• 18:28 What the.. hail! #

• 12:52 My present from Veronica finally arrived today: 160GB iPod classic! I could listen to this thing for months without hearing a song twice! #
• 14:34 I think I just heard an old lady tell a Target employee she was looking for "plastic containers to put crap in" #

• 14:39 OMFG www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEAGuTYqqJk #

"It's gone!" sighed the Rat, sinking back in his seat again. "So beautiful and strange and new! Since it was to end so soon, I almost wish I had never heard it. For it has roused a longing in me that is pain, and nothing seems worth while but just to hear that sound once more and go on listening to it for ever. No! There it is again!" he cried, alert once more. Entranced, he was silent for a long space, spellbound.

"Now it passes on and I begin to lose it," he said presently. "O Mole! the beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the distant piping! Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet! Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us."

The Mole, greatly wondering, obeyed. "I hear nothing myself," he said, "but the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers."

"And you, you will come too, young brother; for the days pass, and never return, and the South still waits for you. Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then some day, some day long hence, jog home here if you will, when the cup has been drained and the play has been played, and sit down by your quiet river with a store of goodly memories for company. You can easily overtake me on the road, for you are young, and I am ageing and go softly. I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South in your face!"

• 12:59 Out walking around in public with no crutches or cane or anything. #

• 19:28 Always assumed "Christmas Wrapping" was a song known only to Dr. Demento fans and the 80s-obsessed, yet here it is playing in a Krystal. #

• 19:14 My 5-year-old chasing boys twice her size around the school. They seem to actually be scared of her. #

• 12:38 tweetphoto.com/5955685 #
• 16:00 Awesome.. Just heard the exact first 7 notes of the "Smoke on the Water riff" in throwaway incidental music in a 60's Pink Panther cartoon. #
• 16:03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzIwNobg2Vk#t=1m15s #

• 20:00 twitvid.com/6EF72 #

• 14:15 @Quinbot is there any other kind? #

• 08:17 Re-reading old Joel essays: www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/NotJustUsability.html #
• 08:32 Maybe I should have washed this new coffee mug before using it. I'm sure the hot coffee sterilized it, but it tastes kind of chemically. #

• 12:13 After five months of helplessness, I can finally walk well enough to eat at a *buffet* #

• 19:00 Nana called impatiens "sultanas". Only now did I learn that recipes calling for sultanas don't mean impatiens petals. #

• 13:36 After five *months* on crutches, today I'm gimping around the office like a zombie on my own two legs. #

• 17:45 My kids just worked out for themselves that the "red-yellow-blue" color model is a lie. Mindbomb! #

• 08:43 Ida must not be a big deal. I called my dad this morning and he was *at work*. It's just a normal day in Bayou La Batre apparently. #
• 08:57 Bracing ourselves for a repeat of the events of 9/21. Traffic volume (for me anyway) indicates lots of people just staying home. #
• 09:04 Wait, when *was* the big flood exactly? I googled for "2009 atlanta flood" and the first article was dated "9/21".. #
• 09:08 Yes I see the humor in the fact that my house flooded this fall but I had to use the Internet to remember what day it happened. #

• 09:26 bit.ly/4iw3Ip #
• 14:59 seemed like tweet material, but it went beyond 140, so I blogged it! bit.ly/2TDkVI #
• 17:29 Too bad you can't choose to age by staying in the same year and pushing your birthdate back into the past. #

• Tuning a guitar usually makes me think about riding in the car with my parents to pick up my brother from a party at his 2nd-grade teacher's house, circa 1985-1986.
• Or... it makes me think about being in the drive-through of Krystal, listening to Casey Kasem announce Living Color's "Cult of Personality" as being in the Top 40 that week in 1988.
• A new one: something about a work-related IM conversation made me think it was mentally taking place in the Arby's on University Blvd in Tuscaloosa, during my college years.

