Gecko Bloggle

• I’ve now officially been told the company here is shutting down, due to exchange rates and economic downturn. Bye, Humanature Studio. #
• If I hear one more person say that something is a “mute point,” I’m a go ballistic. Isn’t it “MOOT?” I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! #

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• Am flabberghasted by Star Trek he’s never seen before. Thought I’d seen them all by now, at least. #
• @edIT_ Any Vancouver BC dates? Would love to catch a live show. #
• @dooce Does Discovery Health also run ads for Saw constantly, including at dinnertime, and during what’s normally kid-friendly MythBusters? #

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• Slept in this morning, but my back hurts again. Am I doing something wrong while unconscious? My coffee is too hot. (and other complaints) #
• Finds it surreal to be talking bootleg Prince albums with the host of a NY hiphop show. Net makes that whole six degrees thing seem quaint. #
• Someone should invent Wii Floor-Rolling Temper Tantrum, because our kids would excel at it. Probably wouldn’t need the wrist strap either. #
• I also think my kids would excel at “Yoga Interruption.” If equestrian show jumping’s a sport, shouldn’t “Submarining Downward Dog” be, too? #
• I’m overly-proud that he just detected Bill Cosby’s voice on the NickJr site Captain Brainstorm that Ripley was playing with. #
• Watching StarWars IV “Untouched” with the kids, eating pizza, and munching veggies. Now THAT is a Saturday evening well-spent. #

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• @jsmooth995 was there ever an official answer on whether or not it was Leeds on the “Prince and Miles Davis” bootleg, all those years ago? #
• The previously “Vaulted” Prince show is up at http://www.geckotemple.com/podcast #

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• In some weird sort of limbo lately. Don’t feel very connected. Partly denial, partly just good ol fashioned fear, I suspect. #

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• Listening to RadioParadise, and thinking “Is that in Hindi, or is it just a tiny sample of some Kate Bush?” Maybe I’ll start a new album. #
• Happy for Ill Doctrine hitting YouTube’s top 100 today. Going to be brushing off some old documents, and doing some networking. Linking In. #
• Listening to my six year old READ that a person drinks 20,000 gal of water in their lifelime. Both the media and the message surprise me. #
• Listening to the news: Obama is halting Gitmo until internal review? What’s next? Fly around world until it’s a pre-Bush era again? #
• The light on my Blackberry is flashing, but there’s nothing “new” on my device. This is like having a kid go “dad, dad, dad,” at you. #
• @edIT_ I bet you’re glad you didn’t eBay it for parts, huh? Amazing how many “dead” laptops I’ve reanimated over the years. in reply to edIT_ #

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• Hungry, headachey, grumpy, lazy, nervous, and some other lesser-known dwarves have all come to hang out with me today, it seems. #
• Crazy CNN multi-image, multi-angle phone viewer/zoomer diver thing. Probably not especially kind to dialup. http://tinyurl.com/76mnfv #
• @wendyburton The “rebuilding yourself,” is only fun if you do weird costume things, but then without lurking, how do you know what it means? in reply to wendyburton #

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Today, via Firefox and then Filezilla, I installed a plugin for WordPress, which collects my Tweets daily and turns them into a post, which will THEN be pulled via RSS into Facebook as a note, which will confuse the Legion of John Burtons.

Of course, say stuff from back then (1993 or so) to kids who graduated post-2000, and you’ll get some fairly blank stares, too:

Once you’ve connected via modem and Trumpet Winsock, open your Mosaic (or Telnet/ProComm, if you prefer Archie/Gopher searches of a single University’s collection), and go to Altavista to see which new sites have been indexed this week.  If you’re on highspeed (14.4k) the main page should load in about 15-20 seconds, as long as you’ve remembered to turn off you call-waiting with a *67 in the dialing string.

Eventually, I’m pretty sure I’ll end up accidentally loading something into my Facebook profile that’ll turn my notes into Tweets, and approximately 6 hours after I’ve done that, I’ll create a mobius post that’ll eat Facebook, Twitter, and my blog alive.

So, there’s that to look forward to.

Just a quick note to say hi, and let all y’all know I’m still alive, and that there’ll be a new podcast over on the other blog in a week or so.

Also, if you need something to occupy you for a few minutes, check out what happens when a bunch of people put together a dataset for something non-computer-related.

Like Michael Jackson’s white glove during the “Billie Jean” performance in ’83.

http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/