw your business plan,. forget pagerank. get on http://www.agentz.com/ and then get money. that should be the new plan. #
• http://amzn.to/aJVEZx This is the cheap HDMI cable for the Evo 4G we've been waiting for. #
• I'm going to learn water polo now http://www.agentz.com/eoti.html #
• maybe constant affirmation is bad? http://bit.ly/ayCgrt hahahahahahahahhaha #
• Learning how to do most things about my job in the cloud/without my own laptop. Also, missing my laptop today. #
• oh neato: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211441&cm_re=sata_ssd-_-20-211-441-_-Product #
• I heart @DDP irregardless of who distributes them. #
• noooooooooo http://flicksided.com/2010/07/bond-23-gets-the-axe/ #
• 100 best movie insults, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEYXWmEse8 – they missed Goodfellas, got Casino, pretty decent. #
• Die Hard 2 is still awesome, and gorgeous in HD. #
• I can't wait for it to get a little cooler outside so my games of strip iterated prisoner's dilemma can last a little longer. #
• Forsooth jury duty shall try my patience muscles today. #
• I don't own any action figs/dolls, but if I had to pick one, it'd be one of easy-e http://bit.ly/9XChHs #
• Saved a good $115 on next semester's math book. Unlike last semester, I did not achieve this savings by retaking the last math class. #
• hey everyone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Tom #
• my fave college car: http://bit.ly/aBhs7c inspired by http://www.collegecarguide.com/blog/1046952_top-ten-college-cars/page-2 #

tweets for the week 2010-07-03

by zach @ . July 3, 2010 . 4:59AM

• this poster reminded me how much i've been missing the mad mens: http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2010/06/season-4-key-art.php #
• oh, i'm all mad after paying MSRP for this: http://www.1saleaday.com/ #
• bacon and eggs and toast and coffee. and maths. #
• Partisan arguments over operating system's role in "space x" obscure the important thinking to be done: the role of computers in that space. #
• I'm on 70 of 92 of Ricky Gervais' XFM radio show. Just ~18 hours left! Jenny will be pleased until she finds out about the other series. #
• I have jury duty tomorrow, which starts entirely too early, in my estimation, about 3 hours too early. #
• Of course Robin Williams would make a better Riddler than Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Mike outta be Mr. Zsasz #
• Wong Tang would like me to participate in his Iraqi prince scam. I'd rather just pretend the email was from a crossdressing rap group. #
• @wigu fuckin macro how do they work #
• Rescue Me rescued me from not seeing Denis Leary on TV. #
• Montage of cable TV: http://flic.kr/p/8dDvqd I don't wanna pay for TV anymore, either. #
• Days like today make me wish teefury.com used better shirts. i'd really go for today's. #
• grats @woot on getting sold to that river in brazil. #
• There was a sequel to Don't Copy That Floppy, dontcha know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk #
• @technicallyPHL i always imagined the Voice-Over Lady getting goosed while recording it. #
• I just realized something: I don't hardly ever commute with crackheads. Thanks crackheads. #
• Of course it takes septa 30 minutes to bring a trolly to the substance abuse guerilla theater I'm being exposed to. #
• I hope @jdotames has no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack (s) this year #
• Palmercash goes upscale when I wasn't looking – I'll pass on the $30 Atlas Shrugged cover shirt. #
• Would really like one of these: http://bit.ly/bEC8dp I'm running out of ways to re-buy Final Fantasy domestically. #
• omg too bad this isn't a real thing because I bought two http://www.saikatbiswas.com/web/Projects/Holga_D.htm #
• Sexual Capital is real, people. Check yo balances. #

Long Tail Play: What you can get for the price of a Mirodi Travel Notebook.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . July 2, 2010 . 11:50PM

Ladies and gentleman, in this corner – a squareish piece of leather made in Thailand along with a 60 page notebook.

The Mirodi Traveler’s Notebook is a device that has some traction in the neigh-unimaginable delve that is Stationary Blogging. For various reasons (the most compelling I’ve seen that its hard to buy in the US and anything Amazon doesn’t sell directly is for PROs, of course) this notebook has captured the imaginations of many weird people that are “travelers.” I do not need a teardown of components (like the kind routinely done to Apple products) to figure out I can find a square foot of leather and a decent stack of paper for less than $50.

Thankfully, if you have $50, and thinking “hey, I was going to make sweet consumer love over this product” – allow me to provide a useful alternative for the American traveler:

• An off-brand track suit. Thankfully, Uncle Sam (not that one) has us taken care of for just $26! (Wal*Mart)

• A Moleskine traveler’s notebook. (Moleskine Direct, $11 retail) No, it won’t work very well with your $300 fountain pen, but that Bic you swiped from Motel 8? Magic. Also, this guy has more than twice as many pages. Have more memories!

• A cheeseburger ($1-3, various) can be had, because you are a US American! $1 BK double pictured.

• Ten to Twelve Dollars.