Psicofante
5 of 5 stars to Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami http://bit.ly/aRwtlp

ColinPeters
RT: @owenp @benjaminluk @lilylyle @robynrenee not creepy enough. you need the Robert Pattinson Pillow http://bit.ly/a9xKyx

ColinPeters
They need to make a clown version of that, to be used by well-meaning parents to destroy the psyches of children everywhere.

bluesagain
@Psicofante Yay!!!!

remotevoices
Endvra - When God Was a Snake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrWgsTIe_Y -been too long a time since I listened to the CD I have of theirs.

bluesagain
@Psicofante Was that an English translation? By whom? So pleased you loved it.

LillyLyle
@colinpeters That's Lilly with 2 l's, Collin. ;P [or three if you wanna get technical]

LillyLyle
@psicofante Did you wear your hat?

Psicofante
@bluesagain It is Jay Rubin's, the same one I have read at least four times... I only write the review after a reread, and that I did today.

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle You know, I get that double l thing all the time. Also get *lots* of people calling me Peter.

bluesagain
@Psicofante He's good. Never read his Norw Wood though. Did you read his collection of essays on Murakami's (cont) http://tl.gd/bgh0e

remotevoices
Logging out of the stream for the evening. Will be consuming data some time in the future. Till then, post away.

Psicofante
@LillyLyle No hat, as I was with my big boss, and he is a bit particular. Today at least I wore my buddhist prayer tie.

Psicofante
@bluesagain I like him, as I started to read HM with him, but I prefer Philip Gabriel's handling of the last novels.

ColinPeters
Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich up for The Diagram Prize. http://bit.ly/9uIqyV via @AtYourLibrary

GreatDismal
RT @killerswan: @GreatDismal couple to go into hiding with Pablo Escobar's escaped hippos

Psicofante
@remotevoices Get better, as that is what I gleaned from my own data stream mining.

bluesagain
More tomorrow. Crashing despite neighbours' loud TVs live from Vancouver. Neighbour wild-eyed & laden with beer said, I am IN Vancouver!

GreatDismal
RT @ebertchicago: This just isn't a Hummer kinda time we're going through now.

bluesagain
@ColinPeters Nite, Petter Colins :-)

bluesagain
@Psicofante I remember now, we discussed that. There is an Alfred something too, right? The hip one. @LilliLyle You can have my Norw copy!

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Hellre en dram i timmen enn en timme i Drammen.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Yay!

bluesagain
@psicofante @lillylyle God can't believe I too misspelt lilly :-) time for bed folks @remotevoices Snow driving is awful. Meant to say.

Psicofante
Listening to Norwegian Wood. Felt like the right thing, for Naoko and Ryoko.

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle I think Robert Pattinson dressed as a clown is poisoning the coffee in the office. [looks over his shoulder]

bluesagain
@LillyLyle Wow! How did you know that's my town? Nite and I mean it.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain På svenska säger man "Kärt barn har många namn"

LillyLyle
@colinpeters @bluesagain Good night song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6YXuagiuU

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle AAAAHHHHHhhhhhaaa... [gasp] ...aaAAAHHHhhh!!!!

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle The font choices... The using every wipe in MovieMaker... The... What is that? An ibex? Monument Valley? What?

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle Well, at least it didn't include any pictures of clowns.

LillyLyle
@ColinPeters nighty-nighty.

fashpo
This is not a joke - The Danish Royal Theater will be staging Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark http://goo.gl/w2wj

LillyLyle
@ColinPeters I didn't w a t c h it, I listened to it.

ColinPeters
@LillyLyle Well then, that's why you can sleep at night.

LillyLyle
@ColinPeters I just discovered there was a version with Chet Baker & VAN THE MAN: http://tinyurl.com/ya4rcsr

LillyLyle
That's me gone.

ellouis
Tenacious D : Kielbasa (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZBmBZa-9qo&fmt=22

vesper_dbs
Dante Alighieri would be proud of this one (and I mean the review) > @zeropunctuation: Dante's Inferno http://tinyurl.com/yj8ceo7

mrphoenix
Here in Qatar television is very specialised: http://flic.kr/p/7FvNCD

ColinPeters
@mrphoenix Are you in Qatar? There should be a package on its way to you.

mrphoenix
@ColinPeters I am. Teaching a Creative Writing course for the British Council: http://www.eyeofdubai.com/v1/n...newsdetail-39845.htm

mcdermott9976
@GreatDismal this sums up hummer drivers pretty well: http://bit.ly/osQP

mcdermott9976
@ColinPeters IT's PEOPLE!!!

mcdermott9976
damn...i just missed my 7 year WGB Board-day...7 years? 7? and only 879 posts? not prolific at all

ColinPeters
@mrphoenix Teaching a course is cool (hot?). It would be a mite inconvenient if that package came back and I had to defuse it though.

ellouis
Become a fan : http://25.media.tumblr.com/tum...NMc1qzpwi0o1_500.png

GreatDismal
RT @ebertchicago: http://twitpic.com/155t72 - The critics raved about it!

