µblog - archive for 2008-12

Falling into bad habits, drinking, up late etc. I see it as training for #NYE

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Zunecalypse 2008! http://is.gd/eh0g

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OK time to move!

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At the Loman’s. Spotify providing music. Great party app!

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Happy New Year everyone!

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Dropping Viking off to an old kindergarten buddy

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Expensive meat purchased in a pretty busy BEA. No luck finding a new wallet. Next stop: wine!

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“2008 is the worst year in history for the Stockholm stock exchange”

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Up way too early

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Guerilla smoke in a condemned building in #sjöstaden

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relaxing with the computer, Viking’s cousin will be sleeping over… gonna park them in front of Wall-E :)

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Swedish Xmas shopping to break record – econocalypse on hold? http://is.gd/e2aw

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enjoying seeing Leo getting ass-whupped in Gears 2

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btw Leo’s so-called friends are a bunch of irresponsible assholes

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Slept, but not well

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phew bills entered into the bank’s system. I hate doing that, especially with 20-digit OCR codes

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pruned my Reader list from 1000+ to 250 in a day

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Could use an hours more sleep, but need to start packing etc

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Safely home after predicably boring drive. Cruise control ftw. Now to return the car!

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Car returned, an altogether more pleasant experience than actually renting it. Gonna avoid that station in the future, they have ISSUES

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catching up on feeds

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feel a cold coming on

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Mad oversleepz. Guess I needed it

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Checking out the post-Xmas sale in central Halmstad

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Stuffed after Boxing day dinner at Holms

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Xmas day coffee and chocolates

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Åbro Julbock 7,0 FTW!

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We Swedes do it early, Xmas eve is the big day here. Up early again to see the finale of “Skägget i brevlådan”

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Frantic last-minute gift wrapping!

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Viking had an absolute blast being Santa’s little helper and giving people their presents. Dad as creepy Santa freaked out his cousin

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Back at the apartment, relaxing with a well-deserved glass of calvados

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Early morning day before Christmas. I woke Viking up so he wouldn’t miss TVs advent show

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Harvested a Christmas tree from the ancestral bog

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Pope still a reactionary German fogey, film at 11

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Tonight’s dinner cancelled due to vomiting

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Up early. Breakfast, then get the car and swing by the storage locker for some last-minute stuff

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The funny thing is I’ve managed to rent a car twice before with ID and a police report. Hence didn’t think it would be an issue.

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testing ttytter v. 0.9<something>, can’t get readline support to work. Oh well

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missing some previously-purchased xmas gifts

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yay presents found

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getting to bed early, gonna drive 500km tomorrow

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LOL @ “Chinese Democracy” being a flop… hugely disappointing download… :)

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once again Internets, you disappoint me… but I will have my revenge!

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As expected, got a call for the phantom server someone assigned to our hostgroup.

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Peter Englund tar över som Akademins ständige sekreterareà http://is.gd/cIZP

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I didnÃt know Baz Luhrmann directed ÃAustralia”

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Last work day for 2008, rounded off by Xmas party tonight

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I buggered up the weekly backup, this means I’ll have to drag my drunk ass back to the office to make sure the offsite people get it tonight

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xmas party starts at 5pm … 1.5 hours to go… work motivation rapidly nearing zero…

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1 hour to xmas party, we have “no route to host” the the main DB

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syncing fresh ’casts onto the ’pod

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Dude offers a 40 yr old woman his seat in the subway. Awkward pause until a 6 ft shemale takes it

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Gullmarsplan stinks of sewage again

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Next stop: Jakobsberg. Luckily the train is one of the new ones, not the older carcinogenic models

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Meeting’d. On our way back to civilisation

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whoops Leo forgot to pick up Viking. Hope it’s not too late

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Still mad that Johan Norberg is playing shill for the idiots who’re blaming the housing crisis on the CRA

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of all the ecological disasters we’re facing, overfishing is scaring me the most. Dunno why really. I just love those fishfingers

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Some web pages are simply too much for the E61. Maybe I should I just get Opera Mini

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call from the monitoring service. Oh well, rather get it at <8:35> than <4:35>

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guy across from me reading a brand-new copy of “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

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Zounds! Escalator at Karlberg is working!

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where did my search folder go

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Quantitative Easing… not really what you think it means: http://is.gd/bMvK

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I need to shine my shoes

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touching base with photo.net

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cat + superball == endless hijinks

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hehe JPGs from the Canon 5D mkII break Flickr’s 20 meg limit

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ropelight up

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thinking about the evening meal

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What a shitty morning

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man the econocalypse is looking especially grim today

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adding tasks from emails in gmail like there’s no tomorrow!

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Swedish motor journalists are reasoning with their hearts, not their heads, about Volvo & Saab

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destination: Pizza!

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order’d

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This morning is greyer and rainer than usual, if possible. Crammed into on of the designed-for-tiny-pygmies blue bus

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opened a doc from the auditors, Word crashed…

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slowly started getting into tumblr

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waiting patiently for a page at DN.se to load

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it was not worth the wait

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enabling gmail tasks…

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On my way to the school’s xmas carol show + coffee. No daytime gathering of adults in Sweden can occur without coffee greasing social wheels

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running late

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brrrr time to dig out the winter coat

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incredibly depressing radio show about some woman laid off from Ericsson

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man this bluetooth headset is amazingly uncomfortable (Nokia BH-700)

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time to get rid of my vox blog, I haven’t used it at all for nearly 2 years

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So far everything has gone rather well this morning. Maybe it was because I went to bed early last night

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punching in

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back from a short walk, took some pics and bought a slab of frozen carbs for lunch. Plus candy!

