posts from 2011

1. Great live stream.

2. 

   PA -> Oatmeal Stout -> IPA: same ale yeast. (Taken with instagram)

   December 30th, 2011 6:10pm

3. PA -> Oatmeal Stout -> IPA: same ale yeast.

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5. Happy Birthday!!

6. Prost!

   Happy birthday

7. Happy Birthday!!

8. Happy Birthday!

9. Happy Birthday. Enjoy!

10. Happy Birthday!!!

11. @slp22 thanks Sandra!

12. Once you go black blah blah…

13. Happy Burpday Grant!

14. Any take out requests? I’m getting a few Older Viscocitiies.

    

    Niiiiiice

    

    

    Followed and bested by Ken and Fritz Imperial Stout.

    

    Got you one of each already without even seeing your order. 😃

    

    Correction: the rightmost is a Serpent Stout. Not pictured: an amazing Cuvée de Tomme that we’re getting bottles of.

    

15. Yum.

16. Stone samplers.

17. Our vacation rental car, sadly missing the third pedal.

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18. Our vacation rental car, sadly missing the third pedal.

19. Amanda Walker Stavely found us the tackiest place on earth to stay mid-way to San Diego and it’s not in Vegas.

20. Golf is such an enigma to me. http://t.co/Kpn2zpKF

21. 

    Golf is such an enigma to me. (Taken with instagram)

    December 26th, 2011 11:42am

22. Golf is such an enigma to me.

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23. “The Yule Log” channel uses a gas fireplace. Wrap it up Americailures.

24. Watching Live and Let Die with Larry G. Walker and Amanda Walker Stavely. Live and Let Die makes Austin Powers look like a documentary.

25. I’m moving charmsec.org to a new registrar a few days before @CharmSec 43 because I passive aggressively like breaking MediaWiki sites.

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27. Coronado Sunset

28. Michael Graham Elizabeth Funderburk Merry Christmas!

29. 

    

30. Thanks!

    

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33. RT @GAJoaby: @ibogost new game idea - you sign up and immediately have to reset your password. All you ever do is reset it.

34. Shameful, shameful, shameful.

35. Dr Rubberfunk’s Funky Christmas Vol.2 http://t.co/eFBiVnhH have a rubbery christmas with @drrubberfunk

36. Found a German place to take Chrissy

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37. Anchor Christmas

38. Cocoa is for cobblers.

39. The more marrow, the more likely I’ll suffer to finish the entire bowl.

40. The more marrow, the more likely I'll suffer to finish the entire bowl. 🍜

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41. @johnconstable not to Android.

42. 

43. Cats are right about one thing: sun patches are awesome.

44. The Boy insists on sitting facing the hot radiator at just whisker length.

45. The Boy insists on sitting facing the hot radiator at just whisker length.

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46. When did you and I form a Pirate Rock band?

47. 

    A healthy, lucky, IPA Yeast cake that’s about to get another spin at the wheel of life in an Oatmeal Stout. (Taken with instagram)

    December 18th, 2011 4:40pm

48. A healthy, lucky, IPA Yeast cake that’s about to get another spin at the wheel of life in an Oatmeal Stout.

49. A healthy, lucky, IPA Yeast cake that's about to get another spin at the wheel of life in an Oatmeal Stout.

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50. RT @biorhythmist: How old were you when you found out that Santana wasn’t real?

51. RT @GoldbergLawDC: Chris Hitchens, one of the great writers of our generation, died yesterday. Hitch was once called Americas foremost r …

52. Never change.

53. @davidmoffitt @sxs3200 “Churchill and 007 martinis are nonsense up with which I will not put.”

54. eight, equals, equals, capital-D

55.  Twitter.app 2.1.2

    • Fixed “Open links in background” setting
    • →, →→, →→→, etc now opens consecutive links in toots

56. Good.

57. Also good.

58. Would.

59. MC Hammer is MCing the Zynga Holiday Party. 2L2Q

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60. MC Hammer is MCing the Zynga Holiday Party. 2L2Q

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63. Hour long piece on Licensed to Ill? Thanks XFM!

64. Note to self: find more Harold Budd stuff.

65. OH: I really like that word by the way. It’s like sexy but it’s “regexy.”

66. 

67. What’s up December?

68. Yeah I don’t use google, I use a really obscure search engine, you’ve probably never heard of it. --Me, seriously

69. I, personally, have never read a man page on my own time, and would never do it on the company’s dollar or the government’s dole. #hashtag

70. @mckt_ enough bartenders get the dry martini wrong that I wonder if it’s de facto now, like shaking it, or using vodka.

71. RT @PeterSokolowski: To those who say they only use ‘decimate’ to mean “reduce by one tenth,” I say: how do you use ‘quintessential’?? # …

72. The only nice thing I have to say about OSX Lion Server is that the nat service can be replaced with a shell script.

73. “pepper spray”

74. @sxs3200 @vurtyou any time!

75. Welp,

76. Lagunitas flights: Ruben & the Brett’s, Doppel, Fusion and a wet hopped IPA

77. Lagunitas flights: Ruben & the Brett's, Doppel, Fusion and a wet hopped IPA

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78. Touring and tasting

79. Bottles to go.

80. Woo beer!

81. 

    It’d be like them to charge an obscure 1990’s currency wouldn’t it?

82. @bbaskin the first @charmsec conversation I had with you was because I disagreed with a talk you gave at @dojosec, and you changed my mind.

83. Chicharones is cotton-candy pig.

84. @sxs3200 CISCO, THE GATEKEEPER OF GOZER

85. 

    Holy crap I finally figured out how to beat the boss-level on Abbey Road without any non-completionist cheats!

    November 20th, 2011 8:27pm

86. 

87. Holy crap I finally figured out how to beat the boss-level on Abbey Road without any non-completionist cheats!

88. Mid-November and I’m still thinking “well that sure is a neat costume, wonder what it’s supposed to be of?” of people in The Mission.

89. @kidkoala RT @newmoticons KOALA ! ━━► ᒓᴥᒔ

90. Mid-November and I’m still thinking “well that sure is a neat costume, wonder what it’s supposed to be of?” of people in The Mission.

91. Wish I could pepper spray a cow.

92. Come on Obunlger, let’s hear it.

93. RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: R is bc for hipster.

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95. Peter Gabriel

96. Peter Gabriel 🐵

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97. “You gonna pee on that? Because if not, I will.” --The Boy

98. *Thus the remark attributed to W.H. Auden: “Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think.”

    http://t.co/pc6ZvdDB

99. “Yeah I pretty much like all kinds of music except for 60’s Soul. Oh and 60’s Rhythm and Blues, I can’t stand that either. But everything else is cool ya know?” – something no one has ever said ever.

    http://www.mixcloud.com/heavysoulbrutha/flyjack/#utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=resource_link

100. November 15th, 2011 9:11pm

101. RT @fromedome: Pretty sure Google’s disconnect with society hits its peak here. So ridiculous, it’s almost a parody of itself. http://t. …

102. Shouldn’t the game just be called “clicker” now?

103. 

     Please DO NOT impale the pigs on the front gate again. –The Mgmt (Taken with instagram)

     November 13th, 2011 5:22pm

104. 

     Centennial hops! (Taken with instagram)

     November 13th, 2011 12:58pm

105. So, I Found A Use For Folder Actions.

     Aaaag, it’s so annoying having to add the ~GNU/Linux ISO~ torrent file I just downloaded to my home server’s torrent daemon’s auto-start directory. So, I hacked up this Folder Action to do it for me automatically.

     November 13th, 2011 12:10pm

106. I ordered a black light. When it gets here, I’m gonna put on a freshly laundered white shirt that’ll glow just right, turn all the other lights off and shutter the windows, turn the black light on, and mop the hardwood with The Boy hog-tied to the mop handle, his screaming and yowling drowned out by Deep Purple’s “Burn” as loud as I can stand it.

107. Please DO NOT impale the pigs on the front gate again. --The Mgmt

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108. Please DO NOT impale the pigs on the front gate again. --The Mgmt

109. Centennial hops!

110. Centennial hops!

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112. Bogost should sell protective and decorative covers for cows. I don’t want mine to get scratched, something something resale value aspergers.

113. 2% Supremacy.

114. RT @rattle1337: Video of the counter-espionage talk I gave at SDC can be viewed online: http://t.co/J32Dpa2c #APT

115. Cat drugs

116. Cat drugs

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117. Every morning I wake up and read MS UDP vuln headlines and open palm slam a #fail into the echo chamber w/ linkbait.

     http://t.co/UKiIkycb

118. My hops look just like the hops in miller lite commercials now, I’m so excited! But like how will I know when they’re cold enough to drink?!

     

     Aperture from the app store w/ iCloud, Facebook, and flickr integration: magnets at work, stealing my freedomses.

