The short-form week of 3–9 Dec 2012
10 Dec 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 09:23am
"Rubbing my oily, skanky fingers over a screen is a better experience than typing
at 90+ words per minute". Things I've never thought, ever.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:11pm
My XML 2002 paper on literate programming in XML ( http://t.co/oF2poaYO ) translated into Serbo-Croation, http://t.co/Bpl1PexH—@ndw
@ndw May be I'm just too paranoid, but I think that this is a way how to get link from
your highly rated site to their site.—@jirkakosek
@jirkakosek I didn’t get that impression. And all I gave was permission to translate; I haven’t
linked to it yet except in Twitter. :-)—@ndw
@ndw OK, then. There was similar request on XMLGuild recently which asked for backlink.—@jirkakosek
Monday at 04:13pm
OH “That’s the right answer for the query you wrote. If you wanted a different answer,
you’d have to write a different query.”—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:40pm
Applying liberal amounts of hair tonic to a herd of yaks. And then comes the shaving.
And then other stuff. And then its tomorrow.—@philhawksworth
Thursday at 12:50pm
rm -rf in the wrong place. That’s something I don’t do very often. Only when the backup
drive is 2,500 miles away I guess. *grumble*—@ndw
Friday at 12:17am
“Faster than light travel with two diagrams and a joke”—@ndw
Friday at 11:36am
RT @primawesome: If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it. Unless you're a hobbit. That
shit goes in a volcano if you're a hobbit—@lilithsaintcrow
Friday at 11:53am
Friday at 02:44pm
Pot and gay marriage is legal in WA and this place hasn't fallen aparOH MY GOD! THE
SUN IS GONE! Oh wait, apparently that's normal here.—@haacked
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:01pm
Data geeks: what's your desktop calculator of choice? Python, R, Excel? Collecting
answers here - http://t.co/WmvIp4FH #strataconf—@edd
Friday at 03:52pm
I'm working on a new documentary film called, "The Supreme Court Sticks it to Blacks
and Gays, Or: How John Roberts Got Over Obamacare."—@kendall
Friday at 04:43pm
FileThis|Fetch is clever and probably useful, but I want to give it the usernames
and passwords for my financial accounts not so much.—@ndw
Friday at 07:05pm
Dude, if your flight is that important, get here sooner or book a later flight.—@ndw
Friday at 08:21pm
Friday at 09:02pm
Sunday at 06:14pm
To contemplate the universe is, at times, a form of spiritual therapy.—@neiltyson
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 07:29pm
U. S. Bartenders Guild holiday party at Franklin Barbecue. #fullofliquorbbqandwin—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:10pm
This year, put some absinthe in the eggnog. I am absolutely serious.—@ndw
@ndw Make sure your piano is clean afterwards. Absinthe makes the harp grow fondants.—@barefootliam
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:29pm
stupid patents “rack up costs and retard innovation” – who knew? http://t.co/Z8mrSAXy—@svgeesus