Disorderly Content
One Silicon Valleyite's perspective on life, politics, tech toys and whatever else comes by his desk.
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2012-04-09
| 08:45 | @cbglacier Dunno about the other guys, but @mariancall puts on one hell of a show. Totally envious! |
| 13:48 | RT @alan_tudyk: Happy Easter y'all http://t.co/GXoahqcY [That's just wrong.] |
| 21:58 | Best email subject in a while: "Scam Compensation Alert, View Attachment For More Details And Better Understanding." What could go wrong? |
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2012-04-08
| 13:34 | RT @JohnRossBowie: Elijah's gone. So is my PS3, my Blade Runner Blu-Ray, and all my Sudafed. I'm not sure he really was Elijah... [Really?] |
| 14:19 | RT @TheStevenWeber: Easter Explained: Jesus dyed on the cross. [Eggs? Peeps? Both?] |
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2012-04-07
| 16:29 | @mariancall I did notice the resemblance. http://t.co/xTKpIifR |
| 16:31 | @AnneWheaton I just keep all my travel needs in the bag, replenishing as needed after every trip. Easier than figuring it out every time. |
| 18:01 | @JohnRossBowie Offer him a drink? |
| 20:45 | So there are people more excited about #JoCoCruiseCrazy3 than me! (Than I?) http://t.co/HhIjtQWD |
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2012-04-06
| 16:11 | Visit to Sequoia Natl Park in early April not the best idea. Snow, hail, mountain roads and construction. But I survived it all! |
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2012-04-05
| 08:55 | @petersagal How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a #lightbulb? None; we'll just declare darkness an industry standard. |
| 08:56 | @petersagal How many feminists does it take to change a #lightbulb? One, and that's NOT FUNNY! |
| 08:58 | @petersagal How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a #lightbulb? "It's alright, I'll just sit here in the dark." |
| 08:59 | @petersagal How many software engineers does it take to change a #lightbulb? None, it's clearly a hardware problem. |
| 09:01 | @petersagal How many hardware engineers does it take to change a #lightbulb? None, we'll change the documentation. |
| 09:02 | @petersagal How many New Yorkers does it take to change a #lightbulb? "None of your f%#king business!" |
| 09:09 | What's the difference between a computer salesman and Rick Santorum? The salesman doesn't know he's full of shit. http://t.co/xLYnmj6L |
| 10:28 | If Romney doesn't believe he can win without lying, is there anyone who believes he can govern without lying? |
| 12:27 | Road tripping'! Taking a little drive in the Central Valley for a few days. So far the weather is cooperating. |
| 12:42 | Got the "You look just like Spielberg" thing again today. I don't see it, aside from Jewish, gray hair, beard & glasses. |
| 18:59 | Here's something you don't see in the Bay Area. Or is that just me? http://t.co/etAM4ObW |
| 22:14 | @srj68 Right now I'm on the Central Valley side of Pacheco Pass. So there's water for fishing around here. But live bait vending? Funny. |
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2012-04-04
| 12:37 | Test to see if I believe in jynxes: Just back from a first interview at a software firm. It went very well. Followup next week or two. |
| 12:52 | @paulandstorm @petersagal Worst cyclops ever. |
| 14:06 | @KimberlyMarvel Thanks, honey. I miss you, and so does my camera. |
| 14:48 | Best Titanic review ever! http://t.co/r8y0jNH4 (I watched it on a plane. Walked out half way through.) |
| 17:25 | @AnneWheaton Sure, you've got the legs for it. |
| 19:57 | RT @RealNichelle: Taken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office - Live Long & Prosper! http://t.co/jMj1R5QU [The Trekkie in me goes SQUEE!] |
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2012-04-03
| 11:33 | Watching The Flog on @GeekandSundry. Is there anyone more adorkable than @FeliciaDay? If there is, I wanna meet her. http://t.co/6UzV3scg |
| 11:45 | @ThePlumLineGS Did Romney describe this worst ever unemployment with pride in his voice? (If you're part of the problem, you're Mitt.) |
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2012-04-02
| 08:44 | Am I just cranky, or are this year's April Fool stunts particularly lame and annoying? |
| 15:31 | No, http://change.org, repeating Mike Daisey's lies about Apple doesn't make you heroic or even relevant. It makes you gullible idiots. |
