Friday, January 30, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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". #
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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? #
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 14:30 How is it possible that a domain name as desirable as "dragon.com" is owned by some local small business in Atlanta? #
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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". #
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 10:09 Spreadsheets: can't work with 'em, can't work without 'em, can't yell at 'em with looking like you're crazy #
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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 #
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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 #
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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? #
Monday, January 12, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 14:07 Trying to get my dog to do something like this: tinyurl.com/7jkmme #
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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" #
Saturday, January 10, 2009
They were giving these away at the dog adoption
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Tweets for Today
- 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" #
Friday, January 09, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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 #
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 11:09 Roll Tide anyway #
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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. #
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Tweets for Today
- 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 #
