The short-form week of 20–26 Aug 2012
27 Aug 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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:23pm
Oh, look, the SSD is corrupt too! Let’s do the decrypt, backup, format, restore dance
*again*. Yay, me! Small comfort: http://t.co/oYFA08GP—@ndw
Monday at 10:07pm
Don't worry about things in the future, they may never happen. @SinaLewis plan for the now.—@datatomato
Tuesday at 07:08am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @xmlgrrl @ndw @JeniT—@dominixml
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 09:04am
Julia Child. Auto-tuned. Unhear! Unhear!—@ndw
@ndw I was disappointed there was no "SAVE THE LIVER!" reference. Kids today have no respect
for the classics...—@kiphampton
Wednesday at 11:23am
Every time I think that something couldn't be stupider, the universe hears my thoughts
and answers back, "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED".—@wawoodworth
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:23pm
Apple doesn’t make a 17” laptop anymore? Wow.—@ndw
@ndw farewell silver surfboard... I knew ye well, but you were a pain in the but to carry.
Plus I could only afford the 15".—@JeanKaplansky
Wednesday at 04:35pm
I believe when humanity is brought to trial for all we've done wrong, syntactically
significant whitespace will be near the top of the list.—@mikelimondba
Wednesday at 05:13pm
A future where robots will remember that humans are part of the extinct species.—@karlpro
Wednesday at 05:18pm
What I miss about the future?
its distance.—@karlpro
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:23pm
Akin is now presenting himself as a hero for standing up to GOP. Oh, and that he just
made a mistake, didn't say something brain dead stupid—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers “Brain dead stupid?” My $DIETY, that’s a generous interpretation.—@ndw
@ndw Well, I'm trying out a newer, more gentle Shelley...—@shelleypowers
Wednesday at 07:08pm
“Excuse me. Yes. I’d like to quit the gym.” “Why is that, sir?” “Grammatical reasons.”
http://t.co/wJniwDpe—@sentience
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:40pm
In case you've not heard >> RT @host_analytics welcomes new CEO Dave Kellogg @Kellbloghttp://t.co/R9WNFLCC—@Kellblog
Wednesday at 08:04pm
RT @JoshNarva: Congrats to @Kellblog and @host_analytics. Should be a great match, Dave is a star. Best of luck...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:18pm
Wednesday at 09:08pm
17.7 mi (28.4k in real units) on the bike today. That’s better.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:53pm
Warning: pi on the side. http://t.co/SCQAypAH—@ndw
Thursday at 03:16am
A new technical term: A “Dirk Gently Architecture”: everything in the code is connected
to everything else in mysterious ways. Not good.—@natpryce
Thursday at 07:21am
Avoid the characters that come of "character building" exercises; avoid teams built
through "team building" exercises.—@tommorris
Thursday at 07:42am
Some days everything is just "That is not what I mean, at all".—@j4
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:03am
can cycle through all opened files in emacs with 2 fingered gesture on the touch pad
#whendidthathappen #emacs #rocks—@xquery
Thursday at 09:24am
Dear @BBCNews, further to your "Tom Cruise goes for a curry" story, I'm having a few beers tonight.
Am happy to be interviewed about it.—@patrick_hurley
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:58am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:54pm
Giggling out loud at http://t.co/RM0QybKR—@timbray
Thursday at 03:51pm
Dear ISPs. Stop trying to resolve invalid domains to your shitty search engine. You
are breaking the internet. http://t.co/lUfm9K90—@koush
Friday at 10:13am
We all know the skin color of the person who did the shooting in NYC today, because
the headlines call him a shooter and not a terrorist.—@ronen
Friday at 10:37am
Guns: cool, easy to get.
Mental healthcare: uncool, hard to get.
So bullshit.—@cbarrett
In a conversation that started on Friday at 12:10pm
This NYT opinion piece pretty much nails it (and says much the same thing I did in
my Akin post): http://t.co/cbwxYW2p—@BadAstronomer
@ndw @BadAstronomer lol & Virginia Foxx didn't even get a dishonorable mention in that list ! yeah
we're really fucked—@seedsown
@ndw @BadAstronomer "Entering the Season of the Witch Hunt" #FollowArthttp://t.co/q7eXu54u PSH 8-23-2012 #Abstract—@seedsown
Friday at 12:55pm
In other words, he was lying. RT @joshtpm: RNC On Romney's Birth Certificate Joke: 'He Was Stating A Fact' http://t.co/5DWFlndY—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:43pm
That feeling when you accidentally hit Q while cmd-tabbing and don't know which app
you just quit.—@pgor
Friday at 02:29pm
Sometimes the TSA does not care about my wireless rig and channel strip. Other times
they are pretty sure it contains all the plutoniums.—@mc_frontalot
Friday at 02:34pm
The sad truth is that in today's hypersensitive security culture, Paddington Bear
would have been destroyed in a controlled explosion.—@binny_uk
Friday at 03:11pm
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Friday at 05:04pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:45pm
There are perfectly sound reasons to assume people of color in the US have an expertise
about detecting racism that white people don’t have.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:24pm
Hey Samsung, quit copying Apple. Hey Apple, quit being Patent Dicks. Now, can we please
get back to real market competition?—@jasnell
Friday at 06:42pm
This is not a disaster for Samsung. This is a disaster for all of us. Ugh.—@bpm140
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:46pm
Friday Happy Hour! I bought two New Zealand Savignon Blancs I'd not seen before at
Trader Joe's and they've been chillin' all day. Join me?—@mollydotcom
@mollydotcom I’m drinking a Nelson Rye IPA from Alpine Beer Co. Brought a growler back from being
in SD for the @csswg F2F. :)—@hober
@mollydotcom I’ve got a pinot grigio going here, but “cheers to you”—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:31pm
Getting a TX drivers license, part the first. Documents that prove residency: … “Texas
concealed handgun license” ...—@ndw
Saturday at 07:08am
XML Stars, the journal nouvelle édition http://t.co/cd9sLTFc ▸ Aujourd'hui à la UNE: @JeniT @ndw—@dominixml