| 15:33 | RT @neiltyson: Yup. If pasta & antipasta ever touch, they annihilate. That's why restaurants never serve them together. [The man's a god.] |
| 19:23 | @GeekandSundry I waited 8 1/2 hours in line for my iPhone 4. How's that? |
| 19:33 | @GeekandSundry San Francisco to Sydney for a Farscape convention. Twice. |
| 20:05 | @Lomara I got to talk to @FeliciaDay! How cool was that? |
| 20:06 | I just got to spend a few seconds on the @GeekandSundry Google+ hangout! Talked with @FeliciaDay and everything! |
| 21:04 | @AnneWheaton You are having *way* too much fine with them googly eyes! |
| 21:50 | Crap. My mom gave me plain paper napkins with my school lunches. Clearly she didn't love me at all. http://t.co/BS7xr2iK |
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2012-04-01
| 08:12 | Mad Magazine on the iPad. Nirvana! http://t.co/84Vl3zWD |
| 16:20 | Aha! @TheTweetOfGod explains the Romney campaign. It's quantum physics! http://t.co/FKrmh2jb |
| 16:40 | The name says it all: http://t.co/NAEaHrDf |
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2012-03-31
| 08:18 | @VictoriaDahl I've read (okay, listened to) both books, and I still found those trailers disturbing. What does that say about me? Or you? |
| 08:20 | @wilw Just realized? You mean all it took was a series of tweets from your much better half? |
| 18:54 | Via @ebertchicago, a wonderful piece on quote whores. It's a movie critic thing. http://t.co/2ySEII9n |
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2012-03-30
| 09:54 | Is @Delta really an advertiser on Rush's bilgefest? Good to know their suckage is more than aviation-related. |
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2012-03-29
| 07:55 | @alwayscoffee Winchester House is right down the road from me. Been by it hundreds of times, inside only once. More peculiar than creepy. |
| 08:01 | Compassionate conservatism, now with 43% less compassion. Is Mitt really the best the GOP can do? http://t.co/kvpwdOSr |
| 08:06 | @alwayscoffee I took some a few years ago. Should really go back, preferably when the skies are a little less gray. |
| 08:09 | @alwayscoffee Never could resist a good pair of puppy dog eyes... |
| 08:45 | @VictoriaDahl "I need a drink." That'll only make the need to pee worse. Cause & effect, dontcha know. |
| 08:53 | @VictoriaDahl There's your problem: too much imagination! Good for writers. Bad for moms. |
| 13:45 | @alwayscoffee Since you asked... http://t.co/OTxUTICY |
| 14:40 | Really? A @geekandsundry show starring @paulandstorm? And it's not even my birthday! |
| 20:16 | @KaleyCuoco @billprady I started with 2 wisdom teeth; now I have one. Thinking wisdom's grossly overrated. And I got good drugs out of it. |
| 21:14 | You can't make this stuff up, nor should you: "Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum." http://t.co/CxdqDXts |
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2012-03-28
| 15:01 | Holy nostalgia, Batman! All the climbing-the-wall window cameos in one place! http://t.co/7PWOnM7U |
| 17:25 | OMG! The book I've waited for since #JoCoCruiseCrazy2 is almost out! The world's #1 guide to #2 pencils! http://t.co/BhNBhkV3 |
| 19:26 | If you've ever wondered why the Internets were invented, I think this is it: Downton Arby's! http://t.co/vcmjKH3O |
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2012-03-27
| 11:59 | RT @TheTweetOfGod: "Ontario Legalizes Brothels." Or as they will soon be known, Tim Whoreton's. [A pun this fine needs to be shared.] |
| 12:16 | The longest of long exposures. Amazing. http://t.co/jliM5d9O via @zivity |
| 18:08 | Post-apology, Mike Daisey is still a lying, repulsive sack of fecal matter. http://t.co/xCAtdB3P |
| 19:56 | Interesting & disturbing piece about what passes for Christian morality. http://t.co/6Bst0gDr |
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2012-03-26
| 08:41 | Looks like today's photo shoot won't happen. The model hasn't been in touch in a while, never a good sign. |
| 10:16 | The Hunger Games: a Rorschach Test for the idiots on Fox & Friends. http://t.co/QgJq17pW |
| 11:32 | @VictoriaDahl Does this mean you don't believe things were better on the plantation before that nasty Mr. Lincoln interfered? |
| 13:30 | RT @TheTweetOfGod: The Bible is 100% accurate. Especially when thrown at close range. [*snort*] |
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2012-03-25
| 09:16 | I have a new favorite web comic. Little League, about the Justice League when they were little! http://t.co/SUbOnzld |
