Maggie, you earned a spot in the doggie hall of fame tonight, for sitting next to D1 to help her fall asleep. Good girl!
Decided over recent mountain/beach vacation: prefer DD-WRT over Tomato for “travel use” b/c of “repeater mode”. Tomato still wins at home.
Blog post by me: “House Guests”, who stayed in NC for three weeks - http://blog.alanporter.c…
I’ve had this Mac for a year, now, and I still think its window management sucks.
@nivex No, the worst part is that she’s right… it IS payday.
teebalicious Why I <3 @levarburton: with Reading Rainbow, he taught me literacy. With Roots, he taught me dignity. With ST:TNG he taught me ingenuity.
Me: Hey!
D2: What?
Me: Guess
D2: Payday?
Me: Phft!
Correct answer was: “go upstairs and do your homework”
I think I could listen to Mark Knopfler jam all day long.
In our house, a meal is not complete until daughter #2 makes a movie reference. Tonight was “The Pink Panther Strikes Again”.
Light rain forced us to leave the Aurora Fossil Museum early. That’s OK, we brought a 5 gallon bucket of dirt home with us!
Drat, missed the ferry… watched it pull out!
Ahhh, up at the crack of ten!
dsearls No News becomes Other News. Thus the #Wikileaks story is now more about Wikileaks than about the War. http://bit.ly/c41crm
TEDxOilSpill It has been 100 days since the BP well began gushing oil. We must not forget about the 218 million gallons of oil now mixed in the Gulf.
BarCampRDU Hey BarCampers, things are in the works for #barcamprdu 2010! Stay tuned…dates and venues soon!
Day 52 (night) at the loggerhead turtle nest… no sign of hatching, but plenty of good company on the beach.
“Professor Hacker’s Lost Treasure” golf and raceway! http://twitpic.com/298kuk
A crowd is gathered around a loggerhead turtle nest, hoping the babies will hatch and crawl into the sea tonight.
For some reason, I am craving an ice cream sandwich right now. http://twitpic.com/28x67r
wunc UNC’s window into space… http://fb.me/Dc72xlfy
@mikbre Yes, the girls watched in the van - I rigged up a DVD player, Pat says it looks like a deathtrap, but it’s nice for trips.
@Snubs That’s pretty much what we saw, too, but our pictures did not come out as good. It was nice and orange at sundown!
Apologies in advance to the people in the condo below ours… and next to ours… and across the hall… and everyone else!
@mikbre [grey poupon voice] but of course!
Space_Pete Check out these mind-blowing pics of a Canadian Air Force pilot ejecting from an F-18! The guy is so lucky to be alive! http://bit.ly/bDaxyx
The van is packed tight, and we’re bouncing down the highway to the music of “They Might Be Giants” (@tmbg). Beach-bound, woo hoo!
“Be sure and tell ‘em Large Marge sent you!”
My kids have questions about hermit crabs: can they hear? how to tell boy vs girl crabs? They think I should ask @OldSpice.
CaliLewis How can a video of a guy walking be awesome? Here’s how! http://calilewis.me/guyw… Thanks @dutch9
Writing property tax checks with my new gel pen… bittersweet… OK, WAY more bitter than sweet, but still…
The 2010 Brookstone Barracudas! http://twitpic.com/27znvv
Home is where the laundry is done.
There is not a light to be seen. The chirping of the insects is deafening. Welcome to the NC mountains.
@motersho Yes, lots of crashes, even on Apple apps, like the camera app.
Poverty sucks. http://twitpic.com/27dvy6
That Vanderbilt dude was smart enough to build his summer cottage in a town with 3G wireless coverage.
Yesterday’s visit to the gem mine was a lesson in geology, and a testimony on why we should not start smoking.
The TOP! http://twitpic.com/272g8u
At 2950 feet above sea level, the potato chip bags are noticeably bigger than they were in town. http://twitpic.com/26w1op
Some folks call them “rocks”, but to us, they are “gems”. http://twitpic.com/26vux3
Crazy - Lake Lure and Chimney Rock NC, yesterday no power, today no water. Tomorrow, what, no air?
A bat on our front porch http://twitpic.com/26u8in
Our rustic home away from home.. with a hot tub and satellite TV http://twitpic.com/26u2zy
I don’t know anything about proper string theory, but MY string theory is that strings & wires love to tangle up with each other!
After years of being a Bic 4-color pen user, I am test driving several types of gel pens.
I think it’s just about time to call it a month…
@takky_love you called?
Maybe I should upgrade my iPod Touch to iOS 4.0.1 …
Indian Rupee Gets Its Own Symbol http://n.pr/buOMI0 (via @nprnews) That guy has no idea how many software jobs he just created.
Sometimes I wish I could search one Twitter user’s tweets for a key word. Or search everyone I follow. Trying to find a tweet I read…
The Tea Party feels that the Constitution is being trampled. http://n.pr/comvf4 Isn’t that what Bush called “just a GD piece of paper”?
@permanent4 Try Wake Freecycle, a mailing list for giving stuff away rather than throwing it out. http://groups.freecycle….
LOL, 101 of your favorite Chinese songs http://twitpic.com/24tyq0
Argh! Explained the space shuttle and ISS to my 6yo niece, complete with videos & pics, waited for the ISS pass overhead… then it rained!
