posts from 2011 / 02

1. Everything wrong is right again.

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

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

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

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

4. “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

5. 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.

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

   F5 it a bit.

7. 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—”

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

9. #CF Click Friday: My Cow.

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

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

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

    “It’s so small!”

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

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

    I was amazed how many I recognized.

    Disco still sucks.

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

    http://t.co/P3SmN4m

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

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

17. 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?

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

    Stay tuned.

19. Excel Line Plotting 101

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

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

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

    tick

    tick

    tick

    BEEP!

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

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

24. Very rapidly indeed.

25. 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.”

26. 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.

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

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

29. 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.”

30. 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.

31. Monitors are slippery.

32. @danphilpott very good point.

    I should unique & random password reset answers too.

    My mother’s maiden name is “cHbCIudCwTH5KuLVFPkUib3Ei.”

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

    http://t.co/uOuYehy

34. 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.

35. 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!”

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

37. Going Moobile

38. 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!

39. 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.

40. Smooth.

41. HMDP RESPONSE CODES

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

42. RFC-2011
    HYPER META DICTIONARY PROTOCOL

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

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

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

44. Best response to ‘cyber’ yet.

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

45. @oneeyedcarmen Click your Cows™, folks!

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

47. Team Themis.

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

48. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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

50. 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.

51. 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

52. 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.

53. @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?

54. “Ramen sweats.”

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

56. 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.

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

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

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

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

61. 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.

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

63. @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.

64. 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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

69. @grahamvsworld Where!?!

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

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

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

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

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

    I approve.

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

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

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

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

79. @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.)

80. 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!

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

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

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