http://twitpic.com/ykpx - Das boot!
posts from 2008
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http://twitpic.com/ykku - MAM’s (Max’s) first New Year!
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http://twitpic.com/ykk1 - Happy New Year! Enjoying das boot with 2009 😃
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Hacking on wikipedia greasemonkey userscript, continually vexed by standards abuse and inline style
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Spent the cash I got for my birthday on a McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern sub. & merch; nice to cross that off the list http://is.gd/ecId
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RT @alexsotirov Using MD5 collisions to creating a rogue Certificate Authority trusted by all common browsers: http://tinyurl.com/8sv4qv
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http://twitpic.com/xs0a - Note to self: only open one drawer at a time.
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That’s ‘wrote’ as in copy and pasted php from two google hits. PHP is gross. Gotta go wash my hands.
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Just wrote a plug-in to replace Textpattern’s txp:posted format=“since” to a better human readable format w/ ‘y, m, w, d ago’
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http://is.gd/dUW2 Yes but what brand, sir?
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happy birthday good sir!
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Enjoying a 750ML Victory V12 from Christmas '07 for my birthday
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Happy birthday!
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Happy birthday dude!
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Happy Birthday! Another fellow Capri 😃 Have fun!
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Thanks to everyone for the happy-birthdays!
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Happy birthday Brother-in-law!!!
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday
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Happy B’day from all the Barnett’s! Let’s roll some sushi and celebrate 😃!!
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Happy Birthday…maybe the boy will be nice today 😃
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29N outside Charlottesville, VA is named after Jerry Falwell? Wtf is wrong with this state?!?
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Happy Birthday to one of the best cat daddies ever!
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (DECEMBER 28). You are in control this year and your universe follows the order you set for it. January brings a powerful new vision of the future. Cupid seems to be on your side in February with the people who not only love you back, but help you in various areas of your life. There’s a windfall in May. Scorpio and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 26, 51, 33 and 19.
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Happy Birthdizzle, dawg
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Happy Birthday dude. Leaving a message on Facebook is literally the least I could do. Almost no effort at all FTW!
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Happy bday!
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huppy birfday
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy birthday, Lewis!!!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/Here’s the two movies I was telling you about…
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NB: http://is.gd/dDTC Get some “have sexual intercourse” is attested 1899 in a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln from c.1840.
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The binary iTunes music library is terrible.
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Arrived in Marshville, NC ‘The home of Randy Travis and county living’
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The US Army’s West Point and Paramount’s King’s Dominion are at the same exit off 95.
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Is that for illiterate hitchhikers or did the commonwealth really ban thumbs up guestures? Will experiment with passing police cars…
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35M North of Richmond on 95S, the Cracker Barrel exit no hitchhiking sign is a thumbs-up with a red crossed circle overlay…
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Bah! Humbug!
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Wikipedia has more inline style than Kip Dynamite http://is.gd/diFQ
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Enjoying Bill Maher’s Religulous - the American founding father’s bit is the best. The Jeff Beck Group’s Superstitious was also nice.
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Ubik, the fortune file
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Watching Nova w/ @vurtyou is like watching football in a sports bar. She’s calling out theories, cheering, and trash talking the scientists
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http://twitpic.com/vqao - I haven’t had this sculpture up since '04, the drums were too deep; some minor circular saw alterations and I …
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http://is.gd/d9L2 Bass-face, page 12!
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Simplepedia
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http://is.gd/d4OC a classless div style=“background:lavender;”? Who does that? And later, a <th bgcolor=“#dcdcdc”…? Oh, and Vietnam?
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Simplepedia, a greasemonkey userscript I made to improve the style of wikipedia: http://is.gd/d0aQ
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“seriously though,” is inevitably preceded by unfunny and followed with pandering. Don’t do it.
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Wikipedia has more inline style than a San Francisco rollerblade marathon
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Wikipedia has more inline style a San Francisco rollerblade marathon
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Beer and wings @ Mothers; I pitty Sunday morning servers, all their patrons are braindead zombies. Oh well, Celebration Ale pitchers!
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Good Morning, How Are You? Shut Up! Don’t Give Me The Small Talk, Give Me The Big Talk. A Million, Million and Six, Oh I love that Big Talk,
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Grant is going for a smoke because he is lame
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For every object in your house (songs, books, art, etc) derivative of The Sirens ( http://is.gd/cFX5 ), take a sip. Those girls get around.
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eximstats -flag1=directory -flag2 directory -flag3=directory directory2 … syntax is a bug imo. “Hi I’m obviously written in perl!”
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http://is.gd/9H1I preach it from the mountain brother! Preach! Amen! Hallelujah!
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Update: authsmtp.com and Google Apps for Businesses in the Cloud Premier Edition (what a terrible name!) seem like best options.
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Help! I need a relay server to get e-mail out of Amazon’s EC2, I’m OK with paying a service provider, but only want reliable TLS-SMTP
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“”¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨°º©©º°¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨“” How has ASCII art not made it to twitter? “”¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨°º©©º°¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨“”
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Listening to B.B. King for the first time: no wonder so many people find blues guitar boring, this is crap. Zzz-linebend Zzz-linewords
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I’d like to take art direction credit for @philip_daigle’s @fbcj avatar (and I think it’s better than @fbcj’s)
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http://twitpic.com/tvnh - WHITEBOARD CLEANER: Great for Cleaning Whiteboards!
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Writing my last paper for the semester. I need to get over my infatuation with sentence structures relying on foo, bar, and baz.
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Seppuku sounds so much more romantic than it really is
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READY 10 PRINT “NO MERGER AFTER ALL” 20 GOTO 10 RUN
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Is it too late or too soon for “In what respect Charlie?” jokes?
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I’m out-of-band since around '99 or so when the drummer moved out west and the bass player and I stopped hanging out, does that count?
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Watching Cats 101 on Animal Planet and sure enough, The Boy is watching TV for the first time ever
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JIT salsa: peeled tomato, chopped onions, spring onions, garlic, and serrano peppers, basil, sea salt, pepper; I’m breaking a sweat ♥
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Long & rambling college nightmare last night; maybe I should write that paper tonight and be done with this semester
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Seven legs, a tail, a low roar, and a soft sigh: http://is.gd/bDdj , http://is.gd/bDbu (& bonus mustache evidence: http://is.gd/bDds)
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Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player) on coffee, life, and the killing floor (http://is.gd/bD9n)
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is running late, as usually
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GENERATIO SPONTANEA: The theory that the goddess Gea created punk rock after hearing Queen’s 1973 BBC performance of ‘Son and Daughter’
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Doing entry level stuff using prototype.js, with values from lame vanilla javascript, all to make up for an even lamer (but handy) API
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bitter. that is all.
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The Day The Earth Stood Still (orig) act III chase in NW DC: The army chases the cab North on 14th @ Harvard, then West on 15th? Impossible!
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http://is.gd/bfG6 I don’t see ‘roaring wood stove and book’ on the pairings list for the malbec, but those lists are bullshit anyway
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I miss my last apartment in DC. http://is.gd/bfwl But only a little bit. http://is.gd/bfwK But I don’t miss DC much. http://is.gd/bfys
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Muddy Waters ‘At Newport 1960’ needs a remix. Someone’s mic picked up enough wind to make my subwoofer go all Lord of the Rings. Mojo!
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I’m the B-I-Z and it goes like this Eating a bowl of cereal’s on top of my list http://is.gd/bbka Forget eating lunch; I like to munch
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Breakfast Cereal (Feat. Biz Markie) chorus
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The old “Hey look! Our final paychecks are here!” joke never gets old.
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Up at 0430 without an reason to be, lovely.
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All traffic lights near the intersection of Falls Rd and Joppa are out, officers are directing traffic
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Hanging out by the water cooler, sipping coffee
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Dug out my old BOSS ME-8, volt meter, and a soldering iron, took it apart, then tested the DC box, then plugged it in. It worked. Dumb.
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Robert Plant’s Hey Joe (from his Dreamland release) is better than The Experience’s. Porl Thompson > early Jimi
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In order of booby-trap depth: Laptop F6 numlocks, bottom left corner laptop fns, caps lock, three-finger-chords, d+k home row nubs
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Off to a final exam with my number 2 pencil - just something to chew on mind you - the test will be on stone tablets and I have a chisel too
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Are they like that in your house too? Like ‘yap! yap!?’ Really? It’s so loud you can’t engage in rational thought? Who’s Timmy? What well?
