Tomorrow is the first annual #MegaTweetUp that will be held at Microsoft NERD. You can learn more about it at the BostonTweetUp website. There will be a large number of people from the Social media scene and a whole bunch of other stuff that Joselin Mane talks about in the video on the BostonTweetUp website.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

The lovely people from DrinkBoston are throwing a little event tomorrow at The Independent in Union Square which will feature country drinking songs, bourbon, Lone Star, and some specialty cocktails. If you’re interested in attending, you can read more about it.

from spacesick

A series of illustrations of book covers for fictional novelizations of movies.

This is really quite old, but every once in a while I’ll come across something on the internet that makes mention of this video and I absolutely love it. So I thought that I’d share it with you (if you haven’t already seen it).

I wonder why YouTube’s embed feature doesn’t give you the widescreen version by default.

This isn’t really anything in particular. This is just kind of a way to keep track of the movies that I want to see in the future. These are usually somewhat based on the trailers that I’ve seen whilst at movies.

• The Spirit — I want to see this mostly because of the stylish presentation.
• The Wrestler — I am a fan of Darren Arnofsky’s work and I’m kind of excited to see how he worked with Mickey Rourke.
• The Soloist — Robert Downey Jr. is back on the scene and Jamie Foxx once again shows his range as an actor.
• Gran Torino — I have a soft spot for grumpy old men.

Thanks to the Soloist trailer, I’ve learned that I absolutely love Yo Yo Ma’s renditions of Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major.

I still get kids’ diseases.

I’m currently suffering through what appears to be an ear infection. At least that’s what the doctors tell me, and frankly I’m more than happy to take that diagnosis at face value. While I was clasping my face in pain earlier this week I was checking around on various medical sites for reasons for my discomfort and one of the things that I came up with that seemingly fit my problems (but I know better than to self-diagnose) was Temporomandibular Disorder. This is a condition where the temporomandibular muscles or the temporomandibular joint become inflamed causing swelling in the ear canal and the inability to fully open one’s jaw. In severe case the mouth can actually be locked shut. There isn’t any “cure” for it since it’s a disorder and mostly managing it through pain management until it goes away on it’s own. Lets just say, I don’t like disorders and I would be seriously sad panda if that were the case. But the pain seems to be subsiding now, and I’m nearly finished my antibiotics so I’m going to go with that it was an ear infection and just leave it at that.

Apparently someone thought that it’d be nice to go through my mail and steal the DVDs I received from Netflix.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving.

I’ve been having a ton of issues with my web host the last few weeks and I’ve had enough. I pay way too much a year to have to deal with this BS so that’s it. I’m done.

If you have any suggestions for decent web -hosts, please drop me a line.

Apparently, I must have pissed someone off or something. This morning I came out side to find out that my car had been keyed along the drivers side read panel and door.

I haven’t even had the car long enough to scratch it up myself. I would think that I had earned the right to beat up my own car before some asshole comes along and does it for me.

On a side note, I’ve officially reached adulthood — I’ve filed my first police report. Ugh.

I’ve noticed that during this campaign quite a few self-identified republicans have spewed quite a bit of invective at democrats and Senator Obama. I don’t quite understand why it is they can never seem to at least be somewhat reasoned or least less frothy. Had it been the case that Senator McCain would have won the election, I wouldn’t be on message boards shouting from the rafters about my hate for the man (because I don’t hate him). It’s commonly known that the conservative base is primarily composed of evangelicals so I would think they’d at least try and live by the guidelines set out by the book that they proclaim to love. As an example, here are some examples of the posts from a video on Facebook posted by The New York Times:

A lot of these responses were phrased as an answer to the question: What is the first thing that President Obama should do when he gets into office? Note: I am printing the names of the owners of these statements. If you say it, you should be willing to stand by it.

Matt of West Boylston Junior High School wrote: kill himself
How very mature?

Numerous people wrote:

Resign.

Quite a few included, that he should resign and appoint McCain as President. Article Two of the Constitution doesn’t really allow that.

Kevin of Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX wrote:

The first thing obama should do is admit he is a racist and resign

Racist in what way? Is he racist against white people? If so, then he must harbor some pretty intense identity issues.

Zach of Logan, UT wrote: what he is a murder and a liar and now i can officailly say that i hate the president of the united States and not feel bad about it…
Keeping it classy, Utah.

Melissa of Wallace Community College wrote:

hes the worst candidate for the job and the beautiful nation that we know now will ceased to exist

It’s pretty hard for one man to completely destroy a Government. That takes an act of Congress.

And so on and so forth. It kind of makes me a bit ill.