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BenTrem tweeted on 2007-12-31
December 31st, 2007 by |
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I /so/ resent that JRE, once invoked, sits there lurking like some big dumb brain-damaged TSR.
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/me recalls APL on MTS, and a "computer" made from bamboo shafts running in brass sleeves. (NSA!)
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@michaelreuter re: VRML / wolves; in Dr. Fentress’ ethology lab … he’s "Mr. Wolf". Or was. I did converter field notes -> VRML anim.
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@michaelreuter Old Tib. saying, "one who is learned but does not practice is like a rich man tethered to his treasure"
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/pondering Maori painting. They aren’t 2D at all, are they … "mani-fold".
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MozDawg sez: a "dead end" is a "loose thread" seen from the inside. (I’m copy-reading tech_doc.)
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@acarvin Nooo, really? My brother (keeper of the sacred 8mm) has been draggin’ his heels. (Link correct? I get Russian tea.)
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@programwitch URLTea’s been hacked? I got Russian Tea recipe, same as from @acarvin
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@dotBen #hoosgot good resources for threading / conversation / discussion / interaction / UI design / IA?
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@acarvin This time WFM … thanks
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#familyhistory @acarvin TUUUU! (Couldn’t watch it, though. Don’t have the bandwidth. MP4 busts my chops.) >
http://snipurl.com/1w5us
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@dotBen Read Arno Penzias, from his days as head-honcho R&D/ATT (sorry, title eludes me) … a "failed" experiment can really pay off.
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Heck, it was a 48hr task … not a lotta $$ or ego invested. Penzias talked about "setting up to fail" then reading the corpse. (my words)
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@charlvn Karsh Kale, arguably creator of "Asian Massive"; master of tablas … saw him Halif Jazz fest >
http://snipurl.com/1w5vc
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"#Neuro and Behavior", SciAm #podcasts >
http://snipurl.com/1w5vh
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Welcome to the future; resurgence of Afrikaaner nationalism [no link; AM documentary]
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#matrix "CIA analyst / presidential briefer Ray McGovern sez evidence for impeaching PotUS / VP overwhelming >
http://snipurl.com/1w5wz
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#matrix Why’s oil $$ /stuhned?!/ I _finally_ find a hot IT consulting sho in this burg (recognize the address!) .. no email on "Contact".
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@Mickeleh He declared?! *whiiirrrrking*
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@metonym Perl. ;-P
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@Pistachio InnovationWatch is produced about 18 blocks from me. *evuhl seductive grin*
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@Mickeleh I jumped the gun … "Until Bloomberg makes his decision …"
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@jacklail 404. But pray, do tell. EBLIP >
http://snipurl.com/1w5ye
is out of the campus near me.
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hoosgot answers? your friendly neighborhood librarian! >
http://snipurl.com/1w5yh
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@trishussey What’s that site? BookSomething? *fetches copy of LordRings*
http://bookcrossing.com
!!! :-)
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Our weekly *cough* anarchist reading group was also a book swap.
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*puts mark on wall* A friendly online persona just explicated the working of "1 of these is different" to me. *beam*
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@tomguarriello _Artiste? moi? Pas du tout … philosophe de becusse_. It’s that tantric thang, doncha know. And 35 years polyphasic comms.
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BTW: sleep is hardly the most interesting aspect of polyphasia … not by a long shot. Think ?what? fractal; autopoiesis. Yaa … that.
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Mashable waxes philosphical; Hopkins illustrates foundational truth of #longtail >
http://snipurl.com/1w60a
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Latency between reading "I kissed Xxxx" and ^W: ~~1.75 seconds.
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URLTea is crapping bricks.
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#classical /me picking out resonances of Ravel in John Adams’ "Century Rolls" for piano … and then Tchaikovski!
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@Scobleizer Nice piece or rapportage by ‘Rizzn’ there.
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Ooooh, nothing finer than classical piano live … unless jazz piano … or cello … or …
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hoosgot attribution for this: "Incompetence is the thin edge of the wedge we call ‘corruption’." #matrix
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@metonym anarcho-geek disestablishmentarian tantrika. *shrug* Not my fault. Karma, doncha know. *ESG*
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Haaa! Performer cited Ravel’s GMaj! I knew it!
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@Scobleizer Watching all day … we PowWow fans left it running w/text-to-speech on. (circa ‘98)
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Ning is old enough to be mature … no "Mark as Spam"?! Yet.another instance of "Hire some script.kiddies!!"
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Oh fine … and no "remember me" check box. Sunday night, beta-testing Ning … gooood grief. :-/
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@guykawasaki Oooh, wud. But w/o context "More" is too monadic for me. Re: ____?
