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Tweets from 2009/07

  1. I have unpacked all my stuff. In my dads house. This is somewhat, but not entirely, depressing.
  2. i find openid (more specifically: claimid.com ) confusing as all hell, and I took a course on it. not a good sign.
  3. Just played photopia. http://trunc.it/p5gp Amazing, tragic tale, but mainly annoyed brother came in and interrupted me just at the climax.
  4. yes yes yes yes yes. Adventure Time is being made into actual series. http://trunc.it/p3gr yes yes yes
  5. apparently i am the kind of person who really enjoys webcomics http://trunc.it/pzvg that contain other webcomics http://trunc.it/q0by
  6. the fictional webcomic is a parody of other webcomics, both within and out of the comic, but is often misinterpreted as non-parody within
  7. so, uh, in conclusion, add "metafiction" to my list of interests, i guess
  8. web design people: why does a <br /> make all the content appear after my sidebars have ended? (in andyblue theme for wordpress)
  9. …in reply to @oh_cripes
    @oh_cripes @tonicblue http://bit.ly/2ZuFCK
  10. @oh_cripes yeah, i just found it. fucking thing... thank you, all my lovely assistants ( @roderickhodgson @tonicblue @oh_cripes )
  11. …in reply to @mySociety
    @mySociety I believe I suddenly am. if there's space available #opentech (huzzah for being in London again!)
  12. "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."
  13. …in reply to @undefined
    @Rachelbug1 I know how you feel...
  14. if I arrive late for #opentech , will I be able to get in?
  15. The worst dreams are those where everything you want comes true. fuuuck.
  16. Fuck being so far out in the sticks. Still, free, and i get some work done. Really i guess im grumbling about having to ...plan...
  17. @tonicblue watching ben goldacre right now. Jealous?
  18. …in reply to @AnthonySteele
    @AnthonySteele ah, yes, but theres no money in that any more...
  19. …in reply to @edent
    @edent theres data to compare against. Like th netflix prize
  20. #opentech keep hearing about 15billion operational efficiency thing
  21. #opentech im going to get a tesco clubcard if theres a chance to get that data myself.
  22. #opentech 'everyone thinks the internet is a force for good in someone elses field' vs 'the press is the big area thatll have to change'
  23. weird hearing a talk on tech i think i first read about on the blog of @danlockton , sitting next to me.
  24. The 'shiny data! Me want' attitude left over from earlier seems inappropriate for no2id talk. #opentech
  25. …in reply to @jaykotak
    @jaykotak that's a proper bummer. Um, for everyone involved. It is weird everyone being in London...
  26. "When,at a time of lovemaking, urine squirted in Mrs. Smith's face,this ultimate embarrassment was dealt with with humor & mutual kindness."
  27. "not kicking oliver twist in the fucking face every day is my gift to the world i guess " http://trunc.it/pczz
  28. Hey, a word for a concept I've been tossing about: "homophily" (for : Birds of a feather flock together.). I love it when this happens!
  29. …in reply to @srules
    @srules congratulations! today I have sat on a sofa at my dad's and wasted time on the internet. :/
  30. …in reply to @scaol_
    @RubZo why not just skip the 5 hours of pain (but seriously, if it's really kicking your arse, go for a walk...)
  31. replaced fan, broke trackpad. turns out that jet-engine noise wasn't natural. also, computer doesn't die at 100C after 5 minutes now.huzzah!
  32. RE previous tweet: May have spoke to soon. :/
  33. re re previous tweet. took it apart, plugged the new fan in. seems better now.
  34. …in reply to @undefined
    @simonvansintjan It'll look a lot like this http://bit.ly/3f199k - it is both clean and flashy. Like the ideal trophy wife?
  35. …in reply to @undefined
    @simonvansintjan I'd go with just the freshair logo. might look a bit bland, though. but not much more. "listen live" across the way, so...
  36. …in reply to @undefined
    @simonvansintjan @timburke55 this is why I love myspace. It was the new ugliness. (and that subpop page gives me secret special shivers)
  37. …in reply to @scaol_
    @RubZo :O ! Such blithe indifference! Such Zen sereneness at the passing of an Edinburgh institution! Such ... linkrot
  38. 'oh, theres such a lot of things to do and such a lot to be/thats there's always lots of cherries on my little cherry tree!' <3 aa milne
  39. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue ! ? ... ? !
  40. So, my friend apparently punched dananananackroyd's lead singer in the face last week. I find this amusing.
  41. Your enemies are perforce stakeholders in your plans.
  42. So ive been disappeared for a week. What have i missed? What do i do now?
  43. The people i see, who dress the way id like to, all appear to be about 50. Hrm.
  44. …in reply to @stephenmcgruer
    @ediblespread not yet. I went to a festival, then my grans, then went to richards, and now to a party. And all with too many bags for sanity
  45. …in reply to @stephenmcgruer
    @ediblespread in conclusion, been doing fuck all of use. Thats how it feels, anyway.
  46. …in reply to @undefined
    @simonvansintjan oh wow. Did it rock hardcore?
  47. And suddenly into my head comes the thought- I can't remember what 'catalepsis' means.
  48. "If you want to make a game and you want to make big money, [&] impress people, you have to tell a story of some sort." http://bit.ly/jqkSP
  49. …in reply to @TallyCola
    @TallyCola @rix0r WHAT!? YES!? AMAZING! :D (for what other franchise would I just assume it wouldn't crush my dreams?)
  50. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva ha: was poking (&admiring) ben fry's website yesterday, thinking about doing some processing stuff. #synchronicity
  51. Reading 'where mathematics comes from'. It is immensely satisfying to have things i wondered as a kid turn out to be real concepts/problems
  52. Man! That science museum! Saw the difference engine, phillips economic water works, apollo 10 capsule, so many things.
  53. Oh god, this is going to take forever. I just want to be home...
  54. @pleasefindthis S'beautiful. "Cause with all the changes you've been through,it seems the stranger's always you." http://bit.ly/PLqvy
  55. I was working! Don't come in here and talk forever about -- what are you even talking about? What the hell was I even doing? Ah!
  56. …in reply to @arkitus
    @arkitus Hello! What's this then? Shiny shiny.
  57. anyone wanna run through this walkthrough for adding content to FA site to check I haven't told people to fuck their mother halfway through?
  58. @pleasefindthis "recognize who, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space" http://bit.ly/l0SGI
  59. I hate butchering quotes to fit the character limit. Especially that fine fine Calvino prose. That bit's made me cry before.
  60. …in reply to @srules
    @srules yeah, my advice: don't do that.
  61. …in reply to @undefined
    @medeasin The 5,6,7,8's doing Woo Hoo?
  62. Bored of watching TV. Wanna live in my own place so I can stop.
  63. …in reply to @rix0r
    @rix0r I had just started unwinding a spool of cable to sit in the garden on my computer. Then bam! rain. Don't fuck with me, weather.
  64. Forgot my sewing(though do have needle & thread). No new music. Book was too large.The glamour of these hour & 1/2 train journeys wears thin
  65. Fucking hipsters. I want to fuck these hipsters.
  66. @YHBW have you seen mtv2's rock chart? announcer-man just said: "what we lack in quality we make up in commercial breaks".My god, I approve!
  67. @YHBW "Do you like Fallout Boy? Well, they're not on. But Green Day is" "Coming up: generic rock music" (which is entirely correct, btw)
  68. Just saw LG phone UI ad. So they ripped off Desktop Cube and the iPhone. That's actually prett neat... (But needs Apps ecosystem...)
  69. They said we were evil but they missed the point again. It was just high spirits.