? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

December 2012

RT @marshallbrain: A nice way to think about improving your life in the new year - the one pushup challenge - http://t.co/tiphVF8K #mywi

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whosnakeanthony Font matters pic.twitter.com/br5Jo8OF

via web (retweeted on 7:02 PM, Dec 30th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

PHP, Objective-C, SQL, Python, C

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Why do you always find so many of these dental floss things in parking lots? pic.twitter.com/0nQSJdkC

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Jefferson Memorial, winds gusting at 31 mph… BRR! pic.twitter.com/9AKn0YZu

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We’re IN Union Station. The smashed pennies SAY Union Station. But the pictures are NOT of Union Station! pic.twitter.com/FPwzTf3W

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@OldCrank Roger that… we’ll start with “Helvetica”

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to OldCrank

There are eight stinky feet in this hotel room!

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D1 is disappointed that “Life of Pi” is NOT about Ï€. To tell the truth, so am I.

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I’ve managed to tune out the obnoxious banter at the next table… except for the word “like”, which makes up a huge %age of their speech.

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Pro tip: check the weather for the city that you’re actually in, not for the city that was bookmarked in your browser!

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“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here…” ~~ I think it has, and I hope it will. pic.twitter.com/ex8uJLKv

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@lawpower In fact, when I got my Sonicare (a gift from my awesome dentist), I felt like it was the Apple to Oral B’s Android.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to lawpower

@lawpower Tried both, I prefer Sonicare over Oral B.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to lawpower

Spooky photo of full moon over the US Capitol building! pic.twitter.com/OpIdki41

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Show of hands… who is surprised that those jackasses in Congress have not met their self-created budget deadline yet? Anyone? Beuller?

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Up until after midnight… playing… dominoes??

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Between crashes and unsolicited spammy “notifications”, Words With Friends and Draw Something are inching closer to the digital graveyard.

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Long day, starting with “family IT work”, some last-minute shopping, family gathering/eating/gifts. And then Santa arrives later tonight.

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@pinkster1076 Congratulations for finding “him” (but not me)! I’ve never been so lucky.

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steveathanas Even at Christmas I hate Siri. Such a smart aleck. pic.twitter.com/cYo9hijU

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:47 PM, Dec 24th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

Instead of buying holiday cards this year, our family made a donation to Dorcas Ministries in Cary. @DorcasCary pic.twitter.com/pHD66wKU

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I tried to say “Avada Kedavra”, but it came out more like “Hakuna Matata”.

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RT @artologica: Astonishing photos of Siberian reindeer herders by Sebastiao Salgado http://t.co/si1AQe0R

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lnxchk The @Airendipity app is kind of adorable in an odd, existentialist graffiti kind of way.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:05 AM, Dec 22nd, 2012 via web)

RT @BadAstronomer: #BAFact: Today is the winter solstice, the northern hemisphere’s shortest day and longest night of the year. http://t

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Sign in our local mall for “mallMerlin” iphone app, a directory I assume. No such app in the app store. pic.twitter.com/0KvGeS3q

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One gingerbread house is idyllic, one has structural problems. One daughter is content, the other distraught. pic.twitter.com/m7jg7Za5

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@Mijito09rico Nice penguin-related name. See bottom photo on http://t.co/8OiaZLxR Beautiful.

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@Mijito09rico I am just playing with you. My family loves CP… and Linux… and penguins.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Mijito09rico

@Mijito09rico Lo siento… no puedo hablar mucho en español. Gracias por twitter mention.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Mijito09rico

@Dscm777 Lo siento… no puedo hablar mucho en español. Gracias por twitter mention.

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First day of track-out!

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New windshield wiper blades!

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maddox Dear Apple,

Please ban every app that sends me local notifications to remind me to use their app.

via Tweetbot for iOS (retweeted on 12:15 PM, Dec 20th, 2012 via web)

Apple dev portal closes Fri, so I checked my #’s today. 104 people installed my free “Three Wishes” app in December. sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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Proud to be a Hufflepuff Dad… at the Q2 awards ceremony at Salem Middle school.

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bendefeo Friday’s front page: pic.twitter.com/dopHaSHo

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:17 AM, Dec 20th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

According to WWF, “PHT” is a word.

