Posts from 2013
January
In 1994 my world changed when I played (arguably) the first real-time simulator: Dune ][. Now, enjoy in your browser:
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I’m in Berkeley. Bein’ an outside agitator.
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So 2013 will be the year that I learn C. I have mastered make and am trucking through @zedshaw ’s LCTHW. Loving pointer math.
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Scumbag calendar: reassess your life right after three feasting and drinking holidays.
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Understanding by means of Creation: INTJs and Ithkuil | January 2
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Blog: Understanding by Means of Creation: INTJs and Ithkuil:
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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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Flirting with a few vegetarian meals this week. Not sure it’s a lifestyle … yet.
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Closing out chambers in the TL.
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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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@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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Silver linings playbook: hilarious and sweet and honest. Loved seeing de Niro not as a parody. <3 Jennifer Lawrence
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New Kavinsky, the aural genius behind “Nighcall” from “Drive.” ♫ Protovision – Kavinsky #Spotify
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My building is not properly tempering the air. Time for a kotatsu.
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Fart Patio | January 16
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tmux split-window feels like summoning the console HUD for DOOM. #id
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Without models, it’s hard to work; without a context, difficult to evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak.
— Joanna Russ
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I’ve been a vegetarian now for a fortnight. I feel great and have had some wonderful dishes out.
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Fire tug celebrates the Niners’ win
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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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Kick in the Monday ♫ It’s Getting Boring By The Sea – Blood Red Shoes #Spotify
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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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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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@MissMauriss @tomdale is a gentleman and a scholar, what’s not to love?
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Blog: On Zero Dark Thirty:
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Ottawa Metaprogramming Presentation | January 27
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On Zero Dark Thirty | January 27
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February
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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Command Line Friendly Java Development Setup | February 3
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@laurennroth and I are celebrating valentine’s tonight: tonga room via town car and spandau ballet, Hall & Oates as we dress up.
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@tomdale @shopittome we’re having a great time. Are you still coming to the party? Ms. @laurennroth is expected to join too!
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@MissMauriss cc:@akudlick @rafaelsolari I’m not sure I can console ember camp if you don’t come.
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Happy winter from San Francisco (and Lauren as hippie as she gets)
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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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Rainy day SF music. ♫ Black Planet – Sisters Of Mercy #Spotify
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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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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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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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RT @ShopItToMe: View from the roof deck of Shop It To Me! #soma #sf #bluesky #skyline @ Shop It To Me
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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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Saying "I love you" with Typesetting | February 25
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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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Wow, so now I work in the financial district. Cc/@ShopItToMe
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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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External Link: War-on-Drugs-Defying Weed Cannon | February 28
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March
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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Among the perfect things of this world. ♫ I’ve Been Loving You Too Long - To Stop Now – Otis Redding #Spotify
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I’m a scientific, modern person, but I love the hell out of Edgar Cayce.
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Brilliant. A stunning display of how meter works. With vibrophones. ♫ Rag Mop – Lionel Hampton #Spotify
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Love strong female vocalist punk bands. Girl on the 12 told me about The Gits. Good stuff. #Spotify
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I know it’s blasphemy and all, but I think @respektor ’s cover of “Real Love” is better than the original.
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Rappers have explained the economics of yayo slangin’ for years; but in 2013 @macklemore explained the mechanics of retail markup.
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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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OH from @kentor: “I know about
git blame
, but there should be git praise
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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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@laurennroth a winner ♫ Break The Chain – Oh Land #Spotify
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another day another great scandinavian electronica artist discovered.
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@laurennroth dancier. More robyn like. Tove styrke
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@laurennroth yes. You put me back on @OHLANDmusic for this afternoon.
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Somewhere between “Flashdance” and ABBA. ♫ White Light Moment – Tove Styrke #Spotify
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RT @OHLANDmusic: “@DunderCat_: @OHLANDmusic Nanna do you like bananna ?”yep. It’s a decent fruit.
