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2008
August, 2008
I just joined twitter after disparaging it, hating it, not getting it and generally thinking it kinda sucked. Hell much colder.
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College calls at 730 on friday to say Latin III canceled due to low enrollment. Drink up to the death of classical education!
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The owls make beautiful, gentle music: http://www.myspace.com/theowlsband with a folkish, mamas-n-papas, minnesota feel.
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Finished my Ruby Library for dealing with Latin strings that contain Unicode glyphs. Submitted to peer review via Austin ruby Coders. Ulp.
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Completing my Unicode library, listening to Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Killing Moon”
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I think typewriters are beautiful. The power of the Guetenberg movable type press on your desk. And the italians made beautiful ones…
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Waiting for Lauren so we can go to CHUY’s
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Looking outside to see how close the thunderstorms are. Nothing roars like Texas thunder: like a hungry bear lurking overhead.
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@lauren’s diet advice: Are you really hungry or do you just want the flavor tunnel to keep on going? A good way to eat half a sandwich.
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I’m porting Perl code to M4 macro language so that I can flexibly deploy it to dev/ prod, and stage situations.
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Watching Python’s “Meaning of Life”
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At the UT Union Loggia. Last time I studied here ( 1997 ) there was a vampire real-world cosplay game going on.
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Back at UTexas waiting for a class to start. 8 years later.
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Saw Tropic Thunder. Respect for Ben Stiller returns to 1991 levels.
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processing the foodbomb known as the Freeb!rd.
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Watching 30 rock season 1 on DVD .
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Back from kyakking on lady bird lake! Wonderful summer day in austin!
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Studying gre material at office on labor day wknd. I know how to party.
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Got twitterberry working. Lauren and I rocking it 1987 style at olive garden.
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September, 2008
Writing M4 Macros.
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In line at prufrock’s at utexas. Anyone else feel the hint of fall this morning?
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Watching Matz, author of Ruby, be an enthusiastic student of James Gray II, a Ruby expert. Curiosity and humility ought always be emulated.
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@laurennroth: at LSRC we’re modeling the “greedy” dice game :)
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At the Lone Star Ruby conference. A place where you can say “mapreduce” without fear.
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Girlfriend in minor car accident. See you ruby ppl some other time.
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For the Hannah Arendt lovers following me:
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Oh but by the way. Don’t be hatin’ I loves me my Hall and Oates.
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Going with post-car-addicdent @laurennroth to Manuels, and then to catch “Elegy” at the Arbor. It’s hard to find movies without car crashes
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Seven yrs ago I was sleeping late due to a conf later that day. Roommate knocked n ddo “dude you’ll need to see this”. Thought fire? Quake?
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Back from stocking up on ike rations
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Batteries, lanterns, fresh water, gas in the auto. We’re set for Ike fallout.
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Should i get a facebook account now? I’ve resisted due to their Chrome-like attitude to my personal data: but its ubiquity is hard to miss
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Made huge leap forward on ruby code base. Very happy.
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Going to go hand over the title to GEICO. farewell car.
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Ruby Work: I have made a short video of my LatinVerb class. It’s stil 0.01 grade, but going the right way.
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going to mighty fine burger before the game. In and out’s got nothing on this
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They call them blister packs–but i think they’re ‘cut your finger on sharp plastic, bleed everywhere, cursing and grab a steak knife pack’
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Discovered a scratch- gouge in the back of my car’s trunk door. Looks shopping-cart-y. As Aristotle said: we live in the corruptible world
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@laurennroth Good afternoon my special one! You are the joy of my heart.
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/me won’t be registering for SXSW until he finds out if the erlang and javascript classes got approved. I want to talk with MAKERS.
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After a night at @austinonrails I drink chocolate milk and listen to Elliot smith.
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I now have my Latin Verb Conjugator library passing all of its 600 Unit Test assertions and correctly building 5 standard verb types. w00t.
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Sometimes I feel like henry higgins, listening to others’ speech patterns and wanting to chronicle their grammar and morphology
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At work implementing a change of back end processes. After a 45 hour backup, and a 9 hour new process kickoff, i’m closing in on the end.
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@mirven @laurennroth give me a neko case afterworld, so that I can be in velvety awe eternally.
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Back from am spent working at BMW of austin. Their waiting room is nicer than many deluxe offices. Bonus: car healthy, $0.00 outlay!
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October, 2008
My dad, repub. said: “This election is about who won’t blow the planet up, taxes are small potatoes”. Palin talks small potatoes #current
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going to spyglass access on the green belt
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the straining strings of zoe keating’s cello make my macbook vibrate sympathetically. should i be worried?
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Freebird’s with my beautiful girl! Spring day! Bliss!
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If the government, via our tax dollars is supporting no-longer-private industry, isn’t that technically communism? Привет!
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Dear Apple: why isn’t the clipboard hold n-many cuts? Closer to Emacs’ kill-ring. Copying youtube url over important stuff sucks.
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Has finally dug out of his Perl programming hole. Back to Ruby and, possibly, some C.
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Cracked magazine says something that we all know but simply don’t say:
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Austin traffic is a wreck in every directon thanks to those going to Dallas. Icing on the cake, bus ahead of mine broke down on Guadalupe.
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I see people using ASL rapidly with one another. I wonder if they’re arguing and if they sign “don’t yell at me”. Yelling= Intent not volume
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At PCL reading about political cunning and fooling the masses in the gallic war.
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Has begun his fast in preparation for the Salt Lick tonight in observation of @laurennroth’s birthday!
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Just back from salsa dancing at copa on congress. Nice spot.
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I have the kind of life where we listen to The Cowboy Junkies and make brunch on Sunday. I like it very much.
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can i tell you how much i love Metric’s “Combat Baby”
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Birthday dinner at chez nous was great; the duchess merely ok. Birthday time with birthday girl @laurennroth always great
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Caffe medici latte and tacodeli b’fast taco.
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Home from a wonderful day at Maker Faire ( no Bill Murray Seen ) and a nice house party with some of my fave hi school friends, SO’s, & fam.
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Pictures of Maker Faire Austin
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is going to be in San Jose the week of the election! I’ve never voted early, but suppose there’s a first.
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Sometimes when translating latin it dawns on me that I’ve been holding my breath until the sentence is done. I exhale audibly, surprised.
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Yes palin spends a ton of cash on clothes. Our society esteems women based on their looks. This isn’t a her issue, it’s an us issue.
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At fonda san miguel with sister, mom and gf
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I cooked a tandoori chicken, dal, and rice dinner for @laurennroth, mom, and sis:bro in law. Delicious!
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information or linguistics?
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another vote for hope in Austin.
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November, 2008
Getting ready for a dia de los muertos party ( nox mortui ).
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Just de-made-up from dia de los muertos party. I now have long, lustrous lashes. It’s not maybelline.
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Going to bed in CA: Thanks, Nation!
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So say we all …. Er yes we can
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I liked mccain’s message. America is a great promise, it’s a great place where the dialectic of disagreement makes us stronger.
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Ppl in apple store’s genius bar happily tipsy on change!
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Visit to aapl store got me a brand new battery! Thanks for fixing bunk hardware! More reasons why I am a mac guy
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Joy division is played in the bars of sf. The midlands are good for music.
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In. North beach, sf, ca living the cool, sudden, early dark of the city’s falll. O urbs francisci santi, te semper amabo.
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In south san jose in the foothills.
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Just back from Lindy Hop dancing. It has been 2 months off so we down-stepped a skill group. It was good to shake the rust off again.
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Worked out; hopefully de- sinning from sweet, sweet snow’s bbq.
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Up early to head out to Lexington, TX to get “the best BBQ in Texas”.
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OK look, I seriously love the pixies. But dear God it’s annihiliating my ability to concentrate. I can rant in spanish frothingly too.
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Texico. Truly nothing for miles but the destination.
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Headed to new mexico, next milestone: abilene
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December, 2008
FYI Jasons Deli no longer does the single-trip salad. You must now get the full salad bar. Tax on eating with restraint is lame.
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I just had a jr. Hi flashback and remembered the pants known as skidz. Bad name, worse clothing. Only brenda walsh can save my mood.
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Just re-drafted the first half of a Philosophy of Science essay I wrote ~10 years ago. Less verbosity: cuts much easier with a decade on ya
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Kicking it at thunderbird café: Too many peepz at Epoch.
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Going to a late lunch at torchy’s with @laurennroth
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Thanks to living in CA 6 years & ATX smoking ban, I had forgotten coming home & thinking “i need to wash my hair”. Until 2nite, iron cactus
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I am exhausted. Preparing writing samples on anthropic principles and work and getting recoms
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watching milk was like a best of trip to san francisco: all hills and Deco? No urine smell.
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I was rereading one of my favorite books and found a KNACK sticker, 1995 vintage. In it.
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writing sample ( redraft of anti anthropic principle paper near done ) cites ruby pickaxe ruby book, Wittgenstein
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About to get my roller skate on. Bump that sean paull playland skate center
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going to Alfredo Garcia’s house and then going to the Trail of Lights! Austin Christmas is here, proof, it’s 80 degrees out.
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just for the record, my favorite time of day is the very nerdly, 2:56.
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I am trapped in the arbor walk complex’s hellish traffic flow. 15 minutes from floyds to mighty fine.
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if you like a burger with that great char grilled flavor, methinks there I’d none finer than smokey mo’s on mcneil
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My first Rails app: LINGUA LATINA IN VIIS FERRORUM
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Necessary luxuries in houston’s galleria has taught me more about shaving in one day that I have ever imagined possible.
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About to watch “wall-e” with dad and @laurennroth. Good christmas visit coda.
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2009
January, 2009
Hyde park new years dinner: a tradition for us.
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2 hoots and a holler sounding good at the continental club. The derailers at midnite.
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For the second day in a row my capacity for writing about what i want to do with my life stymies me at every turn. Trying working standing.
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Genuine joes. essaying.
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At epoch cafe
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Damn you Cat Power. You are simply too tragic to tolerate. “To be a good woman”.
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Hell yes hall and oates at the Epoch. Takes me back to the nadir of my Vice City addiction.
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anyone know the band mojave 3? I’m listening to ‘ask me tomorrow’ – it’s beautiful.
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About to take sick girlfriend in for an x ray. Make sure nasty chest cold is only that.
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shot of red label and a shiner: this is Austin
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Waiting in line for beer at the broken spoke. The derailers are pretty good line music.
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I’m learning to two step.
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Thought it was cool the prez gave a shout out to non-believers and praised science. Wow.
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@benhamill and @wbruce sold me. I’m now up on git. Don’t know how not to use it as anything but a fancy svn though…
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Pick Ruby if:
You want the flexibility to bend the language to fit the shape of your problem.
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@wbruce I like Francophonic / African music in general. French rap is so excellent, esp. with african / arabian influence. Massi fits.
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I think it’s gauche to say “could I get” instead of “may I have.”. “Please” is a bonus.
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/me is checking his translation homework into git so that I can see it become refined over diffs. Downside, reading it in LaTeX is not EZ.
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20 degrees colder than when I got downtown
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Yes I am the first taco of this fine el chilito morning
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but i looked at the apple, and noted that it showed signs of oxygen exposure. I believe that ane squirrel had invaded anothers nest
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Whence came this potentially cranial-contusing pomme? I looked up and saw 2 squirrels fighting high in the ancient oak’s boughs.
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today at UT, as i was sitting in the plaza, suddenly something heavy fell to my right, but millimeters away from my head: an apple.
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You might live in austin if you’ve heard willie nelson, townes van zandt, and guy clark before 8 am.
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I feel vaguely superior when I fire up SSH-tunnel mode at the coffee shop. Like: Yes, you wireshark users, sniff my packets.
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“Do you got” is certainly the ugliest way to begin a request for something.
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February, 2009
Git help needed: I have one project whose contents I want to put into the subdir of another project. What’s the git-ty way to do this?
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It was not unusual for the hero in antiquity to weep openly. They were dainty neither about spilling tears nor spilling blood. Clyde Pharr
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Fantasy cheesecake art, pizza, metallica’s “blackened” : my room in 1989 or conan’s right now.
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@laurennroth wrt your where science meets art, article #3 is D. Knuth, author of TeX, foundation to LaTeX. A total emperor of yak-shaving.
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Since cell phone use has blinded everyone to how loud and annoying there are, this site has been bookmarked. http://www.simplynoise.com/
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Attack of the supines: mirabile lectu! someone bithacked legend of zelda / adv. of link into Latin translations!
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Last night I couldn’t sleep for dreaming in dactylic hexameter.
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Going to the semantic web austin hands on training at mcc
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The best part of V-Day was being with @laurennroth on our aerobed pillow and blanket lair in the living room, watching kung fu panda
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“Furor arma ministrat” : Wrath furnishes weapons
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I’m about to head down to The Fed for Thursday night dance. Gonna get my sweet tandem Charleston place-changes on.
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Steak with weller burbon.
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It is time to go on a walk with my lovely girl in this fine Austin sunshine.
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Just ate lobster on a deck in cedar park. Keepin it decadent.
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Love linguistic drift: Andreesen says “unwinding [as in bug trace stack] a bunch of banks…” in Charlie Rose Interview
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OH MY GOD. @damon opened the door at @sodade and the menacing bee trapped herein LEFT voluntarily. Karma Score WIN
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March, 2009
COFFEE SHOPS ARE REQUIRED TO PLAY ELIOT SMITH. Ignorance is no excuse. It’s the law.
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Lindy a hoppin'
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I am becoming my father: I no longer think that good and plenty taste like candie tar balls.
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Whatever hipsters, Bonnie Tyler rocks.
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Personal dream reached:. Translated the fatal line: equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.
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Poor @laurennroth spent the entire night up owing to acid reflux. A trip to the ARC, some perscriptions and now she sleeps. Sorry tweetup.
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Just saw “Penelope”. Possibly the best redbox movie ever. A rich, colorful, whimsical tale about a girl with a snout.
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you may be a programmer if…you find the word map() applies to pretty much any situation involving a list of things. #youmaybe
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I love 2^8 o’clock.
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I got our Neko Case tickets for the end of the month. Sexy and macabre with a David Lynch bluegrass desth by reverborama.
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We’ve beenin Austin 3 years but last night @laurennroth had her first casino el camino burger
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Austin condo developers taking their lot and forced valet run by douches has killed the austin java on barton sprgs experience.
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In the deep of the night, sometimes I think about the beautiful, hexagonal, tesselated white tiles of Deco SF apt. bathrooms and claw feet.
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#sxsw I bellieve the iphone is seriously impairing nerd hook-ups without awkward silence what hope is there for shyly mangled come-ons?
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At cabo bob’s where dublin dr. P flows like cola gold.
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Back from jamie’s birthday celebration: red cups, friends, and a surprise east bay visitor.
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I thin he coolest cache software name ever is “tokyo cabinet” @hayesdavis @austinonrails
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Boy, that’s a big rainstorm out there. It’s as dark as twilight out there.
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Another fun night dancing at the fed.
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donated some ca$h to @conjunctured. Must…buy…new…chairs
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there is a dog snoring next to me #vocamp. He is unamused with ontological discussions.
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At seton hospital. Laur is sleeping to the smooth oration of Gewn Ifill
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Final update on Lauren before I catch some winks. She’s sitting by me, eating ice, and recovering.
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Lauren is out of the OR and in recovery. She should be back in her room in 1 hour. Dr found rupture, she’ll be here a few days
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Lauren is strict nihil per os. (Npo). Yes that couple K in latin tuition has truly paid off today.
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my true love needs to lose her appendix.
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Seton hospital has wifi in the ER for the anxious friends and loved ones to use. Much win.
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With lauren at the ER. She’s having acute pain in her abdomen….and she’s hungry too.
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3am IV change for more anti-bios for @laurennroth; glad to be able to stroke her warm, still, hand as she breathes shallowly.
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Anyone in austin have a good medical supply place. Specifically, i need a foam wedge.
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@laurennroth came home today and is resting as I type this. Thanks for all the tweets, FB emails, cards, calls, and visits. She thanks you.
