Category: LifeStream

The drive-thru/parking situation at Little Caesars is one of the stupidest things in this town.

"You’re messin’ with my Zen thing, man."

RT @PlayStation Sony Offering Free AllClear ID Plus Identity Theft Protection in the United States through Debix, Inc. http://bit.ly/k59nNU

RT @PlayStation Sony’s Response to the U.S. House of Representatives http://bit.ly/kIAx6P

Just wow. RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: PlayStation Network: Safer Than Ever http://bit.ly/lepLc9

Dear Sony, give us Netflix Instant Watch on our PSPs (via remote play will do!) and all will be forgiven. Heck, you can take another week.

Group of hackers says it’s planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony – CNET http://cnet.co/jzP1rl

@don_rivers Yup.

My usb passthrough eGo is rapidly dying. $25, lasted 5 months, dies suddenly rather than underperforms for weeks – I’m more than satisfied.

Clarification: My eGo started rapidly dying 3 or 4 days ago. Most people keep a spare – I don’t yet, though we’ve got a few manual 510s.

And, yeah, suddenly dying in just a few days is better than the ones that underperform for a final third or more of their life span.

RT @RevRunJnr: PSN = Playstation Notwork

After 5 hours on the roof, we have a new evap cooler 🙂 But, something about this one is driving Terra’s allergies crazy. (?)

@RachelRT I don’t think so. I’m in the Indian Wells and Florida vicinity.

@Rachelrt I’m having total deja vu, like you and I thought we lived on the same block or something what must be over a year ago

RT @gamespot Sony knew PSN "had no firewall installed," Cybersecurity expert tells Congress http://gamespot.com/6312333

WHY am I only NOW finding out you can bypass PSN login on Netflix AND Vudu???!!!!!

We really don’t like chardonnay. But, tonight we’re out of good vino and had a chard with dinner and really liked it. And it’s $5 a bottle!

That’s Twin Fin ’07 Chardonnay from Walmart. First chard we’ve had anything good to say about. And we had it before and didn’t like it!

Like so many things wine-related, we deduce it has to do with our changing tastes as we learn more about wines and how they taste.

We should accept nothing less than execution for the Sony people responsible. Live, streaming over PSNv2.

Ok, ok, I’d settle for Sony execs sentenced to a public de-panting while singing "I Know What Boys Like".

WTF? Isn’t that one of the Biblical signs of the Apocalypse? @94KEY: What do you think of Miley Cyrus’s cover of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’?

Happy birthday to Terra… My best friend, my partner, my confidant, my safe place, my white mage, my irreplaceable… My life for you 🙂

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 5/3 is "Contact" http://fb.me/A8q00Nyd

@BanhiDancer I, for one, welcome our new fire-dancing overlords.

RT @TweetSmarter: First tweet of attack on Osama bin Laden…without realizing it: http://bit.ly/jGTBWf

RT @TweetSmarter: .@ReallyVirtual live-tweeted the attack on Osama…without knowing that was what it was HT @googlewaveyour

RT @TweetSmarter: Apparent Google map of Osama bin Laden’s Compound in Pakistan http://bit.ly/kk2WlE

RT @leonardmaltin: Small theatres are going out of business as 35mm is becoming extinct. Unacceptable. http://bit.ly/jdzT3m @indiewire

RT @mnast: Facebook and Twitter are how millions are finding out about Bin Laden’s death. Ten years ago it was TVs and newspapers. #Change

RT @dELYSEious: RT @jennamgriffith: CIA just ousted Osama Bin Laden as mayor of Islamabad on @FourSquare

RT @marwilliamson: Tonight is a night for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate …

RT @dmoney350z: You know who else died on May 1? HITLER. /godwin’d

RT @iheartquotes: You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. ~John Mason via @Drmelc

RT @CoffeeGeek: Latte art is a pretty package. Problem is, people spend too much time learning to tie the bow, too little time with what …

RT @ReallyVirtual: Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.

