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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

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Entries for week beginning May 3, 2009

May 9, 2009

Mum & Dad at Flickr Turns 5.25

Mum & Dad at Flickr Turns 5.25

We were wandering round SF with my parents, not quite sure what to do to pass the time until dinner, when I looked at my phone and saw Rev Dan Catt's tweet about the Flickr Turns 5.25 party.

Apart from the occasional concern that they were the oldest people there, they had a great time! A couple of free beers and some t-shirts later, and they were happy. (OK, it was mostly the free beer.)

Hurrah for the Good Ship Flickr! (And thanks to Cal for using his last Polaroid for this photo!)

May 7, 2009

Manny Ramirez's positive drug test makes the Sports Guy confront his worst nightmare

Great piece by Bill Simmons on the Manny-being-juiced revelations today, and what it means for the Sox 2004 curse-bearing World Series win.

It’s all in the eyes

It’s all in the eyes

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A Modest Proposal for How to Improve the Roomba

I'm sure Roombas would fly off the shelves if they just implemented one simple feature.

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Today I Die

Another lovely piece of Flash game poetry from Daniel Benmergui.

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May 6, 2009

What?

What?

I'm not chewing any rope!

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Chewthing

Chewthing

Bacon has a bloody good roll around, ignoring his chew rope.

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Old dog

Old dog

Sometimes, when you look into Clyde's eyes, you can see his 77 dog years.

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Tired Clyde

Tired Clyde

Clyde wants to be left alone

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Trashing the Roomba

A test vid, filmed with my T1i. Sergio's new Roomba gets a trial run in the Slide office.



Not particularly well-lit, or in focus, or interesting even, but it's kind of cool to record with my DSLR!

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Crap on my desk

Crap on my desk

T1i testshot

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300 Brannan

300 Brannan

From the 6th floor windows of 301 Brannan. Test shot with my new camera.

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The flag of equal marriage

Now at five stars.

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Calvin and Hobbes search engine

This makes me so happy. Every strip, text-searchable.

May 5, 2009

High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook

Interview with Zoë Keating, and a clip of her performing one of her wonderful looped cello tracks.

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May 4, 2009

Plants vs. Zombies

Plants vs. Zombies

"This help section brought to you by the Zombies"

(from Popcap's new game, Plants vs. Zombies)

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May 3, 2009

Where are you in the movie?

If your life was a classic movie, where would you currently be? Currently, I’m just before Walter Peck makes his first visit to the Ghostbusters.

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Miro Adoption Center

Brilliant marketing of donating to an open source project: You get to “adopt” a line of code in the codebase.

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Moray McLaren - We Got Time

Lovely music video. Make sure and watch the “making of” to understand how it was done without (much) trickery.

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party cat

“Let’s party and find out.” Start on the bottom strip and work your way up.

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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.