This could very well be the greatest episode of the Rubenerd Show of all time. Even though Into Your Head has a spiffy new layout, it just can’t compete with the quality and intelligent discourse of this episode.

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Clock and calendar silliness; the Queen’s Birthday isn’t the Queen’s Birthday; Queen Elizabeth’s mugshot on Australian coins; blogging about FreeBSD desktop background managers; the de facto one episode a month show; people whinging about too many blog posts; Zombie Plan on useless tweets; MannyTheMailman’s brand new air conditioner; Asia Pacific being ahead of Hawaii; iPhone Apple WWDC speculation; Neal O’Carroll and I suing for the iTelephone name; Elke’s lack of tweets; the world is flat; illegal Dutch pot scenarios and zombies eating skittles.

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Scaring people who think I’m a chick (ha!); late Friday night train journeys; nostalgia for 2007 Twitterland with Twitterrific; TwitterFon inserting advertisements; moving over to Tweetie on the iTelephone; obsessively using the huge but efficient TweetDeck; and the spectacular cost of mobile phone company text messages!

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The reason why people hate the iPhone’s keyboard is the reason why I love it; Riverdance keyboard typists; the fun of being a shy introvert; evening walks around Mawson Lakes; the Australian Bicentennial; childhood steam locomotive nostalgia; the New South Wales 3801 streamliner and the Victorian R761; and obsessively wearing out VHS tapes!

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Fun with dealing with broken corrupt backups, misleadingly labelled auto rent payments and my former webhost Servage now that I’m safely typing this from Segment Publishing!

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Back in Adelaide again; losing control of RubenerdShow.com for some reason; losing an episode source file again; a silly proposal for an onomatopoeic word to describe places; reminiscing about family trips to Ubud in Bali; our end of year holiday to Singapore; food poisoning isn’t as fun as the brochure said; our new family Christmas holiday ritual; story behind my beautiful shiny new Nikon D60 instead of getting a D40 or D40x; remembering I’m supposed to be keeping episodes under 20 minutes; and a lousy joke about wishing I had Nikon VR on my person!

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Terribly good jokes told by people who can’t tell jokes; Barack Obama’s inauguration on TV; relieved farewell to Dubbya; more relieved Sarah Palin didn’t win than Barack did; silly thing John McCain said; the American founding fathers; Thomas Jefferson on church and state; getting a Nikon D60 for Christmas; pixel density is more important then megapixels; my old FinePix S9600; how bridge cameras compare to real single lens reflex (SLR) cameras; realising shows shouldn’t be recorded at 2am; an exciting new hobby and discovering green tea is… green tea!

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You’ve joined me at a tremendously exciting moment; unabashedly ripping off IntoYourHead; microwaving coffee after I said you shouldn’t; Family Guy; Germans can make better Christmas food than the French; family trip to Europe in 1998; asking for the bathroom with sign language; Frankfurt am Main; time speeding up as you get older; Melbourne since 1990; remembering primary school; flag carriers and whatnot; Tom Keene talking about ridiculously expensive bottled water with David Zetland on Bloomberg on the Economy; the political compass thingy; and a Paul Shaffer smoke alarm!

UPDATE: The date for this episode has been fixed to show 2009 instead of 2008 after I received a smartarse comment

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Can I get a monocle? A monocle? Also discussing my displeasure over companies that just make money from money; the financial crisis; the infamous red light Orchard Towers in Singapore; the Jason’s Gourmet Grocer; hard versus soft energy drinks; Irn-Bru; review of Alton Brown’s Good Eats programme; Jamie Oliver; the joys of steel cut oats; how much Singapore has changed in a decade; Bob’s Red Mill in Oregon; finding out buttermilk isn’t as horrible as it first sounds; Pepsi is in fact better than Coke; why instant oats suck and can I get a monocle?

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Having delusions of effectiveness; Burnt tongues; differences between robusta and arabica coffee; lack of FireWire ports on the new MacBook; instant coffee crap; the teachers pet phenomena; high school library studying adventures in 2004; Wordpress mistaking m3u for mp3 in enclosures; too many darned files; FireWire 800 versus FireWire 400 versus USB 2.0; review of the Western Digital My Passport Studio FireWire external notebook drive and a heavy bag of bubble wrap!

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