The short-form week of 16–22 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015; last modified 06 Apr 2015
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 Sunday at 09:46pm
@robinberjon Happy birthday!—@ndw
@ndw Thank you Norm!—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 09:29am
There's one I haven't seen before: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Source document
too large: more than 1G characters in text nodes—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:50am
Neil deGrasse Tyson on what to do with his body after death. #atheismhttp://t.co/7uFuijoVGz—@denyreligion
Tuesday at 10:36am
Tuesday at 04:48pm
RT @design: Wow, this is some amazing CSS polygon, design and animation work:
Species in Pieces http://t.co/s7JBBsht5rhttp://t.co/Bxf8i3…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:50pm
Tuesday at 05:35pm
Oh, nostalgia! It's a '47!—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:47pm
RT @Dymaxion: Hey, another unstoppable 4m of sea rise in our children's lifetime: http://t.co/M7pdV1rSA0 (now looking at relocating 25+% of…—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:54pm
RT @Slate: Why are we spending money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth?
http://t.co/GzhpDprKR0—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:11pm
Every time I'm in the grocery I pass a box of "organic salt" and twitch uncontrollably.—@FoldableHuman
Tuesday at 08:32pm
Hell is other people’s APIs.—@postwait
Tuesday at 10:56pm
A hospital waiting room has some unexpected wisdom. (Via @Perform) http://t.co/QqsEyR43TI—@SciencePorn
Wednesday at 01:09am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:42am
Voluntarily gave up aisle seat so mom could sit with daughter and newborn twins. Crew
bumped me to business class. #Karma #FTW #AlwaysBeKind—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:47am
Wednesday at 04:02am
RT @jwz: Exhibit A: How Make Magazine ensured I'll never click a link to their site again:
Exhibit B: How the LA Times... http://t.co/j9s0U…—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:12am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://t.co/gsRNgtj6t9 Stories via @james_clark @JeniT @ndw—@dominixml
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:28am
Please, @evernote could you drop all the "work chat" popups? I don't know or care this time or the
last 50 times I've had to dismiss them.—@ndw
@ndw You shouldn't receive them that many times. Are you clicking through them? What's
your OS and Evernote version?—@evernotehelps
@evernotehelps It happens on the web version and the windows (8.1, 5.8.4.6870 (274870) Public) version
with annoying frequency.—@ndw
@ndw Are you on the beta web client? Does this happen on every browser?—@evernotehelps
@evernotehelps Yes, and the beta web client asks me about trying it *every single time I start it*.
I'm mostly using Chrome on Linux.—@ndw
@ndw Does this happen on the older version of the web client as well?—@evernotehelps
@ndw Revert back via Settings > Account Summary > Select “Go back to old version” in the
Beta section to check.—@evernotehelps
Wednesday at 11:50pm
One of the most curious things about haters is the energy with which they hate. Imagine
if they used that energy for good.—@paulg
Thursday at 12:03am
The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu—@JPBarlow
Thursday at 03:29am
I think I have a separate personality that agrees to meetings at 09:00. And I think
that personality is delusional.—@mojavelinux
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:45am
Eleven years later, what's the state of "A unified model for text markup: TEI,
Docbook,..."? http://t.co/wbRlFGixhS @rahtz @ndw—@rdhyee
@rdhyee @ndw same as it was them, really. a perfectly sound idea that works but no-one has asked
for in real life—@rahtz
@riordan @rahtz @ndw My query is a sincere one. :-) Trying to figure out how/whether to convert TEI docs
in P. Gutenberg to asciidoc.—@rdhyee
@rdhyee @riordan @ndw whats the relationship between converting Gut texts to asciidoc and Docbook/TEI thing?
TEI to any format is easy—@rahtz
@rahtz @riordan @ndw Question of whether asciidoc is a good format to use to mark up Gut. texts and how
hard to convert txt, html->asciidoc—@rdhyee
@rdhyee @riordan @ndw re asciidoc: why torture yourself with formats we realized were inadequate in the
1970s?—@rahtz
@rahtz @rdhyee @riordan @ndw Because, at the end of the day, the human has to write the content and if that's
a barrier, content suffers.—@mojavelinux
@rahtz @riordan @ndw Context for question is @GITenberg. What document format to use that will lead to less self-torture? :-)—@rdhyee
@rdhyee @rahtz @riordan I can see the appeal of AsciiDoc for @GITenberg. A step up from plain ASCII, probably. Less expressive than TEI/DB.—@ndw
@ndw @rahtz @riordan @GITenberghttp://t.co/FdLMEMtay8 has some examples of Gutenberg -> AsciiDoc—@rdhyee
@rdhyee @ndw @riordan @GITenberg any examples of semantically-marked up Shakespeare in asciidoc?—@rahtz
@rahtz @ndw @riordan @GITenberg Not that I know of. Hence wondering about TEI->DocBook or TEI->AsciiDoc conversion.—@rdhyee
@rahtz @rdhyee @ndw @riordan Not sure either. It is not clear what properties from asciidoc to apply to plays.
I will attempt it soon.—@GITenberg
@GITenberg @rahtz @rdhyee @ndw @riordan I think @tlberglund did some thinking about AsciiDoc + plays at some point. Design the structure.—@mojavelinux