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Twitter updates for 2008-06-24

Posted on June 24, 2008 by mogrify

@charliepark I do them quickly but completely - nose almost to floor, full arm extension. But I dunno what's right. #
@charliepark Hit me. #
The Taliban sells us drugs that make us complacent & eventually kill us, then they use the money to kill more of us. How are we still here? #
A relatively good description of this day would be: "oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap." #
Watering my office fern with cold coffee. If it dies… well, then I'll know. #
@peeppeep Are your leaves pale? Because the pH is probably too low. #
I'd be going all PC LOAD LETTER right now, except I'm dealing with software. You can't take software to a field and beat the shit out of it. #
Chile has permanently banned whaling. Maybe Twitter should look into that. #
I've just confirmed that you can, in fact, take software *developers* to a field and beat the shit out of them. So there's that. #
Barack Obama is speaking about energy in Las Vegas. _Las Vegas_. #
@jmlumpkin I decline to respond to your request on the grounds that I may incriminate myself. #
Dammit, I just deleted my Twitter logging script like some kind of idiot. Damn, damn, damn. Today sucks. #
Oh, I still have the .pyc. Lemme see if I can decompile that. #
Awesome. Decompiled the .pyc on http://www.depython.net/. Works beautifully. Okay, svn add && svn commit. #
When a Twitter API call fails (usually with 502: Bad Gateway), it shouldn't count against my limit. Just sayin'. #
When a Twitter API call fails (usually with 502: Bad Gateway), it shouldn't count against my limit. Just sayin'. #
Ironically, Twitter ate that last tweet the first time around. #
Fire alarm. Wonderful. Fuck this day. #
False alarm. Of course. #
@korym Death Cab For Cutie. No contest. #
Had to evacuate the building anyway. Alarm was only on for a few seconds. But protocol is protocol. #
Safely at home. There is no crappy enterprise software to menace me here. #
Realized why it's so quiet at home: I've been listening to a coworker's hacking cough all day. Twice I checked to see if my headlamp was on. #
GRTC has been ranked the best transit company of its size in the nation. What unspeakably horrible shape the rest of the nation must be in! #
This is my two thousandth tweet. Thousandth - now there's a word with its own built-in speech impediment. #
@trippfenderson I saw it in the Times-Dispatch: http://tinyurl.com/5886an It's by the American Public Transportation Association. #
@mn0001 Except possibly for Name Most Likely To Be Confused With An Infection Or Body Part. #
The first reason I hate GRTC is that driving next to a bus feels suicidal, even if it isn't. #
The second reason I hate GRTC is that there aren't any bus stops near me, and the Park-and-Ride is further away than work. #
I could take the bus to work; I'd just have to drive further than I do now, and then sit on a bus for two extra hours a day. Transit FAIL. #
Quick poll: do you love your blogging platform? Tell me which, and why. Gracias. #
Crash from the next room. Yeah, I'll have to clean that up later. #
Nifty: the state of Florida is buying 187,000 acres of Everglades land from U.S. Sugar to return it to its natural state. http://is.gd/F4H #
@SueCline Thanks! Anyone else love their blogging platform? #
Feeling a little lowbrow. Maybe I'll go watch a car crash montage video. #
@mogrifette is stuck at a train crossing on Hungary Rd.. She's hungry, so it's kind of appropriate. #
@jmlumpkin Yeah, I bet. You can hear it for miles and miles, too. Must be loud where you are. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-23

Posted on June 23, 2008 by mogrify

Hey @Tony_D, thanks for following! #
@Tony_D I can tap dance a little. And I can do this thing with a ping-pong ball. #
Playing Scrabulous. If that sounds like a game where you draw lines between your infectious sores with a marker, that's because it is. #
http://tinyurl.com/5sspyl Apparently they fixed Wimbledon. There are trained bears and lasers now. #
Seething with jealousy of @vmarinelli. Seethe seethe seethe. #
Only consolation: listening to Lamb of God right now, whom she likes better. Small small consolation. Tiny. Okay, nonexistent. Shit. Seethe. #
Did my first push-up sets today from http://hundredpushups.com. Feels good. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-22