| 11:40 | Errands in the rain. Not fun. It's cold, gray and wet. Okay, only slightly cold. Cold-ish. But still not fun. |
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2012-03-24
| 08:32 | RT @wilw: Dear Geraldo Rivera: Small words so you can follow. Hoodies don't kill people. Paranoid racists with guns kill people. [Amen.] |
| 09:37 | RT @IsobelCarr: Saying that wearing a hoodie invites violence is the same as saying wearing a mini skirt invites rape. #Bullshit [Exactly.] |
| 21:02 | Spent a couple of hours this afternoon teaching Photoshop to a photographer friend. Man, was that fun! I do love teaching. |
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2012-03-23
| 13:02 | @alwayscoffee Look on the bright side, Ali. It makes us easier to identify racist assholes like the idiots at A&F who came up with this. |
| 13:04 | @alwayscoffee PUT DOWN THE KITTEN AND STEP AWAY! |
| 14:15 | RT @AdrianChen: No, Abercrombie & Fitch is not selling racist pants. http://t.co/ulzy6nb7 [I'm relieved, and embarrassed I believed it.] |
| 18:45 | Mostly I love living in the future, but really? http://t.co/SnuDIBth |
| 21:13 | @u2peacegirl Dunno. I can't imagine it's real, but I've been wrong before. |
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2012-03-22
| 13:30 | Finally got to play with the new iPad. Amazing. And a moment ago I was fine with my iPad 2. |
| 16:56 | @AnneWheaton A friend in Perth once pointed out that they're closer to Singapore than they are to Sydney. Oz is a *big* place. |
| 18:03 | RT @paulandstorm: @Molly23 [S] MEME'D! http://t.co/uYkb94Qg [Inconceivable!] |
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2012-03-21
| 11:29 | Piece by @gruber explains my contempt for Mike Daisey. He made me angry at Apple, when they're doing the right things. http://t.co/7xSEj2vB |
| 12:05 | @billamend I'm with your son. Tried to read Catcher in the Rye a couple of years ago. Decided life's too short for that kind of torture. |
| 12:06 | RT @billamend: If only Salinger had given Holden Caulfield a pet dire wolf... [If only the wolf had eaten Holden Caulfield...] |
| 12:42 | Rick Santorum is the Gladys Kravitz of presidential candidates. http://t.co/o5qDB80l |
| 17:30 | Got a call out of the blue from a networking company about a job opening. With what I know and what I can fake, could be interesting. |
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2012-03-20
| 06:31 | Reading @Molly23's tweets, I can only conclude that it's possible to find someone adorable and disturbing at one and the same time. |
| 06:44 | @alwayscoffee Look back about 8 hours in @Molly23's Twitter stream and you'll understand my appreciation/concern. |
| 06:45 | @alwayscoffee Also, you're way too far to the adorable side of the adorable/disturbing continuum. And so was she, until now. |
| 06:47 | Santorum is consistent in his positions, if by that we mean consistently offensive to non-prigs. http://t.co/3r0uyV9K |
| 06:51 | @alwayscoffee Not wrong at all. Even better if you've met @Molly23. http://t.co/OQKBXvzV |
| 07:16 | @alwayscoffee Speaking of adorable & disturbing, here's my first exposure to @Molly23: http://t.co/8fpMMHvq |
| 09:44 | RT @VictoriaDahl: From your nationwide bestselling blockbuster hit Fifty Shades of Grey! http://t.co/1NBvxFDz [I will *never* unhear that.] |
| 15:56 | Oooh, pretty. (ASCII art.) http://t.co/h38vfZpb |
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2012-03-19
| 15:40 | So maybe telling Puerto Ricans to learn English wasn't a winning strategy? Who knew? (Santorum in single digits.) http://t.co/SMVbX4QQ |
| 15:41 | Shot today with my absolute favorite Hungarian model. Okay, my only Hungarian model. But still my favorite! |
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2012-03-18
| 18:13 | RT @MarvinEQuasniki: Was going to prepare a statement about Santorum's war on porn, but started Googling and got...distracted. [Been there.] |
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2012-03-17
| 08:47 | Spent yesterday at a http://t.co/VrbKvX9f event in SF, an opportunity to catch up with a couple of friends from my DataSynapse days. |
| 10:37 | This American Life reveals Mike Daisey's Apple/Foxconn story was full of lies. Can't wait to hear their explanation. http://t.co/n9BF0d8l |
| 10:57 | Mike Daisey on his Apple/Foxconn show (my interpretation): What I do is art. It doesn't have to be accurate to be true. http://t.co/7ITs0jNx |
| 11:17 | @BuzzFeed How can Mike Daisey's point and his cause re Apple/Foxconn not be questionable when he has to make shit up to justify them? |
