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12/7/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-07

@hoveringdog been thinking about joining the Monday Night Knitters (and, um, learning how 2 knit) but I need to quit something else first. in reply to hoveringdog #
@olyhillary I saw that article and wondered if there's anyway for homeowners to buy the crushed glass. #
congrats to @TRLDistrict & @agathafrye (& @hoveringdog?) for 3rd place in the "pimp my bookcart" contest! http://bit.ly/egzGVE #
@librarienne see http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20029/5-Means-Were-Not-the-Product (metafilter comment) in reply to librarienne #
I want to say that the 1st editions that I ever read of Bond had ads in them. (booze & cigs!) but not 100% sure. 70s editions read ca 1987. #
. @fakebaldur on in-book ads (mostly for cigarettes!) of the 60s & 70s: http://nyti.ms/fEsiD8 #
@kermix23 only (very few!) selected videos in my experience. didn't see the option for it. (on Wii) in reply to kermix23 #
@simonstl no kidding. I was raised Catholic & drifted off (LONG story) – found Quakerism intriguing/appealing in my seeking phase. in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl you weren't raised Quaker? in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl many many yrs ago, a friend described me as "most optimistic existentialist" he'd ever known. probly still resemble that remark. in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl it is…I'm struggling with it because I think it's the closest to how I feel about things (as an atheist). in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl you're probably right about that, but "localism" doesn't quite hit for me. maybe "pluralism"? in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl I fear that I have been around many people whom the author would call self-deceiving, tho. ::sigh:: in reply to simonstl #
@simonstl I'm inclined towards "pantheism" to describe that, myself. in reply to simonstl #
@dylanw I prefer #cheapbastard myself. #damnthatsalotofmoney #doesthatincludebillgates? in reply to dylanw #
last night I started watching '95 version of Richard III on N'flix streaming but stopped. really need captions to follow that one. 🙁 #
@emmettoconnell I bet it's the same file, though. in reply to emmettoconnell #
@dylanw because they are me circa 1991. 🙂 (I ended up at UPS partially because their deadline was March, vs January for other picks.) in reply to dylanw #
@Oakwright awesome. mine was work-issued at my last job. in reply to Oakwright #
actually, me too, but not sure abt model, & the yr was 1986. RT @dylanw: BASIC, on a TRS-80 Model III. 1980. #myfirstprogramminglanguage #
aeons ago, I had a Handspring. IIRC I (re)read Jane Eyre downloaded from Gutenberg. not too bad, actually. #
@CatherineOmega I'm thinking maybe Gutenberg Project? I actually don't have a device. someday, though. in reply to CatherineOmega #
@emmettoconnell bummer! in reply to emmettoconnell #
RT @emmettoconnell: Help find Erick Lyle's laptop RT @josh_bomb: #Olympia Orca Books needs your help. http://bit.ly/id3Y6Z #
in related news, I now have a zillion tabs open with interesting stuff to read. #
Love, love, love @laura_carlson's web design update newsletter. (and have since before the days of Twitter, BTW.) #
interesting. looks like Google's scanned public domain books are available as free ebooks. readability so-so. wonder abt device readability. #
watched Barry Lyndon over the weekend. LOVE. now I haz a sad that I can't find the soundtrack on CD on Amazon. (for less than $100 anyway.) #
@RepoRat Yay Townie! Yay Pleione! in reply to RepoRat #

12/6/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-06

came home from party to discover furnace apparently not working. dammit. go little space heater go. #
@dylanw cheeseburger doritos are officially one of the most nasty things I've ever eaten, hipster or no. in reply to dylanw #

12/4/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-04

cleaning out my craft box & selling earrings I made years ago. check 'em out: http://etsy.me/gNxSJv #
@SeascapeWeb I'm using http://drupal.org/project/upgrade_status courtesy of info from @davereid in reply to SeascapeWeb #

12/3/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-03

@myerman re customer service/suck it, I believe you're looking for this guy: http://bit.ly/ebuZrJ in reply to myerman #
sounds kinda cool, actually. RT @emmettoconnell: Hotel Project Application Submitted for "Mistake on the Lake" http://ow.ly/1ah43i #
@diasporg don't need "absolute security" but do want some sense of who's running things. in reply to diasporg #
@SeascapeWeb thanks! (no worries…my HS guidance counselor called me Eleanor for 4 years! 🙂 I'll answer to most anything that starts w/E.) in reply to SeascapeWeb #
@Oakwright lookin' snazzy! in reply to Oakwright #
@kmcdade http://amzn.to/ifiWvX (also, I read somewhere else that most "stomach flu" is mild food poisoning.) in reply to kmcdade #
@kmcdade I read The Great Influenza a few years ago. Fascinating book. (BTW, many flus are bird flus, most of the rest are from pigs IIRC.) in reply to kmcdade #
@simonstl panel 3 reminds me of my worst English teacher ever, who thought if you had a *cold* it was your fault. god I hated her. in reply to simonstl #