• 08:50 RT @davewiner: BBC: How a blunder finished off the Wall. r2.ly/myjk #
• 09:22 According to wikipedia, its just as likely that pigs originally caught "swine flu" from humans as vice versa. Do they call it "people flu"? #
• 12:32 Holy Micronauts, Batman! The Astro Boy toys at McDonalds can shoot their spring powered missiles for like 10 feet! #
• 12:44 You'll shoot your eye out! twitvid.com/3174D #

• 09:36 Woke up and smelled the coffee that our 7-year-old made for us myloc.me/1nIJF #
• 14:37 @drew826 finally a use for bobby pins besides sticking them into electrical outlets! #
• 20:50 Am I really hearing a light-jazz version of "Black Hole Sun" in a Thai restaurant? #

• 06:42 Cable "on demand" has a small and baffingly obscure selection of Looney Tunes. Never expected to see Speedy Gonzales outside of a menu again #

• 11:58 A Mickey Mouse cartoon on the Disney Channel?! Has the world gone mad? #
• 19:16 Waiting for trick-or-treaters to show up. Did Halloween get canceled? #

• 09:50 Favorite name for a source code file: "calcobibbilengths". Sounds like it has something to do with the chalcolithic age. Or cacodemons. #

• 09:03 Thank you Mrs. McKinney for sending me this: bit.ly/2DtozM #

• 10:18 @hazelrage nyquil changed in 2005 when they caved to anti-pseudoephedrine regs #

• 15:32 Never thought I'd be that guy asking you to re-send me your numbers b/c my phone died and I can't get them off the old one..but there it is #
• 16:38 I don't need your numbers.. looks like the carrier actually stores them not the phone. Didn't know they did that. Big-brotherish but useful. #

• 11:23 Overheard: "Bacon is bacon. That's why they call it bacon." #
• 11:53 Sprinkee - coffee with sprinkles. An idea whose time has come? #

• 18:24 What kind half-assed Chuck E. Cheese's doesn't have beer?! #
• 18:40 Roll Tide, Mallet Assembly style bit.ly/1mdVpm #
• 18:48 @Quinbot ouch. That sucks. I can empathize. #

• 19:00 Two kids, two cars, and now two dogs. #

• 13:12 Soon to be added to www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php: "They have always known about SQL injection, XSS, parameter tampering, and XSRF" #

• 19:12 The 2000 Rocky and Bullwinkle movie has *way* too many famous actors for what it is. #
• 19:41 kind of sad that in a film w/ a moose flying a plane, the most unbelievable thing is that he could fly to the whitehouse w/o being shot down #

• 13:06 SuppressWarnings("unchecked") will bite you, eventually. #

• 18:15 apropos Doom being mentioned on the Mallet list: bit.ly/mcwzN #

• 21:03 Client applications that crash every time the network connection with their server is disrupted have no place in this century. Or the last. #

• 19:15 Never bothered to look before, but my employer registered at least two MIME types: application/vnd.intu.qbo and application/vnd.intu.qfx #

• 16:55 I'm about 5-7 years slow for just realizing this now, but nobody has to learn HTML anymore unless it's their job. I kinda don't like this. #

• 08:28 Ignored local news advice to "avoid travel" and went to work. It was like driving on a weekend, no traffic. Guess everybody else listened. #

• 00:09 Ah, monthly shave! #
• 17:31 Seen on 285: Peeing Calvin and Praying Calvin on the same car! #

• 00:59 For somebody who's never technically held a C++ job, I sure do spend a lot of time looking for bugs in C++ code. #
• 22:09 Am I the only one that thinks this is WAY too creepy to air during kid's TV shows? Think of the children! tinyurl.com/mjpb6o #

• 15:47 wifi at the pool == laptops close to water. will hilarity ensue? #

• 21:47 Mind bomb: Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is *six* minutes long. I've known the song since high school and it always felt so short. #

• 14:52 Now is the only time my reputation on stackoverlow.com will ever be exactly 404 (inb4 "you're a noob on there!"). Nice bday surprise. #

• 20:13 Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story.. Let us make a journey to the cave of monsters. #

• 21:13 Still having the code for games you wrote in BASIC when you were a kid: kinda sad. Making your own kids play them: priceless #

• 17:18 "I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky." #
• 19:34 Bookmark found in "The Martian Chronicles" bought at office book sale: joker card. On the back: "M. Hyman and Son. We suit the big guys" #

