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What He Tweeted for the week ending 2012-05-20

Met a Doug today. I think that was his name. He looked like a Doug, walked like a Doug, and talked like a Doug. He must've been a Doug. #
What does it mean when you validate your website and the #HTML5 validator crashes? Did I inadvertently invent HTML6? #
Riding' the bus, or "peasant jalopy" as we used to call it. Lovely. #
A perfect snowy day in May to test drive my new steel-toed s*%tkickers. http://t.co/SzYEfgc2 #
This most excellent Lamborghini driver sums up my opinion of all over-horsepowered leadfoot drivers.
http://t.co/9qzsYzQg #
And this is why we can't have nice things. http://t.co/Bb09nOTD #
I predict a lucrative future for these three with Cirque du Soleil. http://t.co/CMDtl5Op #

Today's #xkcd gives Frank Jacobs a run for his money: http://t.co/0BJcIvtn #
Today's CGI means that anything humans can imagine can appear on a movie screen. Apparently all we can imagine is 70s-era superheros. #
Made a wager with the missus. If someone says "Hannibal," what's the first word to come to mind? I say "elephant," she says "Lecter." #
…in either case "Hannibal" has apparently been stricken from the proposed baby boy name list. Along with Scipio, Sulla, and Gaius Julius. #
Here's to you 6am smoker, standing outside in your bathrobe. Your reward for surviving the night? A delicious and revitalizing blue fume. #
Sure-fire dot-com idea: PeelerMatch. Link righties and lefties so that they can wear down both blades of their potato peelers evenly. #
Dear Staples.ca, when you send a message to my account's e-mail address and then your site refuses to accept that same address, I hate you. #
Do I truly loathe the now-common Rumsfeldian habit of first asking and then answering one's very own question? Yes. Yes I do. #

Favourite headline of the week: "Police say X-rays show memory card still inside hang-gliding pilot", courtesy G&M: http://t.co/uyIw5p1Y #

Blecch! Don't get styptic in your mouth. Tastes like lemon-soaked baking soda, but without the delightful fizz you'd expect from that combo. #
No Luddite am I. Just got my first cellphone, circa early 2012. Now how am I supposed to come up with ten whole friends and family numbers? #
Whadda ya suppose would happen if I placed my Google Drive folder inside my Dropbox folder? Irreparable harm to the space-time continuum? #
Today's Skeeter Report: well, none. But the lovely mélange of mud, standing water, and corn snow — or Boot-Be-Gone — makes the going slow. #

Woo-hoo! 8GB upgrade for my Mac Mini. And for $50 rather than the $420 that Apple tries to charge. Srsly? WTF? http://t.co/AZVkh52b #

Climbed to the roof to shovel only to find it clear. For the first–and perhaps last–time, I thanked the gods for 70s-era insulation codes. #
Who will pity the poor Pennsylvanian television station owners now that #Santorum has dropped out? … Romney cancels a $2.9 million ad buy. #
My little brother bought a penthouse condo in Korea. The same would go for $1M in Whitehorse. I've been borrowing from the wrong relatives. #

Okay, @WilliamShatner made it to a million followers. Time to red shirt him and beam back to my local Yukoner tweeps. #
Turns out last month's ginormous Yukon Electrical bill was due to their meter guestimator going bananas and assuming that I ran a grow-op. #
At Carole's OB/GYN appointment today, the doctor prescribed, and I quote, "a small bag of chips." Folliculus Crustulum Radix #

If it's my wife that's pregnant, how come I'm the one eating pickles and ice cream? #

Can't decide on flooring for the new nursery. Carpet or laminate? After asking recent parents, I'm leaning towards seamless stainless steel. #
New collective noun from the Yukon News: "a motherboard of computers". Connected to a "tube of internets", presumably. http://t.co/twbUMZj0 #
It's Alaskan sideswipe season in #YXY Clear dry roads, but still a few more months before the scraped-off lane dividers are repainted. #

Today's geopolitical thought exercise: what if Israel bombed the Syrian army units in Homs? The pluses and minuses calculus is fascinating. #
I used to believe that @CBCNorth had the sleepiest-sounding reporters, but now an Alaskan avalanche reporter from Haines is in the running. #
I have stared at this #iTunes message for the better part of five minutes and still have no earthly idea what it means. http://t.co/0D4P49J6 #
The fact that the French words for lawyer and avocado are the same just makes it harder to effectively insult lawyers. Or avocados. #avocat #
I've taken to answering dumb questions with quotes from B movies. Trouble is, the Buckaroo Banzai ones don't work on people not named John. #
And so it begins. Half is baby gear. Half is gear the baby will displace from its normal storage space. http://t.co/aRSJs9D8 #