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Tweets from 2009/03

  1. …in reply to @jaykotak
    @jaykotak RT myself "April is the land of freedom. I can see it shining in the distance." But, yeah, the way there does not seem fun.
  2. ... huh, hail.
  3. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy Twas a shame to miss you at gigantor: Got there at about 1, and just flolloped about, legs nonfunctioning. Should meet soon(ish)!
  4. …in reply to @undefined
    @naomilaw If you want, I can update more, to fill the Stephen Fry void.
  5. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 When my 4th yr proj is done,there's lots I've been wanting to get working on the website: last.fm, in-page streaming, chatbox...
  6. Whew! Just read #watchmen . Whew!
  7. …in reply to @fonduelover
    @fonduelover faaaack, that's pretty good.
  8. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson oh yes. it wasn't the mind-blowing experience that lots of others have had (I think I'm too old) but still very very good.
  9. …in reply to @infectedarea
    @infectedarea HATE job apps. hate hate hate hate hate. which reminds me, i need to finish this one...
  10. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster hang in there, man.
  11. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes AWWWWWW!
  12. …in reply to @npupp
    @npupp that's lame and confusing and not even, as you say, good soundbites. #newlabour do good things, though, they're just ashamed of 'em.
  13. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue patience. push on this stuff, when it's done you can tinker on projects. all summer long.
  14. …in reply to @radiodario
  15. being v careful about this loose network cable - in the middle of changing 5 different copies of my project code into a single svn repos
  16. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg SVN! SVN!
  17. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 a stationery shop? like browns, browns is nice.
  18. http://bit.ly/5LUh : FUCK YEAH! Journalism in action that! So sweet, I believed the title was taking the piss for a second.
  19. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg I haven't even that. But I'm crunching data the whole while, so...
  20. …in reply to @srules
    @srules what? this sounds like the best train ever!
  21. …in reply to @robyngallagher
    @robyngallagher speaking from the UK, I feel your pain. But then again, you make traveling to NZ next year seem feasible again.
  22. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus *like*
  23. @jganderson don't bother. seriously, it's unnecessary pain. t'otherhand, s'a project i wanna do when april.
  24. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona it is lovely cake....
  25. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg there /was/...
  26. @jameskyle irc://irc.imaginarynet.org.uk/bazookaboy
  27. screw you #edinburgh , it's supposed to be #spring . but you're #snowing . #sigh
  28. So tired! Whew! (No-one knows much about the MATLAB imaq toolbox do they? No? forcing it to use PAL not NTSC? No? WinTV cards? Thought not)
  29. further to my last message: I may still be tired, but I'm happy. video input format: set!
  30. …in reply to @tgadget
    @tgadget I've gotten caught by that before, too. Wouldn't mind so much if you could delete tweets in gmail.I know, I know, space is tight...
  31. http://tinyurl.com/b9c24s who likes #friends ? the tv show, i mean, not the people, they're lovely.
  32. @oh_cripes damnit, i _did_ sound like a dick. and you sounded lovely. I was trying to avoid that. (context: http://bit.ly/Cem6K )
  33. i am going to be content that this works, and stop poking ,else i would cross the line into evaluating, and god forbid i finish anything
  34. i love you guys: goats blood, bacon sandwiches, the maccabees, small mammals, gin and 4chan. all the things i love
  35. …in reply to @fonduelover
    @fonduelover shit, i'm sold. Like @arkitus , I'm off on holiday! *easy street*
  36. RT @mikecodona: work eat work eat work sleep. March sucks.
  37. RT @roderickhodgson RT @alitheg: RT @jaykotak: RT @v21: RT @mikecodona: [...] it's not recursion til I do it. But March still sucks.
  38. I really don't get people who pine for the past. RT @thecopyninja: And then the future happened http://bit.ly/Aec2T and http://bit.ly/F0phz
  39. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 Even if no-one will volunteer to do it, pretty sure a couple of hundred quid waved at Inf students'll get you equal shiny.
  40. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 Or, even: the backend running LSR is free, it's just the design work needed. But then I guess the issue is always migration...
  41. man oh man, writing this up reveals a lot of sloppily made design choices. i guess it's always a learning process...
  42. bastard ten minute gcal reminders of a club night that i love with a band i love while I'm just about to go back to dissertation.
