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Tweets from 2009/11

  1. …in reply to @whaddupJP
    @jp09baby I am a terrible person. Sorry...
  2. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml
  3. Behind every person is 15 ghosts. That's a really small number... ( http://bit.ly/cZcng / 6 billion)
  4. What the fuck!? RT @SongbyToad [EUS] are getting rid of the Bowery. This is a bloody disaster for the arts in Edinburgh.
  5. …in reply to @timoncheese
    @timoncheese I thought I would win. Didn't see @lesanto ... http://cursebird.com/v21
  6. …in reply to @stephenmcgruer
    @ediblespread wait wait wait: python is "bearable" and you miss MIPS? I think you're just factually inaccurate there. Python is sheer bliss.
  7. London is more similar to glasgow than edinburgh. Which feels like it should be ironic.
  8. …in reply to @stephenmcgruer
    @ediblespread *gasp!* an inf assignment is vague and takes longer than its supposed to? Did the TA write a shitty api too?
  9. So- thinkpad or mac? I want something i will be doing work with 5 years from now. And something that causes a minimum of swearing. #lazyweb
  10. …in reply to @aeoye
    @narfmaster haha: see, I am tempted: I am aware of the legendary usability wins. But on the other hand, I have a G1 in the post.
  11. "maybe you'd be better at networking if you didn't just ignore everything"
  12. "In general the pace of story telling and dialogue has been speeding up." http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/excerpts/TV03.html
  13. "It's somehow telling about NI politics that you need a special routine to handle Paisley Jr. and Sinn Fein is detected in a try...except "
  14. …in reply to @tonicblue
  15. I hate winter. Putting a jumper on on my jumper.
  16. …in reply to @alitheg
    @alitheg i'm still cold
  17. alternating shiny new django and a 5-year old wordpress install. waves of nausea.
  18. "as if Tim Rogers instead of being a posturing hipster-sort had only read Edwardian pulp thrillers. Oh – and only talked about the game."
  19. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 no-one knows who Tim Rogers is, do they? sorry. was funny, though...
  20. So The Void arrived, but no G1. Alright, let's go hassle the guy.
  21. RT @Livelyivy: A truly scary costume (he's a coworker of my friend Jess Fink) http://twitpic.com/p2kl9
  22. RT @JesperBylund: RT @zefrank: http://bit.ly/1ul2t2 :: the sweetest move i have seen in forever
  23. …in reply to @npupp
    @npupp I've read it, it's good: but it feels like Practchett is getting deeper and more hurried these days.
  24. …in reply to @npupp
    @npupp not read it yet, no. And why should he stop? Minds me of PG Wodehouse writing about toffs and butlers while in a POW camp...
  25. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 http://bit.ly/44Mo78 is the motherlode. Also: Rock-A-Teen's original "Woo Hoo"
  26. *sigh* http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6062/1258035395841.jpg
  27. Pfizer actually warns that medicine off the Internet will have rat poison in it? Awesome! #spotifyads
  28. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva you seem to be hacked... but good timing with my last tweet
  29. Oh, and then I looked into it: turns out Warfarin is rat poison as well. And Pfizer sells it. heheh
  30. …in reply to @JesperBylund
    @JesperBylund and inside every little boy and girl there lies a spooky skeleton
  31. RT @timoncheese: For what it's worth, I think National Express did a very good job on the East Coast mainline. It's no longer theirs.
  32. …in reply to @jennielees
    @jennielees off've who? I've been missing not wearing glasses...
  33. …in reply to @jga
    @jga /nick internet hello james /nick v21
  34. …in reply to @JesperBylund
    @JesperBylund Up is a great film. But it's no Wall-E. Which I thought sucked as a kids film, but did have my tears in streams.
  35. …in reply to @kenmcfa
    @kenmcfa that's fine... now do it in haskell!
  36. Joe: okay i almost wrote "i shit sex", but i had to stop myself because that doesn't make sense
  37. if i said those last two tweets were related, no-one would be impressed. so i won't
  38. …in reply to @FreshAirRadio
    @FreshAirRadio what was wrong with it? (puzzled that the kludged together stream on the site still worked...)
