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RT @KonyaHurricane: http://t.co/UVppank Pixar movies over time with their RottenTomatoes rating. Is Cars 2 really "Pixar’s first bad movie"?

AND it’s a windy day – this new cooler seems to only barely work when it’s really windy. Still 83 in the house, 46% RH!

Over the mountains, big dark spot? Is that the smoke? Doesn’t look like any kind of weather. Too huge to be just dust.

Caveat: I have no opinion of Cars 2, haven’t seen it but will soon – been hyping Wesley – I just didn’t know it was getting bad reviews.

Over the mountains, big dark spot? Is that the smoke? Doesn’t look like any kind of weather. Too huge to be just dust. #alamogordo

Re my not knowing Cars 2 reviews http://christophercornelius.com/wp/2008/09/15/im-dying-to-see-this-movie-so-i-have-no-idea-what-its-about

An old soapbox post from ’03, incl. some LaserDisc vs. DVD stuff http://christophercornelius.com/wp/2004/06/25/when-dvd-spells-b-a-d/

Uh oh. RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: Shareholders Ask Sony CEO to Step Down http://bit.ly/lUqmeh

They gave her an absurd sched this month that starts with 5 on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off, 3 on, then finally a full weekend. Then it gets worse.

@CoffeeAdventure Have no pourover but used 60g, 20oz in press, 4min, then over 200g ice in decanter – I like it but does it miss the point?

@CoffeeAdventure btw, the press was poured immediately and slowly but I doubt it’s exactly the same as what you described. Is it close?

@CoffeeAdventure I’d love to but pourover is one of the few coffee geekery apparati I don’t own so I was trying to approximate best I could

@CoffeeAdventure Wondering if I could achieve similar using a siphon pot. Sigh. Gotta get into pourover.

@SteveVape Yeah, I think my nic intake has easily tripled since I can now get my fix anytime, anywhere. Which means pretty much non-stop 😛

So sick of rotating charging 510s, really wish my new vapo’d get here. Got the Joye 1000mAh USB eGo with the 5-click on/off on the way.

Oh, and I sent the Lea back for exchange today. We’re going to keep it on hand as a spare. We vow to never be PT-less again. Chargers suck!

RT @therealjoebob: Fri night, Transit Drive-In in Buffalo, be there for new improved Drive-In Oath, by yours truly from the snack bar roof.

RT @CoffeeAdventure: Brewed Over Ice: An Iced Coffee Method Worth Trying http://nblo.gs/jIZNd

Wow, npr, isn’t 524am a little early for playing a pretty horrible recording of a teenager being repeatedly shot and screaming?

@vaporcast You noticed that, too, huh?

Welcome, everyone, to opening day of The 3rd Annual Christopher Complains About The Heat And How Useless Swamp Coolers Are For Three Months!

And this year is extra special because the car’s dead and the truck has no air conditioning! I’m sure we’re all gonna have a great time!

The weather’s been annoying so far but the last couple days have been truly unpleasant. So we’re days away from my constant foul invective.

RT @SteveVape: on the blog: E-Cig 101: Atomizers and Cartomizers http://bit.ly/jZiNkS #ecig #vaping

I just saw a woman walking down the street, pushing a 6-seater baby carriage. Three on each side, back to back. Hope she works at a nursery.

Just wow. Had to go in to the nursing home where Terra works. And wanted out immediately. Very disturbing.

How Terra can be in there everyday and see so much more than I glimpsed is a huge testament as to what kind of person she is.

RT @GrammarGirl: An interesting new Wikipedia article: Common English Usage Misconceptions http://t.co/nfIp0sD

Came home from errands (it was humid, so I left the cooler on high dry) and both thermometers agree – it’s 87 degrees in here.

Space Channel 5 coming to PSN "late summer"! But, it sucks? http://eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-12-space-channel-5-2-xbla-psn-this-summer

If SEGA *really* loved their PS3 people, they’d give us Skies of Arcadia on PS3 with the Pinta Quest mini-game on PSP. #dreamcast #vmu

@NewMexChick Eww! Ouch!

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 6/27 is "No Country for Old Men" http://fb.me/18TgAqe3Q

RT @KonyaHurricane: http://t.co/x0oApda This video proves that practice makes perfect.

