The short-form week of 1–7 Jul 2013
08 Jul 2013; last modified 11 Jul 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.
Monday at 02:51pm
MOVIE FACT #216: James Cameron got the idea for Terminator after seeing a pirate video of Terminator
2—@jasongorman
Monday at 03:28pm
Engineers are terrible in first aid class. When asked "what's the best way to lessen
or stop bleeding?" we invariably say "stop the heart."—@jamesiry
Monday at 03:59pm
Based on all the excitement & development around new feed readers, I'd like Google
to kill Calendaring, Maps & Translate next.—@obra
Monday at 04:11pm
❝ To live well in a free society, you must embrace discomfort. You must be willing,
in equal measure, to listen a... http://t.co/WrpnUfVscd—@nazgul
Monday at 04:24pm
Promising to write is easy. Actually writing is hard.—@bphogan
Monday at 05:14pm
The #NSA walks into a bar, orders a beer. Bartender: "Domestic or imported?" NSA: "What's
the difference?"—@NeinQuarterly
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:24pm
If the helpdesk tells me to downgrade my browser to complete mandatory security training,
can I placement test out by saying "OH HELL NO"?—@hillbrad
Monday at 08:15pm
There's a species of orchid that look like a monkey's face. It grows in Peru and Ecuador
http://t.co/7hHC4EIJhv—@Fascinatingpics
Tuesday at 05:23pm
Deal: Egypt gets Snowden, Russia gets Morsi, the US gets Pussy Riot and Ecuador gets
Rick Perry. #everybodywins—@fvdlfvdl
Tuesday at 08:32pm
It goes on and on. It's hard to find a single area of US political/social life that
isn't about wealth now vs. future needs.—@AlexSteffen
Wednesday at 09:35am
Wednesday at 02:38pm
Nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be.—@geuis
Wednesday at 05:13pm
Horns of a dilemma. There’s no good functional alternative to Photoshop/Lightroom
but paying them $39/mo just seems like giving in. *sigh*—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:42pm
I'm guessing the person who decided to call it 'common sense' didn't know that many
people.—@Will___Ferrell
Wednesday at 09:51pm
Thursday at 07:12am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:14am
I wonder sometimes, i.e., every time I use it, if the Austin American-Statesman online
edition was designed to have an actively hostile UI.—@ndw
@ndw Kinda like the attitude of the paper to its readers. Maybe @jkelso can still save us (former) readers.—@jeff_iezzi
@drabshadow @statesman I wasn't really trying to use Twitter as a forum to reach them. OTOH, if the aren't
aware of uses of their own name..—@ndw
@ndw @drabshadow Hello! Can I ask you to give me more details about what kind of problems you're seeing
with our website?—@statesman
@statesman @ndw user experience #ux is unfocused and user interface #ui is confusing- monetizing strategy is out-dated causing resentment—@drabshadow
@drabshadow @ndw So you're talking specifically about MyStatesman? If you'd like to, you can give
feedback here: http://t.co/gbI1flxhB8—@statesman
@statesman @drabshadow I mean specifically the digital edition. That awful Flash thing by Olive Software.
I’ll send feedback.—@ndw
@ndw they are switching over to a subscription based business model- focusing all their
design energy on http://t.co/kZWnB32a2V #fuckflash—@drabshadow
@ndw @statesman never know when twerps are going to respond in thirty seconds to address your concerns-
or whether you can be the last straw—@drabshadow
Thursday at 06:46pm
Isn't this the day we celebrate our liberation from an unrepresentative government
that abused our civil liberties?—@JPBarlow
Friday at 07:11am
Friday at 06:06pm
Saturday at 05:24am
'Well, fuck them, and fuck that.' http://t.co/dMX79TCgBr (on RSS and google reader) via @bowbrick—@libbymiller
Sunday at 06:27am
Three words: fried duck wings.—@ndw
Sunday at 06:55am
Here comes an encrypted endorsement or warning for tiny little bones with hardly any
flesh on them: RT @ndw: Three words: fried duck wings.—@knelistonie
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 12:19pm
Burned my thumb. BBQ ain't free.—@kendall
Sunday at 01:15pm
TCP packet walks into a bar, “Hello, I’d like a beer.” The barman says: “Hello, you’d
like a beer?” “Yes,” replies TCP, “I’d like a beer.”—@shanselman
Sunday at 01:31pm
When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Every single one of them. Do not
look at the stars. Do not talk to the stars.—@NightValeRadio
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:22pm
Huh. Wonder if there's a place to get MBP power adapter at SeaTac airport? Related,
guess who forgot his at home? Some things never change.—@duncan
Sunday at 05:22pm
When a Listserve email begins with "I am 21, and.." I'm just gonna start deleting
it immediately. Unless they are mathematicians.—@codinghorror