It’s time to catch my yearly Film Festival Plague, and it’s just setting up residence now. I have that annoying back-of-the-throat tickle that tells me I should stock up on Nyquil now so that I’ll be able to sleep. I was doing so well, washing my hands and avoiding people who had symptoms, and then [...]
Read more →Originally posted at BeyondRobson Zombies delivering newspapers, walking your dog, or tending to your lawn; it’s a marvel of the technological age we are living in! Thanks to the Zomcon patented zombie domestication collar, your zombie’s brain eating ways are a thing of the past. In fact, everyone on the street has at least one; [...]
Read more →What excellent timing. The new iPod arrived today, as FedEx predicted, before noon. It didn’t really hit me that the iPod’s new box carries a picture of Jack Sparrow as portrayed by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. This is only really amusing to those of us who recognize today as the religious holiday [...]
Read more →I called Apple to have my expedited shipping fee of $15 credited back to the VISA. I paid the extra couple bucks in order to see the iPod in 2 business days. Since it shipped out on Sept 14, that would mean that it should have shown up today by end of business, regardless of [...]
Read more →Hellbent Cuntry with Mr. Chi Pig (ex SNFU) performing SNFU’s Cannibal Cafe Bob Log III goes rafting at Richard’s on Richards and sings about scotch. The scotch song involves semi-naked cavorting, so depending on the type of work you do, that one video may not be visually work safe. Mr. Plow (also of Hellbent Cuntry) [...]
Read more →That iPod should be on a plane shortly with the other million new iPods shipping from China. Sep 14, 2006 2:15 PM Left origin SHANGHAI CN 1:51 PM Picked up SHANGHAI CN It was supposed to ship by the 15th; it’s the 15th in China now, so I guess that’s right on schedule. I paid [...]
Read more →Nice to get the news that I have a shiny media pass well before the festival begins. “We are pleased to advise that you have been accredited to the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival, September 28 to October 13, 2006.” The staff are really on the ball this year, both in the screener library and [...]
Read more →I’ve been holding off since this spring on replacing my 20GB 4G iPod. The video iPods have been around for some time, and I was waiting for the next revision of the units before I was going to make the upgrade. It’s not even an hour after the keynote that announced the new products; the [...]
Read more →After a week of near death experiences, the pre-recorded content on my MythTV PVR were getting a bit stale. I finally felt mentally able to deal with some of the classic movie DVDs that I’ve been building up a backlog of discs that I’ve stumbled upon and purchased over the past months. When you see [...]
Read more →Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, 44, known for his enthusiastic approach to even the deadliest of wildlife, was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest during the filming and underwater documentary, the sources quoted by the Australian Associated Press said. Reuters Yahoo! News
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