119. Solution to your cat peeing problem

120. SMTP has had MAIL FROM: <> null reverse paths since 1982. Web developers still spoof envelope senders to match recipient addresses in 2011.

121. Schnitzel spaetzle dunkel kraut mustard veal and as much other German food as I can eat!

122. My cat has begun peeing on things around the house. Anyone in the SF area know of anyone living in the country that want an outdoor cat? I’m not looking forward to dropping him off at a ‘shelter’.

123. SMTP has had MAIL FROM: <> null reverse paths since 1982. Web developers still spoof envelope senders to match recipient addresses in 2011.

124. @skype hey so like I use skype.app on multiple Macs, and each of them randomly escapes ’ like stuff to ' like stuff and it’s lame. Sup?

125. ★★★★★ Stavely, 2011

     “Grant is proud to abandon RSS as a waste of mortality, but embarrassed to have ditched television and driving first.”

126. ★★★★★ Stavely, 2011

     “Grant is proud to abandon RSS as a waste of mortality, but embarrassed to have ditched television and driving first.”

127. Giving up on RSS as a thing. Kinda surprised.

128. 

     

     

129. Still impressed the next morning.

130. “Cookie.”

131. 

     Yep!

132. Hop progress.

133. @mrgan by forcing you to dig for every tissue, they perform an environmental reminder to consider the life of a tree.

     Or to use your shirt.

134. Someone took a picture of me riding my bike to work and photoshopped a car over me, wth.

135. Robin is a terrible batcopter pilot.

136. RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: In startup we are hire only rockstar, ninja or samurai. Vague familiar with computer is big plus.

137. Heck yeah: going.

138. To the tune of The Damned’s “Neat Neat Neat”: “click click click”.

139. Buzzcocks’s ‘Why Can’t I Touch It’ is the most in-the-pocket (to the point that it’s almost behind-the-beat) funky punk song I know about. Owns.

140. Nails the style.

141. Holodeck computer, load the cow clicker simulation…

142. Read The Great Gatsby straight through on my flight home. As an adult: 7/10, pretty good in parts, would like to read a smart modern deep-dive crit of it.

143. I am surprisingly still opinionated about how Dead Man’s Curve on Penn Shop Road got ‘fixed’ and how Route 75 in front of the Green Valley Firehouse was updated.

     ~never4get~

144. Whoop whoop. West coast. East coast. Dahaa dahaa --rappin duke

145. Not sure how I feel about what happened to the actual head of this, one of my favorite standard tunes, but as for the rest: don’t blink.

146. Click click click click click click click click click click click click click click

147. I sure hope my patent-applied-for Ultra-Magnetic Cat Litter doesn’t cause as many ‘incidents’ as my patented Ultra-Magnetic Cat Food did.

148. Nice to see a dederegulation petition, for whatever petitions are worth.

149. At a 24 hour McDonalds, the bottled water from the CocaCola company costs more than a large coffee or a medium coke, and that, your honor is when I

150. Lost luggage counters make me respect logistics and want to pay good baggage handlers more and fire a manager somewhere.

151. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say “Help, I don’t know how to get down outta this tree!” --A Cat

152. This click is so passive aggressive that I’m not even going to include the passive aggression but in case you were curious, know that it’s about YOU.

153. Fucking speech acts, how do they work?

154. Fucking speech acts, how do they work?

155. /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/default/ are directories for configuration files in a directory for configuration files.

156. Me, looking at your posts.

157. As promised: here’s me w/ my new haircut.

158. CLICK ON: Apply directly to the empty space where the cow used to be. CLICK ON: Apply directly to the empty space where the cow used to be. CLICK ON: Apply directly to the empty space where the cow used to be.

     Available at Walgreens.

159. @schuetzdj @textfiles seconded. I did some consulting for customink.com when they were growing, seemed like good peoples.

160. @mckt_ even a disgusting Watermelon beer can’t break the “all beer is good” rule.

161. What are they clicking from? No!, their clicking TOO, make the absence of a cow moo!

162. Occupy cow clicker. Just walked through an OWS protest in the financial district. Good signs!

163. Enunciation is key. I wanted a half-guard high-fade and got a half-guard fade to zero-guard on the sides exxxxtreme skater cut. Might keep it, but pretty punk rock lookin.

164. 53% lols, 47% mehs

165. Welp,

166. This will be attached to all future 'Find My Friends" requests. Get used to it.

     grant@grantstavely.com btw, if you want to creepily stalk me like Hall Y& Oates.

167. @MikD but I’ve been trying to figure out AirTunes for years: http://t.co/CNp8ixbI

168. @MikD Mine will intermittently keep playing w/ no sound but never mid-song. Cordless phone? Microwave? Switch from/to 5GHz from/to 2.4?

169. Penultimate Piece of Purgatorio Pizza

     

170. Broke or sprained one of my toes this morning trying not to kick my cat.

     Lesson learned: Always kick the cat.

171. I like to chew candy corn with the few all original, non-filled, non-crowned teeth I have left so’s to keep 'em in line.

172. A Night In Clickisia

173. Two officers on foot are walking Dolores Park reminding folks that there is supposed to be no alcohol in the park: strangest thing I’ve seen all day.

174. An imaginary mix

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175. I upgraded to a Pro™ account and am strolling through an infinite VRML strip mall of your postings, in a gel-submerged aerotrim and goggles.

176. 

     Yep. I hope to!

177. Centennial Hop cone buds, five feet up the vine.

178. The right production, drum beat, fuzz solo, piano break, amazing tune in general, and variety of silly vocals are enough to completely make an otherwise insane “(oh no)” totally OK.

179. Free your mind and yo ass will follow.

180. I want some of this guy’s work.

181. Gonna write a postmodernist essay about how the skinner box evolved to “click here” links on the web, and then to “click this cow for now reason”, and then to “click here for no reason”.

182. Fleet week bingo: ask a drunk Marine where he’s from and he’ll point to the ship a block away docked within stumbling distance. First to four state names on the first response wins.

183. @sxs3200 That keyboard looks really nice but at that price, I’d demand gold plated optical interconnects and a beefy ferrite core, minimum.

184. 

     

     

     

     

185. BOOM

186. MY GOD!

187. The gateway to all knowledge: “BAYWATCH WAS A DOCUMENTARY” “AND THE EVENTS HAPPENED IN REALTIME”

     

188. Wanna see John F Baker III’s.

189. RT @flantz: My thoughts on Cow Clicker, in case you were wondering. http://t.co/zLEqTv8X

190. Two hours 'till the eschaton.

191. torrent applescript folder action

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192. @AWS0807 GABF tip: Drop your cup for a round of applause!

193. Watching a documentary about the history of film: the first close-up ever was of a kitten. Keep trying, Internet.

194. wood-engraved-rabbit

     I N F O G R A P H I C S
     I N A N U T S H E L L

     http://t.co/rdXe3JKt

195. You know it’s tipped-out!
     Why would you ever wanna step?
     Aw, click-click-click with the click-a-saurus-rex!

196. Put your hand inside the puppet head.

197. (╯°□°)╯︵ suoıuıdo

198. @dtjedi I like @routesy

199. In honor of Cow Clicker.

200. “I only wear a helmet when I’m drunk and other bicyclists are wearing helmets, so like, you know, I’m totally in control of it.”

201. @MikD @chipmonkey @vurtyou http://t.co/TjOz0B0k

202. RT @scottsimpson: “If there were only a way to make kids have to shave…”

     —Somebody at Procter & Gamble, right now

203. “We’ve always been business partners with Adbusters.”

204. Some of the best, peak, hilarious, insightful, and educational crit I’ve read.

205. Apologies for the meta discussion but now that Facebook has changed all of our mutual subscriptions to Subscribed -> Most Updates instead of All Updates in order to curate our feeds for us, everyone should now SEO their status updates to be “INTERESTING” to each other. I think this is doable by mentioning hot brands and current events or by going to Google plus. Republicans Levis Redskins Obungler Microsoft.

206. Third cup.

207. Have some coffee, put this on, watch the day start, sigh a little.

208. RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: Scratch surface of any CTO and you find junior devops + Peter Principle.

209. “Tank, I need a program for giving a presentation like Steve Jobs. Hurry.”

210. Corollary: If the ideas are assertions of negativity, conspiracy, or peeves; the value is certainly nil.

211. If the best description for a collection of ideas in a thing is the number of ideas in the thing, the value of any one idea is probably nil.

212. Sampled in a Mixmaster Mike mix, classic bit.

213. 

214. iPhone app still moo’s!

215. AirTunes is simultaneously my favorite Mac ecosystem thing and the worst: the non-UDP half of the protocol seems to lack introspection.

