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2025
Tool Creation and Cognitive Space | February 17
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Science
Intellectual_history
Software
History
Mathematics
Tools
AI Experiments Steven 2: Searching for Coordinate Systems | February 17
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AI
Mathematics
History
Education
Nostalgia for Aqua | January 4
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Apple
Design
2024
AI Experiments Steven | December 31
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AI
Llm
Hot, Plastic, and Shitty: The Future Foretold by M.I.A. | November 19
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Music
Mia
Planetary_realignment
"Dark Souls" and How Bad Leaders End Great Kingdoms | November 5
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Video_games
Dark_souls
Politics
Society
Philosophy
Seeing 'Cabaret' | October 22
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Musicals
Nyc
Broadway
A Solresol Library | October 18
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Music
Video_games
All Hail Rob Harvilla | October 17
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Music
Criticism
RIP Ward Christensen | October 16
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Technology
Rip
My New-New Linux | February 23
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Linux
Debian
My New Linux | February 5
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Linux
2023
Cursive | March 25
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Cursive
Writing
Culture
Fountain_pen
Nostalgia
Ayn Randiness | March 8
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Ayn_rand
Writing
Literature
Leveraged Fried Chicken Buyouts | March 8
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Nostalgia
Fried_chicken
Fast_food
Memories
Grandys
Houston
Texas
Arakawa Group Cringe-O-Rama on SNL | February 27
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Snl
Comedy
Writing
Racism
Mike_meyers
90s
2022
Trash Movies With Mom 2 | August 29
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Flash_gordon
Ornella_muti
De_laurentiis
Nostalgia
Movies
The Death of Olivia Newton John | August 22
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Trash_culture
Xanadu
Olivia_newton-John
Nostalgia
Reflections
Birthday 2022 | August 17
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Birthday
Personal
Broadway
Pervasive Sameness | July 20
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Capitalism
Fashion
The Globalized Death of Class; or, Why I Disliked Monte Carlo | July 16
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Modern_times
Income_inequality
Monaco
Vacation
London Visit | July 13
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London
Travel
Work
Mom's 2022 Visit | May 13
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Family
Visits
Revisiting "Tokyo Vice" | April 9
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Japan
Books
2021
Seeing "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" | September 30
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Nyc
Entertainment
Stephen_colbert
On Having a Guy | September 30
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Nyc
Linguistics
Culture
Facebook and Instagram are Toxic Shitpools of Misery and Misinformation and You Should Quit Them | September 25
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Social_media
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Herman Cain Award Reddit | September 25
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Covid
Covid_vaccine
Trumpism
Anti_science
Dominance_based_masculinity
The Time I Got Roofied and Why I am Pro-Choice | September 6
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Austin
Sexual_harassment
Violence
Abortion
Pro_choice
Crime
Personal
Dominance_based_masculinity
Jazz Age Lawn Party | August 19
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Jazz
Nyc
Dancing
Birthday 2021 | August 11
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Birthday
Nyc
Personal
Against Domination-Based Masculinity | August 3
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Masculinity
Toxic_masculinity
Modern_times
Culture
Shanties of New York | July 15
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Covid
Nyc
Visiting Aruba | July 14
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Travelogue
Aruba
Epic Manliness | July 2
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Latin
Writing
Gender
Clyde_pharr
Storage Build-Out | June 17
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Furniture
Nyc
Ikea
Diy
New Blog Section: Long Form | June 3
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Meta
Blog
Writing
Facing the Maskless Life | May 14
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Covid
Personal
Nyc
My New Bike | May 14
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Nyc
Bicycling
Basking Byron | May 1
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Byron
Fully Vaccinated | May 1
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Vaccine
Covid
Moving in Manhattan | April 30
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Nyc
Personal
Constitutional Carry Morning and Carnage Afternoon | April 22
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Politics
Texas
Austin
Politics
The Yearly Chucks | April 22
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Personal
Nyc
Clothing
Life With Onion Crunch | April 22
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Food
Trader_joes
Photos for the Week | April 15
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Nyc
Photos
Megatron | April 9
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Toys
Transformers
Drama
Hyperreality and the War on Language | April 9
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Linguistics
Hyperreality
Philosophy
Trumpism
Onion Crunch | April 8
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Food
Snacks
The KNACK Sticker | April 8
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Austin
Rememberances
Autocorrect Hilarity | April 2
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Technology
Humor
Covid Vaccine Shot 1 | April 1
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Covid
New_york
Vaccine
Updated Tweet Archive | March 31
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Meta
Blogging
Hugo
Foxes! | March 14
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Animals
Personal
Organizing Blog Internals | March 12
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Blogging
Meta
Hugo
Giving Notice | February 23
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New_york
Personal
A Winters Walk | February 6
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Personal
Winter
Information Cults | February 5
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Trumpism
Sam_harris
Mobile Upload: The snow falling along a block of Broadway that still has some life. | February 1
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Conspiracy-Deranged Finally Realize They Were Horribly Wrong | January 23
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Anti_trump
Politics
We Told You So | January 9
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Anti_trump
Politics
2020
Mobile Upload: Anyone heard from the nominal president on this? Poor performance. | December 15
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Anti_trump
Politics
Mobile Upload: Can this abominably Ill-run coup be called over now? | December 12
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Anti_trump
Politics
The World Historical Year 2020: Intermission: Joe Biden Wins the Election | November 10
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Personal
Migas! | November 5
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Mobile
Photography
Food
The World Historical Year 2020: The Temperamentally Unfit Mister President | November 5
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Personal
The World Historical Year 2020: The Community Aftermath of Trump's Failure | October 31
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Personal
Covid
The World Historical Year 2020: The Personal Aftermath of Trump's Failure | October 30
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Personal
Covid
Stable | October 20
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Mother's Closes in Austin | October 15
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Austin
QAnon, “Plandemic.” Conspiracy Thinking Likely to Shape the Election | August 17
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Mobile
Photography
Politics
Disinformation
Mobile Upload: Which came first, the movie or the katsu? | August 7
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Mobile
Photography
Movies
Food
Mobile Upload: Made some real deal southern-Atlantic biscuits | August 4
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Mobile
Photography
Food
Mobile Upload: Sure was hot in Manhattan today. | July 19
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Italy
Florida Peaks | July 12
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Huh, Trump Rally is a Superspreader Event. Imagine that. | July 9
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Anti_trump
Politics
Coronavirus
Mobile Upload: "Gosh why can’t they just follow the law?" | July 8
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Mobile
Photography
Coronavirus
Houston Ailing | June 18
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Mobile
Photography
Coronavirus
WAGAKKI BAND! | May 27
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Music
...man skeptical of coronavirus gets infected, changes opinion | May 14
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Modern_times
Programming
Coronavirus
Maskholes
Mobile Upload: Just another day in Milan; looking gorgeous while out on a pandemic bike ride. | May 10
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Mobile
Photography
Italy
Mobile Upload: I won’t lament the world getting back underway | April 30
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Mobile
Coronavirus
Animals
Photography
Trump Recommends Bleach Injections..I can't make this up | April 24
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Mobile Upload: After all this finishes - or if it goes on for 6 months more - we all might need this referendum. | April 23
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Modern_times
Drug_war
Politics
Mobile Upload: Pre-anniversary, pandemic haircut from wife | April 22
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Pandemic
Coronavirus
Mobile Upload: It was a tough puzzle to get started today until... | April 11
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Mobile
Photography
Mobile Upload: “I don’t get why the millennials are so hot for socialism.” | April 11
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Mobile
Photography
Mobile Upload: What the ever-living fuck? Is Republicanism a literal death cult? | April 5
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Maksholes
Unfair to Trump | April 1
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Witch Doctor Pastor of Prosperity Gospel Declares Covid Over with Magic Spell | March 31
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Lissie Online Concert | March 28
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Music
Mobile Upload: Honestly If COVID has killed me and broken my streak I’d have been pissed. | March 28
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Mobile
Photography
Mobile Upload: We can’t be trusted with AI or gene editing if this is our discipline level | March 25
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Maskholes
Watch Trump's Incompetence Wither the Resolve of the Competent | March 21
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Coronavirus
Anti_trump
Students on Spring Break Swarm Failing to Heed Virus Warnings | March 16
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Coronavirus
Modern_times
Maskholes
Mobile Upload: Instagram is now showing me the following. Welcome to our post-"Parasite" present? | February 10
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Movies
Using dot to Help Visualize Data Structures Part 2 | January 19
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Unix
Data_structures
Tooling
Neil Peart, RIP | January 11
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Music
2019
Are Finns Better at Dealing With a Disninformation Society? | December 18
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Modern_times
Politics
Murder Ballads, Dolly Parton, the Southern Gothic, and I | November 16
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Music
The_south
History
Mobile Upload: Go home Aggregator and trending algorithm, you’re drunk. | November 15
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Social_media
Programming
Mobile Upload: Kinda weird that two couples I know have the same anniversary date. | November 3
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Mobile
Photography
Mobile Upload: A Caryll rune that transcribes inhuman sounds. "Blood Rapture" is the raw euphoria of the warmth of blood. | October 31
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Mobile
Photography
Video_games
Shim Sham Notes | October 10
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Dance
Nyc
Howto
Mobile Upload: “Poodles are so smart!” 🤣🐩❤️ | October 2
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Central_park
Mobile Upload: Some days New York will grind you like a keelhaul. And other days you get mariachis while you have a poodle in your lap. | September 20
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Mobile Upload: Quick Reminder: The US Government sponsored over two decades of psychic warfare research | September 2
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Books
Politics
Ford Taurus & America | July 28
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Mobile
Photography
On Euclidean Pedagogy | July 27
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Pedagogy
Education
Car Camping Pack List | July 15
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Camping
Pack_list
External Link: https://youtu.be/n12lyKTAa50 | July 10
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Modern_times
Programming
Capitalism
Politics
The Oxycontin Epidemic | July 4
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Modern_times
Art
Guy Clark Live | May 18
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Music
Mobile Upload: When you’re a member of the coolest library in the world your library card looks like this. | May 7
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Mobile
Photography
Books
Nypl
New_york
Mobile Upload: The Gender Gap, Illustrated | April 27
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Mobile
Photography
Feminism
Modern_times
The Mueller Report Has Two Spaces After Every Sentence/ | April 20
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Modern_times
Programming
Mobile Upload: Hey New Yorker anniversary celebrants, what’d you do when you got back to NOLA? 🤟Costco🤟 | April 19
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Mobile
Photography
Mobile Upload: I am so getting this library card | April 4
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Nypl
Books
My Manager Readme | March 25
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Blog
Hiring
Management
Collapse | February 23
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Modern_times
Collapse
Mobile Upload: Methinks the machine translator needs some more training. | January 30
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Mobile
Photography
Technology
Mobile Upload: This is proper way to wear parka. Or as I call it, PeoplePomppa. | January 21
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Mobile
Photography
Dog
New_york
Byron Thanks Me | January 14
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Photography
New_york
Dog
The Lore of Gritty | January 5
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Modern_times
2018
Grandfather's House in Queens; 1940 | December 30
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Modern_times
Programming
New_york
Genealogy
Mobile Upload: A beautiful werke from the Ruhr region. Thanks, Santa Wife. | December 25
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Mobile
Photography
My Favorite Christmas Album Is Michael Bublé: "Christmas" | December 20
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Christmas
Music
Traditions
Trip to London | December 2
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Travelogue
London
Mobile Upload: NYPL Reminds You Books Are Free | November 23
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Books
Mobile Upload: Our debonair Mr. Wolf has a Tex Avery moment in 96th street station. | October 28
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Mobile
Photography
New_york
Mobile Upload: In England we are comfortable with our masculinity. Evidently. | October 15
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Mobile
Photography
The Astounding Octopus | September 22
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Animals
Mobile Upload: Tea in London with Max and Jen | August 19
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Mobile
Photography
Travel
England
This tweet was metaphysically and near-religiously targeted for my wife. @lauren_n_roth
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@J__Swift @thanatos_net @TheGoodDeath My grandma grew up in rural North Tennessee. Once, when at an antique place, she saw an item mislabeled.
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In line with this. RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS is bold, inventively edited, and educational. I will watch more, @HBO. 👏 @terencenance
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@raorao_ @JEG2 @JEG2 Inverting dependencies and representing constituencies. Published author (without ghostwriter), father, advocate for underserved populations, and steward of the environment.
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RT @nixcraft: Announcing an international Vim conference VimConf 2018 and its CFP being open. VimConf is a place to share your love of Vim…
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@WeWork is not done working with us to help envision workspaces of the future: work zones and living walls and…who knows. As a Jane Jacobs fan, cool to “beta” spaces.
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Currently we’re in the open office plan but that’s going to change. If this is as good as it gets, it’s a huge leap from what I’ve known.
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@FlatironSchool dogfooding the latest physical spaces innovated by @WeWork Our entry cafe and reception.
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All this socialism might really undermine the economic prospects of Akron! Sad!
#yesthatssarcasm
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I think this is The Bad Place.
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Dog Steals GoPro | July 29
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Migrated to Hugo | July 29
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Hugo
Blogging
RT @z_rose: Beatrix Potter developed her drawing skills on fungus and scientific drawings more generally. She discovered that lichen is a s…
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I love watching my dog play chase, but I never see the eyes of the leader. Thanks to GoPro this is possible and the dog’s perception of the terroir, the chasers, etc as shown in its eyes is amazing.
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I guess it’s 2018 and yay be all edgy about recognizing non-monogamy people as a sales demo and all.
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I’ve been thinking about this since I read it. I looooove editors, especially vim, but if composition of functions were compelled by the tools as well…what would these look like? Maybe not so strange given our transpiled code era and npm’s tendency to uni-method utils…
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RT @yokoono: Remember, many feminists have followed the ways of men and hurt their health by drinking, smoking and pursuing more money and…
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RT @tlakomy: My girlfriend told me to take the spider out instead of killing it.
We went and had some drinks. Cool guy. Wants to be a web d…
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@tomdale Aperol++++ would Italia again.
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RT @Botanygeek: The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: A chemical released by dead soil bacteria.
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This week I wrote Perl, JavaScript, awk, bash, transformed data in and out of google sheets, queried APIs to calculate differences in complex structures, taught some vim fu, edited a vimrc, and wrote memos to improve operations. How does anyone work without code on their side?
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Starting to plot my facebookicide. Export everything, migrate it into hugo, merge blog to Hugo, keep IG, keep twitter. Delete my history post by post. Leave this abomination.
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RT @semaphore_P: Wow. 20 years of real footage of stars orbiting the black hole in the center of our Milky Way from @ESO. You can even see…
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@PolyGalSeeks @amandamull I’m a man of UWS diners and the iconic Zabars. Take a kindle and get a bagel / nova at Russ & daughters
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RT @andywingo: ┏┓
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programming language
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RT @shanselman: An unofficial fan-made prequel to “Day of the Tentacle?” For Mac, Windows, and Linux? Free? YES PLEASE - “Return of the Ten…
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At @FlatironSchool Curriculum dept. we had some docs in Gitbook, whose biz model no longer for us. We needed to migrate our content out, pref. to Markdown. I wrote this quick&dirty script to turn their exportable JSON => Markdown:
#hopeithelps #ymmv
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RT @liamantt: Guy on grindr was called farm boy so I messaged saying it’s pasture bedtime and he blocked me
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@chadfowler @jessfraz I like windows 10 WSL. If only it were better integrated with @code it’d be my Linux of choice….
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RT @wycats: Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation o…
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@SaraJChipps Miranda is a hard compliment. She’s the only one in that clique that has any sense.
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RT @greekhistorypod: With life expectancy being so low, the Greeks felt the need for a word specifically denoting a child with both parents…
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On the train uptown it was clear the unseasonably cold rain had canceled Saturday night. Cute and daring tops did not enter clubs. Button down shorts still looked pressed and fresh. Romantic pairs discussed groceries. Library books were cracked open.
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RT @JenAshleyWright: If I was a sexy Russian operative, I would want my name to be Jennifer Sleepinova.
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@cjc @kimmaicutler Former SF resident: On the other side, NYC has restaurants that are open past 9 & here I have seen a local child in the last year, a thriving live performance scene, warm beaches, genuine diversity, a functionalish transport sys & every pleasure base and sublime in 3-train stops
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Paging @lauren_n_roth who always does the extra to make everyone else’s life better.
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Here’s an interesting utterance (in our long slide to a pictographic language like “Darmok” or Egyptian hieroglyphs):
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@JimDedman @melbotis @rhp7 Concur. Read the book. But Dune is a beautiful, fabulous dream that was too heavy for the air (or spice-gas cloud) which was assumed could bear it.
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Unnamed King amirite
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Well, @Zipcar is doing the right thing here and has gotten in touch with me. Here’s to hoping we can find further models for their provisioning that allows for consistent service.
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I think everything about being human is summed up in the dictum by Livy: we cannot stand our evils, nor their remedy.
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Rot | July 17
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@charcrea @cxhrndz @MTA Move to New @nycgov, they said. See what a “real” transit system looks like, they said.
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@luciferxavier Springfield Twerkship, founded 1684 by Anabaptist rumpshaykaz exiled from England by Charles II for their disrespect of his new-model sovereign wall-twerk.
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After seeing #WontYouBeMyNeighbor I see why late Xers like me felt Bourdain’s death so: he was curious, open, felt things, and showed you could too and still be a valid person, esp. a low-/no- toxicity man. He was a grittier Mr. Rogers for an later, not larger, “modulation.”
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I have a @Zipcar is for in frequent, but high importance, use. They let me down and have me wondering why I should continue to pay the monthly fee.
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To add insult to injury, the @Zipcar rep told me the car had reported as dead battery. Well then, “Why didn’t you call me to tell me this?! You have my number on file?!”
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Edie Brickell on at Trader Joe’s. Time to go home, order a Mr Gattis and play Karnov and Rygar on NES before Arsenio Hall. Or tape it if I’m close to winning.
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The fact that an human had to write this to an audience of educated humans to teach them Humanity 101 suggests to me that the humanities might be missing in tech education.
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Carlos D, a Decade On | July 11
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I wanted to find out what happened between Interpol and Carlos D(engler). His interview here is profound, emotional, and revealing. Through his path through therapy, Stella Adler, etc., he shows a humanity that makes me curious about his acting
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I suspect open office plans are actually unhelpful to their purported key value (“collaboration”). To keep my flow I un-headphone, stride to do an activity to maintain my meat exosuit, and stride back to my chair, re-headphone. I see this happen all day long.
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RT @dhh: Look, open-space offices may be necessary for some companies, if they can’t afford private offices. But don’t dress up such a comp…
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RT @classicsforall: “A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer’s epic tale, the Odyss…
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@ethanschoonover Mr. Prelutsky came to my elementary school back in the day. Read from “The New Kid on the Block.” It was pretty epic for a 3rd grader.
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I wish I could shout my favor of “Sorry to Bother You” more loudly. But it’s really good. @lauren_n_roth described it as “Idiocracy” meets “Hollywood Shuffle.” That’s a perfect elevator pitch.
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Know what I love about NYC? When I, a nerd, parse rules on the web-site and decide that nothing really applies and call the help desk and they tell me that “Nobody cares about those rules, do this instead and save some bucks.”
