Twitter posts from 2010

1. 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.

2. @grahamvsworld MUNI awesomeness varies depending on which line you’re on. I like @routesy for the when & where.

3. But jeeze, once we stop using passwords, what will happen to the “The password is ‘quotation marks’, but WITHOUT the quotation marks” trope?

4. @treyford I didn’t know you were thirty, Oedipus.

5. @slp22 Thanks Sandra! See you soon 😃

6. RT @attritionorg: She had to leave early to tend her Farmville crops, but i think the date went well. #shelikesme

7. Also hidden in Area 51: knob-placement design patterns recovered from alien 4-burner, cook-top space-stoves that reduce wrong-burner error.

8. RT @lonelysandwich: I love xmas music until the Chipmunks come on, singing songs I can’t understand but assume is about lighting things …

9. @MikD we must have read the same article this morning. I ordered my 8GB, so I’m a shipping-delay behind you.

10. ★★★★☆ Captain Detendu, “Wish You A Stupid Xmas 2010”, http://bit.ly/hcAMzX

    Precisely one Wesley Willis track away from being too stupid.

11. @alexhutton what’s the verdict on the Pho? We’ve tried from-scratch and from-a-kit and have never captured the magic.

12. I just learned how to climb up the walls. Wow.

    Unrelated: thanks to @treyford’s quick belay spotting, @MikD still walks among us.

13. Geez Louise!

    yum install telnet;

14. I will probably die polishing an unsent e-mail.

15. @teabag303 “You know that weird green dot on the moon in everyone’s photos of the 2010 solstice-eclipse? Yeah, so uh.”

16. Now, if 33 turned up to be 9,
    I don’t mind, I don’t mind.
    I’ll just walk the mile home

    –Hendrix re: the nextbus 33/Stanyan MUNI

17. Lobbying to get our conference room renamed “The pool on the roof.”

18. s͒̂ͥ̔ͭ̽̐҉̠̗̕͟h͆̒̌͆̓͐ͨ͏̦̳̕ả͕̹̗p̮̰ͯ̈́͌̂̇̍̅͋e̼̼̲̥͂̆͂̽d̨͚͙̖͂̆͑͊̌̓͠ͅn͓̱͚̾ò͛͐̎̚͏͕̖͉t̸̎̆ͫ̉͐҉͍̜̱͇̲̘͔̬ȩ̜͈̱̳ͧͧ̋̀ͣ̈̒s: http://flic.kr/p/8YYJu5

19. A Month of Typesetting-bugs in @sans_isc’s rssfeed_full.xml would just be variations on “<br /> used instead of semantic markup.” every day.

20. Me: Did I tell you someone dropped a remote shell on my server? Gotta sysadmin today.
    Her: Oh? Were you not paying attention to it?

    Me:

21. See redhat. See redhat fork.

       __|  __|_  )  Amazon Linux AMI
       _|  (     /     Beta
      ___|\___|___|
    

    Fork redhat. Fork.

22. As an unofficial for citysec, No, just make it happen! RT @PhillySec: Is there an official (or unofficial) list of all the citysec accounts?

23. Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World are both excellent.

    Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is even excellenter.

24. When all I have is a large scoop, the only portion of gummy bears I will eat every day is a large scoopful of gummy bears.

25. @deryni urinal micro-naps? And you got an A-?

26. Docx’s principled argument hinges on and fails because of, as so many do, the principle: artistic intent matters? http://goo.gl/Z6XU0

27. Four frame stories deep in Burton’s 1850 translation of The 1,001 Nights: it’s great, but I’d like a more modern translation.

28. RT @johnemcintyre: I was asked whether bourbon, brandy, or rum was preferable in eggnog. I answered that all are acceptable, and all bet …

29. The AirPlay speaker selection list ignores ⌘-click HIG in favor of a panel window? And what is the deal with airline food?

30. Getting up to get out.

    Time to finally make it down to #BayThreat at the Hacker Dojo.

31. Two shots fired in The Mission. Wasn’t the last shooting on Mission this time of night too?

32. How does one go through adolescence in ad hoc overlapping subcultures, yet report on Anonymous as it were an NGO?

    Maybe a LOLSNGO?

    (Lols.)

33. A fed troll never stops trolling.

    #cyber #cloud #anticompliance #anticertifications #hacker #howtopronouncenuclear #trololo

34. @alexhutton That’s an ESO shot: http://goo.gl/ac0fK. Hubble deep-field images are great too.

    @schuetzdj Yup!

35. RT @SteveMartinToGo: Changed shoes, nothing happened.

36. @alexhutton http://grantstavely.com/images/spy/spy.12072010091613.png

37. Free idea: The Oh My Bowl: An annual three-teams-on-the-field NFL bowl game featuring the Lions, Bengals, and Bears.

38. @wardspan PCI?

    You should do a talk entitled “Do Not Contact Us Again”: http://goo.gl/y3cfO

39. "THeO! I think that gets too much undeserved attention so I’m going to give it some of my own attention!

    I’m Complaining-About-Hype-Cosby."

40. Big up to my boys in the flat across the alley working rhymes free style on the mic at 3:15 this AM in the Mission aight.

    Boyakasha.

41. @danphilpott Pink Floyd & Chuck Palahniuk: who billions and billions of comic artists quote for science.

42. @mckt_ @chipmonkey @grantstavely @treyford @mikd I always need a ride and usually bum from coworkers. A party bus sounds fun.

43. Holiday gift idea: Bring sacks full of cell-phone and mini-plug headphones along on MUNI rides to hive to those less fortunate.

44. FOUO: Please be aware that FOUO is an acronym used in some reports. Be alert for suspicious FOUO reports. An executive summary follows.