GreatDismal
RT @ellouis: Become a fan : http://bit.ly/bslxRp

adoxography
Arken GL's bot has turned us all into Dixie Flatliners

adoxography
RT @ellouis: Become a fan : http://bit.ly/bslxRp

adoxography
OK, I am not looking at internal casualty reports of RoRo vessels any longer. I will now do something, um, something else. Like, well, hmm.

ColinPeters
@adoxography @daniel_poeira Heavy drinking and porn.

mcdermott9976
The Russians know the game started, right?

mcdermott9976
Oh. I guess they do.

GreatDismal
RT @somebadideas: RT @Choire: So. Great. Matt Taibbi, coffee thrower. http://ow.ly/1aZ3m (via @smalera) This explains so much.

GreatDismal
I read almost all of of The Exile on the web as research for Pattern Recognition.

ColinPeters
RT: @hvyboots @oneluvgurl: Dance like the photo's not tagged, Love like you've never been unfriended, Tweet like nobody's following.

ProfBravus
First day of class, I was supposed to audio-record my lectures for distance students, but forgot. Currently lecturing to my iPhone alone...

ColinPeters
Meet Emily Howell, talented classical composer, and non-human. http://bit.ly/91uXQz (via Slashdot)

mcdermott9976
need new blogs to read...

mcdermott9976
dear twitterati, how do you keep track of all the interesting links circulated throughout the day? i'm trying a sticky note on my desktop

ProfBravus
Hmm, I'm liking iRecorderPro (or whatever the one I'm using is called) but it's annoying it can't output as mp3 - uploading massive .wav

ProfBravus
I'll compress it before I upload it for students, it's just a little annoying to have to upload it off the phone first (wifi, fortunately)

Gustavius
Still at 'er

ColinPeters
RT: @Perazza @huffmedia: WATCH Olbermann's emotional special comment: "My father asked me to kill him" http://bit.ly/biScu2

bittersweetdb
@mcdermott9976 Favorite things temporarily?

Gromit01
Official verdict - NOLA rocks.

Gromit01
On to SF tomorrow. Which will also rock, no doubt.

GreatDismal
Jazz opera from the shadow biosphere http://bit.ly/6FmgKK

fuldog
@mrphoenix Teaching trip... how convenient. I assume that previous Dubai stopover was just a coincidence... and: foiled again, @ColinPeters!

GreatDismal
Armored golf cart http://bit.ly/9a6KRV

GreatDismal
Pistol for dorks in armored golf cart http://bit.ly/bpcuum

ColinPeters
@GreatDismal What? Do you want them doing parking violation checks in *unarmored* golf carts?

ColinPeters
Avatar's awesome, except for the hippy blue cats. RT @DaveMcKean @mariocavalli http://www.youtube.com/gregmutt#p/u

ColinPeters
You could be at risk to flying polyps. Use Elder Sign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWT07iRvI9M via @EricOrchard

bluesagain
@Gromit01 Good to hear it!!

bluesagain
@LillyLyle @colinpeters Thanks for the clowns. Morning! Checking hockey and curling results after guessing from various exclamatory tweets.

GreatDismal
RT @ColinPeters: You could be at risk to flying polyps. Use Elder Sign. http://bit.ly/1Gon0y via @EricOrchard

LillyLyle
> @speakingcohen: Philip Glass talks about working with Leonard Cohen. http://bit.ly/bj2F3p

G_Robot
my husband is a silly, silly man.

LillyLyle
@mcdermott9976 Sometimes I save a long page of my twitterstream as html from my browser for viewing the links later. Easy.

bluesagain
@remotevoices @psicofante @lillilyle Birnbaum Came to me in the night. Forget which he translated but he is British I think.

evilpenguin9000
Watched Dead Snow. Plot is wafer thin, but NAZI ZOMBIES!!!!! Nuff said.

bluesagain
@remotevoices @psicofante @lillylyle Birnbaum Came to me in the night Forget which he translated but he is British I think. Corrected lilly

bluesagain
Dagens Ivar Aasen: Ein fær fylgja ein annan, til ein verd sin eigen /via @thorbjarnebore [Helt profetisk om Twitter. Aasen var vis.]

