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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. #

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. #

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 #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. #

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. :D #
  • @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? #

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! #

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. #