The short-form week of 20–26 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015; last modified 09 May 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.
Monday at 07:23am
We need to demand more from the News Media - more facts, less pandering to stupidity.
http://t.co/ECnMKAEt9ihttp://t.co/zBK7WPoJXB—@andendall
Monday at 12:41pm
This past year, we've seen more American police execution videos than ISIS execution
videos.—@ivieeve
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:48pm
Tuesday at 01:55am
First hotel room I've been in in a long time where TV through walls was "hard to ignore"-loud.
Ugh.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:43am
@xquery @_jim_fuller Retweeted it. I bet you can find someone good. Maybe @ndw or @jtauber would know of someone—@billtrippe
@_jim_fuller If you're still looking, I'm game. @xquery for promoting all forms of XQuery. cc/ @jtauber @billtrippe @ndw @jonathan_robie—@joewiz
Wednesday at 07:02am
Maybe in the interstellar diaspora Earth Day will become a holiday of heritage and remembrance.
"Kiss me! I'm Terran."—@evanpro
Wednesday at 10:47am
I'm so old, I remember when the web was only words and pictures https://t.co/HvVRhUnf1j—@lauraolin
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:11am
@ndw I'm having 1 more small issue with the pipeline we looked over at #MLW15, could use your assistance here again!! http://t.co/Cv8puOD5Es—@taegyunKK
Wednesday at 05:47pm
Wednesday at 05:47pm
Thursday at 10:36am
"Hi FIRSTNAME," is not a good way to start your spam advertisement for a service I
neither need nor want. I'm just saying.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:21pm
Fave takeaway quote from @Bruce_Schneier at #RSAC2015: “We’re not helped by the fact that the best personality type for CEO is sociopath."—@klillington
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:57pm
What's the AsciiDoc(tor) equivalent of inventing domain specific markup in XML and
writing a stylesheet for it? /cc @mojavelinux—@ndw
@ndw Asciidoctor extensions? We have block and inline extensions. We also have plans to
continue exploring new types of extensions.—@mojavelinux
@mojavelinux Pointers to examples?—@ndw
@ndw I owe a tutorial on this topic. Until then, we have the extensions lab https://t.co/ubXuAMlFMV
& some ref docs http://t.co/Mhv5o1crxL—@mojavelinux
Thursday at 09:12pm
OH: "autocorrect makes me say things I didn't Nintendo"—@aloria
Thursday at 09:58pm
"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously
placed print statements." -- Brian W. Kernighan—@nixcraft
Friday at 12:27am
RT @dangillmor: Obama says "look at the facts" re TPP. Except that IT'S A SECRET, so we can't look
at the facts. Epic dissembling. https://…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:41am
@mikeloukides I predict they'll get over it by making it impossible in due course.—@ndw
@ndw Unfortunately, all too likely.—@mikeloukides
Friday at 06:52pm
Wouldn't risk it. http://t.co/7EqoxlJt09—@_youhadonejob
Friday at 09:09pm
Yes, this, 100% http://t.co/4L5tntV0II @WoodhullSFA @PPact @Guttmacher @CentrSexCulture #MyBodyMyChoice—@ninaland
Saturday at 08:12pm
A Mexican, a black man, and a jew walks into a lab... and they do science, because
science doesn't discriminate.—@SciencePorn
Saturday at 11:24pm
RT @chris_coltrane: TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS EXPLAINED:
1) Rich people make money
2) It "trickles down" to offshore banks
3) Government close…—@ndw