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Merry Christmas!
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The bouncer at the hosre just called me the biggrst asshole of the bunch: He loses. Ass.
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http://twitpic.com/qsnn - A derp
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The crawl is already falling apart. I missed the Cross Street entrence. Ordering sushi now, wtf
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Heading to Cross Street Mareket for sushi
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http://twitpic.com/qpo9 - My sixth santacrawl and we finally get snow! I was dreaming… Of a white santacrawl…
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http://twitpic.com/qplv - Santa riding reindeer and ESPN
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http://twitpic.com/qpcp - Ken owns the Santa air-hockey table, going on his third game!
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http://twitpic.com/qow9 - Burkes loves Santa. Off to ESPNZone…
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http://twitpic.com/qnn3 - The north pole makes us thirsty, off to the Wharf Rat!
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Starting crawl-day slightly banged up, as usually. Hydrating, laying a good caloric base, and visualizing Cross Street Market sushi.
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Beltway was out of SNPA again, got a Dogfish Head Shelter Pale Cornelius instead. Cheers, happy Repeal Day!
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Please Note: Nobody sings the harmony part on The Buzzcocks excellent “Harmony in my Head”. GET IT?!? SEE WHAT I MEAN!?!
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Do you like my new @fbcj avatar?
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Santacrawl Eve-Eve. The night when Santa’s 'round Baltimore dig out their costumes to figure out if the beard, hat or gloves survived '07
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Proof that my IS class prof. is in IT: He’s showing a Strongbad video on the projector right now. At least it’s relevant.
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IS final paper is to assess risk and design security goals and controls for a hypothetical org. Hrmm.
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Plato on the written word
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Any sufficiently advanced line noise is indistinguishable from technology. - GS Clarke, on the use of perl
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Help, I’ve become an Adrian Belew fanboy, and his catalogue is so large I feel like I’m falling down a rabbit hole.
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Poured a homebrew IPA: flat & tastes like an SEA - Someone Else’s Ale. I don’t think my SNIPA clone could have mellowed this much - bad cap!
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rjd2, björk, herbaliser, cinematic orchestra, coldcut, kraftwerk, radiohead, unkle, dj shadow, c+c music facto-WHAT!? http://is.gd/a8BB
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My lunch is better than yours. @vurtyou is using old spice jars to send peppers and dressing along w/ my sandwiches now for JIT assembly.
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Listening to Cassetteboy’s Festive Christmas to prep for Santa Crawl http://is.gd/a2N9
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Coffee is everywhere after I failed to place the carafe under the drip correctly. Oops.
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Ever surprise yourself by a campfire w/ hot blue jeans? The boy says the same effect works w/ cat fur + wood stove.
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Looked @ college transcript from 7 years ago: terrible. 100 credits after this semester, all 100 level courses next. Years left to finish.
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How I almost got myself killed
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Presented tonight, as usual, major communication failure and stage fright and unpreparedness, rambling, etc
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I have the diet of a toddler on school nights before class
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Sitting in 83S traffic, accident will probably make me late to class tonight. Does the twisty bottom of 83 have a nickname? Want one?
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The baltimore santa crawl is this weekend. Love/Hate Responses from friends: A) You are lame B) Can I come along?
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iLO mapping of the tab key to form controls: Brilliant!
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Ran into a college spanish professor I had 7 years ago at a party last night. Barely passed her class, didn’t ask if she remembered me.
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Walking Hampden’s 34th street for the light and art show
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Chaise, cake, coffee, computer, cat, carpet musics (http://is.gd/9uSd). Only one of these things isn’t on or under my lap. Damn cat.
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Ist es nicht schön?
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Using fluid.app for anything beyond wikipedia and google reader? I’m finally getting into greasemonkey too; très Bien!
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just finished Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/184098-steve-martin-born-standing-up-a-comic-s-life?ref=stz
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Thanks to the wood stove, our thermostat is up to 82 degrees. Running to the basement & 60 minute IPA keg for shelter from the heat.
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I complemented @vurtyou on her red Back to the Future vest, she called me mustache man and asked wtf I know. I can’t win!
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Steinski attempts to edit Led Zeppelin’s The Crunge from ?/8 to 4/4. http://is.gd/97xe (jump to 46:20) http://is.gd/98pW
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Solid Steel #81 is one long interview w/ Double Dee and Steinski covering the history of the Lessons http://is.gd/97xe over the mixes. !!
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Taking my mustache to a meeting: awesomeness
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Body Language
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Act II is universally more interesting than acts I and III.
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Browsers show protocol jargon like http:// and https:// as holdovers from dated modal systems. Modal systems are lame.
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I always flock to music lists, and always disagree with them. I can’t find any flaws in this one: http://is.gd/8Td6 (via http://is.gd/8TdS)
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Outlook Zen Koans
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Outlook Zen Koan: No Response Required.
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http://www.last.fm/event/826673 Last.fm is out of control. Who wants to go to the Obama/Biden/Clinton/Oingo Boingo gig in January?
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My mustache is better than yours.
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Adding friendfeeds to personal microblog; they don’t give their div’s any ID atts, so I have to regex instead of display:none them 😦
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Put on CCR, then solo the drum and bass tracks (use the mixer in your head), then fade in a good polka. Craving kielbasa and sauerkraut yet?
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Today’s book proclaims: Visit HOE SAI GAI Chinese & American restaurant, 75 & 85 W Randolph St. Chicago. ANDOVER 3-6474" http://is.gd/8AAL
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We have a few hundred random non-matching matchbooks from @vurtyou’s grandmother; fun to see where she and her husband traveled…
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I’m not skipping the Baltimore Santa Crawl. I know I’ll have @sxs3200 (Jesus Santa '06) and @philip_daigle in tow. Anyone else?
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Truth: Credence Clearwater Revival’s excellent “Ramble Tamble” is used for the theme music to Family Feud because FF was John Fogerty’s idea
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Is The Mekons “Where Were You” remarkably similar to Fugazi’s “Do You Like Me” or is it just a lyrical coincidence?
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USB drive -> time capsule wifi -> itunes on powerbook -> wifi -> airport express extending time capsule wifi: fail 😦
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Ben and Chrissy’s baby saw it’s shadow and hid again. Five more weeks of winter for the rest of us! 😦
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Gave The Boy the old catnip bag, he told me that if he doesn’t come down in a few hours to take him to the vet. He’s in bat country now.
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The wood stove was still embers from a large log I put on last night at 10PM; reloaded it 18 hours later and it’s roaring again ❤️
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I love listening to lawyers talk about discovery practices. Geeks asking loophole questions crack me up.
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Google icebreaker: Name the cartoon character you’d most like to be and why. I went with Daffy Duck from Duck Amuck.
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On the road with to Philadelphia with Jason for a Google sales event - where can we get good sushi for lunch?
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We fired up the wood-burning stove for the first time this season and are reheating gumbo.
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Max’s seems to be full of developer, old guy, and swinger meetups.
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#charmsec: Any reason not to ditch the Wharf Rat in favor of Max’s for the next r Meet-up?
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Anheuser-Busch’s logo sort of survived the merger with InBev: http://is.gd/88li the design sucks compared to MillerCoors: http://is.gd/Orw
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New strategy for e-mail address forms: local-part.@domain.tld: The . isn’t valid, if the form accepts it (lame), win. http://is.gd/87mo
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A major security vendor should buy Bleep Laps. Screw dashboards, I want my console to look and sound like an LFCO http://is.gd/86JP
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http://is.gd/84cs Andrew Bird @ 9:30 in February? Anyone want to carpool from Baltimore?
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Sports! Home team spread was fine until the ref flag-carded the kicker, go #3, hand-eye coordination! Balls! Fists!
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SELinux is clippy: You appear to be using httpd. Would you like help: 1) chconing 2) viewing useless sealert -l output 3) disabling selinux?
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Troubleshooting SELinux every few years makes so not fun. Does anyone wonder why this gets disabled so often?
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If the number of secured gates and locked doors one has to pass through to get to their cube is any indication of coolness, I’m Chilly Willy
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The secong day is always worse. My wrist is demolished due to nailgun carelessl. Airtools > me.
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We are playing Taboo in a college class as part of someone’s presentation and none of us have any idea why. Halp.
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Ambiguously Hyperbolic
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Doing homework the day before class instead of hours before class, as an experiment. Basement be damned.