  39. Why "Invisible Cities", over any other book? #indiegames
  40. @v21 (A: it's moving, a kinda pretentious choice, has lots of content. and it's about systems, not people)
  41. …in reply to @v21
    @v21 and to be clear here: I love the book. I love indie games. But, there's still something...
  42. …in reply to @timoncheese
    @timoncheese oh god, that's terrible, the warring blue and purple...
  43. phew! found my passport!
  44. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 when can you be?
  45. …in reply to @timburke55
    @timburke55 but then I always admire the way that through the day, you give so much of shit about the things you're doing.so, um, well done?
  46. …in reply to @undefined
    @SongbyToad not unless you're jogging at the time...
  47. there's nothing quite like manually transferring contact numbers to make you take stock of your life.
  48. in related news: woo! i have a g1!
  49. oh god port why?
  50. every half a year i look at memory card prices and am shocked at how cheap they are. goodness, but they're cheap!
  51. …in reply to @tonicblue
    @tonicblue not that i'm an expert, but i don't see why it would be. telling you how well you're doing is a good way to do better.
  52. http://xkcd.com/665/ the probe totally wouldn't work. there's time dilation, the signals wouldn't be recognized.
  53. …in reply to @scaol_
    @RubZo it is usually this way. once in a blue moon, though, you get an error as subtle and elegant as fine poetry.oh, for errors like those!
  54. ah bugger. i can only afford prebooked reserved train services. I am rubbish at these things.
  55. @tonicblue not that i know the study, obv, but ans control doesn't seem hugely implausible. look at how effective placebo can be...
  56. this is early for me to be on a train. goodness! also bleugh.
  57. everyone, stop doing parenthesed similes wrong (you can't use the end bracket twice :)
  58. almost beautific, im so knackered
  59. 213, ah, bus of my childhood. you used to take me everywhere i could want to go. and now i guess you are again.
  60. …in reply to @npupp
    @npupp no! that is how it should never be done. i am in complete agreement with you.
  61. @DarioVillanueva nah, twitwalk. obv they haven't set up their useragent or whatever it is. i don't even have a working memory card yet...
  62. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva but as a point of pride, i have poked twitter with curl before. so, um, i could clearly make an incredibly shitty one...
  63. …in reply to @fonduelover
    @fonduelover my love is over. the N213 is no more, and i had to beg for a lift home. fucking... London, i guess
  64. pfah, tired of my computer deciding not to turn on. the worst is that it's done it before, then magically works...
  65. …in reply to @radiodario
    @DarioVillanueva oh, i loved that lens when i borrowed it. the short depth of field makes it wonderful for portraits...
  66. i am glad of the habit of keeping my phone on me at work. this evening will not be particularly busy, i feel.
  67. "YOU LOOK LIKE A MAN WHO IS HIS ONLY PROBLEM"
  68. turns out that the instructions work better if you read them
  69. you are the most beautiful girl in the world. and i'll be elvis presley to your marilyn monroe.
  70. ... I am where I've been trying to be for a while. Am I happy?
  71. …in reply to @pleasefindthis
    @pleasefindthis and in my pocket i have a map of the entire world. I can push buttons and talk to almost anyone. we do live in the future...
  72. the guy sitting next to me has a kindle and a macbook air. fuck that guy.
  73. RT @danlockton: http://bit.ly/3lCBfZ by @chrismessina The future of the web could be a lot more boring than you'd imagine.
  74. There's a seminar on computing with cells and membranes in edinburgh on Tuesday. I love this stuff!!
  75. my typing is better on my phone than on a real keyboard
  76. …in reply to @jga
    @jga baseball bat
  77. Just watched my computer die. Hmm.
  78. The world of large touch devices is dominated by pub gaming machines
  79. “My own rule is that no weird story can truly produce terror unless it is devised with all the care & verisimilitude of an actual hoax.”