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The blog of Andy Ihnatko, internationally-beloved technology pundit.

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-08Yesterday

The main selling point of a cast-iron skillet: you can fry 1/2 lb of bacon and tell yourself "I'm just seasoning my cookware." #
The only way you can consider an NFL game to be "action-packed" is if you act like the players get points for milling about. #
I don't think any Super Bowl ad this year will top this one for the Letterman show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSKkmypTZM #
Hate to sound like such a Guy, but my biggest reax to the Google ad was "Hey! 'Who is The Stig?' was one of the auto-completes!" #
How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together Â» NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/bduMRq (thanks, @joelhousman!) #

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-07February 7

I feel like such a grownup. I want to scold this college kid: "You can't be out in jeans & a Bruins jersey! It's 20 degrees!!!" #

Now testing a DIFFERENT WordPress Twitter plugin.February 6

Okay, I can’t get the first Twitter plugin working. So I’ve moved on to a different one: Twitter Tools. Let’s see how well this one works.

Oh, and based on a quick reaction to that previous post: as much as I’d love to spread the rumor that I already have an iPad…no, the thing I Probably Can’t Talk About wot I used with which to make that last post wasn’t an iPad.

To make it up to you, here are a couple more distracting photos:

Testing with Cows and LionsFebruary 6

Don’t mind me, folks: I’m just testing two things. First, this Wordpress plugin I’ve just installed, which automatically Tweets links to new posts (I thought I’d set it up properly, but apparently I needed to configure it with a special API for the linky-linky), and secondly…

…

…Mmm, no, I don’t think I’m allowed to talk about what I’m writing and posting this with.

Hey, look! A distracting photo!

Analog IMDBFebruary 5

I was at my usual comix retail establishment, engaged in one of our usual high-level cultural debates, when the talk inevitably turned to the subject of Burt Reynolds’ late oeuvre. We were exploring the fascinating dichotomy between his Hairpiece movies (which are usually very bad) and his No Hairpiece movies or (which are usually good or even very good).

We had already dispensed with “Boogie Nights,” agreeing that for the purposes of our discussion, a hairpiece which was age-appropriate in both color and hairline would be regarded as a “No Hairpiece” production.

“He was pretty good in that movie he was in about ten years ago,” someone said. “He’s a retired burglar, and he starts teaching this young crook…damn, I can’t think of the title…”

Instinctively I reached for my iPhone and prepared to launch IMDB. But before I’d thumbed the button to wake the screen, Steve (the store’s proprietor) had fished a copy of the Leonard Maltin Film Guide from behind the counter and began flipping through it:

This book is not unfamiliar to me. I used to keep current with all of the master movie reference books: your Roger Ebert guide and your Halliwell guide and your Psychotronic guide, et al. I bought a fresh copy every time any of these were updated and kept them on