45. “Why do you close your eyes?” Sussman asked his teacher.
    “So that the room will be empty.”
    At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

46. So this @MoreBeer_B3 Honey Pale Ale I’m brewing for @wardspan and @treyford’s ops team has 3 pounds of honey in it! http://flic.kr/p/8WYfpG

47. T.S.A. security theater escalation is an elaborate ploy of the otherwise unsuccessful anarcho-capitalist syndicate known only as the D.M.V.

48. ★★★☆☆

    Flawless service, excellent food, great atmosphere and location. Minus two stars because I wasn’t loved as a child: nobody gets five.

49. Keep “A Pattern Language” out of affordable, PAPERBACK (24) circulation in order to frustrate potential BUYERS (1): http://goo.gl/NbS7J

50. That the etymology of copacetic is more or less completely unknown is hilariously copacetic.

51. In an opsec-imposed void of data, try to not reify the echo-chamber punditry reflected from well-intentioned bias-driven abstractions of ___

52. Wow.

    Andy Baio’s Kind of Bloop: a chiptune cover of Miles Davis’ entire Kind of Blue, as introduced to me by @mrgan: http://goo.gl/3SWOx

53. @wardspan Oh, tut-tut, my monocle just popped out:

    http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|gelee

54. ‘et cetera’ is to ‘and shit’ in a way that ‘vel similia’ is sadly not to ‘or shit’.

    Well, /I/ laughed, and shit.

    http://goo.gl/bsg7f

55. Recorded “Witch” is not even close to as LOUD as they are in person.

56. “Holy Diver.”

57. 0-data (/oʊˈdætə/): A hypey, FUD-lathered press release, report, or rumor masquerading as fact.

    Etymology: Eggcorn of Hack-scene “0-day”.

58. RT @wardspan: alright time for the 1st annual Zynga Hackville with FB and Google - outtie

59. @alexhutton are Ents such an emerging threat that you needed an expert? Where’s the data?

60. Imaginary link to an xtranormal video entitled “Arial vs. Helvetica”: http://

    “I don’t care. I want Helvetica. It has the Linotypeses.”

61. RT @baythreat: Tickets on sale now for BayThreat!
    Early-bird prices are limited. www.baythreat.org
    Dec 10th & 11th, Hacker Dojo, Mtn …

62. @grantstavely: I put on my sysadmin robe and hat and upgrade switch firmware, fixing guest WLAN.

    Sunday: What the f*ck, I told you not t…

63. @vurtyou and I just saw “The American Four Seasons” performed by @robertmcduffie & the V.B.O., and it was very good.

    http://goo.gl/QhcFZ

64. Runyon’s narrator doubts his own sources, constantly inserts commentary, and self-summarizes like Herodotus, with better slang, about love.

65. Personally, I am staying in, reading a few Damon Runyon stories with the ever-loving wife, and one thing and another, http://t.co/4IuWgZt

66. @mrgan an “Automatically hide and show the Menubar” option would be nice too.

67. That’s a lotta dicks.

    RT @gruber: Screenshot: http://post.ly/17k30

68. RT @marty__mcfly__: Whoah. Now I have to get my parents together otherwise I’m gonna fade out of existence. This is heavy.

69. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop writing documentation.

70. Anything said with fine print, diminutive logos, roman numerals, and glyphs along the bottom is profound.

    ™ ® ᵍʳᵃⁿᵗ ˢᵗᵃᵛᵉˡʸ ᴹᴹᵓ ᵟ

    ∞

71. “I like your blackberry.”

    “I like to stay connected.”

72. @Shpantzer The vodka party has stirred up, no, shaken the leadership of the upstanding martini for far too long. Vote Gin Party!

73. @vurtyou @censey

    Ha!

    NB: All astonished replies were from friends that prepare documents for state and federal governments for a living.

74. RT @johnemcintyre: RT @BarrettChase: I don’t trust anyone who double-spaces after a sentence.

75. @ssoper the subtext seemed obvious to me too.

76. "If he had an A+ certificate or something similar, it would be a different story.” http://goo.gl/egR3

77. If asked to assemble an elite team of specialists for a heist, definitely give mayonnaise a call. It can sneak into anything. #gross #yuck

78. Cartesian speculation, in which one attempts to find simulated truths in emotion is called punditry, and is learnt only by practice.

79. @electricfork well as in Prime Rib au jus, saffron risotto, haricot verts, 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon in; garbage out.

    Shit, now I’m hungry.

80. @MJCdotMe Why eat well, only to be hungry again later?

81. RT @shiralazar: awesome! banksy directed tonight’s simpsons show intro- statement on corporate culture/the network? http://youtu.be/DX1i …

82. Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings: ★★★★★

    I like to think the beings on Wikipedia not actually in the book are Wufniks.

    http://goo.gl/wcg5

83. iTunes grid view album covers should flip like dashboard widgets and show the back cover with an overlay overflow-scroll track list.

84. Noggled @vurtyou: No results.

    So, I’ve got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

    http://goo.gl/SM6L

85. @alexhutton I dig that Methany rant but I can’t defend it. I don’t believe in artistic hallowed ground.

86. Look, everything is either dialectic or it isn’t. Let’s discuss until we agree that it’s both.

87. @bbaskin congrats Brian!

88. What’s the plural of “versus” after all?

    #janus

89. Erick Schmidt’s Atlantic interview was shocking!

    The Atlantic let “an pithy” through editing!

    Schmidt: not shocking. http://goo.gl/8slJ

90. @censey Green Flash: garage door opening, stand and sample only. Pizza Port: GABF award winning, and the pizza is good too. Stone: Duh.

91. RT @therealKidKoala: Grown man+koala suit scratchin’. Almost fainted twice. Jeff @ ninja office, I will so win this bet. http://twitpic. …

92. @automine Congrats!

