Disorderly Content
One Silicon Valleyite's perspective on life, politics, tech toys and whatever else comes by his desk.
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2011-05-31
| 07:52 | I love the smell of Gilroy in the morning. Turlock, not so much. |
| 09:07 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 15:36 | Home. Only three days, but it feels longer. |
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2011-05-30
| 05:59 | Long day shooting yesterday. Five 1-1s planned, two no-shows. But the ones who did made it worthwhile. Now off to Turlock. Yep, Turlock. |
| 06:03 | Lodsys tries to shake down iPhone developers. Apple tells 'em to pound sand, so Lodsys goes after Android devs next. Will Google respond? |
| 09:03 | I got 35 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 19:42 | Model from yesterday called to accuse me of not paying for our shoot. I know I did, which doesn't help much. Awkward situation. |
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2011-05-29
| 09:03 | I got 10 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
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2011-05-28
| 06:44 | I'm off to Southern Cal after work. Photo shoot in Riverside tomorrow! #RoadTrip |
| 08:28 | “@Wonkette: Pope's Pedophilia Adviser Arrested For Pedophilia bit.ly/l8Sigr” Hey, at least he has experience with the problem. Hands on. |
| 09:08 | I got 18 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:34 | MSFT makes more from Android than from Windows phones. Clearly, its future is as a troll under a bridge. http://bit.ly/jNWCfx |
| 10:41 | @scapersuse Good luck, Suse. Hope it's a good gig that lasts a long time. |
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2011-05-27
| 05:32 | France's copyright enforcement is as incompetent as it is misguided. http://bit.ly/mKr2yX |
| 07:42 | Disney has withdrawn its trademark application for SEAL Team 6. So what moron thought that was ever a good idea? http://bit.ly/mRIbo6 |
| 09:06 | I got an image accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:14 | In an engineering meeting. For fsck's sake, people, put your phones on VIBRATE! |
| 11:48 | NY Stock Exchange claims trademark ownership of the trading floor, demands permission to use any photo. Wow. http://bit.ly/iQzprb |
| 11:50 | A Dairy Princess who's lactose intolerant? Will the intolerance never end? http://bit.ly/jIzSca |
| 11:51 | @JustaSunGod But up with Dairy Princesses! |
| 19:40 | Back from a shoot. Now I edit, which is a chance to reexperience the shoot without the time pressure. |
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2011-05-26
| 06:21 | In 2008 Mitt said "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". With Chrysler paying off its loans early, will voters say "Let Mitt Go Jobless" next year? |
| 06:24 | It's Towel Day. Do you know where your towel is? http://www.towelday.org/ |
| 06:34 | Glad to see Timmy knows where his towel is. http://twitpic.com/52by5z @thinkgeek (Love the Jayne hat as well.) |
| 07:00 | RT @gruber: Thanks, Teabaggers! http://j.mp/jfX2Qf [Somehow I don't think they meant to do good here.] |
| 09:09 | I got 10 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:10 | RT @DRUNKHULK: JAPANESE FAMILY DEMAND DIRECTION TO LOCAL ZOO! BUT DRUNK HULK NO NEGOTIATE WITH TOURIST! [*Snicker*] |
| 10:18 | HP exec: My vaporware will wipe the floor with your shipping product. How many times have we heard this rap before? http://bit.ly/kxcNPL |
| 11:43 | @ConanOBrien They get a card *and* $25? Cool. |
| 14:27 | Replacement battery for my car remote: $6.50 at my Toyota dealer, $1.50 at Fry's. But of course they were out. |
| 14:35 | Not entirely comfortable with the idea that @istock is sponsoring @waitwait. Love one of them, hold a dim view of the other. |
| 15:01 | How I spent my weekend (and why I'm still walking funny): http://www.apertureacademy.com/photography-workshop-oregon-columbia-gorge-2011.php |
| 17:32 | Jared Loughner's incompetent to stand trial. But getting the guns he used to kill and maim? No problem at all. http://huff.to/mjVhZK |
| 17:35 | In my spam folder: Find a Christian Job. What, they'll pay you for that? (It would have to be a lot.) |
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2011-05-25
| 07:10 | Dentist visit this morning. Back before I discovered computers, my dad wanted me to become a dentist. That was so never gonna happen. |