Posted on June 22, 2008 by mogrify

Awake. I am not particularly happy about that, but there it is. #
Frank Rich's column is, as usual, not to be missed. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22rich.html #
johnmccain.com's "Iraq Timeline" starts in August 2003. Nice. http://www.johnmccain.com/fie/timeline.htm #
@charliepark Mmmm, carbs. Score. #
John McCain deserves a lot of credit for beginning to oppose the Iraq war as soon as it made political sense to do so. #
Tiny Shetland island, population 1, declares independence from the UK/EU. http://tinyurl.com/4mpwur #
Paul Goldman, Richmond mayoral candidate, proposes making Cary St a pedestrian zone from Boulevard to Thompson. http://tinyurl.com/6p22fq #
Mia is listening to my mom read nursery rhymes on tape. #
@simplemom Can't see it in IE7. Also, the FeedBurner icon overlaps "SUBSCRIBE!" #
@korym GM to you as well! #
A friend of mine, a real Italian, is opening up a coffee/gelato/lunch place at Gaskins & Patterson soon. He makes the best espresso ever. #
He had a cart at the veggie festival. Cafespresso. Highly recommended. #
Just finished making some bike adjustments. Going for a ride soon with @mogrifette and the mogrifiddles. #
@vmarinelli I like the idea. Driving there is a nightmare, & parking is worse. Thinking of Charlottesville's downtown, which is very nice. #
Back from the bike ride to the local park. Felt *great* to be out on a bike. It was Lucas' first ride in the trailer. #
Also rediscovered the joys of swinging. No, not that kind of swinging. #
@vmarinelli Heh. #
My wife has the two best carrot cake recipes in the world. The first is her original carrot cake recipe. The second is the Vegan version. #
@mikemorrow You can also try covering your windows with tin foil. Saves energy _and_ blocks harmful mind-control rays! #
@peeppeep Maybe he can be a playwrite. #
@mikemorrow Okay, I'll try to pry the recipe out of @mogrifette's hands. Stay tuned. #
Check out @mogrifette for awesome carrot cake recipes, in easy-to digest 140-character slices. #
Dammit, Twitter, I am *not* hitting the API limit. I counted. Take your 400 error and shove it. #
Yeah, @mogrifette is now making tea out of lemon balm from our garden. You can't have her, she's mine. #
You can have her cake, though. #
@SmartAsshat You dick, I'm coming over there to beat your ass as soon as I finish laughing. #
Rockin' some Snow Patrol. #
My infant son seems to need a writing implement in his hand at all times. I think he's going to be Bob Dole when he grows up. #
@SmartAsshat Setting phasers on 'emasculate.' #
Rockin' some Edith Piaf. If that's even possible. #
@FarkerPeaceboy Had to Google that. Fwooooooooooooosh. #
Tuned mass damper porn: http://tinyurl.com/6zf7vv #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-21

Posted on June 21, 2008 by mogrify

Mia: "Dada, you know what, three comes after two!" (pause) "I think Mom wants one more baby." #
Oh damn I need to make coffee right now #
My daughter calls coins "taxes," because of the Disney Robin Hood movie. #
@korym GM! #
@clapifyoulikeme No, I think she identifies more with Sir Hiss. #
Heading to the farmer's market, then later to the Vegetarian Festival in Bryan Park. #
Veg festival was awesome. Great scene, cool people. Ran into a few friends. Ate babaghanoush. Kids are exhausted. Good day. #
@seethruskeleton Cool! If you saw a guy pulling around a red wagon with a canopy, that was me. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-20

Posted on June 20, 2008 by mogrify

What's the big deal? We have plenty of ice down here on Earth. #
@vmarinelli We're not worthy. But yeah, that'd be cool. #
@charliepark I did the initial push-ups test… 23. Not too bad, I guess. #
Holy crap. Hi to new followers @greentweet, @zulaica, @califmom, @jim, @mudcelt, @randomfreak, @Leicentious! #
@charliepark I'm going to start on Monday. #
Still can't breathe through convulsive laughter at @SeoulBrother 's tweet: http://tinyurl.com/4jwcfq Jesus man, I almost died. #
@jumpingmonkeys Your DH has TwitterSync on his FB. Is he lurking around here somewhere? #
With the discovery of ice there, Mars is now officially more inhabitable than Wyoming, Montana, Michigan, or Wisconsin. #
@jumpingmonkeys I really don't think that would be a good idea. #
@vmarinelli Learning that Randy Blythe has a Blackberry somehow just made my day. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-19