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/me feels like sending Ning a bill … filing a Q&A failure report.
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Folk: should Twitter also have a "Replies Sent" tab?
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@acarvin is watching the mobile version of … something. *pehrk* This piano concerto? "Hale Bop", movement #3. Adams now my fave mod comp.
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/me cusses Oracle|TheWorkingGroup
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IMNSHO "No reason to join" is the proper relationship to Ning. *w/apologies as appropriate*
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Haa! These hot.shots list 2 dozen previous clients … and not 1 link. #matrix
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/me is freakin’ over list of "services" (c/wo URLs): "Foresight; Strategy; Innovation; Transformation; Facilitation" … metro-facile?
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/me back-flips, climbs wall, scratches just shy of ceiling: }!me.tro-fa.cil!{ … elderly ace sucking at gov’t trough w/lousy site.
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hoosgot mean thoughts about technorati? *Not I! Just feedback and bug-reports*
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@marshallk My 1st bid: RF control of lights from ESR vehicles. Nobody’s ever thought of it. 1974. No joy. *snort/chortle*
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On twitter just now, some /piker’ said something concerning a blog post about desire … then stopped. *tease!*
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Gall dang … works everytime … I remember my Volvo’s electric 5th gear, and away I go! >
http://snipurl.com/1w67d
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@guykawasaki How many of us here are wihkud? Where/how did you come across such an artifact?! Noo … it’s PR for cosmetologist. Is it?!
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OMG … cheaper … photo-retouching. Meh … not as much fun.
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Jimmy Wales is gonna be on BBC World.
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Jimmy Wales on BBC "HardTalk/Business" _now_.
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@ puts it into the target’s tweet-stream, methinks … and in their replies folder.
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@dsifry A bit of history: the dynamic here/now is indistinguishable from that in PowWow *Lo!* 8 or 9 years ago.
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@guykawasaki sri delay; de-glazing pan *My bitter is magical!* pic/montage by (Who else?) JWZ …2, 3 years old >
http://snipurl.com/
…
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Counter-factual: I saw the "@dsify ___ misinformed" tweet authored by Mickeleh
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@dsifry: last I googled, mebbe 2 yrs ago, someone had relaunched … but *Alas!* momentum lost = community lost.
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What "breaking out of writers block" looks like as process >
http://snipurl.com/1w69a
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Where I had my 2nd civilian job, *1st was selling HeathKit!!* >
http://snipurl.com/1w69f
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wow … the #matrix alternative to "unity of 3 times" … shocked, I am. Untold stories have no value. *Yoiks*
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Note to my follow/tweeters: "polyphasic" means precisely not to be en-thralled by "now".
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@technosailor Perhaps mere coincidence but I see a new @Pistachio avatar.
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@dsifry Doc named it? I thot t’was real fine he was tuned in; no idea so rightly-coupled!
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@Scobleizer My 1st ethology research was on group behaviour in crows. Lead crows don’t call out always. But they call as/when they see fit.
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@whurley John (happy) Doe should be allowed. ;-) I go by "ben" but my name is *Ick* Burn-ahrd *Gack Ptui*
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@redmonk Nice catch! "If you can’t be good lookin’, might as well be handy!" ;)
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hoosgot a deep-seated compulsion to be Barry Bonds?
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@acarvin Ohhh the movie! "mobile version" *phwooosh* right over my head. TU, wonderful. MP4 really does bust my chops.
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@tonythomson The advantage to scobleslinkblog is that one knows it’s a bot; the other one hasn’t yet realized _sunyata_, so ….
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/me surprised to find RTF rather than HTML in OMC … interesting.
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@dsifry The ebb and flow? biological. W/truly global community (yes, like with PowWow *grin*) you could tell time of day by heh the "tide".)
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@MossyBlog It’s a yammie … now you get the option to change teams. *ducks and runs*
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hoosgot a good / clehvur/ not (too) mean name for the sorta bird who tweets but cannae hear / respond to the birds in its vicinity?
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@Akula Some … inevitable … differences lead to polarization.
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@marshallk I suspect there’s a fresh rush of adoption … I’m getting follows by solid guys w/small lists.
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@revtriste Pass the word! "XP drivers for this PC are far better than the Vista ones." ;-)
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A dandy little "map of online social sites" >
http://snipurl.com/1w6hs
(google bad.bad.bad: URL !human readable = no attribution/credit)
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@dsifry Braver man than I, GunghaDhin!
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@redmonk Ever hear of "The 100th Monkey"? (Grear publishing scheme in the day; folk buying in bulk and gifting others.) How ideas take off.
