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Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-02-14

John T Davis — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:30:00 +0000

The Chocolate Rain Guy and the Numa Numa Guy just showed up in the same Super Bowl Commercial.
… So awesome. #
Interception + Touchdown NO. Shazam! NO is in ur passes, stealing ur footballs.
Also, I love Tim the Crazy Dorito Assassin Guy. #
Really interested in using Mint.com for personal finance management. … How does it get away with being free? #
Twitter, for reference, is free and non-ad supported b/c VCs and other sources infuse it with cash.
I need to find a VC to fund me. #
Breaking on TV: Iraq has ordered 100s of former/current Blackwater employees out of the country. #
RT @BreakingNews: #Iran says it will shut down access to GMail, launch own e-mail service – Wall Street Journal #
RT @jeffjarvis: WABC preempts soaps for snow but not Oprah. Thus Oprah > Snow > sex. #
"Google Buzz: Privacy Nightmare" by Molly Wood. This is terrifying. Worse than Facebook by default. Who wants this? http://is.gd/87UdC #
RT @Ihnatko: I think Apple's going to sue Marvel Comics. "Shake to undo" was an iPhone feature before it was Marvel's policy re: continuity. #
Spam of Day @ my blog: "* * * [t]here is always a person who likes you, hates you, and pretends to know you I will be back."
He'll be back. #
Really interested in the new pistol-grip #bloggie but I've heard the video quality isn't that good in "low light." Thoughts/alternatives? #
Trying my first composition (a blog post) in #Scriviner Loving it. #

Technorati Tags: Blackwater, Bloggie, Chocolate Rain, Doritos, Facebook, Gmail, Google Buzz, Iraq, Marvel, Mint.com, New Orleans Saints, Numa Numa Dance, Oprah, Scrivener, Snow, Super Bowl, youtube

Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-01-31

John T Davis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:30:00 +0000

Cleared 74 pages of Oil and Gas reading (1 week's worth) today. 62 pages of Evidence (1 week's worth) yesterday. Yay, productive weekends! #
Saints win. See you all at the Superbowl. (Seriously, this has been one of the hardest fought football games I've ever seen.) #
Just saw commercial for "Hot Tub Time Machine". Everything I've accomplished and had happen to me this weekend gone in a wave of fail. #
RT @BreakingNews: U.K. officially exits 18-month recession with figures showing 0.1 percent growth in last three months of 2009 – AP #
RT @BreakingNews: The U.S. government bans texting by drivers of large commercial trucks and buses with immediate effect – Reuters #
RT @BreakingNews: General Motors close to announcing a deal to sell Saab division to Spyker Cars NV http://bit.ly/6YeUhl #
RT @BreakingNews: NASA ends effort to free Spirit rover from Martian sand
http://bit.ly/9wwoHC #
RT @BreakingNews: Dating site eHarmony settles law suit, agrees to make Web site more "welcoming" to gays, lesbians http://bit.ly/cIN7g7 #
Anticipation.
Will existence morph again?
iThing is coming.
#haiku #apple #
RT @BrentSpiner: Didn't Captain Picard used to play with a pad like that in his ready room? STAR TREK STRIKES AGAIN!!! | #apple #ipad #
#iPad as ebook reader: should be able to have an ebook open on 1/2 of screen, and notetaking app on the other. I do this on Macbook w/ PDFs. #
RT @BreakingNews: Ford announces a profit of $2.7 billion for 2009, its first annual profit in four years – AP #
Just overheard someone who sounds *just* like Lor from #Disney #039;s Weekenders. Cool! #
RT @BreakingNews: GDP grew at a faster-than-expected 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the quickest pace in more than six years – Reuters #
RT @BreakingNews: U.S. wages and benefits for 2009 rise by the smallest amount on records going back 27 years, Labor Department says – AP #
#iPad will eventually have a dock-connector-to-component/HDMI video adapter. With the right software, you can then replace entire #AppleTV #
Evidence class is a lot like Criminal Law class. Reading admission rules/cases for prior sex crimes now. Flesh-crawlingly horrid stuff. #
More fantasy epics should feature heroes who ride into battle atop muscled, fire breathing winged unicorns. I have spoken. #unicornsareneat #
RT @BreakingNews: Google dropping support for Internet Explorer 6, still used on millions of computers worldwide http://bit.ly/9C9DrU #
Wanted to share some articles I've been reading around the 'Nets on the #iPad so I rounded them up and blogged them: http://is.gd/7kwbx. #
Just used Wordpress 2.9's built in WYSIWYG editor to compose a blog post. I haven't used it in years. It's gotten really nice. #
I've never stopped and listened to the words, but John Mayer's "Daughters" is one of the most sexist songs I've ever heard. #
Incredible sexism couched in a surrounding "Be a good Dad!" message. Impressive. #
Biting the bullet and starting a clean up of my OTHER email box. … 2700 messages. Oy. #
Just found a Google Voice invite in my mailbox. … How long has this been in here? I am a packrat. #
And, done. Gone from 2700 emails in my inbox to <300. Not bad at all. #

