Tinkerer’s watch from Texas Instruments - awesome! http://is.gd/58522
Apparently, my email at work was clogged all last week. Didn’t notice it until now, when it all arrived at once.
What fun! “Whirlwind” (my 7yo) and her Big Brave (that’s me) made a “podcast” invitation for our upcoming Y-Princess tribe meeting.
Gluing patches onto our vests - http://twitpic.com/rh1md - How How!
Pepsi: the choice of a nude generation — uh, sorry, my nose is a little stuffy.
Sol Azteca (http://maps.google.com/?…), for the post-holiday win!
Sadly, I think we spent as much time with Squidward and Patrick as we did with my parents.
Go Heels! (back home, that is)
One more loose one in front - http://twitpic.com/rc9z3
Sydney finally lost that dangling front tooth - OK, her daddy got tired of looking at it, so he “helped” it out.
Wreck on I-40 westbound at Burlington, exit 150, Alamance Comm College, 2/4 lanes blocked.
Woah, somebody go outside and adjust the contrast and white balance. I can’t see a thing! #fog
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
@Chromelinux Why I didn’t see it? Never got as far as options/menus, was playing with Javascript to test Tiddlywiki speed vs Firefox.
@Chromelinux Proactive feedback! Spooky! Had to VPN into work to see for myself. Works as advertised. Will give it a good run next week. Tx!
The Ubuntu 9.10 boot-up screen is desperately trying to look like a Mac. #beyourself
$BOSS tells everyone to start their Thanksgiving holiday right now… and go home early!
Test-driving Linux version of Google Chrome browser. I would be happier if it used my window manager’s borders instead of acting “special”.
@waynesuttonnc My flying car is parked in Sanford, at KTTA. It’s called an airplane, and normal people can learn to fly them. You could!
Been having a cough. Went to see the doc. While she was listening to my chest, my phone rang (vibrate). Thought I had some terrible disease!
Pharmacies inside grocery stores always make you wait a half-hour… so you’ll have time to shop?
Just realized my work email client was out of sight & out of mind all day. Surprised to find my inbox was EMPTY!
Never tweet when you’re bored. Always tweet when you’re having a good time.
Riboflavin (http://idek.net/hIA)
They say Python indentation is weird. They say Twitter is about sharing bathroom reports. - I bet they haven’t actually tried either one.
Spent all morning debugging an SSL issue: my certificates had the real hostname, but my code was connecting to ‘localhost’… doah! #dummy
@nprnews Why are you repeating headlines? We heard you the first time!
Feeling “cruddy” on this rainy overcast morning.
RT @frijole “Multiple sources reporting AT&T 3G is down across the Triangle this morning. Switch off 3G to roll with EDGE for now.”
Just heard that our friends Greg and Aline are proud parents of a baby girl! Congrats! (I think a bowling pin might make a nice baby gift).
Happy Bowling Birthday Party for my 6yo - I mean, 7yo - daughter. Nice souvenir pin, even if your sister DID write something stupid on it.
@waynesutton Wow, that OTHER Wayne Sutton, the one in Tuvalu (.tv), looks kinda like YOU! #smallworld
My 6yo is going to lose that front tooth any day now. Until then, she’s sporting a “Tow Mater” grin.
Paul Graham: Apple’s Mistake “The App Store is an ongoing karma leak.” http://is.gd/4ZTDk
OK, they passed out the paychecks… does that mean I can go home now?
With four things vying for my time last night, I ended up lying on the bed, listening to my 6yo read a book, and falling asleep.
@waynesutton Mayor of Micky D’s? I don’t know if I would be bragging about that.
Personally, I find the idea of “in-message SMS advertising” repulsive, akin to opening personal letters and inserting ads in the envelopes.
Oobleck for breakfast!
Saw a bumper sticker today: “WTFWJD?”
Triangle Android meet-up tonight. Lots of mobile application developers, with varied backgrounds. Thanks for hosting, Luke! #TriDroid
@alanjporter Where are you moving to? I notice your name on the mail in my mailbox… coming to NC?