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Me: Got my fresh new Converse kicks for summer. So white rubber. So black canvas.
NYC: MELTED TAR ON YOU SHOE, BITCH.
Me: snuff You sweet summer child, I was raised in the tar-pebble beaches of the Galveston, TX in the 80’s. I know how to deal with you.
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Someone needs to get out there and salt these NYC roads. The melting tar in these intersections is a real slip and fall hazard. #thinkofthechildren
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Is there a generic tool for defining and graphing dependency hierarchies. Surely someone in library science, education, etc. has figured this out (altho if it existed, how come bundler and npm/yarn rolled their own?)
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So many of my younger friends are applying to or attending @recursecenter. The whys I’ve heard are fascinating and tend to involve the phrase “late stage capitalism.”
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Linguistic musing: Latin noun and adjective order was flexible. As it vulgarized in Spain, did contact with Arabic and Hebrew promote the noun/adjective order of Castilian Spanish?
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@lauren_n_roth and I saw “Leave No Trace” and it was a beautiful film.
Like a more PNW-“Winter’s Bone” minus the noir but with so much heart, and tenderness, and awareness of the burdens of vets. It reminded me of the beauty of the PNW as described by @NekoCase. Recommend.
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Walked into a restaurant on Bleecker and they were playing The Strokes. I see what you did here.
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This trackpad thing in iOS is great for anyone who writes text in the form of sentences with more than 20 syllables.
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I had never thought it would be a part of my life, but now that it is, I realize how wonderful it is to watch boats throughout the day.
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“I’m sorry, but will someone please tell that Nazarene, Josh Josephson, to treat the money-changers more civilly?”
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@ow @codepo8 @code Thanks for the outreach. I want WSL as my shell and @code as my IDE. Basically a Redmond Unix. I want to use the WSL to config my Python, Ruby, Node multi-version installs (e.g.
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OHAI did I mention I finished IQ84? Murakami fan friends and I can now talk about this.
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I can’t handle how much blood was spilled to make this country sometimes. The enormity is so staggering. Where would anyone start to repay the blood debt?
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AmaZing. Houston has shifted so far since I left decades ago. Urbanism, pride, cricket fields!?
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@DanielMiessler This proximity was noted by none other than Dante Aligheri himself; although his level of rigor in linguistics was probably a notch above “folk tales, prejudices, and wild guesses.”
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Sugar Man | June 21
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I ragehate the Udemy Python ads so much.
“Python’s where it’s at” – What is this, two turntables and a mic?
“You can do almost anything with it.” – In what sense?
“You should take a course with Udemy” - wtf are you? Why are you telling me what to do?
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One of the most painful pieces of art ever made is Lou Reed’s “Berlin” which features a song where children scream (for seemingly-endless minutes) for their mother.
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RT @neilhimself: Am I the only one who doesn’t think of the Four Horsepeople as Antagonists? They are just doing their job.
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@fox At University of Texas, my MIS had a legal env. of business class had a good dose of what’s legal isn’t always ethical (R. Prentice); Management 1 also (J. Westphal). my Philo. degree had no strict ethics req. but I did 1 sem. of Contemp. Moral Problems.
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RT @wbruce: An important life lesson I’ve learned: Don’t trudge through a task you hate. Stop to reflect on your emotional state, then focu…
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There’s a very strong girl / Muslim skateboard culture in NYC. Wished the hijabi working on her Ollie Eid Mubarak.
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“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
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@Racheldoesstuff @jasonpbell @TheRock What about Yael Rasooly for a cabaret ou français number?
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You know, it’s hard to express honest love of jazz flute in the post-“Anchorman” era.
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I’m glad they made #SoloStarWars in 2018. Had they done it in 2001, with Nic Cage, and featuring an arc with Han working in a band playing a stringed instrument, I can’t imagine it faring well. Who’d have wanted to see “The Corellian Captain’s Mandolin?”
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RT @radleybalko: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”…
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Bourdain Exits | June 8
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@cczona As an educator in the code realm, curriculum @FlatironSchool might be a good change. My team is awesome and the company is growing in many exciting ways! Write, code, philosophize and change lives is a good week.
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RT @BenedictEvans: The fact we have Twitch for games videos but no equivalent for makeup videos tells us something about Silicon Valley.
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Lockdown | June 7
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As I’ve continued programming for years I’m finding my preferred IDE is vim + job control. I’m totally about that CTRL+z / fg life.
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@lauren_n_roth and I watched the 1972 film based off of “From the mixed-up files of Mrs basil e. frankweiler.” It holds up! But damn that movie dumbed nothing down for kids: vocab, humor, strategy. Amazing Ingrid Bergman role too.
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Because prosecco is pricier in NYC the quality is better. Ergo these home made aperol spritzs are lethal.
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RT @NetflixFilm: ATTENTION HUMANITY: Coco is now on Netflix! Here’s a quick thread to celebrate the tiny details in filmmaking that make th…
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RT @copiesofcopies: There are three simple rules for choosing flights out of New York:
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I’ve been shoulder surfing the creation of @FlatironSchool’s data science materials. I know its good because I saw like…so…many Greek letters. So you’re either going to learn Greek or a new way to interpret reality.
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I’m going to finish @neilhimself ‘s NORSE MYTHOLOGY on my subway ride today and I’ve loved how bouncy and fun they are. He keeps the mythic poetic rhythm & repetition tropes so the myths are familiar AND novel. I recommend! 2️⃣ train is now called Jörmungandr in my head 🐍🌎🐍
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RT @funionnn: Hey everyone I figured out the problems, we forgot to keep putting the Netiquette rules at the top of every website
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@DanielBrami1 @NekoCase Vae! Omnes urbes tuae in pulveribus…occiderunt — Anxient Siouxie
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RT @AndrewTCollin: A diss track is just two grown men sitting in separate rooms, writing poems about each other.
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OK someone’s gotta do it. Who of us is going to bait him into tweeting about “Roseanne?”
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Hey my tweets have been all over the place today, but I did want to say this “A Quiet Place” was fundamentally perfect. See it before it leaves theaters.
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I wish there were a bootcamp course for mid-life: geometric proofs, Euclid’s Elements, λ-calculus, Arabian al-Jebr, {Newtonian, quantum} mechanics, growing food, textile production, decision theory, stats, adv. econ, assembly. I agonize around the words “too late.”
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@worrydream I do love that Oxbridge / MIT / Harvard 19-29th c. style of typesetting (my copy of Hardy’s _Mathemetician’s Apology; Allen & Greenough’s Latin Grammar) as shown in the Greek and math samples.
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Amazing. From being “America’s mayor” on 9/12/2001 to being booed at Yankee stadium. Cronyism hurts legacies, people.
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@ChipotleTweets I thought about and I think the reason people steal ‘em is because some customers love the spice. To empty sufficient (for me) smoky Tabasco takes like 200 shakes to fill the dish? Triple that for a bowl. BULK dispensers or big pre-filled dishes for HOT HEADS like me would help!
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So wrong. I’d handle the household if she wants to do the career at peak-earner. It’s some sexist-ass stupidity to believe that maintaining the home & family is anything less than a critical role.
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Is there anything really exciting happening in tech that doesn’t involve a coin or a block chain that’s really exciting and in need of tons of new practitioners? Where’s the Rails of 2005 for 2018?
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@ChipotleTweets If I were to see see < 1 plastic dish worth of Tabasco, and I were to take the bottle, would you still hate me? #AskingForAFriend
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When I survived my quarter-life crisis I thought I was an aberration. But as I’ve known more people, esp. in their career-change throes, I can tell you in sum: people are tweaked, nervous, directionless, confused, en masse. Not sure if it’s the industry or the times, but it’s bad
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I loved “Annihilation” the movie and just finished the Southern Reach trilogy. I’d recommend it. The third book rewards the slog of the second and suggests a subgenre of affectless xeno-ecotastrophic-lovecraftian horror.
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Post wedding stress dream. I wake up because I was so late to a reception that everyone was mad, missed dinner, and instead had guzzled the liquor, angrily.
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RT @radleybalko: It isn’t easy for a man to rip a screaming child away from his mother. Most of us couldn’t do it. This is where “animals”…
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I wonder what the GDP productivity hit is due to open-plan offices where people are trying to find music that’s loud enough but not too distracting but peppy but not cloying but can cover the mids of room-based conversation but which doesn’t mean you won’t hear a fire alarm
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Going back to text-mode internet sounds more and more appealing every day. Maybe the French were right with Minitel being sufficient and filling the rest of their lives with delicious food, wine, family, art snobbery, cinéma.
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You know the meme punchline image of Leonardo DiCaprio, ebullient, parading through SoHo(?)? Today is a day like that in NYC. If you’ve never been that happy – that winter is over, that the humidity isn’t yet making draining you – you’ve never experienced NYC.
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@antiheroine Can’t upvote this enough. @lauren_n_roth and I saw it at during a run at @SymphonySpace and all I want to do is make sure everyone sees it: to celebrate Hedy as well as to show how narrow conceptions of womanhood wrecks lives.
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@NekoCase @marthabayne First @NekoCase song I ever heard was Pretty Girls. Later a lyric about a fearless lady pilot. So I’ve known pretty clearly since “blacklisted.”
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RT @IL0VEthe80s: 36 years ago this year the Commodore 64 was first revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas back in January…
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Perhaps open-plan offices are like capitalism unto communism as detailed by Marx’s model: the necessary Hell-state before unfolding into a glorious future.
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Saw a girl on. Roadway this morning wearing the Use Your Illusion double cover shirt. She was the age I was when they came out.
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@webtwozero @aviflombaum @robcobbable @emilyst @kodewithklossy Every day we build and tune a machine that, when properly calibrated, has the necessary outcome of paving over all bad learning experiences with focus, approachability, philosophy, and, with any luck, Bauhaus references.
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@EricaJoy Searching for my bravery and trying to disentangle me from the system. I know you know this better than I ever will.
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RT @qrush: BY AGE 3,500 YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT PEACE TO THE GALAXY THROUGH CONTROL OF THE SPICE, MERGED LIFEFORMS WITH ANOTHER SPECIES, AN…
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@RachelBros We love it. We love you. We love Amy. The Mrs says she saw extras dressed in Maisel fashion in the neighborhood the other day and we were sooooo excited.
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RT @TohoKingdom: R.I.P. Yuriko Hoshi (Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus)
Dec 6th, 1943-May…
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RT @AlexIsrael: “There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy.” –Walt Whitman on New York
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Wow, The Dustbowl Revival’s “Got Over” just broke my heart. This playlist needs to come with a warning and a lexapro.
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RT @BodegaBot: These two ex-Github engineers want to replace bagel shops with the Semantic Web Stack
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My peer group, if you’ve not seen @SHO_HAPPYish you are missing something you really need (on Netflix). Beautiful zenith of existential absurdist late-capitalist humor. Kathryn Hahn and Steve Coogan are stellar.
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Liz Phair's Classic | May 10
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Reading about @PhizLair ’s experience of (music) Guyville in the late 90’s reads just like every conversation I’ve had with a woman in software. The Guyville guys sold their Rickeys, moved to SF, and got code jobs with benefits and organic cashew bars.
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@ishabazz Shitty keyboards on laptops. They’re going to corner the market. And then they’re going to use this asset and some hitherto unimaginable way.
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@rauschma For me it’s staggering for @Apple hardware to go from the machines every developer wanted their company to switch to, to something that every developer wishes they could leave if only WSL + @code integration were slightly better.
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I hung this print for years before leaving home. I knew it was Michaelangelo; and then later studied Heraclitus (whom the figure portrays); but only today I learned he was a last minute addition. Raphael was so moved by what was next door he added his colleague as a necessity.
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@gnomeslair So much memories.
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Most European Thing ever happened: I heard the water in the electric kettle for my Nescafé bubble over so I sped out of the bathroom and the draft caught a €5 and sent it into the bidet.
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It was a pleasure to share my own weird of experience of programming with the world. I hope your learners enjoy discovering Ruby’s malleability on their own.
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Honeymoon pro tip: skip a some of the sites and sleep 12 hours. After 6 days our brains are finally in a place where worry-free sleep is possible. 10, 10, and 12 hours thanks to walking & Tuscan sun and wine is a blessing.
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In Europe, New Yorkers dress as Europeans; Europeans, in as much NYC / Brooklyn swag as possible. 🤔
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2018: you wake up from a nightmare where you accidentally / imprudently retweeted a dog whistle meme and now find yourself unemployed and vilified. Woke up and scrolled my history to see whether it had been real.
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Seen a lotta Python shirts here in Florence. Is python a preferred language of Tuscany? Given what happens to languages that get big here, is there a looming Dante of the dictionary here in the area?
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A curse that comes with success - realizing your practices need to formalize and accelerate.
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Mobile Upload: Saturday night at The Doge’s House. | April 28
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Mobile Upload: About to see Vivaldi (a Venetian) performed in Venice in period costume | April 27
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In line at JFK behind many EU passports
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1 hr 15 minutes so far to JFK from UWS. Clearly this infrastructure has everything: scale, resilience, delightfully-cologned Persian drivers.
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RT @AndrewCrow: On the last @VirginAmerica flight from JFK to SFO. Pictures being taken, everyone is sad. People singing the safety video l…
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Mobile Upload: For everyone asking after Byron over the weekend.... | April 24
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It’s a sci-if story about a generation ship but it’s really just a car leaving JFK for the City
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RT @mike_sell: An NRA protestor at our high school had a sign that read, “EXPLAIN CHICAGO!” so I told her, yes, the Kander-Ebb tunes posses…
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You have never eaten grits until you taste Blakley Kymen’s kitchen’s take on it at Marcello’s in New Orleans. Served at my wedding and at a tasting about a year ago, it is absolute perfection when paired with shrimp.
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Peak New Orleans?
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For 21 years I’ve known the Lucinda Williams line about “back in Algiers my darlin’ broke my heart.” In the next hour I will get a marriage license in the same village.
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So Michael Schur the runner behind @_TheGoodPlace also owns the rights to “Infinite Jest.” If anyone could do the impossible it might be him in filming it. OTOH I know it’s safe from lesser attempts by lesser directors so if he did it as prophylaxis, thanks.
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@NekoCase @FirstAidKitBand @ShempLabs Oh please oh please. Pump in extra oxygen for those pipes
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@almondmilka That bear is the sweetest. I always wondered what the program was that he nodded off to? “On the Media?” “Prairie Home Companion?” “Learn Spanish in 12 Tapes?” “Bodak Yellow?”
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@alicegoldfuss I think some of us have a deep memory. I can remember slights that happened decades ago. I didn’t realize that others don’t have this until recently. They can assume we don’t still smart from it when they see us at pizza hut decades later.
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@SaraJChipps We’re at the finish line. Next Saturday the event happens. Will report back. But as far as I can tell the “ bridezilla” phenom. is a reasonable response to having a full time job dumped on you while you stage direct and go broke.
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RT @NekoCase: One of my favorite things about Berlin is you see elderly couples dressed like Roxette
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RT @PaulMMCooper: You can almost hear the brickmaker shooing away his dog from this clay brick that was used in the building of the Ziggura…
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OK Rant time: HOW GOOD IS “THE GHOST WHO WALKS” by @KarenElson_. The pedal steel like falling hammered metal rain; the prosodic genius of the uniformity in “The Birds They Circle” twisting on “secrets in my bones,” “down to the dirt below.” So glad this exists in this timeline.
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@EricaJoy Leave your unnecessarily adorned Mac and cheese the Hell at home, Karen. - T’Challa
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Fans of Infinite Jest: What do YOU think happens to Hal after the book chronologically ends end? In Arizona. I worry (too much) about Hal; his ailments and how his life goes post-S.T. (@noradio @chadfowler?)
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@dastels @garybernhardt @CompSciFact Is there a solid canonical textbook or curriculum for the LC? Studying the LC as continued growth but often find strange assumptions or glosses where repetition would be appreciated. Any recomms?
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RT @garybernhardt: My favorite reason to learn a bit about the lambda calculus: it shows us 1) how simple computation is (at first it seems…
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This Duane Reade is playing Best Coast signing about SoCal. My fellow New Yorkers are sharpening things and eyeing the speakers.
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@izakaminska Have you ever noticed how SV and Bay Area types use the noun “reality” to describe totally fucked situations? Do a count on how often FB c-suite use it. It’s a tell. Sandberg uses it here too.
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@edevfoley Not braggin’ but my team (not including me) once we reach full staffing will be 50-50% at worst with a rotation from another team which will put it 60-40% with woman majority. So. Y’know. #bragging @FlatironSchool
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Mobile Upload: The busy bustle of the Coenties heliport, boat bustle of the East River, pedestrians, sweeping clouds. | April 5
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@cyberduckapp is a great app. But something’s not right with that duck icon. It’s looking at me….
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Maybe Trump will do Amazon a favor and after mocking the PO incessantly, drop the service and let Amazon have a total monopoly. Enjoy that Phyrric victory there, Ace.
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If citing the “Pizza, ‘suh; Lasagna, ‘za” sketch is ever wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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Friends in education and/or coding. I’m finding out third hand that you’re applying (or thinking about it) @flatironschool. 🙌 Wherever you are in the process, even if idle musing, let me help. Warm handoffs of great people is my passion.
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RT @oldpicsarchive: “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid…
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RT @slicingeyeballs: Watch: The Breeders return to Conan O’Brien’s show after 25 years, play ‘Wait in the Car’ http…
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@timoni The bay to breakers course is always awesome. I do it whenever I visit Sf to see how it’s changed.
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RT @mikebroberts: Sqlite is an undervalued adhoc analysis tool. I never realized you can give it a CSV file and it will immediately let you…
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Hm. I’ve been thinking about writing a script to take the Facebook download and extract it to Jekyll posts…then Exit Facebook
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Between the fog, humidity, and preparing halal carts, Wall street is basically a cloud of onion-ness.
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It just dawned on me that a measure of Infinite Jest’s achievement is that I could easily imagine character sheets for a table-top RPG set in Boston, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.
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Shout out to seton hospital and to the appendix that convinced me I was definitely not going to live a life without her happily; we get married next month. :)
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Bat for Lashes: "Daniel" | March 29
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Sun (Ra) Salutation | March 29
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It’s hilarious because it’s true. We’re so Stockholm syndrome we think curses and readline keybindings are deluxe.
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Man I’ve been missing the stupidly talented Bill Hader since he kinda took some time away. “Barry” looks great though (still Vinnie Videcchi is a masterpiece).
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@dark_shark @NekoCase I’m put in mind of the Bowie invitation of Fripp to Berlin: “Do you want to make dangerous rock-n-roll?”
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Today: Finished “Infinite Jest.” I’m still rattling through some of the custody of a certain samizdat, and tying together some characters’ forays, but I’m glad to have read it (and not have to lug it on the subway).
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I work for @WeWork but I’ve never worked in a @WeWork. I have to say, if I had my druthers, I’d never work anywhere else. The co-tenants are inspiring, beautiful spaces, surprising conversations. They all keep my brain from stultifying. It’s a new high bar for office space.
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Saw Hedy Lamarr doc “Bombshell” at @SymphonySpace. It was really outstanding. It’s so hard to be a woman in tech, but all the more so when one’s seen as a great acquisition by male egos due to beauty. Catch it if you can.
