facebook posts from 2008 / 09

1. 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!

2. 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!)

3. 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.

4. Use of torture in interrogation is a stupid tactic of preemptive warfare, which is a popular strategy for failing states led my evil men

5. Enjoying /Keb Darge And Cut Chemist Presents Lost And Found Rockabilly And Jump Blues/ http://is.gd/3fT6 Q. Tarantino would party like this

6. Hopefully it won’t ☁ rain for a while ☼

7. Shop-vac’d 30+ gallons of rainwater out of the back stairwell, dumped it in the sump. Procrastinating on sealing the stairwell bricks: FAIL

8. I’m forming a league of coffee, aspirin, and water while avoiding eye contact with my opponents (lights) #debate08

9. Mail.app bug w/ multiple imap accounts: (# messages) count is only accurate for one account, not the combined displayed messages. Hrmph.

10. I don’t trust anyone that counts to one with their thumb and two without their thumb.

11. Ugly rainy weather, systems failing left and right, it’s time for some ♫ Court of The Crimson King ♫

12. Never mind the car, my real treasure is in large positions in AIG insured Lehman brothers mortgage tranches

13. Anyone else getting 503 after 503 from yum hitting the RHEL5 repositories for the past few days? Very frustrating.

14. 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!"

15. We had it right in the 90s. Experimenting on a production personal site? You still need to put up ///under///construction/// signs I guess

16. 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!

17. home.craigslist.org/mis/

18. Dad and my boss got me sick…

19. 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

20. Is the character escaping bug …'ing twitter caused by performance or security tweaking?

21. Heres some beers!!

22. Apologies to SMS followers, testing

23. Ignore regional dialect, accent, language shift, and lay person vs. professional differences EXCEPT ‘nuclear’? Clap, Clap, Clap, FFS

24. Dan Geer sounds kinda like James Randi, and even looks a little like him, only his beard is on up-side-down.

25. Officemates are rocking to The Cult’s ‘Sun King’ & role-playing drinking some chillies and making The Entrance to Hammerjacks \m/ Ba …

26. 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

27. 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”

28. Ten years ago, five hours of sleep would have been plenty!

29. 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?

30. I think I could teach night school.

31. ☹ Lists full of French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’. ☹ Fail.

32. ☹ <ul><li>French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’.</li&gt …

33. <ul><li>Broken Complete Sentence with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’.  Again. &nb …

34. 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

35. I need to clean my lines, all this demo work is making my SNPA taste like 100 year old bricks

36. Poly’d the bathroom exposed brick, redid the entire storage room shelving; coming together nicely - too bad I have homework tonight 😦

37. Fireworks over Fort McHenry - Defender’s Day was last weekend so I’m confused. Nice roof view while I grill salmon & asparagus

38. 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

39. OH my Grandmother-in-law on medecine: “So my friend, who is a /democrat/ told me to go see this dark skinned fellow, and…”

40. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! CORED AS USUALLY

41. 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

42. 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.

43. 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

44. Too bad they can’t spell Grandma’s name right…

45. Wow, and I thought twitter had the market cornered: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

46. dude i didn’t even know that quilt was that significant.

    in other news, how are you doing? still living in the canton area?

47. My grandparents are screwing up my Google vanity, I’m not the only result for “Grant Stavely” anymore! http://is.gd/2Ntb

48. RT cnbc: MidAmerican Energy to Buy Constellation Energy for $4.7 Billion, or $26.50 A Share. (story developing)

49. I’m not writing a paper at the last minute, the last minute isn’t for a few hours!

50. It’s OK guys, I made a steampunk economy we can use instead, it’s totally rad.

51. Thinking about getting a high and tight. Or a just number 4 fade. Today. Either way, eek halp!

52. Gilmour: …all the greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow. No-one can replace Richard Wright.

53. AIG’s one time $85 billion loan, put in perspective by federal budget fiscal spending (see: discretionary) http://xrl.us/orc65 - Yowza

54. My head is spinning http://xrl.us/orbo8 “…which I admire that, that is cool, good bootstrapping there, Sister—” hilarity++

55. Security madlib: Amazing, people still! ___ after weaknesses in ___. Buy ____ OTS solution! virtual-postitnotes-buzz-tank-password-hacker!