216. AirTunes is simultaneously my favorite Mac ecosystem thing and the worst: the non-UDP half of the protocol seems to lack introspection.

217. RT @rands: Don’t be so f*king strategic : http://t.co/Mr7LNH8t

218. “Something there is that doesn’t love a firewall.”

219. Frost, one of the hairless cats of Borderlands bookstore

220. Shelter from the wind at Goat Rock Beach

221. Goat Rock Beach

     

     She refused to pose for a photo. Hairless (not shaved, actually hairless) cats are weird-weird-weird but super cute.

     

     

     

     

     

     

222. Goat Rock Beach

223. Goat Rock shelter

224. The biggest tell that Amanda Walker Stavely and I are punchy as heck at 11-ish when we stop working every night is how funny pretty much everything is.

225. Neat stuff.

226. This breach notification is a Sierpinski Triangle of precious foolishness:
     http://t.co/5FzcDl2

227. @grahamvsworld @alexhutton @daviottenheimer NOVA area cyber-JO is like simultaneously loving and completely misunderstanding Dr. Strangelove

228. @LucasErratus attack source fallacy reminds me of @judy_novak’s hilarious (and I paraphrase) “IANA! I’m being attacked by 127.0.0/8!” story.

229. RT @kylekinane: THIS YACHT KILLS FASCISTS

230. “Heh, you just wait, it gets even worse after you’ve—” is the universal bad-advice prefix.

231. 

232. CYA later shitlords!

233. "Featuring some vintage soca, calypso, steelpan, psychedelic funk, and voodoo jazz. Some surprises, some real rarities, some classics, some discoveries."

234. Happy Birthday Ben Miller and John F Baker III and happy un-birthday to everyone else!

235. “I told you a registration wall wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.

     “It was the /best/ registration wall”

236. @ssoper Cat’s_Cradle, Slapstick, and Breakfast_of_Champions are all excellent.

237. da ha, da ha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85G5SI5Nu3s

238. Martini music.

239. YES.

240. “The crystal I wear around my neck contains an essence that gets recharged when I Project Manage with a bro who also has a crystal.”

241. 'patawork: “The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described…”

     http://t.co/67EViMn

242. Mr. Boddy was killed by Project Manager NewGuy (PMP, CPM, MBA), in the conference room, with the business requirements document.

243. Timbre and cadence. Nordine masters both.

244. I forgot how good this EP is.

245. The Bovine Eschaton has passed.

246. iTunes “Consolidate Library” drops lost entire albums, way to go crapple!

247. Dark chocolate and Old Rasputin Imperial Stout: a waste of Stout. But, a nice combo, and heck, there’s always more stout.

248. Grant Stavely Lou Stavely

249. Meccanic Clicking (Oh We Go)

250. Gotta click 'em all!

251. If it ain’t fixed, don’t break it.

252. thanks man

253. If you don’t have a I-am-sarcasticly-handwaving-this gesture, you’re probably a handwaver.

254. Alright, I didn’t wanna have to do this, but from now on, anyone that mentions bitcoins is gonna have to put some real coins in this jar.

255. pastebin.com/(pistol gun sounds)

256. Rediscover the pop masterpiece that is TMBG’s self titled debut.

257. “misting the ol’ parakeet”
     “watering the birdie”
     “washing the do-do baby”
     “the old man in the park sprays one handed” http://t.co/Hx4xnxZ

258. Sly & The Family Stone - Into My Own Thing, great opener.

259. 27 hours to Cow Clicker maybe not being a thing anymore.

260. For sale: baby cows, never clicked.

261. I too, know nothing about letting go.

262. RT @sbnation: We debated this for a while, but then remembered it is 2011. RT @BSargentOKC: Why no app planned for the BlackBerry?

263. 2011 and this is still a thing, not just status quo. Shameful.

264. Is a man not entitled to the moo of his own click?

265. Be a security hero: http://t.co/rSZRXss

266. As I was saying: Insufferable weather bragging.

267. Be a security hero: http://t.co/rSZRXss

268. OK California folks, let’s get back to being insufferable about the awesome weather instead of earthquakes.

269. The world of the day today is: pleonasm.

270. The world of the day today is: pleonasm.

271. Wrap it up mbailures.

272. “It was the best butter.”

     “Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well, you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.”

273. hi ho.

274. “You know you can just plug your phone into your mac and use iPhoto and…”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

275. RT @rattle1337: Massive doc drop on Comment Crew (Chinese APT group). This is legit. I’ve dealt with some of these C2s. http://t.co/y1iN9U5

276. “Inside every introvert is an extrovert that can be brought out by a encouragement and shame.” – something some extroverts actually believe

277. Anybody want writequit.com? I’m abandoning it 8/24.

278. sneeze

279. “I believe that the kind of economic arguments advanced here will be found to apply to protecting ‘bricks’ as much as ‘clicks’.”

     Why Information Security is Hard – An Economic Perspective, Ross Anderson

280. Driving from Portland to San Francisco today: all highway bit we’ll keep the top down and blast Huey Lewis & The News’s greatest hits all 12 hours anyway.

281. go to hair of the dog brewery!!!

282. Deschutes Pub, Portland, OR

     ![McMenamins, I mean, damnyoiatocorrect.com.

     That the domain for that silly site Is spelled correctly is a tell by the way.](/facebook/photos/437170353939/10150264344893940.jpg)

     

     Experimental – the first they made in the new pub.

     

283. McMenamon’s sampler, at an empty pub downtown.

284. Wheat and pilsner ipa (that’s one beer), lemonade hefe, and a cask bitter, and a few others: all samples of course.

285. We’re in Portland, OR for the tomorrow (Sunday), what’s to do?

286. Pelican Pub & Brewery, Pacific City, OR

287. A huge rock and a bigger dune, in Pacific City, OR

288. @MikD @mckt_ I wanna hit some v0’s* soon †.

     • My hands are sweating cause I thought about climbing.
       † We gotta get there early to boulder.

289. Starbucks is a failed KGB plot staffed by valley girls cargo-culting what Russian’s raised in miniature “American” isolation camps in eastern Europeean bubble-complexes learned in “PSYOPS 325: Surplus Confusion”.

290. Russian River Brewing, sour ales aged in used wine barrels. And an IPA, and a root beer. And a table. And a chair. And the next IPA too because welp.

     

     

     

     Dude keeps describing the Irish Lager to people as being kinda like ‘Harps’, it’s precious.

291. Rogue Brewpub, Newport, OR

292. I find a delete button indispensable.

     

     Don’t lay out honey and ask a bunch of bears to “check it out” without disabling it’s e-mail alerts.

     

293. Blind Pigs

294. Cya later shitlords

295. She says, “Oh, never mind about that heart-warming scientific study, I read the the data: they only sampled 16 people.”

     Would marry again.

296. Defcon click

297. RT @rands: When you say “Offsite”, I hear “Boondoggle”.

298. There are 10 kinds of people at #defcon: Those who wash their hands when given a chance and those responsible for all disease propogation.

299. @chipmonkey @mikd shucks, blushin’ a bit, honestly.

300. I’M GOING TO LAS VEGAS FOR B-SIDES LV AND DEFCON, AND I HAVE OPINIONS.

301. I’M GOING TO LAS VEGAS FOR B-SIDES LV AND DEFCON, AND I HAVE OPINIONS.

302. I run rsyslog, dnsmasq, ipfw, and nat, w/ my own LaunchDaemons on my mac mini home server/firewall. Does OS X Lion Server have equivalents?

303. I like to think there’s an accepted American spelling of deluxe without the ‘e’ that means ‘just kinda alright I guess’.

304. Hey pal, don’t be blue, you know there are plenty of fish in the MECC Odell Lake.

305. Hey pal, don’t be blue, you know there are plenty of fish in the MECC Odell Lake.

306. @gnachman iTerm2 is amazing.

     Q: Without Terminal’s hold-⌥ geometric-select, I toggle Vim’s number/nonumber a lot.

     Am I missing something?

307. The only unlocked-computer tomfoolery I endorse is ponies: http://t.co/n3s44ma

     And I just got got: http://t.co/UBwtH0r

308. The only unlocked-computer tomfoolery I endorse is ponies: http://t.co/n3s44ma

     And I just got got: http://t.co/UBwtH0r

309. RT @jasonmustian: When Clippy sees something, Clippy says something. http://twitpic.com/5wos5r

310. Surprise tour opportunity!

311. I never noticed until I sprained my right wrist: I spacebar exclusively with my right thumb.

     And, that’s my story.

312. The sound of one hand clicking.

313. Q. Where does anti-content come from?

     A. That’s a stupid question
     A. You’re stupid
     A. I’m stupid!
     A. RTFM!
     A. Just Use My System™
     A. spam

314. This sprained wrist is going to be annoying for a while. Don’t mess up stupid bike tricks, folks.

315. “No, right!”
     “Yeah, I’m avoiding a pothole, I’m not retarded.”
     “Honey, I know that: if you were retarded I wouldn’t yell at you.”