@doctorow 3:45? must be watching meteors! #LeonidMeteorShower
8yo left homework at school, she called a buddy to to email it, first to a wrong address, then my spam filter rejected it. #comedyoferrors
Reading up on the Leonid meteor shower, which should be visible from about midnight tonight until dawn tomorrow.
Fever Friday AM
OK Friday PM
OK Saturday
OK Sunday
Fever Monday AM
Conclusion is clear: I must be sick of work!
My tired old HP laptop used to freeze hard when I ran Ubuntu Jaunty, and now again on Karmic. But OK on Debian Lenny. Bad memory? #wut?
I wonder how many of these people know that their neighborhood used to be Raleigh Municipal Airport.
Wake County Public Library book sale!
Warning — carpet-colored dog is lying down on the sunny spot on the stairs. #squish
pet peave - text editors where PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN move the view, but leave the cursor where it was #xcode
Biscuitville… for the Sunday morning win!
@waynesutton - am I the only dyslexic person who reads @ginnyskal as “skinny gal”?
@mikbre - shorter… and suckier
A friend gave me his old Legos, but most were knock-off bricks. I am not ashamed to admit that we separated the “Legoids” from real Legos.
My dog is 14 years old, and she still gets her leash wrapped around the trees in our front yard. #olddog #newtricks
Kids are Skype-ing with their cousin in China, trying to arrange an international play-date on Club Penguin.
@frijole When doofus goes to pee, I suggest you re-claim your pole position.
WFH (self-quarantine)
Crap… Fever… (Only one of those words is a symptom — the other one is an interjection).
@wilw You work? I was beginning to think that all you did was PLAY!
@waynesutton Sounds like some of the bets we used to have in college… maybe a slightly different meaning for “poken”, though.
Cultural quirk at my office: they send emails with no body, just a message in the subject, sometimes with “<eom>” at the end. #ItsNotTwitter
tonight @ 7pm - Triangle Linux Users Group meeting, topic is “Postgres 8.4” with Andrew Dunstan http://trilug.org @trilug
Installed a CalDAV calendar server. Works great with Sunbird, but the iphone calendar app needs a little bit more motivation. #sledgehammer
@jbroome Uh huh, that’s Mr Hooper. I think I still have a Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Ernie & Bert.
@dsearls says Twitter is not fungible - http://is.gd/4SOW6
Late night hackin’ #iphonedev
Darn, another cloudy night, for what otherwise would have been an awseome ISS pass overhead. (see http://heavens-above.com)
Got my Google Wave invite, immediately greeted with yet another dreaded “choose a globally unique name” prompt. Think I’ll just use my SSN.
@pwbrewer Should I write my congressman to complain about Apple’s rejection of “Bobble Head Congress”? #confused
Bedtime giggles… #sillygirls
Atomic Fireballs — no toms!
@dsearls Want Albequerque-grade Internet speeds? Move to Europe or Asia. (doesn’t have the same ring)
Citibank is offering me a LOW RATE of 19.99% interest on my MC! So far, Virtual Account Numbers is the ONLY thing they do right. #bankfail
TWC says “Confirmation Required” to transfer a domain. For NO, hit link. For YES, do nothing & wait 4 days. Is that really a CONFIRMATION?
@pwbrewer interesting that 2/3 of your (non-transporation) energy budget is just for maintaining temperatures (home and water)
@doctorow unless you have a LOT of fuel, you’d normally boost-coast-brake
Somebody go get a plunger… the intertubes are clogged at $WORK.
Note to self: sharp objects and iphone should go into separate pockets. Bear claw:1 screen protector:0 (glass OK, whew).
Wow, I just saw a shooting star!
Big thanks to the YMCA for a magical Indian-themed night at Camp Kanata. Sure to be a lasting memory for my “princess” (and her Big Brave).
Hello Mudda,
Hello Fadda,
Here we are at
Camp Kanata!
Kids are at their first sleep-over. Mom and Dad are having a cheap date, courtesy of Red Box.
