Here's what's been happening in the Land o' Mur since my last post (and sorry for not being better at keeping you up-to-date, and also sorry for assuming that you all are sitting around waiting to be kept up-to-date on Land o' Mur happenings).

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There is a new app for Facebbok called If I Die. You record a video, upload it, and when, upon your death, your Facebook is flagged, the app kicks into gear, sending your video to three trustees you have selected from your friends list to be redistributed amongst your friends.

1. I am absolutely doing this.
2. Yes, I am serious.
   
3. I am acquiring a Jedi ( Read more... )

Portal came out in 2007. I've owned since around then, but only got around to playing it recently. What a hoot! Both hilarious and ominous throughout, the tone of the game is captured nicely in the ending song, sung by the computer as the credits roll ( Read more... )

I just found this on the Interwebs:


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So very hep!

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( Pictures of this year's Halloween costume behind the cut )

As most of you know, my YouTube handle is PearShapedJedi. I have just modified my channel logo, as follows:

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Yeah, that's how I roll now.

Juuuuust in case you thought I was kidding...


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Feel free to skip this post: to the majority, I suspect it will sound like great-grandpa complaining how talkies ruined the silent cinema, or how video killed the radio star ( Read more... )

I like these "Improv Anywhere" guys (they're the ones that fairly recently staged the Ghostbusters raid on the New York Public Library).

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That's far more awesome than anything I've ever seen on my daily commute.