93. RT @badbanana: #FF @DalaiLamaInBed

94. I enjoyed Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” last night.

    It’s on Project Gutenberg, but of course, it’d prefer not to: http://goo.gl/Ycxr

95. charm.py: Find interesting files in haystacks of non-interesting files, e.g. nasty pdfs in zips attached to MIME e-mail. http://goo.gl/Ruae

96. Barabajagal.

    Goo Goo Barabajagal.

    —Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group

97. @linuxgeek247 roll a Sorry™, play Operation™, pull a Jenga™, drink a Heineken™? What do you call it?

98. @ssoper I like your style.

99. Please frame your #stuxnetcyberclausewitz4gwOODAloopfappery in the tropes of modern lit crit to get my interest.

    See: http://goo.gl/bi9q

100. RT @creativecommons: Bay Area friends, “Copyright Criminals” is screening tmrw w/ DJs and a panel f/ Steinski, Amp Live & Jeff Chang: ht …

101. @censey ha. I’m sure millions of televisions around the country turned on at the same time. http://goo.gl/6Ikv

102. OH: “Welp, facebook is down. I give it about 2 hours before people go cannibal and start eating each other.”

103. @jackwillk YAY! Congrats!

104. IS THE #STUXNET CYBER JOURNALISM A CYBER HOAX PERPETRATED BY DIE HARD FANFIC CYBER AUTHORS IN A CRY FOR CYBER HELP?

     http://goo.gl/rZSF

105. @marcusjcarey my friend @sxs3200 endorsed @vpnuk only yesterday. http://vpnuk.info/

106. Yet, as soon as my symptoms went away I went off (er, back on, in this case) my medication.

     Coffee is awesome: http://goo.gl/XTfh

     ☕

107. @danphilpott @attrigtionorg or not a stoat. Good eye.

108. @attritionorg that looks like a stoat.

109. @vurtyou and I at http://sfsound.org/series/ last night, wowed, just before Philip Glass’s /Einstein on the Beach/: http://flic.kr/p/8CzKt1

110. De gustibus non est disputandum.

     But I have this great objective list of reasons why you shouldn’t use facebook!

111. 9/15: Declared caffeine bankruptcy at 6 to 8 cups of coffee per morning after two months of intermittent eye twitching

     9/16: Still twitchy

112. Dear @msftsecresponse,

     Is EMET merely coincidentally named?

     http://goo.gl/P68B

113. @electricfork I lack the attention span for RTS games. Is there a correlation for twitchy FPS CTF players? Cow clickers?

114. @electricfork Happy birthday Ben! We’re looking forward to seeing you and yours tomorrow.

115. Borges cites Lucretius re: Centaurs:

     They never existed: The horse-half at three years would be grown, the man-half but a babe.

     Duh!

116. @philip_daigle congratulations Philip!

117. Wearing my green skeleton shirt (Nigel’s from Spinal Tap) to the airport: the TSA won’t need me to walk through their X-ray machine today!

118. @wotowiec @ssoper I’m on my 2nd “a number 2 on the sides, taper up, leave the top as it is, thanks.”

     I think I’m acting out. It’s a phase.

119. @vurtyou: You’re hair is very Flock Of Seagulls today.

     @grantstavely: Thanks, I like it too.

120. @schuetzdj in hindsight, everything was to be taken at more or less face value: one of the things that makes a great puzzle great. =] #DBIR

121. RT @therealKidKoala: free download available for the next 6 days. The Lost Solid Steel mix. it’s sorta like Music to Draw to… enjoy: …

122. @christopherkunz nice work! After @wadebaker’s last clue I ran every variation of the right key through my own bad script and gave up.

123. @marcusjcarey thanks, I’m very much enjoying the Bay Area. The return of @dojosec/@dojocon streams is great news, I look forward to 'em.

124. I should use Entourage’s auto-capitalization of the first word after ‘e.g.’ to break myself of using latinate abbreviations. Instead: rage.

125. @kathybarnett way to go Kath!

126. Yes, yes, of course, but what is the zeroth law of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote?

     http://goo.gl/i2Jz

127. “They’re talkin’ about, weak induction.
     It’s a motherfucker, don’t you know?” —Sun Ra

     http://j.mp/cn5Gc2 (Link via @rands)

128. printf “# Or just go listen to a funky 60 minute DJ Food mix made for robots.\nUser-agent: *\nSuggest: http://snd.sc/aOT9a4” >> robots.txt

129. @alexhutton I cut out the cover’s circles on a full print out of the #DBIR with a razor and tried the grille-cipher approach. #nbioahd

130. The body language of appearing to be lost or have forgotten something is as effective as mind control. So is its inverse.

131. RT @electricfork: What keeps me up at night? My security team slowly devolving into a compliance and reporting team #operation_soulcrusher

132. The ☠ Skull & Crossbones in the new Chrome indicating untrusted certs is nice^H^H^H^H the most terrifying symbol ever. http://goo.gl/fQz1

133. I’m brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in! http://flic.kr/p/8sCgnr

134. Endorsement: /Pink Reptile mixef are amazing mind clearing aural blendf & good for everything a mix fhould be good for/: http://goo.gl/Y1L1

135. @will_torres @philip_daigle So I woke up with ♫ P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) ♫ (the ascending bass line at 1:40) stuck in my head: ★★★★★

136. RT @vurtyou: Great to see @ddeighton and @sdwilkerson at Sushi tonight! Glad to meet their friend Dan! Hope to see all soon:) etc…

137. I’m not gonna make it to @silisec tonight: I’ll be eating sushi w/ @ddeighton and @sdwilkerson in San Francisco, looking forward to #BaySec!