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RT @shannon_last: Today I saw a Honda Odyssey with ILIAD on the license plate. It made my day.
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The Algorithm | March 16
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RT @svershbow: Date someone who wants to leave for the airport as far in advance as you do.
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RT @antiheroine: This seems as good a time as any to share that, as of next Monday, I’ll be joining the curriculum team at @FlatironSchool.…
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“Steven!” Yelled the amazing woman in the @WeWork kitchen on the 27th floor. 3 years ago I had had a hand in her programming education. She’s now working through a thorny code upgrade process at a company on the same floor. Amazing people in this location! <3
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Just so much opportunity @FlatironSchool. If you really love tech and want to do educate people in a new model, you should really work with us. Community builders, curriculum writers, marketers, curators of better lives….hmu.
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When I was listening to @NuShoozMusic “I Can’t Wait” on “Nick Rocks,” if you’d told me I’d be listening to it while watching helicopters land from an office in NYC on the 27th floor, I’d have thought you bonkers. But…
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Fitting Room Urban Legend: A man comes in with the max # of items, tries them on, brings them out in a heap without hangars. He is asked to hang his items. He plays the “never in my life” card. Attendant: “First time for everything, I guess.”
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Non-Hispanic White Male here who wants to promote @netflix ’s @OneDayAtATime. The stories are timeless and abuelita is pure hilarity. It’s tender, sincere, real, and loving. I love this show so much.
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My dog ran up to a homeless person and gave hugs and attention. She then saw him sit outside a deli because he wanted a sandwich. I told her this. She shook her coin cup to count out enough for him. I had to insist no, but thanks. A little love makes the world better.
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@johnregehr “Who can quote passages from mid-seventies Prog-era through “Signals” Rush with the accuracy of a Replicant and the precision of a flux capacitor” would have only narrowed it slightly more awkwardly.
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In the biopic for the life of Serge Gainsbourg, only Jessica Paré will do for playing Jane Birkin.
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Mobile Upload: Maybe west-siders are a target market... | February 25
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@hayesdavis Ignore these amateurs. If you want to plumb the abyss of misery, try Lou Reed’s “The Kids” from “Berlin.”
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Mobile Upload: Probably the last snow of the season...but I love it still. | February 17
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Your unwillingness to enact sensible gun control means that this Good Boy has to comfort grief-stricken teens instead of smelling trees and gettting belly-rubs. Fuck the NRA AND THEIR CRAVEN QUISLINGS.
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“He’s a connoisseur of anger, …he senses a prelude to their anger about a lot more…‘It’s not Me Too. It’s…an anti-patriarchy movement. Time’s up on 10,000 years of recorded history. This is coming. This is real.’”
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The “Joelle and has Too Much Fun” section of Infinite Jest may be my new favorite section of a book ever. So much going on…
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RT @mcclure111: TFW your monotheistic God is actually just three polytheistic gods hiding in a raincoat
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::cosmic mind:: all the vendors use excel so make life easy by using sheets or excel
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RT @mattsebastian: I’m old enough to remember when Best Buy was a CD store that also carried computers and refrigerators
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Mobile Upload: Hiking near Woodstock, view of the Hudson. | February 3
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Nerd achievement unlocked: streak 30 days of NYTimes crossword; solo, no external help.
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That feeling when you ask something on Stack Overflow and don’t get flamed into oblivion and you think “Huh, maybe something isn’t /quite/ right after all and I’m not a complete idiot faker loser dirty little pig boy (or girl).”
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@Noahpinion The soccer fields where I learned soccer and was first exposed to Mexican culture, 30 years on now has a cricket pitch on it as well: Houston.
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RT @JEG2: When you adopt a framework like Rails, you’re agreeing to let other developers manage some of your concerns.
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RT @lauren_n_roth: Planning verse and prose for a wedding ceremony is a sure trigger for tears.
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@gobslapped It’s the piping of that data to vim that destabilizes the terminal. The -o in xargs keeps it sane.
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RT @bowiesongs: one of the great coincidences of the 20th C: Ursula Le Guin and Philip K Dick went to the same high school, at the same tim…
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Worf teaches most of what you need to know about Nietzsche in his discourse on the Klingon tea ceremony:
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The first book I completed of 2018 was “This Spake Zarathustra.” What a work. Maddening and dense and hopeful and baffling. I harvested a ton of great quotes.
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The @Petco At Columbus center on the #uws is closing. Yesterday we walked in to @flo_tweet ‘s “The Dog Days Are Over” playing.
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Mobile Upload: The Hudson is still. That is not normal | January 6
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@lauren_n_roth found a beautiful and powerful part of “Lady Bird’s” plot mechanics. It’s like the coming of age mounts for 95% and then bursts forth like a dammed river. ❤️
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Maybe Sessions should ask his boss, a hotelier whose grandmother was a hotelier about he lucrative nature of intoxicant sales.
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Only perk of Sessions going after pot is, like T. Roosevelt actually enforcing blue laws (alcohol sale outside “hotels” on Sunday), it lead to the clear, legal, and taxed sale of alcohol on Sunday. It also united the German vote against the Democrats in NYC.
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RT @GeorgeLakoff: Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than…
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Listened to Kwanzaa programming on @WNYC. After a year of great tribulation, the African rhythms and folk tales are calming. Thanks for opening up my ears.
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Mobile Upload: Steven Peppermint, 3rd Lord Candycane wishes a Happy Christmas to all in Her Majesty’s Overseas offices. | December 25
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Mobile Upload: Santa been bringing apple and orange and nuts since as long as I can remember | December 25
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RT @isilitke: Werner Herzog voice
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Many nights I wake up 45-90 minutes after sleep with the urge to kick my legs uncontrollably. Remedies seem to be magnesium and peanut butter. Any ideas what this is. Worse when stressed.
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I hope Santa brings that copy of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” I requested for Christmas.
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Everyone’s shitting on 2017, fair enough. But I’m down at least 1000% on hearings of “Hey there, Delilah.” #takethewin
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When you are swooning over the lovely romantic songs of @KITTENTHEBAND but then find out @Chlochai is 17 and you are much, much older.
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I get why George Lucas gave it up.
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I can order a car on demand, dozens of cuisines, chat with people in Australia. But to get a pass in a Battery-area office building I must wait in line with a letterhead as approval. You thinking what I’m thinking? BLOCKCHAIN 2 THA RESCUE.
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@kenkeiter @sarahmei Stark is an MIT guy: its in Lisp. Now Spideys suit….hackathon writ so, Python (also hackable by a boy in a chair (rahhhhhhh))
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I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to tweet that I’m thrilled to have joined the team at @FlatironSchool as curriculum team manager. Day 1 included reviewing reducer code, talking rogue bitcoin harvesting, and admiring Black Thought’s breath control with @aviflombaum.
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SNL: "Spelling Bee" | December 17
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#fullfrontallive #samanthabee show with @lauren_n_roth. Time to see the evisceration in person. #perchselfie
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@questlove WOW! Your “roots” with Dr. Gates was so moving, so profound, and so cruel. Hearing about the Clothilde reminded me of the bet at the center of “Trading Places:”? childish, ignorant, destructive, and cavalier. Shameful history but a powerful story.
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So, nerd, you’re gonna go back in time and use your superior technology to (with any luck) escape to Baghdad or somewhere civilized from “Christendom?” About as likely as irrational-based measurement leaving the US.
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End of DBC | December 9
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Met an amazing woman studying Python and Data Science solo. She’s Oracle-certified, Unix strong, worked for multiple Big Banks. She’s nervous about tech interview & learning wrong tech. IMO she has a huge edge but is still nervous. Retraining might be the next phase of bootcamp.
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@alycit Feeling was mutual. I think my experience was that I had given so much I needed to refill the pool. I also wrote down all the things I wished to have time to do Looking back now, I did quite a few! It helped me feel like I got better each day.
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@alycit I recommend giving this feeling tons of time. I also (sorry?) disconnected from the ecosystem. I didn’t want to reminisce or trade what-ifs. I signed up for coursera courses. I wrote fun code, fixed my home tech-life and let my sole soul guide me to when I ought emerge.
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Farewell to my friends winding down @devbootcamp today. I was glad to receive a special Christmas ornament.
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California | December 7
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@SaraJChipps @PBS @jewelbots To be clear, I miss the BBS’, not teens. I mean, they’re alright and all, but y’know, I don’t need their angst on top of my own.
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I love “Actors on Actors” on YouTube. Add this: document.getElementsByTagName(“video”)[0].playbackRate = 2.25 in the console. Very helpful.
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RT @alycit: Two days left of this beautiful and amazing place we created. This sentiment rings so true right now. We are what made @devbo…
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Fear an old man in a discipline where men usually die young.“California, the place where anything was possible, has become the place where nothing is affordable.” – Didion-esque
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Doki Doki Whiteboarding Interview Club
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Episode 106 of #MrsMaisel is brilliant. Alex Borstein and @RachieBros just told such a beautiful story. It’s the “Gilmore” grade magic.
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@fbz I do! Those were so great. I liked Land of Lisp for a similar reason. Something magical about transcribing code to make things run.
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RT @lauren_n_roth: If you want a pure antidote to everything terrible in the world, watch The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel. It’s so wonderful.
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RT @DrAndrewThaler: Folks, I think we need to start coming to terms with the idea that the rapture happened and only David Bowie and Prince…
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@lissiemusic Cannot wait for “Castles.” Where does the Ojai girl after she finds her own Wild West? Definitely getting the vinyl.
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Goddammit when I say I want Trance I want Trance. I don’t want House, I don’t want Deep House, I don’t want Vocal House, I want some goddam Trance #20inthe90sineruope
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RT @VK_HM: The reason Frasier is so popular with millennials is that he basically hosts a podcast and is always alone
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RT @pt: Silicon Valley, where we celebrate the 80 hour workweek & the four hour workweek, but consider everything in between a life of quie…
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If @Apple were trying to tell Serious Developers (tm) that they don’t give a fig about the Mac except as a platform for writing iOS apps, leaving a gaping root exploit is a good way to say “Thank you, we’re through.” Wide open door, @Microsoft.
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RT @GPollowitz: Prince Harry’s kids will be Americans. What if one grows up to be president and is in line for the throne at the same time?…
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Mobile Upload: The 45th President of these United States: secure in his identity, steady in his leadership. | November 27
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I really dug “Girls Trip.” I’ve been a fan of @TiffanyHaddish since I heard about her great charity work on @unqualified. @ReginaKing was wonderful, @IAMQUEENLATIFAH too. Also really dug @jadapsmith ’s character going from very pent up to very misbehaving. Very funny!
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Cupsouls | November 26
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Byron B&W | November 25
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Former boot-camp teacher here: students with a good pen and an overflowing notebook performed better, consistently b/c they never confused “learning the magic words to type” with “learning.”
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One of the more surreal moments of my life, as I reflect on it, was my 7th grade science class reading a script to “WKRP in Cincinnatti” where Johnny Fever gets hooked on uppers in our anti-drug week. How did that deal get done?
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GYRO | November 23
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@btaylor My future mother in law, a Midwesterner, has an audible comma after “Alexa” as if Alexa might once say “one moment please.”
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@NekoCase @TMobile @ATT Neko Case: voice that can fill a canyon, wireless connectivity troubleshooter, community organizer, visual artist.
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“You know @mattbaker could convincingly play Jim Henson in a biopic,” I thought upon leaving the exhibit at the Museum of th Moving Image.
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I’m about to start “Infinite Jest.” Any tips? Skip the footnotes? Pause narrative, read footnotes and hop back? Maximum page count per diem recommendation?
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Lawrence Fishburne on @nerdist is 🔥🔥. Reagan, Latin education, Black culture + filmmaking + rise of hip-hop, lack of humanities, praise of no-nothingism, “self-revealing versus self-reflecting” cultures. Give it 6 minutes from this timepoint:
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Going to see the exhibition on “The Dark Crystal” at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria on Saturday. You can do amazing stuff all the time in #NYC. If any of my tweeps are interested LMK.
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RT @captainsafia: Take: People don’t miss Google Reader, they miss the ability to curate their content consumption without the invasive nat…
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Nietzsche: ““If this writing be obscure to any individual, and jar on his ears, I do not think that it is necessarily I who am to blame”
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Windows Returns as a Platform for Web Development Again | November 12
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RT @samim: “The Case For RSS”: RSS needs a comeback. Twitter is basically a glorified realtime RSS reader.
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Mobile Upload: An early cold snap. Took the parka for a test run to the wine shop with Byron. | November 11
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In these times I am thankful for the creativity and brilliance of @nbcthegoodplace, it’s writing, @IMKristenBell ’s subtlety, @DarcyCarden ’s interpretation and all the myriad of moments the entire cast and writers bring.
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@DarcyCarden you are amazing.
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Greta Gerwig: Auteur | November 6
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Mobile Upload: Oddly, there's a correlation between NRA donations and the superstition that #thoughtsandprayers fix a thing. | November 6
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Superstition is a technology too. #zomg
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@goldman Orkut will always be a success to me. Met @lauren_n_roth on it. Nuptials next year.
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Just installed a 1TB SSD into my dead and forgotten in the closet 2011 Mac Mini. The beast rides again (zippy & silently).
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At this point my retirement plan is to buy some Michigan land with water now while I have some cash and to live best I can of what i grow.
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Kids think they’re gettin’ candy tonight when their parents computers are gettin’ my root kit.
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Mobile Upload: 'Tish and Gomez wish you a spectacular Halloween | November 1
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RT @newtgingrich: Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media shou…
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When you aren’t sure if you’re on a familiar block because a scaffold has (dis-)appeared, seemingly instantaneously #nyc
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RT @ohen39: wife: I just got stung by a jellyfish. quick, pee on it
me: [peeing on jellyfish] this is for stinging my wife
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@Brooklynology @rowmyboat Follow Up: Found my g-g-ma buying the property where her husband’s saloon (for which he was protested!) stood in W’burg(h)
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Mobile Upload: Engagement shoot in the French quarter | October 18
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Mobile Upload: The sanest place in the French Quarter. Strong AC and peaceful. | October 15
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Mobile Upload: Dogs of New Orleans play pool | October 14
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Mobile Upload: Astro hangs out at our florist. | October 12
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Coursera is the UDP of education.
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Farewell Tom Petty | October 5
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The last 2 minutes of Portishead’s “Wandering Stars”…and the previous 3 minutes, too.
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@triketora Why do they have to get jazzy with the sirens? Bop de Bwap boop a beeeeee booooo beeeee boooo ba ba bar bar bar Barbara ann beeee booooo
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@FirstAidKitBand You two are a gift. I remember Pandora (early days) serving you two up and it was a gift in my SF winters with my gf; soon to be my wife :)
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RT @SaraJChipps: Today has made me appreciate how good Obama (as president) was at comforting a grieving nation.
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Lotta babies were made to tom petty; or after that one extra beer you had because his music felt so nice on such a pretty day.
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RIP Tom Petty | October 2
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Serj Solo | October 2
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Mobile Upload: My country loves the ability to own automatic weapons more than it hates to watch real-life "Hunger Games." | October 2
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My upbringing included the following phrase which I can’t stop thinking about today: Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats
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Mobile Upload: VC Conference OR Kid Pick-Up at Palo Alto High? | September 30
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 5 | September 27
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 4 | September 27
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 3 | September 27
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 2 | September 27
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 1 | September 27
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Guide to Developing Chrome Context-Menu Applications | September 26
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Remember it’s all jokes and fun for boys until it isn’t. Beautiful smiling youngsters enacting hate with laughter.
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Latin | September 22
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RT @goosemangus: Totally hypnotized by the amazing @Maisie_Williams pulling off this ridiculous dagger move!!
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This week’s “New Yorker” digital edition’s cover is beautifully enhanced with animation of leaves.
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The awkward time of year when McSweeny’s class white people have to decide if it’s too early to share the “decorative gourd season” article.
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Hiatus Projects | September 18
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So, I'm Not Working | September 18
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Blog: So, I’m Not Working:
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@garybernhardt : 3 dozen Teslas pull up to Palo Alto High : “Oh are we on a board together and they moved the meeting here? Oh you read the tweet too LOL!”
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Michael Cera is so nice every tribe is willing to let him in. And I gotta say, he’s kinda killin’ the Pauly D hair.
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I asked her to marry me. Proof of the love: designing the Capfile to deploy our wedding app.
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Mobile Upload: Edward "Winnipeg, Winnie-the-Pooh" Bear is a New Yorker. | September 16
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Chrome Extension: amaJSON: Export Notes From Kindle Books as JSON | September 14
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Chrome extension to extract your Kindle notes / annotations out of Amazon and into beautiful JSON.
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RT @WritNelson: When your job is creative and your side projects are creative and the things you do to relax from both are also creative-re…
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Bowie: Space alien, knower of “Fashion”, occasional chooser of dull shirts. If he can swing to brilliance AND failure, so can you.
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Returning to the Site | September 12
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White Supremacists Love Nietzsche but Nietzsche Would Hate White Supremacists | September 12
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RT @hunterroseeee: “Girls don’t mature faster than boys, they’re just groomed earlier for sexual consumption and physical /emotional labour…
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We have a Zojirushi rice cooker. When cleaning up I take the leftovers and mush them into small balls that I call “Mifunes.” #kurosawasan
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Hurricane Music | September 6
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“This is currently undocumented but easily understood by reading the source.” Advice: Add a period after the 4th word, delete to end.
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Politics of Partition | September 4
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There was whisky, tender flesh in tawdry costume, dancing, diabolical violins, “Happy Birthday,” a boat close hauled.
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“And in all of the west lands the voice of the water, with her eternal disasters is feared, and heard” - H. Marsman; Dutch poet; died at sea
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@BCAppelbaum It’s been 20+ years since I left Houston but I know “Mattress” Mack 1) will save me moneeeeyyyy and 2) is a fine philanthropist and human.
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In my unemployment I’m writing C and Lisp and Python everyday. And I can’t help thinking I see a different bootcamp in between the ; and ()s
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I never anticipated how much @rushtheband ’s “The Trees” (1978) would prepare me for life in the 2017.
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Mobile Upload: No A/C, no job, run with Byron, late summer hiatus | August 24
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Erin Rae | August 24
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If you think a statue of a mounted Grant guiding bayonets into rebels is in bad taste, you should get why Confederate monuments are too.
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RT @sigridellis: My son was at his blacksmithing camp yesterday. He came home with a knife “forged in the dark of an eclipse.”
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I had a lot about Civil War monuments. Here’s one for the morally correct view: THE UNION.
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@altclassic One of the best records of the 90’s; one of the best concerts of my life (Utrecht, ‘98): an opening scratch battle that awed…
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W145th : 12:30 pm: threat of la chancla deployed to vicious effectiveness. Acting like fools stopped for a 3 block radius.
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There is a town in Texas whose name, if you google it, shows you a picture of an Applebee’s.
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I love “@Atypical” on Netflix. Such wonderful acting and a tender script and autism reality. So good. And WE LOVE PAIGE!
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Willpower Doesn't Work, Here's How to Actually Change | August 18
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In SF, I often saw femme-projecting women ignored, marginalized, mocked, minimized or set aside.