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Dark Side of the Town Hall
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just finished reading Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Org… by Clay Shirky. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/1469412?ref=stz
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I hate pulling wire. 100’ of 12 gauge in the basement walls later and two basement rooms are joined to whole-house-audio system.
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Impressed how defensive Floyd in the excellent Live @ Pompeii film is defensive about using synthesizers but still being musicians
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The ‘valid xhtml’ bragging in so many Wordpress blog foots are lies. Code is poetry I guess, right? Er, markup.
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Dinner plans? I’m going to Pho Huong Moi tonight (alone with a book: http://is.gd/7xDx ) http://is.gd/7xCG
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I registered for the Philadelphia session of google’s Data Governance in the Cloud workshop http://services.google.com/events/cloudcamp2008
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XM & Sirius mashup means we get XMPR /and/ NPR, with different awesome programming! Yay!
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Friday, Thursday told me all about you and I’m not falling your Saturday impression so stop fooling around.
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I’m looking for examples of the ‘my’ meme pre-win95 My Documents to find who started the growing my(org.org|.org).tld intra/extranet meme
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http://twitpic.com/ll1q - I drew a giant :chin101: for Will, he couldn’t be happier!
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Real keyboard cowboys use DOS with Command Extensions enabled.
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Enjoying a Unibroue Maudite and not writing the last two pages of my paper http://is.gd/7g81
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I’m having complete and utter writer’s block working on a school assignment for the third day in a row. Argh.
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Apps that steal focus suck. Interfaces that allow a dialog to lock focus for the entire interface suck plus infinity.
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And people say I don’t make sense: @dogfish_ale you seem to be auto-tweeting an RSS feed of your own tweets? Look in opposing mirrors much?
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Drier squeak is now permanent and loud enough to hear upstairs from the basement. EEeeeeEEEEEee…EEEeeEEEereE…EEerreeEEERR… for hours! 😦
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REDACTED for my meeting today about REDACTED. Man, you wouldn’t REDACTED FFS! Who does that! They’ll probably delete this but REDACTED
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Some time between lunch and now, I bit my tongue. I don’t remember it, but it is the only explanation. I need to lay off the gum.
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http://twitpic.com/kyqd - Frosty mugs help the burn slightly moe than the smell of andouille. Mmmmm
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Burned my thumb dumping roux into the stock pot, using the leftover cut celery @vurtyou froze for a cold compress.
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… and use that raw log data to give magic back to partners, customers, etc…
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Start-up idea: use APIs and partnerships on linkedin, last.fm, flickr, facebook, twitter, friendfeed, and so on, to export raw log data…
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Did you know that my wife’s middle name “Walker” is an old Native American word for “tells rambling stories”?
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My grandmother after all 100+ of us sang Happy Birthday to her for her 80th: “I’m the luckiest person in the world and I love you all!”
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There Goes Rhymin’ Simon is a great album to put away a few bottles of wine to.
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Random fact I just made up: There is no XYZ in ping data padding ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi’ because ping doesn’t like Rush either.
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is Elam Barnett
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If I go this year, it’ll be my sixth Santa Crawl. http://is.gd/6yh8 Currently that’s a big IF. It’s always the same Sat in Dec, the *****.
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Weight Watchers ‘Chicken’ Parmesean for diner with the alley blinds closed. Don’t want the pigeons to see me - I think this fowl is squab.
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SonicWall guys, your crappy outsourced spamming listserve needs more if loops http://is.gd/6x1Y
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If your RSS feed isn’t full content, you are lazy, evil, or don’t get RSS.
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Thursday, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
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Make ready the fleet for the jump off of 83N into uB traffic, Mt Vernon detours, and slow meander back to 83N south of jump off. Facepalm.
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Dear ultra-passive driver making left without a left turn light: we have sat through four greens, please, yes we can, etc…
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I need a designated driver this morning.
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2016 Olympic log candidates http://is.gd/6u6b Chicago > Madrid > Tokyo > * http://is.gd/6u61
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I stick with IT to help people w/ human factors, and I’m into infosec becuase it is where IT has failed human factors the most
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Late to @charmsec, on the way now, walking
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Heading to @charmsec tonight, but I forgot the figlet sign! Come looking geeky, find me, a bald guy, and a ponytailed guy drinking beers
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Well, this is nice.
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This is called ability to accomplish a thing by sheer cunning.
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I’ll bet those socialists at the Grant Park Chicago party wish they were at an invite only party listening to a wedding band in AZ.
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NBC is putting red/blue state shapes on an ice rink, @will_torres and @glen_francis, go throw some elbows!
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Watching Psycho on AMC instead of 1% votes reported filler on CNN. Norman Bates reminds me of a young Aaron from Primer.
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CNN pandering to the critical Star Wars viewership tonight flubs by mentioning Trek in same sentence. I want Triumph to come chat w/ them
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Outlook Zen Koan: “A dialog box is open. Close it and try again. OK”
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That was painless. Diebold touch screens with smart cards. Hope they weren’t pwned.
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Senior center line is 1/3 way around the block. Should move fast.
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Baltimore ballot questions A through P: “sir, let me hold some $$, my car broke down and I gotta catch a bus? No? Food money? I got kids.”
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A failed analogy to stock market shorting practices
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Ugh, 103 question scantron and 13 essay questions. I haven’t used a number two pencil this much in ten years. Who still uses scantron!?
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I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail of myself leaving myself a message using a second speakerphone http://is.gd/3yt8
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I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail using speakerphone phone, of myself leaving myself a message using second speakerphone :||
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Scoops of food hit 3 bowls, 12 paws patter on 2 wooden staircases, one after the other, 6 eyes watching, only the one eats. Two wait.
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Took Dad to Fogo De Chao for dinner, now watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Long weekend!
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Amazing Halloween party @ Linda & Kevin’s w/ my Barf costume provided by Ken & Erica. Until next year, cheers.
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On C.S. Lewis
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http://twitpic.com/jfif - LIVE: Highlandtown man trapped in home after Halloween pranksters take front steps
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Di Pasquale’s margheritta pizza for lunch is the best party about Saturdays http://www.dipasquales.com/
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Omniweb feature request: ⌘-C with no text selected should yank active tab’s url to the clipboard. The url could be shortend via is.gd
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#!/ignore/jargon blacktree.com or omniweb helpfully bzip’s and then salts the QS dmg on GET. bunzip2 errors it. Omniweb or blacktree bug?
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Substituting Coffee for in every capitalized noun of moronic C.S. Lewis apologetic claptrap; beginning to understand http://is.gd/5qbY
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It is in the process of being worshipped that Coffee communicates Its presence to men.
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http://twitpic.com/jbxg - Barf ftw
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http://twitpic.com/jb98 - Ken is a great mog, I, paradoxically, am a terrible asshole. Off to Fells Point.
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Got my first bug report from Argentina. My distribution had an empty compiled version. Slight hurdle! Fixed, and thanked submitter.
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Frantically fabricating spaceballs costumes: White hazmat jumpsuits, inside-out kickballs krylon’d white for helmets, black boots, and belts
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I am dissapointed in the kids in my neighborhood this year. We had at the most a dozen stop by, what gives?
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Pho Huong Moi stomach distension mission accomplished.
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Wilco tickets sold out in 3 minutes? Did anyone manage to get any? Ticketmaster is not finding any for me ☹
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Class note taking solution search: moleskine, vim, textwrangler, word, omnioutliner.
Omnioutliner is amazing. http://is.gd/5ht5
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Class note taking solution search: moleskine, vim, textwrangler, word, omnioutliner. Omnioutliner is amazing. http://is.gd/5ht5
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Class note taking solution search: moleskine, vim, textwrangler, word, omnioutliner.
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http://xefer.com/twitter/grantstavely must rectify 3AM gap this weekend.
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RT @TheOnion Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote http://twurl.nl/wdenvu
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Hi guys! Long time listener first time caller! I called to¤BATTERY TOO LOW FOR RADIO USE¤
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The supply side of supply and demand of digital content is dictated by storage, bandwidth, and paradoxically, (ignoring IP law) demand.
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I’m Grant Stavely and I support this massage.
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One round on Don Julio reposado and Mex is out. Worthless. On to their blanco. Die Mex die.
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I’m Grant Stavely and I support this massage.
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One round on Don Julio reposado and Mex is out. Worthless. On to their blanco. Die Mex die.
