The short-form week of 10–16 Sep 2012
17 Sep 2012; last modified 18 Sep 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 04:51am
This is simply MAGISTERIAL. Needs the widest dissemination possible. http://t.co/ulqx4gik (thanks to @Onkelgobber) Invective at its best.—@stephenfry
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:18am
Cheap SIM for France? Now in possession of an unlocked phone, what’s the best voice/data
SIM for a couple of weeks in France?—@ndw
@ndw I have been with budgetmobile.fr for a year and never paid more than 10 euro a month,
including one when i sat on phone for an hour—@louBurnard
@ndw I think https://t.co/WAucVRO5 is the cheapest SIM on prepaid card systems, but Bouygues
coverage is not as good as SFR or Orange…—@sylvain_soliman
Monday at 10:15am
I'm a simple person. I don't want lots of money, am not hungry for power but... if
I *were* an evil overlord, first demand: coffee minion—@amyvdh
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:27am
Wednesday at 02:52pm
There is no return. There is always what's coming.—@karlpro
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:09pm
Any woman who votes Republican today is a traitor to her sex.—@shelleypowers
@shelleypowers s/woman/person/; s/sex/race/—@ndw
@ndw Amen—@shelleypowers
Wednesday at 06:32pm
Users asks question I fear is going to be difficult. Inspecting code reveals I thought
of it and it’s a simple option. /me wins.—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:20pm
Oh, yes, a new iPhone. Right. I was supposed to care?—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:29pm
git fsck returns a stream of errors in one of my repos. Ugh.—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:08pm
Wednesday at 09:10pm
Hold on. During my Amazon Prime trial *everything* was available for instant viewing,
but now the trial is over, so only some are? WTF?—@ndw
Wednesday at 09:14pm
Wednesday at 09:14pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:55pm
Would someone please tell my brain to stop concluding that flights at o-dark-thirty
are a reasonable course of action. Please?—@ndw
Thursday at 02:52am
Apple are little more than a skilled media machine that applies fashion psychology
to computing and with a pathological IP strategy.—@9600
Thursday at 05:50am
Arrive airport. Do the security dance. Go to club. Spread cream cheese on bagel with…a
metal knife. Ah, theater.—@ndw
Thursday at 05:51am
RT @ndw: Arrive airport. Do the security dance. Go to club. Spread cream cheese on bagel
with…a metal knife. Ah, theater.—@hutchkintoot
Thursday at 05:56am
RT @ndw: Arrive airport. Do the security dance. Go to club. Spread cream cheese on bagel
with…a metal knife. Ah, theater.—@lcahlander
Thursday at 06:15am
Thursday at 06:25am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:25am
Do I want to know why this is a "weight critical" flight, or what that really means?
No, I don't think so either.—@ndw
@ndw shouldn't have had that bagel??—@sarahokeefe
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:31am
OH "We're trying to fit as many bags as we can on because we have kind of a heavy
fuel load." They weigh less in the cabin, do they?—@ndw
@ndw Yes, they do. By virtue of being farther away from Earth’s core. Inverse-square law
and all that. Also, their clocks will run slower.—@whovingh
You'll be taking the scenic route, then? QT @ndw: OH "because we have kind of a heavy fuel load"—@docum3nt
.@docum3nt Around a big storm, apparently. Arrived SFO. (Yeah, I know, wrong direction for #XMLSummerSchool, reversing direction tomorrow.)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:51am
They need two volunteers, unless they can strap enough bags into empty seats. Whiskey.
Tango. Foxtrot.—@ndw
@ndw It sounds like a weight-balancing issue.—@sarahokeefe
Thursday at 08:03am
Thursday at 10:15am
Thursday at 10:25am
RT @ndw: Arrive airport. Do the security dance. Go to club. Spread cream cheese on bagel
with…a metal knife. Ah, theater.—@flyingedivad
Thursday at 11:13am
Thursday at 11:47am
Friday at 09:14am
SFO now. AUS this afternoon. AUS again tomorrow. LHR on Sunday. #XMLSummerSchool after that!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:26am
Any known issues upgrading from OSX 10.6 straight to 10.8?—@robinberjon
@robinberjon not that I know of, but just expect "fun times" updating ports, installing xCode
for command line tools, etc.—@marcosc
@marcosc Oh, yeah, I *so* look forward to that!—@robinberjon
@robinberjon seriously though, if you can, do a "fresh install" of the Os. Mine is so slow waking
up, plus broken ports, etc.:(—@marcosc
@marcosc @robinberjon +1 I almost never upgrade across major versions. Backup and do a clean install.—@ndw
Friday at 10:13am
At the end of the day, every Internet security protocol reduces to the hardness of
your Gmail password.—@matthew_d_green
Friday at 10:46am
Yo! Flight attendant for UA 5552 out of SFO. Shake a leg, you're late and you're holding
things up.—@ndw
Friday at 10:56am
Trust us, Paul Ryan... we really wish you weren't a part of the government, too.—@kendall
Friday at 10:56am
Thank you. Boarding now.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:10pm
"Software…is like writing poetry. Or solving math proofs. It takes as long as it takes,
and it’s done when it’s done." http://t.co/yuBspYEf—@ndw
@ndw how true! Luckily my manager is starting to realize about this too. Thanks for this
great piece of wisdom.—@MandyJrARG
Friday at 06:40pm
Friday at 06:44pm
eclipse: the IDE that actually goes out of its way to be in yours—@casualjim
Friday at 08:01pm
No. Neither does the Tooth Fairy. RT @MotherJones: Does God really care what you wear? Inside the Values Voter Summit: http://t.co/AicT7UdH—@kendall
Friday at 11:53pm
How did so many of my git repos get so fsck'd? Literally.—@ndw
Saturday at 03:34am
RT @ndw: "Software…is like writing poetry. Or solving math proofs. It takes as long as it
takes, and it’s done when it’s done." http://t ...—@hutchkintoot
Saturday at 05:02am
RT @ndw: "Software…is like writing poetry. Or solving math proofs. It takes as long as it
takes, and it’s done when it’s done." http://t ...—@olivierjeulin
Saturday at 08:00am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:53am
FFS. Time Warner turns requests that should be 404 (no host) into HTML documents with
fscking search results. Stop that!—@ndw
Saturday at 11:56am
Dear guy sitting two spaces to my left in the United Club, chewing a big wad of gum
with your mouth open is just nasty.—@ndw
Saturday at 12:28pm
Saturday at 02:06pm
The best pizza parties are when I eat a large pizza alone in a dark room at 3am and
think about all my regrets in life.—@AngryBFlay
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:34pm
Houston now. London in just over nine hours. #almostmagic—@ndw
Saturday at 02:49pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:53pm
Saturday at 03:51pm
Ooooh! I can haz power on this UA 777-200, even in economy.—@ndw
Saturday at 06:38pm
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 11:32pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:40am
Near as I can tell, LHR terminal 4 has nothing to recommend it, but free wifi (and
power) on the Oxford bus is nice. #xmlsummerschoool—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:04am
Arrived, having achieved mid-air rendezvous with @ndw (well, same bus, different stops) (@ St Edmund Hall) http://t.co/lisUuWG9—@fidothe
Sunday at 03:00pm
Sunday at 03:04pm
OH "When I was at number 10..."—@ndw