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@laurennicoleroth Have some Joy Formidable to get the day going :) ♫ Whirring – The Joy Formidable #Spotify
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Mobile Upload: Oh it's the "Everything I hated about 90's music" tour! | March 21
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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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I only listen to Sverigepop these days. ♫ Million Pieces – Tove Styrke #Spotify
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Seriously. The Swedish Grammi must be amazing: @FirstAidKitBand and all this brilliant Swedish pop.
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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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Mobile Upload: I Am Rarely Called Slow to Act / Anger / React | March 26
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@miceland thinking of you buddy: ♫ The Robots - 2009 Digital Remaster – Kraftwerk #Spotify
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Getting Started with Ember 1.0 is easy | March 27
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I signed up for Introduction to Logic on @Coursera! #intrologic
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Xerox is a friendly sort.
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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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Burger shaped cookie. Our office manager is gifted. Cc/ @ShopItToMe
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Mobile Upload: You meet the strangest people on BART | March 29
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@kentor we’re gonna hop off the n at 19th and find dinner. Wanna join?
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@listrophy HELL YES. Loved their ending the 90 degree tyranny of LEGO. Also capsella?
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The intersection of New Orleans jazz funeral and the Castro.
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April
View of transamerica tower across from medical office.
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“Sad Song” by Lou Reed. Not entirely sad, but not certainly not jolly.
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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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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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Cat Power meets Roy Orbison? Recommended by @chronsnob ♫ The Waiting – Angel Olsen #Spotify
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Blog: Never Too Late (for health):
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Never Too Late | April 4
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A Beginner Again: Rails 4.0 + Ruby 2.0 on Ubuntu VPS | April 4
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Models of Computer Science's Science: Formal versus Empirical | April 4
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Blog: Formalism v. Empiricism in Computer Science: cc/@rubyrogues @JEG2 @glv
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Angel Olson at rickshaw is lovely. Thanks @ChronSnob for the recomm.
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@nanostalgic we saw angel Olson last night. Good show. Small venue. Recalled liberty lunch.
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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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Wow. don’t make intros like this one anymore. ♫ Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car – Billy Ocean #Spotify
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Play more Bangles.
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For my sweet @laurennroth this morning. ♫ Everytime We Say Goodbye – John Coltrane #Spotify
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@laurennroth That’s why we live here.
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Spring Break and Tech Conferences | April 15
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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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The Velvet Underground was really just a synopsis of Cale’s talent. ♫ Hanky Panky Nohow – John Cale #Spotify
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Ubelievable. Still. ♫ Temptation [7" Version] – New Order #Spotify
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Got to work and listened to some Runaways. Ready to cock punch the Man.
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Hope everyone got outside today. San Francisco was beautiful with sun, gentle breezes and soft grass at Golden Gate Park.
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Peter Hook’s beautiful, beautiful bass. ♫ Crystal – New Order #Spotify
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What is it with Wales making powerful female voices: Cerys Matthews, Ritzy Bryan?
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@laurennroth @akudlick called your caulk job next level!
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Minute 14:50 will be cued during my invasion of Silesia. #NowPlaying
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New US Industries | April 26
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Game of thrones / Latin fans: “dracarys” genitive of dracar, dragon? “It is of the dragon” I.e. “it’s yours (for eating, burning)?
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May
Anachronistic office issue at @ShopItToMe: fountain pen ink splatter. #madmenworldproblems
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The Implicit Rules of Adjective Order Natives Understand | May 2
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Hey austinites of a certain vintage. Chrysta Bell in SF. And man or astroman?
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The greatest lightning talk ever. @garybernhardt is Clapton of Ruby:
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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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I’m glad to have a quality follow like you, @marthakelly .
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@MarinasDiamonds So excited to see you tonight in the City in the beautiful Warfield.
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@CHARLIXCXUS was good. Now @MarinasDiamonds:
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Marina is not a robot.
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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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1996-7. Just perfect. ♫ Being There – Wilco #NowPlaying
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Dealing with Hostile Online Communities | May 8
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Ffffuuu: Patti Smith + Joy Division + Interpol + Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Hard punk art. Ffffuuuu ♫ Husbands – Savages
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In all seriousness, Ayn Rand provided one of the best explanations for why racism is morally wrong that I ever read.