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Took a day off from work. Set up the tree, started Christmas shopping. Note to marketers: STARTED xmas shopping on 12/17, not in October.

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@tpope Do like my managers do… copy the bug reports into an Excel spreadsheet and email copies to everyone… <sigh>

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via @mental_floss : 12 Letters That Didn’t Make the Alphabet — http://t.co/8fL858Mu | curious about voiceless vs voiced dental fricatives?

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@ElFlanderCp Lo siento… no puedo hablar mucho en español. Gracias por twitter mention.

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Packing up my open source toys for show-n-tell at the @trilug holiday party tonight!

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@oil999cp I am much more handsome than that… but thanks for the mention. :-)

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Very auspicious date today, 12/12/12. Next time this happens is next year on the 13th of Feptober!

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So proud of D1 and the “Blue Notes” chorus group. Great concert tonight.

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Mixed metaphor of the day: I don’t have to out run the bear, just out run the low hanging fruit.

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iPhone madness of the day: artists missing from music app || SOLUTION settings > music > group by album artist = OFF

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shawnp0wers , please bring me an extra Tuesday for every week in 2013. Oh, and three Saturdays every weekend. :-)

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:18 PM, Dec 10th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

. @laurenmyrtle Uh oh, I think I feel a spell of Post-Potter Depression coming.

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Finished all 4100 pages of Harry Potter!

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StayLerner “There is absolutely no reason to be careful what you wish for.” -my most amazing friend.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 6:41 PM, Dec 9th, 2012 via web)

Our house just got noisy… D2 was just selected for the All County Chorus! Let the noise continue!

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Talking science with D1… eventually led us to what-if.xkcd.com — now THAT’S education!

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@nfarina It does look f-ing great!

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@alanjporter Or head to the airport… it’s currently 70°F and sunny at RDU.

via web in reply to alanjporter

@pwbrewer I understand what you mean, but not what you said. :-)

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to pwbrewer

Watching HTTP logs, just saw 8 login attempts on a WordPress site I host, all from different IPs, within a few seconds. Botnet?

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Debugging. Can’t check @trilug IMAP mail from iPhone on my home network. OK via cell network or VPN. Claims name or pw is bad. DNS is OK.

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Making home-made bubble gum (using a kit). Dang, it tastes like I took a swig of gasoline! pic.twitter.com/X79qafdB

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@nprscottsimon So this George Bailey must’ve been manager of Gringotts, right?

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to nprscottsimon

swined export EDITOR=”/usr/bin/rm”

via tGadget (retweeted on 7:45 AM, Dec 8th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

I bet the picture of Erasmus on my Kindle screen saver wanders off to someone else’s Kindle when I’m not around. (I’ve been reading Potter.)

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Nice day off… I took off a day from work and the kids had “early release”. Didn’t really DO anything, but tidied up the house & relaxed.

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Taking apart a mechanical pedometer with the kids. Very clever design!

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@andriajensen Doing Linux/web dev now, but long history of embedded/mobile/devices. My 2nd app hit the store this week. sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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App sales down 76% from yesterday. My 15 minutes of fame has passed. sentosa.us/apps/wishes/ pic.twitter.com/Sn2MEwZe

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Linux tip: “grep -o PATTERN” will print just the matching patterns, not the entire matching lines.

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If I could travel in time, I would go back 15 years and tell twenty-something me to floss… for real… every day.

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Like a scene from a movie… roach crawled into the printer, so I pressed COPY, he jumped out at me, I jumped back, finally squashed him.

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@nivex Still freezing in my office!

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My get-rich plan: sit back and watch people download my FREE app, collect those $0 royalty checks. Muah hah hah! sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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@frijole (cc @nivex) so what ARE you doing these days?

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connerk I made my hobby my job. Why delegate fun to a background process when you can do it asynchronously on the main thread?

via Twitterrific for Mac (retweeted on 11:09 AM, Dec 3rd, 2012 via web)

@444ppenguinCP yes, $99/year, registered as a corporation, trained on Stanford videos, preparing to develop apps professionally

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@444ppenguinCP It’s probably not what you had in mind.

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My app “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” is now available in the app store! sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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Spent ALL DAY working in my magical app-creation workshop. :-)

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Envy the folks who got to go to this week.

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