The short-form week of 1–7 Apr 2013
08 Apr 2013; last modified 18 Apr 2013
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.
Tuesday at 11:03am
Achievement unlocked: managed to use vi long enough to set the default editor in /etc/sudoers to Emacs—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:25am
Twitter cards, really? https://t.co/mj52v0R1xb seems like a shit, proprietary way to extend HTML. /cc @chfry @sampullara (via @samj)—@mnot
Wednesday at 08:39am
Finally got local notebooks added to my Evernote archive. Whew!—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:36am
Context is a sophisticated way of saying 'It Depends'.—@jmspool
Wednesday at 05:21pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:24pm
@KariByron Does Grant really always come up with a robot as his first solution for everything, or is that the producers' idea?—@David_The_Geek
“@David_The_Geek: Does Grant really always come up with a robot as his first solution for everything, or is that the producers' idea?” Yes—@KariByron
Wednesday at 06:15pm
You ever get the feeling Dennis Rodman said the wrong thing when he was in North Korea—@inthefade
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:16pm
I suck at cooking on electric burners.—@kendall
Wednesday at 07:07pm
For those struggling with perfection - remember any solution is better than no solution. Ship, refine, ship...—@jasonmotylinski
Wednesday at 07:13pm
For those struggling to deal with perfectionists - I have no words of wisdom. I want to shake the crazy out of them.—@jasonmotylinski
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:20pm
Chrome Blink FAQ - http://t.co/iPpklPIx7Z
—@slace
Wednesday at 09:40pm
When I was a boy, I spent hours trying to comprehend the scale. RT @codinghorror If the Earth were 100 pixels wide: http://t.co/Hotygux9cw
—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:02pm
'I' before 'E' except when there's a feisty heist on weird beige foreign neighbours reinventing protein at their leisure.—@lucethoughts
Thursday at 02:38pm
By the way, Death's about to get a SUPER shitty review. RIP, @ebertchicago
—@pattonoswalt
Thursday at 02:41pm
Thumbs down, universe. Thumbs down.—@drgrist
Thursday at 02:44pm
Siskel & Ebert finally reunited at long last.—@kendall
Thursday at 07:57pm
Thursday at 08:01pm
Friday at 10:29am
filethis asks: “What is the ZIP code for the credit card that ends in 58. Please enter a complete 10-digit phone number.” What?, Why?, & No!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:55pm
After 20 minutes of looking how to install GIT in order to retrieve files from a GIT repository created by @ndw I see the 'zip' icon!—@harveybetty
@harveybetty Which repo?—@ndw
Friday at 04:51pm
“I am writing today to introduce […]s’ services to Sun Microsystems, …” Go away asshat.—@ndw
Saturday at 05:09am
Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes! http://t.co/mJIgp3QkND
—@rgarner
Sunday at 05:55am
Sunday at 12:45pm
Vegas is incontrovertible proof that there is an unbounded amount of tacky in the universe.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:52pm
Produced final PDFs for my presentation via DocBook->XHTML->CSS->PDF instead of DocBook-XSL FO->PDF for the first time.—@ndw
@ndw You wildman, you.—@eliasisrael
@eliasisrael It’s ok. I did it in Vegas so I’m sure my secret shame is safe from the world.—@ndw
@ndw what css/pdf engine did u use?—@hughmcguire
@hughmcguire AntennaHouse Formatter V5.3. There were some rough edges to work around, but they might be fixed in V6.0.—@ndw
@ndw cool. have you tried prince ? do u prefer ah?—@hughmcguire
@hughmcguire Haven't tried it. Happened to have AH handy and thought it would be interesting to try.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:31pm
Some episodes of Doctor Who are bonkers and out there and that's one of the things I love about it. Ultimate flexibility.—@kplawver