Welcome Back Piggly Wiggly
Last fall I sent a letter to Piggly Wiggly about how bad their “free” wifi was, and how it made me waste time by coming there when I had work to do but the wifi was barely usable. It should be noted that they have changed their provider, they no longer require an account to [...]
Tags: pigglywigglyEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 26, 2009 – “The Alan Bean of Podcasting”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 26, 2009. I play a song by Wolf Parade; I play a sponsorship announcement from Bob’s Institute of Time Control; I talk about vacationing in the North Carolina mountains and trying to refocus on what is important; about enthusiasm for and history of [...]
Tags: balticon, churchofthesubgenius, dragoncon, gentlereaders, heroescon, pissedjeans, subgenius, subpop, wolfparadeBigger (Revenue) Than Jesus
This weekend is when the sales tax in the city of Myrtle Beach is hiked to 11.5%. Those tax and spend Republicans are at it again. I thought I’ve been places with crazy high sales tax before but I’ve never seen it this high anywhere I can recall. I note that God himself is only [...]
Tags: myrtlebeachPackratism, Online and Off
I’m the first to admit that I’m a packrat. I’m not anal retentive because that would imply I’m organized about it. I’m more of the “throw it all in that room and sort it out later” type guy, where “later” is always a day that never comes. I’m also like this with not only physical [...]
Let’s Do the Rock, the Chimney Rock!
On our vacation in the North Carolina woods, yesterday we went to Chimney Rock Park. There is an elevator to the top but because we brought our dog, the only possible way we could get to the actual Chimney Rock portion was to climb the stairs. I don’t have a good count but [...]
Tags: chimneyrock, chimneyrockstatepark, hickorynutfalls, northcarolinaMy Full Tilt Fantasy Poker Wrapup
The results of the main event of the World Series of Poker are in and the fantasy poker season at Full Tilt has been settled. By virtue having picked Phil Ivey and Eugene Katchalov, I came in 739 in this last event, earning $4.9M of the fantasy dollars. To point out the “Ivey Effect” of [...]
Tags: fulltiltpoker, pokerroadradio, worldseriesofpoker, wsopSad Confession: I Don’t Really Watch the Videos
The previous post about switching podcatchers and my podcast consumption workflow also involves me confronting a sad fact. I subscribed to multiple video feeds. I always have the best intentions with these things, but I don’t actually watch them. The only one I’m anywhere current on is TIki Bar TV and that’s about 6 months [...]
Tags: podcastingI Move to Bashpodder for my Podcast Pleasure
My recent computer woes led to some corruption that makes python no longer run on my MacBook. This means that I can’t use Juice as my podcatcher anymore. To be honest, I’ve been using Juice for years without ever liking it but without much of an alternative since I refuse to use iTunes as my [...]
Tags: bashpodder, lincfessenden, podcastingEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast Extra: Balticon 43 Panel, “Peer Media vs Broadcast Media”
I’ve been having a hard time getting the show produced lately. I had planned to do an episode this weekend but my MacBook is fighting me every step of the way lately. Because of all these problems, I’m filling in the gaps with the audio of a panel I was on at Balticon 43 a [...]
Tags: balticon, earlnewton, patrickmclean, thecommandline, thomasgideonOffline Times
The combination of my illness, some computer problems and a fair amount of things around the house to do (many of which I still have to do) led to a three day stretch with as little online time as I can remember when I actually was home and had working internet. You know what? I [...]
The Precise Cold
This is a weird one. Yesterday at lunchtime I felt fine. By mid afternoon I was sneezing a little. By the time I left work, I was starting to feel bad. All evening I felt worse and worse, and by the time I went to bed I felt miserable. When I got up this morning [...]
My OS X Freezes
Starting last week, my MacBook is periodically hanging. When it does, I can’t force quit, I can’t gain control of windows, all I can do is to forcibly power down the machine and restart. Of course, I’m 3 months past the one year warranty expiration and I didn’t pony up the $249 for Apple Care. [...]
Tags: nmblookup, osxMy Full Tilt Fantasy Poker Picks for the Main Event
Going into the main event of the World Series of Poker, I’m sitting at 101st overall in the Full Tilt Poker fantasy league. The top 100 finishers get entrance into special freeroll that pays out an entrance to the 2010 main event (really, $12,000 which is about the equivalent – you can use the money [...]
Tags: fulltiltpoker, worldseriesofpokerHoliday Weekend
My age has really started showing. We did our late night system upgrade Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and come Friday, I’m still tired. Our plan today is to paint our bedroom. We thought about doing some of the taping and furniture moving and prep work last night, but I opted not to. My thought was that [...]
My Favorite Tweet
My disinterest in Twitter has been pretty documented on this blog. I stopped using it some time ago. I still see people’s tweets via FriendFeed but I couldn’t care less if the service disappeared tomorrow.
That said, here is my favorite tweet of all time. It rolls up everything I liked about Twitter and everything I [...]
How To Tell You Are Exhausted
Yesterday was my third anniversary with my job. As a celebration, I and my coworkers worked all evening and well into the night upgrading systems. All day today I have been completely off. I ended up getting up to walk the dog at 6 AM after just a few hours of sleep. After that, I [...]
