? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

July 2013

@TerryMooreII Keep a few on-hand, even in your travel bag… or you’ll have to get creative. :-)

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to TerryMooreII

@TerryMooreII In my house, one golden dollar coin. On vacation at Disney, a Tinkerbell keychain. On a plane in Hong Kong, 10HKD.

via web in reply to TerryMooreII

@flightblog The quarter slot is on the left.

via web in reply to flightblog

A little hesitant to load iOS7 beta 4 on my primary iPhone. But hey, in for a penny, in for a pound.

via web

Today was my last day at Tekelec. I start my new job at Oracle tomorrow. Same building, same team, same project. Surreal.

via Twitter for iPhone

Successfully re-calibrated wife’s GPS touchscreen (again). Plus, added a hack to log NMEA data.

via Twitter for iPhone

Happy to hear that the @ncnearspace crew retrieved their “First Library In Space” payload today!

via web

T-shirt thinning project : remove (1) all black shirts (2) anything with a date before 2008 on it

via web

Thinning out my overflowing T-shirt drawer. Oh, the memories!

via Twitter for iPhone

@ncnearspace I hope somebody brought a canoe!

via Twitter for iPhone

@ncnearspace Woo hoo! SPOT report in! 36.44488, -79.01053

via web

@ncnearspace a SPOT report sure would be nice about now, since I don’t expect too much APRS digipeater coverage in that area.

via Twitter for iPhone

@Hay @chronic That’ll be obsolete when we all switch to using Swatch Beat Time.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Hay

@nivex NSL-3 aimed high, reached an estimated 120k ft.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to nivex

@ncnearspace … he said, just as the balloon proved him wrong. :-)

via web in reply to rockhopper

@ncnearspace I think the APRS GPS is lying about altitude, skirting just below 40k ft.

via web

@nivex @ncnearspace Very strange jump in GPS reports… new lat&long, but ALMOST same altitude=38910. Is it coming back down already?

via web in reply to nivex

Apparently, Siri did not have a passport, so I had to leave her behind at the border.

via web

Emerging from a Twitter blackout last week… caused in part by lack of mobile data while in Canada.

via web

@emmarockin If a family was passing through Pittsburgh for an overnight stay, what would be a must-see?

via web

deuceplatypus Since this file is taking like five seconds to open, I’ll just go check Twitter for an hour.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:43 AM, Jul 17th, 2013 via web)

How do you separate metal shavings from a magnet?

via web

Conveniently, the power blinked for a second right around midnight, resetting all of our clocks to the correct time.

via Twitter for iPhone

rtphokie Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber? A: Nothing. You can’t cross a vector and a scalar.

via web (retweeted on 9:35 PM, Jul 14th, 2013 via Twitter for iPhone)

I am now running my own SSL certificate authority, encrypting web and mail traffic for multiple domains with ease.

via web

You know that “caught up” feeling when your bills are paid and the grass is mowed and you can relax for a day? Yeah, me neither.

via web

Playing with “Certificate Patrol” on Thunderbird. I think I’ll need it soon. But it does not seem to PATROL anything.

via Twitter for iPhone

Ferry arriving at Fort Fisher NC pic.twitter.com/fkf74Rw2eZ

via iOS

I think it’s pretty clear that I have more job security than I will ever need.

via web

One more reason for me to dislike ClearCase - just found some directories where file name exists, file itself does not. And this is normal?

via web

. @ncnearspace knocks it out of the ball park! Track the balloon at aprs.fi/#!call=AK4CH-11

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Tuning in to @ncnearspace balloon launch from Durham Bulls stadium. Good luck to the launch and chase teams!

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I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. Clearcase sucks. Spent the last 30m waiting for “mastership” so I could check files in.

via web

Tool at $WORK uses “-r” for “request” and “-c” for “confirm”. I keep getting it backwards, thinking “-c” for “change” and “-r” for “read”.

via web

Today would have been my Nanny’s 97th birthday. Her funeral was last week.

via Twitter for iPhone

Just spent the last two hours reporting a backlog of iOS7 bugs that I have noticed over the last two weeks.

via web

Second report of an escaped hermit crab - up the glass wall, down to the floor, down the hall, down the stairs, and to the kitchen! Wow!

via Twitter for iPhone

[BOOM] Oooh… aaah!

via Twitter for iPhone

@alanjporter Whew, for a minute there, I thought MY name was on the cover!

via web in reply to alanjporter

I don’t think of it as losing a jet ski. I think of it as gaining a lake house and a mechanic.

via web

Started but did not complete any books in May or June. :-(

via web