? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

January 2015

Just wasted an hour shopping at an airline “miles” redemption site, only to be told I am not eligible for gifts, just crappy magazines.

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We’re going to see Weird Al @alyankovic in June!

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I forgot to turn off RunKeeper, and so it kept recording all weekend… it thinks I ran 28 miles.

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@mchapple I was looking up your bio after seeing “Incident Response with NetFlow - for Dummies”, thought you might work for @Lancope (I do)

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@mchapple FYI, all of the links on your (m.c.o) web page are returning 404. D’oh!

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@mkennedy2d Video resolutions vary, depending on subject. Some as small as 480p. I even cropped a few (using HandBrakeCLI).

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@mkennedy2d I’d never dream of re-encoding videos on my phone. I’m basically cleaning up old files on the laptop.

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Sorting through videos taken on my phone. The ones I want to save, I end up re-encoding & compressing. 1080p is overkill.

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Smile! This morning, I passed the Bing street maps camera car!

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Ebay refunded my money for something I bought that was never delivered. Not as satisfying as you’d think. Jerk still took the $, stuck ebay.

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Channel surfing was a lot more fun when it didn’t take five solid seconds for the TV to sync on a channel.

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sawaba Banning encryption for govt convenience is like banning seatbelts to make it easier for responders to remove bodies from wreckage

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@jzy freaky, the guy who sent me the link is a guy i met on twitter first, and then later at work. small world, squared!

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_youhadonejob Sends my OCD into overdrive. pic.twitter.com/wGDvqlE3iq

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:28 AM, Jan 17th, 2015 via Twitter for iPhone)

@pwbrewer As usual, your lack of context is perplexing.

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Hermit crab update: he’s still going commando… it’s like a crab nudist colony!

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I think my epitaph should read: “TypeError: undefined is not a function”.

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Hermit crab update: He’s been out of his shell all day. He doesn’t move much, just enough that we know he’s still alive.

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RandomSpaceFact To see Comet Lovejoy, search the internet for a finder chart, then use binoculars to look for a fuzzy blob.

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Just accepted a “community match” on Words With Friends and opened with a 57 point word.

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This morning’s crisis: is the hermit crab dead, or just molting?

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@rtphokie @WCPSS There was an email system that I fwd’ed to my phone in years past… I bet I need to resubscribe. <goes digging>

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15-page web survey, slow page loads, no page links, just PREV and NEXT, and I need to go back to the beginning (and then back to the end).

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My “usually-fast-enough” 6Mb DSL line dropped to 17kb this morning. Not sure why. Much fiddling ensued. Then it just started working again.

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@YocDulce You’re OK. I’m OK. I’m just not that Rockhopper.

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Fine, I ordered a song on Amazon. That means I want them to run “Amazon Music Helper” on my computer, 24/7, right?

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@plugusin Sometimes, I take pride in the amount of hassle I give and receive at airports.

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“For my convenience” I had to install the Amazon music downloader/player, so it could snoop on my computer & control what I do with music.

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@plugusin This just seems wrong to me, paying the gov’t to do a bg check so I can travel w/o hassle. I just opt out, let ‘em frisk me.

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Using Stellarium to guide: found Orion, right to Menkar, up to Taurus’s leg (Omicron & Xi Tauri), down to Lovejoy. Cheap-o telescope did OK!

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Looking for comet Lovejoy. Found two satellites first. Comet looks like a dim green mist. Digging out our telescope for a better view.

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Mercury and Venus are pretty bright in the western sky tonight, just above the horizon!

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Watching “Shrek, the musical” (by request of D1). Strangely similar to last night’s “Wicked”.

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Seeing “Wicked”… apparently, it’s about a candle stick maker.

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I have no clue what I am doing. I’m not sure who I should ask… and I don’t know what I should ask them!

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Full moon shining in the back yard. Very loud and large-sounding owl hooting. Sounds like he’s close.

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I just created my first pull request on @github! Fixed a small mistake in some documentation.

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I think I should buy some AAPL stock. My friend @sethwhite86 started working there today, and he’s sure to fix all of their problems!

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I wish… I wish… I wish to eat all my vegetables. â™ds

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RT @grayj_: The importance of rough UI in demos, for getting better feedback & managing expectations. http://t.co/pXbCFNlUkS http://t.co/GB…

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@andy_headspace Saw your TED talk. On mindfulness, I thought you might like this free app that I wrote for a friend: sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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50+ minutes ago: “I should do a quick ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ to freshen things up a bit”

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RT @BadAstronomer: Happy perihelion! The Earth will be closest to the Sun at 06:36 UTC (01:36 Eastern) tonight. http://t.co/03aXBlZNLB

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D2 has converted her tic-tac-toe Python program from console text to graphics! pic.twitter.com/AITeUFE0Vx

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@llorenzin Just started at Lancope. You’re one of the few of my friends that might have heard of ‘em.

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New year, new job, let’s go!

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This has been a fine do-nothing holiday week. I’m sorry to see it end. Fortunately, the upcoming work week is just one day long!

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