? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

October 2013

Happy Halloween from Siri, Oscar the Grouch, and Bender! pic.twitter.com/L3JPPfxrdi

via Twitter for iPhone

@jbroome I had a Chinese friend named Bin. He deleted his home by “rm -rf /usr/bin”. So we called him “user Bin”.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to jbroome

D1 has four fedoras.

via Twitter for iPhone

Quote of the week, from Henry David Thoreau: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

via web

Topic of employers and inventions came up today. NC § 66-57.1 says your home projects are yours, not your employer’s.

via web

Professor Kliq is totally tearing up the club at the All Things Open after-party!

via Twitter for iPhone

ncnearspace Highlights video of our recent balloon launch. youtu.be/uh_RsFHUO7U

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:49 PM, Oct 19th, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

Anyone else ever notice on Mac OSX login window, you start typing password and it highlights a few letters, so your next key wipes them out?

via web

Clean all the things!

via web

No, Siri… that small house in that residential neighborhood is NOT a Walmart!

via Twitter for iPhone

Just got back from the hardware store. This year’s Halloween costumes are going to be great!

via Twitter for iPhone

@mborgen Today was the nearby food truck rodeo. Otherwise, most days I go to the fairly nice cafeteria at $WORK.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to mborgen

Been cautiously curious about iOS/OSX Core Data for while, this article (via @daveverwer) gives a good short intro. http://t.co/GCYVCUvlIF

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My buds, so loyal, texted to say they’re leaving for lunch, then left without waiting for me to join them.

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Tonight, I beat my wife and kids… at Scrabble.

via Twitter for iPhone

It’s been a long work week. Congress is starting to look like a finely oiled machine.

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Discussing a work project, co-worker asked me what my plan was. I said “curse a lot, go home, drink heavily, kick my dog, update my résumé”.

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My sneakers (New Balance 608) pick up more little rocks than any I’ve ever had. Others must’ve had a gutter inside to catch the loose bits.

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At $WORK, the soda can recycle bin is located in the pantry. It would make more sense to move it closer to the bathroom.

via web

@CPMimi55555 Nicely done! I’m sure the CP crowd is not interested in my nerdly tweets. :-)

via web in reply to CPMimi55555

@CPMimi55555 I find @RetweetsCP to be annoying. You can imagine why. When I *do* talk about CP, that’d be OK. But not my every tweet.

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Instant FAIL - @zimride ‘s app only allows logging in through Facebook. That’s not gonna happen. I wanna use my ZimRide user/password.

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@RetweetsCP are you going to retweet everything I say just because of my name? i’m not THAT Rockhopper!

via Twitter for iPhone

Someone tried to check in some code into my base class like this:

if (class == ‘mysubclass’) {
special logic here
}

NO!

via web