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Finally watching Withnail & I in HD, thanks to Netflix streaming 🙂 One of my fave movies ever, never seen it anything but lousy quality.

@don_rivers You remember Twilight Zone??? (Firstly, I guess I didn’t know/forgot you were here then.) Same age – how did we never meet??

@don_rivers Though, I didn’t really have any computer geek friends. I was on a TI, incompatible with everyone 😛

@don_rivers Ah, we were a year or two apart. And I went to a private high school, so yeah, I guess we just barely missed each other.

@don_rivers Ah yes, the bad old days of zero compatibility but as I recall TI was an underdog and least similar to anything (besides Amiga).

@don_rivers Erm, I mean, the Amiga’ers were as bad off as the TI’ers. Seemed most casual micro owners had a C64 – nobody had a TI.

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 2/18 is "West Side Story" http://fb.me/QsvxKjOm

Billy Joel’s The Longest Time performed by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes?? How have I never heard this before?! Thanks, DementiaRadio.org 🙂

We’re there, dude! RT @MicheleSims1: just for fun!!!! http://hubpages.com/hub/National-Drink-Wine-Day-2011 http://fb.me/IjKVqj2H

@don_rivers I vaguely remember something like TBAG. Tularosa Basin Amiga Group? I guess they’d have to leave out "User" to force the acronym

🙁 🙁 🙁 RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: Mirror’s Edge 2 Is Officially No More http://bit.ly/hoptlX

It’s been over a week that my twitters weren’t posting to facebook so I’m gonna bypass that and crosspost a different way now.

Btw, this was from two days ago RT @ABQChristopher Anybody who sends us TWELVE bottles of wine is ok in my book 😛 http://flic.kr/p/9it2pS

A Kubrick film I have not seen. RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 2/17 is "Spartacus" http://fb.me/TrWiohni

Sounds kinda cool. RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: Music Unlimited Powered By Qriocity Launches in the US http://bit.ly/iiyG0B

Wow. It’s a disheartening moment when you call to upgrade to a faster internet package and you’re told you’re already at the maximum.

We use the hell out of some internet. Mom’s constant online gaming, my ‘net radio all day, maybe Netflix or Vudu movie in the evening.

Oh, and the recent addition of Wesley’s "Word World" (excellent educational show) in the afternoons, via Netflix streaming in HD.

You’d think a 12mb line would be enough. Cable, though. I obviously need to do some optimization. About which I know nothing 😛 Sigh…

I started with a 300 baud modem on a TI-99/4A when was 11 (26 years ago!) and the world was mine (TradeWars!). Now 12mb/s ain’t enough.

I actually co-sysop’ed the Twilight Zone BBS right here in Alamogordo (with Dick Sheffler and Bill English) when I was a teen.

(btw locals, yes, that Bill English)

It pains me no end that there doesn’t seem to be even one pic of my computer set-up when I was a kid. I got rid of it all when I was 16.

I had the big expansion box, voice synthesizer, WarGames playing on my VCR, etc. 😛 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

Btw, Tierra Del Sol – with whom I left the strongly worded voicemail when the truck they "fixed" left us stuck – hasn’t bothered to call me.

Redbox Throws Down the Gauntlet to Netflix, Announces Online Streaming – Moviefone http://aol.it/gTiEWi Begun the streaming wars have…

RT @prdpgn: Everyone has an enemy. It’s why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

Wow. Very nice. http://bit.ly/fOA5Pr A Clockwork Orange: 40th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Announced | High-Def Digest

RT @twitter: 4 homeless people were given prepaid cell phone, month of unlimited text messaging and a Twitter account… http://t.co/olVZx57

Anybody who sends us TWELVE bottles of wine is ok in my book 😛 http://flic.kr/p/9it2pS

Well, we seem to have fixed the truck with a lot of help from Terra’s dad and our neighbor who stepped in and saved the day 🙂

Swapped out the brake master cylinder, flushed/bled the whole system, and now we’re off to walmart to try it out and so far so good! 🙂

RT @Mr_Wicked: Evidence suggests e-cigs safer than cigs, researcher claims: In a new report that bucks the concerns… http://bit.ly/e3K7Tq

RT @PSLifeStyle: New blog post: PlayStation 2 Reached 150 Million Units Sold http://bit.ly/f7OCc9

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 2/14 is "Casablanca" http://fb.me/HdPQoJPL

So much to do, so little time.

Terra and I are sitting here on the couch, staring off into space, trying to think of some ‘glass half full’ stuff.

She secured a ride to get the parts we need. I guess tomorrow morning, I’ll see if I can do the swap-outs. How hard can it be? o.O

@RamboKK Yeah, I think my point was it never stops and the only attitude I can change is mine or else I end up genuinely despising them.