12/2/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-02

@simonstl it seems like lotto results are perfect for autogenerating. it's not like there's any actual journalism involved. :\ #
@Oakwright but it doesn't say who IS running it, which bugs me on principle. (to say the least.) in reply to Oakwright #
@RobertAHunter might be an interesting project. I've got just shy of 10 years worth of blog writing, with actually not that many categories. in reply to RobertAHunter #
so that diasp.org site isn't run by the actual diaspora developers? http://bit.ly/fqE6iP hrm. #
@RobertAHunter I don't know…it just occurred to me. both? I'm just realizing (again) that I write a lot of personal history bits. in reply to RobertAHunter #
I wonder how one would go about creating an index/timeline of reminiscence posts. 'cause I have a lot of them. #
a prompt from @plinkyprompts reminds me of @olybuzz – http://bit.ly/fGhnVO :* #
@simonstl pretty waterfall! in reply to simonstl #
so this tweeting thing? the skill of concision, built here, was actually useful at work today. #
nice free (long!) video for folks who want to know what the hell #drupal is – http://bit.ly/fkLGLn #
@vdebolt she was in a major car accident age 6, massive burns, had surgery every year until her early teens. (now she's a psychiatrist!) in reply to vdebolt #
@vdebolt thanks for this morning's writing prompt. reminds me I need to email my best friend from jr high. #

12/1/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-12-01

.@heyrocker, u need a place? 🙂 RT @ltackett @ArcticLeo @littlemisskelli: Somebody please buy me a tiny Swedish castle: http://bit.ly/fvgkmA #
@dylanw well, never mind then. in reply to dylanw #
@dylanw that's weird…so am I. (presumably, you added punctuation, I added an adverb to a cutesy word. huh.) in reply to dylanw #
IOW, MetaFilter has always done it first and more awesomely. #
@kmcdade that's pretty awesome. #
@daisycakes you can never say cheese too many times. 🙂 in reply to daisycakes #
@davereid it's WAY better than D5 -> D6, for sure. and it's looking like a good opportunity to figure out what modules to drop or replace. in reply to davereid #
@dylanw there is disqus, which I think hits another piece of the puzzle. in reply to dylanw #
I have approx 70 modules. 9 are in D7 core. 1 has a final D7 version. 35 are dev/alpha/beta/rc. 14 have issue queue items. 9 got nothing. #
@RobertAHunter if I could properly describe it, maybe I could build it. :\ in reply to RobertAHunter #
@dylanw problem (if you want to call it that) is that comments to FF (mostly) stay on FF. in reply to dylanw #
@dylanw yeah, sorta. (I like Friendfeed; I have an an entirely separate social network there.) in reply to dylanw #
what I want: a sort of social glue for distributed content. read/comment on stuff (status, photos, reviews, etc) from any contact anywhere. #
@gusandrews looks like the alpha is open to anybody. (so far, tho, not really feeling the love.) in reply to gusandrews #
@RepoRat @jessamyn I can't make it do that. (in fact, I can't even get it to move a contact from one aspect to another.) in reply to RepoRat #
interesting. diaspora didn't include a link to the photo, which is what I would've expected. (scan of an old photo of my dad, fwiw.) #
test-o-matic! (diaspora, public post, all "aspects" – I find the aspect concept fascinating, btw.) #
RT @jessamyn: "Drag them to the aspect of yourself they know" Confused by Diaspora, but that's okay. Sign up now. http://j.mp/g18V19 #
@davereid thank you! in reply to davereid #
relatedly, what is the name of that module that checks whether modules have D7 versions? #drupal #pnwds #
@Oakwright upgrading a module (on test server) & asking myself: "wait, what? am I using this?!" #
is there a way to tell if you're actually using a module for anything, when you're not really sure? #drupal #cruft #
100000x yes. RT @science_goddess: Pet peeve #42 People who think a "blog" and a "post" to a blog are the same thing. #
#pnwds follow-up: first #olympia #drupal meetup next Thursday! http://bit.ly/eUS3Pa #
yes, I started #nanowrimo again this year. no, I won't finish on time. BUT…I think I'll be finishing this story, probably sometime in Dec. #
10 years since the battle cry / to hell with bad browsers! / we still fight on new fronts #bbd4 #haiku #
a three-legged stool / upon which I've built a career / content, design, behavior #haiku #bbd4 #
were u raised in a / barn? it's cold out on the web. / close yr tags! #haiku #bbd4 #xhtml #
Me in Beanie – 3 years ago. 🙂 #bbd4 http://flic.kr/p/4wgZdy #
@spaceninja missed "use SAME font-family name for each font" 🙂 that's freaking cool. #
@spaceninja after trying again this morning, I realized I had a reading comprehension FAIL on your article yesterday. #