316. If I’m going to get 30+ of you past the double doors into my building for a party at midnight, you’ll laugh at my fucking ali baba and the 40 thieves joke.

317. Don’t click a cow, man!

     —Herodotus

318. North Beach Trans-Amerifog

319. Call me morbid, call me pale,
     I spent six hours on your trail
     Six full hours of my life your trail

     And if then I had five seconds to spare
     So I clicked my cow.

     —The Clicks

320. The cow clicks in mysterious ways.

321. Overstand instead of understand: get it?

322. RT @ibogost: Cow Clicker shares a birthday with Marshall McLuhan.

323. Make a wish.

324. OH “Well the first thing I did was make sure it wasn’t from you guys because I don’t trust you guys after all these Hasselhoffs.”

325. PSHSSHHEEEeeowshwshwshwshwshwshwshwshwsh

326. OH “Well the first thing I did was make sure it wasn’t from you guys because I don’t trust you guys after all these Hasselhoffs.”

327. Sitting in the clicking room!
     Sitting in the clicking room!
     Sitting in the clicking room!
     Sitting in the clicking room!
     Because they can’t get up!

328. M̼͙̱̋̊̽͛̀o̺̘̺̭͑͒o̳̘͙̲̎ͯ͆͜o̜̹͈͙̙͂͐ͣ̇ͩ̎͒̚o̧̾̽ͦͣ̐҉̦̣̗̪͇̦̳ȍ͚̟͉͆̈ͤ̑̕͘!͙̟̬̟̪͊ͭͧͯͧͣ̒̇̿͢͡

329. Brian Eno. “I’ll Come Running To Skip This Song.” Another_Green_World. LP. Produced by Brian Eno, Rhett Davies. Island Records., 1975

330. Brian Eno. “I’ll Come Running To Skip This Song.” Another_Green_World. LP. Produced by Brian Eno, Rhett Davies. Island Records., 1975

331. Rolled 12 miles today with Amanda. I’m loving the new road tires on my mountain bike – hardly had to pedal at all.

     

     We did. 400 feet over 6 miles is so gradual that it seems flat.

332. Walls and Bridges!

333. “Hey Dad, why is every article on the web two pages long? Some are even more!”

334. Wishing I was eating a cow on the move instead.

335. MENE MENE TEKEL CLEKEM

336. The Mooney (sound of a cow Mooing) to Bitcoin (฿) exchange rate is bullish right now folks but Linden Dollars (L$) and Facebook Credits (F¢) are up.

337. Prince, doing his best Eric-Clapton-as-impersonated-by-Marty-McFly-at-The-Enchantment-Under-The-Sea-Dance: “Alright guys, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, I’m only showing up for the solo, try to keep up.”

338. OH: I’m pretty sure there have only been three licenses to ill issued and you weren’t issued one.

339. Shame on a clicka who try to run game on a clicka

340. I clicked on my cow and it didn’t moo and so I want my damned money back.

341. iif you unddESCxAierstand this messegeESCdbxAmessageESCbbbdwilove ESCA, you’ll love: http://t.co/3KC6H8L

342. iif you unddESCxAierstand this messegeESCdbxAmessageESCbbbdwilove ESCA, you’ll love: http://t.co/3KC6H8L

343. The FreeBSD handbook for ipfw has aspergers.

344. 

345. An evening fog settles on San Francisco.

346. RT @darendoc: If NASA had any guts, they would dress the landing crew at Edwards as Apes to receive the Astronauts on their last Shuttle …

347. THE END IS NIGH

348. Skateboarded to work today like a real manchild: mongo.

349. A click, so far as it interests us, does not act at a distance. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

350. Fortissimo.

351. This click is your click. This click is my click.

352. N.B. When being watched, e.g. this-telephone call or-email may be monitored: be sure to mention that my voicemail isn’t set up.

353. “@chipmonkey: …read this: RT @csima: 1password explains the new Dropbox terms http://t.co/JI9sr1S”

     Be wary of outrage: http://t.co/Enh0g5V

354. 

     Hike down from the Legion of Honor Museum along the Lands End trail and go right off the trail. I think we were about here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=37.787937,+-122.505820&aq=&sll=37.799001,-122.517815&sspn=0.052561,0.079651&ie=UTF8&ll=37.793304,-122.498846&spn=0.052565,0.079651&t=h&z=14

     

     

     

355. 

     Lands End

356. 

     It’s got chunks on garlic and sprigs of garden-grown rosemary poked into it all over the place, and it was rubbed in kosher salt, pepper, and paprika. As I took it off the grill to rest, I heard a neighbor play Thus Spoke Zarathustra, so I’ve got a good feeling about it. 😃

357. Breaking in the new grill with a 4 pound prime rib to make sure it’ll adequately cook hotdogs, hamburgers, and kielbasa Monday.

358. I know it’s a function of anonymous text hosting sties but ASCII figlet banners 15 years into this hypertext experiment is just precious.

359. This krautrock punk tune has a fever something something xylophone.

360. Three mile bike ride, haircut, three mile bike ride, pint of ice water, loud music, pint of pale ale.

361. The band was later treated for rubber skin affect.

362. Corporate Buddyspeak is a pidgin of Businessman’s Cant.

     Cool? Cool.

363. I click my cow to breathe.

364. click with the best, moo like the rest

365. Browser navigation via the backspace/delete key is an anachronism from the non-interactive web. http://t.co/GnXYrAz

366. This is our world now… the world of the mouse and the click, the music of the moo.

367. Heck yeah prog rock.

368. I’m letting jokerbone.com expire after 9 years. Neat.

369. @mckt_ Sky-pour a beer toasting MECC to start, take a sip for every death (oxen or human), a shot every time you hunt, & chug river fordings

370. Lesbians honk car horns like this, faggots honk car horns like that.

371. Lesbians honk car horns like this, faggots honk car horns like that.

372. 

     All I caught were some rays. Deal with it.

373. This is a great vibe: “I feel fortunate that…my aspirations are beneath my accomplishments.” http://t.co/Op2KzI3

374. Dolores Park, Pride weekend from the top shelf.

375. Holy Shit: Holy Town is Fresh To Death. Sorry folks: that app didn’t act like I expected it to.

376. Republican Senator Grisanti apologized /for/ “those who feel offended” instead of /to/ “those who feel offended”. That’s awesome even if unintentional. It’s shameful in year of the Common Era two thousand and eleven that this is just now happening.

377. @sxs3200 no, pics now!

378. Ponies.

379. I find a computer indispensable.

380. RT @rands: “We’re a start-up, so fuck it.”

381. Jay Maisel and his lawyers sure seem like dicks.

382. “If you’re relying on not clicking cows, you’re probably deluding yourself.” - Grant Stavely, CEO of Cow Clicking.

383. RT @waxpancake: I was threatened with a lawsuit over Kind of Bloop’s pixel-art cover and settled for $32,500. So I wrote about it: http: …

384. Bogost: Where’s the nyan cow?

385. Dangling commas ending printed arrays suggest the language lacks join(), no one respects that component of the app,

386. What’s the Mooney to Bitcoin conversion rate?

387. What the heck!?

388. ♫ Click your thing/Do what you wanna do/I can’t tell you/Who to click it to ♫

389. love the new photo, scary the 3 Grants

390. RT @strcpy: http://t.co/5OD2Kk9 best patch ever! via @jathanism

391. 

     

392. I began to get the feeling I was being watched…

393. Forgot there was still a few pints of SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY brewed in November in the keg. Yum.

394. I Click My Root Down
     I Put My Root Down

395. Mouth breathing is harder than it looks.

396. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is the Book of Job for Beatles fans.

397. 

     

398. Rockies vs. Dodgers, in Denver. I support all orange/black and purple/black teams.

399. Cotton candy wig.

400. I still mentally append “online” when telling someone where I saw something.

401. Denver click.

402. @saysaylobbyist BOYS RULE, GIRLS DROOL!

     (And congratulations!)

403. Groovy.

404. My review of the Bodega Bay Inn, in Bodega Bay, CA: It’s not very bright to put a skylight in the bedroom.

405. Bubbles.

406. Finally reading Blood Meridian. Question: Does Cormac McCarthy smile?

407. Cats always land on their feet. Buttered toast always lands butter side up. Rainbows always project toast-cats through space to kickin’ tunes. It all makes sense now.

408. Man, I hate when people are passive aggressive about stuff.

409. I keep going back to this DJ Food mix.

410. Reverse the arrow of time on your security products; as they travel back in time their effectiveness will approach the vendor’s claims.

