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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-05-15

  • $25 for $50 Worth of Running Shoes, Apparel, and More at Running Room. Two … http://t.co/2j2Zia9 #
  • Truly genius satire. Even the comments are brilliant. Lord Vader: Obi-Wan is dead. http://t.co/1c896So #
  • The iPad 2 is faster than a Cray 2 (the world's fastest computer in 1984), and would be in the top 10 until 1996! #
  • 6am you and I are NOT friends! You can go STRAIGHT to hell! Stupid 6am. Nobody really likes you. Oh now don't start crying. #
  • Thor was not a bad movie. Thor in 3D was a fuzzy, jumbly mess that should not be seen. 3D should go back to the 1950's. #
  • Annual @wired iPad subscriptions for only $20.00 a year? SOLD! #
  • Just finished reading Snow by @benjaminrivers Bitter Sweet and makes me miss Toronto. http://t.co/4ii76jv comic.com #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-05-08

  • Read SNOW – A graphic novel set in Toronto by @BenjaminRivers. Check out http://www.snowcomic.com for print AND digital versions! #
  • OH NO!!! Microsoft needs me to verify my account. All I need to do is email my password and username!

    Stupid phishermen. #

  • It's Free Comic Book Day! Get your kids out to a local comic shop today. http://www.freecomicbookday.com/ #freecomicbookday #
  • Our Lady Peace is recording their eighth studio album live on UStream. http://bit.ly/li1Vxk So awesome! #
  • Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes, he saved 800 lives…I dare you to do better.
    AKA Dear you: Be better #
  • Fast Five (Fastest and Furiousest) was good, stupid fun! #
  • It's 2011, and yet the Drudge Report still sports all of the style of web design in 1996. Discuss.
    http://www.drudgereport.com/ #
  • Settle down folks. Harper + Layton = fiscally responsible socially conscious Canada. #
  • Your best? Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen. Where's Sean Connery now? #
  • What does this "First past the post is broken." mean? There are no "participation" badges in life, you win or lose. #
  • The Globe and Mail's elections dashboard is pretty great this year! http://bit.ly/mFFmeF Cool to see votes come in like this. #
  • With 30 of 209 polls reporting in one riding, the Conservatives are 9 votes ahead, and yet they're declaring the riding? The night is young! #
  • I have a feeling the CBC is about to get its ass handed to it for delivering poll results 30 minutes early! #
  • Just voted, and the ballot box was jammed full! #anewsvote #cdnpoli #
  • Maks fell out of our bed an hour and a half ago and woke me up terrified. #stillawake #
  • Let's not forget the tragedy here: via @AlbertBrooks: All my Bin Laden jokes are shit now. #
  • Montreal: GSP got crap for not finishing a one eyed Koschek.

    Toronto: a one-eyed GSP gets crap for not finishing Shields. #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-05-01

  • Machita with a Silva straight kick for the KO to retire Couture! So much energy here! #UFC129 #
  • The first UFC in Montreal was insanely loud. The undercard has already beaten it. Unbelievable! #ufc129 #
  • Heading to Toronto to witness 55,000 maniacs blow the roof off the Skydome (pronounced "Roger's Centre"). #UFC129 #
  • Things I never thought I'd have to say; You two stop drinking the pee water out of a construction hat. #
  • Yay, the @FastMac USB power outlets I ordered a year ago are finally shipping!  #
  • Ahhh there it is. I was wondering when that other shoe would drop. I'm actually relieved to know how my summer will be ruined. #
  • Left London at 7, arrived in Toronto at 10. Drove through fog for half. Now a thunderstorm on the way. Hrm. #
  • I may have taken out the IT Department singlehandedly with my Viral Plague of Doom. #
  • Just discovered I can Bluetooth tether my iPad to my iPhone 3GS. Tech circle complete! #
  • Checked out the channel, average video gets 25 views. Filled with things like "Why are parents so annoying?", and "Unboxing of free stuff" #
  • Latest request for All New Comics to send a kid some free comics so we could get reviewed her their YouTube channel. #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-24