  43. …in reply to @srules
    @srules Why, that sounds delightful! And I'm not even a little envious. Nope, not a trace of seething jealousy... (tho really: have fun now)
  44. I should have been in bed so long ago. But, Brian Blessed...
  45. goddamn #brianblessed http://bit.ly/10Rczt i think i just found a new role model
  46. Slightly annoyed I didn't think to twitter this last night: RT @oh_cripes: Spent the morning gawping at http://thru-you.com - amazing stuff.
  47. …in reply to @infectedarea
    @infectedarea ... were you sleeping with them?
  48. …in reply to @infectedarea
    @infectedarea it's an ecosystem: spiders eat the bugs and geckos eat the spiders. If you just start eating the geckos, everyone wins.
  49. the passive voice is starting to come more naturally now
  50. …in reply to @tgadget
    @tgadget stead of click to cycle through @, d, rt , maybe a box with options for each, and option for viewing their feed? same for all names
  51. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster but on the other hand, the sun is shining and a [pretty] girl smiled at you. and yr project is in and the air tastes sweet.
  52. \me keeps using the wrong slashes. #ihatelatex
  53. think i might be a little bit addicted to pagecounts . currently: 5 and a little bit.
  54. Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.
  55. Millions of peaches, peaches for me, millions of peaches, peaches for free. LOOK OUT!
  56. "Have you been drinking?" "Yes, as you can tell from the bottle open in front of me I keep drinking from"
  57. dood dood doo. editing editing. am I editing when I'm just listening to a song we played? I mean, I could edit at any moment, technically...
  58. @jaykotak just been sticking to cs4rep
  59. holy fuck, http://bit.ly/vqZ3y bear and kitten have updated.
  60. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson i'd rather have longer between mine. got three weeks of em. not the worst arrangement, but still: i scared.
  61. this is hideously mindless work, and I can't even script it much better than I have at the moment. any suggestions for audiobooks?
  62. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva i think i have the original radio shows, somewhere... but yeah, maybe. never actually done that precise version of #hhgttg
  63. my hands are too weak to type, but work on i must.
  64. if yr in the labs, get teeworlds, look for a lan game.
  65. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva what PhD you applied for? I've been looking at that too, but I am having a year out first.
  66. "...the post-disaster world will be just like this one, only worse. All the lousy coworkers and squabbles and crap..." : http://bit.ly/sZJd
  67. i wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend. i know it wouldn't come to love, my heroine, pretend.
  68. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 if you like mushrooms: buncha mushrooms, once softened & reduced add cream, soy sauce, little salt. blend a bit. it's good.
  69. …in reply to @OldTinfoil
    @ravagement Change your name to mark Lamarr, then carry on going by Mark Jones. Simple as.
  70. …in reply to @thecopyninja
    @thecopyninja fapping fail?
  71. …in reply to @npupp
    @npupp they do!
  72. …in reply to @OldTinfoil
    @ravagement that's the emptiest forum i've ever seen
  73. …in reply to @cses
    @cses well, there's always twittering. (I said to myself I'd not open firefox today, and look at how well that's worked...)
  74. should women play sports? http://bit.ly/fqFeg | is soccer ruining America? http://bit.ly/zOBQC #crazy
  75. http://bit.ly/o4pHN Auugh! I am tensing and I don't even have the right kind of genitalia! *wince wince wince*
  76. @songbytoad is that screaming I hear in the background?
  77. …in reply to @OldTinfoil
    @ravagement "the injury was a result of a consensual act between two parties and no crime was committed" : still not curious?
  78. FUCK! My MASWS assignment didn't get submitted properly. Only the text answers got through. 14/100, all that wasted work...
  79. @roderickhodgson http://bit.ly/4MPV I know you like #rubikscube s, you think you could do one of these?
  80. @tgadget : for your wishlist: autocomplete for @'s
  81. BWHOA! #facebook , what have you done? why are you so scared of what you are? Are you afraid of getting old and boring?
  82. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue don't tell anyone, but my latest procrastination binge has focused on project euler in python.
  83. h'alright! 90% on my last CM coursework! even better, the average mark was 65% (let's ignore that that includes MSc, who had it harder)
  84. ah, headlines: "Insemination fight ends in wife's arrest" http://bit.ly/16NvWm
  85. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes I miss guestbooks too. I like your jigsaw background! My favorite was always twinkling star backgrounds. Or lined paper!
  86. …in reply to @trench
    @trench that news should be more surprising. instead its just another marker of the slow decline of US power.One "Hyperpower" to "Powers"...
  87. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes @srules I wanna see that .gif!