That link about the guy tweeting the operation is only the first, there are many more tweets after that – very interesting stuff.

RT @TweetSmarter: r/t Word of Bin Laden’s Death Leaked Out on Twitter first http://nyti.ms/l5xuap

RT @94KEY: This is "Be Kind to Animals Week" – AND "Teacher Appreciation Week".
-So one gets an apple…the other, a Snausage…. Don’t mix …

RT @Maxplatypus See what America can do when PSN is down?!?!

RT @ClevelandOBrown Bin Laden must have had his actual location listed on his PSN account.

Thinking over plans for a special Terra’s Birthday edition slumber party for tomorrow 🙂 (she’s off wednesday so we can stay up late)

RT @GrammarGirl: Kids, your 40s rock. You’re old enough to afford concert tickets, and all the best bands from your 20s go on tour.

How did I not know @GrammarGirl is on Twitter?

Playing the Dreamcast classic The Typing of the Dead with Terra 🙂 One of my favorite games evar. And one of the oddest ever, as well.

Yes, you heard me right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead

After another viewing, The Fourth Kind remains the most disturbing horror film I know. And it’s very cleverly made, brilliant sound design.

RT @feedfliks: Netflix releases a ton of fine titles to Instant today. Happy Streaming! http://fb.me/QdMat6iy

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 5/1 is "Donnie Darko (Theatrical)" http://fb.me/xdM4Tfsd

I hate these kinds of tough parental choices – like when Hastings has a perfect Wesley-sized Rocky Horror Picture Show t-shirt.

This is the happiest moment of my life http://flic.kr/p/9D6qv4

Chili dogs made with mexican-y chili, wrapped in tortillas. And now The Fog on MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs and clearance Easter candy.

Wesley’s lips are stained red from his spn Strawberry Crush last night. He looks kinda like a little Mentat. Mmmm, juice of Safuuuu.

We do not do the chicken dance in this house. That is all.

This is reason enough to join Vudu. RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 4/30 is "Blade Runner (The Final Cut)" http://fb.me/tVN6U6Ry

Challenge: read this to someone and keep a straight face. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack Bonus: read in a Peter Jones voice

Grrr, need to learn to not talk with my hands so close to the bar. Just sent our favorite glass coffee canister to its next life.

Gone Thrift Storin’

Ok, Alamogordo, we’ll give you another chance and drop into your little tree hugger fair. We’re desperate and out of thrift stores.

Vaping IS permitted at the Earth Day Fair! 🙂

It was actually pretty cool for a free thing – the zoo was anyway. Even had emus and ocelots and giant guinea pigs.

Time to make the donuts. Tgif.

Want to start IF’ing again (have zcode interpreters on my phone and Psion) and I think I’ll start here http://www.webcitation.org/5dxPTXNYu

Here are 5-star current and past text adventures http://wurb.com/if/rating/5 Try one by (mathematician/poet) Graham Nelson or Andrew Plotkin

Want short (but many replays) and weird? Shade by Plotkin. Want to spend months on brilliant setting and puzzles? Curses! by Graham Nelson.

Curses! By Graham Nelson http://www.wurb.com/if/game/55 and Shade by Andrew Plotkin http://playthisthing.com/shade

@don_rivers I loved the game but only got a few hours in (busy life). Now we have nightly quiet time and that’d be perfect for text adv.

PSN still down, so no Free Realms for Wesley today, no Netflix for SPN tonight, and mom says she’ll die soon if she can’t back in PSHome.

In other news, NASATV’s HD Ustream on the ps3 browser works great (so far) and looks very impressive.

Hmmmm, Wesley’s never watched a shuttle launch…

NASATV HD on Ustream http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

GAH!! Just loaded the SEGA All-Star Racing demo for Wesley to try and it’s got Ulala from Space Channel 5!! Looking Hi-Def-ilicious ;P

Or would that be HDeelicious? Anyway, she’s not playable! At least in the demo. Also saw Shenmue’s Ryo. But, he’s not driving a forklift??!