@RamboKK Try to take comfort that a lot (most?) of us go through it. Otherwise you DO start wondering if you’re really as bad as they say 😛

This IS what we want next. For an intimate little coffee ritual in the sitting room — Yama Tabletop with Metal Filter http://bit.ly/f3E5Fz

@RamboKK Yeah, it’s why I follow you – I get tweets from a few random locals. Though I think we were both Plateau regulars at the same time.

@RamboKK I knew a couple Rachels at Plateau when I used to go there every night a couple years ago. Just don’t know if you’re one of ’em 🙂

If we ever get extra money it’s our next coffee purchase 😛 Otherwise, birthdays hit this summer 🙂 When we get, all tweeps are invited! 😉

Got Papa John’s delivery for dinner – seemed a good day to open the Sebastiani 2006 Merlot (sonoma county) we’d been saving – it’s AMAZING.

So far, Repo – The Genetic Opera is the best DTS mix I’ve heard on a blu-ray so far.

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 2/13 is "National Lampoon’s Vacation" http://fb.me/PYbn8xe2

Getting white chocolate and red food coloring. The intention is a pink fondue for our valentine’s day spn – we’ll see if it works.

NOT happy with a certain auto shop on 1st st who gave the truck a clean bill of health yet we just had to walk halfway home from the store.

Are we the only ones having internet issues?? Usually when there’s an issue I see locals tweeting, but nobody is – ours is horrible all day.

Since Netflix IW isn’t working, we can’t watch Terra’s choice Sweet Home Alabama – we’re watching her dvd of Hope Floats. Chick flickerific.

The "pink chocolate" fondue is great, btw. And the Irish Coffee with it is – erm, was. hic! – excellent 🙂

And we’ve finally answered the question. Knickers, while an unfortunate name, turns out is an excellent Irish Cream. And we’re REALLY picky.

@don_rivers I was afraid you’d say something like that.

I need that thing in The Matrix to download massive knowledge instantly so I could know how to go make the truck right. Brake trouble 🙁

Or say screw it, the world can turn without me today, and go to Cruces with @don_rivers. Sigh. I wish.

It’s been a working on the truck day. Joy. It seems things are worse now. Though, got the choke adjusted correctly, it seems.

But, it seems we blew the master cylinder on our way to get parts we now don’t know if we needed or not. Limped home on the emergency brake.

Do I sound like a real man now?

Just had an ex sighting at Walgreens. Mine this time. My ex pastor 😛 Long story.

I’ve said for years: If I couldn’t have a home coffee bar, 2nd choice would be home ice cream sundae bar. I’d put in the same enthusiasm.

Tonight will be a special valentine day edition slumber party with chocolate fondue, irish coffee, and the sappiest movie Terra can find 😉

Just heard in a country song on an old tape I found: "She took my keys away and now she won’t drive me to drink."

Been working around the kitchen and bar, listening to a cassette of The Lost Tapes with George Gimarc I recorded off the radio 12 years ago.

The short-to-the-point-of-misleading answer to "What’s The Lost Tapes?" is a talk show about pop music that aired every Sat night for years.

George Gimarc knows probably everything about music history and has a mind-manglingly massive collection of rare recordings.

No idea why it’s been a few days since my tweets stopped posting to Facebook but it looks like it’s just you and me for now, uh, ‘tweeps’.

Did not know he had an entry on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gimarc He obviously deserves one.

Anyway, I have about 30 of The Lost Tapes I recorded off radio in tha day. I probably have more of his show than I do The Dr. Demento Show.

New trinket on the bar: Bottled Poetry (wine) http://flic.kr/p/9hp846

Ok, maybe that fixed it. My Twitters haven’t been posting to Facebook, maybe they will now?

Admittedly quite a few i didn’t know or had forgotten http://www.eternalcode.com/100-google-tricks-that-will-save-you-time-in-school

Whoa, slumber party gold. Netflix IW has all the Friday the 13th movies (except the Freddy crossover) and the first two Hellraiser movies.

Sick of hearing it’s gonna warm up. I’m finally getting to wear my favorite coat and sweaters! Don’t want more snow, just cold.

Never thought of it, but yeah, I agree meaningless descriptor RT @CoffeeAdventure: RT @dearcoffeeiluvu: Boycott bold. http://fb.me/zASIdjt5

Comic books b2g1free at Hastings and the display moved back can’t be a good sign. Terra’s pretty hooked at this point.

Can’t decide which I love more, The Darjeeling Limited or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Passionate about both lately.

I want to be a Wes Anderson character. Hm. Who am I kidding? I already am. He needs to write me a part so I can get paid for this!

@don_rivers Zissou is more technically intricate, surreal; Darjeeling more emotionally engaging. Both a stylistic "see also" to Tenenbaums.