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Tickets go on sale Friday for Wilco’s 12/14 Baltimore show. @vurtyou are going to try to get a pair. Interested? http://is.gd/57SD
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Anyone know Prospect? I just got some MessageLabs marketing and I would like to pass it on to the intended recipient. http://is.gd/57wj
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Manning a security awareness booth as usually, no literature means I get to ask lots of questions instead; learning a lot
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I need help making this costume (specifically the hemet) by Saturday http://is.gd/55VP
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Hating the tradeoff of my panic-proof mellow 'tude with complete inability to silence brain and sleep: been up since 2-ish
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Inbox 500+. ×delete× you are my only friend right now.
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@commonwombat flattery will get you nowhere, @ssoper I won’t be back in Gburg for DFH Ale House tonight, it was just a one-day thing ☹
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Continuing @gadievron’s thought, sites that lack https: flickr, picasa, my university (UMBC) library, forums.somethingawful. Short list!
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Tried Flock; Skin UI, default browser begging, yet another aggregator, ⌘-q, default browser begging again, gross, ☹, trashed
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Tried Flock; Skin UI, default browser begging, yet another aggregator, ⌘-q, default browser begging again, gross, ☹, trashed
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Botnets preso is stale. Yes, we get what c&c is, yes protocols used can vary, yes Brant told me, something something matriculates on a rug…
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http://twitpic.com/ih18 - NIST historical standards of measurement, 19th and 20th century
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Am @ NIST for Techno Forensics 2008. They bragged about the accuracy of their digital watches on the wall. HHGTTG was right, as usually.
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@will_torres and I will be at Techno Forensics 2008 tomorrow http://is.gd/4SNM Anyone else going?
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Firefox 3 caches very aggressively, frustrating to use when developing dynamic content
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How many useless local disk revision snapshots of http://is.gd/4QhD rainbow tables does it take to fill /snapshots? 2. Weekend sysadmin FTW.
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http://is.gd/4Qcx what my old Open Source rants must have sounded like to others. (video link)
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Carving pumpkins with friends. Mine is empty but I’m not carving a design until I get home because I want to use my powertools on it.
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Carving pumpkins with friends. Mine is empty but I’m not carving a design until I get home because I want to use my powertools on it.
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gs_linkedin
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Rotary-hammer drill, 6 lag bolts, lead lag shields, and lots of brick dust: TV is now wall mounted in 90yr-old bricks. Fear of failure: high
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Posted textpattern linkedin plugin to textpattern.org, impressed that they eat their own dogfood, and at their trust in the txp community
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Pandering eh? http://is.gd/4M7m I never knew that alternate definition.
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@will_torres says “Click here to help fight click-jacking”
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Annoying office-mates with only bearable Shaggs song ♬♫♪ My pal’s name is foot foot ♪♫♬ http://is.gd/4JjO
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http://is.gd/4x16 Early voting in MD is prohibited by state constitution. Amendment will be the first Q on the ballot. PS http://is.gd/4FbJ
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Manning a security awareness booth passing out identity theft and phishing awareness documents (and passing out schwag) REDACTED etc…
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Converted a Wordpress hresume microformat parsing plugin into a Texptattern plugin last night. Of course the css is the hardest part =/
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Once the music industry falls apart, will this autotuned, normalized, compressed, maxed-levels trend finally die? So bad.
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Warp XP
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Once the music industry falls apart, will this autotuned, normalized, compressed, maxed-levels trend finally die? So bad.
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The Office: 1912 | Shorpy Photo Archive
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As I was saying: http://is.gd/4ApL earnings calls around the world are rolling out this week, maybe it will turn around now? Nahhh…
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The Walkin’ Blues http://is.gd/4AoM has to be the lyrical inspiration for The Air is Getting Slippery http://is.gd/4AoW
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http://xrl.us/oupne Leech gmail from memdumps. @electricfork and I did this last year for Google spreadsheets from memdumps but much lamer.
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Pepsi’s new branding work is at the USPTO. The Max/Pepsi/Diet Pepsi concept should have been carried to MtnDew http://xrl.us/oupjj
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Unsubscribed: Engadget, Techcrunch, /., boingboing, k10k, favrd, and minor others. Unread RSS went from 1000+ to 200+
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Thursday: sushi lunch, friday: sushi dinner, monday: sushi and thai lunch, tuesday: sushi lunch, tomorrow: attempt to breathe under water
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Wife’s red-state grandparents are going blue for the first time in their lives because of concerns re: Palin and McCain’s debate performance
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Unsubscribed: Engadget, Techcrunch, /., boingboing, k10k, favrd, and minor others.
Survivors: http://grantstavely.com/blogroll
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Information overflow: today between serious REDACTED, I will be unfollowing you on twitter and deleting your RSS feed. Me, not you, etc
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This class is a vocabulary drill; teaching strat: say “stop and think”, then ask people what a term is until someone gets it right. Ugh.
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Writing a paper for ECAD210, taking a contrarian BS-calling approach as usually.
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Sunglasses at Night: Unintelligible chorus “something something die in shades” FTW. I thought riff was from Thriller, but it’s a year older
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Germans playing what looks like 2v2 indoor soccer, on fixie bikes, with a kickball. http://is.gd/4nJz http://is.gd/4nKH
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Sunglasses at Night: Unintelligible chorus “something something die in shades” FTW. I thought riff was from Thriller, but it’s a year older
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Germans playing what looks like 2v2 indoor soccer, on fixie bikes, with a kickball. http://is.gd/4nJz http://is.gd/4nKH
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Sane usability in Terminal.app, your path to enlightenment, etc: http://is.gd/4mmw colors + http://is.gd/4mmI Droid Sans Mono
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Continuing unix apologetics: Blue on black text? Really? PuTTY can work around it out of the box. Terminal.app? http://is.gd/4mdh
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If you think I know what I’m doing or am a unix apologist, I submit my frequent use of “find ./ | grep”
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Darwinports and yum both have fish, http://is.gd/4nH7 three years after I gave up on it, like it++, regret not staying w/ it. chsh’d to it.
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Bastement doors are leaning in place. Furniture, tv, audio, guitar gear in basement - main floor is ‘normal’ for the first time since March
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@fbcj non sequiter: http://is.gd/4kle, http://is.gd/4klp
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Splitting firewood all day in Glen Burnie with Francis G. & Amanda for winter stashes; anticipate running the wood stove a lot this winter
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I’ve said it before, but if you only listen to one mix, it should be DJ Food’s Raiding the 20th Century. http://is.gd/4fCw It’s brilliant.
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Mail.app IDLE support + Cyrus IMAPD is excellent. I can’t find a reason why typing in the new-message window lags to 20wpm.
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To date, man has made no better use of technology not in physics textbooks than automating pre-tech systems. Only an AI will change that.
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Any technology evolves until it supports messaging. It is then abused until it reaches a commons dilemma. A replacement is created. Repeat.
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Classmate suggests a company use ‘a little screen hooked up to a dsl line to push promotions to customers’. Didn’t mean TV or PC. Amazed.
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To date, man has made no better use of technology not in physics textbooks than automating pre-tech systems. Only an AI will change that.
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Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience — HBS Working Knowledge
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Any technology evolves until it supports messaging. It is then abused until it reaches a commons dilemma. A replacement is created. Repeat.
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Classmate suggests a company use ‘a little screen hooked up to a dsl line to push promotions to customers’. Didn’t mean TV or PC. Amazed.
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MailChannels | Anti-Spam Blog: An update to the email standards
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https FBI site ssl is broken, and then the site is broken. http://failover.fbi.gov/failover.htm
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Neighboring cubicle dweller is dusting his desk for fingerprints using artificial creamer and packing tape. Dude passed a psych screen?
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$FREAKOUT=echo -e “\007” in shell script alert, PuTTY using Super Mario Bros. 1 ‘brick.wav’ bell, cranked Tivoli speakers.
So.
Nerdy. -
If my server is in a cloud and I type "echo -e “\007” does anyone here the system bell?
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Italian friend: No Internet? Want me to run yoa phone? You could dial up your 56k and use what is it? Goofer? Me: gopher? Him: Yes, goopher.
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Doing REDACTED with REDACTED at REDACTED. Whoa! Look at that load average REDACTED good thing REDACTED doesn’t know about this
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Repeat: I can tell it’s election season because pot holes on East Fayette Ave are getting filled. Yeah, we should re-elect these guys!
