Hey, downtown Raleigh, if you’re going to be open for First Night crowds, wouldn’t it be right to let the crowds use your bathrooms too?
In the “squarest” of venues, the NC Highway Building Auditorium, listening to a pretty good high school rock band, the Graffiti Monkeys.
Cool, Cheez-It’s stay fresh for 100 years! http://twitpic.com/3louv7
@nivex A good excuse to teach the Mrs about “ssh -D” and FoxyProxy/ProxySwitchy!
Disappointed to see AT&T throttling internet video from overseas. Rate = 300kbps for 30s, zero for 30s. But thru a proxy = solid 1Mbps.
Taking down the Christmas tree. This is my favorite ornament. http://twitpic.com/3lavcu
Mmm, prunella-mulberry-chrysanthemum herbal tea… with honey.
Is instagr.am so popular just because it can “crap-ify” photos? Or is there some other reason, too?
Guppies! http://twitpic.com/3koatt
Took out the trash, the smell of pencil shavings instantly transported me back to 2nd grade.
The children have taken over my mad scientist lab. #clubpenguin (And yes, my man-cave has pink walls!) http://twitpic.com/3kjn4b
X10 - It’s not just for Christmas trees any more! Modifying my appliance modules to work with the fish tank pump and lights.
Changed a light bulb over the stairs about two hours ago, required a big ladder. Looks like it’s already burned out again!
Eating the gingerbread houses! http://twitpic.com/3k1brm
You sank my battleship! http://twitpic.com/3k15if
How timely… snow plow pulled out of our street just as we arrived home. now THAT’s service!
White Christmas with Mimi & Pops, dogs watching the snow. http://twitpic.com/3jm32q http://twitpic.com/3jm302
It’s 5am, and the kids have already snuck downstairs for a very thorough look at what Santa brought them.
Same card… does this say more about my friends, or about me? http://twitpic.com/3j6cok
Awesome - The Waddling Penguin Pooper! “Yummy Candy” http://twitpic.com/3iun36
@nivex Frustrated that the press focuses on “fast lane, slow lane” and ignores underhanded ISP tricks like VOIP throttling, port blocking.
Test-driving ear buds w/ squishy seals. Blocks room noise OK, but I hear every move of the wires, and the bass is like a teen’s car stereo.
@deviantollam mag locks!
Mah NÃ Mah NÃ …
Does *every* toy have to tie in with a movie?
I think Apple gives their engineers an intelligence test - the ones that flunk get to work on iTunes.
Cantilever pizza!
School’s out, yaayyy! <waving arms like Kermit the Frog>
hoverbird “I… realized that you couldn’t do something nice in your garage as a normal person and I gave up the idea.” -@stevewoz http://t.co/pJlsffm
Moon, ugh, clouds, zzzz….
Wow, it’s 10:10pm, and the UPS delivery guy is still making his rounds in our neighborhood.
RT @idillionaire: I’ve just renamed my wifi network to “Police Surveillance Van #02”. That should keep my neighbors on their toes for a …
@Tr4_Salamanders Expect the kids to be a bit sleepy tomorrow after they stay up to see the lunar eclipse tonight! http://bit.ly/fKHlKi
Your rights, with respect to TSA screening http://saizai.com/tsa_ri… (/via @deviantollam)
Alyssa_Milano I’m fine with getting older as long as my laugh lines are deeper than my frown lines.
Schneier: Close the Washington Monument - http://is.gd/iYQtq - “Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as a monument to our fears.”
Coming back from “The Nutcracker” in Raleigh. Snowing, some of the biggest, fluffiest snowflakes I have ever seen.
@tlkativ An internet oven, eh? Your wish is my command. http://tmio.com <- that’s my baby, 2004-2006.
Crazy building… foreigners go in, Americans come out! http://twitpic.com/3gubuz
Kids started school two hours late because of (melted) snow. Then we took them out three hours early for a family event. Short day!
. @anjibee Not sure why, but my hyperactive 8yo daughter just shouted “Look at me, I’m Anji Bee!” Sorry I missed the pose that went with it.
JimRoepcke Folks, it’s officially THE FUTURE. Word Lens is insane. I wanna go to Mexico just to have a good reason to use it! http://bit.ly/gpcLNL
CollegeHumor Rudolph the regular reindeer had a nose and if you ever saw it, you would say nothing http://su.pr/2o3E7d
@ambermae NC55 and I-540 were OK this morning… crusty/slushy, but not sliding. Took it slow on bridges.