• 11:41 Gonna throw some shrimp on the barbie. #
• 16:56 Just wrapped up "Ghostbusters", now starting the pilot ep of "Inspector Gadget". Its an 80s kinda day. #
• 22:18 "Soundies: a Musical History" may be the 3rd best thing ever on PBS after the Civil War and that time Stevie Wonder played on Sesame St. #
• 22:25 @Quinbot I once saw a guy getting a lapdance in a horse-drawn carriage in downtown Atlanta. #

• 08:52 This will eat your morning even if you've never read a comic book in your life: www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/index.html #
• 22:00 I'm not sure how the other ones are mounted in there. That's the way they came out of the box. Might try some double-side tape or something. #
• 23:03 Daffy Duck is known in Spanish as "el Pato Lucas". That's the kind of thing you learn using youtube. #

• 11:27 Should people trust bit.ly to shorten urls relating to #iranelection? What if the Libyans who control the .ly TLD are in cahoots with Iran? #

• 15:02 For the first time, I have a good enough TV to actually understand why people complained about the non-anamorphic original Star Wars DVDs. #

• 18:53 @Quinbot There ain't no real Dayquil anymore, since they took the pseudoephedrine out of it. #

• 00:08 What is up with Sandra Bullock's face? She looks freakin scary. #
• 16:19 Diet coke + sweet tea vodka #

• 00:06 @willcockrell my fave new universe book was nightmask. i had a crush on the girl in the wheelchair. #
• 09:19 @toeknee Did you go look this up because of the pronunciation thread on [M]? If you don't post it there, I will. #
• 22:01 in montgomery #
• 00:03 www.facebook.com/jeff.robertson #

• 08:06 Really need to learn to write down ideas when I have them. Because with my brain, when they're gone, they're gone! #

• 20:52 McDonalds pro tip: dunk the Chicken Selects in the caramel sauce that's supposed to be for the apple dippers. #

• 07:31 A poem I've been wracking my brain to remember since college: bit.ly/L4jzx. It's less awesome than the fact that I could find it. #
• 08:42 Breakfast: regular non-instant oatmeal prepared as if it was instant. #
• 17:45 Caught in a traffic jam that the traffic reporter calls a "hazardous materials situation" #
• 18:57 "I make more money that Calvin Coolidge - put together!" #
• 19:25 Watching Voltron with Zinnia. #

• 19:38 @pvn seconded #

• 09:05 No TV network currently shows Looney Tunes? Wtf? #

• 09:24 Finally realized that the music stuck in my head was the theme from the X-Men cartoon that I hardly ever watched. Why? #

• 15:40 I was four months behind on turning the pages of my wall calendar. Spoiled by all these newfangled gadgets, I guess. #
• 19:03 When the hell did they start printing *daily* comic strips in color? #

• 17:46 @willcockrell you mean besides on the marvin list? #
• 20:00 I don't know why the wifi on my laptop quit working for two days, and I don't know why it suddenly started again. #
• 20:22 @scottlong it's labeled on mine, and it was on all the time. turned it off and then back on again. maybe it was stuck "almost on". #

• 23:04 @drew826 twitpic.com/5yldc - bit.ly/aWPJA #

• 11:07 Walkin the dog #

• 20:22 18 pcs of sushi is not nearly as much food as it sounds like. #

• 07:35 Last day of driving just one kid to school. #

• 07:16 Last night I dreamed about driving an SUV on railroad tracks; including a bridge; narrowly avoided a train. Don't try this in real life. #
• 19:05 Privets are in bloom. Love the smell. The one time a year when that invasive weed of a shrub actually redeems itself. #
• 20:44 @willcockrell I think I want to get one so I can lock it down to just Mallet people. A lot of my current Marvin posts could be tweets. #

• 07:32 Tut, tut. Feels like rain. #
• 09:17 I keep dreaming about seeing construction workers and telephone linemen use mecha instead of cranes. #

• 10:23 @srscott if it was some exotic foreign culture thing, you'd do it. Don't let its being a major religion of the place you live in stop you. #
• 10:26 This is possibly the most beautiful morning I've ever seen in ATL at this time of year. #