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@commonwombat help the rest of us understand your one-man Genovese Syndrome: leave bait (erasable spray paint?) and take pictures.
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RT @fakejohnmccain: OK, I suppose it was only a matter of time until shit like this started showing up: http://is.gd/49MY (hat tip @_huny)
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New rule: no martinis on debate-nights.
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SNL could get by this weekend just on sketches featuring, McCain’s ‘incredulous-face’,
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This shit almost helps me understand religion. Or, following a good priest at least. It doesn’t, but it’s right there, I think.
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I’m a jerk to my own friends. I’m a reformer.
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Ignoring the shovels full of bullshit on both sidesof the TV, I came home at 9PM to a hot meal my wife made: amazingly awesome. <3
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I don’t watch 60 minutes very often. When does the ‘not taking a dump, leaving a dump’ guy come on?
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SNL could get by this weekend just on sketches featuring, McCain’s ‘incredulous-face’,
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This shit almost helps me understand religion. Or, following a good priest at least. It doesn’t, but it’s right there, I think.
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I’m a jerk to my own friends. I’m a reformer.
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Ignoring the shovels full of bullshit on both sidesof the TV, I came home at 9PM to a hot meal my wife made: amazingly awesome. <3
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I don’t watch 60 minutes very often. When does the ‘not taking a dump, leaving a dump’ guy come on?
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Daemonlogger on an OC3 Rolling over logfile… with a 25MB rollover Rolling over logfile… capture file is Rolling over logfile… cute
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My respect for security professionals goes up with they describe crimes without making up a new name for the same crime on the Internet.
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Dark Side of the Economy debates tomorrow. Seats are still available.
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Dark Side of the Economy debates tomorrow. Seats are still available.
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So me writing here is like stalking? I must not understand stalking, it looks so much more sinister on America’s Most Wanted re-enactments.
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Returning to work after nearly a week out. I’m not looking forwards to inbox madness and hoping it’ll be in the dozens before lunch.
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GRANT BLAH BLAH TO ‘user’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘foo’ is equivalent to “passwd user foo”. I love keeping sysadmin a hobby!
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University comedy: class and teacher stumbling in a dark room toward the difference between opportunity and weakness. This class needs a bar
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“What specific is the best example of embodying foo?.. No…that is right but not what I want… No… No. Nobody knows? Specific!” - ECAD210
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@mostofmyfolowers are @sillytwitterbots anyway right? - getting much closer though
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@howtolosefollowers modify some @preg_replace function over and over
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@phptesting stop it! @arnoldschwarzen I’m a copy you idiot, etc
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GRANT BLAH BLAH TO ‘user’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘foo’ is equivalent to “passwd user foo”. I love keeping sysadmin a hobby!
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University comedy: class and teacher stumbling in a dark room toward the difference between opportunity and weakness. This class needs a bar
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“What specific is the best example of embodying foo?.. No…that is right but not what I want… No… No. Nobody knows? Specific!” - ECAD210
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@commonwombat Thanks, I think @hodgman has the market cornered. Remind me to lend you my copy of /The Areas of My Expertise/
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Little-know fact I just made up: Jimmy Page thought the chorus to The The Yardbird’s ‘A Certain Girl’ was so cheesey he slmost didn’t join
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I wish there was a unix ‘undo’ kernel module.
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Broke the morning silence by putting on Sandinista!. The Boy, who had been napping, keeps looking at the speakers like they are crazy.
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Anyone want to take a weekend trip to Iceland? Join a paramilitary? Have you read Dhalgren? I’d be OK w/ an Orchid. I hope. Economy ☟
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@fbcj Lets meet tuesday for regex review - you need to keep the /'s on the outside for starters, and $ is end of line, ^ is the start
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Anyone want to take a weekend trip to Iceland? Join a paramilitary? Have you read Dhalgren? I’d be OK w/ an Orchid. I hope. Economy ☟
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@johnconstable which cat got lost? 😦
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Boarding a flight out of Denver for Baltimore. Homework tonight. Glad we didn’t go out last night, sweared at the 4:3AM alarm anyway.
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Our cabbie is an amazing atonal whistler comping over smooth jazz, impressive
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Just had my picture taken with Charlie Papazian at GABF, now for dinner
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Michelob is giving out small vac-packs of hops at the GABF so I tried their Pale - not bad, like an SNPA only less so
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Denver is lousy at street signs. Unrelated: wet and cold from wandering to sushi, bookstore, bookstore in the drizzling rain
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http://twitpic.com/fmba - @Celtic Tavern - smoking inside is very strange. Enjoying a Murphy’s and the fireplace
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Nice to see Heavy Seas eye patches represented at the GABF in Denver - had a Loose Cannon for Baltimore, almost feels like Fells
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Just has Sam from Dogfish Head sign my GABF tocket
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http://twitpic.com/fl3p - Taking a petty-cab (bike rickshaw) to the GABF allup hill with four guys in a two seater - awesome
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http://twitpic.com/fmba - @Celtic Tavern - smoking inside is very strange. Enjoying a Murphy’s and the fireplace
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Nice to see Heavy Seas eye patches represented at the GABF in Denver - had a Loose Cannon for Baltimore, almost feels like Fells
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Just has Sam from Dogfish Head sign my GABF tocket
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http://twitpic.com/fl3p - Taking a petty-cab (bike rickshaw) to the GABF allup hill with four guys in a two seater - awesome
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@rodizio for brazilian protein gorge before our second night at the GABF
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Bjorn Melhus ‘Captain’ installation / video piece at the Denver Art Museum: very cool mix
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The Denver Art museum would be a great set for the stronghold intellectuals holed up in after predicting Asimov’s Nightfall
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Walking past the Denver Mint - all those weeks of Penny Collecting come full circle #9yearsold
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Bartender says I should be Keanu Reeves for Halloween. I prefer Bill to Neo. I’ve got ‘Whoa!’ Going for me either way
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World Bank breach vector and timeline would be interesting. Best regards to their SIRT team. Odds the attacker was a paniced state entity?
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She: Thinking about an IUD instead, it’s–Me: I know what an IUD is, I read Snow Crash, sheesh.
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@fbcj Go to bed!
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@sx3200 I didn’t see Stone, was looking for new stuff and trying competitors. Getting Thai somewhere uptown now
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Halp I’m stuck in the Pacific Northwest Section of the GABF and can’t get out… OOOHH is that Full Sail?
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Belgian Sour palate clenser: GFY
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http://twitpic.com/fe0s - At the GABF and John is playing Guitar Hero at a radio statio booth
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http://twitpic.com/fdxh - At the Great American Beer Festival - just enjoyed a pro-am ‘Bad Penny Double IPA’
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@sx3200 I didn’t see Stone, was looking for new stuff and trying competitors. Getting Thai somewhere uptown now
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Halp I’m stuck in the Pacific Northwest Section of the GABF and can’t get out… OOOHH is that Full Sail?
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Belgian Sour palate clenser: GFY
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http://twitpic.com/fe0s - At the GABF and John is playing Guitar Hero at a radio statio booth
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http://twitpic.com/fdxh - At the Great American Beer Festival - just enjoyed a pro-am ‘Bad Penny Double IPA’
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http://twitpic.com/fcql - Touring New Belgian. I love the smell of wort.
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http://twitpic.com/fcb4 - @New Belgian Brewing in Ft. Collins, home of Fat Tire. Impressive and massive operation
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The Tommyknocker east coast sales rep has owned my ears for an hour, leaving for Red Rock tourism action next
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http://twitpic.com/fazq - @Breckenridge enjoying a pint with the boys
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My metabolism gave out around the 10th mead sample, following that with Avery samples and ribs, then staying out till 1:30 my time: pwnie
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My metabolism gave out around the 10th mead sample, following that with Avery samples and ribs, then staying out till 1:30 my time: pwnie
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@basicbrewing I enjoyed the pinot blend as well, nice to see I am going the same places you are, must be on the right track
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http://twitpic.com/f6rs - @ Redstone Meadery sampling honey wines and berry meads
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Seated on my flight to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival with an Auster novel and a largish collection of short stories. Sleepy.
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Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ There is no dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark. ♬
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♬ Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or something like that.
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Obama describes his tax plan to ♪ Brain Damage ♪, then McCain plays up his maverick record to the same.
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McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♪Any Colour You Like ♪ begins (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan
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♪ Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside ♪ -
McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics?