My 1st-grader’s homework: how many bones does a bat have? Me, Masters degree, can’t figure it out in 1 hour. Hope she’ll tell me the answer!
Someone used my referral code (http://bit.ly/1ldGuW) for 2 virtual private servers at @Linode. I don’t know who, but thanks!
Lunch at Chick-Fil-A, I keep humming this song (youtube video) http://bit.ly/DAtAX
Wow, the dog’s bowl is already clean! Must be one of her simple pleasures, too!
One of life’s simple pleasures: my dog Maggie runs circles around my feet (always CCW) while I mix her food.
Up at the crack of noon.
Comedy Magician Gary Shelton entertains the crowd at the Salem Elementary book fair.
@bobbyllew Wondering what Tweetie has that Twitterific (from @iconfactory) doesn’t.
I sure hope @waynesutton is going to be at home for a few days. I know he (we) needs a break from all of the social networking activity!
Cubicle… clear blue sky… cubicle… clear blue sky… decisions…
@frijole Mark Turner (@mtdotnet) mentioned something a while back about sedo.com, a used domain marketplace.
Don’t believe the myth that pull-tabs make up “most” of the weight of an aluminum can. My postal scale says not. Donate tabs + recycle cans.
Thanks @anjibee, for sharing @Balligomingo with us (yes, I am playing catch-up) - mesmerizing!
Wow, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) just locked for 2 solid minutes, then came back to life. Sometimes I zone out like that, but it’s rare for my PC.
I’m idempotent, mwuah hah hah! (Apparently, that means I make an impression on the first meeting, but fade out quickly after that).
Enough reading machine-generated documentation… time to get some vitamin D… walkies!
@RobertFischer Somehow, I thought you might be referring to Charlotte and Vendetta from http://www.makingfiends….
Cubicle quake… office building floor is unusually wiggly this morning.
Well, poo! Someone at work decided my headphones belonged to my old department and not to me… had to give them up. Earbuds to the rescue!
Beta testing a friend’s iphone app. I set up a web-based bug tracker & entered many bugs. He’s gonna wish he never asked me for help!
@levarburton FYI, unlike email, you can DELETE bad tweets and re-send corrected ones… and most folks will not notice!
From @neuse, via email: “Companies do not want people looking for jobs. Companies want people that want to do what they do.”
BoingBoing: Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. http://is.gd/4MXvV
I have shared 100 copies of Ubuntu 9.10 via bit torrent!
I just voted - sort of - one race on the ballot, I abstained.
I have never understood the writing practice of using “she” to mean the neutral “he”. Does the writer dole out he’s & she’s evenly?
Maybe it’s just me, but Ubuntu’s bug-reporting web site “launchpad” has never made sense to me.
Evangelizing Tiddlywiki today, http://www.tiddlywiki.com — it’s a wiki that’s small enough to fit in your pocket!
@cshirky And being “born American” has nothing to do with being born in the USA. http://2tu.us/10wz
Vote? For mayor? I thought the mayor was determined by @foursquare !
I’m not going, but it will be interesting to hear from folks who are attending the @Internet_Summit tomorrow. #isum09
I am all Drupal’ed out. #bedtime
For the record - our tent just barely fits in our garage (it’s drying out) http://twitpic.com/nxozh
My kids are demanding paid memberships to #ClubPenguin.
@frijole You need to try to take a picture of some still, porpoise-less water. Maybe then they’ll pop in to “mess up” your picture!
I am happy to be back on Eastern “Standard” Time (which is only “standard” for 1/3 of the year). Extra hour of sleep, woot!
I just cobbled together a PHP script to dump my “PasswordSafe” database to a web browser, for simple (secure) web access to my passwords.
@pwbrewer @michaelbrewer Funny, I just tweeted about the word “pterodactyl”.
YMCA Indian Princess “Fall Outing” canceled due to lousy weather.
RT @wilw “I think it’s a sign of the apocalypse that not a single surly 12 year-old with a pillowcase and no costume has shown up tonight.”