| 09:06 | I got 10 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:48 | I can walk without whimpering, a vast improvement on yesterday. Still cringe when I have to face stairs. But the photos were worth it. |
| 18:41 | Discovered last night that my local BevMo now stocks Bakon Vodka. Reminding myself how much I enjoy Bloody Marys. Bacony Bloody Marys. |
| 20:04 | Cats in Tanks are awesome! Thanks to Storm of @paulandstorm for the intro. http://bit.ly/jMPIpc |
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2011-05-24
| 05:07 | Up way too early, at the airport and ready to attack Portland's idea of a German breakfast. Flight's an hour and a half away. |
| 09:37 | Raced from the airport to the office for a teleconference. Kill me now. |
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2011-05-23
| 06:39 | Starting at the wrong end of the trail turned a .4 mile hike into 1.4 or so. But somehow I made it through, although today's in question. |
| 06:53 | I won't say that once you've seen one waterfall, you've seen 'em all. But after a while they do lose some of their magic. |
| 16:23 | Hiked more in the last two days than in the previous two years. Gonna feel it tomorrow. |
| 19:17 | @alwayscoffee My workshop is done, Ali. And I wasn't eaten by a single bear. Nor even a pair of bears. Or a pair of pears for that matter. |
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2011-05-22
| 06:50 | Not sure it was worth a 4:15am start. http://lockerz.com/s/103526810 |
| 09:56 | @alwayscoffee You liked that one? Here's another. http://lockerz.com/s/103576908 |
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2011-05-21
| 07:04 | Thought I was feeling the Rapture last night. Turns out it was just heartburn. |
| 08:22 | RT @billamend: Heading to Las Vegas this weekend. I assume any Rapture disruptions there will be minimal. [Sounds like a safe bet.] |
| 09:59 | @paulandstorm Darn you, Storm! Now all I *can* think of is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man! |
| 10:52 | The great thing about this Rapture business is how it helps us identify the fuckin' loons in our midst. |
| 11:40 | RT @paulandstorm: [S] Submitted without comment. #rapture http://yfrog.com/h8zio8j [I'm frightened...] |
| 11:47 | This is cool. A London Underground map of MSFT acquisitions. http://bit.ly/kB2TAw (MSFT & cool in one tweet? Truly we are in the end times.) |
| 13:52 | @ebertchicago That's sad. Like having Fu Manchu as Peter Seller's last film. |
| 13:53 | I want the scrat one. Want. http://www.iphonealley.com/blog/macbook-and-ipad-decals |
| 13:55 | At the gate for my flight. Way too early as usual. But I get to enjoy the free WiFi, so it's all quality time. |
| 13:55 | @JustaSunGod That little acorn-obsessed creature from Ice Age. I think that's what he was called. |
| 15:35 | Hey, you Internet people, get off my lawn! http://bit.ly/ijn0ZP |
| 15:53 | @HappyTinfoilCat Too bad he turned into a self-important crank right after. |
| 19:05 | At the hotel in Troutdale, OR. Mount Hood is looking particularly glorious this evening, and I didn't take time for a photo stop. Duh. |
| 20:42 | What have I done to myself? They expect us to be out of the hotel at 4:15. In the morning! Did you know there's a 4:15 in the morning? |
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2011-05-20
| 07:20 | Moving slowly this morning. That's what I get for going to the theatre on a school night. |
| 08:46 | @iPhoneAlley My iPhone gets most use as music player, email, Twitter, RSS reader, book reader when I'm bored. Hardly ever use it as a phone. |
| 09:09 | I got 7 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 14:43 | Sounds like Lars von Trier was trying to be clever & outrageous but ended up looking like a jackass. Not sure that should be a career ender. |
| 14:47 | Worried you'll be Left Behind? Handy flowchart gives you the straight dope, you straight dope you. http://bit.ly/l04MmF |
| 15:15 | Had my first voicemail message at work in six months here. Of course I couldn't remember what I'd set as my password... |
| 16:34 | Why did anyone ever care about Donald Trump? And why did everyone stop caring? http://bit.ly/mepkHO |
| 16:39 | Michele Bachmann prepares for a Presidential run by reading. Books, although definitely not "all of them". http://huff.to/mR15s2 |
