I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!
This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Entries for week beginning January 10, 2010
➠ January 16, 2010
Scots 'drink 46 bottles of vodka'
“People in Scotland drank 25% more alcohol per head of population than individuals in England and Wales.”
Is it wrong that I read this and felt a sense of nationalistic pride?
Still at large: Nikica, 2-ton hippo that escaped from private zoo in Montenegro
I have a new goal in life: Live in a town where a hippo just wanders the streets.
“We Honor Master Charge”
I love this sign hanging-by-a-thread at an auto repair shop on Ocean Ave, given that "Master Charge" was renamed Mastercard over 30 years ago.
Indie Relief
A group of independent software companies are banding together on Wednesday to donate all revenues for the day to Haiti relief efforts.
➠ January 15, 2010
Lost guitar???
Given all the question marks, I'm kind of puzzled as to what this sign is for. "Have you lost a guitar?" "Have you found a lost guitar?" "Will a guitar somehow feature in the plot of the upcoming season of Lost?"
➠ January 13, 2010
Gordon - An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG
Holy shit! SWFs rendered without a plugin. Obviously, this has limited use at the moment, but there’s some great potential for allowing Flash devs to make animations that run on iPhones’ web browsers.
➠ January 12, 2010
What actually gets taught on a homeopathy course
Notes and slides from a BSc degree course in homeopathy that was taught at a British university. Hey kids! Let’s “remedy” cancer!
➠ January 11, 2010
Waffleizer
The definitive documentation of “Recipes that can be made in a waffle iron, that AREN’T waffles”
➠ January 10, 2010
Bacon has a bone
Now that Bacon is the lone hound of the household, he's back to his old tricks.
Given a tasty rawhide bone, he spends most of his time walking around the house, tail wagging, looking for a place to hide it. Said hiding usually involves burying it in the pile of laundry, or under some of the clutter in our living room.
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.