• 10:14 Interesting how similar "brandimage" looks to "braindamage" in a URL #

• 11:19 Is it possible to make Safari on XP ignore all certificate errors and just load a site no matter how messed up its cert is? #
• 14:01 Had this car for 18 months and this the first time I've used the CD player. #
• 16:25 Google images moderate safe search is no match for Skeletor. #
• 21:07 Funk is the problem, *and* the solution. #

• 12:01 Facebook's image URLs not subject to authentication/authorization. HTF I not know this before? Good thing I gave up the security business. #
• 12:23 @drew826 What can I say, I'm old and slow. Its neither surprising nor very important. But still, it seems like something I would know. #
• 23:01 Beating a slow pony: FB photo URLs also still work after you "delete" them. I just deleted this, can you see it? tinyurl.com/dx879q #
• 23:11 @drew826 this says there is a compaction operation that reclaims deleted file space, but not how often it runs: tinyurl.com/cju2og #
• 23:15 @scottlong looks pretty random to me, but who knows? #

• 10:19 Any news lately about that Voltron movie they were supposed to be making? #
• 10:26 @Quinbot Tuscaloosa has a "midtown"? #
• 13:03 Officially an entire week without local phone service. (Practically, a while longer since it was busted for weeks before we unsubscribed) #

• 18:36 @methodicechidna swine flu kills a more "important" demographic. Who cares about a disease that only kills babies and old people? /sarcasm #

I made the decision to switch all my client work starting point templates from XHTML over to HTML 4.01 and start delivering everything as plain old semantic HTML, minus the X.

• 18:43 "You remind me of a poem I can't remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I'm not sure I've ever been to" - Abe Simpson #

• 17:35 Chipotle ftw #
• 19:36 Justice is not a frivolous thing. It has little, if anything, to do with a disobedient whale. #
• 20:49 Bought a WRT54GL at Fry's and it already had dd-wrt on it. Somebody bought it, flashed it, and returned it. Do people do this for fun? #

• 12:23 Just ordered pork and chicken at Big Bob Gibson's bbq in Decatur, AL. Contemplating bottle of white bbq sauce. #
• 12:30 I dare say that the white sauce recipe I got out of Cook's Illustrated is better than the original sauce here. Still worth the visit though. #
• 12:35 ...except the slaw. I wouldn't cross the street for this slaw, much less drive to Decatur for it. #
• 14:14 Did you know you can sing (some of) Metallica's "Fade to Black" to (some of) the tune of "Dream Lover". (So I won't have to dream alone) #
• 21:34 Omfg is my back gonna hurt in the morning #

• 14:47 I'm going to start referring to "ugly code, pretty UI" situations as "Everybody Loves Raymond code". #

• 21:46 All day long with no power outages or anything from the storm that knocked half of ATL.. Then all of a sudden the cable goes out. #

• 08:17 Never expected it to be this cold. #

• 11:54 @chetman (late reply) as opposed to nova, who's a bottle-service-at-staxx kinda guy. #

• 23:52 @scottlong reversible lanes? #

• 10:49 My other scooter has a rocket launcher: tinyurl.com/2kmtan #

• 23:30 Bloggin: tinyurl.com/c7m9no #

1. It's at an .edu domain - Students usually lose their school-hosted web pages when they graduate, you know. Plus, any such link is probably at least five years old. Current college students don't bother with these kinds of pages, they just use social networking sites for everything. And what if it's not a student page but an official university page? Still probably dead, because university webmasters move shit around with no regards for concepts like "cool URLs don't change".
2. It's at an ISP's domain. AOL, Comcast, Cox, RR, etc. This means that if the person has ever changed service providers, which is likely, the link will be dead because their old account will be canceled.
   
3. It contains a tilde - Firstly, any such URL is probably also a few years old, since not nearly as many sites create URLs like this as used to. Then, there's the very nature of the thing. This indicates, in general, the web space that comes with a Unix shell account, and that the person who authored the web page is not the owner of the domain, but just a user of a multi-user system. Most such sites are either educational or ISP related (see the first two bullets in this list). And even if they're not, it probably indicates something else ephemeral, such as an employee's homepage on an employer's website.
4. Geocities. Actually, this is just as likely to turn up a page that still exists but has not been updated since about 2001. (I myself am guilty here, I have never taken down my geocities page)
5. It's from a domain that is easily recognizable as a shitty small town newspaper. These still do not get such concepts as "permalink".
6. It contains obvious implementation details, such as ending with "/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl?articleId=1234". The less the people who built the site care about hiding this kind of sauage-making, the less likely they are to care about more advanced concepts like permalinks. That URL will almost certainly break if they swicth from .NET to LAMP or vice versa. There is probably also some hierarchy of what language-or-platform-indicating-extentions (.jsp, .pl, .php, .cfm, .asp, etc) are more likely to be dead than others.
   