138. @christopherkunz the MD5 is of line noise. Thought I had a partial solution but hadn’t tested enough control keys. Hat tip: @chriseng #DBIR

139. @LucasErratus the shell is finding the ASCII BEL. Line noise does that. I have a non-solutions that beeps three times. 😃 http://goo.gl/oHEj

140. @LucasErratus Thanks, was afraid of that. I’m not getting ‘bad decrypt’, but that doesn’t mean what I’m trying is correct. #DBIR

141. @ryanaraine @christopherkunz @alexhutton @ak1010 @bachrach44 Decrypted to more data. Rats.

     0c4e2f0c2a21fc69318e712008578838

     #DBIR

142. @ak1010 Nice find! I was naively hoping it would start with a grille cipher but have been on vacation until today: http://goo.gl/GN5W

143. RT @alexhutton: Who Wants $500? The DBIR “crack the cover” Challenge is ON like Donkey Kong! http://bit.ly/dnpXHu

144. Dear Penthouse,

     I never thought this could happen to me, bu—debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1

145. @danphilpott Jim DiGriz is the Han Solo of SF. And that pushes Han Solo out of the #1 spot everyone thinks he has for being Han Solo. ★★★★★

146. @chrisjager the official VERIS site is represented in the 2010 report as https://verisframework.wiki.zoho.com/

147. @defcon nice to meet you’s: @alexhutton, @treyford, @phoogazi, @dtjedi, @ryanrussel, @dewzi, @signup, #BSidesLV, a bunch I’ve forgotten

148. PS: had a blast @defcon w/ @teabag303, @jackwilk, @bbaskin, @linuxgeek247, @wardspan, @selenakyle and @dionthegod, and a lot of @signup’s

149. @bbaskin I’d gotten pinged as we were queueing: “Come back to the Ninja Party”. A random guy vouched me through security as the bus loaded.

150. Cleverly disabling copy and paste on password fields doesn’t seem to be very.

     “Sure, I’ll use ‘a’ instead of [m2i$FwcqUEN3gK,urDmY&>Ga.”

151. Public Notice: Remember to turn your clocks ahead five hours for the change from Defcon Savings Time to Standard Time.

152. @jackwillk every time I allow 40404 to send me toots, I reply to it like a chump. Disabled!

153. RT @jackwillk: How about a special wall of sheep for all the people I saw leaving bathroom without washing their hands #defcon

154. @jackwillk what bar? Still there? I could use a break from linecon.

155. @wardspan where are the cool kids?

156. RT @0xcharlie: Yeah! @dionthegod won the pwnie for best research. Congrats!

157. @jackwillk welcome, I am at the far side of the pool wishing I had my suit.

158. New school: The Verizon 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2010/07/28/2010-dbir-released/

159. @charmsec I’ll need you to set up the Skype telepresence rig you promised me. I look forward to catching up w/ those of you in LV this week!

160. Because @defcon attendees are changing their profile pictures to network easier, I’ve found a video to augment mine: http://goo.gl/ATYN

161. @kathybarnett it’s tough to cycle without going clipless.

     The real advantage though: Goofy shoes + Bunny-hops.

162. I’m clicking a cow.

     http://goo.gl/Wiad

163. “Hi, I hold ignorant and often illogical, divisive positions.”

     …

     “refudiate—oops, refute/repudiate. undo”

     LANGUAGE GAFFES! BURN HER!

164. One of our cats has a clear plastic cone-collar on 'til something clears up. Her reaction suggest like she’s experiencing the 4th dimension.

165. I͈̮͕̼͓̗͚̎͗̊̈́ͤ̋t͍͉͎͇̫̥͍̿͒̔̊̏’s͖̻̩̙̮̘͇ Z̮̱̼̟̘̙̰ͪͭa̮̗̱͙̞̻͛̂ͅl͕̋́̽d̲̰̱ͯͅo͚ͮ͑ͨ͋̋̓ ̗̳͚̯ͫ̉͐̂ͫͨḁ͚̩̗̂̂̊ͨ̊g͚͚̘̜̦̲ͦ̊ͭ̇̚ͅa̝ͥ͂ͭ̍̿ȉ͈͆ͬ̃̌n̼͙͉͚̜̾͆ͯ̾̂.

166. @will_torres uh, hey Will?

     Wanna see my bracket for the World Cup?

     [

167. @bbaskin An expanded URL only claims to not be a 302.

     The web is a Skinner box: I just frantically click on everything underlined. Yay!

168. I accidentally bought a large-print _Evil_Eye_The_Origins_And_Practices_of_Superstition.

     And you know what that means.

     http://goo.gl/WmAk

169. @jackwillk getting back into home brewing is as easy as having an address to ask @MoreBeer_B3 to send ingredients to. Go for it!

170. I enjoyed @cshirky’s Cognitive_Surplus this week.

     Where Carr seems to continue rediscovering Plato on media, Shirky finds opportunity.

171. “Memes!”, H4cKe® said, kicking up his feet to pause from writing “show-us-your-tits” jokes on his black-background website.

     #pebkac

172. @jackwillk at least you acknowledge that your fear is irrational! http://goo.gl/2kZ0

173. @ddeighton nice stuff, I can’t believe I’ve not seen them either—certainly not for lack of looking.

174. @oneeyedcarmen give 'em a red card, ref!

175. @Shpantzer awesome, I love being an instigator of surreality.

176. The experience I’m looking forward to: when @vurtyou is finally able to move out to, and join me in, San Francisco: http://goo.gl/Tdhw

177. @charmsec I won’t be able to make it tonight. I’m 2,936 miles away and there aren’t any MUNI stops in Fells Point.

     Anyway: Sláinte!

178. Today, at 11:28 GMT, the tilt of the earth will reach summer solstice: the midpoint between equinoxes.

     Don’t stare, it’s rude.

