Archive for the tag "wil hendricks"

• Recording tomorrow @ Myles Boisen’s, w/ Wil on upright, Lucio guitar, me & Val & Heather singing. One song live in the studio for Drag City! #

• Wil went to Phoenix to record w/ Krassner. I’m excited to hear new stuff from the Pillars… I’ll be there in spirit, maybe backups later on #

• @djearlybird: Whatchoo talkin’ bout, did you do one too? OH THAT. That’s nothin’!! Not even a blip on my annoyance radar. Not what I mean. #
• @djearlybird: p.s. I will only slander nameless faceless tech-information bloggers, not friends. Did you use a pie chart? I don’t think so. #
• Trying Amazon Subscribe & Save, a bulk grocery delivery thing. Box of Luna bars every 3 months for $12. http://amazon.com/subscribeandsave #
• R.I.P. Lydia Mendoza - Tejano pioneer
• Kindle Kozy
• Happy New Year y’all!! Turn on the TV, Ch 4 is filming New Years live at Teatro Zinzanni. Wil’s in the band. I’m TiVo’ing. #

• Wil took me to dinner at the TONGA ROOM! And I talked to the whole family, and even heard back from my ol’ pal Shelley. Awesome Christmas. #
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• @hotdogsladies: thanks a LOT for getting “Don’t Pay the Ferryman” stuck in my head. Argh!! Well, it could be worse. Could be “Lady In Red”. #
• I said I wouldn’t, but I fucking poured my heart out to Shelley and now I’m plumb tuckered out! Trying to catch up, there’s too much to say. #

• @meimaimaggio: I bet @SantaClaus has a computer built right into the dasher-board. ;-) Merry Christmas / happy holidays everyone! #
• Wil got me a Brookstone charging station for my geegaws! It’s soo pretty. Satisfies many lusts: gadgets. organization pr0n. and wood things. #
• (It can now be revealed that I got Wil an Expression Pedal to go with his Line6. He needed it for his pedalboard. & it was a real surprise!) #
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• Wil got me tipsy with a champagne cocktail. We’re going for a nice Xmas dinner later; he won’t say where! Says it’ll be more FUN than fancy. #
• (p.s. we’re taking BART, don’t worry!) #
• Oh I almost forgot! Go get your annual copy of me sing-humming “Silent Night” over on John’s music page! http://johnwhitney.net/music.html #

• Ever since I moved to WP, my content’s been getting splogged like a mofo. Wonder what scraper they’re using? Maybe I could htaccess ‘em out. #
• @McChris: Great idea, I forgot you could do that. I wonder if you can buy a gift card using a gift card? #
• Terraminds twitter search (via Biz)
• Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin: a WordPress plugin to automatically add copyright message to your RSS / ATOM feeds
• Kindle books now wish-listable on Amazon! Although, for now the button only appears if you visit the book’s customer reviews page. #
• Wil is a prolific movie reviewer on his F’book Flixster. Super smart &/or funny. I.e. for Vanilla Sky: “I personally prefer chocolate rain.” #
• 5 stars for Pootie Tang! “it’s a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai. That’s a canapan, all the way down. wa-da-tah.” I concur. #
• Got a little something for Mama after all. It’s not going TO her exactly, but I think she’s gonna like it anyway. :-) http://www.heifer.org/ #
• Ohhhh my bank… my aching bank… #
• The people down the street who like to build bonfires in their backyard just got a visit from the Albany FD. Swear I didn’t call! #
• Ohhh… somebody at Kindle Korner is saying that although you can add Kindle books to your wishlist, nobody can actually buy them. Psych! #
• @Ihnatko: I’m afraid of that too! I never blog on my blog anymore, but here I can’t shut up. You’re hands down my favorite tech writer btw. #
• Honest Gift Tags

• Oooh I got a box from JJ! But I can’t open it, so I gave it to Wil to hide. Otherwise it might start talking to me. #
• Finally made the appointment for my ultrasound. Sounds like a *great* bargain for the uninsured, and LOTS of fun, I can hardly wait! Pfffff. #
• From Kindle Korner: Amazon now allowing MP3 and Unbox downloads to be purchased with gift cards… Kindle books coming soon too, hopefully? #
• “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote: http://tinyurl.com/6qfyu …I had a teacher at Austin High who would read this aloud every year. #
• Twitter will be down all day for maintenance tomorrow, so I won’t be blathering as much about the Kindle, talking boxes and bug-candy. Enjoy #
• Ran into friends, they asked what I’ve been up to, I couldn’t think of anything! Afterwards I thought of LOTS of things. How embarrassing. #

