? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

February 2014

Our office mouse was stuck in the cube maze. I know how that little guy feels. He did manage to escape, though. I hope I do, too.

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I have not even left home, and I get word that there’s a mouse in my cubicle at work… the squeaky cheesy kind, not the pointy clicky kind.

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D2 *finally* lost her last baby tooth!

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Video killed the ratio star. â™gs

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My co-workers are masters of the “half-mail”, telling just enough info that you have to reply, not enough to be useful by itself.

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@mkennedy2d Gogo6 / Freenet6 is the IPv6 tunnel that terminates in Toronto. See my blog about sign-up quirks. http://t.co/JhaAS2RbYT

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Installed Arch Linux and Flashback* on a PogoPlug v4. Testing it out as a backup device, looking good so far. [* I wrote Flashback]

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Neighbor asked why the was passing over Raleigh tonight, and I was SO tempted to make up a crazy answer.

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As we were waiting for the to pass overhead, a low-flying helicopter emerged from the spot we were watching.

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Switched my mouse to the left side, reversed the buttons. Noticed that my desk has less room on the left, and is a farther reach.

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To all of my fans in United Arab Emirates, go to App Store > Utilities > All iPhone Apps > Paid, scroll to #200, see my clock app, woot!

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Impressive… we still have some “parking lot glaciers” left over from the Valentine’s Day snow.

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On the plus side, there are some movies that NetFlix shows in Canada that are not available in US. IPv6 tunnel lets me watch them here.

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Dangit, NetFlix thinks I am in Canada because my IPv6 tunnel terminates there. It’s not showing me my “List”.

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@bradangelcyk @isaackeyet @JustGetFlux Been gradually dialing mine down over time. Now reboots are blinding as f.lux abruptly turns off :-)

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Ooh, sweet… I just discovered the OpenVPN iPhone app!

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I think the default on Youtube & Soundcloud & similar sites should be to play the ONE video/song that I clicked on, not to play forever.

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How come everything has to be a “deep dive”?

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Chrome decided to drop a “notification” widget on my Mac’s menu bar. I disabled it in “chrome://flags”.

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Setting up my 3rd mail server. Count ‘em… THREE!

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Power outage at work… 2 hours in the dark. Most went home. I should’ve.

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Found my font problem, pilot error >> In Firefox preferences, set “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above”.

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Wondering why icon fonts are not loading on Firefox, look great on Chrome. Twitter’s menu bar show hex boxes and foreign characters.

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Office getting new door badge readers. Some rocket scientist decided work should start at 8am, locking out the maximum number of people.

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So proud. D1 called me “Dear Father, who is a perfect incarnation of the appearance that a father should have”.

See http://t.co/37MNdlSMHq

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This morning’s Lousy Driver award goes to a white utility van, NC plate EF-8604, east-bound on NC-55.

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jef_poskanzer Happy Precedence Day! pic.twitter.com/Hi17DWlxTo

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Fitbit lost its mind, refused to sync. Setting it up like a new device, hoping it’ll recover.

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I installed the IPvFox & IPvFoo extensions on my browsers. Impressed that so many of my normal web connections are IPv6 (but not Twitter).

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AT&T internet outage. Rerouting our home network through my neighbor’s wifi. I feel like Geordi La Forge. @levarburton

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Snowed today. Forecast says 70°F one week from today. Welcome to NC!x

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The URL https : // ipv6 . alanporter . com contains 4 of my favorite words. ipv6.alanporter.com

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My home network has been IPv6-less since September 2012… and I just now noticed it! My router had it, but LAN did not. All fixed now. :-)

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A bird flew into our garage.

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Overhauling my personal web page (the implementation, not the overall look). Using more modern tools.

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To all of the kids going to school today, <Nelson laugh> HAH Hah!

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Finally fed up with the sideways sliding volume knob on the sideways sliding lock screen on iOS7. Wrote a bug report. Constructive feedback!

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@JescaAustin Same strategy can be applied to software development… for me, it’s iPhone apps!

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@rwenderlich @philhassey Flashback! Many hours were spent playing the original DOS-based GALCON in our college dorm!

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I work in a company full of robots. “For any issues, please contact [admin email or phone]”

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Reminder to self - Never fill out a web form directly. Use a text editor, cut/paste into form. Many web forms like to disappear w/o saving.

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Tonight was a WordPress night.

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Really digging the 99PI notebooks that arrived today. Glad that one was a Heyoon. (shout out to @romanmars) pic.twitter.com/rx2qNFVamz

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Also, real fans would be ticked that I am ignoring the game, staring at my laptop instead. Real friends would understand… and join in.

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Good thing I’m not hosting a superbowl party. Watching over-the-air TV, breaks up into little digital blocks. Friends & fans would be irate.

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Weird… my TV decided that it was time for a firmware update. I wonder if it’ll still work after it’s done.

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Gong Xi Fa Cai, y’all!

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If movie theaters were like TV (or Youtube), every movie ending would slide into the first 20 minutes of some other movie.

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I am someone who “does not watch TV”, yet I have a Roku, Apple TV and a Chromecast.

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This morning was supposed to be a snow make-up day at local schools. But instead, it’s day 5 of the shutdown caused by 2” of snow.

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