• Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-09-18

    September 18, 2011 - By 

    Note to self: get name of arrangement of "Amazing Grace" sung at Pentagon memorial heard on @WBEZ @NPR for choirmistress Mary #fb # Also, get composer of "Requiem Canticorum" heard on WFMT this morning # Today of all days, the "Cook County GOP Family Picnic" at Busse Woods is a big campaign event. #911 #tacky #p2 http://t.co/e1Glljb # I just used #Shazam to discover One by U2. http://t.co/x1CiHN3 # WXRT made me cry again. Johnny Mars announced a pause to remember those we lost. Silence, drumsticks, and then U2's "One." #onSep11 # In the days and weeks following, U2 and…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    In Flight

    September 16, 2011 - By 

    I’m probably having a little too much fun with inflight wi-fi. So’s David. So far I’ve tweeted, chatted on Second Life, read email, read Google Reader, and tried to “navigate.” We’re off to Colorado for a week, photos galore await.

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-09-11

    September 11, 2011 - By 

    Notice @RepJoeWalsh doesnt tweet the time, date, and location of his "small business forum" but never fails to tweet on-air appearances! # My rep @RepJoeWalsh is an attention-seeking boor who never wastes an opportunity to grab attention. GOP block-and-blame strategy FAIL #p2 # AUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! BING! Y U NO PLAY The Guild Episode 7???? # My company lost some people on 9/11. Just now the lights were lowered for 2 minutes' silence. Quiet, but working. #BAU # http://t.co/kBWnEjr # "a small minority of know-nothing, born again, right-wing zealots" who're not just dead wrong, they’re absolutely certain they're right. # I'm watching…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Annoying: VH1’s show viewer’s repeated adds, Twitter app, bling

    September 10, 2011 - By 

    I’m currently watching an older series of VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab,” and aside from the “can’t look away from this trainwreck aspect,” there are several annoyances. Repeat commercials. Sometimes the same spot is repeated 4 times in a row. I started out watching last night using Firefox, and at one point the playback just stops on a black screen after several repeats. I’m now trying to watch using Google Chrome, just as an experiment. The Twitter app (login in the sidebar of VH1 pages) auto-posts the first time, saying “I’m watching and chatting about #[show name] – join the conversation at…

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    Back In The Blog Saddle Again

    September 10, 2011 - By 

    It’s been too long, so I’m just going to start blogging things again. First up: it has to be said, AOL email addresses are not cool, they indicate that the sender is stuck in a rut, and sometimes people make value judgements about you if you’re using one. If famous people are still using AOL emails, it’s because they can’t be bothered. AOL addresses are not a status symbol. This is another example of the sycophantic logic that twists powerful people’s flaws into reinforcing how much better they are than normal people. Mark Zuckerberg’s too busy to buy presentable clothes!…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Teabagger @RepJoeWalsh Sluffing Obama’s Speech in Schaumburg UPDATE: 5 Media Vans!

    September 8, 2011 - By 

    UPDATE: Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t make a fuss about getting in – I was turned politely away by a nice lady who just kept repeating “It’s a Small. Businesss. Forum.” when I asked if it was open to the public. If I’d pressed the issue (could have claimed I’m a really, really SMALL business owner since I have a shop on Second Life’s Marketplace), I might have ended up like these people. When I got to the Prairie Center, there were FIVE media trucks, some guy with good hair smiling as he spoke on camera to the…