Posted on June 19, 2008 by mogrify

Lara Logan, CBS News senior foreign correspondent, is hard-fucking-core. http://tinyurl.com/4287ov #
@clapifyoulikeme It is very very easy to find vegan dark chocolate. So yeah, knock yourself out #
http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/ - Other people's lame party photos from Flickr. Delightfully painful. #
For all the talk about Comcast disrupting BitTorrent traffic, I've never noticed this happening. Not once. #
insomaniac, n. One who recklessly and consistently avoids sleep, then goes and brags about it. #
Hey @njl, thanks for following! #
Article about a very strange, possibly insane, man who is making all kinds of accusations against Obama: http://tinyurl.com/58aw3z #
Last.fm says I've played 61,344 tracks since March 2005. That's about 6 solid months of music, or about 15% of my life since that date. #
That doesn't even count music I listen to in the car, which is probably pretty significant as well. #
If there's an afterlife, it's a giant database with every conceivable bit of information. SELECT COUNT(grains_of_sand) FROM universe; #
Saw a lady firefighter downtown today. That's hot. #
I love HuffPo's 80-pixel headlines. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ #
The New York Times reports that Obama will opt out of public financing. No doubt he wants to use his own enormous pile of cash instead. #
Campaign financing story: http://tinyurl.com/3rusz2 #
Obama's explanation video: http://tinyurl.com/67vlud His supporters are all small donors, so it's like public financing anyway. #
He doesn't explain well enough what PACs, lobbyists, and 527s have to do with public financing. #
I guess he's saying that McCain will rely on PAC/lobbyist/527 money, and he won't. So he doesn't want to limit himself to the public money. #
Coldplay is to reverb as Janis Jopin is to Southern Comfort. #
Interesting: alcohol's "proof" measurement originated from the practice of igniting gunpowder soaked with it. Less than 100 proof = no boom. #
Also: pure ethanol will dilute itself from water in the air (hygroscopy): http://tinyurl.com/a2vds #
Look, um… this is awkward. But. Has anyone seen… um, some… feet? Maybe, floating around somewhere? Because I'm missing a few. Thanks. #
Wondering how the Obama campaign finance story will play out, considering that he seems to be reversing his opinion. #
Could be that he thinks he can counter the criticism with the no-lobbyist-money argument. I'm not so sure. #
@QueenofSpain Is that… you? o.O #
Listening to the Crystal Antlers EP. Oh. My. God. Amazing. Also, their drummer is named Sexual Chocolate. Srsly. #
Re: lady firefighter. I believe she was on her way to extinguish my wife, who is far hotter. #
Totlol - Kid-oriented video site. Looks cool. http://www.totlol.com/ #
It'd be great to see Eric Cantor kicked to the curb this year in VA-07. Anita Hartke is his opponent: http://www.hartkeforcongress.com/. #
@mogrifette Save some for me! #
@brettp That's my favorite quote from that movie. Sums up the entire Sicilian ethos in one perfectly crafted sentence. #
@vmarinelli Yeah, anything's better than that. Cantor is a Republican stormtrooper. If we ousted him it'd be epic. #
Fedora's IcedTea Java passed the TCK! We now have a 100% open-source, complete Java implementation! http://tinyurl.com/4fsans #
@DougMeacham Not unopposed, just insufficiently opposed: http://tinyurl.com/5fm3jc #
@vmarinelli I don't see an Italian-related tweet by you. That said, I am as Italian as a guy can get without having any Italian ancestry. #
@mn0001 That probably won't take long! #
@mn0001 I kid, I do like Girl Talk. But can't handle extended periods of exposure. #
Aside from software and training vendor spam, I get almost no email at work. So nice. #
Oh, Kid Rock is advocating P2P now. Oh! Wait… did I… um… oh. Nope. Almost gave a shit. #
Kid Rock also advocates torture. Here he is interrogating a group of captive American soldiers in a Taliban prison camp: http://is.gd/Bkj #
@jmlumpkin Thanks for adding that last bit. Almost unfollowed you, heh #
@vmarinelli Fav'd it. Awesome. #
The temperature in here has gone way past "mini-fridge" and is now approaching "doomsday seed vault." #
Contemplating the one hundred push ups training program: http://hundredpushups.com/ #
@charliepark You're on! Awesome! Trying to decide whether to close my office door and do the initial test #
@charliepark If I follow the schedule I'll be doing the hundred on my birthday #
@mogrifette So it's not good? #
More free carbs in the office kitchen. This time: potatoes. Om nom nom. #
The House will vote tomorrow on a FISA rewrite that includes telecom immunity. I wish my representative had any chance of voting against it. #
@FarkerPeaceboy May I humbly suggest "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man"? #
Mad props for the folks at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. Unbelievably cool election poll analysis. Total stats porn. #
@vmarinelli I don't think I could describe it any other way #
::Sigh:: Netflix is probably kind of evil. Oh well. #
Out of 10,000 simulations run daily by FiveThirtyEight, McCain wins Vermont in zero of them. Guess they'll have a quiet summer up there. #
4-char reviews: Raconteurs: rawk, Coldplay: meh., CrystalAntlers: wow!, BeYourOwnPet: grr!, Weezer: sigh, WolfParade: nice, LilWayne: nsfw #
Man, the sky just opened up. It's like Niagara Falls out there. #
@vmarinelli so tall I take over the street… a wingspan unbelievable, I'm a festival, I'm a parade. Awesome. I love that. #
@vmarinelli I hate all those things except Mr. T. #
I find it hard to distinguish between a baby's laugh and a baby's cry. Unless I'm branding one. I'm pretty sure that's a cry. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-18

