? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

November 2013

Cutting it close, D2 finally claims victory against her 43,920 word goal, with 2 hours to spare.

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Thankfully, “Safety mode has hidden comments for this video.”

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So proud of my young writers. D1 just passed her goal of 35,000 words. D2 is within sight of her goal.

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My office is cold. Think I’ll compute some MD5 sums to heat up the Macbook (I miss my Dell - it always ran unnecessarily hot).

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Our Obi202 VoIP box set its clock to 2015, neglected to re-register with VoIP provider, so we missed calls all day.

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@nonrecursive See Gratitude & 15 other positive qualities in “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” iPhone app by me sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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@DragoArt Hi Dawn, Tried to reach you earlier about using one of your images in an iPhone app. Not sure how to contact you. OK or not? Thx

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Elevator dream got tense when alarms went off, announcing the hot cocoa levels were dangerously low!

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Crazy dream: huge elevator car, 2 stories inside, looked like something out of Kubric’s 2001, monitors everywhere, 2 full time attendants!

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Whew! Party’s over! If the Harry Potter story had been real, Voldemort would’ve never gotten a word in edgewise between the kids yelling.

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In my experience, printers… don’t.

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Bummed that @ChickfilA dropped carrot & raisin salad from their menu. Wonder if it’s all stores or just our local franchise?

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Transforming our home into a wizard school castle.

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Psst… don’t tell anybody this, but I have never seen an episode of Dr Who.

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@pwbrewer That’s about right… 10 min for email, 75 min of Twitter, 5 min for coffee, now where was I?

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@flyosity Music podcasts while working, talky podcasts while driving or mowing the grass.

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@mikbre If your answer was “no”, then that was a rhetorical question. :-)

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@jfmecca Already at 1 Credit Union, plus a few other banks. Don’t want to be stuck with my money in one place, too many things can go wrong.

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Anyone else seeing OSX Mavericks locking up at the login screen after waking up from standby?

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OK, it’s time for me to switch from Kickstarter lurker to contributor. kck.st/1a9Ue29 It’s 99% invisible with @romanmars

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We wrote a check at a store, someone later robbed the store, now bank wants to change our acct # (and up-sell us at the same time).

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“The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work” @cshirky http://t.co/FljJd1RDO1

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@nivex I have “DID - Pay Per Minute” for $1.95/mo. With FCC/911, it comes to about $3.50/mo total.

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Just spent 15 minutes reviewing my phone call handling rules. Verdict: Google Voice confusing & unreliable, @Callcentric clean & works well.

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@nelstrom I bought it because a good friend described it as “life-changing”.

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Friend recommended “Practical Vim” from @pragprog. Grabbed the ebook. Struggled with maybe print version too. But $9 shipping suggests not.

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@nadir_tornow @climagic Root SSH/22 is OK, if done properly. Set “PermitRootLogin without-password”. Sounds scary, but it means “use a key”.

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@Hay @ameir : @flightblog’s work must complement that of the Beer Loser.

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Woo hoo! My updated app “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” is in the app store today! pic.twitter.com/6W54SvMXv1

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@WCPSS @NCHomeBase If you need a process to report frequent outages, you’re doing it wrong.

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“Don’t find work. Make work. Then you’ll do cooler stuff :)” - @umairh

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Groundhog day at work. The downside of maintaining several parallel branches with poor fix propagation. Same bugs, different day.

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Fear me! I am learning SCIENCE from YouTube!

(Preparing for my kids’ Harry Potter birthday party, which should be EPIC)

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At least two colleagues using their personal laptops at work because it’s easier to check (corporate) email on them.

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Forcing myself to learn mutt.

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Spent most of the day preparing for our upcoming Harry Potter themed party.

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Excited to submit v1.1 of my “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” iPhone app to the Apple App Store today. sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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When I got my MacBook in January, I put my old laptop files in a folder called MOVE. I finally emptied that folder tonight.

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Power’s out… I can take a hint… heading home.

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@coxn There’s a difference between HAVING local NTP and DOCUMENTING that we have local NTP. :-)

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@pwbrewer 1-line PHP script on my own web server.

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Better time sync = set my NTP source to my default router, which (apparently) is kept in sync.

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Wondering why the clock on my work PC was drifting. NTP is blocked. Wrote a cron job to fetch time via HTTP and set clock.

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Got my new employee badge today - it does not open doors, has no hole to clip to, interferes with my lunch card, and my name is wrong.

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@StephenWagner7 Thanks for sharing! I ended up installing vox.

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@StephenWagner7 Impressed that you got xmms working on mac. You should package it and share via osx app store!

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Amazed that in 2013, our kids are still exchanging 10-digit phone numbers, not something with @ signs in them (like XMPP or AppleID, etc).

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According to iOS7, 5:45pm falls somewhere between 6pm and 7pm. pic.twitter.com/CcKRXfQofM

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@jordansissel We’re down to four months of “standard time”.

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This Daylight Saving thing is cool… we should do it daily. Steal a daytime hour like 10-11am and restore it at night while I’m sleeping.

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Window blinds on East-facing window making tiny pinhole cameras, projecting sun-shaped images of the berries from our tree. Epic Science!

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I panicked when my MacBook went silent, no sound! Debugged for a while, tried reboot. Only THEN did I notice the volume knob on amp at zero.

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It’s November, and both of my daughters are excited to be participating in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month.

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@mtdotnet Just like on Facebook, mobile app has a lot of new settings. Note if you use multiple accounts, there are even MORE settings.

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Twitter is turning into Facebook. It’s sending me mobile notifications for crap that has nothing to do with me.

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