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Sweet … gotta luv free schwag … folk at
http://aiderss.com
are sending me a t-shirt.
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@marshallk "Bigger pie", like "rising tide lifts all boats" is classic rhetoric. "Higher pie" is heh classic Bush-ism. ;)
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/me ponders "some mong" and guesses that @grum is in Australia / NZ.
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@mashable And I can really celebrate: didn’t get TrollPrize from /you/ *glower* but got Tee from
http://aiderss.com
for feedback. So, Haa!
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/me enjoying replies from LiveJournal friends; pondering why FaceBook really just doesn’t matter at all.
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@zeldman Read a social-psych paper on interiorization of social skills … terrible threes is /deff/ time for art of the con; gotta luv em!
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/me cannot understand why browser is so dumb in assigning "focus" when not explicitly specified.
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/me a-mazes that unspectacular NYE post from A-list types get dozens of replies in no time.
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@marshallk RFE: s/"stronger than ever" / "stronger and more vital than" :-)
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Oooh, "vital" is such a rich concept … vital, vigorous, robust, agile, responsive …
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/me ponders "beneficence" and begins writing, "The 84,000 positive aspects of ”good”"
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google.map of childhood summers’ lake-side cottage >
http://snipurl.com/1w85i
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@jacklail There’s a flock of analogies in there! "Not the sort of girl you’d want to live with" &tc
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/me is looking at a page of search results and wondering what the new google favicon means.
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Isn’t "browser skin custom tools" just about the most frivolous thing you can imagine? *folk w/time on their hands*
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Use FF? Have a Tabs Manager? No? Get TabsMixPlus … you’ll thank yourself. >
http://snipurl.com/1w86l
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@skampy Beware precocious kidz … gird your loins! (Whatevuh that means, it sounds appropriate.)
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HTML > WikiMarkup … gotta luv macros!
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Blog posts are fine … but there’s something lasting about adding to a WikiPage >
http://snipurl.com/1w88e
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/me marvels. How totally ersatz; how _pseudo_; dewd presents himself as a plugin writer but can’t manage internal links in a 3 page blog.
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@trishussey You age’d enuff to curmudge? 0_o
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@jkuramot Corporate cultchuh? I was surprised by 0.00 activity in TWG.
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WikiWork really shows 80/20 rule … getting everything complete and correct seems endless.
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hoosgot story behind the new favicon on google results?
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@trishussey "UNIX mail on command line-good times" good one. Seeing friends carefully walking halls w/stacks of COBOL cards. ;-P
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@trishussey Didn’t have TRS-80 or TI-99a; Vic20 then NEC "Trek"; 1.2MHz Z80 … 180KB floppy in ‘84! *grin*
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@jkuramot huh huh "I receive email ergo I exist" ;)
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/me quips "_Recipio emailum ergo sum_"
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@al3x TU/"ugly" thread. Such as ZedShaw’s
http://snipurl.com/1w8fs
remind me that MySpace knows /nuthin/ about IRL drama. ;-)
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@jkuramot I diligently take daily doses of DKos and HuffPost. And Greg Palast.
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@rogerwicker A handsome site, sir … simple elegance is a bit of a rest! (And welcome to the flock!)
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*blink* and now Google results favicon’s back to normal … what was that about?!
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@IndieFlix "letting go" w/o drifting … "Great projects call for profound relaxation" . best to you for ‘08
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A friend’s PingService rolls out a #tag #cloud >
http://snipurl.com/1w8hn
and a visual "trendmapper" >
http://snipurl.com/1w8hu
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@missrogue Politics of software dev / personality politics
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@JasonCalacanis "everyone to twitter with 10 seconds" … that would make a fabulous map after the fact; get folk to tag #NYE
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@benlucier ETS does that in Edmonton … free rides seem a tradition.
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Whoo, Romney’s self-cooking goose! McCain wondering aloud, "Why the attacks?", and Huck.a.Bee calling Romney’s campaign "dishonest" …
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!! Reminiscemt of JFK’s last moment: video from behind her car shows Bhutto’s hair and veil lifted by gunshots before bomb blast.
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Video of Bhutto’s last moments counter-fact Pakistan gov’t story. She feel into the car before explosion.
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All together now: S.H.I.T and now F.A.N.
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US rigged elections in Iran, Lebanon, Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua … now Kenyans and Pakistanis do it to themselves.
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@revtriste Reverse of pot laws; can sell but not possess?
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@anildash I highly recommend adding a dollop of your fave beer to the meat; I used some of my home-brew bitter and ahh-lha-lha-lha! :-)
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@jkuramot Waz wundrin’ how that odd mogggie ended up on screen … me.blame.you; all good.