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Flew SFO to Long Beach. Years of Sublime listening has made me well qualified to land inside the LBC
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Indonesian food in la’s farmers market: veggie mee goreng. (Spicy!)
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Stained glass panels in our @Airbnb - so beautiful!
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La bohème in w. Hollywood. With old fashioned & @laurenroth
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Margaritas in west Hollywood.
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SF Residents: If you have a library card you have free access to Safari books online. Yes, I just nuked your nightstand from space.
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Greetings from @ShopItToMe at the giants game.
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And we love Camera Obscura.
♫ Swans – Camera Obscura #NowPlaying
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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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Blue blue ’lectric blue that’s the color of my room
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@wirehead2501 excel is the most widely used functional programming language in use today.
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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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@FirstAidKitBand Love that you met Emmylou. So appropriate after your fitting tribute to both her and Gram.
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Amazing video by aja hammerly via @avdi: intro to Prolog.
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In honor of the Bluth return, I made cornballs.
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Justine Bateman, sit-com icon for my generation, is a freshman CS student at UCLA. How rad!
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June
@avdi asthmatic here too. Every mile is a kick to my childhood misery’s face. Also living in concrete helps.
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Urbanism: fixed hassle at the bank. Hit the library, grabbed lunch in 50 minutes.
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@trek @wagenet OH’d at a ruby conf: “What’s jruby, is that like JDate?”
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Her hair is Harlow gold:
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Vampire Weekend’s brave bid to be the album of summer 2013. Hamptons, San Diego, or The Bay: is summer.
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The Surveillance State: June 2013 | June 8
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This is the power of #gameofthrones: SoMa TJ’s checkout is not a packed bedlam.
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Was the original augmented reality the mind palaces (journeys) constructed to house oral traditions? Explains peripatetic instruction.
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Moonwalking with Einstein and learning to remember | June 13
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Vampire weekend performing in my backyard? Another soma day.
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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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@nuclearsandwich @joshsusser GoGaRuco a few years ago taught everyone to find secret knoledge in Smalltalk. My pick for 2013: Prolog.
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Blog: “Moonwalking with Einstein and Learning to Remember”
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Lindy in the park. Wish you were here. 60 degrees, sunny with a breeze.
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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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Carly Simon + Patti Smith sound ♫ My Mistakes – Eleanor Friedberger #NowPlaying
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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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RT @stevelosh: remember when I bitch about scala’s syntax that I wrote a book about vimscript, so I know something about shitty syntax
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tmux is my favorite os
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@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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Protip to learning chef: Get a lot of paperwork that requires writing big checks, the procrastination will make it possible.
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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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Automating installs with Chef | June 22
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Seriously, if “Love fool” is where you stopped listening to the Cardigans…fix it. #NowPlaying
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US / Eastern European Expectations on Privacy | June 24
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In effort to learn memory techniques I memorized code smell / resolution table from refactoring, ruby ed. Epic peer review trolls unlocked.
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Saw on a tv in the financial district that CNN wanted to know why America was obsessed with the Zimmerman trial. Clearly #blessedlyignorant
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July
Happy Fourth from the Golden West. America happy birthday.
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When developers began scorning the humanities, we lost the ability to generate beauty and wisdom like Kay’s “Early History of Smalltalk.”
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I’m really digging The Submarines. ♫ Fire – The Submarines #NowPlaying
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Questlove Describes Programming | July 21
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"I Love It" Reinterpreted | July 22
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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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@wirehead2501 FWIW i found Shadow of the torturer to be entirely underwhelming. So obvious, every trope.
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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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Scored Neko Case Tickets | July 26
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Burberry body eau de parfum: builds fortress of solitude or marital aid?
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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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Reading about Smalltalk, Self, Alternate Reality Kit…while watching Transformers, people in Palo Alto were inventing the future.