After a Saturday that had more in common with our week than a weekend, we’re all settling down with Gauntlet Dark Legacy on Terra’s PS2 🙂

We brought the PS2 from Terra’s room to the sitting room, hooked up the little tv we use for spn and we’re all Gauntlet’ing on the couch 🙂

Slumber party dinner: Arby’s and Guinness Foreign Extra 🙂 And got a frozen key lime pie we’re gonna eat frozen, right outta the pan! 🙂

And this will be the slumber party debut of making Irish Coffees right at the coffee table, using our new tabletop vacpot!! 🙂

Dinner and the latest Dr. Demento Show – no Art Bell tonight – after the week we’ve had, we really need a larf 🙂

@TheLDHunter Jealous of Notorious, Wild Strawberries, and Sling Blade. Own Trainspotting (with glossary insert) and love my poster 🙂

Airplane II – The Sequel… If memory serves, this should be slumber party gold. (the first one isn’t on Netflix, btw)

The dead do not shoo-bop-a-loo-la.

@TheLDHunter It was too long ago, I don’t remember – I think it was mentioned in a forum when someone brought up Evil Dead II blood red LD.

Three days since we got the new tabletop coffee vacpot, three days we got up at 430 for coffee and Proverbs in the near-dark sitting room 🙂

Just woke Wesley with "It’s Friday!! Free Realms all day!" and he sleepily but insistently protests "LittleBigPlanet!!" #ps3 #tgif

Went to all that trouble to make Wesley a music playlist for LBP and he can’t listen to it during gameplay???

@RemarkableRyan Be that as it may, I just thought it’d be neat if he had his favorite sing-along-type songs. Ah well.

P.T.Anderson’s brilliant Punch-Drunk Love is back on Netflix IW! 🙂 Just don’t expect an Adam Sandler flick – he actually ACTS in this one.

I agree… "Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, reveals unexpected depths as an actor" – Roger Ebert http://bit.ly/8dVtyr

Just a reminder… http://brewmethods.com/

Coffee geekery isn’t odd – it’s culinary and social. But, try defending being an obsessive flashlight modder http://candlepowerforums.com

@SteveVape The cap is maybe the coolest Lea feature, imho – I only got a batt, not kit – assumed it wouldn’t fit over a Boge carto. (?)

@SteveVape clarification: assumed Lea cap wouldn’t fit over a Boge carto with drip tip.

@stevevape Ah. Well, my assumption was that the Boge was longer than the intended tank that comes with it.

@SteveVape Well, now I know not to try it 😛

Just noticed a tweet dated Nov8 that says we’d been out of clove cigarettes a few days… We still haven’t gotten around to ordering more.

I bring it up because we didn’t/don’t intend to never smoke cloves again so we didn’t note our unintentional quit date. We guessed november.

So, that’s like 8 months I haven’t smoked after – sheesh – well, I started heavy at 17 or so – so, about 20 years of smoking.

And, of course, the last handful of those years, I got my smokes directly from Indonesia – at least twice the tar, nicotine, etc..

Huh. Tomorrow marks 29 years since the release of Blade Runner (1982).

July 4th is a Monday?!! Grrrr. This will be Wesley’s first fireworks. But none of us do well staying up late.

Here’s how the Intelligenstia pros do siphon coffee http://youtube.com/watch?v=DWduH2DJ7Ms using the same model we now have on our table 🙂

.@KonyaHurricane Heh. In 15 years or so, there’ve only been two movies I thought were so bad, I didn’t even finish. Zoolander was one 😛

.@KonyaHurricane BUT, the other was Miller’s Crossing – an acclaimed Coen Bros film – so, it might’ve just been my mood at the time 😛

This Star Raiders game on PS3 is sooo like Colony Wars 3 – a PS1 game I put next to Silent Hill and FF9 – but the demo is stupid short!

Oh, I forgot, there’s now a third. Seabiscuit – a movie I spent a long time assuming I’d love and it bored me to tears. (And Terra to sleep)

Well, the El Shaddai game – "based on" the deuterocanonical Book of Enoch – is at least a few kinds of awesome, including the look of it.