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meeting

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red metro line not running due to fire #stockholm #publictransportfail

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looking for gingerbread man costume

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The Fates have conspired against me. But I hope to soon this wrap this up #xmassecrets

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From my horizon LeWeb 08 should have been cancelled #leweb08

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the hunt for the gingerbread man costume continues!

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my dedication to the cause awakes ridicule, but I shall prevail!

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BEA comes through! Cheap too

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punching in

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trying to multitask and failing

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enjoying the retro-progressive style of The Soundtrack of Our Lives

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backing up music and photos

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inbox zro

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Coldplay sells out 2 concerts in Stockholm. I am mystified. Who the fsck will pay to hear Coldplay?

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§``Dying of grey hairs with black dye’’ – sign of the End Times: http://is.gd/aR6a

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heading home via downtown

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whoops did a boo-boo earlier today, must fix

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I sense a twitterstorm brewing over Guy Kawasaki’s article.

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Tram went by empty #publictransportfail

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sod this for a game of soldiers - I’m changing at Årstaberg

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ok this route was a bit suboptimal

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my eyes are tired

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omg is that the time?

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Waiting for the blue line

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I wonder if I’ve been in Spånga before, and if so, when and why

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horrific accordion music played by buskers on the train :P

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On our way back from Cornelia’s birthday party

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at Max’

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feet are like ice cubes after walking around w/o shoes in the cellar where the party was

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haha latest scammy Twitter follower’s account has been suspended

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re Scott Cleland; being a shill for the telcos is better than being a shill for Big Tobacco, but only a little

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historical moment, Social Democrats announce a coalition: http://is.gd/aBi6. Sahlin is gonna get crap for this from hardliners

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trying for a reprise of http://is.gd/aBAU but today’s proggit headlines just aren’t funny enough

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Misslyckat försök att gå på Konstfacks julmarknad. Kön sträckte sig 250m

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why am I reading bellyachings in forums about the D3X pricing? Maybe I just enjoy random middle-class whiners

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Running late

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i was planning to take some pics before work this morning, but the light just isn’t there

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set up gmail imap access on the E61

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for all their education, US policy makers are strangely ignorant of how a market works: http://is.gd/alYg

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started to use Picasa web albums for crap photo sharing, gonna keep Flickr for the “good stuff” (quotes intentional)

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here’s the crap stuff: http://picasaweb.google.se/gerikson

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feeling very web 2.0 all of a sudden. Must be the beer and alcopop

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yay 7 new spam followers on Twitter! Welcom spambots!

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Not for the last time regretting I don’t know more Latin

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mnm

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Gah the train is the old model where the breaks smell like asbestos

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Zounds! I just spelled brakes as “breaks”. It was really easy to do! I blame the sweet stink of asbestos

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I wonder if Jackson Browne’s “Lawyers in Love” is a bitter denunciation of “Ally McBeal”

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Âtarek @jimh good to know, bit surprised finding my posse has stopped following me!

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best IRC morning EVAH

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Âtarek try mibbit.com

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phear my elite bash programming skillz

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newspapers and economists are happy about the rate cut, ignoring that the Riksbank does this because we’re staring at an economic abyss

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central banks are pushing on a string

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BoingBoing posts link about fractional reserve banking, Paultards emerge in the commentsà http://is.gd/afwW

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back in the office

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unsubbing from “This American Life”, can’t find the time to listen to it

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booked a car for the trip down to Halland over Xmas

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not looking forward to driving 500km even though I’ve done it many times before

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Picked up 2 kids, now waiting wife before heading to Viksjö for Xmas dinner

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running late

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Dinner eaten, now saying goodbyes

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Leif GW Persson is a fucking fraud

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Man dude across from me has a chin like an inverted obelisk

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another dude is either dog tired or an imbecil, hard to tell

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time to review my Flickr exit strategy

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Nokia N97 is cool but it’s yet another mobile I won’t be able to afford http://is.gd/9QYY

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wtf Statoil won’t let me have my car until <11:30> tomorrow?

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Heading home, but first I need to buy a cheap toy and a pair of pants

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indulging my inner old fogey, listening to Jackson Browne

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Just picked up a pair of black Dockers, cementing my old-fogey status

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“the number you dialled can’t be reached right now” never happened to me before, wonder what’s up

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Forgot ipod, lunch at home, returning there to pick them up #amnesia

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feeling sooo far away from Oscar Wilde right now. Otoh I have not been humiliated in a show trial. It evens out. #oscarwildeday

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can’t help but think that Calacanis is worried about future warranties on his Tesla here: http://is.gd/9Eks

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why do people solicit advice for +$500 CE purchases on random IRC channels?

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having a bad case of the Mondays today

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even though I have no intention of ever owning the Nikon D3X I’m obsessively scouring the nets for commentary. I’m such a nerd

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