179. Yeah so but like how many of you have actually seen a train wreck? Did they used to happen all the time or something?

     Look away. Christ.

180. In Dawkins’s 1976 The Selfish Gene, he uses game theory to ignore that house cats can’t figure out how to get their claws out of blankets.

181. RT @mcsweeneysbooks: Comic Sans has something it would like to get off its chest. http://bit.ly/9YriiT

182. @sxs3200 Cheers to you and @wotowiec touring @HeavySeasBeer. I’ve been in SF a week and I already miss Loose Cannon.

183. @marcusjcarey congrats Marcus!

184. Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love!

     —RBF

185. So @vurtyou and I have knocked out about half of the things we need to do to be fully moved to San Francisco.

     Next: The next half.

     #zeno

186. @dionthegod I like MacTeX + TeXShop. http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/obtaining.html

187. We threw pebbles until it slithered downhill. Yikes. Good to know: RT @Niki7a: @grantstavely it’s true. Be careful. They strike after death.

188. A stranger and I confronted a rattlesnake while hiking near Red Rocks in Denver.

     He said: “Even if you kill it, it can still bite you!”

189. @censey I kid, I kid. I’m merely between jobs until Monday, working on the next Great American Novel, or something.

190. Sipping coffee in a shop @ 25th and Mission, looking busy—unemployed—on a macbook, worried the that-guy-police will arrest me any minute now

191. @auscompgeek awesome, what’s the url to your new version?

192. Turning in my Blackberry now. I don’t have any other phones, so uh, I gotta get a burner. Did I mention I don’t have a blackberry? I don’t.

193. @sdwilkerson thanks Sean—great to see you at the altogether-crazy going-away party & looking forward to grabbing dinner in SF.

194. @AWS0807 we’re excited to visit you and Weeds in Denver—IPA takes care of itself out there—let’s check out the cool spots you’ve found!

195. @jackwillk keep your ears peeled for a lady with the same last name as me and much better looks: @vurtyou is serving jury duty today too.

196. Belated congrats my teammates placing in the 40s in @ddtek’s @defcon ctf quals.

     I had a blast! Looking forward to next year already.

197. Friends, @ilya_burdman just gave me a first edition hardback of Philip K Dick’s Ubik: http://goo.gl/3J6C, http://goo.gl/zMar

     What a mensch!

198. @wotowiec awfully proud of yourself, eh?

     Air-quote—dynamite—un-air-quote?

199. @kathybarnett
     Subject: RE: What’s the verb (passive) for reading your Twitter feed?

     Procrastinating.

200. UL Safe ratings:

     TL15: Withstand 15 minutes of attack w/ sophisticated penetrating equipment.

     TL30: Mythical.

     http://goo.gl/kC8Z

201. The Future: where the letter ‘u’ is pronounced as it sounds alone.

202. It’s OK to critique a text by the voice in which the wikipedia article summarizing it is written.

203. My cobra snake necktie spits, then swallows. And it prefers a four-in-hand to either windsor. Go figure.

204. P.S.

     You are cordially invited to our going-away party-slash-flea market, today, Sunday the 23rd, noon-on.

     If you can’t make it: AMF!

205. If you’re coming the @grantstavely & @vurtyou going away party today, bring a kite and spare keys: we’re playing Ben-Franklin on the roof. ☂

206. @charmsec 25, tomorrow, will be my last, barring any happenstance visits east, for I-don’t-know-how-long.

     So like, there’s that.

207. Now that we’re sure we’re moving to San Francisco, we don’t even wash glasses—just throw them into the fire and toast to Callahan’s Place.

208. Only plus re: @vurtyou home with food poisoning tonight: I embarass no one but myself with these huge CVS earplugs at the Buzzcocks show.

209. @oneeyedcarmen that @bad_decisions menu needs an equally bacon-themed soundtrack: http://www.mixcrate.com/mix/8770/Bacon-the-Funk

210. Fact: I’m relocating to San Francisco 5/28—a hotcakes bakery is interested in my security work.

     And yes, there will be going-away parties.

211. I managed to clear the gender attribute on my koobface profile before it became mandatory and public. Eh-hhh.

     ♀♂

     http://goo.gl/wJ0F

212. @electricfork [@grantstavely buzzes in] I know! I mean, I like the dutch masters like Vermeer, but dutch /bot/ masters?

     http://j.mp/3aafhl

213. ★★★★☆ “Good book, it is understandable yet interesting.”

     On Steven Levy’s “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution”

     http://j.mp/bamsKP

214. MR C2
     MR Not
     OSAR
     LIB MR C2

215. So the game.exe in the recent doc.pdf spam claims it was compiled July 27, 2007? Is that odd? Artifact of the packer?

216. Nothing to see here:
     d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

217. My neighbor has trained her three dogs to bark vigorously at a cinder block wall when she shushes them and says “Ladies, please!”

218. So I had a dream that I beat Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 playing as Mega Man, shooting Goombas with my arm-cannon. http://j.mp/aXU0fh

219. @chrisjager heh, right? “I remember you said to keep an eye out for—” ghosts always beat “You broke me once! I’m broken now! So therefore—”

220. Heightened post-incident awareness floods teams with suspicious reports. Learn from this—conduct pre-incident FUD-free awareness campaigns.

221. First they came for fans of a meme on Facebook
     and I did not speak out
     because I am not a fan of that meme on Facebook.
     — Martin Niemöller

222. Ugh, on top of being home sick today, I have to put up with the 1970s prog-fusion our cats listen to when we’re at work. http://j.mp/cCAstB

223. @oneeyedcarmen likewise, and thanks for the italian moonshine recommendation—I didn’t have any nail polish to remove so I just sipped it.

