? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

September 2014

@sonofalink No cell? Geez, most of us would’ve just killed some time playing sudoku. But your plan works, too. Lucky you had that ring.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to sonofalink

@eccoMillie CC and the “free culture” might make a good Marketplace story -How I gave my stuff away and still prospered.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to rockhopper

TicketMaster can’t seem to answer the simple question “what’s the general range of prices for this show, without picking specific seats?”

via Twitter Web Client

New wifi at $WORK is super secure. Designed for hardcore laptop warriors, totally discourages casual use on phones.

via Twitter Web Client

_Snape_ This makes me so angry pic.twitter.com/hA5tJkzfT0

via Buffer (retweeted on 3:01 PM, Sep 26th, 2014 via Twitter for iPhone)

Drat, I left my Brussels sprouts on the water fountain at work. You don’t hear THAT every day!

via Twitter for iPhone

@ThingsWork @ArryPottah Listen to “Comin’ After You” by Owl City and think “hot bird suit”. It changes the whole song.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to ThingsWork

OK Apple, can we get over this “thin” fetish now? I’d be much more interested in “twice as thick, 5x battery life”.

via Twitter for iPhone

@eccoMillie And the key… it’s all CC licensed for free use. I met Kliq at a conference about open source & the sharing culture.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to eccoMillie

I don’t want to be one of those jerks that tweets every time he exercises, but I’m bummed to miss my run because of the cold rain today.

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Trying to use functions in bash. Using a home-made convention where the return value goes in a global var with same name as the function.

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Someone turned the season knob, and it’s suddenly chilly autumn!

via Twitter for iPhone

They should sell whiskey and tequila in the same bottles that ACT fluoride rinse comes in… instant shots!

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@eccoMillie Listening to @Marketplace now. You should meet my friend “Professor Kliq”, funky creative commons music. professorkliq.com

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My preferred method of mixing orange juice and water borders on homeopathy.

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@LeafStorm … until you move … which is why I like e-books.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to LeafStorm

chriseng It’s not often I rave about an Apple product, but I just tried and it is AMAZING. pic.twitter.com/vgzVLdSsa3

via MetroTwit (retweeted on 3:00 PM, Sep 19th, 2014 via Twitter for iPhone)

iPhone Notification Center “Today View” is teasing me: “Right now, it would take you about 18 minutes to drive home.”

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RT @tonychester: Sign the petition: Turn it Off and Shut Down NSA Spying! http://t.co/PqS4WJm7fl

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RT @dangillmor: Apple “warrant canary” is gone; you can now assume US govt has demanded all kinds of info about customers. https://t.co/KTi…

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What are these recruiters thinking? They farm out their cold-calls to very low quality offshore call centers. Terrible first impression!

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In fact, Google Voice UX is so bad, I can’t imagine using an Android phone and letting Google manage my contacts there, too.

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Google Voice is a great concept, but Google’s execution is just pathetic. Web UI buries info about callers, groups, and call routing.

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I stand corrected (and boy, does it make more sense). MC Frontalot tonight at Kings Barcade. Y’know, the place with Statler and Waldorf!

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Time to shop around for a new project to work on. Current one has pretty much played out. alanporter.com/resume/

via Twitter for iPhone

Anyone going to the Javascript meetup in Durham tonight? I’d like someone to make an announcement (for @AllThingsOpen Oct 22-23).

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ALL of my engineering classes at NCSU were in metric (1 senior yr class spent a small time on English conversions). http://t.co/6CSSzGgCMu

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This morning on the greenway, a couple said they’d seen another copperhead. They had garden tools and a lynch mob look in their eyes.

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@base10 I brewed three pots before I got to sit down with a cup.

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Our office policy: If you empty the coffee pot, sneak away like a coward. Someone* will brew a new pot soon. (*me)

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Farewell to calvin, a faithful servant since 2008. Aloha to aloha!

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What a lousy music download experience - from soundcloud to safari to facebook to dropbox to itunes, each step trying to lock me in.

via Twitter for iPhone

Tonight, I raise my glass to The Captain. Favorable winds to you, my friend.

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@TerryMooreII yup, a copperhead… the triangle-shaped head and the “Hershey kisses” marks give it away.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to TerryMooreII

This little guy was sunning himself on the greenway during my morning run. pic.twitter.com/WMCvkxdkAv

via iOS

“Pedometer++” iPhone app forced me to admit that I was a cube-dwelling nerd who never got outside. Been walking/running daily ever since.

via Twitter for iPhone

Ouch! I burned my finger on the coffee pot this morning. Same finger was already sore from practicing ukulele.

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@linode @mdcollins05 Thanks for your help. Fixed my DNS. And don’t forget the AAAA records!

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@mdcollins05 @linode Really? I was trying to direct www-foo-com and foo-com to myserver-linode-com. Thought I could set up 2 CNAMES.

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They say listening to Mozart makes you smarter. That’s ALMOST enough to even me out today. Because just being in my office makes me dumber.

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Big shout-out to Tyler (8) and Cody (5¾) for making the last pool day such a blast!

via Twitter for iPhone

That’s it, folks. The swimming pool season is over!

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D1 and I attended our first ukulele jam! (at @FortnightBeer in Cary) pic.twitter.com/FLKsWxLKoC

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Implementing my data-retention policy. pic.twitter.com/7Qt7rTPeUP

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Like mellow guitar? My buddy has a new album. 2 free download codes (same CD) here - cdbaby.com/redeem U7WU6K-HRUNT4 & VL7VKR-DKH9LW

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@linode Hi guys, I noticed I can’t make a CNAME record for “@” (plain domain w/o host name). Limit is in web GUI, not in DNS itself. Fix?

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I’m not sure which is worse - that my employer’s internal clone of YouTube does not work for me, or that such a thing even exists at all.

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What a great idea for students! Print free graph paper from this web site - printfreegraphpaper.com

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