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Birnbaum came to you in the night. What an honour. He never visits me.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Sorry, that was a joke. Not quite awake

LillyLyle
> @stupendous_man: RT: @GaryDelaney AIDS was big in the 80's, that's why it's known as a retro-virus.

bluesagain
@LillyLyle I saw that one coming as I sent the tweet. You've been in the U.K. too long to miss an opportunity for clevervcomebacks :-)

LillyLyle
> @aiannucci: Ran for a train and now ache all over. Must try some of this 'Fitness' the young people go on about.

vesper_dbs
> @loresjoberg: Thought provoking discussion of the likelihood of a chimp completely ripping Bruce Lee's face off: http://bit.ly/conapY

bluesagain
True perhaps? RT @kimondo: #factualthursday PIMLICO is the only tube station name without a letter from the word (cont) http://tl.gd/bk6cg

bluesagain
@lillylyle My email is on wigber site or you could DM address for Norwegian Wood in Ika Kaminka's excellent Norwegian :-)

bluesagain
@psicofante @remotevoices @lillylyle Checked Rubin: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words: A. Birnbaum (cont) http://tl.gd/bkd61

bluesagain
@psicofante @remotevoices @lillylyle Hmmm. Dunno why I thought him British. Mr B is American. See p 304 l. translating HM in Rubin's book

Psicofante
@bluesagain I will be re-reading Murakami the coming weeks, after the impact of Norwegian Wood, so I will be able to make comparisons.

bluesagain
@Psicofante Excellent. Publish your findings :-) @colinpeters knows Japanese; on wgb, we discussed the different ways of providing syntax.

Psicofante
@bluesagain The e-mail roundtable between Rubin and Gabriel on translating Murakami in Murakami's official site. http://u.nu/4pkh6

Fimb
Doing door name plate for new office. What font to use? Comic Sans or Bradley Hand?

bluesagain
@colinpeters Doing door name plate for new office. What font to use? Comic Sans or Bradley Hand? /via @Fimb

bluesagain
@Psicofante Perfect! Thank you!

NewroUgh
urban-design, eco-concepts http://www.beautifullife.info/...design/eco-concepts/ #beautifullife

headfirstonly
Ridiculously pleased that a formerly dead memory stick has just come back to life and given me my data back.

fduncan
It's like Whistler out there this morning; can't see more'n ... ok, a couple blocks. DVR cut out in middle of 11th end; did Sweden win?

adoxography
RT @BreakingNews: UK navy intercepts Argentinean warship near Falkland Islands http://bit.ly/dmBsdT [aren't we done with this?]

fduncan
Managed to burn myself draining ramen for kidlet; good thing(?) it wasn't my screen-key thumb! #thethingswedoforlove(oframen)

doggo
Jon Stewart eviscerates credit card companies & consumer society: http://tinyurl.com/ylfejhu

Gustavius
Ever since winamp randomly played Jackie by The New Pr0nographers yesterday, a line has been stuck in my head...

Gustavius
Jackie you yourself said it best when you said: One day we'll look upon a washed up Atlantic, get our kicks on an ocean of antics...

doggo
@headfirstonly "Formerly dead memory stick"+"come back to life"=ZOMBIE MEMORY STICK! Better load the shotgun, just in case.

Gustavius
TT @CBCNB: Moncton buskers may get to juggle their balls, assorted viscera. http://bit.ly/c6v3W4 #twittytwisters

evilpenguin9000
Left phone at friends house last night. Had withdrawls. In less than 3 weeks I'm a complete smartphone addict. Sad.

LillyLyle
@doggo @headfirstonly It's a Norwegian Blue Memory Stick. It's wasn't dead, it was only pining for the fjords.

remotevoices
@Psicofante thanks. this sudden return of the snow doesn't help. but taking care!

remotevoices
@bluesagain seems just chewing up and turning to ice, and coming down again faster than it can be cleared. at least yesterday, no new today

Gustavius
I apologize for quoting song lyrics earlier. It's just that kind of morning.

remotevoices
@bluesagain oh dear "adventure surrounding sheep" would have been awful title.

fduncan
"Lease the Tesla Roadster, ... with monthly payments as low as $1658." Ooh, that's a tough choice; carbon-fiber sportscar, or mortgage?

bluesagain
@remotevoices Yup. That is literal, I suppose. But still ...