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Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK? Really? Giving none away. ♬ ‘Giving none away.’ ♬
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As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean.
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♬ Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today”
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Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky ♬
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McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh ‘The American workser are the best in the world’
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Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last verse of Time and end right as the song ends
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McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up these bad loans” wailing blues
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Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E
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“Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer.
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McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run ♫
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Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of breathe ♫ ‘don’t be afraid to care’ ‘look around, choose your own life’ ♫
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Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS!
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Started Dark Side right when Tom Brokaw said ‘Good Evening’ - the pulse background is kinda creepy, laughing, screaming
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Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ There is no dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark. ♬
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♬ Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or something like that.
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Obama describes his tax plan to ♪ Brain Damage ♪, then McCain plays up his maverick record to the same.
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McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♪Any Colour You Like ♪ begins (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan
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♪ Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words the poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun There’s room for you inside ♪
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McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics?
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Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK? Really? Giving none away. ♬ ‘Giving none away.’ ♬
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As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean.
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♬ Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today”
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Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky ♬
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McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh ‘The American workser are the best in the world’
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Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last verse of Time and end right as the song ends
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McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up these bad loans” wailing blues
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Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E
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“Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer.
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McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run ♫
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Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of breathe ♫ ‘don’t be afraid to care’ ‘look around, choose your own life’ ♫
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Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS!
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Is the music insynch with the debate?
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I’m watching tonight’s debate on mute with Dark Side of the Moon playing. I call it Dark Side of the Town Hall.
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Slinky at my desk: fun. Slinky at my desk with an empty styrofoam cup stuffed in one end: PEW PEW PEW fun
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You can’t spell ‘down’ without DOW
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Last day of work before I head to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival!
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Blasting a vinyl rip of 11th house after a long day http://is.gd/3D9A, so cheese but also so great. stfu this is the fourth wank solo! _\m/
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Blasting a vinyl rip of 11th house after a long day http://is.gd/3D9A, so cheese but also so great. stfu this is the fourth wank solo! _\m/
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In an era of ipods and xm radio, construction workers next door have stuck w/ a CD changer. Zep III, Skynard, ZZ-Top, and The Who. ALL DAY.
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IN GENERAL (not specific to where I work), This quarter’s financial reports will be post-crisis while last quarters were pre-. Expect FAIL
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@will_torres The fox will go to the henhouse to fix the gate; Please use newspaper personals for future comms. 1SWM 28yoa etc…
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Don’t get me started on Home Depot. Seems like I have a second home there this weekend.
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very nice! i’ll have to drag our other cousins from canton over one day or weekend to hang out since we are all in a semi central area.
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you have 60 minute IPA??
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Anyone need anything from Home Depot?
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@electricfork It’s a ticking time-bomb in my basement. Beltway was picked clean, had no SNPA. 60min is too much for a session beer imo
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1/2 barrel of 60 Minute IPA tapped, lines cleaned, finally grilled salmon & asparagus for dinner at 10. Exhausting day.
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1/2 barrel of 60 Minute IPA tapped, lines cleaned, finally grilled salmon & asparagus for dinner at 10. Exhausting day.
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Cleaning kegerator lines in prep for a new keg pick-up tonight
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11 hour-housework day; relocated LAN, new firewall, ran outlets in conduit for kegerator, patched mortar, wife cleaned EVERYTHING ELSE
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Relocating home network to basement rack, swapping pix for netscreen, networking the printer, reconnecting UPS w/ new battery, work, work
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http://is.gd/3w0e It’s neat to run through from the US’s first election and note when new states pop up vs. how they vote
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NB: Most sculptors get their marble and assignments from others, employ assistants, and live on castings of the same idea for years
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I have way more fun writing, coding, and designing via subtraction - my job title should be “Sculptor” http://is.gd/3uC1
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Did she really just ask ‘What is your biggest weakness?’: Perfectionist! Say perfectionist! ‘I just cant’ leave well enough alone Gwyn!’
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It’s not in the rules but Joe gets a social for that sly middle-finger ‘clearing his eye’ move. Stay classy Joe!
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Nuclear pronunciation: With so many actual faults, don’t get sidetracked by style. Also, Biden is a live-action Waldorf http://is.gd/3soz
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nom nom martini olives #LosingVPDebateDrinkingGame
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The medium is the massage. Truth is the size of the flag pin, the attractiveness of the smile, the tone of voice. Facts are boring.
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Joe Biden strings words together like Porky Pig moonwalks
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I’m going to practice my patronizing false-excitement voice, if it’s anything like my false-Robert-Plant singing you are all doomed
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Keg empty, enjoying a dirty martini w/ VP debate game, worried I’ll run out of Gin and vermouth, only have a full bottle each. Cheers!
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Public Television: HD, full screen, no analyst chart-chunk, no animations
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Did she really just ask ‘What is your biggest weakness?’: Perfectionist! Say perfectionist! ‘I just cant’ leave well enough alone Gwyn!’
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It’s not in the rules but Joe gets a social for that sly middle-finger ‘clearing his eye’ move. Stay classy Joe!
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Nuclear pronunciation: With so many actual faults, don’t get sidetracked by style. Also, Biden is a live-action Waldorf http://is.gd/3soz
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nom nom martini olives #LosingVPDebateDrinkingGame
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The medium is the massage. Truth is the size of the flag pin, the attractiveness of the smile, the tone of voice. Facts are boring.
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Joe Biden strings words together like Porky Pig moonwalks
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I’m going to practice my patronizing false-excitement voice, if it’s anything like my false-Robert-Plant singing you are all doomed
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Keg empty, enjoying a dirty martini w/ VP debate game, worried I’ll run out of Gin and vermouth, only have a full bottle each. Cheers!
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Public Television: HD, full screen, no analyst chart-chunk, no animations
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@commonwombat I haven’t blinked in the 40 minutes since you tapped me for B.S. '08 - bring on the cat jokes & @shmausen impersonations SNL!
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I’ve talked to people in Sweden and Israel today on the phone today. Quick somebody tap me to be their Vice Presidential nominee!
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Next time I’m a high school student playing in a rock band, we are totally going to cover Bubble Puppy’s ♬ Hot Smoke and Sassafrass ♬
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Sips tonight for every GOP ‘ya’ and Dem ‘change’. Chug for ‘in what respect’ stalling. Socials for eye-rolling. Call out sick on Friday.
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@thefrontrowe is to @BaltimoreMD as Clark Kent is to… Lois or Superman? I think Lois.
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@charmsec is halfway down the bar, look for the bald guy (@philip_daigle) and the figlet sign on our table
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@electricfork I will be at The Wharf Rat tonight for @charmsec 7 along with @philip_daigle, drinking your rounds
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I lucked into a bottle of my IPA that doesn’t taste like yeast, great stuff. The basement will be ready for brewing soon to replenish!
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I lucked into a bottle of my IPA that doesn’t taste like yeast, great stuff. The basement will be ready for brewing soon to replenish!
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Listening to Hasil Adkins (Ah! ha! ha! ha! ha!) http://is.gd/3j47 who died a very strange death http://is.gd/3j4d (Eee! hee! hee1 hee! hee!)
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Those-damn-kids ( http://is.gd/3iyd ) left ripped boxer shorts smeared with shit in my trash. The trash men left it with my empty trash can.
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Use of torture in interrogation is a stupid tactic of preemptive warfare, which is a popular strategy for failing states led my evil men
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Enjoying /Keb Darge And Cut Chemist Presents Lost And Found Rockabilly And Jump Blues/ http://is.gd/3fT6 Q. Tarantino would party like this
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Hopefully it won’t ☁ rain for a while ☼
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Shop-vac’d 30+ gallons of rainwater out of the back stairwell, dumped it in the sump. Procrastinating on sealing the stairwell bricks: FAIL
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I’m forming a league of coffee, aspirin, and water while avoiding eye contact with my opponents (lights) #debate08
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Mail.app bug w/ multiple imap accounts: (# messages) count is only accurate for one account, not the combined displayed messages. Hrmph.
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I don’t trust anyone that counts to one with their thumb and two without their thumb.
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Ugly rainy weather, systems failing left and right, it’s time for some ♫ Court of The Crimson King ♫
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Never mind the car, my real treasure is in large positions in AIG insured Lehman brothers mortgage tranches
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Anyone else getting 503 after 503 from yum hitting the RHEL5 repositories for the past few days? Very frustrating.
