? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @rockhopper ever

September 2009

@andrewhyde - see my web site (alanporter.com) for a westerner’s perspective of living in Singapore. Fascinating place. You’ll love it.

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If I am 12 hours AHEAD of eastern time, am I really “catching up”? Or am I waiting for everyone else to catch up with me?

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Being 12 time zones away means all of my daily tweets come in during the night. Wake up, catch up.

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Day 2 in Malaysia (continued): hair cuts for the girls for US$10 total

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Day 2 in Malaysia: woke up at 4am (jet-lag), shopped at the “wet market”, came home and beat that DSL modem into submission — yeah!

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Wednesday’s weather report for Malaysia: hot, humid, sticky. Oh wait, that was yesterday’s report…

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Day 1 in Malaysia: changing pace, remembering what local food is like, shopping for nothing, and fighting a DSL modem?

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We’re on the other side… 30 hours, doorstep to doorstep… but it took another half-day to find an open wifi hotspot!

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So THIS is what oh-dark-thirty feels like!

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Official end of summer - cold drizzly weather for the neighborhood pool-closing party.

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IFR conditions on Interstate 40.

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There’s a NEW Mexico? Naming states with the kids in the car. I only got 40 before needing help.

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Vacation officially starts… … … NOW!

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Today is Hawaiian shirt day at the office… not for everyone, just for me.

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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) http://bit.ly/xNCoZ

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Thanks to the organizers of #TechieTuesday in #RTP.

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The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind. - General Joe Stillwell

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Moved in the corporate shuffle… am I a HOT COMMODITY or a TOXIC ASSET?

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Had a crazy dream — I met @anjibee, she turned out to be a teenager! Felt like the movie “Lost in Translation”. #dreams #IAmNotAStalker

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Ahhh… no sort of device driver magic will make the ethernet device work — if it is disabled in the BIOS. #doah

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I just noticed that I’ve gone all morning without my Twitter client running… I feel like I’ve just noticed that my fly was open!

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It was a day of cake and airplanes and candy and horses and hidden treasures… in that order.

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Somehow, I got iTunes and rsync fighting against each other… caused a real log jam on my home network.

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@nivex: hope you’re having a great time at #atllinuxfest!

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I have a photogenic memory.

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My friends have awesome friends.

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Don’t you hate it when people tell you some news, and then two days later, they ask you to keep it under wraps?

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I was caught up on email when I left yesterday… 47 messages waiting for me this morning. I must be *important*.

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I screwed up the #trilug server reboot today. A 4-mo old backup LVM got mounted on /home. It was like a trip back in time! #snafu #doah

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OK, the overly-shiny Web 2.0 buttons were cute for a while, but they’re starting to getting old now.

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Schneier: whenever I see a guest register, I sign “Robert J. Sawyer” because you never know when he’ll need an alibi. http://bit.ly/19AeII

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If you were going on a tropical vacation, would you think it’s necessary to pack a Linksys wireless router? Mine’s loaded with Tomato.

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Surprisingly easy to set up the Mac Mini as a BackupPC target. Rsync and sudo “just worked”, just like they do on Linux.

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I am so proud… my daughter is now a ninja! #clubpenguin

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We have them trained well… #2 woke up and watched a movie, then #1 woke up and played computer games, I got to sleep late.

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Fun sessions at #evilrobotconf : (1) open itunes server protocols (2) code on life support (3) git (4) Erlang (5) btrfs

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I suppose things could always be worse… I could be a professional Erlang programmer. #evilrobotconf

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Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain… why is he climbing a mountain? (thanks for sharing, @coxn)

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Timeless words, published days after 9/11/2001, reviewed today — http://bit.ly/Tkm6a

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Tomorrow: (1) #bugfest (2) #evilrobotconf (3) RTP Product Design Street Faire (4) Lenovo “warehouse sale” — decisions, decisions

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At least ONE of my kids got to watch the president’s speech… only because she was at home, sick.

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Day 4 of a three day weekend… sigh.

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@pwbrewer: you kids and your garage band noise…

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Caught a glimpse of Michael Jordan’s jet (N236MJ) as we arrived at RDU. Unmistakable Air Jordan.

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Slinkys are the most unforgiving toys.

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Packing up to leave the office today was like that scene in “Office Space”.

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ssh wife@herlaptop “aplay yeah_baby.wav” — she just needed some Austin Powers, if you ask me

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I throw like a girl.

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Looking forward to one last evening at the pool before it closes for the season.

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a haiku for peek-a-boo: very timid crab / always crawling up my arm / put him back again

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@frijole DD got a 17+ for a GD? Aahayeeaah!

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