• #Earthquake in #LA. #
• #USGS showing that the #SoCal/#LA #earthquake was magnitude 4.4 at 4:04 in #PicoRivera, about 15 km from where I live http://tr.im/S4xX #
• Surgeon described #DavidBeckham's #AchillesTendon as "totally torn". I can't not hear that in a #Valley accent. http://tr.im/S5cU #football #
• #BetterThanEzra's "This Time of Year" just came on shuffle. Yay for happy #music! #

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• Friends say it's darkest before the sun rises. Pretty sure they're all wrong. #MountainGoats #

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• I made a smart-ass joke yesterday about "They're both still alive?!" about The Two Coreys. Corey Haim died today, and I feel like a jerk. #

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• #Ubuntu just provided an "Important security update" to *sudo*. Not cool. Not something you want vulnerable. Buffer overflow? I hate #c.   #

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• Damn it. Stuart Holden broke his leg. Poor guy, poor US team. http://tr.im/QDFC #StuartHolden #football #soccer #
• One.org just said that "55 senators are on Twitter, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats." Um – no 0.5 senators left; Strom's dead #
• My #LG #phone plays a long sound file to confirm when I silence it. What bright engineer's idea was that? #
• has a screaming bitch of an #MSG headache. That's one more restaurant I can't go to any longer. #
• I don't think I've yet opined about the awesome "F♯ A♯ ∞" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Gods I love that album. #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor #
• Actually, I'll trade anyone a listen of their album of choice for a listen to that #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor album. Impossibly awesome. #

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• Anyone else feel that a hard-boiled #egg is more filling than a scrambled egg?  Why would that be? Just water content? #
• Sob story: 120GB #iPod, only 8GB left, and that's only studio albums; no #concert recordings. 120GB is apparently only 314 days of music.   #
• In related #iPod woes, what do I now do with >100kg of #CDs? Can't ethically sell them, can't logistically store them, & hate trashing them. #
• With #Amazon's new "Media Library", their exhaustive record of my purchases goes back to *1999*. Not sure I like that. #
• is so fucking mad right now that he feels like throwing up and can't even be distracted by junk food TV on Hulu. I hate people. All of them. #
• .@tallyhall Los Angeles please. #TallyHall #
• RT @AtheistHitSquad Waterproof? http://ow.ly/1e0ll (This argument NEVER OCCURRED TO ME, and I feel really dumb now.) #
• #Tangerinegate http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/comedy/2010/03/tangerinegate-by-robert-popper.shtml #
• has now chilled out, having immersed himself in dumb Twitter memes, attempts at cleverness, and mockery of theists for half an hour. #

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• If any of my #Facebook friends receive money solicitations, they are from a hacker, not me. (mcgees.org on FB) #
• Given that the Web really is [mb]illions of monkeys on equivalent keyboards, how long until we get our own Hamlet? (Probably not new joke?) #

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• People who use "#herbal" and "#homeopathic" interchangeably frustrate me. That's like confusing "Prozac" and "distilled water". #
• Watching Polish subtitles again. Line: "… Nobel prize for jerk-offs." HAD to learn this. Translation: draństwo. Round-trip: meanness.   #

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• Just thought: "Once again, my email volume plummets on Friday nights! Why in the WORLD would that be?!" (#YouMightBeANerdIf?) #
• Did you hear about the #Polish production of #Dracula? They called him "Blad the Impaler" — but that was just an "error"  http://tr.im/PZcq #
• (Yes, that was me trying to go meta on a Polish joke.  Subtitles rawk.  Translations, too.  We'll see from the flames how well I did.) #
• is so tired he can't sleep. And is completely without pennyroyal tea. #

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• "Ram"?! Ram the motherfucker in like it's the fucking golden spike. Take names. This ends now. http://tr.im/PQua #hc09 #hc10 #p2 #
• "No other cast member to receive more favorable dressing facilities"? Is #UmaThurman in the fourth grade? http://tr.im/PQDA #

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• Car is blocking roadway in movie. Line: "That must be the guy whose car I talked to on the phone." #
• Sorry to my #UK friends, but I just ordered from overseas, and I LOVE how week the #pound is! #

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It’s been a while (2.83 years) since I gave an update of the number of countries or territories I’ve “collected” as visitors to mcgees.org.  According to Google Analytics, the source I now trust, it’s now at 164, including some gems such as Libya, Kyrgyzstan, Réunion, and now (woo-hoo!) Kiribati.

23 of these territories visited only once.

Here’s the data.  If you find anything interesting, or want to find out what any given location was looking for or at, let me know.  I find all this fascinating.  I think it’s some of the stamp collecting itch.

