Tweets this Week – 2010-01-31

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, January 31st, 2010
  • http://twitpic.com/10bkyx – The gulf between reality and expectation, as demonstrated on Freecycle… #
  • Brett Easton Ellis rejoices at passing of JD Salinger. Ironic considering American Psycho couldn't have existed without Catcher in the Rye. #
  • Hoping now that it UK pricing is equivalent to US, because I can just about afford the 16GB model… £309. #
  • That was a good "fuck peas" by the way. #
  • $499 – fuck peas. #
  • UK mobile providers a bit quiet. Which one of you lot is the official "international" provider for iPad 3G? O2? Orange? Vodafone? #
  • Here we go… 3G plans. #
  • .@garymarshall If I can get an iPad for the price of a Kindle… I'll have one just for iBooks. Somehow, I'm thinking not. #
  • .@craiggrannell picked up on the most interesting point so far. Apple A4 chip. What the huh? #
  • Off to make dinner. If anything happens in the next hour, could you write a four page article about it and publish it in a month's time? Ta. #
  • RT @timdifford: We7 Launches Premium Service http://bit.ly/cy24EJ <- Hopefully will encourage Spotify to get more competitive. #
  • My Mum thinks "LOL" means "Lots of Love". I get texts that say things like: "Your Grandma's in hospital. LOL, Mum". #
  • Misunderstood acronyms are the new misheard lyrics. Example: for ages I thought "FTW!" meant "Fuck the World!". #
  • All this tablet talk really makes me want one! Preferably a Valium. #
  • DigitalSpy reports that Heather Mills says "I am madly in love". She got the first 6 letters right. #

Tweets this Week – 2010-01-24

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, January 24th, 2010
  • Spotify suggest going Premium so you can listen while "at the summer house". As you drink Martinis from a supermodel's navel, presumably. #
  • Having a Rocky training montage moment… http://bit.ly/75h7MV #
  • With talk about the "dangers" of Omegle, thought I'd give it another go. Had a nice chat about Brian Eno. No one tried to sell me crack. #
  • Playing cliché bingo on the technology blogs. I need "rumours are swirling" for a full house. #
  • I'm not really getting into this earthquake programme on telly. I preferred the one about snow that was on last week. #
  • RT @saturngirl: I feel bad about following @billgates before Steve Jobs. I'm going to wait for Steve. #
  • Worst thing about Cadbury's takeover by Kraft? What'll happen to Fairtrade, organic brand Green and Blacks? #
  • RT @clownfishrob: Sarah McDowell 14 has gone missing in Huddersfield. Any info please contact the police: http://twitpic.com/yntq6 #
  • My personal bit of the recession confirmed: the Inland Revenue owe *me* money. #
  • At what point did "real" and "honest" become euphemisms for "mean-spirited and thick"? #
  • http://twitpic.com/yjb6p – I'd love to do this to the poster just down the road from me… #
  • Latest Iain Banks novel has a typo on page 3. Page 203 I might understand… #

Tweets this Week – 2010-01-17

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, January 17th, 2010
  • Finally, can see a bit of tarmac on the car park. Now to see if I can boost the battery… #
  • On 8 out of 10 Cats, Jack Whitehall just told the same "panic buying" joke Russell Howard told on Mock the Week last week. The bastard. #
  • Sarcasm doesn't need a punctuation mark. It needs a punch. http://bit.ly/76KO6a (via @jackschofield, @tweetmeme) #
  • Twitter by Gervais: "celebrities showing off by talking to each other in public". Someone had to say it. http://bit.ly/5rwfwf #
  • .@denofgeek's strategy to lose the Total Film award vote and ensure justice is done seems to be working. Go, vote @io9 http://bit.ly/4WmY7z #
  • Need a lame pun based on a current advert? There's a twat for that. #
  • Watching "Glee". Verdict: Ugly Betty in High School. And it's shit. #
  • Guardian wins flood alert bingo: http://bit.ly/7Zw3qu #
  • Last part of my ages-to-gestate Hackintosh due to arrive tomorrow. Now all I need is a clear day in my schedule and an electrical storm… #
  • Loose Women plays havoc with my tinnitus. I'm unable to process such high frequencies. #
  • RT @denofgeek: Vote for io9 in the TF awards! Details here… http://bit.ly/8VU20f <- DoG is resolutely British in its sense of fair play! #
  • Against my better, older, more cynical and wizened judgment, I still love The Catcher in the Rye. #
  • What is a Gadget? Start of a series at Computer Weekly's Inspect-a-Gadget blog: http://bit.ly/6Y9tQ9 #
  • If Google decided to shut down operations in the country with the world's worst human rights record, they'd have to relocate. #
  • Curiously, home network running 3 XP machines and a mac is now entirely trouble free – with Vista out of the mix. #
  • From Den of Geek report, looks like Sony had Spidey reboot plan at an advanced stage. Raimi constructively dismissed? http://bit.ly/7RQFog #
  • Main PC still fritzed. Oh well. An excuse to repartition and install Win 7, at last. #
  • Finding it easier and more satisfying to write about narrative focalisation than to blog about iPhones. Which is the wrong way around. #
  • I categorically hate all computers. #
  • You'd think the folks at Spotify could afford a pop shield for the microphone they make their ads with. "Hi, I'm RoBLERTa from SPLOFFify". #

