According to Dave http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog The personal blog of Dave Samojlenko Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:53:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 TRON: Legacy – Official Trailer http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/03/09/tron-legacy-official-trailer/ http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/03/09/tron-legacy-official-trailer/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:53:08 +0000 dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=2007

AWESOME!

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So, yeah, face the facts: creationism isn’t just a weird reaction to bad science instruction and those annoying godless liberal college professors — it’s just one symptom of a deep-seated mental derangement.

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]]> http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/22/virgin-mobile-dancemob-at-yds-in-to/feed/ 0 I get water from a tap. Anything else seems silly. http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/18/i-get-water-from-a-tap-anything-else-seems-silly/ http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/18/i-get-water-from-a-tap-anything-else-seems-silly/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:23:04 +0000 dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=1997 Ron Eade on bottled water:

Yes, I suppose we can mitigate our guilt by tossing plastic bottles into a blue box recycling bin (originally promoted by the packaging industry to put an end to returnable bottles). But the fact that non-renewable petroleum is used to make beverage containers, and then more petrol is used to ship them across the countryside, and still more fossil fuel is consumed to collect and ship them back to a publicly subsidized recycling depot for (presumably) additional processing to make bad lawn furniture, makes bottled water one of the silliest products ever conceived — simply because the product is so unnecessary.

Amen, brother!

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]]> http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/16/i-met-the-walrus/feed/ 0 This conversation sounds familiar http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/16/this-conversation-sounds-familiar/ http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/16/this-conversation-sounds-familiar/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:21:36 +0000 dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=1983 Dan Wineman: A conversation I have every month or so:

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.

[via DF]

]]> http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/16/this-conversation-sounds-familiar/feed/ 0 Not what I had in mind http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/12/not-what-i-had-in-mind/ http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2010/02/12/not-what-i-had-in-mind/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:12:17 +0000 dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=1456 So a while back I added a plugin and setup my blog to collect my tweets each week and aggregate them into a weekly post like the ones below. My thought then was that since I publish quite a bit at Twitter and not so much here, these weekly posts would keep this blog a bit more active in the long spaces between my postings here.

Unfortunately, it’s turned out that I’ve ended up with weeks and weeks and weeks of aggregate posts of tweets that crowd out what little actual content I publish here, and it’s just gotten out of hand – I no longer believe it’s useful to collect those here, since if you wanted to read my tweets, you’d follow me over on Twitter.  Plus I just find the posts are uglying up the place.

This blog is in a weird space for me right now. I love having it, and I do publish here a lot more when I have stuff going on like Bluesfest, Burning Man, or the Toronto Film Festival. The rest of the time, I’m still active online, just not here – I tend to push lots of links and short-form stuff to Twitter, my Tumblr log has been seeing lots of action recently, and I have lots of stuff going to my Google Reader list, not to mention places like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and now of course there’s Google Buzz that all fill different spaces in my online life.

Ideally I’d like to find a way of pulling all of that stuff together to represent my online identity in some cohesive way, and I think that’s what I was attempting with the aggregate posts, but that obviously hasn’t worked.

So I’m discontinuing the weekly aggregate posts here, and though I can’t really promise that I’ll write more to fill in the gaps (we know how that usually works out), I am going to try to find a better way to integrate my other online activity here. In the meantime, here are some links to the places where I am active to varying degrees online:

My Google Profile
My Google Reader Shared Items
My Facebook Profile
My Flickr Photostream
FineDiners.ca, my foodie blog
My Twitter Stream
My Tumblr Log
My LinkedIn
My YouTube Channel

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  • damn… didn't realize there were two eps of Lost last night – I only dl'd and watched the first one! Oh well, I get another dose tonight! #
  • Fake Steve: "The best technology is the kind that’s so good you don’t see it. " #
  • Fake Steve: "The best technology is the kind that’s so good you don’t see it. " http://is.gd/7KZxr #
  • 37s: Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots:http://is.gd/7L00V #
  • aw, @sequindawn you're cool too in reply to sequindawn #
  • Vans and the places where they were: http://is.gd/7L7Yc #
  • Enjoying some Belgian beer and mussels at vineyards #
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  • It's a Public Enemy kind of day #
  • Happy Apple Tablet Day! #
  • dp on today's big announcment: http://powazek.com/posts/2234 #
  • and gruber's take: http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/the_tablet #
  • gruber: "…the most amazing thing about this run-up … So much written, and Apple has not once said one word publicly about the device." #
  • "Cuddle Class" economy seating from Air New Zealand: http://is.gd/79BXk #
  • RT @CharliesBurgers: Globe and Mail review of the latest Charlie Burger menu. http://tiny.cc/YmAjx #
  • RT @duggylimes: Steve Jobs stayed up all night designing tablet."Come on, just think dammit you're running out of time" http://bit.ly/9nYrTd #
  • haha… steve dissing on netbooks #
  • slow… low quality… pc software #
  • it's a giant iPhone! #
  • not crazy about the name "iPad" … but looks sexy as all get out #
  • apple's in the chip business #
  • 10 hours of battery life – NICE #
  • good luck getting those data plans here in Canada, the wireless wasteland #
  • whoa. $499. #
  • whoa – didn't hear about this until just now – Coachella lineup is out:http://is.gd/7b1A2 #
  • are iPad haters going to come off sounding like these guys in 9 years: http://is.gd/7eUdI (via @rob_sheridan) #
  • bahahahhaha! Unhappy Hipsters: http://is.gd/7iZQ6 (via @duggylimes) #
  • Awwww… poor Spirit: http://is.gd/7jwA3 #
  • FREE SPIRIT! http://is.gd/7jwSE #
  • Braving the cold to go get some Anna Thai to warm me back up #
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