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@jgArcia3rd @thefrenchfork @rsteans @laurennroth said to thank you for the visit but say that she was sorry to kick you out.
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April, 2009
After 4 days stressed and exhausted at the hospital with @laurennroth, fate repaid me by giving me some sweaty flu and other icky ailments..
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In times of weariness, I open the words of Vergil and find peace in their lamentations and encomia. It’s all come before.
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Ah 2 am lunch, that’s the small lunch that is required by the 2:15 antibiotic @laurennroth needs.
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@laurennroth just had some real food with much zest, a domino’s pizza.
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I was not accepted to the graduate program of my designs. No need for pity and empathy, I gave it a good shot. I shall achieve elsewise.
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At lauren’s post operative review.
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I did, in fact, notice that everything just changed and then changed again.
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Had a bit of a scare. @laurennroth’s temp has been fluctuating. Good news CT scan: No abcesses, just infection fighting. whew
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Guy writes ‘cogratulations’ in chocolate w/ desert when he learnt he was @laurennroth’s first meal out. Classy waiter at chzcake factory
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Sometimes the things you OH in the ER will break your heart. The best you can do is fetch the aggrieved Kleenex.
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We are back at seton ER. What do you make of a side stitch that lasts 10 hours? Too many possibilities to not be here.
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After brunch at La Reyna, visit to panaderia mexicana and mozart’s on the lake, we’re now relaxing poolside.
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Sinatra is fun, it’s like beating Rails’ routes.rb into an application one URL at a time.
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Taking Lauren to see her first appendix-free movie, «Entre les Murs». Which comes to us as “The Class” or perhaps “À monsieur, avec amor”
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Finally, after @sodade’s recommendation, an on-the-mend @laurennroth and I made it to Exotic Thai at N. Lamar and Braker. Really good!
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consolidating my dead-wood library. Farewell 7 times read copy of Dune.
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I contend that the greatest rock n’ roll song, in the purest sense of the genre, is “Honky Tonk Women.”
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Seriously WTF is up with using gerunds sans subjects and verbs in professional communication? Wondering why this evil exists.
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in central austin and want coffee just east of campus / IH-35, with parking, great decor, great atmosphere: see BENNU Coffee: 2001 E. MLK
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Just finished watching the meteors on mt. Bonnell or, as my faith calls them, the gods of ire.
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When I see a persun using the mutt mail reader, I know I’m looking at a person who can grind data like a 17th century dutch Windmill.
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Last night we watched Kurosawa’s “Rashomon:” what a beautiful movie! Such emotionally dense shots replete with negative space! A+++
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rio rita’s got flavah.
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May, 2009
Today 100% all day I was very much in love with Lauren
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Today is my last day of my Latin class on the Æneid. Just the final next Thursday.
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Anyone have a line on where I can see Ken Russell’s “Mahler?” DVD transfers appear to be sucky. I’d like to rent vs. own.
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ATX People. Anyone know a good and, perhaps more importantly, fast CPA?
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I just realized what NBA’s missing: Hakeem Olajuwon. The nimble soccer player footwork, the accent, the height, the smile. “Unbeatable”
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Conan’s pizza and preparation for my Latin final. Pietas and pizza.
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I am learning to appreciate scotch. Finished a glenmorangie 10 and am now trying a macallan 10.
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Summer looming, mosquitoes found, net around bed, up.
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Lauren made the most wonderful Jambalaya. For a Californian girl, you might even think she’s Acadian. RazzooOOOOOoo
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First free night out in days. Dinner with my sweetie at HUTTs. Mr. Bleu here I come.
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Remember how I needed a CPA? From many K owed, to IRS owing me enough to pay him. Break even is win on this day.
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for breakfast this morning i had The Macallan, re-heated Magnolia migas from last night, and a BSG watch with my girlfriend.
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Winding up the weekend with Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.”
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@jcsalterego I love Spyglass. When I was a student here I thought that would be the greatest neighborhood to live in.
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June, 2009
Typo errors on a DVORAK keyboard look like tense errors. “Caen once write”.
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I know some scotsmen will be rolling in their graves but Hagen-Dasz butter pecan + Macallan 10yr single malt is bliss in a bowl and glass.
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We will be neighborhood visiting in SF this weekend. Very much need a vacation, very much need west coastia.
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David Bowie, get me through writing this part of my yearly review. Suffragette City.
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Lunch in cole valley at crepes on cole. We flew 2 time zones to have them place play stevie ray on entrance.
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so excited about trip i can’t sleep….topo chico time!
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@damon it’s beautiful today. Surprisingly warm at about 80 near the marina. Cooler in the morn or in shadow.
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Wandering the marina areaa and came across the union street fair. Fun and funnel cake
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Beautiful day in cole valley and noe.
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If you live in austin, you will meet austinites left and right in san francisco. It’s kismet, transferred by mosquito.
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At coit tower. Tweeting above the telegraph hill parrots.
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This wonderful weekend in San Francisco I saw parts of the city I had never seen before, places you visit only when you don’t live there!
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“Up” was poingnant and touching. Several young voices asking “why are you sad <parent>” confirmed pixar’s streak.
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At last seeing up. Depressed about the horrible kids programming on all media.
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I met a very special young man tonight. His name is Noah and he is one week old today. He is a fine baby.
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I really, really like The Glenlivet. What a wine-y nose on it.
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@davetron5000 Turns out my “error” was actually a warning about whitespace, but the patch applied correctly. but yes git diff <stashname>
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I’m at #semwebaustin meetup today. About to start “Introduction to RDFa” session.
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Why am i smiling and bobbing my head to the headphones. It’s just the Looney Tunes running around my brain to Liszt’s Hungarian #2.
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@benhamill That book and the last two pixar movies have advanced technology that trigger insane lacrimal cascades in yours truly.
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July, 2009
A critical factor in open source success is “it’s better than what was there before” which, fairly often, is “nothing”.
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Am I officially insane? Should I write my resume in m4, with various output rules to publish LaTeX, RDFa HTML, and text from single source?
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#googleos proved Richard Stallman right at the $500 price point versus the $pricepoint. RMS didn’t predict HTML5 or JS’ leaps.
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Writing m4 is like LISP except you get annoying quoting issues as a bonus to parentheses stacks.
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Ramune at asahi, dragon’s lair, looking at dance shoes for @laurennroth. We’re gonna try to catch “moon” today.
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Jerry’s artarama plays velvet underground…what else?
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Mimosas and peach pie for breakfast, followed by coffee and Pine Sol. Decadence and deliciousnouss, loveliness and labor.
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Thou mayest know the depth of my insomnia by the rate of depletion of my favorite bottle of grain.
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It seems every day I find a new reason why #vim is making waiting for textmate2 a non-issue. Today: Latex-suite + skim.
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I’ve been in Hyde Park lately and have been patronizing “Dolce Vita” coffee. Full bar, coffee, Wifi. At the moment, they also have Wilco.
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We saw moon this afternoon. Nice elegaic syfy story. It has a slow but steady expansion of suspense.
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My favorite Queen song is My Chemical Romance’s “Carry On”.
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500 days of summer is very good. Funny, real, good soundtrack. No sap or scmalz just love in all its disasterous forms.
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Watching “500 days of summer”. Well, actually ads before said movie.
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Golden retriever puppy-sitting means listening to sad whimpers as I try to nod back off after early morning outside visit.
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August, 2009
In Dallas after sweetJesusSaveMe cannonball run on I35. @laurennroth to drupalify tomorrow.
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At the flying saucer in addison. Just killed a harp.
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We spent the weekend in Addison, TX. It’s like orange county, without the beach. Say…was that a rolex billboard?
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Dolce vita in austin knows the law: Coffee shops are REQUIRED to play Elliot Smith once daily. DOES YOUR COFFEE SHOP KNOW?
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Looking for kinda melodramatic, wall of sound-y, girl-lilt-vox music see: CAMERA OBSCURA. More Scottish post-Belle & Seb lushness.
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I created an M4->LaTeX/HTML+RDFa resume generator.
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We just watched coraline. Totally great movie. Thanks to tim for the intro to gaiman back in 94 still have the sandman GM series.
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Date night with my drupally girl ends with the chess soundtrack at borders and a the mystery of hot, swirling winds as we pass thru borders.
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On my birthday I bought running shoes. Time to follow @chadfowler’s lead: hack my health.
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First serious run ever, although at the “gentle introduction” pace you might call it focused meandering.
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Air’s “moon safari” will always take me back to spring 98: my first trip to Paris.
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My morning was lacking awesomeness. But then I remembered “this is a song about a car, it’s called Red Barchetta.”
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Information Science Geeks never die, they just become explicitly reified.
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we just finished watching «El Topo». I could have lived my life without seeing that.
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Tomorrow my #kindle birthday present from @laurennroth arrives. I don’t know where I’ll start. I’m thinking Sarah Vowell “Wordy Shipmates”
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The first text I’m reading on my Kindle is Austin author and fun-baby-shower-throweuse Stephanie Klein’s “Moose.” Tween humiliation fun.
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First week’s running reward was donuts! Not really, try a bonus run and bonus interval.
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Pursuing a taste for Scotch reached a new plateau today: the Islay beast known as Laphroaig - awesome with Persian, both smokey and rich.
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I’m really enjoying reading “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane” by Katherine Howe on Kindle. Gothick, New England + Salem mystery.
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Spent the evening computer-free and finished a translation of Aeneid book 2. Now to type up and git commit.
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Today was not a run day. But yesterday was lunch at antonios Tex Mex. Ergo today is a run day.
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At Bat For Lashes with @laurennroth.
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Learning about ‘Puppet’ at @lsrc. Learned some great Unicode tips this morning from James Gray too.
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Dana’s presentation on data munging warms the cockles of an ASCII wrangler’s heart @lsrc
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How can it be that we can bail out Detroit and Wall Street, but can’t fund reading rainbow?
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September, 2009
Oh BTW. I finished the BSG finale, so my friends may now discuss it in my presence. Picking at lazy screenwriting and plot holes = a hobby
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Nerd tweet: a4 > letter wide-ruled > letter college-ruled
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Am I alone in wishing #ruby had an Array.(car|cdr|head|tail) method? I know it’s not FP, but I always monkeypatch these in.
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I’m about to head to the fed. I’m excited for some live music and dancing.
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I have been reading (auto-)biographies of entertainers. I’m reading “Cloris” by Cloris Leachman who is hilarious..and lead “South Pacific”
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Github addition: LatinSyllabator. #Ruby takes #Latin verse, syllabates it and does elisions.
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If you like drama, may I recommend to you “The Secret Life of Words?”
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And on this day long rainy day I Austin, KUT plays Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat.”. Gutsy.
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I just caught “History of Violence” at last. What a superb movie. Best movie to explore violence’s integral relationship to society.
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Soon I shall be in the land of the mitten shape.
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Enjoying the beautiful michigan fall in a verdant backyard amidst chirping crickets.
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I’m playincg some beatles rock band with some cool as hell kids here slurping some faygo rocket pop.
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Go karting in garden city.
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1 minor invention every 10 days, 1 major invention every 6 months: TA Edison, agile as f*ck.
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Peep this: I’m in detroit downtown at night and it’s totally nice. Screw the haters
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If Taylor Swift is country, Dale Watson is Transylvanian Hip-Hop.
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Judging by the steady traffic of ten-speeds through Hyde park, I gather I’m not alone in thinking today is Austin perfect bike day.
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am i the only one who is chagrinned at the transformation of enormity to mean a specification of size?
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October, 2009
The number of bleary eyes behing glasses near austin downtown makes me think it’s allergy or midterm season.
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About to take a test on Ovid: animus meus non territus.
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Caught whip it. Great dialog, fun movie. Was glad to hear from a young girl attending that she thought it the best movie ever.
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It now seems nonsensical to teach Shakespeare before Ovid has been, lest the allusions be vain. For Hecuba your didactic method.
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Just for the record: If tonight isn’t nice, I don’t know what nice is.
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At ruta maya dancing to the jitterbug vipers. Love their singer’s (Katie) voice of melted brass.
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Eating at moonshine b&g before going to see the #txrd championships. Skate ladies!
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#txrd rollerderby action is fast but dangerous. Cherry chainsaw took a fall in the 3rd and stopped play with leg injury. Our best to her &c.
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TXRD action downtown. Hellcats and cherry bombs tied at the half. I hear there’s football here too in town.
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Dancing to a big band at ruta maya on s. congress.
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Back in size 36 jeans, the 38’s were giving me a certain cougarish off-the-hip look. If shin splits get better I can make these my new home
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Alyone know a proper running track in north austin? You know red and bouncy?
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Thanks to all the people in #atx who suggested Canyon Vista’s running track. 1 exit away, great track, nice vista, great breeze
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The more latin I read the less original every bit of literature I have ever read (French, Dutch, English) seems. Nihil novus sub sole.
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Ay dance lessons at the fed. As Ryan via Lucky say: nerd aerobics
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On the strand in galveston on. A glorious day.
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Seul j’attends: j’attends, toujours. Ou? Quand? Ca fait rien parce qu’I’ll faut attendre.
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November, 2009
responde! tua te carissima Thisbe nominat; exaudi vultusque attolle jacentes! :(
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I’m going to @rubyconf!
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After horse riding we get cooper’s in Llano.
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At the crazy gal’s cafe in Bertram, Texas. Need energy for the horse ride.
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I had a dream day with @laurennroth: Horseback riding in the hill country, Cooper’s BBQ, beautiful sunset vistas, and now home :-D
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I just need to set the record straight. I love BEARS! Black bears especially, teddies, Old School Pooh, an Alaskan Brown too. Bears RULE!
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Love that Zee Avi, “Poppy”
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Whenever I hear hot jazz standard “when I get low, i get high” I realize that I compare it to Austin’s Katie Holmes’ version.
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2nd time ever running 5K distance. @Rubyconf 5K closes in.
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Tomorrow I leave for @rubyconf! I’m ready to learn something amazing and run a 5 k!
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I had forgotten how early and dark it gets in the bay.
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Stoked, running my first 5K with rubyists. It seems @chadfowler has convinced the sky not to dump water until 9. #rubyconf5k
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At @rubyconf @heroku gave a great shirt and cool stickers.
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About to run 5K once more at #rubyconf. I’m happy to be able to do a half hour run!
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This mission bar has not forgotten that wilco’s “being there” is pure brilliance.
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On board flight back to austin! G’bye westcoastia.
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Lauren and I executed a flawless thanksgiving dinner at my dad’s place yesterday. today we go running after sleeping in.
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December, 2009
Definitely in a sworl of light snowflakes in north austin.
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So nice to hear the sounds of christmas carols coming from UT’s carillion.
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Considering the questions of punishment in Ovid.
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About to check out “An Education”.
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I’ll be moving to San Francisco over the Christmas holiday. Projecting a farewell happy hour next Saturday in N. Austin.
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I learned more about the blues from 2 weeks with you, than 20 years of BB King.
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We put in a considerable dent in the packing to move. @laurennroth braved the kitchen, I the garage and living room.
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Anyone know how to dispose of paint and varnish safely? Home depot? Oil change place?
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Living room, 2 closets, living room packed. Mega goodwill half price run then the office and bathrooms. Goal: be packed by Saturday.
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Early Xmas gift to me: I broke through the 200 lb. Weight plateau according to my imprecise bathroom scale.
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Farewell drinking at the pour house at 6. Otherwise we’ll be meeting up in SF.
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It’s odd that two people I know are, right now, en route via car to the bay area to take up residence there.
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Ready for the movers. http://yfrog.com/4frs1pj
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Rented washer and dryer being spirited away. Movers are 6 hours into window and haven’t told us when to expect them.
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We saw “up in the air” tonight. It was very good and real about work and life in a refreshing way. Like Jerry maguire minus the stupid
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Movers expected in 90 minutes. Time for a quick shower. Nervous insomnia cured by dogfish ipa.
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I have that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach which is the precursor to any decision of import.
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Just shy of Abilene. http://yfrog.com/3gesdj
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@laurennroth just explained “coworking” to my grandparents.