  • Just did a shot of NyQuil and followed it with a ginger-ale chaser! #hardcore #
  • Star Wars Episode V Retold in Iconoscope http://zite.to/hMzGYq via @Ziteapp #
  • When did Tumblr (which was dead 18 months ago) suddenly become the new "it thing" again? #
  • Having two children, I totally understand how difficult brokering peace in the middle east must be. Mission unpossible! #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-17

  • Maks: Can I pretend that your Star Wars action figures are my Star Wars Action Figures, and play with them PLEASE?!? #
  • Netflix just keeps getting better. The IT Crowd now available for streaming! #
  • Blood successfully removed without puncturing a vein this time!!! #
  • I love the sheer attitude you get from medical receptionists these days. It must be a pre-requisite to be a jerk. #
  • ShamesBall is the greatest sport known to man! #
  • Now that it's over, I would like to congratulate Wednesday for not being utterly crapulent! Thursday, you've got big shoes to fill. #
  • Final Cut Pro X released, price drops to $299…video editing gets tons sexier! http://t.co/hOD8m7B #
  • So despite the largely unimpressed sentiments with Harper / Ignatieff, and pro Layton, Conservatives still lead #db8 #
  • The Toronto municipal elections taught me that social media users are left wing, larger population is right wing. #db8 #
  • How long until Cisco buys (and shutters) EyeFi, Harmony, Chumby, and TiVo? (dumb exec voice) "Trying to find synergies." #
  • Cisco built exactly the WRONG cameras when they took over Flip. Why can't I send my Flip videos to my PC via WiFi? #
  • What a shame. We own 2 Flip Cameras, and love them. Another thing a big business has screwed up. http://t.co/Hk4wWa1 #
  • Haven't followed WWE for a couple of years now, but I did backstage video with Edge when he was a rookie. Sad he's retiring due to injury. #
  • Watching Clone Wars this morning, Maks said to me: "We already have a Muff Tarkin!", I didn't even know Grand Moff Tarkin was on the show. #
  • I'm gettin' my wood on right now. Yeah, that's what I said, stop being so dirty! #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-10

  • This is the first time I've missed a HobbyStar show in 4 years. Feels weird. #FanApp #
  • Dear Small Businesses: You cannot replace a web presence with a Facebook Fan Page. The Internet, You're Doing It Wrong. #
  • Wow, I'd heard the rumours that Ron of the Silver Snail was retiring…but seeing it in writing hits home. http://t.co/ZwtfW1m #
  • I know that this is everything that's wrong with the world, but I LOVE the SuckerPunch soundtrack. #IKindOfHateMyself #
  • Holy crap. If my math is correct, All New Comics accounted for .29% of Diamond's overall revenue. That puts us in the top 1000 accounts. #
  • My train is going to be 40 minutes late. Well this is a fine kettle of fish! #
  • Atari Brings 100 Retro Titles to iOS in "Atari's Greatest Hits"! http://v.zite.com/dEy0gu – these games weren't good…but I'm excited! #
  • At the Agile Comes To You seminar in Toronto this morning. #agile2u #
  • Dear 5:30am. You and I are not, and never shall be, friends. #
  • If this iPad changes my name to "Bria stars de" ONE MORE FRIGGING TIME, I'm going to have words with Mr. jobs! #
  • How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) http://v.zite.com/eVuyCY via @Ziteapp #
  • Suckerpunch was good mindless fun, and while it was a shallow, slow mo visual effects orgy, I was entertained for 2hrs. #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-03

  • My team created a mobile website in 24hrs, so of course we won IT Innovation day! #
  • I found this in a time capsule! http://t.co/oUKja4c #
  • What am I doing right now? I'm holed up with a giant. We're making magic, fool! #
  • May I just sincerely say…"blerg"?