411. Reverse the arrow of time on your security products; as they travel back in time their effectiveness will approach the vendor’s claims.

412. License to Click.

413. Brewing a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone this weekend to prep for July 4th.

414. The Yardbird’s cover is shameful.

415. @chipmonkey @mckt_ I’m omega. I suck at con attendance, report delivery in 30 minutes or less, accessibility, “what ever” as two words, sco–

416. RT @bbaskin: @charmsec A wiki? You guys have totally sold out.

417. ALL NATIONS WELCOME BUT CARRIE

418. @philip_daigle A new place? One we just never noticed? I need a review.

419. It’s Friday!

420. I hope you can hear this because I’m clicking it as hard as I can.

421. @frednecksec congrats on the level up and welcome to game security.

422. @sxs3200 bike thieves are the worst thieves. Sorry for your loss.

423. Clicking with the speakes muted is shameful.

424. “Literally.”

425. RT @automine: Version 0.9 of @Aplura’s getwatchlist #Splunk custom command now available. Now with HTTP auth and proxy support. http://b …

426. TN SEEKS DEROGATORY SLANG FOR HETERO

     http://t.co/G7WwEGm ¹

     ¹ Link to source, not to aggregation blog that doesn’t link or cite source.

427. NB The fifth @Yelp star is reserved for happy endings—but only if the price is reasonable, service is prompt, and they fake it really well.

428. ☠ THE CLICK IS NEAR! ☠

429. RT @hotdogsladies: Viz., anyone informing 146MM readers that “technology” is making them dumb better be drawing it on the wall of a cold …

430. Inner Mounting Click

431. It’s impolite to tease eschatologists, e.g. Mayans, Buddhists, Christians, before they announce the date of doomsday on The History Channel.

432. RT @thanland: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
     Percentage of charts in tweets that are worthless, versus time.

433. It isn’t polite to tease eschatologists, e.g. Mayans, Buddhists, Christians, until they announce the date doomsday on The History Channel.

434. This click is dedicated to my irrational rage at everyone that has ever made full pots of decaffeinated coffee in brown-handled carafes at 9 o’clock AM.

435. Me gusta hacer clic.

436. I’m the cat.

437. Charm City Clicks.

438. RT @hodgman: RT @steven_moffat:" http://t.co/0Xyyy7H Douglas Adams: 10 years gone, and still ahead of us.”

439. The revolution will not be clicked.

440. Hot Clicks and Sassafras

441. laser, scribble, chirp, stab, click, MOOOOOOO.

442. clicks good man.

443. Moneyshot presents an interview w/ John Lydon from 1977, baked by tunes selected and recommended by Lydon during the interview.

444. 

     House Hunting

     

     Haircut madness.

     

     

     

     

     

     

445. Rotate all abstract art 90° clockwise today. Exception granted if it’s on a wire: go 180° instead.

446. Beat Street is on Netflix streaming.

     Fresh!

447. Rough estimate of the Sony breach: 77M records compresses to ~8Gb.

     Not counting penetration, that’s a sub-30 minute heist.

     Don’t blink.

448. Kinda wanna know how to open a beer with a Bic, but don’t wanna take the oath to never use a bottler open again even if one is available.

449. RT @ninjamixdump: Beastie Boys / Collected Balkan Mash / http://t.co/4Kg1Lsu / a FFTANG! FFTANG! round-up

450. @electricfork THREEPIO: Secret mission? What pants? What are you talking about? I’m not getting in there!

451. @electricfork Commander, tear this ship apart until you’ve found those pants
     and bring me the Ambassador. I want her alive!

452. @electricfork A long time ago, in pants far, far away…

453. bachelor click

454. ★★★★★

     WARNING: DJs are trained professionals. Don’t try this at home: http://t.co/SAsV0pZ

     (@therealKidKoala and @teeronce on @BISradio.)

455. http://t.co/ehmH0b6
     Many of these persons are apparently normal, except for their desire to write endless rows of ciphers.
     @bestofwikipedia

456. ★★★★★

     WARNING: DJs are trained professionals. Don’t try this at home: http://t.co/SAsV0pZ

     (@therealKidKoala and @teeronce on @BISradio.)

457. It’s not fishing. It’s just standing on water at high speeds wearing skis and spikes through sections of the river where fish happen to jump a lot.

458. @MikD I think it’s more like force applied by brutes

459. Hrmm.

460. RT @biorhythmist: 24th & Mission is the Mos Eisley of BART stops.

461. OH: “Rubber hose cryptanalysis”

462. Click one out for my hommies

463. … o̶u̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶t̶e̶:̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶.̶"̶ ̶-̶M̶a̶r̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶L̶u̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶K̶i̶n̶g̶,̶ ̶J̶r̶.̶

     SEE ME AFTER CLASS

464. I want you to click me as hard as you can.

465. @ThinkandDrive That’s awesome. What kind are you growing?

466. Click a cow on seconds evenly divisible by three and it’ll still moo only once because to moo otherwise would be too advanced of a game mechanic for cow clicker.

467. D’yer clicker

468. @CrucialCarl Scotch is gross. Scotch drinkers are gross. The process of making scotch is a waste of perfectly good beer, oak, and time.

469. Medium-Rare Click.

470. Going to see this + Nos. 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 with Amanda Walker Stavely this weekend, performed by Glass: very excited.

471. 

     

     

     

     

472. Not just any old bacterial conjunctivitis in my right eye, this conjunctivitis is from Mexico!

473. Fresh to death.

474. What has four kinds of german-style straw-colored lawn-mowing beers that all taste the same for beer selection?

475. JAMS cleverly vandalize the sensors and circuitry in automatic bathroom faucets installed by the Freemasons to sterilize the working class.

476. Day two of non-stop eye watering as my clogged tear duct heals. Be careful combining sunglasses and helmets’

477. RT @attritionorg: RT @SushiDude: One SCADA screenshot I saw reminded me of Farmville. I wanted to click random icons incessantly. SCADA …

478. The warmest weekend in spring I ever spent was the weekend I spent in Riviera Maya at a friend’s wedding.

     • David Foster Wallace

479. Having a beer at work so that I can say cheers to @nutsec.

     NB: No, my beer does not have a watermelon in it. http://t.co/EhhFGle

480. The warmest weekend in spring I ever spent was the weekend I spent in Riviera Maya at a friend’s wedding.

     • David Foster Wallace

481. DC Friends: There is a great band in your city this week. Check J Roddy Walston and The Business’s schedule and make it to a show while they are in town.

482. CLICK MOR CHICKIN

483. Click all Radiohead tunes, click all Verizon DBIRs, click all Portals, click all cows.

484. Thanks for collecting potatoes so that I don’t have to. Vote Clay Davis!

485. RT @kevinweil: Best @quora answer I’ve seen.

     Q: “What’s it like to be the smartest person in the room?”
     A: "It sucks. It means you’re i …

486. Huff just $0.00 9/10 of unleaded 87 octane, and being arrogant about attaining the privilege of a carless lifestyle seems swell.

487. @vurtyou and I have an extra ticket to the @SFSymphony this afternoon at 2PM.

     ♫ Symphonie fantastique ♫

     http://t.co/4BqQoVB

488. As an online discussion of security authorization grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving unlocked front doors approaches 1.

489. 

     

490. At the San Francisco Symphony Hall. Look at the size of that organ!

491. Tastes good, man.

492. @MikD “Gentlemen, Please Dress Your Caste”

     <smug>You will never, ever, see me in mass, or in restaurants that require jackets.</smug>

493. “Who is John Frum?”

494. “Who is John Frum?”

495. If you don’t already have everything AOL owns in your Scream Like A Man (or equiv.) filter, now’s the time to add it: http://t.co/WKg7hE2

496. If you don’t already have everything AOL owns in your Scream Like A Man (or equiv.) filter, now’s the time to add it: http://t.co/WKg7hE2

497. Stephen King on fiction

     over 15 years ago Permalink#

498. Say something about this…

499. Johnny Ryall!

500. “@electricfork: I have a new gig. I’ll be joining the team at NERC on May 2nd. I’ll be doing neat things.”

     Congratulations!

501. I’d probably waste my first wish on the ability to talk like Shock G.

502. Yeah, fresh.

503. Authenticity is a sham of quality.

504. Anyone else up for a late Wednesday night to see DJ Kentaro for a $10 show benefiting Japan. I’m going.

505. Reviving old memes owns. This dude owns.

506. Q: Didja feel low?
     A: No, not at all.
     Q: Huh???
     A: I fell right into the Arms of Venus de Milo.

507. LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET FNORDUM. CETERIS PARIBUS EST REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM.

508. RT @wardspan: security twits - I am looking for Incident Response peeps - it’s an awesome opportunity - great team -amazing company - ht …

509. LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET FNORDUM. CETERIS PARIBUS EST REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM.