  88. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson how to quantify quality? and: the best resource is other people. who values without context?
  89. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson for that matter, judging quality is a costly process, so you use heuristics. good enough is good enough.
  90. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson leaving aside creator fame interacting with network effects. would people love firefly as much if not for the browncoats?
  91. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson how objective are the value evaluators? note that yr eq involves investment into work: why invest in an unknown?
  92. @roderickhodgson and i'm trying to explain why brands have true (na jus' perceived) value. Look at aXXo, frinstance.
  93. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg @jaykotak @roderickhodgson 3000 here too. :< #dissertation #wc
  94. screw you guys! i'ma write 6000 now just to show you! (i'm not: i'm doing DARE stuff)
  95. oh my goodness, i am so hyperactive at the moment
  96. "you're looking detached - you have a feeling that standing in the bathroom will show her" ♡ plumtree
  97. …in reply to @trench
    @trench turn it all off. go for a walk with nothing in your pockets (maybe take your door keys). walk til you've ran out of thoughts.
  98. BAZOOKA BOY are go. (I really hope we get in) #dare
  99. when i submit my dissertation, do i have to submit all >6gb of data too? over the net, in a single zip file? hmmm...
  100. the fuck did i wait so long to analyse my data properly, i have an effect as big as the boner i just popped.
  101. …in reply to @jaykotak
    @jaykotak "quiet food"?
  102. …in reply to @jaykotak
    @jaykotak ... Does your flat wake up from microwaves? I feel guilty... But then, I am very good at sleeping.
  103. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson you wanna pick a day to hammer at av? liiiiike Wednesday?
  104. oh brilliant world: the "Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis" exists!
  105. …in reply to @fonduelover
    @fonduelover and? I have like three of those lying about at home anyway. FREE > cheap. (have resisted hoodies, too...)
  106. "This album is commercialized awful incarnate" about a ska concept album about Leon Trotsky. Hey, I've not heard it, it could be!
  107. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva i am impressed with your toastie making skills if you can make them in a ditch
  108. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva ps now i want toasties damn you. bloody labs and their lack of toastie making provisions & facilities
  109. …in reply to @thecopyninja
    @thecopyninja will there be board games?
  110. …in reply to @Huitlacoche_Too
    @bacothorn you've got paint on you
  111. …in reply to @jaykotak
    @jaykotak you warm my heart. I did just the same about a month ago and similarly thought "better late than never"
  112. what have will smith, al gore and criss angel all done? http://bit.ly/19kuTV
  113. heh, #v21 is a popular hashtag. not talking about me, mind, but. The perils of having a 3-character identity.
  114. dya think barbara would notice if i just copied her reference lists from the article my project is on?
  115. fuck you, beautiful hazy golden view of the pentland hills. fuck you so much.
  116. @mikecodona i blame the nudity. and the summer dresses. and my own good mood
  117. HAHAHA, DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
  118. "awww, do you feel ashamed of your inadequate ... talkyness"
  119. @oh_cripes @RubZo @jameskyle DARE website says today's the day...
  120. oh my goodness, i do not want to be here, doing this. not that it's so terribly terrible, just. *sigh*
  121. "scototaxic" might well be the rarest word I have used in this thingy yet.
  122. I want to read a Borges story on #GTD
  123. RT @thecopyninja NASA: Discovery 1 this is mission control, please stop engines and - Discover 1: WE CAN'T STOP HERE! THIS IS BAT COUNTRY!
  124. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona shiiiiit... you made it, huh. well, share the wealth: i wanna spam all my followers with my unchanging word count.
  125. is facebook down for anyone else?
  126. cancel that, it's decided to work now
  127. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson i do remember about that site. but it does not offer nearly the same opportunities for bitching about the situation
  128. Realizing quite how much I have to do, and in quite how much time... #dissertation. (oh, apparently about 6500 words)
  129. what? asian girls in clown red wigs wearing vaccum cleaners as shoes? http://bit.ly/wuLv
  130. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus i'm on level 3, stealing computers
  131. @alitheg @ravagement sorry, did i say stealing? i meant using.
  132. …in reply to @fonduelover
    @fonduelover i didn't mind my third. scared me, too. if it was up to me, i'd keep it, maybe without the presentations.
  133. wc: 6797 #dissertation (hoping the number will increase quite dramatically the next while)
  134. …in reply to @cses
    @cses @srules does a varied stream of cursewords count as a song? 'cuz I've sang plenty of those.