430 coffee and Proverbs with Terra 🙂

Much better results with the new vacpot this morning 🙂 It’s just gonna take a little bit of getting used to – requires a gentler touch.

@KonyaHurricane you know where to go if you need a little artificial fuel to start the day 🙂 I’ll dazzle ya with a tabletop siphon demo.

Best thing about early morning – doing unimportant things. Important things get done eventually, unimportant things go undone then forgotten

RT @TheLDHunter: RT @MOVIEBRAINROT: Bruce Campbell turns 53 today. "Good? Bad? I am the one with the gun."

So jealous!! I own none of the rare colored LDs 🙁 RT @LaserdiscWiki: [snip] Tempted to watch Evil Dead 2 on Blood Red Laserdisc tonight!

The People vs. George Lucas http://huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-kim/the-people-vs-george-lucas_b_863508.html (warning – offensive language)

Well, I can’t find proof via Google but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of a movie released on a slime green LaserDisc – maybe I imagined it.

How did I not know about this account? http://twitter.com/instant_netflix

For the ultimate coffee ubergeek performance, don’t forget the balance siphon pot http://youtube.com/watch?v=3C-2KRDKS1c

@KonyaHurricane re: vino – keep in mind pretty much any red from Woodbridge – we prefer their Pinot Noir and Cab Sauv to most more expensive

Deleted 13GB of install data from games we haven’t played in months off of the PS3. Caraziness.

And finally deleted PSHome. Haven’t been in there in forever and when we do it wants updates, so have to wait several mins just to pop in.

The Lea is light, feels kinda cheap – batt rattles inside when shaken. Seems mostly plastic? But the usb cap threads are low profile. #ecig

Wow, go nurses! Driving, she spotted a woman walking, former patient, Alzheimer’s, she’s talking to her while I phoned police. #mybabyrocks

Forgot to mention the woman is very far from home. Terra just commited an act of extreme awesomeness!!

Hm. Also, there is no charge light when you plug the Lea into a USB cable. #ecig

My Lea is obviously a dud – left it on USB all night and it didn’t charge, grrr. Guess I’ll email them today.

And my Psion 5mx has been developing some weird issues. Today, KB doesn’t work – have to take it apart – the other issues are software.

Story on NPR Morning Edition about Blu e-cig smartpacks that alert you to other smartpack users nearby, even share FB/Twitter info. Weird.

@TheLDHunter I feel your pain. Just recently my girl and son were out of town for nine days – we hadn’t been apart for three years.

@stevevape We briefly discussed the Lea – if you haven’t seen already, I posted a few reviewish tweets about it since I got it yesterday

Lea batt is now drained, can’t charge it. Fail. Waiting to hear back from the seller. #e-cig

The new coffee pot – tabletop siphon with butane burner! 🙂 http://flic.kr/p/9VAxfs

Letting Wesley play Little Big Planet on PS3 again. I’m going soft, I guess 😛 (He usually only gets to play video games on Fridays.)

I’m not necessarily against it, but it’s weird. (And Blu are low-end) http://techonshow.com/?p=2288 Blu’s social-networking e-cigarette pack

I just snapped Wesley’s been playin LBP levels created by my bro/sil – guess he got access to them when he accepted their PSNfriend requests

Wesley starts an ep of Sesame Street then goes to the bathroom. Chooses LBP level, waits for it to load, goes to bathroom. I don’t get it.

He even does it in Free Realms races. The race counts down 3..2..1..GO! But he isn’t there, he left for the bathroom during the countdown.

Woke up late, new vapo is a dud, Psion is broken, cat barfed on my wool rug, now Terra is being kept late again. #otherthanthatmydaysucked

So it’s Wesley’s afternoon educational viewing time – he’s barely paying attention – just keeps telling me all the stuff he did in LBP today

RT @sween: I looked up "thesaurus" in my thesaurus and it says "Don’t be a smart-ass".