510. Just sat down in the waiting room at the dentist and Thriller came on as if cued. I’m thinking about making a run for it.

511. 1. _____ is the greenest way to conserve water.

     A) Flushing on two only
     B) Reusing towels
     C) Building a city in the fnord
     D) Tweeting

512. RT @iFail: I wonder how long before someone comes about with the Certified Advance Persistent Threat exam… LOL CAPT, aye aye

513. Duck lips.

514. Duck lips.

515. @christopherkunz right?! He stared down the two Mexican bottles as if trying to remember commercials he’d seen about 'em.

     —Airport bars.

516. “A Corona, please.”

     “We only have Sol and Dos Equis sir.”

     Paralysis.

     “Make it a Bud Light. No. Make it a Guinness.”

517. I mean really carders! What’s the deal with designer clothes AND wallmart.com stuff? Practicality?!

     #Every90sComicExperiencingCreditFraud

518. Q: What do you say to the only vendor you recently payed with a credit card when the card fraud-alerts days later?

     A: “Gesundheit.”

519. Going to Las Vegas for Will Torres’s April Fools party.

520. OH: “We got the hack shitted out of us.”

521. OH: “We got the hack shitted out of us.”

522. Heading to the Giant’s game w/ box seats.

523. ninjas > pirates

524. What sound does a cow make?

525. No tech hacking: 53 people have brought cats, dogs, gerbils, and birds named Sparky to this emergency animal hospital in Inner Sunset.

526. Philip Glass = I could repeat that + I could repeat that

527. The man in me doesn’t see the problem with the homunculus fallacy.

528. Why they changed it, I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.

529. OFFICIAL REMINDER: Reeves Gabrels’s “Sacred Squall of Now” is awesome music.

530. Twang, flat pickin’, and country blues at their finest.

531. A: …the world is really a client supported on a giant server.

     Q: What is the server standing on?

     A; It’s client/server all the way down!

532. I only listen to electro-dub cowclickstep.

533. #click

534. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was standard Javascript without jQuery, and Hell followed with him.

535. The Who, in my revisionist history, were a cool one-hit wonder band from the 1980s. This is it. “Eminence Front” totally jams.

536. Tickets go on sale in 30 minutes.

537. Holy cow! Free hammers and cans if Krylon at the front door today! I’m gonna art all over the place!

538. I don’t understand the bowl-on-a-table, off-center-faucet, no-aerator bathroom sink thing. It seems dada to me.

     Hope that helps.

539. I don’t understand the bowl-on-a-table, off-center-faucet, no-aerator bathroom sink thing. It seems dada to me.

     Hope that helps.

540. “I don’t know that you can make the argument that you aren’t being adequately compensated because they are withholding bacon.”

541. Try to pretend that primary sources are at least important enough to merit a link from the blog post about the article about the essay abou—

542. Amanda Walker Stavely are getting dinner tickets.

543. You’re welcome.

544. On the Internet, everyone is a numerologist.

545. I’ve proudly “bootstrapped” Simplepedia into a Chrome extension but hate javascript.

     So, uhm…

     “Entrepreneur seeks technical co-founder.”

546. I nominate wikipedia’s 140 character table replacement for the <blockquote> tag as the best HTML5 troll of 2011.

     Look at those cute '"'s!

547. <table>
     <tboody>
     <tr>
     <td>“</td>
     <td>Q</td>
     <td>”</td>
     </tr>
     </tbody>
     </table

548. This year my bracket pick is a sure thing: ]

     Always go with a closer.

549. I nominate wikipedia’s 140 character table replacement for the

     tag as the best HTML5 troll of 2011.

     Look at those cute '"'s!

550. "

     Q

     "

551. RT @tqbf: Patrick, in Japan: Japanese doesn’t have a word for excessive preparation. http://bit.ly/dUtN9m

552. Engineering, engineering, engineering.

553. Vintage trolling: “@mckt_: Just for the record, Stairway to Heaven is still the best song of all time.”

     Does anybody remember laughter?

554. Vintage trolling: “@mckt_: Just for the record, Stairway to Heaven is still the best song of all time.”

     Does anybody remember laughter?

555. @MikD it, ironically, cannot be explained.

     Sure is a beautiful day out there.

     Lunch?

556. Apple iTunes Human Interface Guideline rule 36: Consistently remind users about A-Ha’s “Take On Me” when clearing search terms.

557. 1 Mysterianism states that some problems can’t be explained

     2 This is a problem

     3 Mysterianism can’t be explained

     4 Mysterians are jerks

558. RT @johnemcintyre: At The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg has what must be the last word on Newt Gingrich, the passionate patriot: http://tin …

559. The pataphor is to the metaphor as the metaphor is to the nonfigurative.

560. Homuncular preformationism: an amazingly poetic belief I’d ascribe to a cooky conservative character were I a novelist.
     http://t.co/Zn8dpG4

561. Amanda Walker Stavely and I saw these guys open for Medeski Martin & Wood last night. They played Creep.

     Yup: it was totally awesome.

562. Queuing single file at a bar with three bartenders sends two signals: you don’t know how bars work, and I’m at a nicer place than usual.

563. Tried the Symantec DBC: 75,000 person firm with no security plan, or C.S.O., doing it all wrong: 9.9% month chance of data breach.

     Welp,

564. A proud moment…

565. Wall Street, not Sesame Street!

     (Am I doing this serious-business politics thing right guys?)

566. Stuff: I don’t understand it.

567. My cow clicking is 90% complete.

     Click here for Cow Clicking tips. Import every e-mail address and nugget of personal information you’ve ever known about anyone ever to Cow Click harder.

568. @chipmonkey whoa, nicely done (and I’m glad it wasn’t in our game.)

569. Oh crap, I’m back in my Harry Nilsson phase. Stay out our the apartment: it’s still 1971 in here.

     (The album cut of this tune with guitars and horns is also excellent.)

570. clickin it.

571. RT @sethmnookin: Docs telling parents who don’t vaccinate to go elsewhere b/c don’t want to put other kids at risk. http://ht.ly/48FPy v …

572. Don’t look at your wall. I drew something awful on it.

     My current (for the past two years) favorite song.

573. Atlas Clicked

574. twitter posting = I could tweet that + yeah but you shouldn’t

575. RT @CrucialCarl: Dear WIRED: I never thought this would happen to me. There are 3 women in my kitchen discussing firmware upgrades.

576. Q. “@petrillic: It’s 2010, why do people still have issues with telephone conferences?”

     A. Because they are all soul crushing nightmares.

577. Click happens.

578. “I can’t click” — Bowie’s draft title for the Tin Machine tune

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Machine_(album)

579. This dude, who doesn’t know my jargon used his own lingo for my jargon.

     Eat a dick dude! What’s so hard about it? I learned it!

     Barbarian!

580. I clicked cows IN THE CLOUD.

581. 'pataphysics: J. G Ballard — “The Assasination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race”

     http://t.co/tDk0NWt

     Owns.

582. My favorite Baudrillard moves excepting the Borges ones are the 'pataphysics ones because 'pataphysics is purely trolling metaphysics. Owns.

583. Joseph and Emma and Fanny and Lucinda and Louisa and Zina and Presendia and Agnes and Sylvia and Mary and Patty and …, not Adam and Steve!

584. http://t.co/EvZxrco

     Done.

     Friends, I had fun reading it, but some of Baudrillard’s ideas are altogether a bit too solipsistic. And silly.

585. Lonesome No More!

586. Everything wrong is right again.

587. ★★★★★ In The Footsteps of the Ethio-Jazz Innovator

     P. good fora buncha dudes playin bread-instruments right-handed. http://t.co/KPIVvWh

588. Make a @cslewisdaily RT account, about coffee: (http://t.co/JdbFr5w).

     Philosophically, I dislike C.S. Lewis too much to do it myself.

589. “Look at a computer in a microscope. Where are the 1s and 0s? I don’t see any. I want my damned money back, right?”

     —Searle, PHIL132

590. Step one: Create and maintain a boardwalk classic: Whack-a-mole
     Step two: Introduce bugs in the software controlling whack-a-mole that keep popping up only to be squashed back down with a consulting-mallet exactly modeling how the physical game works
     Step three:

     Sometimes, reality is literary.

591. “@rands: http://t.co/CAkF45P (@mantia)”

     F5 it a bit.

592. A “NO I WILL NOT FIX YOUR COMPUTER” T-shirt almost always means “YES I WILL FIX YOUR COMPUTER. What version are you running? Did you try r—”

593. BOGOST: FIX YOUR HIGH SCORE PUBLISHING. I BEAT MY PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE BY 38,100, I ACTUALLY SCORED MUCH HIGHER. THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!

594. #CF Click Friday: My Cow.