11/30/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-11-30

@dylanw oooh, that reminds me. it's getting about time to write my top books of 2010 post! in reply to dylanw #
@dylanw Switch, by the heath brothers? For thinking about eating, The End of Overeating by Kessler. in reply to dylanw #
why net neutrality's important! RT @RobertAHunter: Comcast Bullying Netflix Partners Into Paying a Toll for Streaming http://gizmo.do/eHWYpb #
@bhenick I was a lot more random in my blogging, back in the day. (some of my early posts read a lot like tweets, or series of tweets.) in reply to bhenick #
@bhenick the post in question? musing that grandma (NOT the hoarder) would kick my ass for my messy house before writing abt the other. in reply to bhenick #
@bhenick don't think any of my grandparents ever knew anything abt web. (died in '95, '95, '98, and '05, and she'd been ill for a while.) in reply to bhenick #
@olybuzz is my fedora still in the back room? 😉 (cc @emmettoconnell) in reply to olybuzz #
@spaceninja yes…it's just the native bold/italic thing. I'll have to futz with it in a simplified version & see if I'm doing it right. in reply to spaceninja #
@gusandrews I NO RITE? if I close my eyes I can still see the interior of it circa 1990. in reply to gusandrews #
@spaceninja xp/firefox – I should do screenshots or something. in reply to spaceninja #
webster's was a big part of my growing up years. 1st videos rented there. boxes from mom still come via post office there. #
RT @altadenablog: #Altadena icon Webster's Pharmacy sold to Fair Oaks Pharmacy owners, who plan changes. http://bit.ly/dK6Jpm #
@shelleypowers indeed. I've got several forming up in my head now. 🙂 in reply to shelleypowers #
a contest with haiku & web standards? hell yes! 🙂 http://bit.ly/fgNPde #
#bbd4 new hates emerge as / new browsers supplant the ancient / I remember Netscape 4 #
@spaceninja except it doesn't seem to work at all on Windows. Maybe Mac only? Or am I missing something? in reply to spaceninja #
@spaceninja nice tip, thank you! (will come in very handy for something I'm working on now.) in reply to spaceninja #
first bike commute in ages; cold & dark but totally worth it. feels damn good to be riding again. #
@bhenick which phrase? (did not check twitter after midday Saturday, sorry if question is cryptic.) in reply to bhenick #

11/28/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-11-28

@bhenick and…I still struggle w/hoarding tendencies myself. in my 20s moving kept that at bay, but owning a house makes it tough. #
@bhenick an old post about grandpa I though you might enjoy: http://www.elainenelson.org/2002/12/08/thinking-of-the-reverend/ (Dec 2002!) in reply to bhenick #
@zacpalmer ah, not that stupid…it was a weird little post that did, in fact, mention my grandma & also linked to MeFi. in reply to zacpalmer #
about web standards, for crying out loud. #
crazy. I was searching for something about my grandma on my blog, & found a link to a MeFi post from 12/2001 in which I posted A LOT. :\ #
@bhenick how lovely! my grandparents were divorced for so long that a lot of the photos were a total mystery. unknown events/people. in reply to bhenick #
@bhenick my step-aunt handled most of it, but we went out for a weekend to help when I was in college. SO MANY PHOTOS. in reply to bhenick #
@bhenick there's NOTHING like cleaning boxes out of storage shed in June in AZ and having roaches SWARM out of a box. ::shudders:: in reply to bhenick #
@bhenick I would have sworn that I've written about my crazy hoarding grandma – w/whom I share a bday – but can't find anything. in reply to bhenick #
@fakebaldur reading abt the power of "stereotype threat" kinda blew my mind earlier this yr: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/119250381 in reply to fakebaldur #

11/26/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-11-26

be thankful for what you've got. #
just a little bit off my bike route. 🙁 RT @theolympian: (decomposed) Body discovered at I-5 and Boulevard Road: http://bit.ly/gX938y #
mmm. simple & satisfying. turkey a bit overcooked, but not too far gone. (that would be a first, at this house anyway.) #

11/25/2010

Twitter Digest for 2010-11-25

feel a bit like pulling the blankets up over my head until spring. #