  135. sod me, my wrist really fucking hurts. should really stop using a computer for a bit, but...
  136. to bed, to bed! forget the worries of the morrow til they are upon us.
  137. So about 6 months ago I stole some code, and used it in my project, meaning to cite it. Now the source is impossible to find. :/
  138. in a puzzle whose answer is "chess", what is the only proscribed word?
  139. "the Lavi battalion produced a shirt with a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and "Bet you got raped!"" http://bit.ly/wfo8M
  140. Guess who is new web master/editor/lord for http://freshair.org.uk ?
  141. …in reply to @cses
    @cses @mikecodona may i humbly request not to see mike's penis?
  142. …in reply to @cses
    @cses now i am struck with depression from all the \citet{TODO} s I have written. There was fun, and I missed it.
  143. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva my pitch was entirely "hey theres lot of widgets we could throw on the page, lets do that!"
  144. …in reply to @tgadget
    @tgadget I also had that font thing. Back now, though. Weird.
  145. so I seem to be listening to The Thrills' Big Sur (bit.ly/OmI8m) and the opening song to Disney's Robin Hood (bit.ly/11wrq) on repeat. ~_~
  146. …in reply to @tgadget
    @tgadget clicked links also showed for me in white when i had the font glitch earlier today... refresh fixed it, though.
  147. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva dude, why not use cowu.be , the compsoc server? #at , too, it's quiet on imaginarynet
  148. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva @jaykotak @GaryBryan http://bit.ly/bGSIb : or even behind this friendly link. (OK OK, I'll back to Franz's Warping Method)
  149. but there's some compensations. like the gentle blue bath of arthurs seat in the first light of the morning. fuck me, that's beautiful.
  150. Dare just emailed to tell us that they can't tell us whether we've got in or not. *sigh* "beginning of next week" #dare
  151. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue no chance you can just assume you won?
  152. …in reply to @jamesthomson
    @jamesthomson but it's for charidddddeeeee
  153. do you wanna stay in bed all day? YEAH do you remember feeling any other way? NO
  154. will drawing on yourself and giving things silly hats ever go out of fashion? I hope not...
  155. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona I saw you, flashing that arse about...
  156. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted mountain of pizza? where?
  157. @timoncheese who says twitter's useless? now i have incentive to finish this section before newswipe's on.
  158. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted i ran down with 'em. currently eating wonton soup and drinking beer.
  159. …in reply to @kenmcfa
    @kenmcfa sure it could. we could be eating the pizza & drinking the beer on a balmy summers nigh, on a beach in greece.
  160. #dissertation #wc 10882 . And lots left. Worrying about the quantity of verbiage subjecting the markers to. What's necessary?
  161. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes i want #wc on my twittering during this difficult time. there must be days where twitter > dissertation
  162. http://bit.ly/18rFME : Taibbi tells me how I can blame the current financial situation on corruption. We pretty fucked.
  163. have just slept since 6pm last night... 15 hours, that is...
  164. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue I would not imagine so: #dissertation, you know... Though... Maybe I'll out for a drink. We shall see
  165. …in reply to @undefined
    @JamesMackerness it was an impressive performance indeed. now go knock 'em dead in the presentations.
  166. @Tally_cola hey! how you been doing all these years?
  167. Listen, honey, there is nothing you can do to offend me. Because you don't send me, anymore. No, you don't send me.
  168. …in reply to @undefined
    @GaryBryan writing time?
  169. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus recently? didn't we all join in one giant twittergasm? and getsatisfaction is good, know a lot of sites that use it.
  170. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson @arkitus not to be a dick, but good people provide value to communities. good entrepreneurs make buckets o' cash!
  171. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus ah, it'll die down soon enough. and twitter will become (with luck) a niche site. and folk'll say "you remember when we twittered?"
  172. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson it's certainly a lot easier that way, yes. but sites like KMO are so good, so full of utility, so ... unmonetizable. :<
  173. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus actually, retraction. you've made more money than most, ie not a huge loss. what's the profits of facebook?
  174. @trench #theylive is a film among films. Such mythic power!
  175. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster theyre... not the height of perfection. but i can at least conceivably see them making a sale. #shrug
  176. FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT INDUSTRIAL CEILING FANS... so I did. Boy, is that a load off my mind...
  177. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson are you saying @mikecodona 's mum needs tweaking?
