Friday Fifteen: Lebowski Fest Week

The Friday Fifteen is evolving already in only it's 2nd edition... I've added topic headings.

Public

1. Read/WriteWeb does it again with a list of 35 lifestreaming apps. And what is this blog without a link to something about Lifestreaming?

2. Hulu has Deleted Scenes from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. That's the kind of stuff that these Internets are made for.

3. How come Amazon doesn't let me add MP3 and Unbox Video downloads to my Wish List? One explanation would be that people are supposed to buy stuff for you off your Wishlist, and since the MP3s and Videos are usually downloaded to your computer immediately, you're supposed to be buying them for yourself. For the MP3s, though, since they're DRM free, my friend could buy it off my Wishlist and then email it to me. Or burn it on a CD and give it to me. Or make me a USB Mixtape.

4. So evidently, the reason that I'm not able to log in with "nelswadycki" as a Google Account user name is because I already registered "nels.wadycki" and Google just goes ahead and ignores the "." in the user name. Something could have been brought to my attention yesterday! I knew I was getting email at nelswadyckiATgmail... but I could never log in with that name. Well, problem solved... sort of. See, I actually prefer nelswadycki to nwadycki (there's my one OCD moment), so I've been switching everything over to nelswadycki now... at least Google makes it very easy to share stuff with your friends (or in this case, yourself).

5. I was part of the digital revolution yesterday. I bought the new Nine Inch Nails "Ghosts" album off Amazon. I've listened to it once through (albeit while working), and out of the 4 Ghosts, I like 2 of them, and the other 2 I'm okay with, but not excited about or anything. Anyone want to guess which are the 2 ghosts that I like?

Pointless

6. She doesn't post to it often, but Elizabeth Bear has a category called "entropy requires no maintenance. Nice.

7. Now just stare off into space for a second.

8. This spot reserved for stuff that should be on Give Me The Rock, but is a little too random to get over there. This one is Benny the Bull on Jerry Springer. Evidently they show this during half time. I've been to 2 Bulls games this year, and didn't see it either time. Some day... season tickets... some day...

9. More random videoness from Chicagoist: Hipster Girl. It's not all that funny, but it's clever enough. And come on, it's Friday. You have something better to do?

Personal

10. I was really happy to see the Bulls win last night without Tyrus Thomas. Cause that means he won't play ever again. Which is certainly good for the team. And his confidence. And all that. At least Joakim is living up to his potential.

11. Since I'm going, here's an interview with the guy who the Chicago Lebowski Fest.

12. Since I don't include Give Me The Rock in any of my Lifestreams, here's a link to a post I wrote about the changing world of basketball. The scary part is it's about Kobe Bryant.

13. Another blog (in my ever-expanding blogging empire) that is not in any of my Lifestreams is the America's Next Top Model blog. Here's a post I wrote yesterday about the show on Wednesday. If you don't watch the show, you don't need to click on the link.

14. Writing (and blogging about writing) was going really well up until this week, when I've written a grand total of 80 words. Of course, that doesn't include the previous blog posts from GMTR and ANTMBlog... but those can't really be turned into a novel, now can they?

15. Could I be any more ready for Spring? The answer is: no. Probably not.