| 20:02 | Off to Columbia Gorge to shoot waterfalls. Nice forecast for Saturday, less so Sunday. Into each life a little rain must fall, I guess. |
| 20:52 | @wilw Truck Nuts are the Ed Hardy shirts of automotive accessories. |
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2011-05-19
| 06:09 | Newt: Dems better not quote what I said Sunday because none of it was true. How is Sunday any different, Newt? http://bit.ly/kDsoP9 |
| 06:52 | Rachel @Maddow trashes Santorum over torture & McCain, and references The Princess Bride in the process. http://on.msnbc.com/jnKjYS |
| 06:55 | RT @alwayscoffee: @disorderly Inconceivable! *grin* [That's what *she* said. Really, she did!] |
| 09:08 | I got 16 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 11:45 | WI Gov Walker doesn't want us to forget what a scumbag he is. http://bit.ly/irUDpo |
| 12:51 | Proof the Obama campaign has a sense of humor. http://bit.ly/kxnsy7 |
| 17:38 | @joshtpm Between 5:30 & 6am, depending on when I wake up. And it's all online, first in my Twitter feed & then my RSS reader. |
| 19:20 | I'm at @SJRep for something called Love in American Times. Sounds depressing, or is that just me? |
| 21:16 | Watching Linda Park from Enterprise from the 2nd row. She's stunning in all sorts of ways. |
| 23:12 | Back from @SJRep. World premiere of a new play, quite the big deal. I enjoyed it immensely. |
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2011-05-17
| 06:05 | @counternotions Not a fact at all. No matter how good a job Apple does with Safari, there will always be contrarians. "Google's open!" |
| 09:08 | I got 6 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:48 | RT @joshtpm: Trump: I'm not running for prez http://t.co/YHZ8iW5 [Darn. I haz a sad.] |
| 10:46 | I'm going to a Meetup with Bay Area Fine Art and Fashion http://meetu.ps/1bK7L |
| 10:49 | RT @GeorgeTakei: Donald Trump bows out of presidential race, citing inability to prove he wasn't born a douchebag. [Zing!] |
| 14:51 | Cringeworthy phrase of the day: case avoidance. It's support's view of tech that lets a customer solve her problems, avoiding call for help. |
| 20:06 | RT @sambonie: Found six cents. Now I see dead people. [Can you see Shyamalan's career?] |
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2011-05-16
| 09:03 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 18:46 | Just finished the season finale of the Red Panda Adventures on the @Decoder_Ring podcast. Gregg Taylor, you bastard! http://bit.ly/mIaXSi |
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2011-05-15
| 08:41 | Music industry in Canada demands money for every memory card sold. So photographers are your bitches now? http://bit.ly/lKsp4S |
| 09:10 | @VictoriaDahl Could some of them kill themselves or at least disappear mysteriously? That way the world will have ended for *them*. |
| 09:13 | OMFG! This is brilliant! Way to mess with the heads of the Apocalyptics! http://www.harryjconnolly.com/blog/?p=4903 |
| 12:15 | RT @DCPlod: Shirley Sherrod Returns to USDA, Andrew Breitbart To Cry Self To Sleep #p2 http://wp.me/p1ypQt-T [Justice prevails for once.] |
| 18:21 | Google autocomplete puts its thumb on the scale of objectivity. http://themacadvocate.com/2011/05/13/google-auto-complete-no-bias-here/ |
| 21:06 | Watching The Hidden Fortress, Kurosawa's ripoff of Star Wars from 19 years in the past. Sneaky devil, that Kurosawa. |
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2011-05-14
| 09:06 | I got 11 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:17 | Osama was into porn? Not sure how I feel knowing that. http://bit.ly/k6KClJ |
| 10:36 | Had to do battle with a hotel manager over a duplicate billing. We both emerged unbloodied and I'll get my money back. It's a good Friday. |
| 10:39 | Apple took a week to respond to location data issue & got it right. Feds responded right away to Shirley Sherrod video & got it wrong. Huh. |
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2011-05-13
| 05:49 | I love watching industry behemoths fight. (Facebook vs. Google) http://engt.co/meIpca |
| 07:23 | Do you trust the health insurance industry? A former insider will make you reconsider govt vs. industry. http://huff.to/lXGOqb |
| 08:36 | Where the hell was this John McCain in 2008? Or any time before today? (Torture is un-American & wrong.) http://bit.ly/jeB3sw |