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RT @TheEconomist: Donald Trump is politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office
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@JohnLegere, CEO, rocks @TMobile magenta everywhere all the time. His employees know he is always selling their team’s work.
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Mobile Upload: Byron in sunlight channels Richard Gere "American Gigolo." | August 16
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Mobile Upload: "us" | August 15
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@avdi I’m actually doing the cracking the coding interview tasks in Lisp and I feel it - even if I can’t yet harness it…
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Mobile Upload: Guess who "buried" his prized headless hedgehog baby in the decor pillow lair? | August 13
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RT @mzbitca: the president has taken a harsher stance on Kristen Stewart cheating on Rob Pattinson than he has neo nazi marches and violence
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War movies are interesting: “Pvt. Ryan” made life seem cheap meat to slaughter; “Dunkirk” conveys that every one is dear and afraid.
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Mobile Upload: Thanks for all the birthday wishes | August 10
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FUCK “The Kingsman” which made anal sex with a princess a prize as a stupid and unnecessary joke — ruining the whole vibe of the thing.
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RT @CodyBrown: For many entry level engineering jobs at Google, you get kids w/ a CS degree from MIT and a Gender Studies minor from Reddit.
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BTW: the scientists we hope are not making Skynet / F’stein’s monster have the same level of humanities education as Google Memo Guy. #hosed
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Bet: Google Memo Guy guy thought his liberal arts requirements were “a waste” because he’s “logical.”
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RT @BFriedmanDC: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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@kamrinklauschie Reading about Lisp: “s-expression.” Sounds like a Prince song title.
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RT @girlziplocked: The myth of male immaturity is a social construct. It’s a way for men to get away with disavowing the consequences for e…
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The Glory of the Octopus | July 30
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Pity Which Nation? | July 28
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@cwshevlin @devbootcamp It was you that did the most! The teachers second. I’m glad to have played a part though.
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People: I have low levels of b12 and vitamin D. Anyone else suffer with this / have a solution?
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Taking my dog to groomers, I passed today’s shoot and saw the “Mrs Meisel” lettering and am now so excited for more @RachieBros as Midge.
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I’m sure she has sore muscles, a bad day, a cold, etc. but we never hear of her failing to be Diana Prince. It’s work I want to recognize.
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NYC needs to get over itself re: summer. Suits in the subway with the heat we had today!? With global warming this is just the start.
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Waiting for dental appointment in Manhattan and HGTV host used the phrase “suburb of Waco.” Tempus fugit.
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Sperm Whales, Sleeping | July 16
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Cold open to steady string of bass quarter notes: “Psycho Killer” or “Hardest Button to Button?” T’would be a stellar mashup.
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One of the more humorous experiences one can have is hearing @escaping_mind meep @maroon5 ’s “Animals” as Beaker the Muppet.
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Music: Allie X | July 13
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When you’re in a transitional moment in life and then you discover that Sia has a new record. 🔥
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Coffee in Montreal | July 10
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Said @escaping_mind : Montreal is like if French people built Austin (yep: 6th street plus boot stores).
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“Indiana Jones and the ‘it belongs in a museum’ speech for a culture-robbing, eschatological death-cult called … Hobby Lobby”
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Matte Manhattan | July 5
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Watched “Taxi” S1E3 which featured Angela, for whom their iconic theme “Angela” was composed.
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Ticks | June 29
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Man “I Love Lucy” was edgy: The early drama of late-stage Captialism, monogamy, urbanism versus suburbanism
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@Zalambar Liberal arts and art were knowledge for those born wealthy. As we move backward to inequality, this might be a sacrifice in the step back.
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The Female Gaze | June 20
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I wish I could get my “We Will Rock You” a la carte. I wanted stamping, not your “We Are the Champions” loser-time bereftness.
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Overnight in Monmouth co, NJ we relaxed to OG battlestar, Wonder Woman, and Trek’s “Menagerie Pt 1.” U jelly?
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Every time I see a bolt of lightning across the clouds I think of “The Gunslinger” by @StephenKing and lightning as ideograms across the sky
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What’s diversity done for you? Given you “Master of None S2.” Wonderful stories from lives you might not have considered.
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Duane Reade no longer sells microwave popcorn. I guess it’s gone to that big date night in the sky to join Blockbuster video.
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At the beginning of the week I asked stack overflow how to combine, and convert several files in Node.JS. Not a single answer.
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A Common Node Task with No Clean Implementation | June 6
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Richmond, VA feels like Austin 1998. Young people in cool houses. I king to Fresh Market from yoga classes.
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Quick Musical Thought | May 27
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RT @monkchips: arguably the most powerful tech company in the world hires engineers in their 60s. we should all learn from that
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RT @CoryBooker: Please read this profound speech by Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu re: the removal of confederate monuments. https://…
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Hearing Chris Cornell scream across a piano’s range in key is one of the highlights of my teens. #RIPChrisCornell
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When Soundgarden ruled the air bands wrote and performed their songs. Virtually unthinkable in pop today. 1/2
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Delia Derbyshire | May 6
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Ron-kón-kuh-ma
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My dog is a New Yorker. “delivery” is a word that induces excited dancing and prancing.
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My skill in designing technical curriculum was best trained by Sierra game savepoints and cheating through choose your own adventure novels
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“Max Headroom” was right about everything except the conduit. It was TCP/IP (wired/unwired), not coaxial cable.
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Code With Me | April 26
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Byron Mugging | April 23
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Tulip Festival | April 23
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Spring Picnic | April 23
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RT @thomas_violence: i’ve tweeted about this before but Sugababes being a perfect example of the Ship of Theseus paradox is the most beauti…
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Every Tech Q&A | April 16
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Seasons on the UWS | April 15
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My favorite breakout performers of the last 2 years have both been Rachels: @Racheldoesstuff and @RachieBros. Fearless and funny.
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“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is as if Zabar’s, “Broad City,” “Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Mad Men” had a Gilmore baby. Rachel Brosnahan is hilarious.
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We all lose our in innocence in degrees, but the day one realizes the wooden cap on Cholula is merely decorative has a special tangy burn.
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Was Francis Fukuyama the First Man to See Trump Coming? | March 22
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In Manhattan everyone is checking phones while they wait; in NOLA while waiting for dinner an absent-minded twerk broke out. #puritains
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RT @daisyowl: if you ever code something that “feels like a hack but it works,” just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricke…
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Mobile Upload: I was surprised to walk into St. Pat's last night; tonight, St. Genaro's parade | March 19
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Mobile Upload: St. Patrick's Dinner at the Court of the Two Sisters | March 18
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Mobile Upload: Snowy retrieval and a Weimaraner after the snow | March 14
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Moana is Released! | February 24
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Few shows have created characters such that a proper noun and a gerund could invoke such terror: “Omar strollin’.”
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Mobile Upload: Go'n dust these snowflakes off | February 16
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That special moment when you get the worst bloody nose you’ve had in years as the plane is taxiing out and you’re wearing a new shirt.
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Mobile Upload: 53 weeks ago I took a picture through this same window. | February 12
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With all these displays of unity, decency, and piety, I wonder if converts will increase. Then we’ll see “Who’s a real American” get nasty
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Mobile Upload: You might need a poodle at maximum ferocity. | February 2
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Giving up on humanity. My M.O. is to make sure dogs inherit the Earth. Consider all of Trump’s decisions in that light.
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The poetry of David Berman on The Silver Jews’ “Natural Bridge” is sublime: it’s like Miltonian Judaism..20 years later.
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Wrote JavaScript to extract my highlights and notes taken on my Kindle to a file. When you know how to code, life is better.
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Just for a moment let me remind you of something: we live in a world with rye toast and coffee.
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Bought the @KarenElson_ “Ghost who Walks” record just in time to be ready to get her next record. Definitely the optimal format for her.
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Cheated | January 25
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Is there post apocalyptic Native American sci-fi? E.g. After rising waters and ruined industrial food chain First Nations know how to adapt?
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I’ve dreamed of playing @Interpol’s TOTBL on vinyl in NYC on a rainy night for 15 years. Tonight. Now. It sounds amazing, it looks amazing.
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I love #TheGoodPlace. The cast are all great. Smart writing, funny enacting of philosophy dilemmas. Fun.
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Heard from @AlecBaldwin: New York is a river, LA is a lake; one, you let the street carry you, the other you gotta dig your oars in to go.
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Seagulls! Meme | January 19
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Kid Encounters Nick Cave | January 18
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Love it so much. Kid is wearing a Miley shirt in front of a man whose demons could press tears from angels.
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Mobile Upload: Found an 18th century poodle showing his "lunettes." Definitely ready to be a scamp. | January 15
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Mobile Upload: Last time I was here I wished she were here too! | January 15
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Some Byron Looks | January 14
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Mobile Upload: Last night I was on Broadway, tonight in Printer's Row, Chicago. | January 13
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Translations | January 6
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I got engaged to @escaping_mind which is cool….but I’m thinking maybe I should have married Trader Joe’s Jalapeño Pub Cheese instead.
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Children of Men | December 31
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Mobile Upload: Byron observes (belatedly) an English tradition of wearing a paper crown during Christmas. | December 29
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Couple behind me evaluated #LALALAND as “Terrible. Depressing.” I think they should visit dreamers or LA and re-view.
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When your stepdad fixes your sisters air conditi ning with a Makita 18v, hair dryer, and profanity and saves a Texas Xmas by doing so.
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Mobile Upload: Fear not for your safety boulevardiers! Byron watches! | December 19
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Seen in subway: Ubiquitous beige totebag with the file path to a PSD printed on it instead of the contents. #metaartist
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Verifying myself: I am sgharms on Keybase.io. On8E7qswnY1pKixwBiI6612vyxAnU8tX-uTi /
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RT @Kasparov63: The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annih…
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RT @maxgladstone: 1999, me: “Fight Club is a movie about challenges facing men in 20th c”
Dad: “This movie is about how fascist movements g…
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RT @grossdm: For the 5,000th time, the problem isn’t liberal arts majors who don’t study STEM. It’s STEM majors who don’t study liberal art…
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Avoiding Avoidance | December 12
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French Futures | December 12
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Morrissey: Chicano Icon | December 12
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RT @sarahjeong: How many times a day do you ruminate on how unfit you are to scavenge for survival amid the ruins of civilization
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Trump Does Not Prepare for the Future: He Nurses Grievance | December 9
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Just in case I never write it down: Please play Cale’s “Big White Cloud” at my funeral.
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Bicameralism | December 6
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Mobile Upload: Byron Says: "I'm ready for my closeup now." | December 3
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We Love Moana | December 2
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Arrival | November 29
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RT @pashulman: Look to how Berlusconi was defeated as a model for Trump. This is the smartest thing on politics I’ve read all week. https:/…
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Is it just me or do you wish we could go back to a simpler time when our biggest fear was David S. Pumpkins?
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Post-Trump: Grab 'Em By the Cryptography | November 11
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First step in making america great again: Bringing back Google Reader, this time with yuuuge offline caching.
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External Link: http://www.spin.com/2016/08/96-best-alternative-rock-songs-1996/5/ | November 7
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Mobile Upload: My whole youth was preparation for this moment. | November 5
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Mobile Upload: All alone at the dog park in a beautiful autumn day | November 4
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Philosophy grad watching #Westworld : “Is this Gnostic allegory with Tarot esoteric tradition motifs?” #fb
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@evanrachelwood you are amazing in “Westworld.” The staggering girl we saw in “Seventeen” has grown more formidable and subtle.
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How I Pack: 2016 | October 24
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Mobile Upload: The benefit of missing Paris is that as one of the most filmed cities ever we can visit any time. | October 22
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“It’s hard to be sad to music that makes you want to Charleston” <3 @crazyxgfwriters
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Is SF is where tech-Siddarthas are sent to encounter age, disease, death after living in their rich castles of “meritocracy.” 1/
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Kaopectate and Pepto Bismol both use the same active ingredient. So the PB Pink color was a … conscious marketing decision. #tmyk
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Pro-Bidet | October 18
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“I Hate the Internet” captures my response when some confused NY’er asks: “You left California to come h-h-h-here?” Yes. Would move again.
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For anyone breaking / broken up with SF or the Bay Area recently I cannot recommend Kobek’s “I Hate the Internet” enough. Thanks @gtvrhs.
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I Got Engaged | October 15
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Biggest change since I was in France last is how quickly Parisians use English. Or my horrid French is so horrible they want me to STAHP.
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Did I mention I got engaged to this lady 2 nights ago? In the function signature of my life there will be @escaping_mind #swiftlove
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OK seriously conservative apologists: it’s not the word “pussy,” it’s “grabbing” someone’s sexual parts without consent that’s offensive 1/n
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...a candidate for president of the United States has actually bragged about sexually assaulting women... | October 14
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Teaching mindfulness to kids in Paris, @erinmkidwell. Funny title! “calm and attentive…like a 🐸”
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Dennis Ritchie Dies | October 13
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RT @wycats: I’m pretty scared of what will happen the first time someone runs on Trumpism who isn’t as fatally flawed as Trump.
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RT @BreneBrown: To dismiss Trump’s comments as “guy talk” is an insult to good men and boys. This is what rape culture looks & sounds like.
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Mobile Upload: Carnegie Deli damage. L'Shana Tova indeed! | October 4
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Mobile Upload: If your bagel shop doesn't have this, I feel bad for you son | October 2
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You know, homages to the 90’s are a thing now…but will no one revive the slinky beauty of the Suede family tree?
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Schneider und Hutter forever.
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RT @Classlicity: People criticizing Clinton’s preparedness probably also don’t realize Hermione is the only reason Harry Potter survived 7…
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RT @MissWhoeverUR: This election is a clear representation of what it’s like to be an overqualified woman who has to deal with an unqualifi…
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A world where this message has infected a 7 year old child is a world where social justice is needed. How could I comfort that gap? 2/2
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Story about owning a black dog: a black child asks her parent whether white people love black dogs as much as they love white ones. 😭 1/2
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We watched the first 4 episodes of @fleabag after hearing Phoebe on @dinnerpartydnld and its hilarious, bawdy, and fun.
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Public Service Announcement: Someone seems to have lost their fingerprint dusting powder on Riverside Drive. Notify police.
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Mobile Upload: Met new poodles at the park. Lucy is a sophisticated older lady. | September 20
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I found this hilarious show on Hulu called “Community.” Man this shit will play forever because it’s so funny and original right? Right?
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WANTED: Art where anthropomorphized poodles perform jobs (e.g. cop), play sports in a pastel, graphic-ish 80’s health club style #serious
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@samesmail I find there to be a lovely parallelism from “The Prisoner” to @whoismrrobot. It’s a brave move. Ready to “Fall Out.”
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A man thanked Byron and I for not being racist and ignoring him. Fist bump, then: “We all come from the same source!” “Africa?” “No, ETs!” 😳
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My new Lamy Safari; next to my very old runner of Safari. Went metallic for a change of pace.
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RT @lauren_n_roth: Determining the difference between “important” and “urgent” is an art honed only with experience.
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Shout out to Troy and Gris who helped this guy out at @jetblue flight JFK to ORD this morning. You’re both legends.
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NYFD widows and children memorial packed with comrades, spouses, and teens who never knew their parent reminds us to #NeverForget.
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RT @HistoricalPics: Salvador “I don’t do drugs I am drugs” Dalí painting The Face of War, 1941
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I wonder if the rise of fast recompile languages correlated to decline in thoughtful mental code-tracing and debugging.
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RT @altclassic: “One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’ and put on ‘I Feel Love”-DB https:…
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Where is the deeply researched docudrama about what happened to Montel Jordan? Amid “Pulp Fiction” and 1995 ésprit he seemed assured glory.
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Judging by mass incarceration rates, I wonder: “Will prisons become the melting pot we always believed our cities were?” #5446wasmynumber
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#tryswiftnyc feels like the conference that changed my life and put me on Ruby years ago. Swift is going to be huge by this feel.
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Been a while since Big Blue seemed so relevant and edgy but with Watson, Swift extensions for web, Kitura. I say ¡WELCOME BACK! #tryswiftnyc
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@IBM staff CRRRRUUUSSSHHHHEEEED this morning. Swift in Linux more performant than Java and node. 👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻 #tryswiftnyc
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Communicating Across Uncrossable Expanses | August 30
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Mobile Upload: The fabulous stage for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." | August 27
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RT @altclassic: 36 years ago today, #DavidBowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Ashes To Ashes’
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RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Windows users with bash.
Linux users with PowerShell.
FreeBSD users with WiFi.
It’s been a crazy year.
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When you love actresses with dark under eye circles and aren’t sure if it’s ok to tell them that you love their circles. #takes12know1
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Through the air I go into tomorrow. 🗽
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One might bemoan the state of diversity in techl, but today I saw a db table with a column of first names that included: “Ta-Nehisi”
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New metric for hotels: can you hear tall men urinating in other rooms while lying in bed?
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@dstfelix on @ForColoredNerds. Loosely quoted: “Wes Anderson is Tyler Perry for white people.” I died.
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Genius @samesmail of #MrRobot tested audience’s implicit bias: 2 hijabi, boy named Mohammed playing with a passenger plane. Nervous? Why?
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I am in love with prose style and economy ofin Ch.1 of Thinking Recursively with Java by Eric Roberts
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Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City (via @Pocket) cc:@convojito
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Turned off the AC’s. No fan running. Just the peace and quiet of sirens and 8.4 * 10**6 million people going about their lives.
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RT @catallman: RIP, Seymour Papert, who died today at 88. Co-invented the LOGO learning programming language
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NYC Trifecta: Dude rich enough for a high rise apt. with a rain bath shower. With a window with blinds. That he leaves up, #dgaf-stylee.
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Marni Nixon screen test: she kills in vibrato, pitch, tone and smiles at every phrase’s ending. When done, she smirks at the camera #ripboss
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In #nyc summer, women’s fashion gains the options of “fancy short opened-back hospital gown” and “fancy shortened finger-painting smock.”
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Quick way to test if you’re dead: Listen to @lissiemusic ’s “My Own Wild West.” Did you feel nothing? You are dead. Otherwise, yay.
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If you say you’ll have time for diversity after you get things going, you’re assuming that you can reach success without a diverse team.
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If anyone knows where to get BLACK @RedVines in Manhattan let me know. NOT Twizzlers; NOT red red vines. Thought this city had everything.
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@aviflombaum @SaraJChipps “Will I actually be writing pentameter if I get this job?” “No you’ll be shifting haiku by one syllable.” #broken
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In which Gilmore girls predicts me life arc: WOMAN: Dave, do you have your space pen? MAN: Do you have to ask?
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RT @SarahSoWitty: I think David Bowie was holding this world together a lot more than we ever comprehended.
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3/3 As urban, globalized centers get tired of eye-rolling at their reactionary birthmother nation states, will they go global?