Posted on June 18, 2008 by mogrify

@Kalli Keep your quotes off the baseline. What are you, a communist? #
Listening to the Decemberists. In June. Oh yeah, I went there. #
Welcome @seethruskeleton. Fair warning: if you have a problem with wombats, you and me are gonna have words. #
If I were Iraqi, I'd be shopping online more and more these days. #
Installed Gnome Do and ran it. Immediately brought my computer to its knees. I guess it's indexing or something. Can't tell. Fail. #
Hm, reddit has something up its sleeve. #
Messing with Feedly. Seems amazingly good, but I'm not sure I can break out of Google Reader mode entirely. Which is maybe my fault. #
Azureus is called Vuze now? Who the hell thought that up? Pure ass. #
McCain likes drilling. Bush likes drilling too. Perhaps they can drill together. #
Hey @WnorthW, thanks for following! #
@Kalli How could you think that? I mean offshore oil drilling, of course. I couldn't possibly mean any other kind of drilling. #
Reddit has open-sourced itself: http://code.reddit.com/ This is awesome. #
Just got a great comment on my site: "inframundane baguette songster sappiness biosis zoetropic stingfish selling." I know, right? #
Kid Rock is boycotting iTunes, in case anyone gives a shit. #
@breakall Nope. #
@breakall Yep - sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 && sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart #
@vmarinelli The National always makes me mournful, regardless of what's actually happening. #
@breakall Yes, everything from sudo to the end. It's really 2 commands, the && means execute the 2nd if the first was successful. #
@vmarinelli Yeah, I start trying to figure out why I'm sad. So like if I'm traveling it makes me think I'm not enjoying the trip. #
@vmarinelli What makes me feel good is hard rock, metal, etc. Aggro music. #
New word: hebdomadally, meaning "every week." Seen on http://tinyurl.com/5dvofk #
Hey @GunnarHafdal, thanks for following! #
@korym Not me. I use the McAfee that Comcast gives me for free, because who needs available system resources, anyway? #
PHP development is like robotripping - I used to do it, but I now realize that it was probably a mistake. #
@Xytrex You win the Internets. #
@vmarinelli Wait. Your lesbian tattoo is wrapped in a phallic symbol? Oh. My. God. #
Hey @sphansavanh, thanks for following! #
How not to do a remix album: http://tinyurl.com/5gxsp2 Srsly. 4x Romantic Rights, 4x Black History Month. Um, coordinate a little next time. #
@FarkerPeaceboy Careful, you might end up getting followed by Ed Burns. #
@mn0001 Looks like "biannual" can go both ways. It's, um, bi. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biannually #
@mn0001 Ask him what the deal is with "ought." Oh, and periods inside quotation marks. #
@mn0001 I just think it has three letters too many, that's all. It ot to be shorter. #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-17

