January 2012
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I know it's not *quite* the end of the month...
But I can now comprehensively tell the next obese so-and-so, that tells me they can’t afford to eat healthily, to kindly bugger off!¹
My food bill for this month? Less than £40 / $62² AND I can guarantee it was a damn sight healthier than most peoples.
It wasn’t perfect - there are additional items I can remove, and substitute with healthier options, but it wasn’t all that...
Moneyball? Seriously
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting film, but I wouldn’t have expected that many nominations - especially for Jonah Hill.
Also: No love for Andy Serkis. Again.
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Academy Award nominations announced in 30 mins
AKA Things Mike gets excited about, but which he really shouldn’t.
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Why are there suddenly a boat load of good films...
The Iron Lady [even though I loath thatcher].
The Artist.
Shame.
J. Edgar.
Watch ALL THE FILMS!!
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Megaupload.com shutdown by U.S. Authorities →
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The most worrying thing about Wikipedia "shutting...
It’s not that they did it - fair play to them, plenty of other sites should have also done so.
Nor the idiots whining about how they can’t access it, and not knowing why [there’ll always be idiots.]
It’s the people posting up “Hurp de durp, fuck Wikipedia, here’s the workaround to access Wikipedia” posts.
I can’t help but think they’re...
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MMO Star Trek Online goes Free to Play...
Damn it Jim, why’d I have to buy a Nettop?¹
[¹Because, whilst it might not be capable of playing the latest games, it IS capable of quite happily playing back 1080P content [ION GPU], has reduced my electricity bill to the extent that, despite huge price increases, it’s still cheaper than before I had one, and it’s tiny - about the size of a Kindle eReader, and two / three...
Four Seasons of Mythbusters on Netflix...
Yep, that’ll do nicely.
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Wikipedia to go dark on Wednesday!
Yay!
Don’t get me wrong - I like browsing Reddit - get past the meme and in-joke filled frontpage, and into the specific reddits - /r/kindle | /r/books | /r/sci_fi_books etc, etc, and you can find some interesting discussions - but it’s hardly the biggest, most influential site on t’internet. In short, ask 100 regular people who use the internet, what Reddit is, and most of...
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Looking for recommendations Re: John Green.
Long story short, aside from this account, I also run a tumblr stream that revolves around eBooks / eReaders. Because of that, I track almost every conceivable tag that relates to those topics, that you can imagine.
Over the last few days / week, I’ve seen quite a few people reading The Fault in Our Stars on their Kindles / Nooks.
I don’t know all that much about Green, other than...
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Sherlock Series 2 / Series 3 Spoiler!
I got last years cliffhanger prediction half-right [something complicated & / or camp]. This years cliffhanger? How Sherlock managed to survive that fall?
One word:
Molly.
How / why? It wasn’t Sherlock who jumped.
You see Holmes on the roof, clearly, from Johns’ perspective. Then the shot cuts, and wee see “Sherlock” from the back¹.
Watson, on the way to go help...
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Dear Internet.
I shall now avoid all contact with you, until having seen tonights’ Sherlock.
That is all.
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[UK] So long Best Buy
I had planned on popping in yesterday, to see what was on offer, but I had other things to do. The stores close officially in a few hours time.
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According to Virgin Media, my Internet speed is...
Say What?!?
Me thinks they might have included me on the wrong email list.
Basically, VM have already announced they’re upgrading everyones accounts, as follows:
10Mb: 20Mb
20Mb: 50Mb
30Mb: 60Mb
50Mb: 100Mb
100Mb: 120Mb
Lowering the costs, and increasing the download caps¹. Which is great - but I’m not on 100Mb broadband, I’m on 30Mb as the following speed test confirms:
...
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Watching The Machinist on Netflix
Creepy, unsettling film is creepy.
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Ahh the Great Bridge Flood of 2012...
Or how a “bust waiter main” caused chaos.
lessofmoreof:
Less of:
More of this:
Based on the pics:
Less of: Books that seem to appeal to a wide variety of readers, along with a device that facilitates reading for a whole range of different people, from different backgrounds [not least of all people with visual impairments, who can seriously BIG UP the font size]
More of: Expensive, leather bound books from dead authors who...
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Robert Kubica breaks leg. Again. →
Talk about bad luck on top of bad luck!
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Reddit "to go dark" on January 18th, in response...
It’s a start, but it needs more [Info]. Reddit is a huge site in terms of ‘net traffic, but it’s hardly that well known outside the community.
Twitter
Facebook
eBay
Google
Are all unlikely to do anything, but they should. But how about one that has shown some initiative on the issue in the past, namely tumblr.
Shut it down for a day. Sure you’ll piss off the tweens...
Huh. Lost 17 "Followers" after that last rant.
How my heart breaks.
/s
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Riddle me this, Internet
AKA Mike goes off on one.
These five deluded, brain dead fucks pass around literature claiming the batty man should be hung because, under their interpretation of Islam¹ to indulge in man o’ man lovin’ is but one step on the ladder that leads to fucking kids.
They’re consequentially facing trial, accused of stirring up hatred, on the grounds of sexual orientation.
This...
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Brief[!]¹ Thoughts on "The Hound of the...
Waaaay too much Sherlock.
It was still interesting, but I’d have loved to see an episode that focused more on Watson.
¹See, I can to short and to the point when needed.
Huh. Netflix has launched [Finally] in the UK.
£5.99 a month for unlimited streaming. I might check that out later [see what’s in the library]
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Saturday Night...
I’d usually opt to snuggle up in bed and read a book. Decided to mix it up a bit: I’m going to snuggle up in my living room, instead with:
Copious amounts of Tea.
A 8 Variety Biscuit Box.
The Wire Season 1.
[Fret not, I’ll read tomorrow, instead!]
Somehow, I ended up finding the "White tattoo" tag...
Obviously each to his / her own, but for some reason the pics made me feel super, super queasy.
And now, back to The Wire
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttttt
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I've been playing around with the "Fan Mail"...
Yeah… I still don’t get the point of it.
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Benedict Cumberbach & Noel Clarke added to 'Star...
Linky Link.
Man that films’s going to make a bajillion dollars at the box office. Clever move Abrams
[I’m still watching it in 2D mind…]
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Speaking of all things library...
That cute, clearly gay as the day is long, librarian was working the shelves again.
Queue naughty thoughts…
Ahem. Anyways, back to the book at hand¹.
¹Do not even think of making a euphemism out of that, dirty so-and-so!!
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I'm currently [well, not currently currently,...
“Gun with Occasional Music” by Jonathan Lethem.
It’s a sci-fi crime noir, that features among other things, a talking cat. Not some kinda hallucination, but an actual, talking cat, who learns to read at “Grown up school”.
I actually stopped reading after about 20 pages and jumped online [where would we be without 3G?] to check that it wasn’t the 2nd / 3rd book...