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2/3: @paragkhanna wrote in Connectography, p. 75: “London props up England’s depreseed depopulated [pro-Leave] regions…liabilit[ies]”
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1/3 Idea: Londonexit: A Hansa-inspired free-trade city linked to Hansastad M’chester and EU country Scotland in a commonwealth 1/3
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Pullman on UK: cobwebbed, rotten, diseased and decaying mess of a patched-up, cobbled-together, bloated, corrupted, leaking stinking hulk
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I’ve lain with the Devil / Cursed God Above / Forsaken Heaven / To Bring You My Love – @PJHarveyUK still levels mountains 21 years later
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Parag Khanna's Connectography and Refactoring by Martin Fowler | June 1
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Remixing Political Parties | May 25
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Mobile Upload: Evening, crossword, bed, poodle, sun, Hudson, New Jersey, America. | May 22
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Her seduction of me was intense: a stare, licking of lips. I adjusted my jacket to find a blob of shallot cream cheese on my lapel. #nyclife
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Guy Clark Remembered | May 18
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Guy Clark & Emmylou Harris | May 18
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Just daydreamed while listening to “Don’t Give Up On Me” that @lissiemusic held a LissiePalooza in a field on her farm. Camping. Bees. <3
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Emmylou Harris | May 12
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I’m struck by how closely Typescript resembles Swift. They are preparing to heal the Great Schism.
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Amid these political times I wonder…what if parties funded partisans having children. “Love America, have another kid that votes!”
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The Artist Prince Dies | April 25
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Flooded Houston | April 20
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C64 gamers: A game where you set up a maze and then place a ball. Hoping your placed walls, springs, etc. guide it to the end safely?
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Best perk of working from a Brooklyn Deli: The swingy bounce of Dion, the Shirelles, and Frankie Valli keeps the afternoon lag at bay. #NYC
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A Different Political Map | April 15
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Dr. Strange is Coming | April 14
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Since the last 20 years of “internet innovation” have been HTML-wrapped replacements of Unix tools, what’s the one for Usenet?
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Scifi told us humans would invent robots, indulge and become lazy. It never told us how humanity made it from everyone works to no one works
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Frankly, I’m kinda glad so many people are leaving Twitter. It’s more targeted and digestible. Like it was when it started.
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I shudder at #election 2016 recalling @Shteyngart:: “…an angry man risen and ready to punch, celebrated itself throughout the night.”
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RT @tomgara: This is definitely the deepest and most metaphysical question posed by NYC subway ticket machines
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"When Calls the Heart" | March 16
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RT @NightValeRadio: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a cursed talisman must be in want of a hex re…
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@stevelosh Just came across your why I two-space post and I love it so much. cc/@DanielMiessler
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How glorious is #NYC today? Windows open, breezes, chirping birds, barking dog, “HEY ASSHOLE YOU GONNA PULL OVER OR WHAT?”
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My printer model number ends in “-DW” I secretly dream that it means “Deutsche Welt” and my printer delivers int’l news w/ a pleasant accent
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@lisperati the Land of Lisp song has such a Camper Van Beethoven feel to it. In a good way. #takethelambdasbowling
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RT @SICPQuotes: As far as anyone knows, mutability and delayed evaluation do not mix well in programming languages
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RT @altclassic: Nick Cave & PJ Harvey
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Fellow liberals: I saw 2 Dominican car service drivers agreeing that Trump is right, is going to get trash out. Our model needs updating.
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@kelleydeal makes some beautiful textiles. Wow. Coder, guitarist, knitter, entrepreneur.
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RT @claytoncubitt: Millennials mate when the female shyly extends her selfie stick into the charging port of the male’s drone, exchanging w…
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Planning One's Demise Well | February 22
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What work of literature captures the post-9/11 era the best? I’ll contend de Lillo’s Underworld was the final coda to Cold War mentality
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Umberto Eco, who introduced me to semiotics & hermeneutics, passes on. PARS EIUS SUPER ALTA PERENNIS ASTRA FERATUR
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PARIS GELLER: [Asked “Is it raining?”] No, it’s national baptism day. Tie your tubes, idiot. #GilmoreGirls
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RT @altclassic: Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand” reimagined as a Dr. Seuss Book via @DrFaustusAU #NickCave
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Has anyone (else) noticed the virulent expansion of the prefix “super-” these days? It’s super-everywhere. Is it an NYC thing? Feels larger
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Movie: "Dope" | February 18
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Like Mark Twain imagining a vacation so well he didn’t need to go, years of imagining Portal didn’t dampen the brilliance of the game.
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Bobby Gentry: "Fancy" | February 9
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Mobile Upload: Yankee Achievement Unlocked: LL Bean Boots for the mud season. | February 9
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@damon was one of the forces that got me into Ruby, 6 years later I’m writing Ruby curriculum at @devbootcamp
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Mobile Upload: The art from our bed is pretty good. Oh that's a window. | February 6
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Nathaniel Rateliff | February 6
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What does this say about programming? @fractionalgames game “SOMA’s” biggest scare has been a puzzle where you resolve module dependencies
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Only one drawback to bingeing “Gilmore Girls” during a blizzard: that theme song … Nice once a year but 6 times in a day…no.
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Mobile Upload: Blizzard: Five Hours Later & No End in Sight | January 23
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Mobile Upload: After dog walk came dog bath and pre-breakfast | January 23
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Canadian Pop Icon | January 22
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Bernie Sanders | January 19
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Mobile Upload: A night time run with a wild snow-loving beast. | January 18
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RT @Blackamazon: If you are not ready to deal with #newyorkvalues you aren’t ready to govern a lemonade stand let alone this country
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Millennials complain about “adulting” often, but I feel like I am “corporating” so well when I actually submit my expense report.
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The moment you hit PUBISH on a blog post your proof reading accuracy goes up 1000x. #internetfact
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I started playing SOMA. I haven’t played games in years so now I’m scared about dying. Add a controller I don’t understand and i’m in panic.
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My Favorite Bowie | January 11
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😭 Mobile Upload: So long, Starman. We all owe you so very much 😭 | January 11
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RT @mariofusco: The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise
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I’d like to say my #favoritebowie is “Heroes” but my heart’s dark clouds demand it be “Ashes to Ashes.”
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Re-watching S1 “Gilmore girls” with @lauren_n_roth and it holds up. Still sweet, touching, funny. ❤️
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RT @kerrizor: Of all the technical skills I possess, “Reading the error” is one I’ve never regretted maxing out on.
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When I visit @amazon with my VPN on I get asked whether I which Chinese experience I want. Using @digitalocean + OpenVPN. What is this?
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If entering a federal building with munitions doesn’t get a white person labelled a terrorist what does? #AskingForAFriend
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Many of us use an editor that doesn’t charge, but isn’t “free.” Why not start off the year right by paying for your editor?
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Decided I felt really New Yorker when at some rando discount store in Brooklyn “The Tide is High” by Blondie came on and I sang with relish.
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@awkwafina What happened in your S1 Lil’ Debbie tawk? Was she just so intense you could only edit a gibbering, baffled 1 minute?
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Moved to @TMobile for Christmas: a provider that treats and adult nerd like one: it’s all just data. So far so good.
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Mobile Upload: "There are many sleeping surfaces but the best is your outerwear." | December 26
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Mobile Upload: Some elf who loves me wants me to knit many round things. | December 26
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Awkwafina | December 24
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@awkwafina discovered yellow ranger on vice. You’re so awesome and rep BK so well: “90 mins later waitin’ for the g train”. #getitin2016
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RT @SICPQuotes: The complexity of imperative programs becomes even worse if we consider applications in which several processes execute con…
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Chicago! | December 20
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Mobile Upload: Kinski and Sarandon? Cocaine apparently was one hell of a drug. | December 20
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The more I think about it the more true “Super Sad True Love Story” is. And that is sad. It’s a book that lingers with you.
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Mobile Upload: My 4th knitting project: a mangled cabled beanie | December 12
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Whence pro-Trump rage? Maybe seeing liberal metros becoming more powerful, populated, prosperous, influential from Reagan tax policy?
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@stevelosh My dad showing me RPN was a moment that set up my tech career. Fascinating to encounter these moments in tangible history.
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No more Hanukkah tweets. #blessed I live in a country that has such a positive history with transcending bias and letting refugees in
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Tonight at grand army plaza there was a Hanukkah celebration with an shredder guitar player riffing on tunes in the key of d-menorah.
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I’m going to mull wine, drink it, eat indian food, watch #masterofnone, knit, drink theraflu, snuggle my poodle. Hi haters.
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Speaking of #MasterOfNone: I think it may be the first really great work of “millennial” television. Nothing but respect for the beauty.
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@EAT24 for indian food because @azizansari ’s dad asking about papadum in #masterofnone got me jonesing hard. I <3 Papa Ansari: So funny!
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Death of Scott Weiland | December 4
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Mobile Upload: Paint me like one of your French poodles. | December 3
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Mobile Upload: My Black Knitted Cap and Black Dog | December 3
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Crypto on Ice | November 30
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Tribute to Kate Bush | November 30
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@jcsalterego Leroy Jenkins IKEA life hack: always leave with sweet rolls and coffee and you’re always a winner
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The film “Brooklyn” is wonderful.
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@Theangelreda “Chicago” last night was a revelation. Your performance was all sorts of fierce. Not normally my word choice but Day-um!
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English is Odd | November 23
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RT @cortronic: [best Billy Idol voice]
It’s a nice day for a… light sweater
WHOA… It’s a nice day for a… CARDIGAAAAAN
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The narrator of Weezer’s “No One Else” is a possessive misogynist. He needs therapy.
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That part after watching #CrazyExGirlfriend where you find the explicit version of a song and love It even more.
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One of the best things about life in #NYC is the relatively high probability you’ll hear Miles Davis.
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Is #CrazyExGirlfriend character Mrs Hernandez actually an angel who only serves to guide you to your better nature? I think yes.
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One Year in New York | November 15
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Trying to Decipher Fancy German-American Longhand | November 13
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We await something that will unite mankind and transcend race, nation, and religion. We need PS4 multiplayer online Katamari Damacy.
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@lauren_n_roth notes in “Flashdance” the welder who works out 3x daily, bikes P’burgh is suddenly weak when assaulted by a skinny tough.
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Worried about a candidate on an entertainment show? Recall how well that worked for sax-candidate Bill Clinton on “Arsenio.” #oshit
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Polite warning. Only 2 weeks til Christmas @sheandhim hits steady rotation. ❤️ @ZooeyDeschanel and @mwardtweeting
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Mobile Upload: I knit Byron a scarf from scrap string. He seems comfy in it. | November 7
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I love the songs on #CrazyExGirlfriend in explicit form … but also think that the TV-appropriate have an adorable, charming cleverness.
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Knitting! | November 5
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@CW_CrazyXGF is the first show I’ve watched on @CW_network since “Gilmore Girls.” It’s hilarious and @Racheldoesstuff is so talented.
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Mobile Upload: The articles in the Brooklyn Eagle of the Gilded Age are truly beyond compare | October 25
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Mobile Upload: My Original American Ancestor in the "Brooklyn Eagle" | October 21
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Mobile Upload: Beautiful Lauren and Byron at Gifford Woods, VT. | October 18
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@NekoCase in part based on you, we spent last 5 days camping in Vermont and reveling in its beauty. Lovely pics you’re posting.
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Mobile Upload: Nothing says justice tempered with mercy... | October 16
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Lauren, s'mores, snuggles, and a wary poodle in Vermont. | October 12
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"Frog Bog" | September 27
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Losing Women in our Workplaces Due to Toxicity | September 20
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RT @yaboybillnye: if a spider in your room dont freak out. That dude just wants to help u kill flies, keep u company, talk about girls etc …
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Listening to Peart on “YYZ” I realize what it is I’ve loved about my favorite Rush music: they’re soundtracks.
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#Vim users love movies like “The Matrix” & “Dark City” because they believe that separate realities can be overlain by a single buttonpress.
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Why I code: “in the practice…we obtain special opportunities to perceive uniformity amidst variety and…conceive ideas of beauty” J.W.McA
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Halsey | September 2
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VMA ad in the Wall Street subway
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Book: Cataloging the World | August 27
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I was not born to the Northeast, but deep in my nucleotides a persistent whisper keeps telling me that summer has entered its final act.
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@linkblaine: “You got your fountain pen repaired in the same amount of time it took me to eat lunch?” Yes. #onlyinnyc #dbclife
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The Trump candidacy reminds me of the fun ha-ha spirit of the Schwarzenegger bid for CA gov. We pulled Brown out of retirement after.
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RT @altclassic: On this day in 1994, Portishead released their excellent debut album “Dummy”
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RT @altclassic: This day in ‘02, Interpol released their debut “Turn On the Bright Lights” directly influenced by the post-punk scene http:…
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The awkward moment when you’re doing genealogy research and you come across the noun “octoroon.” #genealogy
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@antiheroine I knew I’d crossed some “Wonder Years” threshold when I asked for the salad bar at Ruby Tuesday’s.
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For all who do genealogy research the loss of the 1890 census marks a baffling and frustrating but loss. #backupyopunchcards
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Mobile Upload: WNYC | August 11
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Happy Birthday to Me | August 11
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Good birthday party day: party, tightened my iptable rules, added VPN certs. Good day
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The piano on “Lady Stardust” is magical: a perfect thing. The phrasing on the vocals, sublime. ❤️ @DavidBowieReal 🌠👱🏻
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Taylor Mac and Brooklyn United Marching Band at the Celebrate Brooklyn Bandshell | August 6
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The Keep | August 6
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Things I love: ssh-agent(1)
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Birthday Party | August 4
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@lissiemusic oh yes! Your ass kicking show inspired my girlfriend to pick a fight with attendees who wouldn’t shut up during the show. ❤️U!
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At the #NightlyShow. So excite
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RT @mxngyn: Wrote some tips on the post-bootcamp job hunt. Hoping @devbootcamp grads will find it helpful :)
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Never understood @FreePeople when I was in SF, but after 1 New York summer I totally get it. cc:@MissMauriss
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On Wall Street today I saw a clear garbage bag full of pudding. Wait, that /was/ pudding, right?
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S/O to mah peeps who get cripplingly depressed on holidays because they judge their holidays’ recollection against impossible narratives.
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RT @usedwigs: Hi, I’m your waiter Jeff, let me tell you about The Specials. The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band from Covent…
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Amy Schumer: "The Sh*tter" | June 29
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@marthakelly Alan Kay on the origins of small talk. Friendly. Relevant. 30 years of time travel.
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RT @azizshamim: OH: SF tech culture is focused on solving one problem: What is my mother no longer doing for me?
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Southern Disinformation | June 23
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The Accent of Pop-Punk | June 22
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I am so frustrated with trying to build iOS apps. Photocopies of ID, laggy replies, accepted agreements not seen by Xcode, etc. #hamstrung
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Byron and Tallulah | June 12
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RT @BKLYNlibrary: If you think #Bloomsday is totally played out, may we suggest #Dalloday?
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"Hazy Shade of Winter" | June 7
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Sizzler | June 5
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Kids in the @BKLYNlibrary lab were using a 3D printer. Yes friends, their future STARTS with “artifacts can be coded and fab’d in an hour.”
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@tomdale I miss adventure gaming SO VERY MUCH. “Monkey Island” was the doula to the birth of my sense of humor.
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The Brooklyn central library: doing nothing to discourage the Masonic / Thelemic conspiracy theory.
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I found a great map in an online collection that I want to frame. How do I make it a pretty on-paper artifact?
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Sentence Diagramming | May 29
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Mobile Upload: Mom and Aunt make the lunch and day drankin' scene in Williamsburg | May 25
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Summer Cut for Byron | May 18
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Given the success of #MadMaxFuryRoad and “Dark Knight Rises,” I may never understand another line of Tom Hardy dialog ever again.
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Choose Your Partner | May 16
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Playing Metroid now would be much better since I could snap a phone pic of the save codes.
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Time for some #realtalk #vim users: we all have a file in our home directory called :w.
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NYC is glorious today.
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@debbiemadden200 is a ferocious and fearless leader. He wisdom about leadership is still echoing in the earholes of my memory.
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The feeling when you get your @VirginAmerica notification for a flight tmw when you THOUGHT you were flying Wed. $150 goof on my part :(
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Dr. Doom on Bedtime | April 17
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Took a half day off for a dentist, a pint, a slice of pizza, a beautiful Spring stroll Park Slope and research into the bio of Dr. Doom.
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As we consider our next President I am more drawn to the story of Dr. Viktor von Doom: a paternalistic absolutist we can believe in.
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Destructive dog is destructive.
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Mobile Upload: Dusk begins to draw the shadows long and a chill blows in | April 12
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RT @sarahmei: Beginners don’t have intentions. They’re searching for the dev equivalent of shelter & food. Intentions are way further up th…
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Snow Dog | March 25
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Touch Isolation | March 21
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Amtrak with Hound? | March 5
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Mobile Upload: I find the quiet and stillness of snowfall very relaxing. | March 5
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Mobile Upload: After a walk through late winter slush it seemed nice to dry out on a blanket in the window. | March 4
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Mobile Upload: Happy 1 year birthday to the Russo x Carly litter of Karbit Poodles | February 25
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Dog "vision" with a nose | February 12
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Anaraktu | February 10
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Good morning from Park Slope!
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What if the Oddyssey is the story of Ulysses’ 10-year voyage of trying to come to terms with his PTSD?
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TIL: “Glee” is still on.
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Oakland Sports | January 29
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Once there was a place called South Park Meadows. A guy called Gordon sang there. #atx
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Updated M-B Inventory | January 18
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Jeff Duntemann’s book on assembly is lucid and funny including jussive orders for other authors on the topic to be hanged.
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Commodity Prosthetics | January 8
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RT @bcantrill: “I have moved to Vermont, and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”
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Just completed a 3.70 mi run - First run with Byron as my copilot. Not the most constant of partners … #RunKeeper
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Viktoria Modesta | December 25
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#NowPlaying Blue Christmas Michael Bublé • Christmas on #Spotify | December 25
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Mobile Upload: Lauren got us a new ornament for this past year | December 25
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Mobile Upload: After days of rain, Byron get his Christmas wish for his sunbeam | December 25
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Cats | December 25
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It is almost 2015. Yosemite has been 2 minutes from being done installing for the last hour.
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More on Coding Boot Camps | December 22
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#capcom released super puzzle fighter for iOS. Joystick and buttons is faster than touch.
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What would you call a store where Fresh Direct trucks stocked the shelves and you could go there and buy stuff without a web as middleman?
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Why Latin prepares you for a career in programming, writing, or flat-out thinking: a steady method for debugging:
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Found my people: bought drill bits, found books on Ottoman Empire and objective C in the sidewalk, now donuts & home. #bklynlyfe
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Thanksgiving | November 27
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To be fair to the original book, it’s kinda cool that on the overhead slide spells BARBIE in Binary. #FeministHackerBarbie #JusSaying
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“Hey we need a different cable modem.” I guess we have to pick one up tomorrow? No, 24 hour Best Buy because New York
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What hell of a neighborhood have I moved to where they leave this around for children to find? #vim4eva
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Where have you been!?!? #theraflu
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When I left CA for the third time.
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Sold my car. Farewell silver steed. Now anti car grandstanding: “Ugh. Cars! Why!!!!!??????”
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2000CE EMERYVILLE scene: homeless piloting carts past liquor stores / check cashing; 2014: Range Rover piloting kids to guitar lessons #bye
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@qrush @jamesgolick spoiled by NorCal nature and beauty, and with a dog, NYS beckons.
