The short-form week of 18–24 May 2015
25 May 2015; last modified 16 Jun 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 01:59pm
OH "And that puts the verb in the past tense, right? The pluperfect, actually, but
who's counting."—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:08pm
Essay question: in 500 words, how would the world be different if the word "even"
had an odd number of letters? http://t.co/DXArTd7GKT—@ndw
@ndw Let's not assume all the world is English. Lots of Spanish speakers near Texas: "Even
number" in Spanish = "número par" :-)—@MartianOdyssey
@MartianOdyssey I considered the cultural insensitivity of assuming "even" was in English but, you
know, there's only 140 chars.—@ndw
@ndw No probs & yes only 140 chars means sometimes people will read the wrong thing into
a harmless post. Happened to me other day.—@MartianOdyssey
@ndw Idea 4 essay: "número par", par, meaning even, is 3 letters. So if the Spanish won
history "even" would be odd & world very different!—@MartianOdyssey
@ndw OTOH, maybe that is the essay: Wikipedia would read The Mexiicans defeated the Texians
at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836!—@MartianOdyssey
Monday at 10:45pm
"Oddly enough, all of our rooms have even numbers."—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:48am
http://t.co/PuAiREx2eC.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl seems to be doing the wrong thing. Do I have the energy to debug?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:54am
Oh, look. Xerces-J 2.11 doesn't even compile cleanly (some weirdo abstract class mumble
something in the HTML DOM).—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:38pm
OH "An airline so small that it had no non-stop flights."—@ndw
Tuesday at 05:48pm
Tuesday at 05:59pm
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a network sniffer is a good guy with a
network sniffer. Or crypto. Actually, just crypto.—@mattblaze
Tuesday at 09:34pm
Wednesday at 04:16am
"Maybe it isn't true for you, but it is for me & that's what matters. I'm entitled
to my own truth." No you aren't. Either it's true or not.—@RichardDawkins
Wednesday at 01:20pm
RT @ArrantPedantry: I got tired of deleting scare quotes, so I created this flowchart to help writers
know when to use quotation marks. htt…—@ndw
Thursday at 06:00am
Thursday at 04:16pm
RT @Pundamentalism: "Where do you keep the Terminator DVDs?"
"Aisle B, back."—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:52am
The hardest thing about making coffee in the morning is that you have to do it before
you've had any coffee.—@ndw
Friday at 08:53am
Spam begins: "Dude, Upgrade Your Professional Image and..." Uhm. I don't think all
those words mean what you think they mean.—@ndw
Friday at 10:27pm
Join us at #XMLSummerSchool in Oxford this, uh, fall. Discount code EARLYBIRD before early registration ends,
http://t.co/Htluff7WvU #XML—@ndw
Saturday at 02:05am
Sunday at 06:04pm
I think it's unfair that my grandfather can come forward in time and kill me paradox-free
whenever he wants.—@duck1123
Monday at 12:35pm
RT @ValaAfshar: A brilliant illustration of how much public space we've surrendered to cars http://t.co/pmnWUJJc41—@ndw