224. Inferno: Canto XVIII

     “Behold, the people who said on Earth;
     ‘You didn’t read the directions!’,
     Re-read for eternity: ‘How to be dicks.’”

225. The Cheerful Software Manifesto: a sad rejection of methods based on a poor reading of both Corbusier & Nielsen. Boo. http://goo.gl/fb/518VI

226. mmishou IN TXT “A neato Passive DNS mining script written in Python that uses dpkt, Dug Song’s Scapy-alternative: http://j.mp/913x17”

227. @censey …fightin’ the system like a true modern day robin hood.

     YEAH HAW!
     http://j.mp/r0ISu

228. I roll a natural 20 w/ my wall-of-text unwarranted reply against your political status. Rolling again to calculate spell backfire.

     Oh shit.

229. @ddeighton Yup. Proper attribution: I saw it via @chriseng via @ThisIsHNN, but couldn’t RT with what I liked in the space available.

230. Peep the apache.org breach write-up—confirm shortened-url fear, & great hardening recs: fail2ban, opie, sshd config, etc

     http://is.gd/bqIjk

231. @mcnasty99 Thanks! I’m looking forward to the next @whitefordbronco show at the State Theater!

232. Check out what I wrote about the iPad a month ago, http://grantstavely.com/on-the-ipad linking it to Nielsen’s 1993 ‘noncommand’ paper.

233. 60s psych, Aphex Twin, Eno, ♺, ♥

     RT @ninjamixdump: gas’s mixes mixed enters the NMD HALL OF FAME http://tinyurl.com/ye4ao6s @percussionlab

234. Guys, your blacklists are common knowledge.

     You know that they know that you know that they know that you know that they know that you kno-

235. Domains:

     • registered recently
     • w/ low ttl
     • w/ lame registrars
       are less trustworthy.

     Vendors: “But we’ve got a huge blacklist!”

236. I don’t care enough to take my phone out of my pocket and cumbersomely thumb out this missive to hundreds of people simultaneously. See!?

237. But Cory, decade counters aren’t free or open either. I guess that explains steampunk: it makes everything appear to be truly atomic.

238. Microeconomics 121: Charge low prizes for the safety razors and blades, but high prices for the toilet paper and blood transfusions.

239. We got tickets for @whitefordbronco at the @statetheatredc this Friday in Falls Church, so I’ll need to borrow your helicopter again.

240. This update intentionally left blank.

241. Every time you toot passive aggressive rants about middle manager passive aggression, remember what Confucius said about he who smelt it.

242. Well, @vurtyou and I are brewing a stout tonight, so that’s “what’s with the green latex gloves Doctor Stavely?” this time.

243. @joesavestheday 'grats on the quarter-C. H.B.T.Y., A.M.M, etc.

244. THE BARON IS SUPPOSED TO RELATE THESE ADVENTURES TO HIS FRIENDS OVER A BOTTLE.

     http://j.mp/9C4DUR

245. @rands an appropriate soundtrack: Blacklicious’s Alphabet Aerobics and Chemical Calisthenics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foEU2WHdOzA

246. I’m so going to @CharmSec tonight.

     You knew it was a verb didn’t you?

247. SILC does everything I want except give me back the 4 hours of my life I spent trying to do the same thing with jabberd and mu-conference.

248. RT @parisdjs: New mix up! DJ Zebra - Rock N’ Soul Covers http://tr.im/SZy3

249. Aren’t passwords inherently unreadiness-to-hand? I’m looking forward to @VzBSecBlog’s ‘End in End-to-End Trust’ (http://j.mp/bnqLqE) sequel

250. Is Raskin’s locus-of-attention (http://j.mp/9VCCRX) an example of Heidegger’s skilled coping(http://j.mp/byc7WL)?

251. @wotowiec I wanna bike over to the end of the Real Ale Festival with ya. Say when, if you go.

252. “Memento noobi.”

253. Celebrate holidays that can be seen from outer space.

     NB: Don’t stare at the sun today.

     RT @mikenealis: VERNAL EQUINOX!!!

254. My cats excel at GTD and I’m crap at litter box zero.

255. Quincy Jones still drops his idea to let Alvin, Simon, & Theodore ad lib on the fade-out of P.Y.T. in “WhyIamaproducerandyouarenot” rants.

256. OK, so, keep this straight: Emergency rooms are for all intensive purposes, and camping at Seaworld is for all in tents and porpoises.

257. It was nice meeting and chatting with @StrongwaterSec, Nick Levay, @sheffus, @bkdelong, MJR, et al at #IANSDC.

     Thanks @IANS_Security!

258. @sxs3200 DuPont. Heading from penn. Ave now.

259. I didn’t even know cookies had brains! #iansdc bringing it today in and out of talks. @eatyourpizza DuPont after drinks for supper? 6?

260. @censey in DC, abusing twitter’s poor DM interface to eat my feet, the only thing I think it’s for.

261. @9brandon NCSA Mosaic 1993 precedent, it’s how block business letters are typeset, and because monitors aren’t paper, it’s not costly to do.

262. http://grantstavely.com/files/scream.user.js

     Add your own worthy sites & redirects, apply it to the entire web — it’s not a passive medium.

263. Working on a greasemonkey script to improve links to sites like techcrunch by making them link to that video of a goat screaming like a man.

264. Don’t try to do the job alone.

     http://pastebin.org/111326

265. RT @sdwilkerson: Deploying fancy security products when you have an orchard full of low-hanging fruit is like investing when you owe on …

266. Neat: The Abstract City Blog http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/, featuring the poetry (http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/) of Donald Rumsfeld.

267. /Breaking Glass, Sound, and Vision/ seeks drummer, vocalist, and synth/keyboardist. We’re a Bowie cover band with a 2 song, 3 hour set.