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@bb RFE: … maybe a fixed block of "About" text, e.g. "Why I’ve called this "Leave It Behind".
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/me hopes authentic conservatives like @bb speak their peace … so we can /get /on with it//.
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@revtriste So often "harvesting oranges" is left to an under-class; anciently it was honorable work by the land-owner.
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@benlucier You found the contact lens that you lost in your car? Whooo … using the last of 07’s good karma? *grin*
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@jkuramot moggie = cat; I had a tab w/pic of cat on car … couldn’t figure out why; now I know. BTW: "dude" upsets SquirmingSquab.
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@jkuramot old geek vernacular is t.h.e.shiet … !fnord
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BenTrem tweeted on 2007-12-30
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@Pistachio "LeadClimb" … I was retreat-liaison (read: water carrier) for a woman who lead Amazon expeditions and such … A1/Ace!
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@laughingsquid Dewd … your post on auto-update plugin.
http://snipurl.com/1w23z
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@Mickeleh My version of cocaine and coke: double JackDaniels and 7Up … whoohooo! ;-)
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@laughingsquid *blink* that’s all what’s on your mind? Dewd? How about /step off/? You ok with that?
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@laughingsquid I went to the trouble of quoting your own words, in context. Problem _dewd_?
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#matrix How come "I’m too busy" => snotty?
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@laughingsquid Your stuff goes stale in 2 months? Then I will pull your links from my resources list. Thanks for the warning, _dewd_.
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/me finds himself hoping that snottiness is fatal … slaps wrist.
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Concept of blog post: an appropriate link to an appropriate plugin doesn’t deserve 3 seconds to update, and screw google results. lamer
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Lead medallions: "I have nooo idea what you mean"; "I was toooo busy"
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"From those to whom much has been given …" #factoid: 60% of global VC is within 20 miles of SF. No wonder so many kidz there are bent.
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@Mickeleh "I’m leanin’ t’ards yuh!" is what I learned in NFLD. I’d post my LJ (http://snipurl.com/1w2av) but it’d be uber-disclosure. ;-p
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huh huh spidering works … I just found @Mickeleh ’s alter blog persona. ;-P
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Oh my, good.aulde.fashion productivity: yet.another batch of my best bitter bottled and put to rest.
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<– still riled. I suggest update to "a fine post" and get what? "not everyone understands blog post, oh well" … SF.neo-liberal.twit
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FB feeds widget: "Try it FREE for 7 Days" heh … not today, thanks.
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Smart #marketing *Gack PTUI!* … like magazine subs; register w/credit card or PayPal and free trial … up to you to cancel.
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whoohooo! After a short wrestle I got into blogspot with an alternate google identity! *pats self on back*
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@chrisbrogan Is it "dude"? Sihly me … I sed "dewd" and got some west.coast A-list passive.aggression.
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#geek #chique, thanks to @revtriste >
http://snipurl.com/1w2gm
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/me starts counting occurences of "dude" to show SneeringSalamander
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@josephgrossberg UFC is popular … maybe it’s just the name "Aussie-rules rugby". You know, "not invented here"
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/me ponders setting up MMA/UFC franchise in Oz …
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OMG I shudda been a cook … spag, beefy sauce w/ spicey stewed to’s and a double shot of my home-brew beer
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@blaine No fair! Taunting; 10 yds, repeat the down. We should have #TwSchwag contests.
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@revtriste Adobe docs for PC are well written and w/reason: install / uninstall in what order matters.
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@chrisbrogan You blame Bud Light then diss BigBlue?! *snort/chortle/giggle* BTW: the bitter I brew is 6.5% *swoon*
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For the record: I called him "dewd" right off the bat cuz "precious twirp" wudda seemed rewd.
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Randie Bachman hosting "VinalTap" golden oldies NY partay; gotta luv CBC Radio (the "senior service" aka mother corp.)
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#marketing by @Mickeleh "15 years before Kindle | unskeptical puffery re: Expanded Book Apple PowerBook in 1992" >
http://snipurl.com
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/me lifts his face from spag/beef-beer/tomato-saurce #wordpress #ajax #anthology
http://anthologyoi.com/awp
(Where’d this come from?!)
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@Mickeleh bentram too? such a coincidence! *grin* "Tremblay", Michael. :-)
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@shellen I thought it meant, "And we’ll throw in a coupla whore-houses no charge."
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@Mickeleh First outliner app I saw was on a Mac, mid-80s. And FYI/IMNSHO best outliner ever? Broderbund "Thinking Cap" … C=64!