Posted on June 17, 2008 by mogrify

Went to pick up our new chest freezer today. Got funny looks when I asked if it could be used for other body parts too. #
@clapifyoulikeme Apparently everyone uses them for all kinds of body parts, and I just didn't know. It's like "glove compartment." #
@mogrifette Fun! #
Right now I'm literally getting paid to sit and think of something clever enough to get on @favrd. What's *your* job? #
The TSA has scanners that can see through clothes! http://tinyurl.com/6xnfdj Head on over to http://www.tsa.gov/join/careers/. #
Food coloring and preservatives cause hyperactive behavior in children: http://tinyurl.com/2typvy #
@peeppeep Just leave, and give them a long, cold stare as you go. *So* hardcore. #
Just got a free cookie from a coworker. He avoids carbs, and I suck them down like a wheat thresher. Om nom nom. #
If they can make a patch for nicotine they can damn well make a patch for caffeine. I've got almost two square meters of skin I'm not using. #
@vmarinelli @upright Wolf Parade = scary good. #
Just really excited and happy for everyone who is getting married today in California. I can feel the vibes all the way over here #
Heading to the office kitchen. I smell free carbs. #
Indeed. Scored a biscuit and a bagel. This wombat nose is very effective. #
If I make enough money writing code all day, eventually I'll be able to write code all day for free. #
Still waiting for someone to set up a fake Ryan Seacrest Twitter account. That lovable scamp would surely tickle our funny bones! #
Been down on a…? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joestump/2583565053/ #
Mogrify's Law: if an Internet message board allows the posting of images, the probability that it will eventually become like 4chan is 1. #
KISS, to Radiohead: "Stop giving away your music for free!" Radiohead, to KISS: "Do people actually *buy* your music???" #
Oh, are we trading pictures of our iPod docks now? #
@vmarinelli 'Sokay, I don't actually have an iPod. #
@WyldGade That would be the craptastic Office Open XML format that I'm told, one day, will kill us all. #
At the stroke of 10AM PST, Mozilla's data center burned to the ground. Thus setting a record for Biggest. Fail. Ever. #
So there's this Mozilla thing that I'm supposed to 'get,' then 'spread.' Apparently it's some sort of bacteria: M.firefocensis. #
So nice to think of all those gay people in California who will finally be able to have sex! #
They just came out with the first stable release of Wine. No more vinegary taste! http://winehq.org/ #
@mogrifette Compiling! http://xkcd.com/303/ #
Ohhhh… Mozilla wasn't going for a Guinness World Record at 10AM PST today. They were just going for a Guinness. #
At work we just went from a Class B network to a Class A network. It's true what they say about gateway drugs. #
Twitter returned HTTP error 506: Bad Networking Joke. #
Feeling kinda left out here. Is it legal to get gay married to someone of the opposite sex? #
@vmarinelli All I'm saying is, gay marriage doesn't have to be just between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. #
Thanks; for following back: @swdmusic, and for following: @Mickipedia. Always appreciated. #
@WyldGade Hey now, my marriage is happier than Homer Simpson in a doughnut factory #
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I envy the opportunity to make a lifetime commitment and a social statement at the same time. #
@charliepark I definitely agree. I just have to accept that there are some battles I believe strongly in, but that will be fought by others. #
@jumpingmonkeys Check out TwitterSync: http://apps.facebook.com/twittersync/ - updates your FB status and mini-feed. #
@FarkerPeaceboy Man, all I got when I followed you was this lousy rash. Where's my damn cheese? #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-16

Posted on June 16, 2008 by mogrify

Trying to figure out how to drink all the alcohol in the house and not be thought an ass. #
Latest geek obsession: find a way to do Markov chains on AC/DC lyrics. #
@sflovestory I managed it - there was less than I thought. #
My system password is so clever that I have to resist telling everyone what it is. #
@wilburly No, it's even cleverer than that, if you can believe it. I know, right? #
@toldorknown Ooo, good thinking. No. #
Apparently some people who like to dance and sing on stage won something. Good for them, I imagine they don't get a lot of respect normally. #
Playing with Jabber and Ruby. #
Still waiting for Twitter to turn the newly robust IM gateway back on. Have a few project ideas. The future of Twitter's architecture is IM. #
Gore's going to endorse Obama. Now he'll beat Hillary for sure! #

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Twitter updates for 2008-06-15

Posted on June 15, 2008 by mogrify

Father's Day gives you a little taste of what life was like before feminism. #
Father's Day gives every dad the freedom to act like a redneck. #
@charliepark Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh! You'll ruin it for the rest of us! Jeez! #
For real though, being a dad is awesome. A++++ would ejaculate again. #
@emilybrianna Welcome! #
Duplo is quite possibly the world's most perfect building material. #

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