I'd still like an augmented reality wiki for cemeteries. Who am I walking past? I want to know.
@sm Zinc supplement right now, black tea with fresh lemon before bed, very early night. Boom.
And lo, my apartment gained a half-inflated Dalek. Now to find a pump ...
My friend Nate is planning on sailing around the world in 2017 (for 5 years). I'm only a little envious. http://thenomadtrip.com/2013/08/16/how-to-finance-travel/?fb_source=pubv1
@erinjo Sounds like an A+ plan. Tiny wrinkle: laptop is a Philips originally designed for the Brazilian market. Let's see what happens!
@erinjo So, uh, I have an old-ish Windows Vista laptop here that's begging to have its hard drive reformatted ...
When Snowden & Manning are Harvard professors specializing in open government, we'll all look back at this period with incredulity.
@scribacious Technically Salisbury Craigs, I think. Maybe a bit of the Seat too!
While I was idly waiting for something to upload, I thought I'd check my photo archive to see what I was doing ten years ago today. This is the view from my old #office at the Moray House School of Education in #Edinburgh, Salisbury Craigs in the background.
That thing where you're upset, so you need to take a walk, but you also need an iPhone cable, so that's a lucky confluence.
There's an #indieweb drinkup happening at Local Edition tonight at 8:30pm: http://indiewebcamp.com/Events/2013-08-19-Sf-Drinkup
If you're still on Windows XP, stop it. It's unsafe, far behind, and you're doing yourself a disservice. http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-warns-windows-xp-users-risk-zero-day-forever-7000019503/
One-liner: a gaggle of inept public servants attempt to maintain a fully-functioning Orwellian dystopia. Or, Yes, Minister meets 1984. Or, Little Britain meets Brazil.
It's the near future, or an alternate present, or our present, or even the recent past - we're never quite sure. The government is doing everything in its power to spy on its citizens, as well as any visitors hapless enough to wander in through the borders, in the hope of retaining the status quo.
Scene: Etonian public servants attempt to run sham coffee shops at the G20, in order to dupe attendees into sharing their state secrets over the wifi. None of the public servants have the first clue about how to run a coffee shop.
Scene: journalists are detained at Heathrow. There's no good reason to keep them there, so cue awkward, protracted explorations of the contents of their luggage, as if Harold Pinter had written the Generation Game.
Scene: the government erects an Internet filter, recording all data traffic going in and out of the country, despite nobody in Whitehall quite knowing how to use a computer or how the Internet works.
In other words, the premise is that the government is inept, hopelessly bureaucratic, and catastrophically bad at running the dystopia it so badly wants to call its own. And how could that not be hilarious?
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This is the only time you'll see me linking to a sports site, but this kind of protest makes me smile: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/russian-gold-medalists-kiss-medal-stand-wo...
@natbat That's extremely tempting. I'll keep this on file for when the cheap Sonys I bought yesterday break. Thanks again!
@natbat Those look amazing. Thanks for the tip! Maybe well-made earbuds might, indeed, solve my problem ...
Didn't shave this weekend. Me being me, I'm now halfway to a beard. Do I keep it? And other banal morning decisions.
@erinjo I could make a fortune! Also, I aspire to purr like Jeff Goldblum.
@erinjo I've been thinking about doing that too, but I know how the universe works and don't need 37 pairs of indestructible ear buds.
And another pair of earbuds falls apart, right in my hands, for no reason, right on time.
If you were going to order some affordable-ish custom-sized frames online, where would you go?
Requiem for Romance: a breakup set to a beautiful ink animation. Heartbreaking. http://vimeo.com/35699279
Hello, Berkeley. Home again.
What's more American than waiting in the line for gas at Costco?
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