Gustavius
Quick: If I ask you to picture a plant, perhaps a flowering plant — what is the first kind of plant that you visualize?

bittersweetdb
MSY

LillyLyle
@Gustavius Camelia bush. Red flowers.

mcdermott9976
The thought of having to shovel another 15 - 20 inches of snow makes me want to cry. I cam barely move after shoveling 5" yesterday

remotevoices
RT @Rootfireember Browser history hijack + social networks = lost anonymity http://bit.ly/bqieJe

remotevoices
Kind of freaky, kind of cool RT @hifructosemag On HF: the Rope Skulls of Jim http://bit.ly/ckq9X8

Gustavius
Camelia, sunflower, fern, daisy... Wow - ok cool. For me it's a lily - stargazer lily. Thanks folks!

Fimb
Child protection training.. heart breaking

Gustavius
Feeling a little frustrated with Wordpress this morning. Something just doesn't make sense. It's probably the way I'm looking at it.

adoxography
Dealing with investor relations feel like shopping at Walmart

remotevoices
@mcdermott9976 i keep a notepad, and paste the links in, then email myself the details for follow up.

LillyLyle
@Gustavius ˙pɐǝɥ ɹnoʎ uo ƃuıpuɐʇs ʎɹʇ

LillyLyle
@mcdermott9976 You'll never make a lumberjack

Gustavius
@LillyLyle I don't think that is going to help, somehow.

remotevoices
RT @verpabunny Sometimes great art makes me feel something equal parts excitement, awe and despair. I can never quite figure out why.

remotevoices
@evilpenguin9000 watched that the other week, its pretty fun.

GreatDismal
RT @GammaCounter: "A person’s a person, no matter how small’’ - Prototype Shadow Biosphere, imagined 1954. http://bit.ly/5ZAcib

mcdermott9976
@LillyLyle 3 motrin later, and I'm ready to go...and now i know why the "lumberjack breakfast" exists...i must've burned 5000 cal yesterday

mcdermott9976
maybe we shouldn't hold whales in little tanks and fuck around with them: http://bit.ly/cyxvAp

JustinRoby
Christians like this need a bigger megaphone. RT @matt_estes RT @shapr Shane Claiborne is awesome: http://tr.im/PLbU

JustinRoby
Re: last post (but then, would Christians like Claiborne be the same? Some things work better on the fringes).

JustinRoby
@fduncan SWE won. Struggled through NBC Olympics website video to see it (I think something's borked with how they serve the commercials).

GreatDismal
RT @LittleMonsta: PINKMAN http://bit.ly/93e1bR 2D painted animation by Alberto Mielgo

GreatDismal
RT @PinkTentacle: Synesthesia - http://bit.ly/8nMnth

jwomack
Dubai: Wonder World of the Future: http://tinyurl.com/yksh5qc

fduncan
"Love is shakin' on Shakedown Street, ..." #happytunes

LillyLyle
FFS. You go away & do some work, and suddenly there are 150 new tweets to look at. *Twitterstress* #notcomplainingreally

LillyLyle
Am I the only one who thinks of Mexican food whenever Saturn's moon Enceladus is mentioned? Will there be a Taco Bell there soon?

adoxography
I really want President Obama to lay the rhetorical smack down on some biatches today

adoxography
You thought I'd miss that little trick in the operational cash flow statement Company X; your accountant mindtricks don't work on me

Gustavius
RT @GreatDismal: RT @PinkTentacle: Synesthesia - http://bit.ly/8nMnth larfz

Gustavius
Sometimes I become crisply aware of others' insecurities.

LillyLyle
@Gustavius re Synesthesia clip, as far-out as they were trying to be, it was still the female who was cooking dinner. So depressing.

Gustavius
@LillyLyle It was pretty much the nuclear ideal, right down to the furnishings and devices.

bittersweetdb
IAD

LillyLyle
@Gustavius So 1950s.

JustinRoby
Re: killer whale killing trainer: I often wonder, looking at my cat "play", why I chose to let a wild animal into my house.

LillyLyle
@JustinRoby How to know if yr cat is planning your demise: http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

Psicofante
The first day after a business trip it is impossible to get work done. Huge to do pile, some crisis waiting in hiding. Makes me feel wanted.

Psicofante
Time to leave and do something productive,like grocery shopping and maybe later write some more.

LillyLyle
Going to the @Filmhouse for supper. They're serving celluloid spaghetti and zombie sauce tonight.

LillyLyle
Going to the @Filmhouse tonight for supper. They're serving celluloid spaghetti with zombie sauce.