    Blerg. #

  • THEY BROUGHT PIE!!! #
  • Netflix added Exit Through The Gift Shop and Iron Man 2 this week! Plus they reduced the amount of bandwidth video uses by 2/3 #
  • I currently have no fewer than 5 draft blog posts waiting in the wings, but I'm waiting for various announcements to post them. Blerg. #
  • We chose The Lincoln Lawyer over Suckerpunch tonight. I think we made the right decision, because our movie was good! #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-27

  • The iPad2 is an improvement on an already great device. The cover however SUCKS!!! Keep accidentally pulling mine off. #
  • Good news, got my iPad 2 spot. Bad news, 1per customer. #
  • Why do we spend less on Music and Movies these days? My Rogers bill (which was $50 in 2001) is $270 today. #
  • My evil 13 year plan to get Char to read comics bore fruit today when she Facebooked her love of "Bayou" and "Stitches"! #
  • HOME FREE!!! Officially fully healed, nearly full strength and range of motion! No more doctors for me! #
  • Screw you @applecanada launching a product at 5pm is straight up a dick move. #
  • I left my boots at work. Damn you snow! #
  • Just spoke to Fanshawe's multimedia students about getting hired. A great class with tons of bright minds! #
  • There is a disturbance in the force, as if the collective productivity of millions suddenly vanished; Angry Birds Rio is out. #
  • Just took my Jack3d, now I'm going to get my swell on. When next I facetweet, I'll be collecting tickets…for the gun show. #
  • That was a good night of UFC fights! Plus they announced that shows would start at 9 instead of 10 for us oldies! #UFC #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-20

  • I wish I could translate the website designs from my brain that I draw on paper more literally with HTML, the quirky energy is getting lost. #
  • COMICS!!!!!! out with the kids! #
  • Who wants to help a brother out? I have a hard drive from my Windows Home Server that I can't mount at all. I fear she may be dead. #
  • Dear NYTimes, paywall for news = dumb. We tried this a decade ago with TSNMAX and it failed. News is out there for free. #
  • I need to do a system restore on this thing? And I need to do it from a Windows machine? Damnit. #
  • OMFG, last month my Media Center stopped responding. This week it's my Home Server. Microsoft, you and I are no longer friends! #
  • Happy St Patrick's day to my little boy Maks O'Brian Garside. The only Irish one in our family. #
  • Damn it! The clock in my basement office is still off by an hour! Nothing like losing an hour TWICE in one week! #
  • Underworld and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are now on Netflix! http://t.co/sgQ8ofH #
  • The Zune declared dead by Microsoft. Too bad, it was a very good MP3 player with much better software than iTunes. #
  • The soundtracks for The Social Network and Tron are the soundtracks of the projects I work on these days. #
  • I'm doing my part to get IE6 to 1% http://bit.ly/ie6countdown #ie6countdown #

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Brian’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-13

  • From the Playbook's music store video it look like they made a decent music store with cloud storage! Apple, pay attention! #
  • The best vacation gift of all is that the Kindle just notified me that The Thank You Economy by @garyvee is ready to download! #
  • You really need to be reading Morning Glories! Volume 1 is less than ten bucks! http://t.co/nEFh68r #
  • Sometimes I'm so divinely inspired that it shocks me. I'm awed by the cards fate has played me. #
  • Blockbuster just emailed me about my brand new Status Page. The internet welcomes Blockbuster to 2005! #winning #
  • Routing wood makes me happy :) #
  • $15 for $30 Worth of Comic Books, Collectibles and More at The Comic Book Collector in London Ontario http://bit.ly/idz2kt #
  • Improperly sized ads, interstitials and obtrusive animated advertising on every page of lfpress.com – You're doing it wrong. #
  • Watching the final half dozen episodes of Dollhouse on Netflix. Why is TV better when it's streaming commercial free? #
  • An awesome website that tells you the latest releases on Netflix Canada. http://t.co/sgQ8ofH (thanks to Liam). #

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