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@MarinasDiamonds writes another killer hook that you can’t shake: “I’ve been saving all my summers for you, like #FROOT.”
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Mobile Upload: Lauren and Sassy Princess at Mission Creek dog park | November 10
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If I had any artistic talent I would paint 80’s era vintage pastel watercolors of poodles playing racquet sports.
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Been living in the bay area now for 10+ years, but I’m going to drop my cool messenger bag pretense: I’m bringin’ JanSport back.
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The surprising / fascinating part of #DearWhitePeople was that racism is shown as an effect of and accelerator unto capitalist exploitation.
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@erinmkidwell See you soon!
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NYC for San Franciscans | October 28
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Why is it everyone is super awesome right before you decide to leave a place? Or is it prenostalgia messing with me?
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Learn to use a sliderule #BucketList
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Last week while in Brooklyn, we watched “Manhattan.” ‘Twas a very @ChronSnob moment.
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RT @ntlk: “I’m afraid of the angry privileged white man protecting what he does have”
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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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wore a bow time for the first time…definitely less of a force choke feeling. may try again.
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So, we’re moving to New York City:
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Moving to New York | October 9
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Byron | October 9
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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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Catching Up to 2014 | October 8
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Who designed this famous and haunting cover of Camus’ “The Stranger?” #peoplewithhats #art #bookcovers
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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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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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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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RT @LoveAt1stByte: .@courteneyervin “somewhere in the ocean of #developer sweat, there’s a sea of developer tears” #FOCUS100
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@mxngyn @devbootcamp it will only change your life: it’s important to set realistic expectations. 😉
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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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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 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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@SashaLaundy I love unix history
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Mobile Upload: Byron took the Bimmer out for a drive | September 14
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Kate Bush is amazing:
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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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If I could live in the Los Angeles evoked by @jennylewis songs, I would consider living in Los Angeles. #thevoyager
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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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For when you’ miss New Orleans ♫ Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament) – Hurray For The Riff Raff #NowPlaying
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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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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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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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@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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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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@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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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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The Raveonettes New Release | July 25
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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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Mobile Upload: Byron loves sleeping in the crook of an old neck pillow | July 24
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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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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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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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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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Mobile Upload: Byron loves his morning post-exercise snuggle and nap | July 6
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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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SoMa-poodle 🐩
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Mobile Upload: Byron goes to Philz in Mission Bay | June 30
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Mobile Upload: Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach with vaccinated puppy | June 29
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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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Byron loves the beach.
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Byron and I at Ocean Beach.
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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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Just rediscovered a band that I was really into in the 90s: the doors. Man that stuff is phenomenal.
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JFK selfie with Byron.
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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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Proof I was in New York.
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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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Reading about the battle of Brooklyn when the tide came in. My soggy love of history.
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The Onion on Adulting | June 7
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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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I love NY. ❤️🗽
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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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Tolkein's "Beowulf" | June 1
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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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New York is understimulating
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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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Mobile Upload: Feel the ocean breeze, see the hint of fog, smell the tendrils of sea air | May 25
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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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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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If your Mother’s Day brunch wore you out, follow Byron’s example: take a dignified nap.
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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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Mobile Upload: Byron showing the post-bathroom outside treat: the puppy run! | May 7
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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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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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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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Mobile Upload: Lauren and I went out to dinner this weekend | April 28
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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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Mobile Upload: Chez nous aujourd'hui: coffee et coffee-cake! | April 27
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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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This place has played Sheena E, Lisa Lisa, and the Jets. I am now missing the LATE 1987.
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Favorite cameo in #CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier: bottle of Newman’s Own sauce in Redford’s refrigerator. Nice touch.
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True fact: insomnia means I refactor rails controllers as object lessons for @devbootcamp in the morning.
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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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Guy Clark: Songwriter | March 25
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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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Mobile Upload: Elevation and pace are inversely correlated - as expected :) | March 24
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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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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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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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Seen today in San Francisco:skort
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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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Sandman Exhibit | March 8
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Graduation day at @devbootcamp. Awesome projects from great teams. 9 weeks of hard work has made some great projects.
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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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Girls in Startups | February 16
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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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Ah stormy weather watching surfers at the taco bell with Swing Out Sister. It truly is better to travel.
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Walking to work sometimes I look up and POW: tower, bay, badminton, bridge, and Chinese ballads
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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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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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Bad Suns | January 22
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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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@LykkeLi makes such beautiful music. And videos with stellan skarsgard. But beautiful music mostly.
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I pray for Lorde, a flaming haired curly sword of righteousness to destroy pop music utterly.
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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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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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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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@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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Watching “Mary Poppins” as an adult leads to the uncomfortable realization that Michael Banks was the “In Flanders Field” generation.
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Stepdad loves investigative TV: finding missing person is debugging; surviving Alaskan winter, debugging. Everything is debugging.
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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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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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@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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Mobile Upload: Swedish-American Society's observation of Ste. Lucia | December 8
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Our wintertime house cleaning music involves a lot of Peter Hook and Morrissey/Marr.
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Mobile Upload: One of my favoritest pictures ever: Us at Wilkins / Caffalete Wedding | December 7
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Albino crocodile.
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The Phenomenon: Lorde | December 5
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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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Gonna visit some of my favorite ursids!
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Nirvana Bomb | November 20
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My day has been awesome.
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At Oakland Zoo!!!
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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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RT @charliesome: yak frame - n. a yak shaving stack frame. ex: “I’m currently 3-4 yak frames deep”
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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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Mobile Upload: Happy snuggly early winter from the glorious Golden Gate city. | November 12
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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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South, East, southeast, southwest, west. Golden gate. Atlantic foam. It’s a big, beautiful country.
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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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@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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Possibly the first and last time I will present at a conference with Atlantic sand on my feet.
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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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Camus the Tender | November 8
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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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Tourist asked for help at SFO AirTrain. Mid-explanation it dawned on me: SFO IS SHAPED LIKE A TOILET SEAT.
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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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My friends’ wedding recessional music: a highly syncopated duet for cello and violin: “Thrift Shop”
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Cheese Eating Machine | October 31
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SITM Halloween | October 31
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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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Mobile Upload: "Sandman" retrospective coming to San Francisco | October 29
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Mobile Upload: Walked the new Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge | October 27
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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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RT @hwinkler4real: It’s important to remember : after jumping the shark, the show was number one for 5 more years
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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 @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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@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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Read twitter again for the first time in weeks. Yep. Still like one long comments section.
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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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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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What?! The Misfits covered a rocky horror song!? Why did no one tell me of this? #NowPlaying
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Mobile Upload: Puzzle notes page from Silent Hill 2. | September 16
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Neko Case Breaks Hearts | September 15
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Have kid? Want broken heart? This one. ♫ Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case #NowPlaying
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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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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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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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Neko, Neko: To be seen next week! So excite! ♫ Fall 2013 by Steven Harms #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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Neko Case: "Man" | August 27
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Fashionable women at (particularly tech!) work: damned if they do, damned if they don’t:
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Blog: Talking to Friends with Children:
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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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@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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Good, dreamy, folky? Interesting. Will listen to more. ♫ Myth – Beach House #NowPlaying
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The Ultimate Power Trip | August 13
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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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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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Building a Wall-E Robot | August 6
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Music of the Day | August 6
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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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Birth | July 28
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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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Scored Neko Case Tickets | July 26
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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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@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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"I Love It" Reinterpreted | July 22
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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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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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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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Seriously, if “Love fool” is where you stopped listening to the Cardigans…fix it. #NowPlaying
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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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tmux is my favorite os
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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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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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@rachelmyers My favorite TA’s were women and now are all well placed :) Long live UT Department of Philosphy :)
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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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Was the original augmented reality the mind palaces (journeys) constructed to house oral traditions? Explains peripatetic instruction.
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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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Her hair is Harlow gold:
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@avdi asthmatic here too. Every mile is a kick to my childhood misery’s face. Also living in concrete helps.
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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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@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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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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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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Margaritas in west Hollywood.
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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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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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Ffffuuu: Patti Smith + Joy Division + Interpol + Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Hard punk art. Ffffuuuu ♫ Husbands – Savages
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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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@MarinasDiamonds So excited to see you tonight in the City in the beautiful Warfield.
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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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Anachronistic office issue at @ShopItToMe: fountain pen ink splatter. #madmenworldproblems
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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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New US Industries | April 26
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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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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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Spring Break and Tech Conferences | April 15
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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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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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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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Models of Computer Science's Science: Formal versus Empirical | April 4
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Never Too Late | April 4
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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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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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@listrophy HELL YES. Loved their ending the 90 degree tyranny of LEGO. Also capsella?
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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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@miceland thinking of you buddy: ♫ The Robots - 2009 Digital Remaster – Kraftwerk #Spotify
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Mobile Upload: I Am Rarely Called Slow to Act / Anger / React | March 26
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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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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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Mobile Upload: Oh it's the "Everything I hated about 90's music" tour! | March 21
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@laurennicoleroth Have some Joy Formidable to get the day going :) ♫ Whirring – The Joy Formidable #Spotify
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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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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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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 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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Brilliant. A stunning display of how meter works. With vibrophones. ♫ Rag Mop – Lionel Hampton #Spotify
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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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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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Might i dare to dream that this will also allow, at long last, decent CTAGS generation for javascript?
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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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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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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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Given the amount of bloody noses I’ve had this winter, I want cool psychokinetic powers like in “Firestarter.”
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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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@MissMauriss cc:@akudlick @rafaelsolari I’m not sure I can console ember camp if you don’t come.
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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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@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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Command Line Friendly Java Development Setup | February 3
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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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Blog: On Zero Dark Thirty:
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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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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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I’ve been a vegetarian now for a fortnight. I feel great and have had some wonderful dishes out.
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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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Fart Patio | January 16
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New Kavinsky, the aural genius behind “Nighcall” from “Drive.” ♫ Protovision – Kavinsky #Spotify
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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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@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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Closing out chambers in the TL.
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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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Scumbag calendar: reassess your life right after three feasting and drinking holidays.
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Mobile Upload: So the person I'm "In A Relationship" with updates her picture, then Facebook shows me blonde, single women | December 30
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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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Like all good geek SF households, we inaugurate all new TV’s with Khaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn!
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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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My favorite Xmas baritone.
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A moody Ventura county vista.
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Mobile Upload: Look what I can home to! Potatoes au gratin and salad! | December 21
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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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I feel like I just ascended in Javascript. I intentionally used hoisting instead of avoiding it breaking my program. #xmasmiracle
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Cold at Work | December 19
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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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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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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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@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: Helen Keller meets Martha Graham:
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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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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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At the rockabilly show dancers and greasers collide and the bass string abuse line is called.
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Sandi Metz Live | November 7
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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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Chris Rock for Obama | November 4
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Just completed a 2.91 mi run - Ran with Lauren to trader joes north beach. #RunKeeper
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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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Listened to this most of today. Pretty good. ♫ Stubborn Love – The Lumineers #Spotify
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Mobile Upload: If there's a bustle in the corn maze, don't be alarmed at it. | October 23
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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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“@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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Just completed a 8.03 mi run - Night run through the park. Need a personal illumination tool. . #RunKeeper
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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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Today represents the kind of challenging day where only a double-shot of espresso and “Red Barchetta” can help. #rushfanforever
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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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If this doesn’t make you glad to be alive… ♫ Exactly Like You – Django Reinhardt #Spotify
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The awesome Kim Lenz at the Verdi Club.
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Oktoberfest
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Mobile Upload: Kim Lenz | September 28
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The Cardigans may be remembered for “Lovefool” but their “Gran Turismo” quite nearly perfect. ♫ Perfect Things
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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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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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On leash means on leash.
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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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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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Stop to smell them.
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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’m entirely staggered that this record came out in 1983. Sounds current and edgy today, still. #Spotify
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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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Got tickets for the last weekend of les miserablès in SF with @laurennroth . So excited. #teameponine.
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Loving the movie Drive | August 24
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Post: Seeing “Ruby Sparks” and women leads stop “needing” to “save” or “rescue” the men:
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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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Migrating from Web Hosting + Wordpress to ... Free! (Jekyll + Heroku + Google) | August 20
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The Girlfriend | August 20
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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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Urban Planning and 50 Shades of Gray | August 16
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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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@laurennroth is playing some Siouxsie. It’ stunning that 30 years (!) later she still sounds like she cut those tracks today.
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Bringing code into compliance with Vim, :argdo, ack case study: Upgrading to Ember 1.0-pre | August 4
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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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@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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Marina (of the diamonds), Amanda Palmer seem to both be bearers of shattered shards of Weimar cabaret.
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So glad to see the re-interpretation of 50’s era sounds with electronica (Grimes) or noise (Raveonettes). #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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Adding Unicode symbols at the command line in Mac OSX using iTerm2 | July 29
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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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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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Just once I’d like to hop on muni and hear some Wagner or Holst leaking out of headphones.
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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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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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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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Saw #sfgiants Madison Bumgarner shut out Cincinnati last night with the @shopittome crew.
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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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Seeing “the magic flute” at #sfopera. the synopsis suggests a golden dawn / Tarot / Masonic allegory. Hermes trismegistus here we come!
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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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I was wrong. The new Wes Anderson movie #moonrisekingdom is wonderful, his best since “Rushmore.”
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My homage to Ray Bradbury:
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RIP Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles have an elegiac beauty that has rarely been repeated.
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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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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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The end! Such a fun run!
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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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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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Maluca Mala | April 27
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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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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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At the sf javascript meetup, er, the gotye show. Missy Higgins is doing a blistering opener.
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Went to the lunch spot across the street: lovely day with downtown reflected behind Lauren.
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Mr. Yorke and the lads.
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The Rasperry Pi | April 6
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Asian / caucasian understanding society in a tenderloin bar: “I love white people’s big noses. May I touch yours?”
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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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Trip to Yosemite | March 24
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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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Thoughts about "Dune" | March 14
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Technical outreach curricula lose enthusiasts with git?: cc/ @ultrasaurus @sarahmei @AshAnvik @reneighbor
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Technical Outreach Workshops: Needlessly Frightening at the Beginning | March 12
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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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Morrissey Music: 8-bit style | March 6
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New Layout Test | February 25
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Regulation | February 22
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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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Anatomical Art from Paper | February 6
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Really, there’s nothing like Alejandro Escovedo to put you in an AustinTX state of mind.
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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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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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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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Amazon Gets Into Content | January 23
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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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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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Congratulations to the #hungryacademy applicants. Your gumption puts you ahead of 90% of the population; the requisite introspection, 95%.
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In time people will remember that comedienne carrie brownstein plays a great rickenbacher.
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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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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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Back in SFO
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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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@dddagradi while in NOLA check out Bublé’s “Blue Christmas.”. It’s done NOLA jazz style. #srlsly #notjoking
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Last minute decision to see noir city’s cruel Yule. Thanks @melbotis for the reminder!
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“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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Darcy Penguin | December 1
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She and Him Christmas | November 30
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Go see the new muppet movie. It’s great
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Star Crash | November 24
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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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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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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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Proof that God loved America: a handsome quarterback with a surgical arm named “Joe Montana.”
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"Hunger Games" Movie | November 14
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Mobile Upload: My new barbershop serves Hamm's (the beer refreshing, as mom taught me) and plays the Pixies. | November 6
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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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“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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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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My First Week of Development at Carbon Five: By the Numbers | November 2
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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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Just celebrated my first Diwali with my neighbors and @laurennroth. I hope you all are blessed with fortune.
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Hipchat! | October 25
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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 got a halloween costume with @laurennroth. No telling who we are until later…. :)
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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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Congrats to @github on 1Mth user, but man that party is packed. Headed home, nice to see @freeformz and @leahculver.
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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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I caught SNL last night and would like to say that Anna Farris is one of the funniest women ever.
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A Season of New Beginnings: Joining Carbon Five | October 12
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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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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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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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Did a great swamp tour. Held a gator.
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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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#rubyconf ends but it was greatto see @carbonfive, @mirven, @drtoast, @mattt and @laurennroth on a magical night.
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@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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One last git push. 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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#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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@mirven @laurennroth arrives at 7ish. I/we will be over depending on her fatigue. So yes, eventually.
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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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Mobile Upload: Got an autographed "Gravity the Seducer". | September 26
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Lucretius | September 20
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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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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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#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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Judging by their video, “Foster the People” should have been called “Some dudes who work at Facebook who have instruments.”
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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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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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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary." : Nassim Taleb via @eliasbiz
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More Ladytron Beauty | September 11
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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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@pragmaticstudio @jimweirich @chadfowler great news! Jim taught me tdd at @lsrc III and it changed my life
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Jobs and Subtleties | September 8
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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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How amazing would it be if during a technical interview one side asked: “can I do it in awk?”
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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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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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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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Home safe and sound. Now. Sleep
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“Californication” was soooooooo good!
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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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@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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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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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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I’m alone in a Bart car headed to SFO. Feels like Logan’s Run: ominous and efficient.
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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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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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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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Peter Murphy: "I Spit Roses" | August 6
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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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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 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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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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OH: “So what’s her deal? Single, straight, bi, divorced, open relationship?”
#signsyouliveinSF
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Amy Winehouse Died | July 23
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I saw “tree of life” Sunday; fireworks Monday. In Malick’s world this is significant. Cue dinosaurs.
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Breaking up in Hi-Fi | July 1
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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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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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Only in Silicon Valley: “Yeah, I’m just now starting to trust compilers.” Me: “Against interpreted languages?” “No, against assembly.”
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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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RT @Froda: From the #Twilio blog: “Developers Used Twilio to Win Podio API Launch Hack Day”
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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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Saw "Submarine" | June 18
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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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Whole Foods Parking Lot | June 15
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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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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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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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Saw "Kung-Fu Panda 2" | May 31
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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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We just saw kung fu panda 2: better story and artwork than the first. It’s very funny.
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SoMa Maps | May 24
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I Won the Podio API Release Hackathon Competition | May 22
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Gorgeous Ladytron Video | May 21
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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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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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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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Grace Potter! | May 10
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Grace potter. I love your music.
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Do you realize what happened yesterday? The US president had Cobra Commander killed. Suck it, Destro.
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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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Watched "Metropolitan" | April 25
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@seaofclouds What is up with nail clipping in public? What’s next, public manscaping cc/ @dstafford
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Birtherism | April 24
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I, too, am glad I did not come of age in the age of the internets | April 22
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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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One of the best visual explanations of git ever: http://www.ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
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CSS issues | April 14
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Seeing Thee Swank Bastards | April 10
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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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Just caught the swank bastards surfabilly show in north beach. Hula hoop dancers too at the bamboo hut.
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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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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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Early 80's English Bass | March 21
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New Bag | March 21
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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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My new superhero idea: The Mad Wienerian: Pelts baddies with raw hot-dogs, menacing them with bruises and salmonella
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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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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 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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Technology and "Theogeny" | March 2
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The Big Bang | February 27
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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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To say that tmux and iTerm2 have most changed my workflow since moving to Mac in 02 would be accurate.
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Valentine's Day | February 13
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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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The Decemberists’ new record (alt-countryesque?!) is available to stream at KCRW. Colin Meloy can write a great song.
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Good Radiation: NPR fans | January 24
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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 Left-Rights | January 20
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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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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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if there is any modern man meriting the noun “troubadour” in the archaïc sense, it is Paul Simon.