| 08:58 | RT @paulandstorm: [S] Jim Lehrer stepping down as PBS NewsHour anchor. I will double my donations if they replace him with Tom Lehrer. [!!!] |
| 09:07 | I got 15 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 11:47 | @alwayscoffee I believe it's whom. For whom should I ask? |
| 13:58 | I'm going to a Meetup with Bay Area Fine Art and Fashion http://meetu.ps/12nty |
| 17:34 | Rand Paul equates health care for you and me with slavery for doctors like him. Because Rand Paul is a moron. http://bit.ly/iOvc7u |
| 18:02 | @annvosspeterson Ron Johnson's dumber than Rand Paul? The mind boggles. There it is, boggling as we speak! |
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2011-05-12
| 07:29 | Car in for service this morning. This is an expensive one. Then again, 100k without a problem is a good record. |
| 08:04 | Car dealer gave me a RAV4 as a loaner. Weird to be sitting up so high. And depressing to see an MPG that's half of my hybrid. |
| 09:09 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:35 | Via @Dammit_Liz, movie posters are always better with Lego: http://ow.ly/4SeqU |
| 09:59 | @millhouseyiddo 5 years. It's a 2007; I got it when it first came out in 2006. |
| 12:36 | @SuzyMassey It's not FB passwords that are compromised. It's that other personal info can be accessed, & changing password stops the leak. |
| 12:41 | @SuzyMassey Point taken. I just hate to fudge the facts, even when the ends appear to justify the means. |
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2011-05-11
| 09:03 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 13:54 | Thanks to @paulandstorm for telling me about @scalzi's retelling of Little Fuzzy. Got the audiobook by @wilw. Will start listening soon. |
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2011-05-10
| 10:13 | Lewis Black is coming to Mountain Winery in August. Sure hope he'll be all shouty. |
| 10:13 | Garrison Keillor is bringing his tour to Saratoga as well. Guessing he'll be less shouty than Lewis Black. |
| 11:10 | RT @ebertchicago: Busted! I am a worthless socialist liberal hack liar. http://bit.ly/ix7zKb [But you're so good at it!] |
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2011-05-09
| 12:23 | Shooting blurry pictures of a nude model. Yes, the blur is intentional. Why do you ask? |
| 21:15 | Met a true conservative tonight. Kept insisting a tech problem would go away if we ignored it, after first denying the problem. It didn't. |
| 21:21 | In case you wondered why Avatar seemed so familiar. http://bit.ly/iEC5eC |
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2011-05-08
| 07:22 | You say that like there's something wrong with it. http://www.wtduck.com/strip/263-saturday |
| 07:32 | I'm going to a Meetup with Bay Area Fine Art and Fashion http://meetu.ps/X1WH |
| 07:56 | @Decoder_Ring Not to put any pressure on, but some of us are waiting patiently. At least we're trying to be patient. |
| 08:49 | RT @thinkprogress: Two Muslim men kicked off airplane, were going to conference about tolerance http://thkpr.gs/iTQkK6 [Ironic. And wrong.] |
| 13:43 | Lunch yesterday was lobster rolls in Redwood City. Today was chili, salsa & beer tasting in Petaluma. The things I do to my stomach. |
| 15:45 | The guy behind the Mission Accomplished banner thinks Obama overplayed the OBL announcement. Does no one in the Bush admin get irony? |
| 18:51 | Just watched The Count of Monte Cristo with Richard Chamberlain. Just as good as I remembered. |
| 19:07 | Dunno why @davnetdoyle decided to follow me, but she's pretty and she sings nice. So I bought her album on iTunes. Oh. Maybe that's why. |
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2011-05-07
| 08:21 | Geeky & adorable at the same time: MicroSD case modeled on a teeny Atari 810 floppy drive. Want. http://bit.ly/lfHQWb |
| 08:24 | Amanda Palmer reinterprets Friday, makes it all dirty. Definitely NSFW. http://bit.ly/kvHCpH |
| 08:30 | @alwayscoffee Yep. Amanda Palmer's amazing. Why didn't I discover her sooner? |
| 09:12 | @alwayscoffee I heard her a while back as part of Dresden Dolls, thanks to a mix CD from our friend @elkit. Coin-Operated Boy is brilliant. |
| 10:25 | Albert Einstein: "God does not play dice with the universe." Niels Bohr: "Einstein, don't tell God what to do." http://on.io9.com/jHeumj |