I feel a Tom Sawyer moment coming on… my sister-in-law from Hong Kong has never MOWED GRASS before!
Giving “evolution” email/calendar client a try after a year w/o it. Still clunky, still crashes. Delivers the true “MS Exchange” experience.
I wonder if you could be a good neighbor and run an AT&T microcell “wide open”, instead of for only 1-10 users on an “Approved User List”??
What’s that burning smell? Oh, that’s me, burning through my network quota at @Linode. A month’s transfer used up in 10 days. D’oh!
Showing “Where’s George” to my niece… every bill we look up has exactly two entries: the person who stamped it, and us. Phooey.
Traditional US/English measurement units suck… mix 6oz of RoundUp to 1 gal of water… that’s, what, 20-ish to 1?
Noticing that some iPhone apps now take over the whole screen, covering up the clock/signal/battery status bar. Foo!
@jbroome What are you, some kind of homo-phobe?
Considering un-following @TEDxRaleigh
Just enough rain to add some steam to the heat.
@NCSUCPE Get ready for an attack of massive proportions from @rockhopper!
shanselman Without Facebook, how else would all the people who didn’t talk to me in High School ask me for computer help today?
coxn TriLUG meeting tonight: “Why Linux is Bad for Business.” Yes, that’s the title of the talk.
I always have to think about it - in the Southern hemisphere, is Summer “cold in July”? or is Summer “hot in December”? (Answer: Summer=hot)
Watched “The Pink Panther” (1963) tonight - it did not live up to my memories of 1975-78 Clouseau movies, but it had its own unique charm.
@jenncutter I have a policy… I don’t roll coins (and I prefer not to count). My new bank has a free counting machine FTW!
CaliLewis Well it’s official. American Airlines is doing the full body X-ray for *every* passenger. Oh goodie.
Wow, it’s worse than I thought… the “don’t merge whitespace changes” rule applies to EACH LINE in a file, not to files in their entirety.
Dunno what’s worse, cube neighbor shouting on conference call, or the way she hangs up and then disses the callers.
Wut? Tools group at work says their version control system THROWS AWAY “whitespace only” changes… uhm, hello? Python?
@jbroome @pwbrewer Twitter probably uses S3 for storage, CP&L for power and Charmin in their bathroom, but I don’t allow scripts from them.
Dear @twitter, why does your web site require scripts from amazonaws.com? Can’t you use a twitter.com domain for that? #noscript #security
@dsearls I believe mplayer or ffmpeg will extract the audio (WAV). From there, there’s a ton of tools to make MP3, even iTunes.
RT @nevenmrgan: PSA: to type the degree symbol ° on iOS, tap and hold the 0. Why that key? The ° is actually a small, raised zero. (′ an …
hermit crab: 1
finger: 0
Very disappointed to learn that the Mozilla calendar team are discontinuing their Sunbird stand-alone calendar application at v1.0
SPF 100+ http://twitpic.com/22oekj
Fireworks at sunset at Atlantic Beach http://twitpic.com/22jd8u
Our two latest house guests, Sprinkle and Boo (names subject to change). http://twitpic.com/22hy3k
tferriss If you’ve never read it, today’s the day (you’ll be glad you did) - The Declaration of Independence: http://su.pr/1IU5Pz
NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores - shark & friends in 300k gallon tank. http://twitpic.com/22getl
Two Progress Energy trucks leaving our parking lot… power’s still out, problem must be upstream (or, maybe it’s just their lunch time).
Uh oh, power’s out at Atlantic Beach condo… wonder how widespread the problem is?
brianstucki Just hit me again that it has been 2+ months yet oil still comes out. All the things the human race has accomplished and we can’t stop that?
American flag cake! http://twitpic.com/226s3z
@lorenb Normal numbers ARE lowercase… you don’t use your shift key to type them, do you?
@mikbre Watch the collateral damage, don’t boycott the (locally-owned) store, just the BP gas.
@jbroome Wherever you watch, “Daddy’s lap” always seems to lessen the freak-out factor from the fireworks.
@josh_a_g I’m still around, you just have to know where to look.
@makent Sorry I missed you… I was at the beach.
Now I’ve seen it all… a MOTORCYCLE taking up two parking spaces.
Oh noes! At work, Clearcase is down, but I can’t moan about it on Twitter, because it’s down, too!
Once again, I am either a HOT COMMODITY or a TOXIC ASSET. It’s hard to tell the difference!
“My kids fixed me a cup of coffee!”, he said, as he picked the coffee grounds out of his teeth.
@RobertFischer Nothing like a beer and a joint after a long day…
Is this an awesome pen, or what? http://twitpic.com/21lr9r
Wow, only 79°F / 26°C … I’d better get a jacket!
Happy Birthday (2011) @clubJuggler! http://bit.ly/QYKKs #sts134
NASA New shuttle launch dates! STS-133 is targeted to launch at ~4:33pET on Nov. 1 & STS-134 at 4:19p on Feb. 26, 2011. http://bit.ly/QYKKs
@frijole Staples or Office Depot. They are called “rubber bands”.
“No sweets month” is officially over! http://twitpic.com/21hnw2