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I hope in reflecting on the long list of my negative traits, you tell each other, "But that’s what makes perfect for his job/wife/friends!"
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We had it right in the 90s. Experimenting on a production personal site? You still need to put up ///under///construction/// signs I guess
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CL/MIS: I was sleeping because it was 3:42AM… you were a UPS beeping about a fucking dead battery… lets get you a new battery. Thanks!
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Dad and my boss got me sick…
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Someone gave a small child car keys. Car alarm armed: BEEP! Repeat for 3 min at random until child finds PANIC button and triggers alarm
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Is the character escaping bug …'ing twitter caused by performance or security tweaking?
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Heres some beers!!
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Apologies to SMS followers, testing
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Ignore regional dialect, accent, language shift, and lay person vs. professional differences EXCEPT ‘nuclear’? Clap, Clap, Clap, FFS
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Dan Geer sounds kinda like James Randi, and even looks a little like him, only his beard is on up-side-down.
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Officemates are rocking to The Cult’s ‘Sun King’ & role-playing drinking some chillies and making The Entrance to Hammerjacks \m/ Ba …
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A bland knack for un-design? No, It’s negative space forcing the eye to uhh post–modern uhm, ism, er, look over there! runs
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Said/Means translation: “I don’t feel like I should have to ask” / “I feel you should read my mind and precog all desires and aggravations”
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Ten years ago, five hours of sleep would have been plenty!
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I love that my stolen-from-@zeldman browser hate survives 2001 in archives, while the design doesn’t, http://is.gd/2Ziq why archive css?
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I think I could teach night school.
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☹ Lists full of French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’. ☹ Fail.
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☹ <ul><li>French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’.</li> …
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<ul><li>Broken Complete Sentence with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’. Again. &nb …
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The author of the book I’m reading keeps using ‘bricks-and-mortar’ instead of ‘brick and mortar’ and it is driving me nuts arrrrr
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I need to clean my lines, all this demo work is making my SNPA taste like 100 year old bricks
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Poly’d the bathroom exposed brick, redid the entire storage room shelving; coming together nicely - too bad I have homework tonight 😦
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Fireworks over Fort McHenry - Defender’s Day was last weekend so I’m confused. Nice roof view while I grill salmon & asparagus
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At the Westminster wine festival with wife, Sanda, and the in-laws instead of working on The Basement or The Server; need a glass sling
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OH my Grandmother-in-law on medecine: “So my friend, who is a /democrat/ told me to go see this dark skinned fellow, and…”
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Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! CORED AS USUALLY
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New twitter UI, serif italics in sans copy is a sign of excellent attention to detail, some of the nav tab counts are missing though
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sounds good to me. was actually over there last night at chris and dave’s place. we’ll have to let you know next time we’re hanging out.
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Updated DNS to move my stuff from a colo BSD box to a Fedora VM in Amazon’s s3 cloud, Yay! insert NO CARRIER joke http://xrl.us/orke8
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Too bad they can’t spell Grandma’s name right…
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Wow, and I thought twitter had the market cornered: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
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dude i didn’t even know that quilt was that significant.
in other news, how are you doing? still living in the canton area?
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My grandparents are screwing up my Google vanity, I’m not the only result for “Grant Stavely” anymore! http://is.gd/2Ntb
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RT cnbc: MidAmerican Energy to Buy Constellation Energy for $4.7 Billion, or $26.50 A Share. (story developing)
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I’m not writing a paper at the last minute, the last minute isn’t for a few hours!
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It’s OK guys, I made a steampunk economy we can use instead, it’s totally rad.
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Thinking about getting a high and tight. Or a just number 4 fade. Today. Either way, eek halp!
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Gilmour: …all the greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow. No-one can replace Richard Wright.
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AIG’s one time $85 billion loan, put in perspective by federal budget fiscal spending (see: discretionary) http://xrl.us/orc65 - Yowza
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My head is spinning http://xrl.us/orbo8 “…which I admire that, that is cool, good bootstrapping there, Sister—” hilarity++
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Security madlib: Amazing, people still! ___ after weaknesses in ___. Buy ____ OTS solution! virtual-postitnotes-buzz-tank-password-hacker!
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http://xrl.us/oq82a Ars “Top 10 enterprise security pitfalls” contains at least 10 pieces of terrible, terrible advice
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Monday night football: GFY! 20 minutes to find a parking spot after school - even the Rite Aide lot was crammed, all semester!?
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Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about the guy across the street’s Corvette 😦
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Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about my car now 😦
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OK it was cute for a while but SMB1_mario_breaking_bricks.wav can’t stay my terminal bell anymore, back to visual only
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Verbing words is lame, but nouning verbs with and wrapping them in dumber verbs is worse. delete delete
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I’m crazy like a fox! I just ordered a success kit, nice knowing you SUCKERS!
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Finally watching the full Palin v Gibson 1v1DM. Lighting, editing, and interviewee are all amateur
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Just learned that my wife’s uncle goes to the same church as Palin; this is the same uncle we’ve always considered kinda nutso born-again 😦
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Anyone using a sound bar system for home theater? How is it? I don’t want to spend $3K on SVS or AV123 speakers, but I really want them 😦
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Walkiing up Connecticut Ave noticing all the black chewing gum on the ground, is DC the capitol of blackjack gum too?
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Watching Tron - I can’t get over The Dude arguing with Captain Sheridan over the judge’s niece from Caddyshack
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Oh shit, impulse buying at IKEA - the 2009 stuff is out and I’m about to fill a second bag solving problems I didn’t know I had
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There is a big flea market today at Patterson Park by the Pagoda, lots of baby gear I’m told (for my pregnant followers, not going myself)
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When I am explaining something technical and I use the word ‘basically’, pretend I said “here is the part I don’t know anything about”
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The guitar solo from Tap’s ‘Christmas With The Devil’ is today’s theme music. One note + tremolo-vibrato for 8 measures! \m/.
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Favorite excuse overheard in class for having IT Professional as a career goal: “I was a CS major but I wasn’t doing very well so here I am”
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Overheard at work: “If you could insert meaningless task, that would be great, thanks” with no sense of irony or shame
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Christopher Buckley on XMPR with Bob Edwards this morning - great stuff, tune in if you can
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I say this every four years but, if they win, at least SNL will be funny again
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Just presented in front of the class with a young student: THC is scary stuff folks
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The redirects on UMBC’s webauth put ff3 into a nasty loop of “are you sure?” - Every HIG’s wet dream
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BAM@electricfork NEVER FORGET
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RT @gruber Here’s the new URL for the Ebert piece on Palin: http://xrl.us/oqwao
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Sip coffee; inhale; coffee in lungs; cough; coffee in sinuses; gag; cough; sniffle; coffee in lungs again; accept defeat; sip coffee :||
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God said, “Let there be a Magnetic Lasso Tool”; and there was a Magnetic Lasso Tool. And God saw the Magnetic Lasso Tool, and it was good.
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The genius sidebar show/hide widget is MMN. Apple should have just bought or integrated with last.fm.
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Diebold excuses - budget, ease of use for elderly pole workers, security wasn’t a design req, it’s really tricky, unfair reviews, etc
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How the state of MD protects us from Avi Ruben: Tamper Tape (and in 2010, paper ballots)
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Drafting lawsuit re: ending civilization against LHC backers - anyone want to go class action up in this? http://xrl.us/oqtez
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Working returns SearchResEntry, broken returns SearchResDone; SRD doesn’t work - nss/pam doesn’t rebind w/ supplied creds like SRE Why not?
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Troubleshooting nss, pam, and ldap - identical configurations, different data on the wire, one ignores pam_filter amongst other things arg!
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Switched the xbmc over to Aeon this weekend and am very impressed - http://www.aeonproject.com/
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I totally don’t get this football meme, is there a funny youtube video I missed or somerthing?
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I need a dinner that will cover up the smell of the polish sausage, peppers, and sauerkraut I had for first and second lunches #ukranianfest
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Sun and Beer induced weekend naps are why weekends should be three days long
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Enjoying an Obolon Premium Ukranian generic lager - Cheers!
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Off to the Baltimore Ukranian Festival http://www.ukrainianfestival.net/ with Mom, Gemma, Aleister, Wife, appetite, thirst, etc
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I need blank dvdrws to fix my xbmc but I don’t want to melt the block and a half to Rite Aid so I’m SOL (ffs with the acronyms already)
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Don’t turn around and give the old lady in front of the house calling The Boy a pretty kitty through the screen a heart attack, don’t turn…
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rabble rabble rabble rabble
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Fact: Republicans nominated 6/8 of the current Supreme Court.
