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What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-02-19

20120219.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • That 4-foot tall grader-scraped ice ridge in the middle of the street is inconvenient, but it does keep the cross-road barbarians at bay. #
  • Linux admin tip: don't remove the execute permission from the /etc directory. Oh, the hours you'll save tracking down those 3 little x's. #
  • Forget mandatory minimum sentences on gun crimes. Truly cruel and unusual punishment is being named Leroy Smickle. http://t.co/MgSPo8He #
  • Tonight's romantic St. Valentine's Day plans: a French workshop on child literacy. Voulez-vous assister à l'atelier avec moi ce soir? #
  • Spent the past couple of days battling IE9's JavaScript engine on a Windows 7 machine that blue-screened in safe mode. #nomicrosofttoday #
  • G&M's Margaret Wente has it right this time: "On Internet privacy, I’m with the child pornographers" http://t.co/vIFaeuQe #
  • Celebrating my favourite February holiday today: Shredfest 2012. Just love watching those decade-old business receipts confetti-ize. #

What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-02-12

20120212.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Something to be said for virtual machines: I moved my server from St. Louis to Chicago today in 5 minutes with maybe 30 seconds of downtime. #
  • Hours until I defend my thesis, "Testing the natural resonance of bread with a tuning fork", but someone's stolen my loaves #actualnightmare #
  • All set to replace tedious double-entry with an automated data transfer, only to discover that the vendor charges $16K to access their API. #
  • I have to believe that the makers of laminate flooring and those little felt protective "footies" are in cahoots. #

What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-02-05

20120205.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Confounded by computer glitches? Helpful folks call me every day at 9am to offer to fix the Windows computer that I don't have. #
  • Even older students don't get my Nurse Ratched and Colonel Klink references. I thought '70s references were the whole point of the 'net. #
  • Assuming it isn't one already, RIM will make a fascinating Harvard Business School case study. http://t.co/Ff8bO2Iv #
  • "[Yale] students claim they … multitask between email, Facebook and his lecture, … evidence … proves differently" http://t.co/lZRl7EiQ #
  • A 2nd language gives one so many different insights. Did you know the Rice Krispies elves are called Cric, Crac, Croc in French? Formidable! #
  • I'll never be part of the 1%, but I like to imagine that I'm the 1 out of 20 that falls outside of every statistical confidence interval. #
  • Only just finished setting out my romantic shower candles when the power came back on. #wasitasquirrelagainoraraven #

What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-01-29

20120129.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Skip the shave, get the flannels out from the back of the closet, and crank up the Soundgarden — it's time to dig into some Java code. #
  • Dear pamphlet makers: if you're going to insert long, unwieldy, unclickable links in your printed materials, please use a URL shortener. #
  • Heavens, it's after ten and I only just got out of bed. It's called a weekend, you say? I must look into adopting this tradition forthwith. #

What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-01-22

20120122.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Sound travels quickly through the dense cold air we have this morning at -38C. Especially any sound that resembles a furnace malfunction. #
  • I want to end "What a huge _____!" in a complementary way. Turns out English doesn't have many nouns to describe a kind or generous person. #
  • The neighbour got locked out and warmed up in my place until the key cavalry arrived. -40C is the wrong temperature to lose the spare key. #
  • "And that's when we realized that we'd have to pull nine terabytes across the network each and every day." #
  • The clothes dryer element is fighting it out with the cold air seeping in through the vent. Go team StaticSox! #minus40nomatterthescale #
  • Misty, cloudy, sundog alert in #YXY If your power's out, step outside and have a gander. #
  • One advantage of an old-fashioned answering machine over voicemail: you can call home to see if the power is still on. #yxy #
  • On the bright side, I might actually get something done tomorrow. #sopa #blackout #
  • W00t! Reversed scrolling on Windows to accommodate my OSX Lion-trained fingers. Now to just scooch over the Ctrl key. http://t.co/EZ9maXNa #
  • Easy to be neighbourly at 40 below: I have to drive around the neighbourhood a while just to thaw the axle grease and round-out the tires. #
  • Dear brain, please discard all of the Mostek 6502 opcodes that you've got stored so that I have room to remember the names of people I meet. #
  • Did @cbcanewday just get hacked by Anonymous? Playing the Megaupload song now. #
  • How is this not a marketing campaign from @yukonbeer? http://t.co/7OrcF9VQ #

What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-01-15

20120115.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Tao of Server: "Server crashed." "Did you touch it?" "No." "Really?" "Only in a way that could not be the cause." "And so?" "It's my fault." #
  • Mac Lion at the office. Win7 at the College. Here I am, scrolling in the wrong direction with you. ♫ #
  • No way around it. I'm gonna have to write me some C code this morning. ;;; ; ;;;;; ;; (just testing my right pinkie on its semicolon memory) #
  • I've been bumped up a notch to French intermediate level 2 classes. Can't say things like "I was runned into she library tomorrow" anymore. #

What He Tweeted for the week of 2012-01-08

20120108.sunday   comments=nil   twitterings  

  • Spent some of the holidays putting together another simple Django & jQuery site. Man, that stuff is fun. #
  • Making a pot of honest-to-goodness brand-name trade-mark Kraft Dinner. A step up from no name fare. I'm like some kind of tycoon over here. #
  • First day back at the College gave good vibes. I even scored the window cube although I'm told a nearby heat vent explains its availability. #
  • Suggestion for a mobile app: Warns you of a meandering cabbie ride in an unfamiliar city by comparing your route to an optimal one. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01

20120101.sunday   comments=4   twitterings  

  • It's a family tradition to give candy that you either detest or are allergic to as gifts: the recipient needn't worry about pilfering. #
  • Given a hot chicken 'n stuffing sandwich with home-fried poutine and gravy galore, I vote for skipping straight to leftovers next Christmas. #
  • Up before the dawn — not a challenging feat in late-December Yukon. #
  • Why are atoms mostly empty space? Simon Pegg assists in a very digestible explanation: http://t.co/mDx2RtBv #