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Crossed into Arizona, snow in the desert. http://yfrog.com/3n60653056j
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Car is ready to head for Vegas. http://yfrog.com/4icr7cj
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In Orange County, our rest point before cruising up to LA, thence to the Bay.
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CA border in sight. Time for CA fast food.
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I really think avatar actually uses the 3d medium for true artistic effect. Therefore I recommend it be seen in that format.
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I was entirely surprised by Avatar. Cameron should have sent Lucas a memo in how to do sci fi with great heart AND effects. Recommend.
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Girl at market was pulling a “Gaga” and by that I mean she was pantless Save for semi see-thru tights. Ah, LA.
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Headed to LA to hit an expensive cooking botique store. Imagine that.
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Sunset at The Grove in Hollywoodland. http://yfrog.com/3n142rj
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2010
January, 2010
Looking for a short term residence in san Francisco today. New year and new life.
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I woke up briefly this morning at 7 and realized it was the new year and that a bay area rain was gently falling on Palo Alto. Lullabye.
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The promised land. http://yfrog.com/4iypiaj
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Hunt for a temporary SF dwelling enters day 2. Likely prospects. PAC heights, upper Castro
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Friend’s 2 year old:“It’s a phase.” overheard from Mom.
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Temporary san Francisco residence found and entered. Bags unpacked for the first time since before Christmas. A well deserved exhale flies.
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Yet again I mistake an earthquake for home maintenance (tree-trimmers, this time). In’s an omen for the #longhorns
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mad propz to USPS.gov for making their address change forms big, friendly, intuitive, and helpful.
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Is there an API level interface to google’s recommendation. You know [new y] gets ’new york’ in the drop-down?
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I was irritated to have awoken in the middle of a night affording few hours of sleep, but the shower fell softly and streaked the window.
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Saepe stultus privus pecuniae suae est.
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My neighbor wanted to have a noisy party so she put us up in the @rubyconf venue for the night. Waffles in the morning future.
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I woke up to rain, and it has continued to rain all morning. It’s supposed to rain all day. Rain.
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Yes, I think that I moved here in part so that I could play “Blue Train” while a window shows nothing but rain and bay.
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Doing one of those tourist things that locals rarely do: dinner at the cliff house with the Franco, the guillory, @laurennroth and Flavia
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Anyone heard anything about the new Elizabeth Kostova book: Thief of Swans? The Historian was good, a bit long and pulpy but good.
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Very glad to attend #sfruby with great presentation from @defunkt, panel on getting hired, Haml. Opportunity everywhere for great ideas.
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Went running at Kezar between rain clouds. 1.5 miles in I got poured on. Ran back home and took a shower. No rain in sight :-/
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When she’s on her best behavior, don’t be tempted by her favors. So warns #nekocase as I read Haiti news…
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I want the world of chocolate to intersect the world of croissant ASAP. Me want food #jennamaroney.
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I’m at Corona Heights Park in San Francisco, CA
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Leaving the DMV having passed written flawlessly. Lady outside who hadn’t asked to have my test. Galled, I said “No.” What temerity.
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Getting my CA plates. — at DMV (Daly City)
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Mon amour, mon ami, je ne peux vivere sans toi / mon amour, mon ami et je ne sais pas pourquoi
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Joojeh! — at Lavash
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Beach picnic at half moon bay
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I’m at San Gregorio Beach in San Gregorio, CA
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February, 2010
I’m at Noe Valley Public Library in San Francisco, CA
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I’m at Cisco SFO 6 in San Francisco, CA
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Meeting Augustine! — at Synopsys HQ
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Am I alone in thinking that @sxsw isn’t really for keyboard-touching nerds anymore? Didn’t see any HOWTO sessions for my tribe.
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I just made an appointment for my first Rolfing. I’m hoping to hear the sounds of fasciae being ripped asunder amidst my tears.
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Sharing tea with Lauren. — at Crepevine
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I was up late working And needed gin and rain and the story of horatius cocles to wind down for bed.
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I hear the rain, I see street lights girding Twin Peaks glitter through streaks on glass. I shiver save for the heat in my mug.
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The BBC is the paterfamilias of all techno. It all bears the family name of “dr who”. Sine dr. who nihil.
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Where better to work on my half year career plan? — at Wicked Grounds
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“[Lysenkoism] was the lethal mixture of science and ideology.” This is a reason to listen to the in our time BBC podcast.
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Tussen heuvels en lichten, daklozen en regen, koud en wind; hier woon ik nu, in deze stad van goud, vuur, en aardbeving: San Francisco.
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Dinner with Bruce and Lauren. — at Siam Thai
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Wow, the rain is coming north from the south. First Oakland vanishes, market street, castro, and now it creeps up my hill.
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Wonderful new year’s at friends’ in palo alto with duck, dumplings, spare ribs and rice. Happy year of the tiger.
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Undoing benefits of tennis with awesome lasagna. — at The Sausage Factory
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High atop twin peaks the fog rushes over like rapids through orange streetlights as if a Texas summertime mister is lurking unseen.
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Serrious paperwork signing delayed due to error in contract. Sigh.
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Breakfast at one of my favorites before I sign some serrrrrrrrious paperwork. — at Manor Coffee Shop
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@atmos It was pretty foggy today too. I heard the horns all night and I can’t even see the bottom of my hill!
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Today has been a day so wonderful I can scarce believe it.
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I am now “in contract.”. Coming this spring: residence in SoMa.
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I’m at Daiso Japan in San Francisco, CA
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I’m at Genji Antiques in San Francisco, CA
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I’m at Peace Pagoda in San Francisco, CA
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Lauren’s buying an iPhone. — at AT&T
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I’m with Lauren as she buys an iPhone. Look for sf 3g service to suck one person more.
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Manhttan with Lauren and warming by fire. — at Lush Lounge
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Blick art supply takes me back to 2002 by playing Strongbad’s hit “The Cheat Is Not Dead” on the PA. I sing along, aloud.
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iPhone and AT&T service in the city recalls Seneca: we can tolerate neither this evil nor its remedy.
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Mission style burrito right in soma. Awesome! — at @Tropisueno
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My favorite bird is the colorful toucan. Favorite land mammal? The California black bear.
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Lunch. — at St. John’s Grill
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Speaking of a #toucan, I would bet a #toucan would love the smooth #vibraphone #jazz of Khan Jamal, who i discovered this am.
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When considering the majestic #toucan, I am struck by the rainbow of colors in its beak. #toucantoucantoucan
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I’m at Zephyr Real Estate West Portal in San Francisco, CA
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I’m at @Tropisueno in San Francisco, CA
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Café et pain — at Tartine
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March, 2010
Funny. Apple’s NSTextArea in-line spellcheck editor recognizes ‘grok’ as a real world. Heinlen’s influence into nerddom=great.
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Camera Obscura’s “French Navy” on iDevice is an antidote to an infection of Lady Gaga refrains. Sometimes you need some space
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I’ve gotten back on to running post-move, post-holidays, etc. I’m back up to 2.25 sustained and clocking in at 196. 6 more…
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I think the most interesting thing I’ve learned about David Byrne in “Bicycle Diaries” is that he visited his grandma in scotland.
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Why do i love music that’s a downer? Shiver and say the words / of every lie you’ve heard. Echo and the Bunnymen.
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Wow, it’s been since 2002 since I last listened to #Siouxsie while coding. Too, too, too long. “Cities in dust”, “Happy House” ftw.
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Insane or rad? Vim mode for iPhone for text editing with shake as escape. Better editing, faster textfield manip (dw,d),p)
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Boot shopping. — at REI
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San Francisco is perfect today. Sunny, smiling people, dash of sea breeze, delicious quick edibles. Perfect.
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Today it’s official: I am now in my new role in a software development group at Cisco. I’m excited…and overwhelmed!
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@DanielMiessler AWESOME about your #sf move. It’s really the only place to be for ppl like us! Which n’hood?
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At coda supper club. Dîner avec jazz.
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50% of my life I’ve been driving with 2 parking tickets. This month I’ve doubled that by two. Can we afford to fix some potholes now, Gavin?
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I’m at Osha
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A bastion of Potrero hill goodness. The Larry birdger is my fave. — at Connecticut Yankee
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I’m at Yerba Buena Park in San Francisco, CA
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Eyeing — at 829 Folsom
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Outside of tartine I sit while guts and buttons play Franco accordion daydreams. Like glover gill’s bands but more estrogen.
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This place is pretty empty and kinda scary. They must be losing a ton of money. Hope they find something — at Metreon
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April, 2010
“Resistance” by @muse is this era’s “Mr. Roboto:” scifi / anti-totalitarian themes, Dr. Who synths, awkward rhymes.
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Every time I hear “Cult of Personality” I’m astounded that Living Colour didn’t take over the world. Still rocks 20 years later.
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I feel like the cities on the peninsula that hug 280 are a great mystery, full of people living hidden in the lens-flare of SF.
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Lesson — at San Bruno Golf Center
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If you play John prine, I will be you patron, mission district.
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I’m at Sharis in CA
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Keepin it real in daly city. — at Nation’s
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Photo: — at Pillar Point Boat Launch
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I’m at Pillar Point Boat Launch in Half Moon Bay, CA
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Post-cough-con spa and relax weekend. — at Oceano Hotel & Spa
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Lauren says she decided she loved me about the second tower…years ago now. — at @GGbridge
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I’m at Pin High Golf Center in San Jose, CA
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Miss @laurennroth just lined us up some great tickets to see the #sfgiants TONIGHT. Let’s go Giii-aaaants!
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May, 2010
Current status. Giants! http://yfrog.com/ehaihgj
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T train approach to AT&T park impeded by critical mass…naked riders.
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Like Hannibal against Rome, I vow my eternal hatred against Sirius radio’s “Pulse.”. Emotionally dead pablum for cod.
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Home at last. Nice night out.
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We are the pretty, petty things. And you’re standing on our streets…where Hector was the first of the gang..
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I think the percentage of unmarried and smart female characters in Hollywood movies skews abnormally to the occupation “hooker”
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Today I used Ant to make our development platform Win AND OSX friendly. To think, I used to use M4 or Perl for that.
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Dinner with Lauren and Stephanie. — at Annabelle’s Bar and Bistro
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Vendor Compliment: Wow, it’s refreshing to work with someone who really knows how to use the command line.
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Seeing a movie about men with whips and women in spandex in the Castro: iron man 2 — at Castro Theatre
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You’ve never had a massage until you’ve had someone rolf your inner jaw and sinuses. Protip: Find therapist with small fingers
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Homeless guy to me: “Hey, (mayor) Gavin (Newsom)! Hey, Gavin! Don’t ignore me!” #allwhiteslookthesameevidently
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Photo: — at Yoshi’s
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Here’s my Ted talk idea. “Seriously why can’t we make a decentralized semantic web backed facebook killer?”. It’s not heresy.
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I was supposed to run Bay To Breakers today. Croup coughing fits begun yesterday afternoon decided my entry fee should be a donation. :-(
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It’s a special time when you join a new dev team and your commit horrifically tanks the CI build and you have to roll-back.
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Tired of the “Hiring $TECH Rockstar/ninja” thing. Mine: Wanted: Rails Mr. Ferley to my Janet Wood #playedout #joycedewitt
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Just watched “the piano teacher”. That was different.
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Do you want on my awesome train? Put maple syrup on your cereal before the milk.
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Remember when Mike Dell said apple should liquidate and return its value to shareholders? Wrong.
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Classicist fashion: A hoodie that says ‘hodie.’
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Zizek’s speech at Google is a riot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0eyNkNpL0 . Toilets, ideology, and the Rumsfeld theory of knowledge.
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RE: @danielmiessler I also highly recommend In Our Time hosted by polymath and condescentionaut Melvyn Bragg.
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Photo: Great place to celebrate your girlfriend’s new job! — at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar
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I’m at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar in San Francisco, CA
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I’m at Expert Hair Do in Sunnyvale, CA
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@DougMcBride we’re in for Birdemic! tonight at the Roxie.
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i walked to pacific heights and then took a bus back to the castro.
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We just caught the majesty and myster that is “birdemic.”. It is pure beauty.
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Ran from the haight to the ocean. Did well on the way out, hit the wall on way back in though.
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About to watch La Jetée. It’s with “Solaris” on that “Important SciFi I should watch” list.
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@wbruce check out p. Watt “blindsight” for yr next iLibrary download. Need more opinions on it.
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I highly recommend the Istanbul treat. — at Philz Coffee
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June, 2010
Java study time — at Philz Coffee
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Running in Santa Clara ismuch warmer than in the city.
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Git-fu: git add -p (file)->[s]plit. Apply different hunks of a diff so that you can make linear commit. So, powerful.
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@Philz_Coffee is playing some Sisters of Mercy. Signs you might be in SF…music to go with the fog coming down the peaks.
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My current favorite German word is “rundfunk.”. Dont’t worry “dirndl” you’re safe, long term.
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Strawberry vanilla swirl — at Bi-Rite Creamery Soft Serve Station
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I’m at Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco, CA
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Running through Golden Gate Park!
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@DougMcBride Forcing myself to learn how to do everything via CLI; don’t ever want to be held hostage by the IDE, common in java-dev-land.
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I love running through GG Park, first the smell of Haight, then the smell of trees, then the smell of sea. And then allergic itchy eyes…
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#youknowyoufromthesouth If you “sir” and “ma’am” everyone and hold doors for ladies.
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I’ve been dreaming of a mission burrito for weeks. — at Pancho Villa
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I’m at Ganim’s in San Francisco, CA
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Chilling in my new bedroom calling comcast.
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Supplies for new home — at Target Serramonte
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I just donated to This American Life. I cannot count how often these stories have moved me esp. “Conventions.” You probably owe them.
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I’m at San Bruno Golf Center in CA
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I’m at Chef Chu’s in Los Altos, CA
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Austin comes to san Francisco in 136 boxes.
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Omg. Laptop AppleCare ended today. Glad we got it in!!!
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Tomorrow movers will bring all our Austin stuff into our new home. Scary part is we’ve not missed most of it.
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Photo: — at Apple Flagship Store
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Yes, 200 feet from my house. — at Whole Foods
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For the first time in 10 years I have a home line, and now google voice comes to the rescue making the hell of AT&T in SF more tolerable.
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Photo: — at Sears Fine Food
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Swedish-American breakfast with my favorite Swedish-American. — at Sears Fine Food
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July, 2010
I started reading Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War.” I’m loving it so far especially the tone of the narrator.
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It’s six am how about we hop in a balloon.
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Stitched up at pier 39. I don’t think I can run with food in me. So much for home to ghiradelli via embarcadero plan. :(
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“Inception” renders some of the concepts that make programmers love their work: recursion, stack traces, etc and illustrates them for laymen
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I’m going to see inception at 0830 at the metreon in IMAX with @laurennroth. Reality better get bent
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I managed to de-stitch and ran from the Wharf back home via Union Square and Powell. Then took a bath for the first time in a decade+.
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In the future people will remember the iPhone as the first device that put the Internet in our pockets.
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Is anyone happy with their cursive majuscule ‘D?’
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Flipped car on 237 westbound at McCarthy. How do you even do that?
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So many firsts in the last few months: first earthquake in my new home.
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Holyshizz. I’m in love with @twilio. #appworkshop I’m going to fix up my life / phone interface.
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At the social app workshop #appworkshop — at Heroku
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Only in #sf: 100 attendees at social #appworkshop at @heroku at 9am on a Saturday morning. @mperham is here too.
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Introducing Lauren to my favorite Peninsula diner. Good ‘cakes and a nice place to read some Sunday morn — at Sharis
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To atone for beer and great food at #appworkshop, ran from soma around embarcadero to marina and back down laguna for 10k+.
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I’m tempted to drop MacPorts for homebrew…but I’m not sure I could hack figuring out how to re-install LaTeX.
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Biked here from home. — at Golden Gate Bridge
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Bike ride across the golden gate to Marin with @laurennroth
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August, 2010
Java Collections and generics has some funny syntax: cards.toArray(new Card[0]); Ruby would be cleaner with cards.toArray(this.class), no?