7. It's a god damn IP address. This really means you shouldn't click on it at all, because it's probably phishing or worse. But if you do, it'll probably be dead anyway.

• 08:58 my own contribution to the rules of the internet: no matter what the search terms, if "safe search" is OFF, the first hit *will* be NSFW. #
• 16:30 peanut butter crackers and orange fanta #
• 16:32 RT @davewiner Kids should be encouraged to take things apart. bit.ly/RNXU #

• 09:42 Once in a blue moon, I actually still post something to by blog: jeff-robertson.com #

• 00:42 Finally arrived at LAX #
• 10:05 Needlessly convoluted route from airport to hotel: tinyurl.com/d2vyu9 #

• 10:54 Have used that crowbar only twice in about five years, but still glad I bought it. #
• 15:12 List of games whose earliest historical references are laws ''banning'' them: golf, bowling, ?? (help me out here, sports fans) #
• 19:27 @pvn me neither, although I haven't check the kosher kroger #

• 17:08 No matter how old I get, I will always be slightly younger than Jimmy Fallon. #
• 17:54 Going out to eat sea-kittens #
• 21:32 @drew826 practicing full disclosure I see #

• 20:53 Just saw the Crescent go though downtown Norcross. #

• 20:38 "Milo and Otis" is a much darker film when you realize they did NOT have the budget to save the animals from having to really do the stunts. #

• 15:10 @pcjones: two kinds of people ride amtrak: railfans, and liberals. and I've never seen you with an employee timetable or a scanner.. ;-) #
• 21:57 @pcjones suppose it would be bad taste to quote train-wreck songs at you. #

• 12:15 helping myself to some beans #

• 11:05 Exactly nine years at the same job. #
• 11:19 @jisbellemtp well technically it's been 3 employers (mergers!) and 4 positions; I mean 9 years since I last went through a "hiring" process. #
• 20:08 "Call 1-600-DOCTORB. The B is for Bargain!" -- Dr. Nick Riviera #

• 14:28 Watchmen: go see it. Now. #

• 07:30 @ricepapercrane and try not to read or watch anything else influenced by Watchmen either.. And turn off twitter. #
• 08:15 When old programmers go back to coding after years as managers, they may not get their old tech-perfectionism back. Good or bad? Not sure. #
• 08:28 @jisbellemtp ain't nothin' wrong with that #
• 18:02 Wtf is this new trend of mallet history being discussed on twitter, now ill have to start citing it as an info source on the wiki #
• 21:05 Walk through the Simpsons: tonight, the Ayn Rand school for tots #
• 21:16 "Here's your problem.. Someone set this thing to 'Evil'" #
• 21:29 "Can't sleep, clown'll eat me!" #

• 11:36 Being able to write ad-hoc SQL reports is an even more vital skill for a manager than for a programmer. It *will* save your company's ass. #
• 15:42 classics that never get old: tinyurl.com/cxhfae #
• 18:39 Fail is.. expecting to catch an episode of "Tiny Toons" but getting "Baby Looney Toons" instead. Why, cartoon network, why? #
• 19:36 "Dogs seem to love you. Do you taste like sausage?" -- daughter #1 #

• 19:11 I say this with no irony at all: "My Hero Zero" is one of the best songs ever written, in any genre of music. #
• 23:48 This, just this: tinyurl.com/bnvhgx #

• 11:10 New corporate credit card is from Scotia Bank. As in Nova Scotia. Canadian banks taking over the U.S.? #
• 18:16 Please tell me the Watchmen movie has a scene were Ozymandias talks about Alexander the Great while the Iron Maiden song of that name plays. #

