A Weekly Dose of Tweets (Part One)
January 7th, 2008 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Follow my Twitter comments all week long. (There are 80 of you doing so now.)
Or wait for Monday’s weekly recap here, with italicized updates in brackets afterwards:
- @jbacardi - I know this is horribly unpopular to say, but I think Gaiman is overrated.
- Just added those Reboot DVDs to the Amazon Marketplace. Let’s see if there are any buyers. Crossing fingers! [So far, no deal.]
- My New Years Eve plans have changed six times since I woke up this morning. I have no idea what I’m doing next. Probably Veronica Mars DVD
- Just finished watching four episodes of VERONICA MARS in a row. PARTEEEEE! [Toldja so.]
- On the less positive side — December 2007 will go down as the slowest month for hits on the blog of the last 13 months. [Thankfully, I’m not at all spiteful.]
- Ryan Seacrest has proven that there’s not much at all to say after the ball drops. Just repeat yourselves until ABC cuts to commercials.
- My wife is firmly enmeshed in an all-day ONE TREE HILL marathon. Heaven help me, it’s pulling me in, gaping plot holes and all. [And the new season begins this week, set four years later. Possibly a brilliant move.]
- Crap, I forgot that the Amazon Associates payments don’t come through for TWO MONTHS. ARGH! All that glorious XMas money delayed!
- Blog counter stats show that only 3.1% of my visitors use a screen rez of 800×600 or lower. Why bother coding for them anymore?
- Loving that moment in Guitar Hero where you’re perfectly in synch and the notes seem so slow and fat and impossible to miss.
- Amazon is offering the Captain America Omnibus as a gold box special to me today. MUST RESIST $45 price tag on $100 book. [I held tight. Didn’t buy it.]
- When all else fails, it’s time for GUITAR HERO!
- Attn all podcasting wannabes: Guitar Center is selling 2 condensor mics with mic preamp for $99. It’s the mic I use and one other.
- That’s the MXL990 and MXL991, for those keeping track at home, along with the MSL Audio Buddy, tho I use a Behringer Euromixer.
- Attn everyone: Johnny Bacardi’s year end blowout: http://tinyurl.com/ytctlh
- It’s impressive.
Part two of these Twitters is coming tomorrow afternoon!

January 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
arghhhhhhhhhhhh… I fell for it, ordered the Captain America Omnibus, despite having all the original books already.
Granted, I’m a format whore for this type of stuff, so it’s not that crazy of me.
Of course I ordered through Amazon.COM rather than Amazon.CA, because:
1 ) .CA strangely lists all their books at Canadian SRP - which is significantly higher
2) the discount is better in .COM than .CA
3) you don’t pay GST or PST - Canadian taxes - by using .COM
4) while you don’t get FREE shipping as you would through .CA, shipping with .COM even on this massive book - is less than $ 10
5) oh yeah - the all-powerful Canadian dollar !!!
On a $ 125 SRP book - I ended up paying $ 54 in total, not bad.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You did well there, Rob. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Heck, I’m jealous.