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I’m at Tropisueño in San Francisco, CA
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Blues music. Shot of Jameson and a beer. Giants on the screen (beat LA). — at Hotel Utah Saloon
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If you’ve never seen 1976’s “Network” you should. It predicted infotainment, foxnews, know-nothingism, idiocracy..34 years ago
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SF Friends: Picnic with me, in Golden Gate Park, tomorrow. It’s my birthday.
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Today some friends braved mist, cold, the haight and its kind fog to eat pizza and play croquet in the cold with me. You’re champs.
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I love Test-Driven development because it turns the compiler into your ally versus your adversary.
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My birthday with Lauren. All alone in a great restaurant! — at Zuppa
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To all my twitter, Facebook, phone and flesh-and-blood friends: thank you for the deluge of birthday wishes.
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Got tired running home so I grabbed some Pakistani food. — at Shalimar
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/me is needing a trip to the hotel utah.
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Been waiting for this all week. — at Philz Coffee
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Belmont is my favorite sf peninsula city because it’s named after Castlevania’s hero.
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Haven’t had Persian since winter. So excited for shalizaar in Belmont tonight.
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I’m at Panera Bread in San Francisco, CA
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It’s a heat wave: #SF broke 80 today.
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Just had my first @mogobbq. Awesome Korean taco truck!!!
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Photo: — at Caltrain - Milbrae
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Beautiful building and transit hub. — at Caltrain - Milbrae
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Priceless management advice from my colleague John: managers should decide, delegate, disappear. If this is news, yer doin it wrong.
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@inkredabull despite the brief taste of Texas weather, last night’s moon and bridge at biersch was a treasured vista.
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Teased for carrying my mini brella in my bag on such a sunny day, I had the last laugh on caltrain platform as it lent me shelter
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Line of dirty people in funny clothes in SF’s tenderloin: homeless waiting for charity OR hipsters in line at Dottie’s?
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Reprahzent cupertizzle with your vacant-ass mall. But what remains is (see pic) — at Valco Fashion Park
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The borders across from AT&T park is closing. E-readers, small is the new black put the hurt on against margin req’d for SF.
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Just for the record, I HATE IT (ESPECIALLY IN EMAIL) when people use GERUNDS instead of Subject/Verb pairs “Wondering if….”
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Vidi Scott Pilgrim. It seems they took the hyperkineticity from “Speed Racer,” wrapped it on authentic indie love story, and made unsuck.
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@damon Very rad. My 0.02: @philz_coffee is tops. Great drinks, great wifi, good staff. I’ll get you a Philtered Soul next time yer in.
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September, 2010
Drink a greater alarm, pay mortgage, read a bit of the farseer trilogy. — at Philz Coffee
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Vacation! — at The Inn at 213 Seventeen Mile Drive
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I’m at Lighthouse Cinema in CA
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Great quality food under a quiet blanket of fog in Monterey — at Mauricio’s
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Blast! — at Adventures by the Sea Kayaks
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I’m so glad I was in the south bay today for a @mogobbq “Dirty Dog” – the combination of kimchi and hot dog.
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David foster Wallace I see what you did there, using a relative pronoun as a a nominative in a clause. Latin student, eh?
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“easy a” was surprisingly good. Emma stone has great comedic chops (face, timing). Truly gets teen sexual identity’s pain and humor.
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This place rules! Toyyyyys! — at Talbots Toyland
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I just finished “The Shallows” and hope to blog some thoughts on what its bleak picture of what the Internet is doing to us inspired.
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I ran five mi today in 62min. I’ve got six weeks to +1.2mi. and -5 min for the @rubyconf 10K. Can’t wait to run in the Big Easy!
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Atheists and agnostics have a moral duty to donate to musea, research organizations, or universities.
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@VintageAnchor can you tell me who did the photo / who is in the photo of on the 1954 Vintage paperback of Camus’ The stranger?
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October, 2010
Thai food, a walk to the ocean, fog, conor oberst, and bluegrass to come. Only In — at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
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I admit, I was totally stoked by seeing Sorkin write cameos for “wget” and “emacs”. #thesocialnetwork
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Foam roller, humorous, running shirts, sleeping bag. — at Sports Basement
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Last session: rdfa: how, what, why. Haven’t done much here since I marked up my résumé.
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Foothill college may be the most beautiful community college ever.
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Just found out about silicon valley code camp. Learn a ton of stuff: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/
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Seeing girl who played with fire — at Lumiere Theatre
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I was introduced to Node.js this weekend and am having a hard time keeping it from distracting me.
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I’m so excited for the #rubyconfXk! With any luck I’ll get a new running jersey, the dryer singed the sweet one i got last year.
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Thanks to a visit to Sport Basement last night, I have now heard a “Ke$ha” song. The sadness hangover has not left yet.
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Gear for birthday hetch hetchy hike! — at Sports Basement
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Brasov Yosemite-ward today and climbing hetch hetchy tomorrow with my lovely girl. Gimme summadat NATURE.
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Lauren’s birthday! — at Le Charm
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Back safe from a 12 mile day hike to Smith peak where we saw hetch hetchy reservoir and back. Shower and sleep now.
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There’s something about waiting for a train on a cold platform in a dark, early fall night that fits my notion of being who I wanted to be.
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Beautiful old depot and French press and coralie clément songs. — at Caffe Del Doge - Caltrain Station
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November, 2010
This #sfgiants parade is creating an unholy din of helicopters and fans.
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Now that we have a world series in SF, can we get a dunkin donuts?
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I’m amazed by node.js, could we get a demo app between a hello world server and this awesomeness
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Off to ATX! Tex Mex Mecca, here I come. — at SFO San Francisco International
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What is it about early morning flights that makes creative thoughts the night before come so easily and distractingly?
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I’m at Matt’s El Rancho in Austin, TX
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Gas and Dublin dr pepper. — at Buc-ee’s
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Wonderful day in CenTex: san Antonio, scotch, backyard fun with friends and family. Happy day with great weather. Miss my gal tho…
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My balcony view of the crescent city http://yfrog.com/gh8gej
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Here’s a pic I took at Embassy Suites Hotel –
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Geauxing to @rubyconf! — at HOU William P. Hobby Airport
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Last Texas meal. — at Freebirds World Burrito
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Registering. — at Hilton New Orleans Riverside
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NO’s cultural highlights — at Harrah’s Casino
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It’s an institution for a reason. — at Cafe Du Monde
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Muffaletta and Zapp’a potato bitches. — at Central Grocery
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I’m at RubyConf 2010 in New Orleans, LA
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Goddam this place is old school classy. — at Roosevelt Hotel
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I’m at Green Goddess in New Orleans, LA
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#rubyconf Vegas may be dead to me in favor of new Orleans.
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What other destination could make the airplane announcer voice burst into song — at SFO San Francisco International
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#rubyconf @hoverbird had a great presentation perhaps even helped by laptop death.
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@freeformz @outerim headed to mothers be there in 5. Meet ye there. Me=tropo t shirt, rolly suitcase.
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Having the greatest old fashioned ever. — at Renaissance Pere Marquette
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#rubyconf attendees beware fleurs-de-lis withdrawal. Symptoms include desire for buttered food, beignets, and rye whiskey.
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#rubyconf I’m home. Thanks for a great conf @kellyjeanne and New Orleans!
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After 10 years I’m going back to the qwerty keyboard from dvorak: definitely more comfortable but the portability =~ nil. Expect typos.
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Aloha (again). — at HNL Honolulu International
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Waikiki http://yfrog.com/dyanmgj
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I’m at Beach Bar - Moana Surfrider in Honolulu, HI
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Snorkeling! — at Ulua Lagoon at Ko ‘Olina
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Surf and ramen and Lauren makes a great day! — at Kiwami Ramen
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Stunning. — at Hanauma Bay
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Watching sol occidens. — at Maunalua Bay
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I’m at Ko Olina Ocean Adventures in Kapolei, HI
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It’s cold somewhere, but not here. — photo at Moana Surfrider
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Ready to hit the beach! — at Moana Surfrider
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After a lite, late lunch of maitai and piña colada it is now time for a luau. Yay vacation.
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Seriously, why isn’t the tax code released in code? At least then 5% of the population would understand it.
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I am thankful for my family and exciting new opportunities for them, my great colleagues, my SF life and Lauren. Now, back to surfing.
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I had Japanese breakfast today. Tasty nori, miso, salad and rice. It was all good until I hit….natto.
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Hungry from surfing and walking — at Pizza Bobs
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Surf that makes you cry for its beauty and fatality. — at Hale’iwa Beach Park
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December, 2010
Reason to live in SF: Got a last minute seat to NodeCamp: 1 day 0-60 training session for next week on node.js. Excited!
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#nodecamp repowered and wifi good at nodecamp. Now learning about routes handling.
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So far #nodecamp is crushing it. Great b’fast , cool shirts, tons of power, wifi and mission bay conf ctr is beautiful. Yay #joyent.
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Noir at the Castro. “cruel Yule”
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@DanielMiessler Both @laurennroth and I were remarking that “Tron” was an average movie, but a great Daft Punk video.
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Pouring in west Hollywood. And true grit ad! http://yfrog.com/h255409468j
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Arrived in LA driving thru texas style downpour….surrounded by /Angelenos/ driving in said weather! ;)
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There’s a delightful, old dog nestled next to my leg. Amidst Christmas chaos his regular breathing and occasional leg kicks are calming.
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Back in #sf after great days in LA/OC. Much love to my family and friends there!
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2011
January, 2011
I’m going to attend an exploratory jiu-jitsu lesson tomorrow. I’m excited to hurt in entirely new ways.
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I was really impressed by “Winter’s Bone.” Appalachian Gothic is right. A very intimate, tense, thriller.
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Myers-Briggs S types: I do not understand you at all.
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if there is any modern man meriting the noun “troubadour” in the archaïc sense, it is Paul Simon.
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In Ruby is there a way to catch every method execution (and its name?). Sorta like method_missing? I want to proxy some method calls
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Kid yelling at train station: headache; yelling “I love you more” to dad just boarded on the southbound before doors close…bwaaaaahhh.
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Hi, I want a whole lot of storage in the cloud for photos, music backup. What’s the best way to get it that isn’t painful?
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I so love Karen Elson’s “The Ghost Who Walks.” First album in years that I’ve just gone “DAYUM” over.
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We walked to buy a multimeter via furniture store section of SoMa. We came home with the meter, a couch, tv console and ottoman ON SALE!
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The Decemberists’ new record (alt-countryesque?!) is available to stream at KCRW. Colin Meloy can write a great song.
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February, 2011
Really digging tift merritt’s “See You on the Moon”
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I don’t think that it’s often enough said, but I love America.
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I noticed that Noë’s “Enter the Void” is on netflix streaming. I’m pondering when I will be able to take /that/ trip.
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Mumford and Sons? I’ve been into Flogging Molly for years already.
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To say that tmux and iTerm2 have most changed my workflow since moving to Mac in 02 would be accurate.
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Sunny morning in SF and then it started hailing suddenly little pebbles of ice. It was like Texas came to visit for 1 minute.
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March, 2011
I wish @pragprog would write an intro to c on osx. Teach the youngins about the machine, look relevant vs. k&r.
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Use Vim like a boss: Llast ‘:’-command can be repeated with @: and further repeats can be done with @@; with Quickfix ftw.
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I wonder if Neal Peart uses vi or emacs.
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Had a fun .rb hack night at @carbonfive. Learned about gemsets, 1.9.1 quirks, startup exec hirirng and some @pivotallabs crossover.
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I can’t decide if I prefer Terence Stamp as cockney tough (The limey) or übermensch (superman, adjustment Bureau). Both?
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My new superhero idea: The Mad Wienerian: Pelts baddies with raw hot-dogs, menacing them with bruises and salmonella
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“If you got a problem with Willie Nelson, you got a problem with me.” – Snoop Dogg
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Happy Ovid’s birthday. In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora. The original sensitive bad boy poet.
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Catfight in the past aisle at trader Joe’s. “move!”. “hang up your cell phone and steer!”
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How can you spot facebook employees at cafés? They’re the ones not browsing facebook.
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I secretly want absurd job working in a cafe where I will yell at people who don’t bus their table. “do you not have any manners, ape?”
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I love Regina Spektor’s cover of Lennon’s “Real Love.” Somehow she brings a rich thickness to it Lennon and piano fury didn’t.
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On the death of Geraldine Ferraro: I recall the “Q-Zoo” in Houston in the 80’s making a bear called Geraldine Berarro.
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April, 2011
Just caught the swank bastards surfabilly show in north beach. Hula hoop dancers too at the bamboo hut.
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We saw Hanna and Arthur. I recommend both but especially Hanna. It was like “Lola Rennt” in snow; great music.
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My dentist in the city plays Interpol in the waiting room.
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One of the best visual explanations of git ever: http://www.ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
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I believe Jesus er Obama is in the hood. 2 blocks of Howard are blocked. Avoid soma if yer driving.
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In solario tabernae Panerae sol fulgens amicam Laurenam meque calit!
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@seaofclouds What is up with nail clipping in public? What’s next, public manscaping cc/ @dstafford
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Sun drenched wonderland SF! Downside: Apparently sun makes residents jerks judging by the aggro honking and yellong on market.
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May, 2011
Emma Stone = voice of the new Peppermint Patty.
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Any Grownups reading “Hunger Games?” looks interesting.
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“Never Let Me Go” was a hard but rewarding movie. So much….tragedy.
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Do you realize what happened yesterday? The US president had Cobra Commander killed. Suck it, Destro.
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Grace potter. I love your music.
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The monitor I won at @podio’s hack day. That is mega vi in the background. Thanks to the for help, fun and generosity.
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#podiostore finished an app integrating @Twilio, @podio, on @heroku in Sinatra. I had never worked with these before today. Whew!
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At Kapor center where Kapor himself is speaking. My first tech job was at Lotus in 1998 in Austin. Full circle.
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@Twilio, I have learned, is pronounced like Dillyo.
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Muni driver greeted me with a smile, “good morning sir, everything good today.”. #5578 rt. 30 you are an example.
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RT @Twilio: Steven Harms wins Podio hackathon! #twilioLAUNCH
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Summer in the south bay smells like these with a slight salt breeze and 72 degrees.
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We just saw kung fu panda 2: better story and artwork than the first. It’s very funny.
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@ingridmusic’s twitter banter is so good.
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@laurennroth and I paddled from Townsend to pier 39 (7 knots) today. SF, take time to remember you are a sea-faring city.
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June, 2011
Anyone want tickets to Sunday Florence and the machine in Berkeley? You must pick up from my doormAn tomorrow in soma.
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Finished “The Hunger Games” in less than one day. This only happen with books I really like. Can’t wait for movie with Jennifer Lawrence.
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Why isn’t there a #Ruby or #Rails conf in beautiful Victoria, BC this time of year?
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I’m thinking about a sci-fi story set on a planet in a permanent half daylight that orbits an aged star. Or set it in SF’s West Portal.
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Look out Austin, I’ll be speaking at Lone Star Ruby Conf @lsrc in August on “Practical Metaprogramming: Modeling Thought.” See you soon!
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@juliamae I only talked to you for 15 minutes at RubyConf, but I feel SF would be better off with your Markov creation here, not there.
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@elight @lsrc Count me as in on the AirBNB. Right by one of Austin’s best coffee shops as well. w00t Genuine Joe.
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@laurennroth hits Pandora, a chord plays. “That’s Rush’s ‘Red Tide’ from 1989’s Presto.’” She: “One chord?” Me: “One chord.”
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RT @Froda: From the #Twilio blog: “Developers Used Twilio to Win Podio API Launch Hack Day”
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@melbotis H. Potter is neither smart (like Hermione), or hard-working (Ron). He just has talent, luck, others or deus ex machinae save him.