• 14:17 Just learned that "Alabama Song" (aka "show me the way to the next whiskey bar") was not written by Jim Morrison but by... Bertolt Brecht?! #
• 20:00 My quest to watch every Simpsons ep in order has finally brought me to the moment where Bart says "God, schmod! I want my monkey man!". #

• 12:05 Snow that everybody else has been talking about finally makes it here. #

• 19:43 Satterfits all around after repeating a story I heard from Shane Scott. The classics never fail. #

• 12:54 Finally getting over the initial twitter-only phase, and starting to blog again. #
• 20:37 @methodicechidna I am frequently dissapointed in grits. When they're good, they're good. When they're bad, they're disgusting. #

• Radioactive asteroids being thrown at the earth until the all the oceans dry up and the whole world becomes a deadly radioactive desert. (No roving bands of mutant biker punks that I've seen so far, though.)
  
• Vehicles that are known to be occupied blow up regularly, with no sign of any escape pod or parachute.
  
• There are a lot of frickin' lasers (up to an including the Wave Motion Gun), but there are also quite a few bombs and missles.. Weapons far too close to something that might actually be used in a real war for most cartoons to allow them.
  
• The mooks are humanoid, sentient, individuals. They are not droids, clones, or anything else that it is apparently considered OK to kill in a kids' show.
  

Am I just a lot of scrap metal to you? I also happen to have life. I hear. I see. I feel. All these things were created in me to serve human beings. And I live among you, sharing your hopes and dreams. And yes, your fears. I know when you're lonely and frightened. I know how you dream of returning to Earth. All these senses, all this feeling, I've come to realize is Love. Yes, I'm made of metal and I'm strong. I will fight to protect you. And if I'm destroyed and only scrap metal is left, well, it once held a heart.
robot IQ-9, Star Blazers season 1, episode 16

• 08:26 I've been watching this page grow for years, and it never ceases to strain credulity. No one's that ignorant. tinyurl.com/a5vppx #
• 19:07 Incredible Hulk (as in, the Bill Bixby version) on a big screen HDTV.. I'm scared. #

• 14:00 I often wonder how much modern pop music is still shaped by early drum machines that could only think in 4/4 time and 16th notes. #

• 14:00 I often wonder how much modern pop music is still shaped by early drum machines that could only think in 4/4 time and 16th notes. #

• 09:11 Weird.. on my new cable box, you seem to be able to get to more channels by surfing than you can get through the "guide". #
• 19:16 Everywhere I go, strangers ask me where I got this thing: www.quicklipleash.com #
• 19:42 What kind of restaurant Kacey's is: ours is the only table here with no grandparents. #

• 18:56 This waffle house where I'm eating is older than most of its employees. #
• 19:41 @chetman for some reason I usually think of waffle house as being staffed mainly by "miss mamie" types #

• 15:49 @jisbellemtp I am always the only person visibly under 65 who isn't just there to deliver a shipment of meds or something. #
• 19:30 "I want to be in that Rhumba, when the Saints go over there" - HJS #

• 08:19 About to do one of the craziest things in software engineering: write code for a project while also managing it. #

• 08:16 285 is actually a faster commute than the series of streets I normally use to avoid it! I would never have believed this until I tried it. #

• 21:28 ST:TOS in HD, after a lifetime of seeing it through NTSC darkly. Awesome but.. Uncanny. Not sure my brain can deal with it. #

• 13:34 Ham fried in bacon-grease. #
• 17:21 @chetman @WillCockrell I do what you guys are talkin about, and the replies on twitter and facebook are indeed from different sets of folks #
• 19:40 @chetman I originally intended the tweets to be just a bonus feature of the blog, in addition to "real" posts. They took over. #

• 10:36 Spotted at LAX: dude in a "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" t-shirt. Disneyland must sell them now? #
• 23:36 When watching The Simpsons from the beginning in air-date order, the first remotely modern episode is "The Tell-Tale Head". #

• 09:04 will never use the web without noscript again. #
• 18:36 Either they have a Krystal at the airport that I didn't know about, or somebody smuggled a bag of them through security. #
• 23:42 For the first time in my life, I am the first person to get off an airplane. Upgrade ftw. #