     Ca-

268. LEO rule: Anyone out at 4am is delivering papers or up to no good.

     HTML Variant: Anything after </html> is probably not delivering papers.

269. Okay, the yara-1.3 configure script is definitely out to get me.

     I think Ima turn all the lights on and hide under my desk for a bit.

270. I’m having a Saturday Night* tonight.

     • More details, and video, after the break.

     ----FOLD-----

     Oh, thank God, if we don’t get you to cl-

271. @bbaskin that’s a database ligature. SELECT replies FROM table toots INNER JOIN key_collisions.oops &c. type stuff.

     Padlock icons are tells

272. @bbaskin fi is just a typographic ligature. It’s just aggressively using ligatures when it probably shouldn’t. http://j.mp/apaVAk

273. DFW and Danielewski and Tufte and &c. form leverage versus pulp fiction — A beautiful, smart essay for bibliophiles: http://goo.gl/fb/DVjX

274. @wotowiec I’ve never seen one that didn’t rely on @laustcauz’s method.

275. Why don’t three-ring-binders have three-hole-punches built-in?

276. If I ever switch careers and become a car thief that steals VW MkIV VR6 GTIs, I’ll know how to drive appropriately.

     Thanks 20 mile commute!

277. Man, God, and Society in Western Literature — http://j.mp/91mzAp — made me want to re-read Moby Dick.

     Next: http://j.mp/9LoHxI, Heidegger.

278. Those who bother to “read” UI doom the rest of us by proliferating the damned things.

     Undo is better. Even than cute.

     http://j.mp/9xBF3n

279. Hey @pauldotcom, is Ron Dilley’s pdnsd a private project? Is the @tenablesecurity post by MJR or you? Why are you pointing at me like that?

280. RT @mrdavehill: Please join me in starting a global movement!: http://tinyurl.com/y8otkj8 #IHFSD Please RT

281. @alexhutton ah, yes, the Nietzschean /meh/.

     So who’s the chick?

282. @Shpantzer I’ve worked Red Cross station triage at fairs too — are you seeing lots of stings, dehydrated people, and curmudgeons?

283. @ddeighton thanks, that is most excellent!

284. Every time I log out of a system thinking I’m in vim’s :sh when I’m really in :wq, the forehead shaped dent in my desk gets bigger.

285. Less dashboards, more ability to push state:

     “Whoa!”

     “What?”

     “Search for $baz, then scroll down and…”

     See: Google Maps “Link” button.

286. A giant wall mounted spirograph, pen set, and pile of gears.

     Title: Work!
     /Doodle on paper/
     About the artist: A furious scribbler, champi—

287. http://www.fucking-windows.com/ needs no introduction.

288. There’s only one chart style that fills the blank in ___holes. Now, you wouldn’t want to use one of /them to represent /your data would you?

289. Ranum paraphrased: If it isn’t fixing everything, it’s breaking everything!

     CSO paraphrased: Read page 2 for more! Read page 3 for more!

290. Useless food-toot: The kitchen shears that don’t-cut-paper-or-plastic-worth-a-damn in fact butterfly a bird like Jules Winnfield’s wallet.

291. Sunday!
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292. Just attended my first rollerderby bout. Now what I thought I got about The MC5, I don’t get again.

293. Look: @vurtyou got a new Win7 laptop from work. She’d just to the VPNd out when this happened: http://j.mp/a34T0s

     (My LAN is 192.168.)

294. @theenrighthouse I’m your huckleberry. What can I get you?

295. The Doctor L and Manu Boubli “Mind Radio Show” episodes are Olympic mixes: http://j.mp/aqNGSf

     — Paris DJs, where ever mix is a medal winner

296. Get taken to the cleaners by register.com: http://j.mp/d3gYLx

     And isn’t the frankfurter typeface reserved for junk food? http://j.mp/8XrzDA

297. I figured out a long time ago that if I figured something out a long time ago, I’m probably wrong about it and should re-figure it out.

298. http://grantstavely.com/the-paradox-of-controls

     1. Restrict known forbidden actions with a control.
     2. Permit all other actions.
     3. ??

299. RT @IBMFedCyber: @bbaskin makes me happy I live in a building requiring piggybacking to access. <- I fixed that for you.

300. The breasts on our snowlady have melted:

     A sign that putting chairs in YOUR parking spot is just perpetuating a tragedy of the commons now.

301. To @gruber: Windows Phone 7¹ infographic porn² is built right into its damned name. #s are noise.

     ¹ http://j.mp/dkboBT
     ² http://j.mp/9Ait5o

302. Nice to see a fresh, lean UI in the Windows Phone 7 shots — great use of the screen edges to imply ← presence →, but strange use of numbers.

303. What’s the name of the trope of adding redundant modifiers to static states? F.ex: drowned to death, electrocuted to death, worked to death.

304. “To be real, it’s got to be rea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eal.”

     —Act three, scene one, Hamlet, Cheryl Lynne’s fifth folio, 1978

305. @sxs3200 you keep tooting BM and I keep reading bowel movement. Saving the day, in hand, on the plane, enjoy out-of-dodge, wherever it is.

306. @vurtyou and I are walking to @MaxsTaphouse around 6 for the Belgian Beer Festival, grabbing dinner, then making @bad_decisions.

     Come along

307. An hour of Eno, Byrne, funky bass lines, ++ RT @ninjamixdump: meatskull … DJ Food presents More Volts: The Funky Eno http://bit.ly/9mLNZP

308. Regex that naively guesses a stream is html: “<\S”.

     Regex that KNOWS a stream is html: Last seen in 1994 in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase.