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Blog: Highlights from “The Early History of Smalltalk:”
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Favorite Childhood Cartoon: "Tranzor-Z" | July 28
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Reading: The Early History of Smalltalk | July 28
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The Where of Creation | July 28
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Favorite Quotes from Questlove | July 28
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Birth | July 28
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August
Blog: The Where of Creation: How I program and where ideas come from:
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There is a seriously cold yak next to me but, on the other hand, all of my devices are using openVPN when on wifi.
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RT @thisishelene: ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE VIDEO! @OHLANDmusic 💕 #RenaissanceGirls
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Music of the Day | August 6
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Building a Wall-E Robot | August 6
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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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M. Ward does Buddy Holly's "Rave On" | August 8
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Anyone seeking us at Chambers tonight, we’re on the back patio.
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OH: finding the bathroom here is like finding Narnia.
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Jesus take the starboard | August 11
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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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The Ultimate Power Trip | August 13
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Good, dreamy, folky? Interesting. Will listen to more. ♫ Myth – Beach House #NowPlaying
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@LILBTHEBASEDGOD U spread the love in the town; we’ll cover the city. 2gether we’ll make a BASEDBRIDGE over Treasure Island
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If you’ve never seen moonlight illuminate a fog bank into silver strands girding foothills near Half Moon Bay after midnight, you should.
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Talking to Friends with Children | August 18
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Blog: Talking to Friends with Children:
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Just completed a 5.67 mi run with @RunKeeper. Check it out! #RunKeeper
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Fashionable women at (particularly tech!) work: damned if they do, damned if they don’t:
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Mobile Upload: Urban shoe tip | August 23
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Translating Giordano Bruno | August 26
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It just rocks so hard. ♫ Girls Like You – The Naked And Famous #NowPlaying
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Neko Case: "Man" | August 27
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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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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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September
Neko, Neko: To be seen next week! So excite! ♫ Fall 2013 by Steven Harms #NowPlaying
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What Does the Fox Say? | September 6
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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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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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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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I was humming this today for no reason then I remembered today was the 12th: Frank Mills by The Lemonheads
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Do all the kids born after 1982 even KNOW they’re wearing Misfits t-shirts?
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Presenting at Ruby Conf 2013. First time to Miami. See you then, .rb friends.
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How Chris McCandless Died | September 13
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Have kid? Want broken heart? This one. ♫ Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case #NowPlaying
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Neko Case Breaks Hearts | September 15
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Mobile Upload: Puzzle notes page from Silent Hill 2. | September 16
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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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Sadvertising: The Personal, Moving Ads from Thailand | September 17
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External Link: Britpop at 20 | September 17
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Music from a Halloween Party | September 17
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External Link: Japanese Fart Scrolls | September 22
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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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We’re living in an age where film is exploring gender dynamics well: @inaworldtweets #DonJon
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October
An amazing scholarly journal. Feels very height of Her Majesty’s Empire:
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Malala Yousafzai will be Sec. Gen of the UN some day. Mark my words.
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In times of trouble buffers of beautifully-factored object oriented code are a pillow fort where I can hide. #vimgeekforlife
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Read twitter again for the first time in weeks. Yep. Still like one long comments section.
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Kid at Disneyland: “Who’s that fox and bear?” Brer fox means nothing to him. :-/
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Disneyland for Lauren's Birthday | October 14
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The Panhandling Game | October 16
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Chiropractic and gypsy jazz and a cheese shop with sun.
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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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External Link: The Internet is Insufferable | October 20
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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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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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Thao is really good. ♫ Know Better Learn Faster – Thao #NowPlaying
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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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@OHLANDmusic what a wonderful show! You should do a live record in SF! Great band! Loved them all!
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RT @NightValeRadio: CORRECTION: Some things are real. Other things are not. We regret the error.