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Uptick in scads of hetero, scantily-clad young girls at #sfpride may portend the boys, fights, and bloodshed that ended Castro Halloween. :(
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Loneliest place at Rush concert? The women’s bathroom: via @sfgate
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Only in Silicon Valley: “Yeah, I’m just now starting to trust compilers.” Me: “Against interpreted languages?” “No, against assembly.”
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Revisiting ‘Zork’: What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games - Philip Bump - Technology - The…
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I wish there were a show called “Doing shit with Herzog” where people would do normal stuff, but with Herzog. “I, too, like bran flakes.”
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July, 2011
If the “Dragon Tattoo” remake doesn’t feature a metal ABBA song, Fincher will have missed a golden chance. e.g. during the tattoo scene.
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I saw “tree of life” Sunday; fireworks Monday. In Malick’s world this is significant. Cue dinosaurs.
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Happy 4th from Pier 39. Note unclouded sky.
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Just for the record, we saw “Tree of Life” this weekend. It’s worth seeing, but only if you know what you’re in for. Beautiful though
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Visited @Twilio to pick up swag for @podio tool win. Nice to see @DanielleMORRILL and meet @genejo. Great loft with a “Tesla” conf room!
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@davetron5000 Can’t wait to see your pres. at #Rubyconf! You’ve been improving my CLI-fu since 2009.
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OHAI RubyConf 2011 New Orleans. I’ll be lecturing on Latin and metaprogramming in the French Quarter come November.
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Come to think of it, “Xanadu” might be the only fit chaser after that donkey-flop of suck called “The Green Hornet.”
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It’s totally happening: @laurennroth is being treated to her first viewing of 1980 masterpiece “Xanadu.”
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Late night eats in san Francisco: don’t forget your trench coat and scarf!
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Things I love about SoMa life. 1 block to HP7 in IMAX, 2 blocks to apple store for better mouse.
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Farewell you darling #potter children. Thanks for sharing your lives with us and ending in such a fine fashion.
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I will be Flying @jetblue for the first time for @lsrc. First time for everything.
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Ti Couz in the mission closed. ’twas a special place for us. Now where to go for buckwheat crepes?#nothinglastsforever #firstworldproblems
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@hayesdavis Teens have nothing to do all day but think about sex, drugs, and selfish wants. Best not to underestimate.
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Reading Knuth’s paper on Literate programming. It recalls to mind Searle. Write code with “Intentionality.”
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I ran my first mile in Vibrams yesterday. My hamstrings are now 2 inches shorter.
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OH: “So what’s her deal? Single, straight, bi, divorced, open relationship?”
#signsyouliveinSF
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Perhaps what’s best is that we barely fail, over and over. That we stretch, falter, then regain what bested us before as an afterthought.
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August, 2011
When i consider the whole debt ceiling debate the only voice I hear is that of Johnny Rotten: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
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I am dreaming of planning a European vacation. It is permanently night and purple neon lit like some sexy trance song that never ends.
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@inkredabull Soma is definitely where to be if you want to work before work and work after work.
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When entering times of uncertainty, “work harder” seems to be the only strategy that has consistently won out.
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So I’m going to Austin for @lsrc next week and the temps in ATX are roughly double our daily average in SF. Gonna need much sweet tea.
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People who hacked my account used it to buy school supplies and groceries. Something is systemically wrong here.
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Happy birthday! Congratulations my debit card got hacked.
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So the planet of the apes movie was totally dope. I recommend it.
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Is there anything more beautiful, tragic, glam and sad than T. Rex’s “Slider” and / or David Bowie’s “Lady Stardust?”
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I’m alone in a Bart car headed to SFO. Feels like Logan’s Run: ominous and efficient.
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100% if airbnb ruby hacker house has vibrams and MacBook pros. We think different, it seems. #switchingtosandals
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Airbnb house is in hot Austin, smells like fresh paint, full of a/c. Smells like new school year apt. move-in
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Learning the basics of Lexing and parsing with @elight.
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4 of my sessions at @lsrc are about Javascript. Something is afoot.
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JS Invasion Propaganda II: “Your fixie is not fast enough to outrun History, Javascripter. Ruby is coming.” #lsrc
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Took the east coasters to whataburger.
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@garannm thanks for meeting up I’m feeling soooo quesoy now. Best of luck with the new dreams.
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Giant cockroach, junior brown live tomorrow, 90’s band bush, cold latte, Dale Watson Monday: you might be in Austin.
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Dolores park is a bit like pre-compression: poi, house music, juggling.
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Muralist is doing a painting of Quora from tron at 4th and Bryant. Walks to caltrain become 100% hawtter.
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@jenifersf “it was a brave person who ate the first oyster.”
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Home safe and sound. Now. Sleep
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“Californication” was soooooooo good!
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Such a dork. Partied too hard for cab. Reading. Ovid. In Latin. Historia arachnis
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Used @DanielMiessler’s lsof(1) guide to write a clever rc.d script to make sure the process locking the port was DEAD WITH FIRE.
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Living in #sf means never, ever apologizing for Journey.
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Watching Star Trek TNG: S1. ep 1. First time ever.
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The new #austin “how cool are you” measure will be “if you were here in the summer of 2011.” Everyone else will be “recent.”
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September, 2011
Co-Worker: Origami is the art where you neither add nor remove anything from the medium. #zengong
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@davetron5000 found my lazytwitter git help request when I was at Genuine Joe’s, Austin 2 years ago, and I will see him SF next month.
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My friends are the kind of people for whom the obvious question to ask after someone says “Roll a fair die” is “how many sides?”
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How amazing would it be if during a technical interview one side asked: “can I do it in awk?”
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Write with a fountain pen. #ThingsIveNotDoneToRushSongsTilNow
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I love my Lamy Safari. It’s a great day to day fountain pen.
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I’m honored to be teaching at @railsbridge this w/e at @pivotallabs. @sarahmei and @ultrasaurus have started something great!
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@pragmaticstudio @jimweirich @chadfowler great news! Jim taught me tdd at @lsrc III and it changed my life
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@melbotis no it’s more of somethignin the marine layer changed, smells more like Islay scotch and less of candy.
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I stepped into my living room from my bedroom and i could smell something coming though the vents: fall.
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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary." : Nassim Taleb via @eliasbiz
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When @LanaDelRey asks in “Video Games” if it’s true that he likes the bad girls, I can’t tell if she’s hopeful or disappointed.
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Only in SF: See great Nasim Taleb quote by @EliasBiz about heroin and salaries on Hacker news. See @EliasBiz on your block one day later.
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Really want high resolution pics of “Gravity The Seducer” album by Ladytron.
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Judging by their video, “Foster the People” should have been called “Some dudes who work at Facebook who have instruments.”
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#gogaruco I can’t wait until ruby hackers start running for office. Ron Evans is killing it on “Kids Ruby”. Ron for education cabinet.
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At @truecar, I asked my Rails question and had an author of the Rails 3.1 book look at it with me…we found a bug. :) Feeling über.
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RT @maccast: Valve makes Portal free for Macs through Sept. 20 http://j.mp/nWIOnc If you haven’t played Portal yet, now’s your chance.
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At #gogaruco we saw a GUI for interactive evaluation and 2 talks on Smalltalk. We have some serious Squeak-envy, it seems.
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This trader Joe’s is playing Rush! Not any rookie stuff either: “Distant Early Warning.”
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@judytuna is here at @carbonfive hack night! Representing the railsbridge.
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@garannm My heart is weeping over the words TAG / Telegard / and Celerity.
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Holy shit! Went into amoeba and met ladytron, bought autographed LP.
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Not even at #rubyconf and I just ran into Michael Hartl whose Rails tutorial is the best on the market at the minute cc/@judytuna.
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@mirven @laurennroth arrives at 7ish. I/we will be over depending on her fatigue. So yes, eventually.
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Popeye’s in New Orleans does taste better / cc: @davetron5000
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Low rumbling thunder. Might be in the Gulf south.
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#rubyconf do not use hotel’s magnification mirror. 15 minutes to shave, 1 hour of flaw finding, 1 hour of self-hate.
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Metaprogramming talk at 1300 is a huge rework from @lsrc: uses smalltalk message passing POV. It’s clearer! All levels will learn! #rubyconf
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October, 2011
@JEG2 Perhaps @rubyrogues are to be praised as well for resisting being narrowly defined! :)
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RT @JEG2: I love how this slide deck from @sgharms begins by making fun of how bad the @rubyrogues are at giving definitions:
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Practical Metaprogramming (Ruby) #rubyconf
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I want next #rubyconf in the northeast. Brooklyn (dodge manhattan $) or Boston?
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One last
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. Closed out my “rubyconfPreso” tmux session. That’s when you know you’re really done. #rubyconf
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@juliamae, @mirven, @laurennroth: Man, last night was the most fun I’ve had on a sidewalk in a long time with ye.
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“Practical Metaprogramming” slides, references, links at #rubyconf
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#rubyconf ends but it was greatto see @carbonfive, @mirven, @drtoast, @mattt and @laurennroth on a magical night.
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Did a great swamp tour. Held a gator.
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The state of Mississippi: brought to you by Waffle House.
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We’re are spending the night in the Jesusland riviera (Miss. Coast) and got upgraded to fancy suite. Feeling like a GOP donor.
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Mufaletta lunch, tsa high theatre, bit now home to SF at last.
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I gave notice at my job today. Time to make my passions for Ruby and teaching my livelihood.
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You know that voice that says eat something bad and greasy for dinner? New Orleans has drowned that voice, for me, in butter. I want salads
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Let’s remember that OUR icon was someONE’s husband, father, brother or other intimate relation. Condolences to them.
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Forgot umbrella, back upstairs; out the door, hail. WTF, City? Upside, soaked Vibrams dry quickly.
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#ripstevejobs memorial at flagship store SF. Before Steve’s vision this was a collapsed building on Market. Vision is amazing.
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On October 24th, I will join the awesome team at @carbonfive in bringing you fine Ruby and Rails solutions! :-D
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Dennis Ritchie’s passing has earned a sleep(60000) of silence.
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I caught SNL last night and would like to say that Anna Farris is one of the funniest women ever.
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Another possible juror is reading the hunger games. #badideasinpunishment
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Jury duty in sf. Nice chairs, wifi, quiet…how many startups have come out of these I wonder.
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SF Superior Court Jury Duty is in SF: Starts after 12pm, has wifi.
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Congrats to @github on 1Mth user, but man that party is packed. Headed home, nice to see @freeformz and @leahculver.
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My wineglass rack is also an earthquake detection device. I thought i had just set some books too hard on the kitchen table….nutty.
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How many ST:TNG episodes devolve into Faust?
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Just got a halloween costume with @laurennroth. No telling who we are until later…. :)
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First day at @carbonfive has been successful up to lunch. Bonus, chipotle on the corner cc/@kylebrowning
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Just celebrated my first Diwali with my neighbors and @laurennroth. I hope you all are blessed with fortune.
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November, 2011
Twitter needs a way to say ‘read later’ to a tweet. Many things I favorite are for that purpose.
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My best friend welcomed his second child to the world yesterday on 11/1/11. Happy life, binary baby.
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RT @Scott_Gilmore: Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 430 BC.
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I was sad to finish “the hunger games” saga, but what a yarn! Farewell, Katniss.
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“Puss in boots” was the perfect end to a busy, hectic, crazy week full of ruby, rails, and adventure. it’s adult friendly.
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It’s a great town in which you can have a skullcrusher of a Manhattan next to your barber, who plays “Karma Police,.” amid deco hotels.
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WTF: Re-implementing IRC with HTML interfaces around it is not a business.
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@spotify plays recruiting ads in the Trance radio stream. #knowustoowell
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Larry birdger st the Connecticut Yankee. Haven’t been here in ages.
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Proof that God loved America: a handsome quarterback with a surgical arm named “Joe Montana.”
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Heading down to the Savanna club to see my colleague Suzanna Smith sing some jazz. If you’re free hollah. // cc: @mperham
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Yep, I’m old. Gooey, lovely, rich French cheese, you and I shall ne’er meet again lest chaperoned by Lactaid.
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Surely I’m not the only one who wishes for modal text editing in iOS? Vi key bindings? Fix typos with “wwcwnewwor” instead of the bubble?
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Go see the new muppet movie. It’s great
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December, 2011
“Hugo” is a beautiful movie replete with the copper glow of Paris from “Amelie” and a sense of wonder and fun. Take kids.
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Wrote some vimscript like a boss. Shopping at Costco on Saturday. #daredevil
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They just don’t make movie stars like Deanna Durbin anymore.
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Last minute decision to see noir city’s cruel Yule. Thanks @melbotis for the reminder!
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“this…is…wamsutta!”. - Leonidas at Bed, Bath, and Beyond
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@dddagradi while in NOLA check out Bublé’s “Blue Christmas.”. It’s done NOLA jazz style. #srlsly #notjoking
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Proof #2, a milliner.
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Why San Francisco invented noir: to get a watch battery replaced we walked down a hallway like this.
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Not in Austin til I see the “Texas or Tuscany” art in the men’s room at AUS.
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Biggest Christmas present surprise from @laurennroth
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Back in SFO
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Lauren and I are going to be swinging into 2012 at Bimbo’s 365 club in North Beach. Swing, burlesque, fun. Tix still avail
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2012
January, 2012
First brunch of the year at Rocco’s on Folsom (with “The Gambler” playing).
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Apply for a spot in the @LivingSocial Hungry Academy by January 9th! - dying to see the IT pipeline get rawked.
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Yesterday we hiked mt. Diablo’s summit trail. Tonite swing dancing. I need to cool myself in Lake Minnetonka’s purifying waters. #chappelle
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Swing dancers: SF’sVerdi club is like Austin’s Fed, in a bar like the old Mohawk, with a bartender. #uswingoutbro
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Dancing at the Verdi club. Such a ton of fun to dance.
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In time people will remember that comedienne carrie brownstein plays a great rickenbacher.
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Congratulations to the #hungryacademy applicants. Your gumption puts you ahead of 90% of the population; the requisite introspection, 95%.
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Yo dogg, i heard you like line numbers in your embedded gists so I added line numbers to your embedded gists in a gist
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“we now play traditional Ukrainian dance tune: ees ‘bad romance’” - red Elvises
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Catching the Red Elvises in the Richmond. ¡ Franco ! Wish you were here to crazy Russian with these crazy Russians.
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Oh boy! “Gilda” at the Castro with @laurennroth and @J__Swift. My Noir experience starts now.
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Glad for my first night at noir city but sad that it coincided with @melbotis’ departure.
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Half the guys at noir city look like Elvis Costello … Or Greg Proops
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I’ve been using vim seriously for a while and use “:b#” to toggle between last-edited buffer. Use CTRL-^ #protip
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She said: “I’m going to be stressed until all my ducks are in a row. me: Better get quacking, then. :: eyeroll’d ::
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February, 2012
I’ve been watching “Robotech” on Netflix lately. My recollection of its glacial plot and annoying Minmei stands; but now I love Lisa.
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Really, there’s nothing like Alejandro Escovedo to put you in an AustinTX state of mind.
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Last night we watched “Duck Soup.” I can’t believe they ever got away with that.
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Reading dutch, latin, and french means my reading meggs’ history of graphic design takes forever as I read 1940 Dutch ads or 1650 Cicero.
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TAing at rails bridge at fast.ly. Using git to bootstrap HTML and CSS.
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March, 2012
Gonna watch some pre-code movies in the Mission.
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My first Vim plugin: (link text to I’m feeling lucky URL a la textmate ) thx/@stevelosh cc/@steveklabnik
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Technical outreach curricula lose enthusiasts with git?: cc/ @ultrasaurus @sarahmei @AshAnvik @reneighbor
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Out of Yosemite and into the snowstorm. Thought we were home free, but need another few hundred feet, apparently.
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Trip to Yosemite in winter travelogue, with pix:
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In a recent HOA mailing list argument, one party quoted Dolly Parton’s character from “Straight Talk (1992).” It just got real.
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April, 2012
Asian / caucasian understanding society in a tenderloin bar: “I love white people’s big noses. May I touch yours?”
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At Puccini and pinetti doing some thinking.
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Seriously, I want some good jazz vibrophonist recommendations.