| 11:44 | Anybody else getting lots of MobileMe password rejections today? Annoying. |
| 11:51 | Oh the felinity! When kittehs collide! http://bit.ly/mJudfQ |
| 12:46 | Lunch. http://lockerz.com/s/99306623 |
| 13:49 | Hey, twittizens! @alton_brown is among us. The man who made cooking almost as much fun as eating! |
| 18:13 | @ThatSusanBurke Are you sure those are two different fears? Sound like cause and effect to me. |
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2011-05-06
| 10:05 | Poll: 58% of Americans say they'd never vote for Trump for Prez. Kinda gives you faith, don't it? http://bit.ly/lkqoUD |
| 11:32 | Chili Cook-Off, Salsa & Beer Tasting in Petaluma on Saturday. Yum! http://www.cinnabartheater.org/chili/ |
| 19:43 | Did you know that A.A. Milne of Pooh fame wrote a murder mystery? Just listened to the free audiobook on Librivox. http://bit.ly/miS0vQ |
| 19:59 | @devans00 Nope, no Roo or Piglet. They arrived later with Christopher Robin. |
| 20:00 | RT @mikememoli: Santorum: Since helicopters took off, Obama admin has mishandled OBL "beyond belief" [Boy, that didn't take long.] |
| 20:34 | Just got 2 new Pocket Wizards! No, they aren't sex toys; they're photographic toys. Yes, there's a difference. |
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2011-05-05
| 07:05 | Happy Star Wars Day, Everyone! May the 4th be with you! |
| 11:17 | If release of Obama's birth certificate didn't stop birthers, why believe OBL death photos would silence doubters? Faith ignores facts. |
| 12:03 | This explains why my dining choices were so limited on my trips. Wish I'd known, not that it would've stopped me http://1.usa.gov/jBQIuC |
| 13:25 | For the record, I'm not a big fan of goat. |
| 13:49 | @tartqueen This was meat. Indian buffet. Might have been the way it was prepared. |
| 14:26 | Robots learn to be altruistic, which puts them ahead of Tea Baggers on the evolutionary scale. http://bit.ly/jAsyGO |
| 14:40 | RT @ebertchicago: "Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are." (Chuck Jones) [Yeah, that's about the truth of it.] |
| 18:27 | @shelbyfero Which is useless? The sunscreen or your brain? |
| 18:32 | @shelbyfero I know. But once you're already toasty, sunscreen's just as useless. Which is why I asked. |
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2011-05-04
| 07:11 | Bush people crow about torture leading to Bin Laden raid, but AP says that's not so. http://tpm.ly/jKHKZX |
| 10:28 | @VictoriaDahl Sounds like a call for some hands-on experimentation. |
| 13:16 | @alwayscoffee I don't know but I can ask. What kind of dog? How much attention does it need? |
| 14:22 | @alwayscoffee @catvalente I'll check with a couple of dog-friendly friends. Where is the beast now? And when does it need to start? |
| 20:33 | Forbes: MSFT's revenue disguises its stalled growth, as its market cap vs. APPL shows. http://onforb.es/kKJUP9 |
| 20:39 | Watching @Maddow on @TheDailyShow. I worship that woman, in a completely secular way. |
| 20:45 | "It is one thing to shoot a man in the eye. It is something else to accuse him of having a Zune." - @StephenAtHome |
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2011-05-02
| 10:49 | Eyes are tearing something awful. Allergy season? |
| 12:12 | Trump upset at Correspondent's Dinner jokes about him? Maybe he shouldn't surround himself with ass-kissers. http://bit.ly/iUzIIL |
| 20:00 | Which is better? Osama being taken out, or Celebrity Apprentice getting preempted so Obama can deliver the news? |
| 20:10 | RT @jakefogelnest: What are the chances Osama Bin Laden died of autoerotic asphyxiation? [That didn't take long, did it?] |
| 20:10 | RT @pattonoswalt: Oh shit -- AP reporting Bin Laden has regenerated as Tom Baker. [And there's another one.] |
| 20:15 | RT @CaliLewis: I wouldn't have known that Osama bin Laden is dead if it weren't for Twitter. #JustSayin' [You're not the only one.] |
| 20:32 | RT @SarahSpain: WOW. Read closely - typical Fox News. http://twitpic.com/4s7aye [At least MoFos are consistent assholes.] |
| 20:34 | RT @paulandstorm: [P] RT @cnn BREAKING: bin Laden Was Found Via Location Tracking Through His iPhone [Oopsy!] |
| 20:51 | With all the intelligence & military failures we hear about, it's good to remember just how effective American forces can be. |
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