gadgets: mini-Kindle?
So maybe I don’t need to get a Kindle just yet. It looks like Amazon very quietly pushed out an application to the iTunes store within the last day or so. Free for iPhone/iPod Touch and syncs up with your...
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video: you cannot unfriend it
I have become an absolute Aisha Tyler fanboy lately. I saw her special Aisha Tyler is Lit on Comedy Central and it was hilarious! Sadly it only aired two times that I could find, but after following her on twitter...
comics: don’t panic
xkcd has really hit upon the reason I want a Kindle… read the full strip–they aren’t fooling anybody! The price of it still turns me off, but I’m keeping my eye on it. Of course the first thing I’d have...
comics: then they came for me…
I’ve known about the “First they came…” poem for ages, right about the time I started getting involved in queer groups. I didn’t know much about its history until today–thanks wikipedia–since it was always marked Anonymous on the magnets and...
holiday music: a unicorn in the veldt?
I don’t generally go for holiday music. If I forget to bring in something good, I might resort to a Pandora station based around some jazzy or piano holiday tunes. My usual fallback is Christmas Cocktails 1 and 2, with...
love and affection, murder and mysteries, UFOs and vampires
I am not selling out or anything, but I have added a little “ad” image to my sidebar. It’s for my friend William Mize, frequent blog commenter, good friend, amazing writer and just an all-around nice guy. He’s good people....
Oh… I can wait.
Why stop geeking out now when I’m on such a roll? I was catching up with some entries from a comic scans group on LiveJournal over my lunch break and the above scene from The Joker: The Devil’s Advocate story...
Amazon Unbox: 15 eps of HBO’s “In Treatment” free
Deal alert for anyone using TiVo or the other devices Unbox is compatible with. Amazon.com: In Treatment: Unbox Video — HBO premieres the first 15 episodes of In Treatment, a new half-hour drama series starring Gabriel Byrne, and adapted from...
Kitchen Lessons (Nightmares)
Buy Pyrex. I’ve only owned Pyrex baking dishes, but when they broke it was a lot cleaner than this. Buy a little extra. Thankfully I had more garlic, herbs and shallots because I wasn’t in the mood to pick glass...
Taking all the fun out of shaking! Pt. 2
I said it before and I’ll say it again, shaking the martini is part of the fun! The Cocktail Cyclone Portable Drink Mixer: Mix and strain like a professional bartender with this acrylic martini shaker. Fill the shaker with the...