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Tuesday March 09, 2010 at 13:43

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I won the Nexus One contest!

Double special thanks the the folks behind NexusOneNews!

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Tuesday March 09, 2010 at 9:12

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Nexus One Giveaway: Making a list, checking it twice

nexusonenews:

Later today I’ll be announcing the winner of our second Nexus One giveaway and have been browsing through our twitter favourites to try to put together a bit of a short-list. This list isn’t by any means final of course - there’s still a few hours to go before the 5pm GMT deadline, but with so many entries I thought I needed to start narrowing things down a bit. And maybe provide a bit of inspiration for anyone else who wants to take part. So here in no particular order is what’s caught my attention so far:

Rick puts a nice spin on the Nexus One giveaway…

as does Manish, with another angle entirely

Lewis Franck pokes some fun at one of our headlines

Jennifer - Yes I am susceptible to complements:)

Destry Wion - Not sure if I completely understand what this means but worth a mention for the Bladerunner reference.

Paolo - not sure about how sound the theology is here, but like the rhyme.

Teodor - wild imagination. One of our posts not good enough - he’s gone and made-up one of his own.

Goncalo - Ok, so I still have a weakness for compliments.

Steven - Nice. Summarises the post in just 4 words.

Rick - Another example of a much better headline for one of our posts.

James Guzikowski - 4 million?

Jason - not sure why, but sounds like a good idea.

Jorge - I was hoping for the former, but starting to think I might just be the crazy guy.

MadGerald(private) - get the Whole World in Your Hand.. Google Earth has just appeared in the Android Market.http://bit.ly/ap6Yi7”

This is a small sample of how diverse the re-tweets have been and also gives an idea of how difficult it’s going to be for me to pick a winner. I have to admit I haven’t seen anything yet that is so good that it just has to win so there’s still time to come up with something special. Whatever happens it’s clearly going to be a tricky decision and I’ll be continuing to search through our mentions during the course of today to find the re-tweet that will rule them all. Good luck everyone!

Awesome. Looks like I have a chance to win this. Cross your fingers!

Reblogged from NexusOne News.

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Monday March 08, 2010 at 10:41

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Tom Petty Cincy Weekend Update

Tickets to the Riverbend show on Thursday, July 15, go on sale to the general public in a week. The plan is rock out and then terrorize the city through the weekend. Baumann has promised to ride the mechanical bull at Cadillac Ranch.

Because of the number of people and the limited amount of pre-sale tickets, here’s how the seat grouping plays out.

Confirmed Group A

Me
Tiff
B.A. (B.A. signed on first so he gets the two closer tickets)
Jenn

Confirmed Group B

Baumann

Possible Group B

Chad H.
Crystal B.
Taco
Monsi
Lisa S.

If we can confirm group B by the weekend, we can get the tickets the morning they go on sale to the general public and the seats most likely won’t be all that far away from Group A. We could probably intermingle the groups during the show. If group B wants to go cheaper, they can even agree to get lawn seats.

Let me know if you’re in as soon as possible.

(photo via imageevent)

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Monday March 08, 2010 at 9:54

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Ineptitude of the traveling jacket

Baumann was in rare form during Friday night’s poker league game. He had been drinking for a good portion of the afternoon in preparation for a second date with a [dancer] he scheduled for 9:30. He was plastered by the third deal and seemed to make it a point to insult every person at the table.

Mine was, “Oh yeah [Rick], why don’t you go make a post about eating a hamburger?”

When he got knocked out of the game — first — he called his date.

“Hello, this is Baumann!” he announced in his hoarse, smashed, teeth-grinding glee.

“What?” You heard the girl ask meekly.

“This is Baumann!” he screamed.

He went in the bathroom, pissed on the floor, grabbed his jacket and took off.

Unluckily for me, it was my jacket. I took his home, which fits me like a leather Snuggie, that night so we could trade back over the weekend.

I called him on Saturday afternoon to arrange the tradeoff and he didn’t have the jacket. He left the jacket at his friend Chrisman’s house in Lancaster and that I may get it on Monday.

Annoyed by his current and habitual disregard for other people’s things, I told him it was bullshit and that he would have the jacket to me by Sunday at the latest and got off the phone.

Only minutes after the phone call via text:

Baumann: Be careful with my jacket its a van heusen

Me: i just shit on it

Baumann: I bet your wearin it right know

Me: i left it at a friend’s in stow

Baumann: No u didn’t.. Your wearin it

Baumann @ 2:07 a.m.: Ive been tryin to reach chrisman all night he has ur jacket.. Im tryin the best i can to get it for you but i cant get ahold of him..

Me on Sunday afternoon: try harder

Baumann: Ill try the best i can

Me: why wouldnt he respond? go get it.

Baumann: What am i supposed to do.. Bust a window and break into his house..

I still don’t have the jacket.

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