• 12:49 Cool thing about IKEA in ATL is people all over the rural south flock to it; telling each other about rats in their barn. #
• 16:01 @WillCockrell has it come full circle back to the mid 90s when the only business down there was subs-n-you and the chukker? #

• 14:30 How is it possible that a domain name as desirable as "dragon.com" is owned by some local small business in Atlanta? #

• 08:17 Things have got to the point where when I see the word "interests", my mind is likely to auto-correct it to "internets". #

• 10:09 Spreadsheets: can't work with 'em, can't work without 'em, can't yell at 'em with looking like you're crazy #

• 09:49 @WillCockrell what's stopping you? #
• 13:23 it's amazing how much more often my job comes down to eighth-grade algebra than to any other form of math #
• 15:09 out of morbid curiosity, about to open a pack of these for a snack: tinyurl.com/9eelqk #
• 15:14 been obsessed with the idea of canned fish products since I read about how the term "maven" entered the language tinyurl.com/9ukpxk #
• 15:40 bean triva! which were known in ancient/medieval europe? lima,fava,string,yardlong beans,chickpea,blackeye pea, lentil, "english" pea #
• 16:08 List of bands that I would probably like if I hadn't been avoiding them since 1993 because of "hype aversion", part 3: Guided By Voices #

• 08:30 Funny spell checker correction: WAMU to Wampum #
• 09:06 Protip: never, ever, click a link that ends with .pdf. "Save link as.." is your friend. #
• 15:21 Part of being middle aged is that you think of pop culture that is 5-10 years old as being fairly new. Yes, kids, it'll happen to you. #
• 15:32 @WillCockrell maybe.. I'm grasping for an explanation of why I think of movies from 2000-ish as new. Other than me being lame. #
• 22:00 @ricepapercrane wish I could get some government cheese #

• 10:22 Survived a 7-year-old's first slumber party, and didn't even get a lousy t-shirt. #
• 15:07 "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages" - Bill Mauldin #
• 16:42 @Streyeder @pcjones when I graduated it took me 2 months to find a job, during which time I lived off my girlfriend. #
• 19:51 @chetman wtf are you going to kc? #

• 14:07 Trying to get my dog to do something like this: tinyurl.com/7jkmme #

• 11:11 Stuck in my head for the past 24 hours: "Mental Revenge" by Waylon Jennings. Sweet, sweet, mental revenge! #
• 12:58 At the animal shelter.. Adopting a dog. #
• 13:15 @ricepapercrane the dog is daughter's birthday present #
• 17:02 Adopt a pet, get a free beer-bottle opener. #
• 19:47 At long last I can say, "yup, me an' the dog are watchin' Star Wars" #

• 10:59 "Back then they called him crazy / Nowadays they call him a saint / Now the ones that called him crazy / Are still riding on his name" #

• 10:36 The effect of yawning while listening to music through headphones always fascinates me. #
• 20:36 tinyurl.com/8ensnx #
• 23:25 Retweet: @davewiner: A 5.0 Calif earthquake. bit.ly/ODaD #

• 08:13 Microwave popcorn for breakfast can be justified on the grounds that most breakfast cereal is corn anyway. But it still feels naughty. #
• 10:51 Best bit of trivia on wikipedia: "Contrary to popular belief, [Knight Ridder] has nothing to do with .. Knight Rider" #
• 10:53 Reading about internets that failed: slate.com/id/2207912 #
• 10:58 Retweet: @davewiner The Monday morning hacker explains how he got into the Twitter admin account. bit.ly/8Ymb #
• 20:14 watching Carl Sagan's _Cosmos_ with my daughter. #

• 13:24 Time to start screening my calls at work. From now on, unless I recognize your number by sight, you're going to voice mail. #

• 09:06 Happy birthday, Mom. (Hope you aren't reading this) #
• 21:13 This is wrong. January rain is not supposed to be so warm that you go walking around in it for pleasure. #

• 11:09 Roll Tide anyway #

• 20:55 I really should be drunk for this. #
• 21:32 Finally something to drink to. #
• 23:46 This is why I don't normally let myself care about football. #

• 07:49 Trying real hard to rely on my turtle power. #
• 12:47 Lord help me, I'm eating at CiCi's. #
• 20:53 Starback's closing early for new years eve == lame #