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Kool and the Gang’s Celebrate! I hope they do the electric slide next! boogie-woogie-woogie
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Sarah Palin leaves the seat up
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Just realized that I was the source of the ink spots all around me from shaking my pilot varsity fountain pen around. Now my hand is blue
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Also, #miranda_rights lol right guys? usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa
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In 2018 when the bridge to nowhere is a Trivia Pursuit question I’ll totally remember who the GOP VP candidate from '08 was. Pie Piece!
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I’m from the DC area and lived there for a few years, does that make me elite? If so, does that make me 1337? if so does that make me, etc.
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Spelled out my company name out on phone support - guessing her CRM app doen’t have AJAX live suggestions, DOS and OS/2 were funny like that
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Just installed a window unit for the bedroom, I do not trust these brackets at all
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faux media scandals don’t pwn campaigns, campaigns pwn campaigns (am I doing this right?)
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Holy shit this flag thing never ends
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Google Chrome is an amazing browser. Try it. http://www.google.com/chrome
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Oh holy day, @will_torres brought me a pound of Brach*s Candy Corn. I love this time of year!
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We live in a world, without Don LaFontaine http://lafontainesafety.ytmnd.com/ http://xrl.us/oo4w9 http://xrl.us/oo4xb
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Trivia: WILHELM SCREAM: When I woke up this morning to the boy meowing outside the bedroom for a straight 30 minutes just for head-butts.
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Trivia: WILHELM SCREAM: When I woke up this morning to the boy meowing outside the bedroom for a straight 30 minutes just to for head-butts.
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When was the last time you backed up your data?
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/team spectator while wife and friend assemble Ikea flatpack - years of payback but nothing on ‘the grill assembly of 2007’ fiasco
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I don’t understand how tapped morphed to ‘select as VP running mate’, I liked the old definition 😭
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Jerry is fucked. Enjoy the peanut butter last meal!
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Playing Tom hunting for Jerry @ the condo - I’m cheating with traps though, none of this running in place and slamming my face into walls
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I’ll admit it, got excited about Palin a bit http://xrl.us/oot53 “McCain? Well, he’s…he’s, ah…probably pining for the fjords.”
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screen and portupgrade -a like a fly on shit, white on rice, etc
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It’s only the first day of class and I’m already missing out on a happy hour w/ @charmsec, @electricfork, etc. Shit.
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Drywall dust throughout the house is alarming; I’ve sent paw prints to the FBI because MY cats never walk on the stove, fridge, leather, etc
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McAfee copyedited their super-edgy infosec Geek Pride Parade sales pitch a bit. Beating > pummeling
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Tufte’s one-day class is coming to Arlington in October & I highly recommend it! http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
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Had to check the trashcan to confirm: I’ve only had three cups of coffee today, and all before getting to the office. Time to 2-fist some
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Project Management training should include a few survey level courses in Dentistry, because a lot of it is like pulling teeth
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I need rec’s on an IR repeater system - http://xrl.us/oom3s Buffalo’s seems perfect (modular, cost effective) but as a network geek, I’m …
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Lights in the basement went up last night http://xrl.us/oom3f (if the power goes out in SE Baltimore tonight, um, not it.)
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Ubiquity - http://xrl.us/oomzd Firefox Awesome Bar + human language and graphical interface. Very nice!
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For want of the right size romex connector, I didn’t kablammo my house last night adding the two new 20 amp circuits to the circuit breaker
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Factory automobile warranty guys should really get on this twitter thing, they could make serious cash w/ social media marketing #assholes
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Soundtrack to my Tuesday: MC Building Peaks - Orinoco Flow
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Worked on electrical last night until 1:30AM with Ken - all alien orb transformers are mounted, 3-way switched working, 1/7 lights done!
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Eek, my linkedin profile is only 90% complete, what will Mom think!?
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McHamletbook is excellent - http://xrl.us/om7pr zombies and pokes and etc
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On my sixty-third or sixty-fourth cup of coffee today
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In Soviet Russia, overlords welcome YOUR slashdot effect! (Score 1: Troll)
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Also newsflash: nigiri is not sashimi, I always say it wrong
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My favorite Buzzcocks song is Brickbreaker Addict, er
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Turning the investigators into shell scripts, bbl
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@martysnarf micro-blogging is not arrogance, it’s just mostly tacky.
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@ikea picking out basement storage and brewing kitchen hardware
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I… Hate… Low… Entropy… DNS… Tranaction ID’s… B’YAH!
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You know what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like this? Patch your DNS servers.
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Cogito ergo patch
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Solid Steel podcast #71 is driving Will don’t-mind-if-I-dooooo crazy. I ❤️ Coldcut.
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I wonder when @philip_daigle is picking me up from the VW dealership?
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DNS is tricky
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Showing up early for 1PM meetings is mostly a waste of time… Mostly
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Beach volleyball tonight, I will be playing on one leg
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Tapas was nice, limping four blocks home and heading for the rooftop
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Off to the condo to do some repairs!
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Pazo rocks! IMO, Tapa Teatro has slightly better food, but the place itself can’t be beat. Very jealous.
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I’ve been going to this school for seven and a half years, I’m no dummy.
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I’ve LITERALLY got the mayor breathing down my neck… it’s nevada dot org backslash…
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Twitterific needs vi key bindings
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Philip thinks diet cherry chocolate ANYTHING sounds gross.
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Mmm post-party french bread -> french toast.
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b00bz
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Roof speakers fixed, staple-shorted in multiple places. I’m an idiot.
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Your mother sounds like the Greaseman
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Everyone is suggesting I call a doctor, then I show them my foot. Stairs: 1, Grant: 0
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http://tinyurl.com/63cmnw With lyrics like these, I don’t need something something
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Amanda: Shit! I took the ice cream out an hour ago! runs
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Rocking to Les Paul’s “Tennessee Waltz” is not unlike sleeping to Iron Maiden
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Amanda: Hey, look! I have paint in my belly-button!
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rcn, please foward zosl@erols.com to me again so that I can reclaim my 1337 ICQ UIN, kthxbye
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Sidewall ruined, made it to the office on my spare
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2:30AM whining-cat wake-up calls can’t be beat!
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43rd Law of Wiring: When wire-strippers are lost, fingernails will be broken
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inbox down to ~20 items, yay!
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So I’ve got to come check out this house and home brewery of yours… I know that you and Amanda have every weekend filled until the end of time!
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Baltimore! Waiting on our bags after SD to SFO to Vegas to BWI, fingers crossed
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Wife after two double g&t’s: Don’t confuse me with the facts! stumble
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At Sushi Nippon in San Diego after 12 hours of the US Open, sunburned and sleepy
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I must apologize for wimp lo, we have trained him wrong, on purpose…
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Heading up to LA today, hoping to find a good bowl of pho
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My phone battery is so dead that it can’t turn on enough to charge itself. Argh.
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Yikes, Comcast filtering in Baltimore is noticeably less evil
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Someone in my office is using the DC Metro
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My cat ‘The Boy’ is sneezing really strangely - I think he’s allergic to Sandra
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Gartner Security Summit is next week and I don’t have a ticket this year hint
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@GrantWalker: You obviously don’t shampoo. http://xrl.us/bk545
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@expertSexchange.com: get out of my google results you suck
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In Frederick getting beer for the weekend, then on to the campsite.
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Good to hear man! I finally realized I needed to finish school too…not doing anything with it but you know…it’s always good to finish things. Have you ever seen that SNL skit with Jimmy Fallen as the computer IT guy, Nick Burns…?..saw it the other day and it reminded me of you (no offense) good luck finishing school!
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long time man…looks like it’s going well, glad to see you’re still f’in with the computers…still talk to Erk?
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@will_torre good question. i can make it to foot in mouth in 12 parsecs!
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Foot-in-mouth half-life when talking to strangers: 6 hours.
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wears prada
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nice
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I’m in Marshville, NC for the weekend!
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CharmSec at the inner-harbor Wharf Rat tonight!
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obs
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The kegerator is empty. Oh dear.
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Cutting DNS kite strings
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Oh NBC, did you try to write your own regex for evil html tags? http://tinyurl.com/287zvd And SHTML? Really?
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NBC, protip for you: don’t allow