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Sweet! RT @pfpodcast: ALERT: Portafilter Podcast Episode 104 JUST POSTED http://t.co/laxnPmy or iTunes Link: http://t.co/SYaPo4m

What could be a better summer junk food movie than National Lampoon’s Vacation? 🙂 Even better with frozen Oreo pie and iced coffee 🙂

Now that it’s dark, 1988’s Watchers. Has Michael Ironside in it. He is now unchangably and distractingly the voice of Sam Fisher for me.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction goes online for free – @io9 http://t.co/sQSUIAp

I’m watching NASAtelevision’s live HD broadcast on @Ustream! Come join me http://t.co/Aq4U6SH #lastshuttleever

RT @DryforkPastor: Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace.

How do I find accepted tags? e.g., I can tag #lastshuttle and then find everyone’s using #finalshuttle and "shuttle" search is too populated

And I assume there’s a way because I know ppl use a common specific tag for twitter chats on a topic but how are those found/agreed on?

And what I *don’t* mean is like if I try to think of every possible tag and search one by one on hashtags.org or whatever.

If I can think of it, someone else has built it, I just can’t find it – enter search term, get list of related hashtags, popularity, etc..

.@KonyaHurricane The heart beats 2.5-3 billion times in a lifetime, excercise makes the heart beat faster, ergo excercise shortens life. QED

So, it’s Wesley’s LittleBigPlanet day – it would prob work out best if the shuttle didn’t launch. No way I’m missing it.

Ok, npr, this is your last warning. I don’t want to hear Elmo at 530am. That’s up there with nails on chalkboards and Tuvan throat singing.

Been watching shuttle missions on NASATV since ’97 or so. I could probably launch one myself, then find my way around the space station.

In my obsessive days, I recorded big chunks of the missions – I have about 1/3 of the entire feb ’00 11-day earth-mapping STS-99. #weirdo

You’ve never heard Tuvan throat singing?! Well, let me add a new soundtrack to your nightmares http://youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA

RT @NASAKennedy: #STS135 You can track shuttle Atlantis during launch in Google Earth using real-time data from Mission Control. http:// …

Watching NASATV coverage of STS-135, the final shuttle mission, in HD via the internet (via the PS3 web browser) with my son. #msgto1997

YOU GO, GIRL!! RT @AtlantisOV104: wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

RT @bookofsand: (News networks missed a golden opportunity to play Europe’s "Final Countdown" before the Atlantis launch.)

Ok Wesley, I’m sooo sorry I took your LBP morning to show you a spaceship. The real ones clearly aren’t as much fun as the ones in movies 😛

So, let it be known that Wesley has begun his Friday LittleBigPlanet Online All Day sesh. PSN ID is minimuffin06 and remember, he’s only 5.

Ever since LittleBigPlanet came along, Wesley’s like "Free Realms who?" so I guess I’ll make a new vid at some point. #ps3

This was his Fridays until recently http://youtube.com/watch?v=WIwM6yXLP9Y Wesley playing Free Realms like it’s DDR (@KonyaHurricane‘s joke)

There is an undeniable resemblance 🙂 RT @KonyaHurricane: http://t.co/Nh0Y5Bc [Wesley Free Realms/DDR video mashup thing]

@netflix I’d have to say Misery bears a striking resemblance to the relationship between me and my current boss 😛

Slumber party night dinner 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/a1P1wc

A man will be imprisoned in a room w/ a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it doesn’t occur to him to pull rather than push.

That last was a quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein, via refdesk.com’s thought of the day

.@AskPlayStation Love the video app but give us an update! It unnecessarily breaks upload vids into chunks. Also needs insert black/silence.

One of my fave literally-from-the-hip photos I’ve ever taken http://christophercornelius.com/wp/2008/08/19/flickrd-photo-dad-dying-at-home/

Yessss!! Night of the Comet is now on Netflix InstantWatch! 80s campy, end of the world, zombie-ish fave of mine as a kid.

Slumber party night is not getting here fast enough.

RT @kimmaytube: but generally, u should not talk abt your problems with outsiders because even after you two have made up? They NEVER fo …

RT @baristadecasa: True RT @DryforkPastor: Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace.

For those keeping score at home, Wesley is now down three baby teeth. I had to help this one out – it had been unusable for days.

RT @ABQChristopher: Wesley has learned all the wrong things from me. I think the only chance is a master reset to factory state.

This WOULD HAVE been a tweet that we’re out back waiting for fireworks if Alamo had decided not to KILL our plans by having them last night.

Natch. Easily worth a buck, esp in HD, 5.1. RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 7/4 is " Independence Day " http://fb.me/CYWZstiU

@KonyaHurricane yeah, I’d noticed on the blu-ray but I try to not use those words or else I invalidate many great movies of the past.

@KonyaHurricane That "we shoulda’ shot it in slo-mo but we just slowed it in post" is a pet peeve of mine I see in quite a few flicks.

