? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

May 2014

Tonight was Momma’s turn to pick a movie, and she picked a documentary. Harumph.

via Twitter Web Client

@macguitar Obviously, his name is 7, and it’s his cab.

via web in reply to macguitar

Reversed the logic on my garage door monitor. Now the magnet activates the sensor when the door is CLOSED.

via web

@pwbrewer or give up the web entirely… it’s a fad, anyway

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to pwbrewer

RT @harrisj: Of course, Memorial Day is also the traditional day that the print New York Times switches to a looser, more breathable “summe…

via web

Turning off “Google Now” menu bar… go to “chrome://flags/” in Chrome, uncheck Google Now notifications support, ugh…

via web

@pwbrewer Are you projecting on me again? If so, start doing something a little more fun, you nerd!

via web in reply to pwbrewer

luketadams The best way to honor our injured and fallen troops is to do everything in our power to make sure that there are less of them in the future.

via web (retweeted on 4:26 PM, May 26th, 2014 via web)

Bummer… apparently, fail2ban does not yet support IPv6.

via web

Found the elusive misplaced FitBit. Battery still alive, so I roamed the house, syncing & setting alarms until it appeared in a coat pocket.

via web

Love the new @wunderground app… too bad the forecast is always 10°F too high.

via Twitter for iPhone

My dream last night: I was on an @Oracle employee shuttle bus, got a seat next to Larry Ellison, tried/failed to take a selfie to prove it.

via web

@SalemElementary Red bus just left at 4:43? And classes let out at 3:45? Why?

via web in reply to SalemElementary

I used to love Perl in 1997, but I have not used it in a long time. I had to today, and I decided that I hate it.

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QOTD: The bar for being above average in IT is so low that you have to be careful not to trip over it while walking to the coffee pot.

via Twitter for iPhone

Wow, that little cat nap turned into a three-hour slumber!

via Twitter for iPhone

Overheard in our house, starting today, for the next 107 days: “Can we go to the pool?”

via Twitter for iPhone

D2 and I get an unexpected breakfast date because of a canceled music class and a traffic accident near our neighborhood.

via Twitter for iPhone

ginnyhendry Programming is like writing a book except if you miss out a single comma on page 126 the whole thing is nonsense.
@jaz303

via Hibari (retweeted on 10:22 PM, May 13th, 2014 via web)

@OldCrank Maybe you would prefer a CarolinaCon shot glass?

via web in reply to OldCrank

Actually, *MY* co-workers will need it explained to them, but I can still feel the envy of the co-workers in the office of my imagination.

via web in reply to rockhopper

Drinking coffee from my new CocoaConf mug. Not sure it tastes any better, but I can just feel the envy of my co-workers.

via web

We had to say goodbye to another hermit crab this weekend. Barney was a good crab. He never pinched ME, at least.

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Met a guy “Cameron” who works in “marketing” (MLM). Marking my calendar for his unsolicited follow-up call. I’m guessing 2 weeks from today.

via web

Uploading a video to my web server. Using my DSL line at home, it took 2h46m. Using my cell phone’s LTE connection… 5m15s.

via web

I closed all of the windows and the rain stopped.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to rockhopper

Hot in the house, so I opened the windows. Not 5 minutes later, it started raining. Guess I’ll sit inside and sweat.

via Twitter for iPhone

Note to self… to rip a CD to MP3 on Ubuntu, you have to install “ubuntu-restricted-extras” first. Twitter remembers these things.

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Cool, I just discovered “apt-get changelog <packagename>”.

via web

When I finish reading a good book, I give it to my local library (which is good, since many of them belong to the library to begin with).

via web

.@romanmars @SuperFlange Well, actually, it’s not Roman… it’s his boys, Mazlo and Carver.

via web in reply to romanmars

Wow, I did not realize that all I had to do was print “Please wait while the page loads…” and I could take as long as I wanted.

via web

I would think that “nonfiction” deserves a less comparative word of it’s own. Same for “unsweet” tea.

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This tree arches over the creek near our neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/7gsz9VnisL

via iOS

@GrizzlyGuru I saw that irony too. Twitter is s’posed to be social. But should my “to do” app tell all of my friends that I need a hair cut?

via web in reply to GrizzlyGuru

I’ll be glad when apps get over this ‘social’ phase and I can go back to being ‘anti-social’.

via web

@jdriscoll just an accept-vs-except gag… is that exceptable?

via web in reply to jdriscoll

@Sync I gave up waiting on sync.com for Linux… so now I am using BitTorrent Sync… no cloud, just my own machines.

via web in reply to Sync

@bundacia How do you test them? http://t.co/U5xWMStont

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@jdriscoll I take acception to that!

via web in reply to jdriscoll

I am suffering from “too much credibility” at work. I make an off-the-cuff comment, others interpret that as “the plan” & seek my approval.

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nivex Clearly he meant 2001:4860:4860::8888 xkcd.com/1361/

via web (retweeted on 8:52 AM, May 2nd, 2014 via web)

Any process that requires two people to work on it actually takes THREE steps: (1) A’s work, (2) the handoff, (3) B’s work.

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@m_thain_xbnr Welcome! Twitter is all about who you follow & choose to be exposed to. It’s not just what I had for breakfast (banana).

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to m_thain_xbnr

It’s fun to listen to the kids at the bus stop talking junk about their teachers. I can only imagine what the teachers talk about!

via Twitter for iPhone