Month: January 2006
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Face for Radio, Voice for Print
My copy of iLife ’06 was waiting for me when I got back from the southland, so I spent last night and most of today playing with it. Early impressions: GarageBand seems like it’d be cool if it’d work, but I get no sound and no preferences pane, so until that bug is fixed, I…
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I Said Lady, Step Inside My Hyundai
I’m going to take you up to Glendale. Land at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and groove to the hot hits of the 80s played constantly on the PA system. What’s that playing at the rental car booth? “Who Can It Be Now?” by Men at Work? Oh yeah, gonna get my groove on…
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Who’s Peeking Out From Under a Stairway?
When we went to Disneyland last year, Rain played a CD where every track was a person’s name, from A to Z. The entry for W was “Windy” by The Association. And so began my two-month-long nightmare. I’ve always been susceptible to getting songs stuck in my head, but this one is the worst since…
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So Much For My Pulitzer
Yesterday’s post on SFist was about the MacWorld Expo. I only got to see it one day, because I’m in LA for business the rest of the week, but I think one day was plenty. I actually got up early enough yesterday to make the morning keynote address, but I’d assumed that my exhibits-only pass…
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A Street of Wonder
Maybe this is common for people who live closer to Golden Gate Park, but it’s still a novelty to me: just now a family of racoons (I assumed they were a family; I didn’t do any blood tests, but then again, isn’t family about more than just blood?) came trotting down the street in front…
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Dude, where’s my puppet?
I finally broke through the blockage in my Netflix queue and watched the two movies that I’ve had for over a month now: Dude, Where’s My Car? and Team America: World Police. Considering the Netflix fees and how long I had them out, I figure they cost me about $12 each. Which makes me a…
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A Burbank Vignette
A couple months ago I had to spend a week in Burbank for work. I was neither sleeping nor eating right, and I was preoccupied with work and stressed out about the whole NaNoWriMo thing (that was back when I still thought I’d be able to finish it). So I found myself outside the hotel…
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Not at CES
That last post turned out to be all about “Arrested Development,” so I guess this is the one that’s posting just for the sake of posting. I made a post at SFist yesterday about all the rumors around a Google PC. The story itself is kind of lame — even the rumor sites were saying…
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Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb
This is what we in the blogosphere like to call “posting just for the sake of posting.” Not sure how that’s distinguishable from everything else on here, but still thought it’d be a good idea to acknowledge that. Because the “Arrested Development” fans don’t hate me enough: I’ve got to say I didn’t like Monday’s…
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What Chuck Did
Today I got caught up on the remaining “Lost” episodes. It left me feeling sad, intrigued, and wary. Sad because you-know-what happened to you-know-who, because I was just starting to like her. I realize that was the point, because even though it’d already been spoiled for me, I could tell as soon as they started…
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Two Thousand Six
Only five more years until VH-1’s “I Love the 00’s”! I can’t wait to hear what wacky things the irrepressible Hal Sparks and Michael Ian Black have to say about iPods! I spent New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas! For a couple of hours, on a layover from my flight. But that’s still cool! And…