595. Chart Sweep: http://t.co/2szdsrh

     Five seconds of every number one 45 RPM record from 1965 through the 1990s.

596. This month’s arduino @charmsec sign from @useNachos: http://t.co/8KCpo00

     “It’s so small!”

597. RT @parisdjs: Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks On Vinyl Mixtape - another extravaganza mix from Tru Thoughts !! http://t.co/yeYbUNi via @p …

598. Five seconds of every number one 45 RPM record from 1965 through the 1990s.

     I was amazed how many I recognized.

     Disco still sucks.

599. In the Queen’s English, men don’t use airport paperback book title catchphrases like “Perfect Storm” and “Black Swan.”

     http://t.co/P3SmN4m

600. In the Queen’s English, men don’t use airport paperback book titles like “Perfect Storm” and “Black Swan”.

601. @ssoper I’ve never heard of one. What the heck are you doing that would make that handy?

602. I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention. If you’ve been doing your own homework. But maybe, well, it seems to me at least, that Glenn Beck clicked a cow and made it moo in 1990.

     I mean, this is horrible to say, but who is this guy and who else clicks cows like that? I worry about my country. Oh I know who. Hitler clicked cows. I’m not drawing any conclusions there, but Glenn Beck clicked cows, and Hitler clicked cows. What could this mean?

603. I love the “stay tuned” web-trope. A plea for readership, hilariously anachronistic, self-aware of the volume of ‘other’.

     Stay tuned.

604. Excel Line Plotting 101

     • Unbold all text
     • Set all fonts to 12pt
     • Delete gridlines, ticks
     • Set all lines to 1/4pt
     • Curse
     • Shake fist

605. @MikD I’ll concede poor adoption/execution. Decimal time maybe. Mostly, I’m nostalgic: In the 1990s The Internet was gonna revolutionize *.

606. In swatch™ “Internet Time”, at the tone, the time will be “completely irrelevant.”

     tick

     tick

     tick

     BEEP!

607. Employees must wash their hands before returning from clicking.

608. So we’re debating the merits of the various Star Trek series and intra-series episodic styles/classifications. Did I mention we’re hiring!?!?

609. Very rapidly indeed.

610. Something for your back pocket: In a footnote in Burton’s Arabian Nights (in the second eunuch’s tale), he coins the portmanteau ‘drinkitite’, as in “Gosh, I sure have built up one heck of a drinkitite.”

611. I’ve gotten this e-mail multiple times a semester for /years/. http://t.co/4nJnvB5

     Not taught at my almost-alma-mater: Reverse Psychology.

612. RT @frednecksec: Public heath infra (just like power, water, transportation, finance & defense) needs a strong govt hand. Profit motive …

613. The first rule of prison-club: Wave, catcall, and whistle at new protagonists in order to highlight the character’s environmental change.

614. Our neighbors (http://j.mp/hf1dDv) haven’t turned their kitchen light off in the 9 months we’ve lived here. They will henceforth be referred to as “The British Empire.”

615. Best guess: An all-knowing future-me went back in time and subtly tricked past-me to get cats for some positive reason yet to be revealed.

616. Monitors are slippery.

617. @danphilpott very good point.

     I should unique & random password reset answers too.

     My mother’s maiden name is “cHbCIudCwTH5KuLVFPkUib3Ei.”

618. I’ve changed nearly every non-work-related-account I have to unique 25 character passwords w/ @1Password + @dropbox. ☺

     http://t.co/uOuYehy

619. My first night of the next dozen days of bachelorhood: oven-bake pizza and an nice bottle of 100% punch-in-the-face-lenoir Kaz Mainliner.

620. Ignoring the synecdoche of “arms” as weapons, arms races are probably cooler than legs races.

     “This isn’t a scene, it’s a handstand 100M!”

621. RT @Explodingdog: “cloudy day” http://explodingdog.tumblr.com/post/3345391188/cloudy-day

622. Going Moobile

623. Guy next to us cited Star Trek Voyager in an analogy to explain some “XOR Crypto” he’d written to his date.

     Sweet 24th century reference!

624. On the MUNI 22, I always assume the person talking to no one has a DSM IV disorder first, s’on the phone second, or’s talking to THEM third.

625. Smooth.

626. HMDP RESPONSE CODES

     401 “Yes, but what does “cloud” mean?”
     402 “Yes, but what does “hacker” mean?”
     403 “Yes, but what does “cyber” mean?”

627. RFC-2011
     HYPER META DICTIONARY PROTOCOL

     A standard for the format of debates about what words mean, for the avoidance of actual discussion.

628. Life changing productivity hack exclusive: after the bump.

     Navigating up and down in Twitter.app? The ‘j’ and ‘k’ keys work too.

629. Best response to ‘cyber’ yet.

     RT @teabag303: RT @shoebox: @teabag303 I just want it to mean digital sex again 😦

630. @oneeyedcarmen Click your Cows™, folks!

631. Paraphrasing: Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eve-Mark1-Serial-Number-9108024-BEEEEEEP!

632. Team Themis.

     That’s pronounced to only rhyme with ‘venus’ and ‘lenis’ and ‘venous’, afaik.

633. Happy Valentine’s Day!

634. This is the best game I’ve ever played.

635. Click goes in, moo comes out. Click goes in, a moo comes out. Click goes in, moo comes out. It always happens.

     Where does the click go? Where does the moo come from? There’s never a miscommunication.

     You can’t explain that.

636. Ah, driving all the time; it adds a certain ‘Foutez le camp de mon chemin, vous trou du cul’ to the day doesn’t it?

     honk honk

637. I don’t get it.

     Even if I read every line of Dagny Taggart’s dialog as a that’s-what-she-said, “Atlas Shrugged” still isn’t that funny.

638. @snowfl0w all header tags not added by systems under your control could’ve been forged? Yesterday was Oct. in non-US date format: 10/2/2011?

639. “Ramen sweats.”

640. RT @djcheeba: new audio visual mix "Revenge of The Nerd’ is now live! http://fb.me/DXBQ25NF

641. Ha! Caused by or from me?

     @jjthomas: @grantstavely While I have no voodoo doll, perhaps it is karmic retribution for the IMs I used to get.

642. Alright, who’s got the @grantstavely voodoo doll? I haven’t had a sore throat like this in fifteen years.

643. RT @wardspan: Zynga is looking for: Security Operations Engineer
     http://jobvite.com/m?3IGv1fwE #job

644. RT @wardspan: Zynga is looking for: Security Incident Response Engineer
     http://jobvite.com/m?3OGv1fwK #job

645. BREAKING, 2023: WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN REVEALED TO BE IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF BAY AREA TECHNOLOGIST AND EX-CAT OWNER

646. Hed: HOUSE FAILS TO PASS EXTENSION OF PATRIOT ACT
     Dek: Tea Party and Democrats defeat GOP
     Lede: In a stunning tur…
     Nut Graf: Just kidding.

647. @censey Holy Jeeze! What is that thing? Does it really grind every pot’s beans before brewing?

648. @grahamvsworld sounds like you need Scream Like A Man: http://grantstavely.com/scream-like-a-man

     A bypass for the SEO’d content-free web.

649. OH MAMMA.

     (Nothing funny here, I just really dig this tune and the illustration only makes it better. NB: Not quite true to the greek.)

650. Nice chiasmus in the last sentence of Anon’s HBGary release.

     As for the rest of it, “respectfully”, the mixed-metaphors were distracting.

651. Nice chiasmus in the last sentence of Anon’s HBGary release.

     As for the rest of it, “respectfully”, the mixed-metaphors were distracting.

652. RT @tommyalanson: The New American Wine Glass | The Hairpin http://t.co/NR5dmLs

653. Taking Amanda Walker Stavely, lunch, a blanket, and a growler of beer to Dolores Park today for the game.

654. @grahamvsworld Where!?!

655. Once I started looking for metonymy and synecdoche, I found them everywhere, and began to resent that I hadn’t noticed them before.

656. Amanda Walker Stavely and I just rode 15 fun, mostly-flat miles around the city. Thankful for Lagunitas IPA on tap at the house.

657. WHERE DOES THIS CITY GET OFF HAVING SUCH BEAUTIFUL WEATHER IN EARLY FEBRUARY!?!

658. Favorite Italian in North Beach? We’re in the mood for risotto, ragu over tasty pasta, and good wine for a dinner out tonight.

659. @vurtyou wants to do an art project sticking anonymous love notes under random car’s wipers.

     I approve.

660. So, svn commit walks into a bar, and the bartender says "…

661. RT @treyford: Know any security engineers interested in incident response, operations or ecrime? We are hiring. Contact me or @wardspan

662. @censey haha, normally I’d nuke it, but after Shmoo I needed a real cup of coffee: rebrew.