Is it just me, or is it just freaking amazing that we built a robot to snap pictures on Mars (http://is.gd/iOfBt), 6 years and still going!
Kids and I just finished reading “The Teddy Bear Habit”, a classic 1967 book about a kids rock band, hippies, jewel thieves & a Teddy bear.
LaughingSquid Developer claims FBI implemented backdoors in OpenBSD http://bit.ly/hq0ebZ via @itwire
That rotary-dial cell phone picture that’s been making the rounds (http://is.gd/iLjA4) … my kids had no idea what that was s’posed to be!
I just ran across the word “millifirsts” in a technical document. #CutPasteFail
SAVE MONEY on presents this year by telling your kids that tonight’s meteor shower is Santa burning up on re-entry. /via @VizTopTips
Egg nog, meet rum.
Students from Univ of Alabama hacked into one of my clients’ web site, so I spent this PM cleaning their PHP code.
Cook at Jasmin Mediterranean bistro heard my disappointment that they were out of tabbouli. So he scraped up what was left for a free side!
I just heard my first Kwanzaa carol.
jdanforth OMG! This is probably the most tantalizing thing from WikiLeaks yet: http://www.ding.net/wiki…
Cary police have set up a traffic checkpoint in front of the Army Reserve office on highway 55.
mc_frontalot they can try to wipe the spill up but the stain, it’s very tricky / ought to call a WikiPlumber cause their pentagon’s what’s dripping
DanielEllsberg EVERY attack now made on Assange and @wikileaks was made against me and release of Pentagon Papers http://bit.ly/eZnep8
@LauraLeslie FYI… that eclipse can be seen from anywhere in the western hemisphere, not just in NC/SC.
Cool… with the iPhone/Ubuntu fix, I can also plug in my iPhone and listen to the podcasts and music using rhythmbox.
iPhone iOS 4.2.1 broke my ability to mount iPhone on Linux & copy photos, etc. Here’s the fix: http://is.gd/ip0EW
schneierblog Sane Comments on Terrorism: From Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center: Ultimatel… http://bit.ly/e3CfJN
@splat_space people, where is a good palce to order food (pizza) from near Splat Space? @TriLUG meeting will be there on Thursday at 7pm.
IT explained the phone list problem. They want me to change my legal name. OR… I could just schmooze the receptionist so she knows me.
jamesrbuk For freedom of speech, there’s #wikileaks. For everything else, there’s #Mastercard. And #Visa. And, um, #Paypal. And #Amazon. And…
Call my office & ask for me, they’ll say I don’t work here. Either IT messed up the phone list, or I should think twice about xmas shopping.
wikileaks We will not be censored: WikiLeaks now running in over 208 locations http://wikileaks.ch/mirr…
@alikins Just add milk!
Grinding up Total cereal and using very strong magnets to separate out the iron. Cool!
@pwbrewer I wonder if the folks in New York would be interested in a Morrisville Bagel Cafe & Deli ??
frijole OH at the Airport:
[Kid] Where’s Raleigh-Durham?
[Mom] Where the Wolfpack is.
For future reference - yes, you CAN roll-start a car in reverse.
Snow!!!
ExploreSpaceKSC Launch of STS-133 space shuttle Discovery is now no earlier than Feb. 3, 2011 at 1:34 am ET to allow for more testing on the external tank.
@mikbre I am a master baiter.
Waiting for the inevitable NSFW Twitter auto-replies, since I used the words “long”, “hard” and “tool” in a single tweet.
Company IT newsletter suggests using “long” and “hard” passwords. It should also recommend a tool like @keepass to make it easy to comply.
Another day, another donut.
Astroguyz My 2nd bet for the #NASA announcement is word of the impending destruction of Earth by the Vogons. It is on Thursday, afterall..
A lot of people are confusing their anger towards @wikileaks vs the individuals who leaked the secret documents to begin with.
GSMA_MBB BIG, BREAKING NEWS! Verizon to launch world’s largest LTE network this Sunday: http://tinyurl.com/3ynaw…
Dear @twitter, why in blazes does your web site require that I run javascript on an amazonaws.com domain? Do we need a lesson on DNS?