The short-form week of 25 Jun–1 Jul 2012
02 Jul 2012; last modified 03 Jul 2012
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
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.
Monday at 04:05am
A tropical storm named Debbie is headed for Dallas. Head of Cyclone Names has just
fallen off his chair laughing and high-fiving himself.—@kateileaver
Monday at 05:18pm
A horse walks into a church,
"Why the long face?" asks the priest.
"Evolution," says the horse.—@sickipediabot
Monday at 05:43pm
"some is better than none" is a fundamental engineering principle. deciding whether
it applies is a crucial early decision.—@KentBeck
Monday at 10:03pm
If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks… http://t.co/V84Vac5Y—@LeaVerou
Monday at 10:36pm
Dear recruiter robot soliciting tech jobs for Sun Microsystems: really?—@ndw
Monday at 11:34pm
Is _WIndows for Dummies_ an EXEgesis on operating systems?—@mdubinko
Tuesday at 02:55am
Tuesday at 06:08am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:58am
Anyone have a Seagate GoFlex USB 3.0 adapter? Can you tell me what voltage/amperage
the power brick provides?—@ndw
RT @ndw: @kendall Yes, but I'm starting to have interesting ideas about how to integrate Stardog into
my experimental play area (ne weblog)—@kendall
@ndw @kendall if you have any questions about using/integrating Stardog, let me know. I'm actively
using/developing and may be able to help.—@roberttheiv
Tuesday at 10:21am
Tuesday at 10:23am
RT @ndw: Dear recruiter robot soliciting tech jobs for Sun Microsystems: really?—@sevanjaniyan
Tuesday at 10:33am
RT @ndw: Dear recruiter robot soliciting tech jobs for Sun Microsystems: really?—@RangerRick
Tuesday at 10:51am
RT @ndw: Dear recruiter robot soliciting tech jobs for Sun Microsystems: really?—@elijahwright
Tuesday at 12:02pm
Tuesday at 06:21pm
Tuesday at 10:21pm
Now downloading 100MB of printer driver updates. ONE HUNDRED MEGABYTES. FOR PRINTER
DRIVERS. We are doomed as a species.—@lemay
Tuesday at 10:42pm
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing
for him.—@SteveNylin
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:10am
Norman Walsh and me, journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @sull @ndw—@dominixml
Wednesday at 02:00pm
If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced,that's why people with no sense
of humour have an increased sense of self-importance.—@Alan_Actually
Wednesday at 02:52pm
When you reach a contradiction in math, you admit something's wrong. The rest of the
world doesn't work that way.—@JohnDCook
Wednesday at 05:35pm
"The males in Brave were all plot devices!" GEE. THAT MUST REALLY SUCK TO HAVE YOUR
GENDER MARGINALIZED IN A MOVIE. CAN'T IMAGINE.—@kierstenwhite
Thursday at 12:26am
Happy Perfect Day! 28/6 A number is perfect if it is the sum of its proper divisors.
28=1+2+4+7+14. We only know 47 perfect numbers.—@MarcusduSautoy
Thursday at 08:54am
I thought about going to SCOTUS for the announcement, but then I realized that I'd
rather kill myself.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:08am
Saying "pew pew" to myself when I hit Send on an email makes it a lot more fun; I
am LITERALLY shooting you an email.—@kplawver
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:24am
How long till Romney claims credit for the mandate and criticizes Obama for being
slow to follow the lead of Massachusetts?—@kendall
Thursday at 09:55am
Wait--Republicans who are tweeting #movingtocanada--you DO know we have fully gov't-controlled health care and gay marriage, right?—@nadiaoxford
Thursday at 10:17am
Boehner: "This is a dark day for America. If we are forced to have healthcare, it's
only a matter of time before we have education."—@BorowitzReport
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:21am
Barack Obama looking at CNN on his iPad. http://t.co/pjfKRy1C—@garyhe
Thursday at 10:26am
Upset about today's SCOTUS decision? Want to leave the U.S.? Here's a list of other
industrialized countries without universal healthcare:—@berberich
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:36am
Here's a sincere question: why aren't the decent, moderate Republicans as opposed
to the crazies to their right as the rest of us are?—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:43am
The plums are ripe. You know what that means. #plumhabanerojam—@mathling
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:45am
As one of the only women on our engineering team, I am really tired of the continuous
harassment I receive as an emacs user.—@liza
Thursday at 11:18am
Breaking: Conservatives planning to leave U.S., but can't find wealthy Western democracy
without universal health care. #hrc #scotus—@MSignorile
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:00pm
Thursday at 12:51pm
I have successfully proved my identity and am now permitted to sink deeper into debt.