• When I can’t sleep, I get angry at the world. It’s all your fault. #
• Kindlelust is messing up my life. Starting a list of books I want even though I have no Kindle. I’m not even in line for one! Need therapy. #
• I’m freezing, wtf should I eat? Wish we had someplace like the Soupbox here. http://www.thesoupbox.com/ Yeah yeah, Chicago blah blah blah. #
• Confessed to Wil that his present was here taunting me and I wanted to give it to him already. He’s all… “oh well, too bad for you!” Heh. #
• Listening to Steve Albini on Sound of Young America. Mentions nothing about how I turned his career around with all the referrals! Hee. j/k #
• (Well, I did find him those Jud Jud MP3s, which he really really wanted, so they’ll never take that away from me!) http://tinyurl.com/4lmjt #
• Cambodian Rocks MP3s for free on WFMU! Good shit. http://tinyurl.com/2mvzqa #

• Got woken up way too early by a buzzsnort. Not my own but it very well could have been! I do that AND talk in my sleep so I’m the lucky one. #
• Amazon Filler Item Finder (via Metafilter)
• Bad Behavior antispam plugin for WordPress et al
• Jesus, I just installed the Bad Behavior plugin for WP like five minutes ago and it’s already blocked 6 access attempts. :-o #
• When I get the sleep-paralysis thing where I think I’m getting up, I can “stretch” my “leg” into the air and actually feel the burn. Freaky. #
• The TV was on (IRL) and I could “see” it… but when I put my hand up to cover that view, IT WAS INVISIBLE. Everybody look at your hands! #
• Earlier I’d caught a young woman who’d broken into the house. Shrank her down to 3 inches and held her squirming while I called the cops. #
• @gruber was there!?! I told him I’d just shrunken the last intruder and he’s like “heh… in your dream!” and I’m all… “well, yeah!” #
• Gotta very wily spammer trying to post pharmaceutical links in my Scintillating Scotoma group after I told him nicely to STFU. GRRRR!!! Ban. #
• Louisiana Fried Chicken forgot to give me my dirty rice, so I walked back. They made it right AND gave me free 7-Up cake. Customer service! #
• Wil and Happy last night at Armadillo Pizza

• I would love to try iwantsandy.com but it seems to be bogged down. I’m getting internal server errors and it won’t send my activation info. #
• Sandy’s talking to me now. But eww, in Comic Sans MS? What, is that back in style now with the cool kids? #
• Now I have this obscure Carpenters song stuck in my head. “Ewww, Sandy…” #
• I think I have to fire my new assistant. What’s the syntax for that? #
• Wil & I have been passing a cold back & forth for the past few weeks. Now he’s better and I gotta bad cough. Must lay off the smokey-treats! #
• Splog Reporter : Cleaning up the blogosphere one splog at a time.

• Chicagoist got me craving a nice Cuban sandwich with fried plantains. Do they even have those in California? http://tinyurl.com/2rw2km #
• Wil’s at work so I turned off the lights and played like I wasn’t home. Now I can eat the emergency candy! I bought it in case of marauders. #

• Finally using the blogroll feature in WP, to display my “other stuff” links. Looks exactly the same, but it’ll be easier for me to maintain. #
• Music reviewers *constantly* title their articles with bad jokes based on my name. Check it out. edithfrost.com/tag/bad_titles/ #
• waiting for Wil at the bart. I made a plugins list on my about page… edithfrost.com/about #
• I’m excited to be one of the cool kids Harper invited to his illList. If it were anybody else I’d say no f’n way! But this’ll be nerdy fun. #

• It’s Daddy’s birthday today, just talked to him on the phone. Off to the Stroll now #
• At the annual Solano Stroll in Albany CA…
  
• Wil just Craigslisted himself a gorgeous blue Crafter acoustic, and I am so very jealous. I’m the one with the blue guitars in this house!! #

• Great name guys. “Moco” means “booger” in Spanish. http://tinyurl.com/ytxzy5 05:00 PM #
• Wil got new strings for his upright so he’s playing on ‘em to stretch ‘em out. Thinks it’s very silly that I’m all wowed by his playing. #
• Seems like it’s gonna be too cloudy to see that lunar eclipse tonight. Bring the helicopter ’round… #

Me and Wil Hendricks at the Café Du Nord on Tuesday.  Photo by Han Wang.