Cool little game. It’s got tracks themed with Jet Grind/Set Radio, House of the Dead 2/Typing of the Dead, etc. but no Space Channel 5 🙁

w00t! Robert Wise, yo! RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 4/29 is "The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)" http://fb.me/TYjf5FJo

Dreamcast nostalgia kicked in, so while Wesley doesn’t get his Free Realms Friday, he’s now enjoying Gauntlet Legends in glorious VGA 🙂

Terra, Wesley, and I had a couple months last summer (?) we played Gauntlet together so he has a level 12 dwarf, but he’s never played solo.

RT @CoreyNewsome: ‘They Kissed’ is a TT. Really? Fucking Really? It’s a damn wedding. What did you expect to happen at the end? Breakdan …

Homeland Security Department Helping Investigate PSN Data Breach http://bit.ly/jIlyxG

Wesley is now trying Fur Fighters and loves it 🙂 #dreamcast

RT @PSLifeStyle: A Cautious New World: AVG’s Chief Research Officer Talks Sony, How To Stay Safe and The Inevitabil… http://bit.ly/mSifdK

RT @AskPlayStation: Questions and answers regarding the PSN outage: http://bit.ly/lsWG02

You people are letting me down. Where are all the SONY acronyms??? Like Sorry Our Network Yarked or whatever.

RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: PSN Access Could Resume By Next Tuesday, But Only If "Secure" http://bit.ly/m47tAT

RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: PS3 To Receive New Firmware Update, Will Force You To Change Passwords http://bit.ly/m2joyD

@BaristaOnDutY I’ve been loving my moka for a month or so, haven’t mastered it – just found your dec09 video, would love grind & temp advice

@BaristaOnDutY I’ve read a lot, tried many variations, watched many vids and your results are beautiful, so I want to try your methods.

Wesley exclaims "Dah!", removes something from his shoe, wipes his fingers along the fridge. Only I recognize it as a Ghostbusters reference

Wesley re-enacts scenes from his fav movies – Ghostbusters, The Matrix, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, all Batmans from Keaton to Bale.

And, when he hears The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy theme, he strikes a pose like the cover image planet guy with the tongue and hands.

This page contains many instances of the cover image Wesley impersonates http://www.reocities.com/Area51/Corridor/1495/hitchhiker.html

Wesley has the entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy saga (BBC radio version) on his PSP and it’s his favorite bedtime listening lately.

What’s puzzling is that he also has Jungle Jam – a lively children’s radio show – but prefers HGTTG, which is much more dialogue-laden.

The newer Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio shows are great but are sequels in storyline only, not style. Kinda’ like 2001 vs. 2010.

The celebrity cameos are fun. Especially Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane.

RT @gamespot: PSN credit card data was encrypted, "’no evidence" it was taken – Sony http://gamespot.com/6310549

"This arrogance undermines a basic security principle, never trust the client" -George Hotz http://j.mp/ijgG2D #psn #sony

Yup, Akira Kurasowa’s… RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 4/28 is "Ran" http://fb.me/Koi3k7Qs

Just had moka breakthrough. Ground to near Turkish, pot didn’t clog, reddish foam in only first half of extraction. Theory: change dose?

But I’m at 20g of coffee to 10oz of water – a manual brew ratio. If I cut dose down…blech? Sooo, coarser grind? Hm. Need more experiments.

Perhaps moka achieves pressure enough to extract that thoroughly? But what I *see* suggests too fine a grind. Hmm. #thinkingoutloud

Boom.

Boom again.

Douglas Adams explains the dimension of probability so clearly, I’m sometimes convinced I understand it.

😀 😀 RT @sween: My yet-to-be produced Batman screenplay. http://j.mp/mj9xnS

Our new evap cooler is here. (!!!!)

@don_rivers 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

A little work needed on the roof where the cooler goes, so no new cooler today 🙁 Gotta suffer with the old one another week or so.