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.
Filed under 'wtf'
➠ June 8, 2012
Vegan strippers are on their way to Southeast Portland after Casa Diablo gets a liquor license
“The bottom line is that vegetable-wielding strippers won the day.”
➠ September 16, 2009
Facebook’s impression of me?
A wannabe-mafioso with piles.
➠ July 31, 2009
Move to Windows 7
From the “Holy Shit! Are You Fucking Kidding Me‽” department: Windows XP users will have to format their hard drives and do clean installs to upgrade to Windows 7 — there is no “upgrade” option that keeps their installed programs intact.
➠ May 28, 2009
➠ December 15, 2008
➠ November 23, 2008
➠ September 22, 2008
➠ September 15, 2008
Penny Arcade! - Consensus
A pretty accurate representation of the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads.
➠ 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.”
➠ May 30, 2008
Techdirt: Web 2.0 Buzzword Bingo
“To be useful across different types of social media, profiles and reputation have to be localized and linked to the context of the conversation. In this way, thought leaders emerge within and across communities based on their specific expertise and contributions.” Obviously.
➠ May 14, 2008
➠ January 24, 2008
➠ December 17, 2007
NVidia RAID
Rebuilding a RAID-1 array with a new disk. "Data from one of the selected disks can be preserved in a new array. If one of the disks in the new array has data you wish to save, select it now."
Uhm.. yeah... any chance you could give me *ANY* kind of distinction between the two drives? Perhaps highlight the one that has my fucking data on it?
➠ April 16, 2007
➠ January 24, 2007
Baby Einstein - BuzzFeed
Gathering together posts equally confused by the bizarre cameo during last night’s State of the Union by the creator of those bullshit Baby Einstein DVDs. “Bush points out the American Dream in the audience and apparently, the American Dream looks like a less pointy Ann Coulter.”
➠ November 28, 2006
➠ October 10, 2006
➠ March 27, 2006
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.