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In my standard/excellent style of getting on “deck” with things a year or five behind the wavefront, I recently became aware of 5ives. If your A.D.D. prohibits you from getting all the way to 1 (or 3) on any given top-ten list, check it out and, at last, get your satisfaction.

That looks like fun. Let’s kick off the party right, six-style:

Six Things that Should Be Nuked from Orbit, no order, 12-16-2006:

1. Oasis albums after “Be Here Now”[1].
2. Any Fanninghive-related organism.
3. Noise-canceling headphones sold by Brookstone.
4. The xenomorph-infested atmospheric engineering facility residing on LV-426.
5. The TV Mini Series Event The Lost Room. I know life’s not f-ing fair, Peter Krause. Neither is the fact that this show sucks in a most intense and onerous way, except for the presence of Julianna Margulies… which was only a passing fancy/distraction once Kelley told me she saw JM in a sushi place in NYC once, and that (on that particular night) she has a freakishly huge head in proportion to her body. Instant downgrade from “stone fox on the career rebound distracting me from the belief that The Lost Room was being written as it was being filmed” to “new-style Burger King commecial freakism”.[0]
6. Not being able to think of six things that should be nuked from orbit, due to a general sort of malaise/torpor/vapor filling the room this evening. But wait, I got it…
6.1: Malaise vapors!
7. (bonus) The Burger King commercial Burger King.

[0] I’m all about making friends in Hollywood.
[1] Be Here Now should also possibly be nuked from orbit. If a half-yield, sort of 1 kiloton nuke is possible, I’d consider it. But then again, do you want the target destroyed or not? Of course the answer is “you want it vaporized”. Be Here Now, mon amore.

I am acquainted with this guy, Jeffrey T. Meyer, who does a podcast out of Muncie, Indiana called Good Beer Show, and if you like good beer and local music, you should check it out. Not to mention that JT is a good guy.

Jeff and his friends basically sit around a large beer house caller the Heorot, drink and discuss good beer (i.e. not Miller Lite aka “Football Beer”) without pretense, and and listen/talk to local bands. The podcast’s gone from standing still to essentially national phenomenon (in the podcasting world) in around 18 months, so that’s all good.

PodCastAwards.com is having it’s 2nd (3rd? whatever) annual award thing, and Good Beer Show is again nominated in the food/drink category (they won last year).

Go out there every day from July 28th through August 11th and vote for the Good Beer Show. If you don’t feel good about that, how about going and getting the g.d. podcasts, listening to a few, and then voting? While you’re out there, vote for some other shows. Don’t listen to podcasts? No problem… pick a few names at random that sound cool.

Anyway - you’d be doing yourself a favor (if you like indie music and beer and people shooting s**t) to listen to Good Beer Show, but barring that, you’d be doing JT a favor with your vote. DO IT!

Good Beer Show on About.com, so you can get a quick feel that jt and co do not support devilry (any more than the standard person)…

I’ve reached the point where I won’t use more than one web browser on a regular basis, and that has led to some switching in the last year or so.

why? because i find the idea of running more than one app that does the same thing, due to one having some feature/support the other one doesn’t have, to be deeply offensive. given OS X’s profound appetite for memory[5], even moreso.

I’m assuming each step of this switch is driven in part by JavaScript being great/marginal/incomplete on various platforms, but it’s not in my nature to know precisely why I’m making the move, just whether I’ve stopped moving, or not.

In the age of del.icio.us and outsourcing all of my mail and calender functions to Google, moving around between browsers isn’t such a big deal… except for the fact that I need to keep doing it.

What I’d ideally like to be using: Safari
Because: Integrated RSS, fast, the shiny Apple logo on it, et al.
But it doesn’t: Work with Gcal

I also wouldn’t mind: Camino
Because: It puts Safari’s speed/crack-gnomes to shame, imo. It’s very fast and very basic.
But it doesn’t: Support job’s web portal.

What I am using: Firefox
Because: It works with g*, my bank, my preferred pr0n sites, and now my company’s web/collab/community portal
But it doesn’t: Respond very fast. Feels as bloated as I am.
Forces me to: Use Google Lab’s G-reader or whatever it’s called for news, which isn’t a bad thing. g-readermachino’s sharing functions need some work.

We’ll see how many more shifts I make before 10.5.

[5] Ok… all applications, on all OSes, are hungry for memory.

It’s telling that I think quizzes like this one mapping your personality to superheros are dumb… yet I find them endlessly enjoyable.

I’m the Hulk, 70%. Wolverine does not appear on my list at all.

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This was very exciting to me until I noticed that I’m characterlstically separated between “Yoda” and “an Ewok” by only 11%.

I’ve been getting some of this recently, in the last few days:

Coupled with the periodic “Whoops! I can’t send your mail right now! Try again shortly!” dialogue.[0]

I won’t say I’m getting it a lot, but the fact that I’m getting it at all (since I’ve never experienced anything even remotely resembling lack of 100% availability from the Google apps I use[1]) is notable, although I don’t know what it means.

[0] I realize this assertion would be more credible if I had a screenshot of said dialogue.
[1] gmail, search, cal, spreadsheet[2], newsreader.
[2] 24×7, I’m using spreadsheet.

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