Yay me. :-/—@ndw
Thursday at 01:57pm
functional programming is like a fish without a bicycle—@happygiraffe
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:53pm
Reading different ways of phrasing legislation and thinking about similar considerations
when phrasing text in standards documents.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:52pm
Thursday at 07:47pm
Wow. DNS for http://t.co/YMJKp6dN has totally blown me past the DynECT managed DNS lite limits. I love the DYN folks,
but $300/mo is not on.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:15pm
@ndw Hi Norm Loren Cahlanderhas asked if you could talk to me about his technical skills.
Can I call or email you?—@SamuelBrown76
@SamuelBrown76 Sure. I DM’d my email address (like it’s a secret or something, lol)—@ndw
@ndw thanks Norm really appreciate you helping me out with this—@SamuelBrown76
@SamuelBrown76 Yes, it arrived. I’ve left it in the ‘till tomorrow pile for now though. I’ll send
something in the AM when I’m fresher—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:23pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:28pm
Google Voice is totally borked on my phone. Errors. Logged out, now can't login. Just
me?—@ndw
@ndw logged in on my phone fine with all my conversations visible- called my land line
from my computer fine—@davidpflaherty
Friday at 01:26am
@johnlsheridan "very trustworthy" RT @elithebearded: Pogonology: the study of beards. http://t.co/e46ULTjY /via @paul_clarke—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:46am
Apparently I am in a room full of lawyers.—@JeniT
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:55pm
Unicode character of the day U+FDFA (ﷺ); NFKD runs to 18 codepoints, 33 bytes in UTF8.
See if your SW allocates enough buffer space.—@mathling
Friday at 02:19pm
#XProc and #MarkLogic are great together. Performing sequential tasks (e.g. deleting in batches) is easy
with #xmlcalabash Thanks @ndw—@alexmilowski
Friday at 02:40pm
Tweeting this video again, as it is so damn good: https://t.co/C9XC1nuD 'The Star
Wars That I Used To Know' - Gotye Parody—@benosteen
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:05pm
Call for abstracts for XML Amsterdam http://t.co/IQgnRqYX—@JeniT
@ldodds Other than "But it isn't Turtle!"? Editors bias!—@gcarothers
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:34pm
oh nice http://t.co/pED3if8g—@eedeebee
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:53pm
How to replace Twitter with nothing: http://t.co/NJkEUBra—@brentsimmons
@brentsimmons oh ffs. Pay attention to the extensive work that's been done on this before writing
vague posts, please.—@blaine
@ndw Too complicated. I want zero APIs, just old, non-exciting tech that we already know
works.—@brentsimmons
@brentsimmons turns out the missing bit from RSS is "identity" and privacy, which matters. So boring
tech isn't enough.—@blaine
@brentsimmons (sorry for being snippy, just that there has been a lot of work done on this, and acknowledging it would be helpful).—@blaine
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:58am
Brief outage for http://t.co/O6rl4TDCC, http://t.co/YMJKp6dNN, http://t.co/89PgBHQ00, et. al. while I reconfigure a router a bit—@ndw
Saturday at 12:00pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 01:53pm
World can see domain, but I can't from this side of router. WTF?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:53pm
@ndw had that issue this week too. My firewall went down. I prefer that situation to
I can see it but no one else can.—@harveybetty
@harveybetty I prefer that too, but previous router allowed both sides to see the site—@ndw