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Mr. Yorke and the lads.
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Sup dog. In GA at radiohead with mah peeps.
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Went to the lunch spot across the street: lovely day with downtown reflected behind Lauren.
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At the sf javascript meetup, er, the gotye show. Missy Higgins is doing a blistering opener.
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A lovely spring warm night in North Beach. Wish you were here.
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Registered for Bay to Breakers. No reason not to pay a ton of money to run through a town i live in.
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Union square means almost home.
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Ni hao future Chinatown subway stop. We’re you here I could take you to the future stop across from my home. Now? Run.
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Belgian brew in little Italy. Must return.
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Stand-ups are early and memory fades. Be kind to teammates: git log master@{yesterday}…HEAD –author=(Your Git Name Here) –pretty=medium
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Fitting in in the marina: hey brah sweet Patagonia parka with your rainbows.
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May, 2012
My favorite Ruby methods are Enumberable#zip and Array#product. Love them.
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Seriously, who cuts their nails at a in public? Come to think of it, who the hell thought collectible clippers-as-keyring was a good idea?
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In August it will be so hot, I’ll become a cooking pot. Cooking once, cooking twice cooking chicken soup with rice. Sendak forever - and mom
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The end! Such a fun run!
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Bay to breakers: the bay part. 13K to the other part.
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RT @DanielMiessler: Is Trojan really a good name for a condom company? The original was let in trustingly, released its dangerous payloa …
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Golden gate birthday features local-themed music: tony Bennett, joe satriani, and a thrash band from the 80’s called Metallica. #GGB75
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Off to celebrate my town’s most famous landmark’s birthday: happy 75th Golden Gate Bridge!
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Possibly the most Romantic thing ever written for piano. #Spotify
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June, 2012
RIP Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles have an elegiac beauty that has rarely been repeated.
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My homage to Ray Bradbury:
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I was wrong. The new Wes Anderson movie #moonrisekingdom is wonderful, his best since “Rushmore.”
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I was trying to count how many browser tabs i have open, but I ran out of numbers.
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Dove to Houston from Amarillo today. #limp. Braums and dinner at big tex and family and beautiful weather helped put sadness out of mind.
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Seeing “the magic flute” at #sfopera. the synopsis suggests a golden dawn / Tarot / Masonic allegory. Hermes trismegistus here we come!
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The song I wish I’d had enough popped collar to write between 1992 and 1994 ♫ Girls Like You – The Naked And Famous
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Patxi’s pizza. I can eat only one slice.
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Saw #sfgiants Madison Bumgarner shut out Cincinnati last night with the @shopittome crew.
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July, 2012
I love running from my front door to ocean beach: the GGB’s fog horns, the musea in the park, Dutch windmill, and, at last, the sea.
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I was finally on the mood for something edgy, so we watched “Drive.”. Felt very Michael Mann. Loved the synths and the “realer LA” scenes.
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Apparently in the first 7 months of this year i have put 515 miles on my car. Last year, I put 10K on it.
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< 24 hours later I’m pretty sure I’m ready to say that “Drive” was the best movie I’ve seen within the last 5 years, possibly more.
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Just once I’d like to hop on muni and hear some Wagner or Holst leaking out of headphones.
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%w(knife fork bottle cork).join(’ ‘).equal?(“New York”) #=> true
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We had a great fedex day at @shopittome yesterday. Wrote a rake task to start a rack server that runs Qunit on rake-packaged #emberjs assets
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I wonder if Teri Nunn got flashbacks from listening to the “Drive” soundtrack.
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sharon van etten, sarah jaffee: do a double bill in san francisco.
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Sometimes I just forget how wonderful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was. Here’s a reminder ♫ Jesus, etc. – Wilco #Spotify
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I first heard this record in, I think, 1991. It still blisters the eardrums. #Spotify
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I love Karmin’s amazing rap covers, but their original pop stuff is catchy as hell pop sung by a girl who can, get t…
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August, 2012
So glad to see the re-interpretation of 50’s era sounds with electronica (Grimes) or noise (Raveonettes). #Spotify
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This one’s pretty phat. I hear Eno + Donna summer elements on this one. #Spotify
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Marina (of the diamonds), Amanda Palmer seem to both be bearers of shattered shards of Weimar cabaret.
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@ethanschoonover @laurenroth tells me I like condiments more than food and editors more than programming. +1 for @vimconf
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I’m no vim slouch as many will attest, but @nelstrom’s book got me dropping Ex bombs and argdos during a refactor today. Recommended
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Used vim to update 245 deprecated statements in my #emberjs code using a trick I learned from @nelstrom ’s book:
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@laurennroth is playing some Siouxsie. It’ stunning that 30 years (!) later she still sounds like she cut those tracks today.
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Security checker called the fig newtons in my bag “old people cookies.”. Say what? These are NEWTONS
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Moved my blog off of Wordpress and onto @Heroku + octopress. surprisingly easy and with mo ruby flavor:
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Among the perfect things in this world is this record by David Bowie. ♫ Five Years - 2012 - Remaster – David Bowie
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Post: Seeing “Ruby Sparks” and women leads stop “needing” to “save” or “rescue” the men:
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Post: Moving from Wordpress to Octopress (free blog hosting!):
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Got tickets for the last weekend of les miserablès in SF with @laurennroth . So excited. #teameponine.
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At Zeitgeist with a good chunk of thoughtworks and github it seems.
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I cannot deny that I think @marinasdiamonds is wonderful.
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September, 2012
Is there anyone who wore a casual vest so well as Pam Dawber?
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My daily @marinasdiamonds dosage may be reaching “radioactive” levels ♫ Electra Heart – Marina and The Diamonds
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The Raveonettes new record is another gorgeous, rich, angsty mix of beautiful harmonies, noisy and a morbid 50’s bal…
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I’m entirely staggered that this record came out in 1983. Sounds current and edgy today, still. #Spotify
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Ok that’s all for run tweeting. Hope you all enjoyed a run through the city with me.
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Lands end!
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Ruins of the Sutro baths. A bit like the Roman forum…by the sea.
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Deco majesty and prom dates
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My friend mike wrote a sand message to his girlfriend, now wife, in front of that rock years ago.
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As my friend saoirse says: the oh sun!
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Denkend aan holland sta Ik in de koninginwilhelminatuin
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Why does it smell like maple syrup here?!?!?
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On leash means on leash.
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Bison! Sponsored by yahoo CEO marissa Mayer and Zachary bogue
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Last bathroom til the pacific. Use it.
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Les jardins Luxembourg?
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About 20 avenues to go.
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The waterfall empties here. This little lake reminds me of Barcelona.
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Waterfall. Not natural but hearing it encourages me. Especially with cloudy fog ahead.
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Running in the park is a joy.
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Yet another code-questionable SF structure.
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Stop to smell them.
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On Sundays lindy hoppers hop here. DeYoung museum in back.
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Plants live in there. So beautiful here when it’s sunny.
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At last golden gate park. 3 miles of eucalypti, bison, musea, and then the ocean
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Through this park to the big golden gate park.
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The western addition has great jazzl, vegan food and haute cuisine.
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Ah Alamo square. The houses that launched a thousand “awwwws.” Uncle Jesse status: nil.
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Fall might be coming.
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Hayes valley has many good restaurants like Patxi’s. there are many boutiques and brunchers as well.
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Seriously 800 Larkin is awesome tonight. Great Wall art, Early era sisters of mercy, stooges, femmes on the jukebox.
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I cannot say just how lovely the new @FirstAidKitBand record “The Lion’s Roar” is.
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I could be wrong here, but I think I may be a Javascript programmer.
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Reminds me of year one with @laurennroth ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify
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The Cardigans may be remembered for “Lovefool” but their “Gran Turismo” quite nearly perfect. ♫ Perfect Things
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The awesome Kim Lenz at the Verdi Club.
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Oktoberfest
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October, 2012
Just completed a 13.43 mi run - Half marathon distance. #RunKeeper
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@stevenharms hah, no I live in the neighborhood. Like within a block.
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Off to relive the 90s. We are going to see garbage tonight at the Warfield
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If this doesn’t make you glad to be alive… ♫ Exactly Like You – Django Reinhardt #Spotify
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Made it to hardly strictly bluegrass. Dwight yokam and then later del mccoury.
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I may be a little bit late with this, but let me say that Patti Smith really killed it live at #hsbg on Sunday. See her live If you can.
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I stepped outside this morning and it was Fall in San Francisco.
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At the city target. 1 block from home. cc/@MissMauriss
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Today represents the kind of challenging day where only a double-shot of espresso and “Red Barchetta” can help. #rushfanforever
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#NowPlaying Sister Lost Soul by Alejandro Escovedo on #Spotify
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In fog-bound Pacifica, CA, where one might expect insulation from many Texan horrors, there was man in an OU cap at the bakery.
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Just had to tweet it: THANK YOU
git reflog
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Just completed a 8.03 mi run - Night run through the park. Need a personal illumination tool. . #RunKeeper
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“@The picture of the day in Texas: Big Tex burning. Here’s the front page: / @nanostalgic UT alumna LDF in byline?
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How we know whether the dishes are direrrty or clean @shopittome
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Next month Gheorghiu will be performing “Tosca” in SF. #Spotify
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I wonder what John Stamos thought when the ABC memo announced that said Urkel would crash land into an episode of “Full House” via jetpack.
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Listened to this most of today. Pretty good. ♫ Stubborn Love – The Lumineers #Spotify
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@dddagradi the worst part if vim usage is how insufferable it makes all other means of text entry. Looking at you iPhone.
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Sooooo proud of my #SFGiants! Come back home for the party.
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Just completed a 2.91 mi run - Ran with Lauren to trader joes north beach. #RunKeeper
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November, 2012
#NowPlaying Five Seconds by Twin Shadow on #Spotify 80s synth
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“Wreck it Ralph”. There are many small humans here.
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I never really got opera until recently. But this is amazing even if you’ve not crossed that threshold. #Spotify
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I so hope @fivethirtyeight makes stats sexy to the kids, they study math, and innovate me into a stunned senescence.
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Maybe I’m late to the party here but Sandi Metz’s talk at gogaruco might be one of the best uses of 44 minutes in my career.
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Screw the swing states, we’re going swig dancing. Lindy Hop and Balboa 2012!
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At the rockabilly show dancers and greasers collide and the bass string abuse line is called.
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RT @ShopItToMe: A note from our CEO @imcharliegraham on Shop It To Me Threads: A New Way to Shop, YOUR Way! >
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Such a great track ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify
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Our product just got a shout out from @sfgate:
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OH: on Oahu they call that wind. On Maui we call that a light breeze.
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I’m thankful for the spirit of aloha here on Maui.
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@nanostalgic I feel the same when I wake up to the sound of pouring rain.
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Apple maps thinks Keawala’i church is a church of The Drowned God apparently.
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RT @tamrafeldman: in case you didn’t catch @shopittome on the TODAY show this morning as the #1 cyber monday tip:
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Seeing “Tosca.” I’m so excited to ear year voices.
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December, 2012
Actually seriously is there a uml book for the 21st century?
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@garannm Sequence diagrams have upped my OO game dramatically. Where’s book: “UML: The Good Parts?”
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@nuclearsandwich I note many tourists in SF don’t use their knees to walk but wobble foot to foot. Is walking become so rare?
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Blog: I appear on the Ruby Rogues podcast:
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Blog: Helen Keller meets Martha Graham:
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Blog: On seeing “Tosca” in San Francisco: Seeing ‘Tosca’ in San Francisco
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Contributing to jQuery: 70% core-team formatting review, 20% breaking up pages of chained calls, 5% fix, 5% github line comments
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Started “21st century C.” I got all the way to chapter TWO before being hamstrung by library dependency failure on sample code. Amazing!
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stuck in a florence and the machine loop. must get away. can’t get away. must get away.
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@laurennroth and I are going to see @sandimetz tonight. So excite
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Blog: My New Development Machine: Samsung Chromebook:
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I feel like I just ascended in Javascript. I intentionally used hoisting instead of avoiding it breaking my program. #xmasmiracle
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Everyone smugly laughing at the Mayan non-event: if you believe in an unprovable, eschatological tradition, you forfeit your laughing rights
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A moody Ventura county vista.
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Orange tree laden with rain and oranges. #orangecountystyle
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My favorite Xmas baritone.
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Rode a fixie today. Not moving to the mission.
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Thanks to car trouble I’ll be spending another night in Orange County. There are far worse things.
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Like all good geek SF households, we inaugurate all new TV’s with Khaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn!
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@kurt_loder @adamcurry perhaps overvague: two voices i respect getting out their message in a way that’s enlightening and entertaining.
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@kurt_loder tweeting is to this generation what @adamcurry buying was to mine.
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2013
January, 2013
I’m in Berkeley. Bein’ an outside agitator.
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In 1994 my world changed when I played (arguably) the first real-time simulator: Dune ][. Now, enjoy in your browser:
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Scumbag calendar: reassess your life right after three feasting and drinking holidays.
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So 2013 will be the year that I learn C. I have mastered make and am trucking through @zedshaw ’s LCTHW. Loving pointer math.
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Blog: Understanding by Means of Creation: INTJs and Ithkuil:
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Flirting with a few vegetarian meals this week. Not sure it’s a lifestyle … yet.
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RT @stevestreeting: Best definition of burnout ever: “your mind refusing to permit you to work, because it has seen what happens when it …
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Closing out chambers in the TL.
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@wirehead2501 I once saw a sweet ass vim cheat sheet skirt (it had shortcuts on the hemlines, written from wearer looking down POV)
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SFWorldProblems: Will i be shunned if I take my Trader Joe’s canvas bag to whole foods?
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Silver linings playbook: hilarious and sweet and honest. Loved seeing de Niro not as a parody. <3 Jennifer Lawrence
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New Kavinsky, the aural genius behind “Nighcall” from “Drive.” ♫ Protovision – Kavinsky #Spotify
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My building is not properly tempering the air. Time for a kotatsu.
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tmux split-window feels like summoning the console HUD for DOOM. #id
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Without models, it’s hard to work; without a context, difficult to evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak.
— Joanna Russ
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I’ve been a vegetarian now for a fortnight. I feel great and have had some wonderful dishes out.
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Kick in the Monday ♫ It’s Getting Boring By The Sea – Blood Red Shoes #Spotify
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Just completed a 5.48 mi run - Good run. First one as a vegetarian. No energy issues. . #RunKeeper
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Fire tug celebrates the Niners’ win
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Excited to talk to the Ottawa RUG about ruby tonight. Unlike most Americans, I know that Ottawa is in the southern hemisphere of Canada!
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I have more in common with the Greek girl than the protagonist, but I still love Pulp’s “Common People.” #cuzyouthinkbeingpooriscool
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@MissMauriss @tomdale is a gentleman and a scholar, what’s not to love?
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Blog: On Zero Dark Thirty:
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February, 2013
I grew up in Houston loving Blue, but we always rooted for the niners in the big game. Hope the hometown pulls it off tomorrow.
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@laurennroth and I are celebrating valentine’s tonight: tonga room via town car and spandau ballet, Hall & Oates as we dress up.
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@tomdale @shopittome we’re having a great time. Are you still coming to the party? Ms. @laurennroth is expected to join too!
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Happy winter from San Francisco (and Lauren as hippie as she gets)
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@MissMauriss cc:@akudlick @rafaelsolari I’m not sure I can console ember camp if you don’t come.
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The only tool adequate for expressing the amount of repressed rage, ennui, and frustration I have is Java.
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Given the amount of bloody noses I’ve had this winter, I want cool psychokinetic powers like in “Firestarter.”
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Rainy day SF music. ♫ Black Planet – Sisters Of Mercy #Spotify
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I really wish that Apple made a docking station. They may be ugly, but is a snarl of cables in the pairing room, at desk, at home, better?
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RT @ShopItToMe: View from the roof deck of Shop It To Me! #soma #sf #bluesky #skyline @ Shop It To Me
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The power of a great pairing partner, Vim, and a powerful toolchain like @emberjs is going from despair to elation in a half day.