@KonyaHurricane I imagine the director with the editor saying "what was I thinking not shooting it overcranked?!" and making the bad choice

@KonyaHurricane that and the "I should have zoomed in but didn’t" and you get an editing room zoom with tell-tale bad resolution

@KonyaHurricane was afraid you’d ask that because I can’t think of an example. Maybe next time I see one, I’ll tweet it at you.

@KonyaHurricane I’m usually watching movies with people who don’t notice those things, so, it isn’t discussed and fades from memory.

Glanced in the living room and Natalie Portman is on Sesame Street. … Move over, Wesley, we’re watching this one together 😛

When I see celebs not known for kid-friendly stuff on Sesame Street, I sometimes wonder if it’s ever a judge-ordered community service thing

Ugh, she’s singing and shouldn’t be. When she talks, she sounds hoarse – obviously recorded the song previously.

Tomorrow, we make a sacred pilgrimage to Ruidoso for a transcendent disc golfing experience at one of the best courses I’ve ever thrown.

Ok, Weird Al’s new polka mix is awesome 🙂 The newest Dr. Demento Show and Long John Silvers starts slumber party night.

After The Cage episode of Trek as an appetizer, the slumber party main feature is 1981’s The Dark Night of the Scarecrow and ice coffees 🙂

I am stunned at how well I remember this movie – even to bits of dialogue. If I saw it when it came on tv, I would have been 8.

I have now completed all 36 episodes of The Twilight Zone season one – all post-spn viewing. I am continually impressed with the writing.

Terra is pressing some coffee to go over ice, and a big pot of metal-filtered siphon for with breakfast burritos, which I’m making 🙂

Got to the course just as a tourny was meeting up! Bad luck. So, we went into town for the awesome kitchen tools/toys shop. Now going back.

Grindstone disc golf course in Ruidoso just gets better everytime I play it. But, they slightly changed hole 4 and drastically changed 9.

Wesley, @KonyaHurricane, @nurseterra, and I had a great time disc golfing in ruidoso but we’d all prefer to not discuss our scores 😛

@VaporCast Long time listener, first time tweeter. Am I supposed to let this Midnight Express steep? (Batch ID 1, ordered 25th, recvd 30th)

When people come over I’m always behind the bar. They probably suspect I have goat legs or that my shoes don’t match my outfit or something.

I was complaining about Netflix’s rating system again and remembered this http://christophercornelius.com/wp/2008/06/03/my-movies-ratings/

Just noticed we have been having slumber party nights for over three years now – first one was May 31, 2008.

Wesley has already begun his day of LittleBigPlanet – he’ll presumably be there allllll day again. #ps3 #tgif

Thinking Bernoulli would have some things to say about our evap cooler not working well on a windy day.

Yup, Netflix IW today got all episodes of Star Trek, Voyager, Enterprise, and The Next Generation. It’s a good day to be a sci-fi geek 😛

I see the old Star Trek on Netflix IW are indeed the "improved" effects versions with the 5.1 remixes. Not a complaint, haven’t seen ’em.

At least I’d have a use for mine :P. RT @SteveVape: on the blog: Tutorial: G4 Drip Atomizer Mod http://bit.ly/mxr51a #ecig #vaping

@SteveVape we barely got to try our G4s – got one each, within a few days both ours got broken tubes trying to put 510 drip tip in. (??)

Fyi, my new 1000mAh eGo, out of the box, lasted almost 24hrs (minus a few sleeping) until it just now needs charging.

We have found Joe Glo isn’t as good as Cafiza for our purposes, which is mostly cleaning presses and siphon pots. Haven’t done Gaggia test.

Sigh… We need a PS3 gamer guild for 5-year-olds. People get impatient and quit Wesley’s LBP games. He has fun anyway, but still.

It’d be different if more people in LBP used voice chat – if he could hear them, he’d know what they want him to do (2-person puzzles, etc)

@vaporcast Right on, thanks. Lovin’ the 1000mAh 🙂 I now have the biggest eGo of anyone I know! Which isn’t news to anyone who knows me 😛

Now uploading a funny outtake from a siphon pot vid we were toying with. I’ll post the link when done. It’s a must see. Trust me.

Ok, everybody go ahead, point and laugh at me 😛 http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgiHNYC55HA Why not just pull it out and light it?

Wesley lost a second baby tooth last night. It’s now in the cup with the other one on the shelf in our sitting room.

@KonyaHurricane My assumption is that it’s because I tilted it, jostled it, etc..

@KonyaHurricane yeah, the look on my face in the vid is a moment of genuine embarassment and a dawning "Wow, that was totally dumb" 😛

@KonyaHurricane And reminds me of a fire-spewing trick I once tried, ending in a blistered thumb, and then-wife getting face fireball O.O

@KonyaHurricane You can YouTube 151 Fireball to get the general idea. I, uh, did the flaming thumb version. Bad night 😛

@KonyaHurricane Nobody’s more surprised than I that I didn’t panic, drop it, burn the house down, etc. 😛

Once in a great while, I wake up, hate a whole room out of the blue, and spend the day changing everything. This day, it was Wesley’s room.

My new 1000mAh USB eGo (from vaporcaststore.com) will be delivered TODAY!! 🙂 🙂 That was pretty fast! #ecig #vaporcast