The short-form week of 16–22 Aug 2010
23 Aug 2010; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 35 messages in 30 conversations. (With 6 favorites.)
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 01:28pm
Wow I am never not flying without noise-canceling headphones. Indistinguishable from
magic.—@liza
Monday at 11:14am
This afternoon Penn and I record dialog for an upcoming episode of "The Simpsons"
set in Vegas. I wonder if they'll give me a blank script.—@MrTeller
Monday at 12:39pm
Works for me. Literally. RT @kellblog Short statement on company #culture on ... our website. #marklogichttp://bit.ly/bi17l2—@ndw
Monday at 02:37pm
That peal of thunder just about frightened me to death, but I don't think the lightning
hit the house. I wonder how much longer the power—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:04am
My Twifficiency score is 40%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/—@RichardOfSussex
@RichardOfSussex I'm mildly curious, but not curious enough to give the app permission to update my
status.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:04am
We should encourage religious attacks on science as the ultimate honeypot defense
of rational society.—@kendall
Tuesday at 07:19am
If lies offend you, you’re rational. If the truth offends you, you’re religious. /via
@neo_indian @mauvedeity—@gridinoc
Tuesday at 10:36am
"The Catholic Church can build a church near a playground but should they?" - John
Oliver on The Daily Show—@Carnage4Life
Tuesday at 10:50am
Heh. "To simplify it so a computer science guy can get it, Kurzweil has everything
completely wrong." http://bit.ly/b5Y6xP—@ndw
Tuesday at 12:32pm
Chicago, May 1, 1893, the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. #temporaltues—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:23pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:53pm
Sun engineers played a "joke" by filing for absurd Java patents. Oracle's jamming
Google w/ those patents. That's...that's not a funny joke.—@kendall
@kendall Unless Google can get one of those people who filed to say it was a joke... then
it's a rather good joke on Oracle ;)—@gcarothers
@gcarothers How can it be a good joke on Oracle?—@kendall
@kendall Mmm, perhaps a bad joke at Oracle's expense, which I will enjoy thanks to schadenfreude?—@gcarothers
@gcarothers Sure, we all wil; I just don't understand the legal theory whereby the patents being
a joke to Sun engineers are less valid. :>—@kendall
@kendall "novel, non-obvious, and have utility," a joke patent it seems would likely fail
at least one of those.—@gcarothers
@gcarothers on the basis of "novel" alone, most I've seen shouldn't have made it. Took me a full
day to convince attorney my idea wasn't.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:22pm
Reason to buy an iPhone: so I don't have to figure out which bleeding Android phone
to buy.—@ndw
@ndw I'd still go with the Nexus One. It's not the most powerful #Android phone any more, but it's still the most open.—@david_megginson
@david_megginson For better or worse, apparently no longer available in the US. Hmmm, I suppose eBay...—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:23pm
The thing to understand about Facebook is that you are not their customer. The *advertisers*
are their customers. You are their *product*.—@jonoxia
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:43am
@sgmlguru Already started. See xprocbook.com, when it’s up, which it isn’t at the moment. I
know, I know, it’s on my list.—@ndw
@ndw Very cool. Looking forward to it. I'm trying to run through the w3c test suite and
I can safely say that I don't understand it all yet.—@sgmlguru
@sgmlguru Feel free to send questions. And check out the xproc-dev archives http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Axproc-dev—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:54am
I've exclaimed WTF! so many times recently, I'm becoming inured to the feeling. Today's
(first?) WTF discovery: http://bit.ly/bs7kPs—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:25am
The leaves on some of the trees in the backyard have started to change color. I warned
'em, if they don't stop, I'll cut 'em down.—@ndw
Wednesday at 02:37pm
Bah humbug. The Magellan GPS isn't even seen as a USB device by my Mac, so I can't
work with it in a VM, I need a physical Windows box. Ugh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:17pm
sometimes Atom feels as if allowed occurrences of elements within feed and entry elements
have been determined by reading tea leaves.—@dret
Wednesday at 06:58pm
Setting my alarm for 2:50am. Remind me why I'm going to bed?—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:01pm
Sunset over BDL http://yfrog.com/3d2muaj—@ndw
Thursday at 04:07am
The non-geek friends are whispering about Android phones, and the sexy new Samsung
Galaxy S. There's a sea-change coming! Sell APPL.—@adamburmister
Thursday at 04:52pm
Just got my Web Is Dead issue of Wired. It came several days after I read all about
it plus pro and con arguments and analyses. On the web.—@ironicsans
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:54pm
Thursday at 07:00pm
Aaaahhhhh... http://yfrog.com/0gd9rpj—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:30pm
actually hoping that 1 of my upcoming assignments is the roundtripping of wordprocessingML
to DocBook & back. #thepeoplehavespoken—@peteaven
Friday at 02:58pm
Surfing the web on a deck chair *in* the swimming pool. Holding on to my phone very,
very tightly.—@ndw
Saturday at 07:17pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:33pm
Read It Later v2.2 Rejected. More uncertainty and randomness with what will make it
past Apple's appstore gatekeepers. http://u.nu/9idve—@ejwcom
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:56pm
Another reason to learn to drive a stick shift: rental cars outside the USA. Just
sayin'—@ndw