Tweets this Week – 2010-01-10

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, January 10th, 2010
  • Twitter suggests most taste is a self-limited narrowband spectrum, neither innate (Pirsig) nor status acquired (Bourdieu). But, often, shit. #
  • Going through statements for 2008. Can see the pound falling against the dollar as value of payments from Stateside clients go up. #
  • It's OK people, the Tories don't have a chance now. David Tennant is backing Gordon Brown: http://bit.ly/87LIJw #
  • Thwarted on lactose free pancakes plan by lack of oat milk. #firstworldproblems #
  • I hope all this snow clears up soon. I have to go out of the flat in February. #
  • Den of Geek (who I write for) is up for the gong of Best Sci-Fi blog in the Total Film awards. Please vote for us! http://bit.ly/8OAXgm #
  • Bleurgh… taxes. If I'd wanted a job in data entry, I'd have – urm – got a job in data entry. #
  • Knew I'd heard all this before. Microsoft's Tablet PC launch @computerweekly – from 2002 – http://bit.ly/6JMbAM #
  • RT @llamasoft_ox: someone shld do Video Game Hero: you pretend to play games w/ no real skill, using a rubbish joystick, set to cheesy music #
  • iTunes is giving away a free Foo Fighters song on video today. The only response I can muster is "whoopie doo". #
  • Pretty sure turn by turn navigation (and voice recognition) is a function of Google Maps Navigation on Android 2.0 , not the Nexus One… #
  • I hate it when rumours swirl. Or, indeed, adopt any circular pattern of motion. #
  • Reports coming in that six Nexus One's have escaped from CES. Harrison Ford has been sent to "retire" them. #
  • When it snows like this, it's like the UK turns into that episode of Star Trek where all the kids are in charge. #
  • Getting slightly bored of being snowed in now. #
  • Vinnie Jones on Celeb Big Brother? I wouldn't pay to watch him, never mind gawp at him on telly for free. #
  • Want expensive, slow Internet? If you're in the UK, you're in luck: http://i.imgur.com/cwiNV.jpg #
  • Banned sentence construction of 2010: "X is quite the Y". You don't sound like Oscar Wilde. You sound like you didn't finish high school. #
  • Still working through the Alien tetralogy. Alien 3 curiously nowhere near as awful as I remembered. Only terrible in parts. #
  • There are two kinds of geek. Those who like "Alien" and those who like "Aliens". #

Tweets this Week – 2010-01-03

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
  • Disappointed to discover that today's iTunes giveaway is the maze game Labyrinth, not the 80s film with David Bowie… #
  • Charlie Brooker is like that old Rob Newman character, Ray. No matter what he says, it always sounds sarcastic. http://bit.ly/7lhTYS #
  • The real irony of "The Most Annoying People of 2009" is that none of its subjects are as annoying as the c*nts commenting about them. #
  • 2010 is only 66 minutes old and I already have 3 new people on my shit list. I wouldn't mind but getting rid of the bodies is such a pain. #
  • There are people on TV whose job description is "Hollywood Blogger". I am crying. And not in the good way. #
  • RT @big_ben_clock: BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! #
  • My prediction for 2010: Paulo Nutini will still be a twat. #
  • …This year, I'm digesting an epic curry and getting ready for a night with telly and @ruthellenbrown. Couldn't be happier. Happy New Year! #
  • Not so long very ago, I'd be getting ready to spend an unsatisfying evening in a crowd of drunken strangers just about now… #
  • Logged into Second Life for first time in three years to see if it had got interesting yet. It hasn't. #
  • Sad to hear that the Birthday Party's Roland Howard has died. http://bit.ly/4HKAsN #
  • ITV3 has an old version of Turn of the Screw scheduled against the BBC's new adaptation on Weds. Trying to pick up some confused viewers? #
  • Listening to Elastica; beautiful proof that selective plagiarism is often better than pure invention. #
  • That little boy from X-Factor is now No. 1. And thanks to RATM, you might even remember his name this time next year. Worked out quite well. #
  • It's bad enough buying a boxset with the word "Quadrilogy" in it, without Amazon suggesting I might want to buy some Predator movies too. #