• My #laptop runs hotter than #HalleBerry in bed with #IreneJacob. New power supply might help(?). #

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• Is #JohnnieWalker Red like 1/3 Caol Ila now? Egads. Where's the #Talisker?! Too valuable, probably. Damn #ClassicMalts. #whisky #scotch #
• just discovered what a #Google #Sidewiki is via a combination of clicks I don't know how to repeat. #

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I have disabled CAPTCHA challenge-response.  Also, I’ve edited the code of the OpenID plugin so that the checkbox is unchecked by default.  Good?

• My next financial instrument purchased will be an on-sale mattress from the local store. Guaranteed 0.00% yield; better than most, yes? #

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• just had X flat-out crash on me for the first time maybe ever. #

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Oh, hello.  mcgees.org just turned ten years old — on 2010-01-18.  I had been so focused on the blog’s tenth birthday that I forgot this one.  So the aforementioned “Definitive Songs” project I will issue as a CD, in a limited edition, to the contributors of the first 80 minutes of tracks, and I’ll distribute it free to the people who contribute to the list.  This also suggests I should cap the track length.  8 minutes?

With the speed at which I work, they should be ready — round about 2010-12-15, the tenth anniversary of the blog.

• #UK government #travel advice for the #US: http://bit.ly/aVJoCL (includes: carry $1M in medical insurance, don't sleep in cars) #

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• .@BrentSpiner Did you see the public retraction of The Lancet's #vaccine / #autism link? Three cheers for real science! http://bit.ly/b265Ix #

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• Since #Ubuntu has decided to be all "legal, ethical & shit" in #Karmic, here is how to enable #AAC encoding in #ffmpeg: http://bit.ly/cWCSoV #

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• I get (tiresome) queries as to why I am so negative regarding #religion. Exploration of one of MANY reasons: http://bit.ly/bL4zRB #atheism #

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• I may be unable to watch #JonahHex simply due to #MeganFox's torturous corset. :-/ 20" at the outside. http://bit.ly/bWRK34 @realmfox #
• Gah. Researching that last tweet, http://shiantology.com/. Poor kid. Could we just throw everyone who runs celeb fan sites in prison? #
• So gross I can't even joke. "Edgy appeal" does not belong ANYWHERE NEAR a description of children's underwear. http://bit.ly/aO70Xd #

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• 2010-01-28 17:08:00 GMT-8: #Inbox 7371 #inboxzero #inbox0 #

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• Oh wow, is #Tanqueray #Rangpur (lime) #gin amazing.  Yum — and dangerously smooth; drinks like soda. #
• Still watching it, but it will be simple genre bigotry if #Halloween2 doesn't get an #Oscar nomination for best makeup #horror #movies #film #

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• #TheSmokingGun's (unexpected) expose of @Wyclef Jean re (alleged-by-them) malfeasance w.r.t. #Haiti charity. http://bit.ly/7ptOTi @tsgnews #

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• Entirety of user-contributed #Yelp restaurant review: "sav urself some $ by goin during happy hour." http://bit.ly/8poa6J #
• The #Republican argument is that corporate attack-ad spending is protected speech and an individual's burning of a flag isn't? #
• We shouldn't care about #Leno vs. #Conan, but we should care about your article explaining why we shouldn't care? http://bit.ly/6CTI5T #
• My space heater just melted my computer speaker. Not a joke. Whoops. #

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• McGee's Ninth Law: Alienating half your potential audience quadruples the respect from the other half. http://www.mcgees.org/the-laws/#9 #
• Tomorrow, overflow #closegitmo with a message to @BarackObama @Whitehouse. #guantanomo #p2 #
• OFFS. #Mongolia has mothballed the #deathpenalty. The country of Genghis Kahn is more liberal than the U.S. now. http://ow.ly/WA7s #
• When I started http://mcgees.org, I urged people to check out #Google, as no one knew what it was. What's an "Internet year"? A century? #
• They forgive everything but greatness. These are scoundrel days. — a-ha #aha #music #
• Valu-Mart in San Gabriel, CA is selling bottles of 151° rum for $7.99. In related news, I am drinking too much 151° rum. #

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• McGee's Ninth Law: Alienating half your potential audience quadruples the respect from the other half. http://www.mcgees.org/the-laws/#9 #

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• Recall of some Motrin, Tylenol, Benadryl, Rolaids, Simply Sleep, and St. Joseph products: http://bit.ly/63k5Py Please RT #
• #LandonDonovan's #Everton shut outs #ManchesterCity http://bit.ly/7ZrI92 w00t! #football #soccer #ManCity #

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