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Ohhhh, SquirmingSquad was pissy cuz he was trolling for his party. Oh, bad bad me. *pfffft*
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Typo: s/SquirmingSquab/SquirmingSquad.
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@missrogue Buy 7, put 6 for sale on eBay; clean up! ;-)
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@gruber I cherry-pick: after Grey Cup there’s no football til SuperBowl.
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My idea of A-list blogger? Someone who picks up on what real influencers write, then posts that so folk follow him.
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In this man’s wisdom tradition the rapporteur is never confounded w/the story; Paulo Freire’s idea of "agent of extension". Ala Socratic ..
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Sophists _contra_ principled practitioners. /me sits
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zowie, peppers burn the eyes!
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And remember, anybody who uses the word "dewd" isn’t allowed in the party. (Or if you think that blog posts can be update; a show-stopper.)
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@Mickeleh With Apple? Ooh … inside scoop. Was saying/askin’ AIIM buddy : PowWow & Realm … product was solid. What fell through?
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@josephgrossberg Aussies have /every/ reason to luv as they do. And they make real beer!
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/ponders. W/o principles, after BluePill, how to select peers except "fun"?
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/me on 53yr old feet commences to rock.it.out dancing with 16yr old Cat.
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@tomguarriello Buy me a big screen so I can follow your play.by.play? ;-)
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My God french is a glorious language. Michel Lavoie … can’t imagine a lyricist doing with English what he’s doing now.
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@chrisbrogan 3 rules of football I learned: 1) hit em! 2) hit em’agin! 3) hit him again, harder and lower!
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Mind: that’s CFL … we pass up here. I hear you’ve got ?what?, 5 or 6 downs?
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And I spoze it’s handy to have a field that’s shorter. And narrower. (Oh-wooops, punted that one! *grin*)
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Antidisestablishmentarian link from my gmail panel >
http://snipurl.com/1w2r7
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#factoid: "On Blogger Since January 2002"
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/me ponders the many-faceted nature of "cultural hegemony". *ducks&runs*
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@trishussey Donnnnnnnnn’ you be talkin’ NFL at me! Nooo nooo noooo!
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OMG SquirmingSquad forgot ice. "some people don’t understand blog posts" yaaa right. *Mfffp*
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*Squa_b_*
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On peut parler "philosphe de becosse"?
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Well … with the help of folks like those here, apparently I’ve found my voice. A 23yr writer’s block! >
http://snipurl.com/1w2tz
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@Mickeleh "how do you gain influence" … indeed; coincide with the post I just tweeted.
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@Scobleizer @Mickeleh Buckie Fuller, nae? in SpaceShip Earth? "The pirates and the navigators"?
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@tommorris You told him he wasn’t? That state-capitalism was his religion?
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Ohhhhh! "16 | 0" wasn’t the score! (Hegemony; those who knew didn’t say. Meh)
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preface: I am notRPTnot talking "hermeneutics". NB: /any/ group moved by exclusivity will have exchanges that are hermetic. In effect.
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Q: "Have I taken the #BPill?" A: "Hard to say. If you did, you wouldn’t know. If you didn’t, you might not know. If you didn’t …"
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Goood lord, again with LinkedIn’s brain-damaged login … didn’t they just get some VC? They should grab some script.kidd
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@tommorris I’d say "Simpler!" … "evidence" might just be random data; a causal link would be nice, nae? :-)
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/me ponders: Everybody yada-blahs about "multi-tasking". I wonder how many folk realize how old "multiplexing" is. #Polyphasic, anyone?
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@ josephgrossberg Oooh, speak to me about micro-brews; in Hali I was .5 block from one (Granite Brewery) w/award winning bitter. I learned!
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Getting follow-spammed by politicos.
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@dydimustk "Productive friction", ehh whot? My plug: dyncamically balanced systems digest entropy. 25c please. ;-P
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@Akula No relase notes? I’m sure I saw some on the Moz site.
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@marshallk Night owl? you and @jkuramot on the same clock. PST, yaa?
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What’s good form for X-posting? I often re-jig for context, but dang … truly labour intensive.
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Blues after midnight … _ne plus ultra_. (Ok, ‘cept for really good tribal. And break. And ambient. Stooop!)
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This shud be easy: take a group (Oracle on Ning?); apply microformat (XFN?), add RSS, simmer til tender. Stream posts + tweets.
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Dang … mebbe just my fine bitter, but these tunes are whoaa fine. (Vice versa? *grin*)
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#matrix
http://snipurl.com/1w2tz
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/me doesn’t grok FB … maybe it’s un-grokable?
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NB: there’s a ToDoist widget for NetVibes … fully featured.
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