Technorati Tags: AppleTV, Disney, eHarmony, Evidence, Fantasy, Football, Ford, General Motors, Google Voice, Haiku, Hot Tub Time Machine, Internet Explorer, John Mayer, Mars, New Orleans Saints, Oil and Gas, Saab, Spirit, Spyker Cars, Texting, Unicorns, United Kingdom, Weekenders, wordpress

Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2010-01-11

John T Davis — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:30:00 +0000

Just left neurologist. MRI confirms brain has not turned into block of cheese. Surviving law school well so far. 1.5 years to go. #
Hacked my AppleTV to make it behave like an Xbox Media Center — that has also been hacked. It's MC Escher hacking. #
My iPhone is Lal. My Macbook Pro is Artemis. My AppleTV is Luna. My old Powerbook was Galileo. Next device: Diana or Betty or Roger. #
Law school resumes for me in 48 hours. Here we go. #
At a Manly Sports Bar of Manfulness. They're playing Elton John. This pleases me greatly. #
Uncheck a file in an iTunes playlist, and it is automatically removed from your synced AppleTV. THIS IS LAME. #
Off to get textbooks. #
Dallas folk: tomorrow 98.7 FM is doing *every Elvis hit ever* in honor of his 75th birthday. Right now: Whitney Houston. Sigh. Elvis better. #
GET EQUIPPED:
BOX OF TEXTBOOKS.

Get your weapons ready!

… Feeling retro today. [Note: Text is taken from the Mega Man 2 "New Item Acquired" Screen.] #
Oh: that Elvis thing is Friday, not Thursday. Sorry. #
I love Fisher's _Evidence_ 2d Edition. Written with a very dry, sarcastic wit that's easy to miss if you aren't careful. Makes things fun. #
@jeffjarvis Hadn't heard of the bloggie before; looks really cool. What made you decide to get this over a Flip or something else? #

Technorati Tags: AppleTV, Bloggie, Elton John, Elvis, Evidence, MC Escher, mega man, MRI, Neurology

Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2009-12-28

John T Davis — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:30:00 +0000

Is it me, or does being on an EDGE network make #iPhone battery drain really fast? #
Just ordered myself a new #AppleTV. #Apple will now probably refresh the thing in a week. #
#iPhone battery life is abysmal. Can't even survive a 24 road trip. Really hope the next model fixes this. #
Watching Disney Christmas Parade. Most captivating thing is Kelly Ripa's way-buff arms. They're comic book superheroine arms. Wow. #
Feeding cardboard (e.g.: from a shipping box) through a paper shredder really cleans out the treads. Like fiber for office equipment. #
Hooking up new Apple TV. Just saw this electrical fire waiting to happen. I don't even know what that plug is. http://yfrog.com/3nqflhj #
Snag. I have no AV cables, & no Ethernet cable. Found two phone cords, a speaker set, playing cards, & a DSL modem. Also, a surge protector. #

Technorati Tags: AppleTV, Christmas, Disney, EDGE, Kelly Ripa, Paper Shredder, Parade

Twitter Weekly Updates for the Week of 2009-10-04

John T Davis — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:30:00 +0000

RT @twitter: New mechanism for discovery and curation coming soon! http://bit.ly/JKMbK | Buddy list groups for Twitter! Seriously awesome. #
@samsf2la I'm most excited about "User Groups" becoming a part of the Twitter API. Prolific followees are currently unmanageable. in reply to samsf2la #
@GMFett Joss Whedon? in reply to GMFett #
Oldest human-linked skeleton found http://bit.ly/1jImGu #
@legalgeekery How about something to do with the 9th's Circuit's recent evisceration of the Plain View Doctrine? in reply to legalgeekery #
Overslept severely today. I must conclude I need an alarm clock capable of physical violence when ignored. Screw the first law of robotics. #
Adorable ghost girl sells candy at CVS. Ambiguous: is her name Candy? I demand answers. Also pie. http://yfrog.com/16o73uj #
#Mac Gripe 354: Turn your system volume all the way down. It'll still make (very quiet) sounds. Lowest volume setting should ALWAYS be mute. #
I've been hearing good things about Top Men. If you are a Top Man interested in a position full of excitement & cheeses, send your resume. #

Technorati Tags: Alarm Clock, Fossils, Halloween, Plain View Doctrine

Linksys WET610N

John T Davis — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:16:07 +0000

I just picked up one of these wireless-to-Ethernet bridges as part of an effort to get my old PowerBook returned to active service. I won’t know how well it works until I figure out where I’m going to plug all this stuff in. There’s already too much stuff in my office. I’m literally out of power sockets, and that’s a bit disturbing.

I’ll talk more about it when I actually get it set up, but for now I’m planning a backup server (for a second backup of my computer, and a primary backup of my room-mate’s), a Growl notification server, and anything else useful I can think of. Maybe a DevonThink database server, if the old laptop (callsign Diana) can handle it. She’s only got an 867 MHz PowerPC G4 with 1.15 GB of RAM, so I’m a not sure how much she’ll do with current software without grinding to a halt.

