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bigdumbobject

  1. Monsters is on Film4 at 9. Going to watch it again. 12:26 PM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  2. 50s party on Monday so dug out my old jacket twitpic.com/9rojps We went to a lot of gigs together... 12:19 PM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  3. 9.5 years! RT @JamesWallis: Massive applause to @philgyford at the conclusion of nine and a half years of @pepysdiary blogging and tweeting. 11:03 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  4. @guitarnoize Yeah, wasn't great. Can't remember if the Marvel fanboys liked it or hated it, origin stories can go either way. 11:01 PM May 31st via TweetDeck in reply to guitarnoize
  5. Not the best tactical use of superpowers from big baddie 11. I'd have used flaming eyes first, surely? #wolverine 2:49 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  6. Talking done bar the one-liners. Now it's the fighty bit. Again. #wolverine 2:25 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  7. Oooh. Monsters is on Film4 tomorrow. Nice. Love that film. 2:11 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  8. Really want to see Prometheus tomorrow but will have to wait until next week. 2:10 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  9. Why are the baddies shooting at Wolverine when they've just made him indestructible? Very short memories. 2:03 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  10. Not good, a threat to installing free and open software on your own computer boingboing.net/2012/05/31/loc… 2:01 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  11. Half watching Wolverine on TV, not seen it before. Back story is normally the bit you cut out right? 1:56 PM May 31st via TweetDeck
  12. @SFDiplomat @PaulGrahamRaven Surely that should be checking into Git and pushing to a remote repo, whilst using Vim for editing. ? 1:51 PM May 31st via TweetDeck in reply to SFDiplomat
  13. @PaulGrahamRaven I still use MT. Static site generation and Markdown for posts is all the rage again ala Jekyll. 3:07 AM May 31st via TweetDeck in reply to PaulGrahamRaven
  14. "doesn’t the simple strategy we’ve chosen at 37signals leave money on the table? Why turn down someone..." tmblr.co/ZGyqbyMRBWot 1:04 PM May 30th via Tumblr
  15. Anyone have tweet length versions of what they think posthumanism is/means? 2:37 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  16. Hacker News discusses William Gibson news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032030 Including Neuromance vs Ender's Game.(!) 11:00 PM May 29th via TweetDeck
  17. Listened to the first episode of my brother's (@guitarnoize) podcast. Like it. He interviewed an amp and pedal maker miaudio.com 10:58 PM May 29th via TweetDeck
  18. Bought Arc 1.2. Got to read it on my laptop though as my phone only has android 2.1 which Zinio doesn't support. Can you print it out? 1:42 PM May 29th via TweetDeck
  19. I think I might, slowly, be actually getting into Angelmaker. Only 150 pages in... 10:47 PM May 28th via TweetDeck