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Saw "Winter's Bone" | January 11
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Goals for This Year | January 11
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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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Pride of Ignorance | January 8
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I’m going to attend an exploratory jiu-jitsu lesson tomorrow. I’m excited to hurt in entirely new ways.
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Snorkeling in Oahu | January 3
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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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Arrived in LA driving thru texas style downpour….surrounded by /Angelenos/ driving in said weather! ;)
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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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Noir at the Castro. “cruel Yule”
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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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The Existential Beauty of Life Wand'ring Lonely as a Cloud | December 11
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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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Dr. Who Cold Open | December 4
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Returning... | November 28
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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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Seriously, why isn’t the tax code released in code? At least then 5% of the population would understand it.
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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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Stunning. — at Hanauma Bay
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Waikiki http://yfrog.com/dyanmgj
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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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#rubyconf attendees beware fleurs-de-lis withdrawal. Symptoms include desire for buttered food, beignets, and rye whiskey.
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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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@freeformz @outerim headed to mothers be there in 5. Meet ye there. Me=tropo t shirt, rolly suitcase.
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I’m at RubyConf 2010 in New Orleans, LA
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I’m at Green Goddess in New Orleans, LA
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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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I’m at Matt’s El Rancho in Austin, TX
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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 amazed by node.js, could we get a demo app between a hello world server and this awesomeness
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GaHool DaHool? | October 23
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Beautiful old depot and French press and coralie clément songs. — at Caffe Del Doge - Caltrain Station
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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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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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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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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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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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I was introduced to Node.js this weekend and am having a hard time keeping it from distracting me.
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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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Just found out about silicon valley code camp. Learn a ton of stuff: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/
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Recommendations I’m Pondering: "The Shallows" Cont’d | October 8
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Mobile Upload: Jets fly loops overt town, from my roof deck. | October 7
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Thanksgiving in Hawaii | October 4
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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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@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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Mobile Upload: Dinner at Broburdur Indonesian resto in SF's nob hill. | September 29
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Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | September 29
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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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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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“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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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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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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I’m at Lighthouse Cinema in CA
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Drink a greater alarm, pay mortgage, read a bit of the farseer trilogy. — at Philz Coffee
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Disney Propaganda | August 30
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New Interpol Video | August 30
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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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Haute Dining in a Field | August 29
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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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Grammar Zombies | August 28
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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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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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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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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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Photo: — at Caltrain - Milbrae
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It’s a heat wave: #SF broke 80 today.
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Belmont is my favorite sf peninsula city because it’s named after Castlevania’s hero.
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Music: Ely Guerra | August 20
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Headed to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/ | August 12
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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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Pure Michigan Ad | August 10
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I love Test-Driven development because it turns the compiler into your ally versus your adversary.
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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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Mobile Upload: More proof SF rules, Rush gets top billing on the SFGate website | August 6
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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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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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Banjo Concert | July 27
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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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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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Introducing Lauren to my favorite Peninsula diner. Good ‘cakes and a nice place to read some Sunday morn — at Sharis
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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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Only in #sf: 100 attendees at social #appworkshop at @heroku at 9am on a Saturday morning. @mperham is here too.
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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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“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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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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David Thorne's Comedy | July 15
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Hot Air Ballooning | July 13
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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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The Wizard of Warranties | June 29
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Photo: — at Sears Fine Food
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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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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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I’m at Chef Chu’s in Los Altos, CA
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I’m at San Bruno Golf Center in CA
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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 Ganim’s in San Francisco, CA
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#youknowyoufromthesouth If you “sir” and “ma’am” everyone and hold doors for ladies.
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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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Running through Golden Gate Park!
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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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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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Health Promotion from my Employer: Get Genetically Screened | June 1
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Java study time — at Philz Coffee
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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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Photo: Great place to celebrate your girlfriend’s new job! — at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar
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I’m at Expert Hair Do in Sunnyvale, CA
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Remember when Mike Dell said apple should liquidate and return its value to shareholders? Wrong.
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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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Levensliederen | May 22
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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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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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A Special Day at Work | May 18
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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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Photo: — at Yoshi’s
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Homeless guy to me: “Hey, (mayor) Gavin (Newsom)! Hey, Gavin! Don’t ignore me!” #allwhiteslookthesameevidently
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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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Vendor Compliment: Wow, it’s refreshing to work with someone who really knows how to use the command line.
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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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I think the percentage of unmarried and smart female characters in Hollywood movies skews abnormally to the occupation “hooker”
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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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Miss @laurennroth just lined us up some great tickets to see the #sfgiants TONIGHT. Let’s go Giii-aaaants!
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Lauren says she decided she loved me about the second tower…years ago now. — at @GGbridge
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Photo: — at Pillar Point Boat Launch
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I’m at Sharis in CA
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Tragedy | April 18
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Preview Markdown as rendered HTML from Vim | April 18
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Decor | April 18
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Coils: Tango and Golf | April 17
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Lesson — at San Bruno Golf Center
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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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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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Marco Borsato: Easter | April 4
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“Resistance” by @muse is this era’s “Mr. Roboto:” scifi / anti-totalitarian themes, Dr. Who synths, awkward rhymes.
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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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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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Finished Daniel Everett's "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" | March 24
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Eyeing — at 829 Folsom
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A bastion of Potrero hill goodness. The Larry birdger is my fave. — at Connecticut Yankee
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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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@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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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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RIP Peter Graves | March 15
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San Francisco is perfect today. Sunny, smiling people, dash of sea breeze, delicious quick edibles. Perfect.
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Boot shopping. — at REI
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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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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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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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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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Funny. Apple’s NSTextArea in-line spellcheck editor recognizes ‘grok’ as a real world. Heinlen’s influence into nerddom=great.
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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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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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My favorite bird is the colorful toucan. Favorite land mammal? The California black bear.
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Mobile Upload: Fink-san will show you the life of the mind. | February 21
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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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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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I’m at Daiso Japan in San Francisco, CA
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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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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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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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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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“[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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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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Hendrick's Gin | February 8
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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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Use your public library! Access SF Public Library without login | February 7
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PostgreSQL database automatic launch on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard | February 5
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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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Meeting Augustine! — at Synopsys HQ
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I’m at Cisco SFO 6 in San Francisco, CA
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Beach picnic at half moon bay
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Mobile Upload: For the team that taught me to like the game. | January 30
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Joojeh! — at Lavash
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saepe stultus privus pecuniae suae est.
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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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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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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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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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Hunt for a temporary SF dwelling enters day 2. Likely prospects. PAC heights, upper Castro
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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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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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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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Just shy of Abilene. http://yfrog.com/3gesdj
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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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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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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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Early Xmas gift to me: I broke through the 200 lb. Weight plateau according to my imprecise bathroom scale.
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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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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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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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About to check out “An Education”.
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"Do you listen to..." | December 9
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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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More Music from Zee Avi | November 24
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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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Month 3 of Running | November 14
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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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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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Ryan Sings Karaoke | November 8
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Horse Riding! | November 8
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Horse Riding in Llano Tx | November 7
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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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Before you begin running | November 6
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I’m going to @rubyconf!
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A "Mad Men" Halloween | November 2
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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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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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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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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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Connie Evingsong | October 11
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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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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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At ruta maya dancing to the jitterbug vipers. Love their singer’s (Katie) voice of melted brass.
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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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The number of bleary eyes behing glasses near austin downtown makes me think it’s allergy or midterm season.
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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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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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1 minor invention every 10 days, 1 major invention every 6 months: TA Edison, agile as f*ck.
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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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Enjoying the beautiful michigan fall in a verdant backyard amidst chirping crickets.
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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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And on this day long rainy day I Austin, KUT plays Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat.”. Gutsy.
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Kotzwinkle | September 7
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Github addition: LatinSyllabator. #Ruby takes #Latin verse, syllabates it and does elisions.
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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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Not Listening | September 4
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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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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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How can it be that we can bail out Detroit and Wall Street, but can’t fund reading rainbow?
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Dana’s presentation on data munging warms the cockles of an ASCII wrangler’s heart @lsrc
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Learning about ‘Puppet’ at @lsrc. Learned some great Unicode tips this morning from James Gray too.
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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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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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Music of Zee Avi | August 17
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New wallet | August 17
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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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First week’s running reward was donuts! Not really, try a bonus run and bonus interval.
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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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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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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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First serious run ever, although at the “gentle introduction” pace you might call it focused meandering.
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On my birthday I bought running shoes. Time to follow @chadfowler’s lead: hack my health.
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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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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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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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Meeting Gina Carano | August 4
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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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In Dallas after sweetJesusSaveMe cannonball run on I35. @laurennroth to drupalify tomorrow.
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Science! Manipulating light | July 31
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Seeing Stellastarr* | July 28
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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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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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Remembering "Fifteen" | July 24
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I saw "Moon" | July 22
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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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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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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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Mimosas and peach pie for breakfast, followed by coffee and Pine Sol. Decadence and deliciousnouss, loveliness and labor.
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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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#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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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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Lauren and Steven give you a new measure of time: The Freebird | July 6
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No, seriously | July 6
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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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Seeing Stellastarr* | July 1
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"Helvetica" the movie | June 30
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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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Republican Governor antics | June 26
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A sunny day in The Marina | June 21
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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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Tarkovsky's "Solaris" | June 18
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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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Music: E.S.T. | June 16
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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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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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@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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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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David Bowie, get me through writing this part of my yearly review. Suffragette City.
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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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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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@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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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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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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First free night out in days. Dinner with my sweetie at HUTTs. Mr. Bleu here I come.
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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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I am learning to appreciate scotch. Finished a glenmorangie 10 and am now trying a macallan 10.
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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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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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rio rita’s got flavah.
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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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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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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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I contend that the greatest rock n’ roll song, in the purest sense of the genre, is “Honky Tonk Women.”
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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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Sinatra is fun, it’s like beating Rails’ routes.rb into an application one URL at a time.
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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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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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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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At lauren’s post operative review.
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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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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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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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Hospital Visit | March 31
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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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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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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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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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there is a dog snoring next to me #vocamp. He is unamused with ontological discussions.
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Kraftwurst | March 27
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Another fun night dancing at the fed.
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I thin he coolest cache software name ever is “tokyo cabinet” @hayesdavis @austinonrails
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Back from jamie’s birthday celebration: red cups, friends, and a surprise east bay visitor.
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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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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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We’ve beenin Austin 3 years but last night @laurennroth had her first casino el camino burger
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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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I love 2^8 o’clock.
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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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Just saw “Penelope”. Possibly the best redbox movie ever. A rich, colorful, whimsical tale about a girl with a snout.
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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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Whatever hipsters, Bonnie Tyler rocks.
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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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Dear Huffington Post | March 4
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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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Inbox Zero | February 26
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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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Love linguistic drift: Andreesen says “unwinding [as in bug trace stack] a bunch of banks…” in Charlie Rose Interview
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Steak with weller burbon.
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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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End of an Era | February 18
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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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Dutch Valentines | February 14
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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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Git Down: A Recommendation of Swicegood's Pragmatic Version Control Using Git | February 9
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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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Fantasy cheesecake art, pizza, metallica’s “blackened” : my room in 1989 or conan’s right now.
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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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Letter to the APD | February 2
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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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Reply from Dr. Pepper | January 31
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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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Steven fights the Man, or Doctor, specifically Dr. Pepper | January 28
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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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I think it’s gauche to say “could I get” instead of “may I have.”. “Please” is a bonus.
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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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Pick Ruby if:
You want the flexibility to bend the language to fit the shape of your problem.
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Obama's executive order: It's time for some accountability | January 22
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We have the coolest world leader | January 22
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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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SNL: Policia Mexicana | January 21
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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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"Revolutionary Road" | January 19
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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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About to take sick girlfriend in for an x ray. Make sure nasty chest cold is only that.
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Behind on coder chic | January 16
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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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At epoch cafe
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Goodbye to a Friend | January 11
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Product Announcement | January 11
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Genuine joes. essaying.
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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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2008
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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Ain't Love Grand | December 21
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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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I am trapped in the arbor walk complex’s hellish traffic flow. 15 minutes from floyds to mighty fine.
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The Public Debate | December 16
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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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writing sample ( redraft of anti anthropic principle paper near done ) cites ruby pickaxe ruby book, Wittgenstein
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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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"Milk", the film | December 7
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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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Reshoot "The Fountain?" | December 6
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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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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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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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November Doldrums | November 24
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SNL: Sportscenter | November 21
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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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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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In south san jose in the foothills.
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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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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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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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Just de-made-up from dia de los muertos party. I now have long, lustrous lashes. It’s not maybelline.
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Ting-Tings | October 30
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another vote for hope in Austin.
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Tainting the Cops' Food | October 29
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information or linguistics?
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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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End of an Era | October 25
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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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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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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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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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West St. Paul | October 15
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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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Hey, Sarah Palin | October 13
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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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Has begun his fast in preparation for the Salt Lick tonight in observation of @laurennroth’s birthday!
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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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Has finally dug out of his Perl programming hole. Back to Ruby and, possibly, some C.
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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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If the government, via our tax dollars is supporting no-longer-private industry, isn’t that technically communism? Привет!
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LatinIRB | October 5
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Leading Men | October 5
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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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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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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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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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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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/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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LaTeX I always forget | September 21
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Life, not blogging | September 21
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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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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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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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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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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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Icing on the cake | September 9
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She's OK. | September 9
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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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Do you know who could write? Ralph "Invisible Man" Ellison | September 6
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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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At the Lone Star Ruby conference. A place where you can say “mapreduce” without fear.
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A Happening | September 3
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Writing M4 Macros.
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Introductory Khmer | September 1
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Watching 30 rock season 1 on DVD .
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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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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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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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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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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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Tw00t | August 22
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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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Information Shadows | August 21
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Benefits of "Functional Perl": ease of modification | August 15
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Latex
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Perl things I always forget | August 13
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The summer anniversaries | August 11
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Thinking about China | August 8
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We saw "Hellboy II" | July 30
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Movies
Safari v. Mozilla | July 24
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Degrassi | July 24
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Degrassi | July 24
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Dark Knight: spoiler-free | July 19
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"Dark Shadows Rules": I love Rush, so does Colbert, and Nicole's new mission | July 17
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Kickinitwitdaleague
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Personal
I fear your bacteria | July 15
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Sunday-night boredom | July 14
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Movies
Austin, rigor mortis | July 14
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As reported yesterday... | July 13
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Dancin’ Machines | July 11
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Dancing
Reiser story coverage made worse by Gawker Media ads | July 10
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Modern_times
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Wednesday | July 10
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Lone Star Ruby Conference | July 9
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Ruby
I loved "Wall·E" | July 7
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Rollerderby Action | July 7
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4th of July Fun | July 7
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Thinking about "Hancock": Nietzsche, "Kill Bill", and Will Smith | June 22
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Steven's "History of New Wave" movie | June 18
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"I'm voting republican" | June 17
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Information Overeating Day | June 15
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Volunteering at Urban Roots | June 15
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Fixing "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | June 13
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Entertainment
Macbook Keyboard + Vim | June 12
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Vim
Volunteerism cont'd | June 2
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The Spirit of Volunteerism | May 29
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Less or Fewer | May 13
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Latin II: Epic Win | May 9
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Latin
Personal
Nihil dicere | May 8
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Personal
Victim of Keming | April 27
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Writing in Unix Editors: Lessons from showing others | April 8
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Vim
Emacs
Pico
Unix
Bliss Looks Like... | April 8
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Personal
O Memnosyne! | April 1
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DITMSGHOD: 90's Edition, Strikes Back! | April 1
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Dating
Media
Celebrity
Kickinitwitdaleague
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Want | April 1
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Is _whytheluckystiff this generation's Ted Nelson: A graphic consideration | April 1
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Sxsw2008
I believe in Crystal Light | March 28
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Products
Crystallight
Advertising
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Worklife
Seeing Richard Dawkins | March 28
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Atheism
Christianity
Gnosticism
Personal
Politics
SXSW2008: Something's gotta change | March 26
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Hackersvshumans
Tracks
Complaint
Redesign
Personal
I love the subjunctive | March 13
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[SXSW2008]: Day 3 | March 9
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[SXSW2008] Day 2 | March 9
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[SXSW2008]: Day 1, Registration, What Made Milwaukee Famous, running into old faces | March 8
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Sxsw2008
I hate / love comedians | March 6
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Why? | March 5
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Modern_times
Smacked-down | February 17
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[Rails] [LaTeX] [Latin] Conjugate Verbs Fully* in Latin with Ruby | February 12
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Latin
Ruby
[Ruby] A tool to convert LaTeX-style macrons to macron characters, html entities, or UTF-8 escape codes | February 10
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Latin
Ruby
Persepolis | February 10
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[Ruby] Continued work around Latin Verb Conjugation Code | February 9
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Ruby
Latin
Verbs
Conjugation
Dancing | February 7
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Austin
I should not fail to mention this: Van Halen (neu mit 25% more Halen) is awesooooommmmeee. | February 7
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Entertainment
Music
Superbowl | February 4
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Entertainment
That flat Russian "a" | January 30
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Music
[Ruby][Latin] Forget how to construct your passive voice indicative verbs in Latin? Ruby to rescue. | January 30
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Ruby
Latin
Heuristic
Meta-Thinking
A simple PostGres Question I had: How to i find out the columns of a table | January 14
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Postgres
[Rails] Associations | January 14
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Rails
Ruby
Imagined lives #1 | January 13
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Personal
Me lately... | January 11
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Ruby
Personal
Rails
[Rails]: Steven's Guide to: "Many to Many Associations" or "HABTM" (1/2) | January 11
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Rails
Rails and Unicode and PostGres DB (Oh My!): Understanding how UTF-8 works | January 5
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Rails
Software
Unicode
Genetic Drift | January 3
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Life_and_death
Scaffolding has changed in Rails 2.0: Has it become un-Agile? | January 2
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Programming
Rails
Ruby
Wtf
Rails
Ruby
2007
Unicode test | December 22
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Typography
Latin I Test collection | December 21
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Latin
Siiiiiiii-leeeeennnce | December 10
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Blogging
End of the Semester | December 2
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Latin
I love the girl groups | November 5
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Austin
Music
Camp | November 3
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Entertainment
The Darjeeling Mumbledy | October 30
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Movies
Dancin’ and Maskin’ | October 26
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Austin
Personal
Fall comes | October 23
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Austin
Personal
SSH Tunneling | October 22
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Ssh
Unix
Jet Lag | October 22
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Personal
Travelogue
Still in Sydney | October 17
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Apple
Travelogue
More fun at Manly | October 10
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Travelogue
Manly, NSW, .au | October 7
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Travelogue
News of this week... | September 22
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Personal
On the Internet, things that are lost are occasionally regain’d | September 21
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Art_and_design
Latin
Music
Taking some time off | September 15
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Personal
Dvorak Snobbery | September 14
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Productivity
Dvorak
Making progress... | September 6
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Culture
Hell of a week | September 4
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Personal
If you do the "cable" thing, with the "TLC" channel | August 21
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Entertainment
Life_and_death
New Hosting | August 17
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Meta
C’est le finis | August 13
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Education
General
Birthday Party | August 12
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It shouldn’t be this hard... | July 31
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Books
Weddings... | July 27
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Personal
Update: Shibboleth | July 26
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General
Personal
Many things going on... | July 25
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Personal
Spam reminds me sometimes... | July 12
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Books
Drugs are bad, m’kay | July 12
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Personal
Bombshell | July 10
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Austin
Movies
Sick... | July 9
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Personal
Be careful with Futura | June 28
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Typography
Rubyists in Texas! | June 24
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Ruby
Austin
Programming
SXSW2007: Why XSLT is sexy | June 18
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Sxsw2007
Boston-towne | June 18
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Travelogue
Work
So-Cal Shout Out | June 17
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Travelogue
Unable to upgrade to Wordpress 2.2: Not ready or am I missing something? | May 25
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Meta
Blogging
New media, new semester | May 8
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Personal
I webbed you... | May 8
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Culture
Better shape Steven | May 7
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Personal
Back in Waterloo | May 4
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Personal
Travelogue
Rrroon Paul | May 1
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Austin
Politics
Arrived in RTP, NC | April 30
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Personal
Work
Plus ça change... | April 28
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Nostalgia
Personal
Kickin’ it with the classmates or The Season of Closing and Overlapping cycles | April 25
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Austin
Education
Personal
The happy couple: The Morales - Garcia wedding, April 21, 2007 | April 23
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Austin
Nostalgia
Personal
Pictures
On second thought... | April 18
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Personal
New blog layout testing | April 12
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Meta
Blog redesign continues... | April 2
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Meta
Oprah + Cormac = BFF | March 30
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Books
Where’s the SXSW2007 wrap-up? | March 22
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Meta
SXSW2007: Returning from planet SXSW this evening sometime... | March 17
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Sxsw2007
Personal
SXSW2007 Bloggers, Authors, People who put letters on the Screen: We must do better typography | March 13
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Sxsw2007
SXSW2007: Day 2 | March 11
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Movies
Sxsw2007
Moved! | March 1
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Personal
I feel like there should be a German word for this II | February 20
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Humor
Modern_times
Ruminations
Thoughts on Atlanta | February 17
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Critique
Wrap-up of trip to The Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby on Rails class | February 17
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Bignerdranch
Ruby
Education
Preparing for the Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby on Rails Class | February 17
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Bignerdranch
Productivity
Ruby
Education
Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Day 5, and back home | February 17
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Austin
Bignerdranch
Ruby
Education
Travelogue
Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 4: The Reprieve | February 15
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Bignerdranch
Education
Ruby
Education
Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 3 (cont’d): Evening: "The fatigue" | February 15
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Ajax
Apple
Bignerdranch
Software
Education
Big Nerd Ranch: RoR Camp: Day 3: Evening: "The Grinder" | February 14
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Ajax
Bignerdranch
Productivity
Ruby
Software
Education
Ruby on Rails Training Example: Allgemein Wigdgetfabrik | February 13
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Apple
Bignerdranch
Ruby
Just echoing but... | February 12
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Politics
The Art of Dating A Developer Part I: Twitch Mode | February 7
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Critique
Culture
Personal
Internet_culture
Ricky Bobby... | February 4
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Entertainment
Headed to Atlanta | February 4
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Travelogue
Still iced in... | January 17
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Personal
New Lease! | January 16
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Personal
Austin
Gross Bathroom-related stuff, majorly not safe for lunch-time reading | January 16
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Culture
Design
Travelogue
The Ice Storm ( no not a crappy ennui-drama about growing up in the 70’s ) | January 16
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General
Back from SJ, the Baroque Cycle Finished, and Headed to Houston | January 7
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Austin
Books
Personal
In San Jose this week | January 4
| Tagged:
Personal
2006
Howdy readers | December 20
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General
Personal
Fun with Unicode | December 11
| Tagged:
Unicode
Watched "Brick" | December 11
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Movies
iRead iWoz | November 26
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Books
Design
Apple
George, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Freudian Oedipal "Vision Thing" | November 13
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Entertainment
Politics
The handbasket is cramped, but it’s not getting hotter at that regular interval | November 8
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News!
