The short-form week of 5–11 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015; last modified 16 Oct 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 08:17pm
Watching Dr Who on BBC America (even DVRd so I can fast forward through the commercials)
really makes me want to buy it on Amazon Inst Vid.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:54am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:25pm
"Computer science is a constant battle between space and time." @ndw—@doctortovey
.@doctortovey @ndw Correction, For ComSci: "time and space". Use of "space and time" permutation is
special prerogative of physicists.—@MartianOdyssey
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 02:24pm
Middle aged white men in positions of power expounding how the next high tech "X"
is going to improve things for everyone rings false to me.—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:07pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:06pm
I do not think my first experiment with grilled artichoke can be recorded as an unqualified
success.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:12pm
@JohnDobbin The existence of such a point remains a theoretical possibility, but it has never
been observed in the natural world.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:15pm
RT @MarkThoma: You know who likes lackluster economic growth? The rich. - Jeff Spross http://t.co/wsOq3Id9JZ—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:22pm
RT @willmanduffy: Cool fact: you were a real programmer the second you did "Hello World". There's
no exam. This isn't becoming a doctor.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:24pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:52pm
So that first episode of Black Mirror. With the pig and all. That's a funny coincidence,
am I right?—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:09pm
Wednesday at 07:13am
Wednesday at 08:09am
God grant me the wisdom to change the things I can / The serenity to accept the things
I can’t / And three hundred fifty million dollars—@Pinboard
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:10am
The long-awaited romantic remix of a @paxtonhare classic starring @ndwhttp://t.co/lKzMk7itBO (warning: autoplay on load)—@jclip
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:19pm
@MartianOdyssey Random string of characters that you interpret on a best as can basis. Oh, wait,
that's HTML5...—@ndw
@ndw Yeah, you prompt me to think use of word 'legacy' is redundant in my original tweet.
Gene is more dominant rather than throwback unfort—@MartianOdyssey
Wednesday at 11:35pm
RT @zephoria: Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard.in) gave an amazing/funny Strata talk about how data
is modern data nuclear power. Here: http://t.…—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:37pm
Wednesday at 11:46pm
Happy unbirthday to most of you.—@jessicahagy
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:29am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:54pm
A tough call, even for a seasoned decision maker like myself. /cc @ndw #LinkedIn #XMLhttp://t.co/tHucj4z31H—@gimsieke
@ndw Can we agree on you’re the moderator? (Now thinking about rules for a demojam/werewolf
mashup.) @doctortovey—@gimsieke
Friday at 02:35pm
Friday at 04:06pm
Friday at 06:02pm
Friday at 11:45pm
RT @doctortovey: Like modern #poetry? Read this: http://t.co/BcmYCeP7dF - Surveyor's Riddles by Alistair Noon & Giles Goodland. Bloody amaz…—@ndw
Friday at 11:48pm
Saturday at 12:02am
Saturday at 12:13am
Saturday at 12:24am
RT @agreeablecar: At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't
they all years?" I asked. We sat in…—@ndw
Saturday at 03:12am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:29am
"Oh... I must remember to rescue that scorpion from the bathtub later." Another reminder
from @ndw that Texas is not civilization.—@doctortovey
@doctortovey @ndw "rescue" as in pound into an atom thick paste and wash away because "yikes!"—@scotsmanuk
@scotsmanuk @doctortovey Nah. Little guy is probably harmless, I'll just toss him into the bushes outside.—@ndw
.@scotsmanuk @doctortovey Living to fight another day. http://t.co/bfNKgYchJk Well. Eat insects another day, anyway.—@ndw
Saturday at 02:02pm
RT @johnrobinson: In case you were wondering who are buying - scratch that - paying for the GOP presidential
candidates. http://t.co/hX2SrL…—@ndw
Saturday at 02:15pm
RT @sineadgleeson: What a story. "The white man in that photo": http://t.co/wdSRYl5UY7http://t.co/fp3Vprz7cZ—@ndw
Saturday at 02:15pm
Saturday at 02:24pm
Saturday at 07:17pm
"with lawyers I always assume that they came by their wealth and position through
avarice and by means nefarious:" http://t.co/ilvaDGW55Y—@windley
Sunday at 12:20am
RT @ptraughber: Imagine describing car ownership to someone who had only lived in a dense, walkable,
transit-rich city: http://t.co/ZOT9YI3…—@ndw
Sunday at 12:22am
RT @GreatDismal: People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet
have a fully adult concept of scary.—@ndw
Sunday at 07:13am
Sunday at 08:00pm
Sunday at 08:06pm
RT @ezraklein: Accounting for the fact that this op-ed is more vile than you can imagine, it is
yet more vile than that: http://t.co/YEwWZv…—@ndw