Should be interesting.

Technorati Tags: amazon, devonthink pro office, Growl, Linksys, Linksys WET610N, Powerbook G4, WiFi

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-11

John T Davis — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Spent three full minutes navigating through one of those automated phone things ("press 1 for…") just to get on hold. Modern convenience. #
Just left Buc-ee's. On the road again. #
@lazytwitter Need good noise cancelling headset for #iPhone, especially for car wind noise. Mic preferred. Reccomendations, please? Thanks. #
Some automated phone systems are inconvenient. Others are clearly designed to collapse the rational mind, like the Lament Configuration. #
@wilw Did you get a Prius? in reply to wilw #
@wilw Oh, nevermind. in reply to wilw #
Visual tweaks and other enhancements in latest Mac OS X 10.6 developer seed build: http://tr.im/rQpV. Loving the white-on-black menus. #

Technorati Tags: Buc-ee's, Headphones, Lament Configuration, mac os x, Noise Cancelling Headphones, Snow Leopard, Telephones

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-10

John T Davis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Someone named a wifi network "Skynet." Asking for trouble. Hopefully it has weak encryption. Would simplify things for the human resistance. #

Technorati Tags: Encryption, WiFi

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-04

John T Davis — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000

@kodra22 You planning to replace it with another MX, or something else? in reply to kodra22 #
Stapler stupendously jammed again. I'm very good at rendering simple machines inoperable. Think I've got at least five staples stuck in it. #
There is a place called Montage, Beverly Hills, California. Sometimes, the world is awesome. MONTAGE! #
From my back deck, I can see a fireworks display at a nearby country club. Super awesome. Also, freaking hot. #

Technorati Tags: Fireworks, Independence Day, Logitech, Logitech MX Revolution, Montage, Stapler

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-02

John T Davis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000

@AnnCurry Was the missile supposed to do that? Or did it malfunction? That is, was this a successful test? in reply to AnnCurry #
Stepping out for food and notary. #
Chipotle: the sixth food group of college & grad students everywhere. #
Shall look into becoming a notary. Could be interesting. Also, I would get to stamp things with an official seal. #
Bought a can of York mints. Want to eat them all; I'm trying make them last. I can actually hear a voice in my head going "OM NOM NOM." #
Me: Restraint?! Where are you? I've already eaten all the mints! Restraint: What, boss? I'm sorry, there was a shiny thing over here. Me: #
In Texas? Apply online to become a Notary Public here: http://www.texasnotary.com/notary.asp #
MSNBC has new Jackson rehersal video. Ironic: Jackson singing "you don't really care about us" while shamelessly commercialized post-death. #
Breaking away from obsessive Michael Jackson coverage to talk about breaking news re: … Gov. Mark Sanford. … Fantastic. #
My Logitech MX Revolution laser mouse has taken to reminding me its dying by randomly double-clicking things. Hilarity ensues. #
@lazytwitter: is it possible to access a disk connected to an #Airport Extreme over the internet? #Apple #
@TychoBrahe He hasn't seen that horrifying Cambell's soup commercial, has he? in reply to TychoBrahe #
About to access JSTOR for the first time since 2007. Have fond memories of academic databases from college. I am such a nerd. #
@mduncanvm Is there a FAQ for that, somewhere? I'd love to have remote access to something like a Drobo or my 750 GB external. in reply to mduncanvm #

Technorati Tags: academia, Airport Extreme, Cambell's Soup, Chipotle, Drobo, JSTOR, Logitech, Logitech MX Revolution, Mark Sanford, Michael Jackson, Missiles, MSNBC, North Korea, Notary, Texas, York Mints

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-25

John T Davis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:30:00 +0000

@eboehnisch This is a known bug in the current version of Tweetie. @atebits submitted a new version to Apple on the 13th. in reply to eboehnisch #
I've used my #iPhone more heavily in the past week than anytime since I bought it. Been draining the battery fast. Need to a #Mophie pack. #
Classic HP Calculators, implemented w/ original ROM code, available as iPhone apps: http://tr.im/pLpW. #
@smulawgurl You need to counter-balance depressing reality with something funny/bizzare. I recommend The #Onion. in reply to smulawgurl #
Today's physical malfunction: resurgence of the Stumped Toe From Beyond. Must figure out what to do. Not limping through a funeral. #
Who still forces people to watch vacation photo slideshows when they come to visit? Food Network must update their pop culture references. #
To clarify: there's nothing wrong with asking if someone wants to see a photo slideshow. But who really watches against their will? #
#MSNBC just confirmed Michael Jackson has passed away at age 50. #
"Philandering" and its related words are fun words. Meaning aside, it's fun to say, and fun to look at, like "canoodling," & "Zeppelin." #

Technorati Tags: Calculator, Hewlett Packard, language, Michael Jackson, Mophie Juice Pack Air, MSNBC, The Onion, Tweetie