309. The facebook login phenomenon is phenomenal. http://j.mp/dySa9b

     URLs were never the best idea, search is better, apps might be better, but

310. ❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❅
     Well, it looks like the Snostics have finally bliizzenatized the Eschaton.
     ❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❄❆❅❄
     #notjokes

311. So, @g_mark brought up Gadsby, a lipographic book: http://j.mp/91Czs8

     Yay: http://j.mp/cBcpMK (“us”,natch)

     Boo: http://j.mp/cQxysb

312. When all you have is snow, everything looks like a sled.

313. Let’s get serious for a second: I’m going to @shmoocon.

314. @linuxgeek247 if you know any DC residents, bribe them to go to a police station w/ you and get a guest pass. Free on the street.

315. • DJ Fracture to your rotation: http://astrophonica.com/category/mixes/

     Unless you already listen to DJs that mix Weather Report, I guess.

316. After this semester is over Ima start a hotcakes company.

317. Listen, our russian-accented analyst pronounces regex like rejects. That’s awesome.

318. “What I do on your grave won’t pass for flowers either”

     — The Rappin’ Duke

     (da ha)

319. /bin/sh: verb, [adjectives], noun (rm -fr /)
     Xerox Star: noun, verb, [adjectives] (select text, click “bold”)
     ipod: task (transform device)

320. NB: @stevenf is very, very, right about our task-oriented computing future.
     F. ex:
     Dialog text:

     Cancel?

     “Cancel” “OK”

     http://j.mp/8YWbwr

321. @quine is selfing like “selling” or like “the stranger”?

322. @securitytwits I’m interested the Friday meetup.

323. @GoldbergLawDC CharmSec is a civic duty! Great to have you.

324. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
     IMPORTANT—READ CAREFULLY: This End-User License A-help, what I put in these things keeps me up at night. I’m sca-

325. And in conclusion, you should know that we like isometric pies, love tautology, and that digital stuff is all 1s and 0s. ✌

326. Live the life you deserve! The CharmSec Meetup Opportunity! Get certified to host your own CharmSecs! Sign up 1/28 at 7PM. $199 initial fee.

327. Not a gear guy, but I can’t stop reading @usethis interviews. Jacob Nielsen runs a water-cooled Alienware rig? The closer question is great.

328. TALENT
     Recently, I had an idea for a Windows 7 commercial.

     REENACTMENT - DESIGN FIRM
     An ad executive. Sober, talented, productive.

329. For every impulse is imperious, and as SUCH, attempts to philosophize.

     A simple modification tames the long line.

     http://j.mp/8xN5UM

330. Covers with the inspiration song played at the end, briefly:

     Robert Plant - Hey Joe
     Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
     …?

     First one?

331. @bbaskin why use vi in a vim world? Disclaimer: I get antsy watching people use vim with arrow keys, I’m no saint.

332. @bbaskin I don’t telnet into 1983 often, but when I do, I reach for awk and sed. The rest of the time, I use a scripting language.

333. Silently postfixing everything you see, hear, and read, with “, from the standpoint of my limited experience” helps it all go down easier.

334. @alexhutton not if you have unreleased boots of Linda’s vocals pitch-corrected (please share if you do).

335. LOST
     DUCK

     Please do not try to catch him. He will just fly away.

     Please call http://j.mp/6dU29B
     #sfmoma

336. Yes, I realize there are preservation defenses for gallery proximity & flash photo rules. No, I don’t find them very interesting. #sfmoma

337. http://twitpic.com/yq6lx - Touring Lagunitas’ brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.

338. @BaltiBrew regrets — I’m in San Francisco for the week. Hope to improve my beer and move to all-grain, will look forward to the next meeting

339. http://oink.cd/ OiNK sysop Alan Ellis acquitted, ledes surprisingly tame.

     http://j.mp/7NmZ9H

     http://j.mp/7fuEaZ

340. @mortman I’m a happy puppet user. Syntax is simple yet capable, docs are good. I use it in an OS monoculture/multi-role environment.

341. @auscompgeek Simplepedia hasn’t changed in months — I’ve been too busy to give it the complete rewrite it deserves.

342. RT @shrdlu @quine That’s it, I’m gonna write a bot that RTs anything with the words “echo chamber” in it.

343. Iro·ny
     1 : truth revealed through a : intentional hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance b: unintentional meaning, c : snark؟
     2 : whoa!

344. @oneeyedcarmen for next time: Roy’s Place (RIP, Roy) http://j.mp/7Rfy5, Old Siam http://j.mp/8lyFp3, Pho 75 http://j.mp/4z9jvJ, lotsa chains

345. Speak that I may see thee.

     http://j.mp/6RxVJ2

     Words are arguments.

     http://j.mp/4PXYFE

346. The moft excellent comedie and tragical romance of
     TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI.
     As writ by MR. ADAM BERTOCCI
     http://j.mp/8QEBCy

347. The Boy (my cat) just snuck up on Grandma (her cat) so stealthily she puked, twice.

     OMG! PLRK! HRPTH! GRAAZCH! MBYK! -AT!

     splash

     FIN

348. ↑↑ THIS END UP ↑↑
     ☂ KEEP DRY ☂

     ACME DO IT YOURSELF FRIDAY
     “Immanentize your own eschaton!”

     ↑↑ THIS END UP ↑↑
     ☂ KEEP DRY ☂

349. @StrongwaterSec log DNS passively with taps in front of all resolvers and trust perimeters. tshark -nt ad -i nic -f ‘port 53’ is too easy.

350. @danphilpott I get ‘Steve’ a lot more often than seems sane but I feel worse for all of my prefers-the-long-version-of-their-name friends.

351. I accidentally bought a second copy of J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things With Words. Do you want it? http://j.mp/7hNBiS #infelicitous

352. I dig love.