The short-form week of 10–16 Dec 2012
17 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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:29pm
RT @SaraJChipps: This bit of erotica just made it up on our cork board, in case someone needs inspiration.
http://t.co/dRyHyIbT—@simonstl
Thursday at 02:51pm
Dear random bank sending me junk, I’d be interested in your “World M/C” if it was
chip-and-pin so it’d work, uhm, elsewhere in the world.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:12pm
Dear banks, airlines, insurance companies, retailers, baby sitters, dog walkers, and
sundry, I do not want your fucking app, ‘k?—@ndw
Thursday at 08:22pm
This idea that conservatives are winning Twitter is fascinazzzzzzzzzzzzzz—@kendall
Thursday at 08:26pm
He who makes a second commit without running unit tests, deserves the pain he inherits.
In other news: git bisect FTW. And a lot of pain.—@ndw
Thursday at 08:30pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:09am
Let's build the Web, not point-to-point : http://t.co/1YWfQ0vq—@psd
@psd Thanks for posting. He is forgetting is that its about $$$ now, we were all idealistic
then, thought standards was collaboration, etc.—@umityalcinalp
Friday at 02:12am
The advantage of writing your own event loop is that debugging it isn't a mystery.
The disadvantage is debugging it.—@mnot
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:05am
@ndw: All French banks have had chip-n-pin for over 20 years now.—@aljopainter
@aljopainter Yes. And the fact that US ones don’t can be a damned inconvenience abroad.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:21am
If you make Web sites that need to be used by people of all ages, don’t put a cute
redundant carousel there like http://t.co/MtfvpSUF did.—@hsivonen
Friday at 05:15am
A smartphone or tablet is a post-PC device in the same way that a Fisher Price tricycle
is a post-car device.—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:10am
Friday at 09:07am
Let me be the four thousand three hundred ninety-third person to say, “read this”:
http://t.co/SKzsYapf—@ndw
Friday at 09:23am
RT @OfficalMrBean: #AnnoyingThingsOnTwitter Finishing a good tweet, having -1 characters left and then having to decide which
grammar cr ...—@ndw
Friday at 09:34am
For blasphemy. In the twenty-first century. There is no hope for humanity. http://t.co/G3ogQOa8—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:58am
@ndw: "First .. deployed .. in France in 1986 " "2010 .. first card issuer in US" http://t.co/ZdCyKS38—@aljopainter
@aljopainter Alas, I am not eligible to join the UNFCU.—@ndw
Friday at 04:30pm
Because he's an asshole? “@BryanJFischer: We've spent 50 years kicking God out of schools, then wonder why he's not there
when we need him.”—@kendall
Friday at 06:38pm
Holy homophones batman. My correspondence today has been littered with them: groan/grown,
two/too, etc. I wonder how many didn’t I catch?—@ndw
Friday at 07:02pm
How have I never previously realized that there’s an analytic solution to compute
numbers in the Fibonacci sequence?—@ndw
Friday at 10:05pm
It's too soon after Lincoln's assassination to be talking about gun control.—@TeaPartyCat