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Holy shit. I think James Gosling is at the next table at OSHA Thai. Also is competing against me in the scavenger hunt. FML
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Might i dare to dream that this will also allow, at long last, decent CTAGS generation for javascript?
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Found a @starbucks gift card from my mom for Christmas of my high school senior year. Wonder if they know how to accept paper certa anymore.
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Wow, so now I work in the financial district. Cc/@ShopItToMe
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March, 2013
Among the perfect things of this world. ♫ I’ve Been Loving You Too Long - To Stop Now – Otis Redding #Spotify
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Of all the things that growing older has baffled me with, loving good&plenty to the legendary level of my father is among them
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I’m a scientific, modern person, but I love the hell out of Edgar Cayce.
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Brilliant. A stunning display of how meter works. With vibrophones. ♫ Rag Mop – Lionel Hampton #Spotify
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I know it’s blasphemy and all, but I think @respektor ’s cover of “Real Love” is better than the original.
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Love strong female vocalist punk bands. Girl on the 12 told me about The Gits. Good stuff. #Spotify
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RT @joshsusser: No harm, no foul. But on @rubyrogues, now it’s 2 Harms, 2 Fowlers! /cc @angelaharms @sgharms @chadfowler @martinfowler
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Rappers have explained the economics of yayo slangin’ for years; but in 2013 @macklemore explained the mechanics of retail markup.
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I hope this new Latin-American #pope signals the Vatican’s move to remove the stigma of being the forbidden dance from the Lambada.
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OH from @kentor: “I know about
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@laurennroth a winner ♫ Break The Chain – Oh Land #Spotify
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@laurennroth yes. You put me back on @OHLANDmusic for this afternoon.
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@laurennroth dancier. More robyn like. Tove styrke
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another day another great scandinavian electronica artist discovered.
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RT @OHLANDmusic: “@DunderCat_: @OHLANDmusic Nanna do you like bananna ?”yep. It’s a decent fruit.
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Somewhere between “Flashdance” and ABBA. ♫ White Light Moment – Tove Styrke #Spotify
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@laurennicoleroth Have some Joy Formidable to get the day going :) ♫ Whirring – The Joy Formidable #Spotify
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I only listen to Sverigepop these days. ♫ Million Pieces – Tove Styrke #Spotify
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At the cal Academy of Sciences nightlife. What fun! What a beautiful day to be in this beautiful park in this beautiful city.
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@laurennroth doesn’t like neil young. But every time I hear “harvest moon” I remember how much I love her.
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Seriously. The Swedish Grammi must be amazing: @FirstAidKitBand and all this brilliant Swedish pop.
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@miceland thinking of you buddy: ♫ The Robots - 2009 Digital Remaster – Kraftwerk #Spotify
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Burger shaped cookie. Our office manager is gifted. Cc/ @ShopItToMe
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I know its cool to hate, but I love @LanaDelRey. Good stories like back stories for David Lynch characters (Mr. Eddy?).
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Xerox is a friendly sort.
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I signed up for Introduction to Logic on @Coursera! #intrologic
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The intersection of New Orleans jazz funeral and the Castro.
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@listrophy HELL YES. Loved their ending the 90 degree tyranny of LEGO. Also capsella?
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@kentor we’re gonna hop off the n at 19th and find dinner. Wanna join?
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April, 2013
“Sad Song” by Lou Reed. Not entirely sad, but not certainly not jolly.
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View of transamerica tower across from medical office.
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Has anyone considered that people at conferences behave like they’re on spring break in part because it is marketed as, well, spring break?
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FACT: In the city of San Francisco, at Trader Joe’s, if “Don’t Stop Believing” comes in the PA radio, everyone sings along.
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Blog: Never Too Late (for health):
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Cat Power meets Roy Orbison? Recommended by @chronsnob ♫ The Waiting – Angel Olsen #Spotify
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Blog: Formalism v. Empiricism in Computer Science: cc/@rubyrogues @JEG2 @glv
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Maybe the reason no one contributes to your OSS project is because the harness is too complicated?
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@nanostalgic we saw angel Olson last night. Good show. Small venue. Recalled liberty lunch.
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Angel Olson at rickshaw is lovely. Thanks @ChronSnob for the recomm.
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Play more Bangles.
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Wow. don’t make intros like this one anymore. ♫ Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car – Billy Ocean #Spotify
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@laurennroth That’s why we live here.
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For my sweet @laurennroth this morning. ♫ Everytime We Say Goodbye – John Coltrane #Spotify
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The Velvet Underground was really just a synopsis of Cale’s talent. ♫ Hanky Panky Nohow – John Cale #Spotify
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@tomdale is it window.billy “KAH-kes” or “CAKES” ? And will Pragmatic Press be releasing “debugging javascript with billy” anytime soon?
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Ubelievable. Still. ♫ Temptation [7" Version] – New Order #Spotify
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Got to work and listened to some Runaways. Ready to cock punch the Man.
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Hope everyone got outside today. San Francisco was beautiful with sun, gentle breezes and soft grass at Golden Gate Park.
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Peter Hook’s beautiful, beautiful bass. ♫ Crystal – New Order #Spotify
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What is it with Wales making powerful female voices: Cerys Matthews, Ritzy Bryan?
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@laurennroth @akudlick called your caulk job next level!
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Minute 14:50 will be cued during my invasion of Silesia. #NowPlaying
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Game of thrones / Latin fans: “dracarys” genitive of dracar, dragon? “It is of the dragon” I.e. “it’s yours (for eating, burning)?
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May, 2013
Anachronistic office issue at @ShopItToMe: fountain pen ink splatter. #madmenworldproblems
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Hey austinites of a certain vintage. Chrysta Bell in SF. And man or astroman?
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I’m glad to have a quality follow like you, @marthakelly .
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@wirehead2501 People here see the sun so rarely they just lose their shit. Oh my god I can wear shorts. How about my gold lamé hot pants?
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The greatest lightning talk ever. @garybernhardt is Clapton of Ruby:
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@MarinasDiamonds So excited to see you tonight in the City in the beautiful Warfield.
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RT @ashalynd: If the programmers like each other, they play a game called “pair programming”. And if not, then the game is called “peer rev…
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Marina is not a robot.
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@CHARLIXCXUS was good. Now @MarinasDiamonds:
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1996-7. Just perfect. ♫ Being There – Wilco #NowPlaying
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Ffffuuu: Patti Smith + Joy Division + Interpol + Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Hard punk art. Ffffuuuu ♫ Husbands – Savages
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In all seriousness, Ayn Rand provided one of the best explanations for why racism is morally wrong that I ever read.
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Indonesian food in la’s farmers market: veggie mee goreng. (Spicy!)
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Flew SFO to Long Beach. Years of Sublime listening has made me well qualified to land inside the LBC
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La bohème in w. Hollywood. With old fashioned & @laurenroth
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Stained glass panels in our @Airbnb - so beautiful!
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Margaritas in west Hollywood.
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SF Residents: If you have a library card you have free access to Safari books online. Yes, I just nuked your nightstand from space.
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I’ve been using my chromebook for a lot of development lately. Now I’m thinking about writing apps for it:
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And we love Camera Obscura.
♫ Swans – Camera Obscura #NowPlaying
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Greetings from @ShopItToMe at the giants game.
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Blue blue ’lectric blue that’s the color of my room
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@FirstAidKitBand Love that you met Emmylou. So appropriate after your fitting tribute to both her and Gram.
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@nk @strlen @JorgeO reading Newton in latin is a pure joy. His latin is clearly English as Latin, but so lucid and direct it’s wonderful.
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@wirehead2501 excel is the most widely used functional programming language in use today.
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In honor of the Bluth return, I made cornballs.
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Amazing video by aja hammerly via @avdi: intro to Prolog.
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Justine Bateman, sit-com icon for my generation, is a freshman CS student at UCLA. How rad!
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June, 2013
@avdi asthmatic here too. Every mile is a kick to my childhood misery’s face. Also living in concrete helps.
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Urbanism: fixed hassle at the bank. Hit the library, grabbed lunch in 50 minutes.
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@trek @wagenet OH’d at a ruby conf: “What’s jruby, is that like JDate?”
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Her hair is Harlow gold:
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Vampire Weekend’s brave bid to be the album of summer 2013. Hamptons, San Diego, or The Bay: is summer.
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This is the power of #gameofthrones: SoMa TJ’s checkout is not a packed bedlam.
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Was the original augmented reality the mind palaces (journeys) constructed to house oral traditions? Explains peripatetic instruction.
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Blog: “Moonwalking with Einstein and Learning to Remember”
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@nuclearsandwich @joshsusser GoGaRuco a few years ago taught everyone to find secret knoledge in Smalltalk. My pick for 2013: Prolog.
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WWDC: Open bars, vampire weekend concert, expense accounts; nearby, people sleep in boxes. The revolution won’t be pretty, my siblings.
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Vampire weekend performing in my backyard? Another soma day.
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Lindy in the park. Wish you were here. 60 degrees, sunny with a breeze.
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Why doesn’t @SFPD ticket cars blocking the intersections / crosswalks at Battery and Sansome? It’d fix our budget woes in 30 days.
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Carly Simon + Patti Smith sound ♫ My Mistakes – Eleanor Friedberger #NowPlaying
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@rachelmyers My favorite TA’s were women and now are all well placed :) Long live UT Department of Philosphy :)
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RT @stevelosh: remember when I bitch about scala’s syntax that I wrote a book about vimscript, so I know something about shitty syntax
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tmux is my favorite os
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@Webpass love you so much I wanted to pay you, but main site is down for over an hour
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Protip to learning chef: Get a lot of paperwork that requires writing big checks, the procrastination will make it possible.
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@melbotis you might also like “me and you and everyone we know,” july’s prior work; “furniture” felt like a prolegomena to “girls.”
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Seriously, if “Love fool” is where you stopped listening to the Cardigans…fix it. #NowPlaying
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In effort to learn memory techniques I memorized code smell / resolution table from refactoring, ruby ed. Epic peer review trolls unlocked.
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Saw on a tv in the financial district that CNN wanted to know why America was obsessed with the Zimmerman trial. Clearly #blessedlyignorant
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July, 2013
Happy Fourth from the Golden West. America happy birthday.
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When developers began scorning the humanities, we lost the ability to generate beauty and wisdom like Kay’s “Early History of Smalltalk.”
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I’m really digging The Submarines. ♫ Fire – The Submarines #NowPlaying
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@wirehead2501 FWIW i found Shadow of the torturer to be entirely underwhelming. So obvious, every trope.
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@wirehead2501 I love Pattern Recog. Esp. it’s jetlag metaphor && it sounds great with @LadytronMusic ’s “International Dateline.”
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@NekoCase Glad to see you’re coming to San Francisco after all, kaiju be damned. @laurennroth and I will see you there on September 10!
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Burberry body eau de parfum: builds fortress of solitude or marital aid?
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Blog: Highlights from “The Early History of Smalltalk:”
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Reading about Smalltalk, Self, Alternate Reality Kit…while watching Transformers, people in Palo Alto were inventing the future.
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“Take the hardest and most profound thing you need to do, make it great, and then build every easier thing out of it” - Alan Kay
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August, 2013
Blog: The Where of Creation: How I program and where ideas come from:
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There is a seriously cold yak next to me but, on the other hand, all of my devices are using openVPN when on wifi.
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RT @thisishelene: ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE VIDEO! @OHLANDmusic 💕 #RenaissanceGirls
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I love M. Ward’s music. M., you tear it up and the Zooey accents are a nice touch. ♫ I Get Ideas – M. Ward
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Anyone seeking us at Chambers tonight, we’re on the back patio.
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OH: finding the bathroom here is like finding Narnia.
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But I don’t have time to run if I want to do $STUFF. Run anyway. Cheaper than therapy.
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Good, dreamy, folky? Interesting. Will listen to more. ♫ Myth – Beach House #NowPlaying
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@LILBTHEBASEDGOD U spread the love in the town; we’ll cover the city. 2gether we’ll make a BASEDBRIDGE over Treasure Island
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If you’ve never seen moonlight illuminate a fog bank into silver strands girding foothills near Half Moon Bay after midnight, you should.
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Just completed a 5.67 mi run with @RunKeeper. Check it out! #RunKeeper
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Blog: Talking to Friends with Children:
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Fashionable women at (particularly tech!) work: damned if they do, damned if they don’t:
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It just rocks so hard. ♫ Girls Like You – The Naked And Famous #NowPlaying
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If you are a feminist and are putting off seeing “in a world” I think it leaves SF thus week. So stop procrastinating.
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Amidst all this noise about the VMA’s, we saw some art made by @lakebell at SF’s beautiful Kabuki. Find “In a World” and love it!
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September, 2013
Neko, Neko: To be seen next week! So excite! ♫ Fall 2013 by Steven Harms #NowPlaying
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Saw @NekoCase last night. Bucket list item and HOLY SHIT YES SHE SOUNDS LIKE THAT LIVE and wished her happy (belated) birfday.
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@NekoCase OK me and @laurennroth are in the Warfield: an appendicitis in Austin cost is the last show, but this time nothing will stop us!
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Why do so many JS frameworks map class based inheritance into JS? Prototypal inheritance isn’t that bad. It’s kinda nice, actually.
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Presenting at Ruby Conf 2013. First time to Miami. See you then, .rb friends.
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Do all the kids born after 1982 even KNOW they’re wearing Misfits t-shirts?
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I was humming this today for no reason then I remembered today was the 12th: Frank Mills by The Lemonheads
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Have kid? Want broken heart? This one. ♫ Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case #NowPlaying
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What?! The Misfits covered a rocky horror song!? Why did no one tell me of this? #NowPlaying
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We’re living in an age where film is exploring gender dynamics well: @inaworldtweets #DonJon
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Will music ethnographers of the future lament that even as early as 2013 Mambos 1-4 were already lost?
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October, 2013
An amazing scholarly journal. Feels very height of Her Majesty’s Empire:
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Malala Yousafzai will be Sec. Gen of the UN some day. Mark my words.
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In times of trouble buffers of beautifully-factored object oriented code are a pillow fort where I can hide. #vimgeekforlife
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Read twitter again for the first time in weeks. Yep. Still like one long comments section.
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Kid at Disneyland: “Who’s that fox and bear?” Brer fox means nothing to him. :-/
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@elight You are an inspiration in selflessness and dedication, a true example of how “to love” as a verb and way of life. My sympathies.
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Chiropractic and gypsy jazz and a cheese shop with sun.
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RT @ReinH: Poker players sometimes throw more chips in with a losing hand. That’s what startups are like too, except you’re the chips, not …
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Thanks to @wirehead2501 for the intro to Night @NightValeRadio. I love Prarie Home Companion. It’s PHC but at Area 51.
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Thao is really good. ♫ Know Better Learn Faster – Thao #NowPlaying
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RT @NightValeRadio: CORRECTION: Some things are real. Other things are not. We regret the error.
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@OHLANDmusic what a wonderful show! You should do a live record in SF! Great band! Loved them all!
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RT @indysf: Thrilled to have the ever so lovely @OHLANDmusic in the house tonight! Get here early for @iamSunRai. :: SOLD OUT
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RT @hwinkler4real: It’s important to remember : after jumping the shark, the show was number one for 5 more years
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Staring at my picture book
she looks like Mary, Queen of Scots
She seemed very regal to me
just goes to show how wrong you can be - Lou Reed
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All other pop stars are obviated. ♫ 400 Lux – Lorde #NowPlaying
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“Read your Bible” guy shouting in SoMa. No news. Shouting his message to at a child in hijab on a field trip unto tears: religion.
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November, 2013
My friends’ wedding recessional music: a highly syncopated duet for cello and violin: “Thrift Shop”
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@kurt_loder @NYMag it was Lou and MTV that taught this late 70’s kid to love Macbeth. And, in time, the VU.
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Tourist asked for help at SFO AirTrain. Mid-explanation it dawned on me: SFO IS SHAPED LIKE A TOILET SEAT.
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@sarahmei If ever I teach at a dev boot camp or something my calling will be defeating CS shibboleths.
