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Entries for week beginning October 19, 2008
➠ October 25, 2008
➠ October 24, 2008
➠ October 23, 2008
Ten Years in My Life: My Love Life
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
Ten Years in My Life: My Employers
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
Ten Years in My Life: Number of Basset Hounds Owned
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
Ten Years in My Life: US Immigration Status
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
Ten Years in My Life: Where I’ve Lived
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
➠ October 22, 2008
zip file quine
A .zip file which contains itself. Fun!
John Hodgman's brief digression | Video on TED.com
Lovely and heart-warming fifteen-minute talk by John Hodgman on his “close encounters”
Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist
Some really outstanding photos of Barack Obama and the hubbub surrounding him in the lead-up to him winning the party nomination.
➠ October 21, 2008
Campaign: Atheist Bus
In response to offensively fire-and-brimstoney religious groups’ ads on the sides of London buses, a comedian started a campaign to run ads saying “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” After 24 hours, they’ve exceeded their desired £5,500 goal… by almost £40,000!
Apparently, they were all out of “San Franciscans: Please key my paintwork” signs.
Spotted near AT&T Park.
Up, Up and Away! on Vimeo
One last bit of balloonery — a brief snippet of video from our trip.
➠ October 20, 2008
FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake
Rands formalizes the contractual obligations of the FrieNDA.
House whiteboard font
Looking for a good “handwritten” font to create some deliberately sketchy-looking UI sketches, I discovered this one, based upon Hugh Laurie’s handwriting captured from whiteboards on House: A winning combination of legibility, scrawliness, and weird obsessive behaviour by the font-maker. Perfect!
➠ October 19, 2008
Hot Air Balloon Trip slideshow on Flickr
A handful of photos from Joy’s and my trip in a hot-air balloon, high above “wine country”.
The Bugle
WHY was I not aware of this sooner‽ A *THOROUGHLY* splendid satirical weekly podcast featuring John Oliver (off of The Daily Show) and the man who I described as his “erstwhile” UK comedy partner (until I discovered they were doing this podcast together), Andy Zaltzman. Absofuckinglutely fantastic.
Balloon Trip
The quick-deflate valve in action. (See the full set of photos from our hot air balloon trip)
Balloon Trip
Post-flight, the balloon tumbling down.
Balloon Trip
Our captain, Scott, firing up the heat.
Balloon Trip
The vineyards of "Wine Country".
Balloon Trip
I love the weird patterns carved out, only really visible from above.
Balloon Trip
The scale of the people should give some idea of the size of the balloon.
Balloon Trip
The balloon looks so undignified when deflated.
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.