Mwahahaha!! The guy who was posting MonsterVision vids is back! Says he got banned for B&B eps, not MV and will be re-uploading soon! #squee

If I have my way, Wesley will have a similar story 😛 http://baristamagazine.com/blog/?p=4685 18-year-old barista, been competing since 14

@TheLDHunter ooers, we had one shop in Dallas that put ’em out day they got ’em, release dates be damned. Sounds like you found one, too 🙂

Taking our new siphon on its maiden voyage 🙂

Our siphon is not level – the glass parts. I really think that matters, but I could be wrong. Btw, first try, we boiled the coffee, blech.

Observation: bubbles rising into the leaning top chamber causes uneven turbulence in the floating coffee bed, resulting in over-extraction.

Happy anniversary to the coolest couple I know – my auteur-of-all-trades brother, Jeff, and his fire-dancing bride, Danya 🙂

@laeryg Have you tried this? If you can’t read *anything* on FB, then prob not this either. http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1023

@laeryg Tricky… Have you tried a different browser?

Wesley’s new PS3 theme/wallpaper http://flic.kr/p/9VgbYd

@laeryg Glad you got in but the issue is still troubling. What browser doesn’t work? I’ll get back to you if I dig anything up.

@netflix: Watching The Godfather movies put Sicily on my #vacationwishlist.

@laeryg You could try this http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0ad22187340d6df1&hl=en

@laeryg forgot to mention, I see most people handling what sounds like your problem by clearing the cache as detailed in that link.

@laeryg Right on! 🙂

@laeryg Ack! Uhm, just shooting from the hip here but try Apps on Facebook menu, look for the one for Twitter, maybe it needs re-authorize?

The rare Tim Burton film I really like RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 6/20 is "Edward Scissorhands" http://fb.me/uB6YBUYG

@laeryg wow, lucky guess but yay 🙂

@TheLDHunter Great chance to hit a whole bunch of Half-Price Books for LaserDiscs!

@KonyaHurricane Good on ya’! 🙂

@KonyaHurricane "WOO HOO!! … D’OH!!"

Forget anything I said before, I’ve created a LittleBigPlanet monster in Wesley – it’s all he wants to do and his grasp of it is startling.

@TheLDHunter That’s so wrong!!! A real water water everywhere and can’t drink a drop situation 🙁

Wondering if Wesley could play LBP online w fam/friends. If you’re interested, his PSN ID is minimuffin06 and I handle his friend requests.

Wesley’s speech skills aren’t too good so I don’t know how he’d do at online in-game voice chat. But, he’s surprising us alot lately 🙂

…Note to self: Replace the ps3 cam/mic so Wesley can play online and I hear everything said and they can hear me. #protectivedad

Clarification: I have headset but I don’t think he’d keep it on his ear and it’s not very sensitive – so, chat on speakers but no ideal mic

RT @RoastMagazine: The art and mystery of the syphon coffee http://j.mp/k74rdN

The mailman really really REALLY loves us today! 🙂 Late birthday presents FTW!!!

The Lea connection is deeply recessed (I was afraid my carto wouldn’t make it to the terminal) with breather notches and it seems too airy.

Since the Lea doesn’t have a cone, you have no option for tightening up the draw. Not completely satisfied so far. #ecig

Weird… Ok, fixed link – first disc golf post-game group shot in a long time http://bit.ly/mSCu3P @KonyaHurricane, @nurseterra, me, Wesley

Disc golf – Chris & Christopher @ Ruidoso – May 4, 2008 (part 1) http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYRqO-BuNJ8

Disc golf – Chris & Christopher @ Ruidoso – May 4, 2008 (part 2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=qo_1zu3aqys

Playing Little Big Planet on PS3 with Wesley and Terra. It’s actually fun for the moment – never really been fond of it – we’ll see.

"Childhood’s over the moment you know you’re gonna’ die."

I’ve lived in enough bad neighborhoods to feel confident that was a gunshot we just heard (fairly close), not early 4th of July’ers.

And there go the sirens.

I didn’t say we couldn’t go skiing but could we please remember to take some chalk this time so we have something to feed the gargoyles?

RT @sween: Me: "I love you. I’m the luckiest guy in the world."
Wife: "I know."
Me: "However, you must have messed up in a past life."
W …

We’re all kickin’ it on Terra’s bed, listening to Art Bell – her playing LBP on her PSP while he and I play Gauntlet Dark Legacy on the PS2