| 11:33 | They're tearing San Francisco's Metreon apart. Wonder if it'll ever be anything other than a retailing fail. |
| 12:02 | Am I the only one who wishes Apple would sue Mike Daisey for slander? They won't, but I'd like to see the lying liar get his. |
| 12:17 | We're constantly being told by @WaitWait Don't Tell Me, whether we wait (wait) or not. #NPRconfessions |
| 12:45 | Wassamatta, WI? Afraid to have someone support a woman's abortion decision as doctor tries to bully her out of it? http://t.co/1FA90Qoo |
| 13:35 | @VictoriaDahl Wait, there's such a thing as vaginal sex? |
| 16:20 | A month after my interviews, potential employer came back with an answer. Sadly, not the one I wanted. *sigh* |
| 16:21 | Thought my car stereo was dying, as right channel went away. Turned out to be a bad cable to my iPhone. Nothing better than a cheap fix. |
| 16:22 | @BonesMcCoy Red Shirt Memorial Fund. Better yet, blue sweaters for red shirts. |
| 16:23 | @alwayscoffee Thanks, Ali. At least I can stop wondering. |
| 17:04 | @wilw More #RadioFreeBurrito? Yes, definitely! |
| 17:22 | Good grief! Houston paper imagines other comic strips following Doonesberry in taking on the Texas Sonogram Bill. http://t.co/YRqNxqzh |
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2012-03-16
| 10:17 | Sitting in a http://t.co/VrbKvX9f seminar. Whole thing's a love letter to Apple & iStuff. |
| 10:19 | AT&T service at Moscone is weak, but not as awful as during Macworld. |
| 11:02 | #cloudforce #eprint http://t.co/YGsTutFz |
| 15:28 | Lying on a beanbag and taking pictures of the Moscone West ceiling. Bored. http://t.co/Vs4ngbvs |
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2012-03-15
| 07:38 | @altonbrown Perfect food show? Funny, informative, inspiring, makes me drool (but in a good way). All of which describes #GoodEats |
| 09:53 | @barryeisler "Get this shit out of their system"? Was that a Santorum joke? |
| 09:55 | Happy π Day, everyone! What kind of π will you be having? I'm thinking Boston Cream. |
| 10:23 | My parents had a set of Britannicas, & dozens of their yearly update volumes. Looked beautiful on their shelves, where they sat unread. |
| 10:40 | RT @pourmecoffee: Honoring Pi Day by being irrational. [Why is this night different than all other nights?] |
| 11:38 | I want to bite their little heads off. http://t.co/oNlrRUxV |
| 12:55 | @barryeisler Dan Savage did one heck of a job. Hard to think of Santorum without thinking of santorum. |
| 14:02 | Rick Santorum wants to outlaw porn and get Puerto Ricans to speak English, dammit! (I added the dammit.) Please make this guy the nominee. |
| 15:54 | Embarrassed I didn't notice my monthly Planned Parenthood donation stopped when my credit card # changed. It's back, so screw you, Mitt. |
| 17:03 | Imagine a Sci Fi version of Deliverance on a mining asteroid. This would be the theme song. https://t.co/uymZyGyN! |
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2012-03-14
| 15:57 | Big hunk of corned beef simmering on the stove. I'm sitting here torturing myself with the smell. Two hours and change to go... |
| 17:41 | @cschweitz I suspect they said "pshaw". It's an old exclamation. http://t.co/MjeBIiI2 |
| 18:49 | Mr. Deity takes on The Artist: http://t.co/XUcof1dc via @youtube |
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2012-03-13
| 10:11 | Bill Maher is an idiot with a microphone. Just because you're a liberal doesn't mean you're right. http://t.co/xpsNgh9x |
| 10:14 | It needs to be said again and again: Free Speech does not mean free of consequences. That's where the speaker's freedom runs into ours. |
| 10:16 | @alwayscoffee @VictoriaDahl Might be sweet, Ali? Might be? Don't make me laugh. (On second thought, do.) |
| 11:16 | @VictoriaDahl There's definitely a hint of devilish in your smile. No, I lie: much more than a hint. |
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2012-03-11
| 08:50 | @VictoriaDahl Sounds like a win-win to me. |
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2012-03-08
| 12:05 | An intelligent & articulate response from @VictoriaDahl to all the wingnut blather about birth control. http://t.co/Ib5ifwXT |
| 13:08 | "If you want people to respect your ideas, get better ideas." - @scalzi on Kirk Cameron http://t.co/Q7Y0k8bm |
| 13:58 | iPhone & AppleTV upgraded to iOS 5.1, iPad in progress. No bumps along the way. |
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