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Entries for week beginning July 27, 2008
➠ August 1, 2008
Wines, not Wings
I only caught this sign out of the corner of my drunken eye this evening. At first, I was bemused that "Rex-Goliath Wings" would advertise with a rooster eating a drumstick. Only once I read it more clearly and realised what the rooster was *meant* to be holding did it seem lest tasteless (albeit mildly more bizarre)
➠ July 31, 2008
It's a Different Set of Rules - The Daily WTF
Forwarded to me by a co-worker after a grammar argument. “The comma is supposed to go inside the quotes.”
Liquor, Coffee & Scripture
An odd selection of signs on this liquor store. (And another Eye-Fi test… this photo was uploaded via the Wi-Fi hotspot in the McDonald's behind me as I took the photo, and was in Flickr before I got back to my desk)
Trinkets
First photo taken (and automatically uploaded and geotagged) with my new Eye-Fi Explore card.
I never saw much point in the olde Eye Fi cards, when they could only upload to your home network (if I'm already home, I'm already near my laptop and can grab the photos), but with the hotspot support, on-the-go uploading suddenly becomes viable from my nice camera.
Zero Punctuation : The E3 Trailer Park
Zero Punctuation is always worth watching — viciously funny videogame reviews — but this week’s is a great sampler if you haven’t watched before.
➠ July 29, 2008
BBC - Music
The first part of Auntie Beeb’s integration with MusicBrainz and Wikipedia is live. Every artist in MusicBrainz now has a page on bbc.co.uk, featuring radio playcount information where available. Very cool.
➠ July 28, 2008
Kansan sticks it to election system
Sean Tevis’s xkcd-style request for campaign funds for his attempt at the Kansas legislature ended up bringing in almost $100k. It’ll be interesting to see how he fares in November.
It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
Slides from a vintage IBM sales presentation. I might do a presentation some time that *only* uses these for illustration.
San Francisco, Jul 27, 2008
➠ July 27, 2008
I believe that is meant to say “fuel”
but that's not what I saw when it caught my eye in the supermarket. This is what happens when your designer doesn't give a, ahem, "fuel".
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.