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Mobile Upload: Seeing Ohland | October 24
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RT @hwinkler4real: It’s important to remember : after jumping the shark, the show was number one for 5 more years
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Staring at my picture book
she looks like Mary, Queen of Scots
She seemed very regal to me
just goes to show how wrong you can be - Lou Reed
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Mobile Upload: Walked the new Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge | October 27
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All other pop stars are obviated. ♫ 400 Lux – Lorde #NowPlaying
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Mobile Upload: "Sandman" retrospective coming to San Francisco | October 29
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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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Cheese Eating Machine | October 31
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November
My friends’ wedding recessional music: a highly syncopated duet for cello and violin: “Thrift Shop”
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@kurt_loder @NYMag it was Lou and MTV that taught this late 70’s kid to love Macbeth. And, in time, the VU.
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Tourist asked for help at SFO AirTrain. Mid-explanation it dawned on me: SFO IS SHAPED LIKE A TOILET SEAT.
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@sarahmei If ever I teach at a dev boot camp or something my calling will be defeating CS shibboleths.
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Camus the Tender | November 8
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Mobile Upload: Good morning #rubyconf | November 8
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A true Gulf-powered midnight rainstorm. Things I miss living in San Francisco…
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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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Miami is more like Sydney than LA. Humid, sunny, stormy: none mutually exclusive.
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@jimweirich ever thought about writing UML THE GOOD PARTS?
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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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So much twitter love. Thanks. It’s all for you my friends. I love this. 😂
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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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@jimweirich Awesome. I have to trust the man who taught me TDD (austin, 2007, greedy dice game).
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My slides from my presentation. Includes PDF and reveal.js presentation #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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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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@copiousfreetime @sandimetz @jimweirich chmod +inspired. Never thought Jim or Sandi would ask me for directions, let alone pedagogy on OOP.
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South, East, southeast, southwest, west. Golden gate. Atlantic foam. It’s a big, beautiful country.
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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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Based on observations in Charlotte, the new innovation in fashion if the Carolina’s is vaporizer on a neck lanyard.
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Mobile Upload: Happy snuggly early winter from the glorious Golden Gate city. | November 12
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Few things make me wonder whether atheism is incorrect than the mere existence of
git reflog
. cf. Highhiker’s Guide re: babelfish.
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RT @charliesome: yak frame - n. a yak shaving stack frame. ex: “I’m currently 3-4 yak frames deep”
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I am so excited to see the repl driven coding talk from rubyconf from @conradirwin Possibly a life changer.
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At Oakland Zoo!!!
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My day has been awesome.
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Mobile Upload: Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Oakland Zoo | November 17
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bay area love triangle: patxi, little star, zachary.
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Nirvana Bomb | November 20
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Counseling the Depressed | November 20
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Orange County: mall, palms, mountains, and sun.
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Gonna visit some of my favorite ursids!
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Ursus maritimus dormiens — nolite titillare!
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December
The Values of Respect and Liberal Arts | December 1
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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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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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How much do i love the lunch time air raid horn in #SF?
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The Phenomenon: Lorde | December 5
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Albino crocodile.
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Mobile Upload: Texts from "Silent Hill" | December 6
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Gőd Jul! St. Lucia at Swedish-American Christmas. So lovely.
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Mobile Upload: One of my favoritest pictures ever: Us at Wilkins / Caffalete Wedding | December 7
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Our wintertime house cleaning music involves a lot of Peter Hook and Morrissey/Marr.
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Mobile Upload: Swedish-American Society's observation of Ste. Lucia | December 8
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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: Got a Reply from Peter Hook | December 9
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Mobile Upload: Deep Lyrics | December 11
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The worst part if America’s battle with meth is that I CANT GET THERAFLU ANYWHERE. I miss you, I need you.
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This trader joes is too hip. grimes and the smiths in the same visit.
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My mom knows the score. AUS -> Chuy’s for queso and margaritas.
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RT @neiltyson: Born on this day, long ago, was a man who showed us all a way to know the Cosmos. Isaac Newton, Dec 25, 1642 Lincolnshire, UK
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Stepdad loves investigative TV: finding missing person is debugging; surviving Alaskan winter, debugging. Everything is debugging.
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Watching “Mary Poppins” as an adult leads to the uncomfortable realization that Michael Banks was the “In Flanders Field” generation.
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