  178. AT level 3 mario kart! Come and get it!
  179. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus fucking love that film. #Dontbeamenacetosouthcentralbydrinkingjuiceinthehood
  180. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson bit late, but you don't have to stick to that format. aims => design, everything = > imple.. , success? => eval
  181. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson *sigh* at least pretending you did trad when you did test-driven makes you looks less retarded than the opposite..
  182. …in reply to @rix0r
    @rix0r as someone currently using appx 10 computers at once... i doubt me turning off the lights'll make much difference.
  183. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson nice... been looking at those. a set with nudie ladies on? is that classy?
  184. i'll have to ask my dad about #earthhour, he buys electricity for EDF UK. And so knows things about electricity demand.
  185. …in reply to @rix0r
    @rix0r link dead. wonder why? can't possibly be overloaded, can it?
  186. …in reply to @pleasefindthis
    @pleasefindthis i would be very fucking surprised if you did worse than awesome. you seem born for best man speeches.
  187. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona ah, fuck, you just reminded me it's midnight. Also, you should really write more...
  188. Oh, I wanna be your boyfriend, I wanna give you babies.Oh, I know you won't believe it's true: I only went with her 'cuz she looks like you!
  189. …in reply to @mocost
    @mocost from the lrb: http://bit.ly/wbBqP jerry fodor attacks that, http://bit.ly/6k8Zt andy clark defending himself
  190. …in reply to @undefined
    @naomilaw oh hell no... but yeah, i didn't get much done that night... *sigh* anyway, i'll see you after Wednesday.
  191. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg level 5 all alone, here. godammit, i don't care about this, i wanna go play in the cold and sun.
  192. christ, i am so bored... but, back to work
  193. http://bit.ly/jqu3I tobi anstis reads out the cbbc url. in 1995 (incidentally, anyone remember 'mud'? <3 that show. so good. so weird.)
  194. …in reply to @roderickhodgson
    @roderickhodgson oh, mug cake? how is that? i have never done it myself, but heard it's good... for cake from microwaves
  195. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted i have not changed mine once in 4 years. i feel there might be a happy medium...
  196. "The Hive is now following you on Twitter!"
  197. as bennie noakes says, "christ what an imagination ive got"
  198. why did i just learn that the fingerstache is one of the shortest lived tattoos due to it's placement on thin & frequently used skin?
  199. sit down and think of mormons
  200. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted jealous... but then, a week and i'll be wandering around fort william & surroundings. O, that's a nourishing throught.
  201. i am so full of sighs, if you were to poke me, a sigh would come out.
  202. people in the same room as me, don't take that as an invitation
  203. …in reply to @OldTinfoil
    @ravagement don't listen to rick astley radio, then...
  204. fucksake. didn't get into #dare. sod
  205. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus Joe, Steve, guy called Marcin I don't think you know, and a guy called James from Ayr.
  206. …in reply to @rix0r
    @rix0r i'm 22 and already i feel a bit too old for reading... but still: if you want to, you should
  207. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted why are you in sutton? I went to school there! I spent like 7 years of lunchtimes loitering on that high street...
  208. …in reply to @wenkakes
    @wellinformatted well... i am trying to think of exciting things in sutton to see. theres a big asda? the library is pretty big too...
  209. …in reply to @perfectstars
    @perfectstars oh, lovely! B&K
  210. RT @avanle Unused joke: "I like my wine (glasses) like I like my women. Comically oversized."
  211. now that i know i'm not going to be drinking this evening, all speed has left me. i am listlessly making notes, now.
  212. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva it turns out my body was fine with last nights all nighter,but point blank doesn't like this one.i'm forcing the issue, but
  213. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva yeah,i also liked that little fuck you(also,barbara said take a section out back to the apdx, 'cuz it's not inf-y enough..)
  214. …in reply to @undefined
    @zanne_km what, like me? i am a mysterious figure from your past...
  215. zanne_km : possible I have you confused with another zanne who knows alex and writes on the internet...
  216. nearing 15000, and still scurrying about to get results... #wc #dissertation
  217. if fashion is your trade, then when you're naked, i guess you must be unemployed... [i'd give my whole life to see it]
  218. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster when Chrome comes out for linux... it's good enough to be worth losing my muscle memory for ctrl-t, tab, query ,enter
  219. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster i have been conditioned against plugins by uni comps. sometimes ff dies til you delete .mozilla...
  220. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona you mean a mini usb to usb? there a white one in my satchel...
  221. …in reply to @mikecodona
    @mikecodona yup. west lab, lying about on the floor