Politics
Windy city? Austin, Tejas | October 27
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Austin
Ladytron tickets | October 3
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Austin
Entertainment
Suicide | October 1
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Culture
Entertainment
Politics
September | October 1
| Tagged:
Austin
Entertainment
Venom! | September 29
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Personal
Curse you Neal Stephenson and your knack for similitudes! | September 11
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Unix
Programming
Writing
Five years later... | September 8
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Politics
Hitler’s rise to power | September 5
| Tagged:
Politics
Site Update Complete | September 3
| Tagged:
Meta
Testing more formatting | September 2
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Meta
Updating some layout | August 31
| Tagged:
Meta
Rappacini, Philip K. Dick, Origami, and the Zen of the unnatural natural | August 31
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Arete
Culture
Design
Ruminations
Zen
Parler francais avec Tex | August 26
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Austin
The Previews! | August 26
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Austin
Entertainment
Shutter the Pentagon, close Westpoint: The War Nerd rules | August 24
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Culture
Entertainment
Modern_times
Doing the trivia thing with the Mayor, Alfredo, and Osakatomebaby-lady | August 23
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Austin
Nostalgia
Personal
A fun weekend | August 22
| Tagged:
Austin
Personal
Toys
Going further with JavaScript and the DOM | August 20
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Ajax
Javascript
Functional_programming
Working up to AJAX by learning something about the DOM and Javascript | August 20
| Tagged:
Ajax
Html
Javascript
Web
A nice birthday... | August 10
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Personal
Kit Fisto, party of two | August 10
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Personal
Summertime with my baby | August 6
| Tagged:
Austin
Personal
Thoughts... | July 23
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Politics
Busy, Busy | July 23
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Personal
Sally Fourth | July 5
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Austin
General
Monday Morning Referees | July 3
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Culture
General
At my new office... | June 29
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Personal
Work
The Season of Closing Cycles Part II: California Round Trips and Folk Singers | June 28
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Personal
Paging Herr Doktor Zyklon | June 25
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Politics
( - 40 1 ) days | June 20
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Personal
Yoga
SIMPLIFY | June 19
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General
Personal
Living in Austin | June 9
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Personal
The Final Countdown | May 22
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Nostalgia
Personal
Not writing much | May 21
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Meta
Vatican astronomer calls creationism a version of paganism | May 8
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Culture
General
Philosophy_proper
I love a good prank... | May 4
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Culture
Startup School | April 29
| Tagged:
Stanford
Startups
Palo_alto
Finished INTRO training | April 28
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Networking
Sketchup! | April 28
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Sketchup
Site revamp finished | April 20
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News!
Personal
Wikiquotes of the day: Euler and his Kantianism, and The Son of God | April 19
| Tagged:
Gnosticism
Philosophy_proper
Farewell MovableType | April 16
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Personal
Latest Cocoa Program: Simple Flash Card ( neu mit Cocoa-bindings! ) | April 13
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Cocoa
Productivity
I shudder to say, but I am totally excited about Silent Hill, the movie | April 10
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Entertainment
Saturday at the Cine | March 18
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Movies
V for Victorious | March 18
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Movies
Hints on editing quickly | March 14
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Vim
I mis-Austened myself | March 12
| Tagged:
Movies
Blog backlog | March 6
| Tagged:
Meta
Back from the underbelly | March 6
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Cocoa
Continuing to display that countries with a free press don’t really care... | February 15
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Politics
The Eternal City | January 16
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Pictures
Travelogue
2005
post-Christmas | December 29
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Personal
When eating a Kasugai gummy I remember the wisdom of Social Bobcat-san | December 18
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Personal
Poetic communication | December 18
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Writing
Ho Ho Ho | December 13
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Personal
Vaya con Miyagi | November 25
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Entertainment
Rip
Truth in Advertising | November 23
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Politics
Cointstar == Book Magic! | November 22
| Tagged:
Books
In sickness | November 2
| Tagged:
Meta
Personal
An in-depth explanation of the Asherah virus, as described in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash | October 17
| Tagged:
Books
Critique
Entertainment
Google Wifi | October 9
| Tagged:
Mountain_view
Back from Austin | October 5
| Tagged:
Travelogue
Austin
Political map... | October 4
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Politics
Concert promoters need a reality check | September 27
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Music
Purchased ecto | September 26
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Cocoa
Blogging
Mad propz to mice! | September 26
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Personal
Weekend wrap-up | September 26
| Tagged:
Personal
Interpol! | September 16
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Some things must be left behind, New Orleans is one of them | September 13
| Tagged:
Culture
Politics
Finished The Historian | September 11
| Tagged:
Books
Ethical birth-control OR The Coldplay Experience? | September 6
| Tagged:
Books
Critique
Music
Mysticism
Heirloom boots | August 29
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Personal
Where were you when unix power tools were first mentioned on WB evening soaps? | August 29
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Entertainment
Dust devils on Mars | August 28
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General
Meta
Space
Lauren Bacall... | August 26
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Modern_times
Great news for Lispers! | August 21
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Lisp
Osx
/usr/bin/vacation | August 4
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Personal
New Bedroom Set | August 4
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Personal
Hooray for foamorder.com | August 4
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Personal
Murder | August 4
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Philosophy_proper
Emacs v. vi is rooted in the love of Lisp | July 24
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Vi
Emacs
Editors
Unix
Programming
Internet_culture
Mythos | July 24
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Politics
Bush
Hillary Clinton: Republicans do pop-culture idiocy, close-mindedness, indignation better. | July 15
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Politics
Summer Insomnia | July 6
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Toys
Separated at Birth? | June 30
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Entertainment
Hurry up, Nick Carter | June 30
| Tagged:
Entertainment
HD vertigo | June 26
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Toys
Sports news! | June 23
| Tagged:
Sports
Waiting for the movers.... | June 15
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Personal
The Downing Street Memo | June 13
| Tagged:
Politics
I love ancient software that’s artistic sensible and impeccably well designed | June 4
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Culture
Software
Finished The World is Flat | June 4
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Books
Culture
In the city, in training | June 2
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Personal
Steven Morrissey, the Elder | June 1
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Music
I can’t draw... | May 25
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Worklife
Finished Snow Crash | May 25
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Books
Mysticism
Thoughts on Tiger | May 8
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Osx
Separated at birth? | May 4
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Music
A bit of reading | May 1
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Books
An odd film career | April 24
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Movies
Can’t we all just get along? vi vs. emacs | April 17
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Vi
Emacs
Editors
Unix
Internet_culture
Writer porn | April 11
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Writing
Urban Ruins | April 3
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Art_and_design
Just saw "Sin City" | April 1
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Entertainment
The Schiavo Case | March 31
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Personal
Whoever is doing marketing at Burger King understand viral marketing | March 31
| Tagged:
Entertainment
Internet_culture
Memes
I’m sick | March 30
| Tagged:
Personal
Which OS are YOU? | March 29
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Personal
Linux
Sometimes I envy... | March 24
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Personal
Blogging
RIP, DEA | March 20
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Politics
Lisp problem solved | March 4
| Tagged:
Lisp
Is James Dedman ill? | February 24
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Friends
New Mole-a-skeen-uh | February 23
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Personal
Happy Valentine’s Day | February 14
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Personal
Read your memoes | February 11
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Politics
Rilo Kiley | January 23
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Music
Grape Gummy | January 23
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Modern_times
Ruby | January 23
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Ruby
Bush’s iPod | January 18
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Entertainment
Apple’s Sweet Spot | January 18
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Apple
Reading and Flying.. | January 17
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Personal
Cead Mille Failte | January 6
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General
Great news from CNN! | January 5
| Tagged:
News!
New spelling lesson | January 3
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News!
Siouxsie... | January 2
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Entertainment
Letter from Chick-fil-a | January 2
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Personal
2004
For those of you not yet done with Mom Tech support season for the year | December 29
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Tech_support
Internet_culture
New signature iPods | December 29
| Tagged:
Apple
Christmas Advice | December 25
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Culture
A Christmas Day Entry | December 25
| Tagged:
Culture
Happy Christmas Eve | December 24
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Personal
The Apprentice | December 16
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Entertainment
Melbotis speaks | December 15
| Tagged:
Culture
Personal
The Past... | December 12
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Art_and_design
Yikes... | December 8
| Tagged:
Culture
Much like LL Cool J | December 7
| Tagged:
Austin
Travelogue
A blasé entry | November 22
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Entertainment
Tivo 30 second skip | November 18
| Tagged:
Tivo
News of the week | November 17
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Personal
If you want to have a successful tech company in the future.. | November 13
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Politics
Internet_culture
More on good musics... | November 13
| Tagged:
Music
Computer Scientists versus Everyone Else | November 11
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Education
Programming
Internet_culture
O the irony | November 11
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Politics
Curse you del.icio.us! | November 11
| Tagged:
Web
It’s so obvious... | November 11
| Tagged:
Programming
Reset the MT-blacklist | November 7
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Blogging
A show that scared the bejesus out of me | November 5
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Entertainment
Scifi
Books
Recollections
What to say.... | November 3
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Critique
Culture
Dvorak history... | October 26
| Tagged:
Dvorak
Some links! | October 25
| Tagged:
Culture
Entertainment
A summertime snack | October 25
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Personal
The smell of.. | October 20
| Tagged:
Culture
iPod seredipity | October 12
| Tagged:
Apple
The Time Traveler’s Wife | October 10
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Books
Maui wrap up | October 8
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Travelogue
Soros has a blog | October 3
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Politics
More Ads I hate | October 3
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Critique
Culture
Hawai'i Pictures | October 3
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Personal
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when...(Part II) | October 2
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Cooking
Culture
Mountain_view
I always know I’m back in the South Bay when... | October 2
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Culture
Fast_food
Carls_jr
South_bay
Terrorists | October 1
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Politics
Virginia Madsen | October 1
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Entertainment
Gone To Maui | September 24
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Personal
Travelogue
Ad I hate | September 22
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Critique
Culture
Commercials
You can’t win, but there are alternatives to fighting | September 22
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Movies
Capitalism
Sears
Nostalgia
Finished a book | September 1
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Books
Let me just say. | August 31
| Tagged:
Critique
Culture
I caught "Hero" last night | August 27
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Movies
How long are the days.... | August 25
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General
Dave Matthews band in trouble for dumping crap? | August 24
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Entertainment
Music
Dave_matthews_band
On Programming.... | August 20
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Personal
Only in Texas... | August 19
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Culture
The Holy Spirit | August 4
| Tagged:
Religion
Spirituality
Palo Alto Sunday | August 3
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Personal
Time to change... | August 2
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Blog
In Memoriam: Francis Crick | July 29
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Rip
Science
Monday | July 20
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Personal
Work
Education
Teaching
Loot a-purchasin’ | July 18
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General
Jealousy | July 13
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Music
Scandinavianism
The Right Kind of Girl | July 12
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Media
Television
Robert Smith hates Queen — | July 11
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Music
How badass is GENE HACKMAN | July 7
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Movies
Massage day | July 5
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General
Entry for the Mellies | June 27
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Modern_times
Media
Some people feel self-conscious at the check-out stand | June 21
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Modern_times
Media
Anxiety
Scenes from 1987 | June 13
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Entertainment
75 minutes to go | June 11
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Work
Personal
On to Ladytron | June 11
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Music
In case you forget... | June 6
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Video_games
Les jeux electroniques | June 4
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Video_games
Ico
Mac-less | June 4
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Windows
Apple
Personal
Powerbook is Sick... | June 2
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Apple
Personal
Je suis | June 1
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Personal
Self_discovery
Meyers_briggs
Mbti
Stop wasting time | May 31
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Personal
Cell Phone Woes | May 19
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Bay_area
British Museum | May 15
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London
Travelogue
Evil women and eros | May 6
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Politics
Bush
Off to Londinium tomorrow | May 6
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Travelogue
Propz to Branson | May 4
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Media
Television
Good movies set in SF; recent Netflix movies | May 2
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Movies
San_francisco
Monica_bellucci
Almodovar
Malena
Busy Week(s) | May 2
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Personal
Mountain_view
Occasionally you find great sites by accident | April 29
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Pesronal
Web_culture
Webcomics
Movies
New word | April 26
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Movies
Science
Classes | April 21
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Personal
Yoga
Mountain_view
Flamenco
Condescension done right | April 20
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Personal
No more, please | April 18
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Music
Who is Steven Harms? | April 15
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Personal
Vivement des vacances | April 14
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Travel
Personal
Work
Got a bit o’ shut eye, existential dread and e-mail (I like mutt! Woof!) | April 14
| Tagged:
Personal
Mutt
Programming
Slouched back to SJ... | April 13
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Travelogue
¡Hola! | April 7
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Travelogue
Going on vacation tomorrow | March 30
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General
Diets...and le vin | March 29
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Personal
Travel
Alcohol
Europe... | March 29
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General
Last Friday... | March 29
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Personal
Shooting
Quick thought.. | March 25
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Internet_culture
James Dedman | March 17
| Tagged:
Friends
An Apology | March 16
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General
Important News | March 16
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Bay_area
Fast_food
Quiznos
Madrid attacked | March 11
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Geopolitics
Terrorism
Yoga Class Number 3... | March 9
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Personal
Yoga
Movie evening | March 4
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General
Prana | March 3
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General
Lieutenant Cmdr. Data is the perfect Existential Dilemma in a box | February 29
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Entertainment
Start_trek_tng
Blog-insanity | February 28
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Personal
Quotes
The Decline of the American Empire: When "The Apprentice" MBA became standard issue, and our moral compass was overwritten | February 28
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Culture
Blog Silent | February 9
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Personal
Back in San Jose | February 1
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Personal
I could never fall from grace, I’m far too clever | January 26
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Personal
Australia
Travelogue
His Dark Materials | January 21
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Entertainment
Onion-esque | January 15
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Space
Science
The Slider | January 12
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Music
Personal
Travel
Australia
2003
Dreaming of Lebanon | December 23
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Ruminations
A weekly dispatch... | December 19
| Tagged:
Travelogue
Sunday in Sydney... | December 13
| Tagged:
Travelogue
First Pix of Sydney | December 9
| Tagged:
Travelogue
Miserable Failure | December 8
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Politics
Ravin told me | December 4
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Personal
Work
Just how PHAT is Sydney | December 2
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General
At some dumpy internet store, George street, Sydney, NSW, .au | November 28
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Personal
Travelogue
Farewell America... | November 27
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Leaving Potrero Hill | November 25
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One week | November 20
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Matrix Predictions | November 4
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Moving Woes... | October 27
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Moving
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What’s new in the world.. | October 8
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Run OJ run, #oj, IRC | October 3
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Unix
Saturday | September 21
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Friday night in SF... | September 20
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White Stripes-ified | September 14
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Music
Sunday... | September 8
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Books
Personal
happy september | September 2
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Modern_times
It’s the Sneak! | August 26
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Saturday | August 23
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The weekend... | August 16
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Steve Martin | August 13
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After Virtue: Notes for Ch. 1 and 2 | August 11
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Books
Day after... | August 10
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San_francisco
500_club
Silent_hill
Government v. Private Sector on Jobs | August 8
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Politics
Government
Economics
California
Music
The_donnas
This is my first entry | August 7
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