56. http://xrl.us/oq82a Ars “Top 10 enterprise security pitfalls” contains at least 10 pieces of terrible, terrible advice

57. Monday night football: GFY! 20 minutes to find a parking spot after school - even the Rite Aide lot was crammed, all semester!?

58. Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about the guy across the street’s Corvette 😦

59. Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about my car now 😦

60. OK it was cute for a while but SMB1_mario_breaking_bricks.wav can’t stay my terminal bell anymore, back to visual only

61. Verbing words is lame, but nouning verbs with and wrapping them in dumber verbs is worse. delete delete

62. I’m crazy like a fox! I just ordered a success kit, nice knowing you SUCKERS!

63. Finally watching the full Palin v Gibson 1v1DM. Lighting, editing, and interviewee are all amateur

64. 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 😦

65. 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 😦

66. Walkiing up Connecticut Ave noticing all the black chewing gum on the ground, is DC the capitol of blackjack gum too?

67. Watching Tron - I can’t get over The Dude arguing with Captain Sheridan over the judge’s niece from Caddyshack

68. 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

69. 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)

70. 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”

71. The guitar solo from Tap’s ‘Christmas With The Devil’ is today’s theme music. One note + tremolo-vibrato for 8 measures! \m/.

72. 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”

73. Overheard at work: “If you could insert meaningless task, that would be great, thanks” with no sense of irony or shame

74. Christopher Buckley on XMPR with Bob Edwards this morning - great stuff, tune in if you can

75. I say this every four years but, if they win, at least SNL will be funny again

76. Just presented in front of the class with a young student: THC is scary stuff folks

77. The redirects on UMBC’s webauth put ff3 into a nasty loop of “are you sure?” - Every HIG’s wet dream

78. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BAM@electricfork NEVER FORGET

79. RT @gruber Here’s the new URL for the Ebert piece on Palin: http://xrl.us/oqwao

80. Sip coffee; inhale; coffee in lungs; cough; coffee in sinuses; gag; cough; sniffle; coffee in lungs again; accept defeat; sip coffee :||

81. 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.

82. The genius sidebar show/hide widget is MMN. Apple should have just bought or integrated with last.fm.

83. Diebold excuses - budget, ease of use for elderly pole workers, security wasn’t a design req, it’s really tricky, unfair reviews, etc

84. How the state of MD protects us from Avi Ruben: Tamper Tape (and in 2010, paper ballots)

85. Drafting lawsuit re: ending civilization against LHC backers - anyone want to go class action up in this? http://xrl.us/oqtez

86. Working returns SearchResEntry, broken returns SearchResDone; SRD doesn’t work - nss/pam doesn’t rebind w/ supplied creds like SRE Why not?

87. Troubleshooting nss, pam, and ldap - identical configurations, different data on the wire, one ignores pam_filter amongst other things arg!

88. Switched the xbmc over to Aeon this weekend and am very impressed - http://www.aeonproject.com/

89. I totally don’t get this football meme, is there a funny youtube video I missed or somerthing?

90. 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

91. Sun and Beer induced weekend naps are why weekends should be three days long

92. Enjoying an Obolon Premium Ukranian generic lager - Cheers!

93. Off to the Baltimore Ukranian Festival http://www.ukrainianfestival.net/ with Mom, Gemma, Aleister, Wife, appetite, thirst, etc

94. 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)

95. 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…

96. rabble rabble rabble rabble

97. Fact: Republicans nominated 6/8 of the current Supreme Court.

98. Kool and the Gang’s Celebrate! I hope they do the electric slide next! boogie-woogie-woogie

99. Sarah Palin leaves the seat up

100. 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

101. 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

102. 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!

103. 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.

104. 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

105. Just installed a window unit for the bedroom, I do not trust these brackets at all

106. faux media scandals don’t pwn campaigns, campaigns pwn campaigns (am I doing this right?)

107. Holy shit this flag thing never ends

108. Google Chrome is an amazing browser. Try it. http://www.google.com/chrome

109. Oh holy day, @will_torres brought me a pound of Brach*s Candy Corn. I love this time of year!

110. We live in a world, without Don LaFontaine http://lafontainesafety.ytmnd.com/ http://xrl.us/oo4w9 http://xrl.us/oo4xb

111. 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.

112. 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.