663. So, svn commit walks into a bar, and the bartender says "…

664. @censey I thought mine died the morning I got home from Shmoo. I’d forgotten to put water in it.

     (Stainless carafe: cold, OLD coffee.)

665. any good brews lately? I have a Cream Ale fermenting 😃 Where do you get your kits or ingredients? We have Austin Homebrew Supply, it’s popular!

666. RT @danphilpott: The weakest part of any argument by analogy is the analogy.

667. RT @danphilpott: The weakest part of any argument by analogy is the analogy.

668. @wotowiec what’d you think of Daemon?

669. “in the event of someone causing something to be wrong with a drain, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead compartment.”

670. RT @toronado: event: Lagunitas SF Fusion Wed 2011/02/16 6:00pm, w/SF Fusion Imperial IPA brewed by Toronado Staff + other Lagunitas sele …

671. My flight in Chicago: “There is something wrong with a drain, we have to stop boarding now and call maintenance.”

     Australian plane?

672. Friday? Oh, nothin’, just hung out with some friends, launching a trebuchet using a robot. http://t.co/WtUVF6T

673. @ddeighton I think @philip_daigle would’ve been heartbroken if there were no Shmooballs this year, but there definitely are.

     They’re red.

674. “Where the information or data content, or, level, is low, the fill-in, or participation, is high.”

     —McLuhan

     http://t.co/8jP8XIG

675. I’ve unlocked:

     • Red eye flight
     • 9 hour layover
     • Luggage left in the prior airport by the airline during the 9 hour layover

     +40 XP!

676. I’ve lost about 8 pounds since last year’s @Shmoocon. If you think you see me but aren’t sure: the secret phrase is “Grant? Is that you?”

677. Save me a seat at @CharmSec tonight.

678. @oneeyedcarmen Congrats!!

679. SOTU Click.

680. “Sometimes you get so lonely—‘wank-wank’ guitar solo”

     — @vurtyou, singing along with Bowie

     “What? That’s what his songs are!”

     — @vurtyou

681. Clever Porta-John owner: This time, I’ll drop it off door-down so’s nobody breaks in and pees in it!

     Clever crack-head: I can pee on this!

682. “Sometimes you get so lonely—‘wank-wank’ guitar solo”

     — @vurtyou, singing along with Bowie

     “What? That’s what his songs are!”

     — @vurtyou

683. Clever Porta-John owner: This time, I’ll drop it off door-down so’s nobody breaks in and pees in it!

     Clever crack-head: I can pee on this!

684. Tickets to the Medeski Martin & Wood show in March at the Independent are only $30, I’m dragging Amanda Walker Stavely

685. Shmoo’s CON-FLU (OK, it’s probably just a cold) is so strong I already have it.

686. Shmoo’s CON-FLU (OK, it’s probably just a cold) is so strong I already have it.

687. On the verge of boiling over…

688. Science!

689. Making a small 1800 mL yeast starter for tomorrow’s IPA. How’dya like my Erlenmeyer?

690. @oneeyedcarmen @quadling I’m barcoded already. Thanks!

691. We’re cycling down to the Embarcadero to pick up the flowers Amanda Walker Stavely forgot at the flower stand, then around the north of the city to A16 to try more gourmet pizza.

692. Show, don’t tell.

     RT @washingtonpost: Milbank: I’m declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me, take the pledge! http://wapo.st/eLSl3w

693. Errol Morris & Philip Glass.

694. Synecdoche and Metonymy

     over 15 years ago Permalink#

695. @MikD my saying that after not making the 5.10a was a bit crazy. Next time I’m getting a laminate belay card, and shooting for another 10a.

696. I’ve spent the last few years building up an immunity to New Jack Swing in mixes like Wesley did with iocane powder.

     It’s a superpower.

697. Ten hacks for cool new gadgets you need, including a facebook-killer, which may or may not be “dead”, after the “jump”: http://t.co/kgwdvzV

698. Led Zeppelin: ★★★★★
     Acts heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin: ★★☆☆☆

     The Beach Boys: ★★☆☆☆
     Acts heavily influenced by The Beach Boys: ★★★★★

699. Led Zeppelin: ★★★★★
     Acts heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin: ★★☆☆☆

     The Beach Boys: ★★☆☆☆
     Acts heavily influenced by The Beach Boys: ★★★★★

700. @frednecksec sorry, that knuckle-headed nonsense was re: “Continue to be amused by folks that RT my paper.li spam…”—I agree, it’s amusing.

701. THANKS FOR OPTIMIZING MY PERSONAL BRAND ON ENGINES AND STUFF #FF @FREDNECKSEC

     Page: 1 2 3

     Myself: facebook twitter RSS reddit

702. Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel” is currently my favorite text, but I’ll keep looking.

     http://t.co/FFzxWOp

703. Backscatter Cow is always already clicking.

704. I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods, and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that Amanda Walker Stavely and I will take Dawn Metcalf to the San Francisco Zoo today to see the hippo crates.

     Yuk Yuk.

705. Whenever someone tells me to check out something on a Beatles album, I recall the heyday of Johannes Sebastian Bach’s with his compositions.

706. Dvorak’s insights about facebook are about as useful as your parent’s insights about music.

     Factual: Yes.

     A convincing argument: No.

707. Amanda and Mom at Beretta for lunch

     

708. OH @grahamvsworld (with arms raised): HISTORGRA-a-vibrato-A-a-A-a-AMS!

     jazz-hands

709. 

     At The Paramount in Oakland for Disney’s Fantasia

710. Feeling stupid for booking an SFO->DCA flight landing at 10pm the same night as @charmsec in Baltimore.

     Considering the flight-change fee.

711. Oh Jeepers.

712. Feeling stupid for booking an SFO->DCA flight landing at 10pm the same night as @charmsec in Baltimore.

     Considering the flight-change fee.

713. so how do you set up one of these shared sites on facebook? (like the golf thing I was talking about over xgiving?

714. Rock minimalism?

715. Folks, I’ll be at the Washington Hilton 1/27-30 ($95/night, go Shatner!) for the hacks, and in Frederick to see Lou Stavely et al the evening of the 30th.

716. The pasture is not the territory.

717. Started The Image Of The City, saw shiny, now my LaTeX resume uses \frenchspacing and \raggedright.

     I made it through Chapter 1 at least.

718. Gang: If we all switch to CFL bulbs, the energy traders managing long term price contracts will get better bonuses.

     Let’s pull together!

719. Gang: If we all switch to CFL bulbs, the energy traders managing long term price contracts will get better bonuses.

     Let’s pull together!

720. San Francisco urban hike today: what neighborhood should we pick?

721. This imperial stout I kegged in November, SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY, tastes great.

     But it reads my e-mail, won’t fix my computer, o.O, &c.

722. Now it’s time for our wrap up.

723. Grant Stavely has sent you a request in Cow Clicker.

724. Corrections

     A toot on Monday suggested that I was in need of a Shmoocon barcode. I now have one. Two @charmsec regulars are still looking.

725. One click, two moos: How do they work!?!

726. This Snuggie keeps falling off when I walk around.

727. This Snuggie keeps falling off when I walk around.

728. Know of a @shmoocon barcode for sale?

     I’m buying.

     #thanksamillion #havebeentoeveryshmoocon #sadpanda #shmoocon

729. @kingtuna @charmsec Sadly, Murphy’s won’t be close this year, @shmoocon is at a different hotel. (And I’m hoping to still get a barcode.)

730. Please Read:
     A Cow Clicker Message from
     Facebook User, Grant Stavely.

731. Hot Smoke & Sassafras.

732. Ent Porn: http://flic.kr/p/96x4Me

     (at San Carlos and 18th St.)

733. @ddeighton @bbaskin @reyjrar just watched Beer Wars.

     Show, don’t tell: unheeded.

     Axe grinding.

     I dig Sam, Charlie, Jim, Steve, &c.

     ★★★☆☆

734. MLITBOG: http://goo.gl/GuhFN

     One 90s design antipattern after another, culminating in a broken remix player: http://goo.gl/LhKka.

     Sad. ☹

735. Ent Porn: http://flic.kr/p/96x4Me

     (at San Carlos and 18th St.)

736. TLDR;CON

     No barcodes, no lanyards, no balls: join me at the TDL Bar outside @shmoocon: Like a citysec, but at a con.

     http://goo.gl/KatOg

737. All tickets allocated for this round of sales have been reserved. The next round of ticket sales will be on WEDNESDAY, DEC 1st, at NOON EST.

738. Caught a ride tonight with a hack unmarked Towncar with three packs of Malboros instead if a meter. Giving him directions to not kidnap us.

739. SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY

     —the Imperial Stout I tapped so’s we’ll have something to enjoy while bottling ME SO HONEY for @wardspan’s team.