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My slides from my presentation. Includes PDF and reveal.js presentation #rubyconf
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@jimweirich Awesome. I have to trust the man who taught me TDD (austin, 2007, greedy dice game).
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@confreaks is so great. I had AV issues and they came to the rescue. Saved my presentation, my sanity. Love you guys!
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So much twitter love. Thanks. It’s all for you my friends. I love this. 😂
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Possibly the first and last time I will present at a conference with Atlantic sand on my feet.
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@jimweirich ever thought about writing UML THE GOOD PARTS?
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Miami is more like Sydney than LA. Humid, sunny, stormy: none mutually exclusive.
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After the #rubyconf 5k I made a retreat to the robe conf 2013 selfie session. ALL HAIL THE ROBE.
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A true Gulf-powered midnight rainstorm. Things I miss living in San Francisco…
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@copiousfreetime @sandimetz @jimweirich chmod +inspired. Never thought Jim or Sandi would ask me for directions, let alone pedagogy on OOP.
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San Diego ruby conf next yr! YES! Maybe SF can take the amtrak along the coast together and hack; call it, say, ruby on rails? #rubyconf
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@erniemiller yet again explaining the cs set the value if liberal arts education: code is always telling stories
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South, East, southeast, southwest, west. Golden gate. Atlantic foam. It’s a big, beautiful country.
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Based on observations in Charlotte, the new innovation in fashion if the Carolina’s is vaporizer on a neck lanyard.
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Your method takes an options hash. I call it with an empty hash. It blows up. YOU SIT ON A HASH OF LIES. h/t @kentor
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Few things make me wonder whether atheism is incorrect than the mere existence of
git reflog
. cf. Highhiker’s Guide re: babelfish.
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RT @charliesome: yak frame - n. a yak shaving stack frame. ex: “I’m currently 3-4 yak frames deep”
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I am so excited to see the repl driven coding talk from rubyconf from @conradirwin Possibly a life changer.
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My day has been awesome.
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At Oakland Zoo!!!
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bay area love triangle: patxi, little star, zachary.
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Ursus maritimus dormiens — nolite titillare!
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Gonna visit some of my favorite ursids!
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Orange County: mall, palms, mountains, and sun.
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December, 2013
How much do i love the lunch time air raid horn in #SF?
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REPL driven development with Pry by @conradirwin : A great talk, the first one I’ve watched of Rubyconf 2013. Great work, @confreaks
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RT @fortes: Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.
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Albino crocodile.
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Gőd Jul! St. Lucia at Swedish-American Christmas. So lovely.
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Our wintertime house cleaning music involves a lot of Peter Hook and Morrissey/Marr.
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@peter_hook1 If I can have your attention for a moment more, to me, you are the most lyrical bass player ever. Thanks for the music.
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The worst part if America’s battle with meth is that I CANT GET THERAFLU ANYWHERE. I miss you, I need you.
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This trader joes is too hip. grimes and the smiths in the same visit.
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My mom knows the score. AUS -> Chuy’s for queso and margaritas.
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RT @neiltyson: Born on this day, long ago, was a man who showed us all a way to know the Cosmos. Isaac Newton, Dec 25, 1642 Lincolnshire, UK
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Stepdad loves investigative TV: finding missing person is debugging; surviving Alaskan winter, debugging. Everything is debugging.
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Watching “Mary Poppins” as an adult leads to the uncomfortable realization that Michael Banks was the “In Flanders Field” generation.
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January, 2014
The sun sets on my little city. The end of 2013 at the Golden Gate.
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@VicFriedman @toshok @natfriedman I deduced it recently. I didn’t realize you were allied with the empire of Mono.
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Elated to announce that I will be joining @devbootcamp next week. What I love most: teaching, connecting, talking about code will be my job
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@elight Being a 40 y/o unmarried man changed by being a caregiver and marked by kindness is a good start for any quest of self discovery. 👍
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was there anything better than the campy flimsy miniskirt and floppy hair post-apocalyptic scifi of the late 70’s-early 80’s?
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And now this work is finished which neither Jovian wrath, fire, not the sword nor the devouring mouth of ages can destroy. -Ovid
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IAH is better than SFO in so many ways: TSA throughput and courtesy, food, English facility, atmosphere; uglier outside tho.
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Wow Tuesday air raid alarm is really loud in Chinatown.
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I pray for Lorde, a flaming haired curly sword of righteousness to destroy pop music utterly.
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@LykkeLi makes such beautiful music. And videos with stellan skarsgard. But beautiful music mostly.
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RT @NightValeRadio: The night and day differ primarily in how much of the world must be filled in by your imagination.
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When I hear the ding-ding of the break-man signaling “ready” outside the office I do a double strike of the enter key in response. #munilife
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Among the perfect things in life: @Metric’s “Fantasies.”
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Driving in the city on a sunny saturday up fifth Street? You must be new here.
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Oh happy day!
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Lunch at the first day of a new cohort of boots @devbootcamp. Can’t pry the smile off my face.
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February, 2014
Walking to work sometimes I look up and POW: tower, bay, badminton, bridge, and Chinese ballads
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Ah stormy weather watching surfers at the taco bell with Swing Out Sister. It truly is better to travel.
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How much would i love for @Metric to cover @NekoCase ’s “The Needle Has Landed.” Let our canado-american synergies fly!
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It was great to teach Phase II students @devbootcamp to use awesome dude @mperham’s @sidekiq for background processing today.
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I find it surprisingly easy to misplace my laptop at work. This should help.
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How to know that RSA conference is in San Francisco? Sex worker calling cards proudly proclaim acceptance of bitcoin
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March, 2014
Graduation day at @devbootcamp. Awesome projects from great teams. 9 weeks of hard work has made some great projects.
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Elated that #cosmos is bringing the message of the death of Giordano Bruno to a larger audience.
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Seen today in San Francisco:skort
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That moment when you grasp the essence of C; the moment you realize it cannot be taught but only affirmed; same moment.
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Escaped SF for Watsonville. As Dante notes of Ravenna, [t]here too the sun shines as beautifully.
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Was putting honey in tea and wound up licking a bit off the spoon and then remembered I’m from Houston and Ninfa’s sopapillas. #sohungrynow
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Beautiful sunny day on the nor cal coast visiting sea lions. But after all that sun I was glad to come home to fog.
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Thanks to the green color palette, it’s very easy to spot who’s doing a post St. Patty’s walk of shame (or victory!) this morning.
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Just completed a 10.37 mi run with @RunKeeper. Check it out! #RunKeeper
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I really want to think about anything but my puppy to-be, but all I can think about is my puppy to-be.
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Sunrise over fisherman’s wharf. At Boudin sourdough scents waft out and a cruise ship rumbles to life.
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@laurennroth told me to take a nap last night. I awoke to a stellar irish cheddar grilled chz + tomato soup w fresh basil from our garden <3
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Graduating @devbootcamp cohort “banana slugs” gave me a farewell cookie.
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New @devbootcamp office means 5-minute walking commute. Long live urbanism.
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April, 2014
True fact: insomnia means I refactor rails controllers as object lessons for @devbootcamp in the morning.
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Favorite cameo in #CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier: bottle of Newman’s Own sauce in Redford’s refrigerator. Nice touch.
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What we call “clear and sunny” at Ocean beach
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@raorao_ Everyone does a DSL. Once. Only once.
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This place has played Sheena E, Lisa Lisa, and the Jets. I am now missing the LATE 1987.
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If you like “Play that Funky Music” more than “Love Train,” you might be evil.
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Driving an injured loved one to DR. / ER in SF makes you wonder: how can we be so reputedly prosperous but have such #pothole-riddled roads
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If the Baptists are right, their furious god should have the decency to scourge to @wyeoak ’s “Civilian.” I taste mountains unto ash.
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OK. I want music just like Prodigy’s “Fat of the Land” and a lot of it. Take me to your late 90’s dreamland.
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Relapsing into my @MarinasDiamonds addiction.
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I could teach @devbootcamp students about JavaScript’s functions being first class without referring to the Arian heresy but…why?
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Naming the puppy with nerd. Me: Muad’Dib? @laurennroth: Do you see calling him that all the time? Me: His Sietch-name would be “Usul.”
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May, 2014
Lifetime awesome moments: Singing in the audience chorus at the @MarinasDiamonds show in SF to “Teen Idle:” “Feelin’ super super super…”
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Adopting a dog? Amazon prime. Carrier at box store 80. Amazon: 50 with 2 day delivery. Left store with naught but a spring in my step.
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Ah the 90’s when wisdom was shared via the Jenny McCarthy show by soulful sages known as “The Verve Pipe.” #onlyfreshmen
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If your Mother’s Day brunch wore you out, follow Byron’s example: take a dignified nap.
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Even their “worst” album is enough to lay waste to cities. ♫ Head On – Pixies #NowPlaying
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Happiness is being so good at tmux and vim that your mouse goes to sleep due to disuse.
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Byron dreams to @LykkeLi ’s lovely new record “I never learn.”
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RT @MarinaGirlSays: If you’re not taking tomorrow off and going to your bf’s Tahoe house for the whole weekend, you’re doing it wrong.
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Picnic table, sangria, croquet, Kai, and Byron in his pen.
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spending warm summer days indoors….listening to the smiths.
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So impressed by the MVP demos of my @devbootcamp cohort. Realtime, sound, map, code sync..so great. So, so great.
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I am too stupid to use anything but chruby.
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Dinner in Gramercy Park after errands in the other Union Square.
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June, 2014
Judging by NYC summer fashion, if waistlines get any higher they’re going to start coming stitched into the bra cups.
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Sunset from the west side.
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Byron and I do a selfie in Lincoln center.
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New York is understimulating
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People say New Yorkers are unfriendly. Lies. As many doors open as Texas. In SF they’d let you bleed out vs. look up from an iPhone.
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I love NY. ❤️🗽
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Walking through w’burg I found some books donated to the sidewalk including Mrs. Dalloway. Haute leavings indeed!
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Brooklyn fabulous Lauren
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When in Williamsburg. Next stop sleeve tattoos and maxi dresses.
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Byron contemplates the beauty of Chinese calisthenics in Brooklyn.
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Reading about the battle of Brooklyn when the tide came in. My soggy love of history.
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LeBron James is a poet: “They came in with a desperation that we just didn’t match,”
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Proof I was in New York.
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Its so obvious now, but you can tell Bradbury was an Angeleno and Asimov a New Yorker.
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JFK selfie with Byron.
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When my wallet was stolen at SFO, @VirginAmerica waived baggage fees, checked me in, while I filed an SFPD report. Will always fly them.
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Must be missing Brooklyn because I watched the “Welcome Back Kotter” intro video. Twice. #mlineforever #sweathogs4lyfe
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Stupid Virgin America safety song robot rap is stuck in my head.
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Just rediscovered a band that I was really into in the 90s: the doors. Man that stuff is phenomenal.
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Byron loves the beach.
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Byron and I at Ocean Beach.
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I sure did love New York City, but San Francisco certainly was mist.
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My employer was acquired: New opportunities are unfolding.
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Walking down Folsom I saw an adorable little girl carrying some ice skates… And then I saw her dad lugging 2 sticks & bag of hockey gear.
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July, 2014
SoMa-poodle 🐩
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@karlthefog heard there are fireworks tonight, so he gets a good seat early. Says: “Oh am I blocking your view?”
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Byron joined me for a nap.
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In the parka, the fluffy parka, the Byron sleeps tonight. Weemo-weh (2x)
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One of the best things about working @devbootcamp is that I meet so many wonderful people from amazing places: accents, history, stories.
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The @PaperMate Flair M is the greatest felt-tip pen ever
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Drawback to work at @devbootcamp: learning how amazing our students are and knowing that I can only work closely with but a subset.
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This “math required to be programmer” has another vector: my dad thought programmers never talked to people, holed up in closets. #wewish ;)
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RT @rubygems: latinirb (1.0.1): This gem takes initial data describing a LatinVerb and allows this is be instantiated into an IRB…
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New term to describe the coders I try to coach @devbootcamp students into not becoming: “full-stack-overflow developer” (c) @codepo8
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@codepo8 reminded me of how much i loved games like “Ultimate Wizard” where it shipped with a level editor where you could share new levels
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RT @ejfinneran: Silicon Valley is so disruptive that they’ve taken a job that can be done from anywhere with Internet and produced a land c…
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Definitely ready for ES6. Such destructure. So elegant. Wow scope.
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Man, it’s been a while since I snowboarded so it’s been a while since I heard “Surfing with the Alien.” Staggering since 1987.
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Byron hears “Purple Rain” for the first time.
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My dog is fluffier than Harry Hamlin’s fluffy 80’s chest hair.
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August, 2014
@kansaichris @nelstrom saw Keith Richards say that he was always discovering something new about this (a guitar)- good tools are like that.
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Every now and again…it re-dawns on me. Holy shit, @DavidBowieReal happened. How much do I love Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…
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@Strabd Don’t know if you’re really into glam but I <3 T.Rex’s “The Slider” just as much.
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First I ever heard of “Boll Weevil” was White Stripes singing it in Berkeley. Better to hear Leadbelly sing it with…
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A town of 800K people. @Safeway at Potrero hill on Sunday night says: “4 cashiers should work. #yolo” Lines to back of store.
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The eternally amazing view of SF downtown in summer from Twin Peaks.
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I loved the costume for Ronan in #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy: shades of twilight princess, judge from The Wall, english law, etc. bravo.
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For when you’ miss New Orleans ♫ Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament) – Hurray For The Riff Raff #NowPlaying
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Darth Bane would have been a great C programmer: in functions only two parameters are active for maximal effectiveness.
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September, 2014
Wilco: Yahkee Hotel Foxtrot: Did you forget this exists? You’re welcome.
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It is a total gift that the breed of my dog has an emoji.
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If I could live in the Los Angeles evoked by @jennylewis songs, I would consider living in Los Angeles. #thevoyager
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Why do men ignore my girlfriend and talk only to me when we’re in public?
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while i’m not in his target demographic, i think gerard way’s solo stuff is sounding great.
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Good media news day:
“Gilmore Girls” headed to Netflix
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Kate Bush is amazing:
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@SashaLaundy I love unix history
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How can I cross San Francisco traffic like that? Son, I grew up dodging podooboo in 7–4 #supermariolifeskills
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@arikgadye continual denigration if humanities by developers has lead to programmers who can’t communicate in English.
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RT @GloriaFallon123: Instead of going to couples therapy, married people should just join Tinder and see what a nightmare single people hav…
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How much do I love @EJECTA ’s Dominae.
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Our 7-mo-old puppy woke us up this morning, nervous. He had never seen the thing happening outside before: rain. #CaliforniaDrought
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@mxngyn @devbootcamp it will only change your life: it’s important to set realistic expectations. 😉
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October, 2014
RT @LoveAt1stByte: .@courteneyervin “somewhere in the ocean of #developer sweat, there’s a sea of developer tears” #FOCUS100
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RT @antiheroine: Parents should always tell the truth to their children. Except when children ask how many Indiana Jones movies there are. …
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Public barber during a heat wave has an open door blaring Lucinda Williams. Swear I was back in ATX.
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If you’re a programmer or are thinking about becoming one, I’d recommend reading Ann Lamott’s “Bird by Bird.”
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I finished Max Frisch’s “Man in Holocene” today. I read all German-language literature in Werner Herzog’s voice. cc/@emkidwell
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Who designed this famous and haunting cover of Camus’ “The Stranger?” #peoplewithhats #art #bookcovers
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In my 10 year old laptop bag I now put my chromebook in the “papers” section and a book in the “laptop” section. Tempora mutant omnia.
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Things that surprise me I say in 2014: “Can I call you back on Skype, this mobile phone’s connection is bad.”
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In my building in SF, someone has the SSID: I can hear you pooping
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So, we’re moving to New York City:
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wore a bow time for the first time…definitely less of a force choke feeling. may try again.
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At at a grand party Friday night, it closesd with “Empire state of mind.” Today LAX ➡️ JFK
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