Tweets from 2011/04
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.so gonna buy some domain names... (geddit? .so?)
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@KommanderKlobb my official 1(I thought it was anyway)did. Android clients were using Basic Auth with a special exemption.Now that's closed?
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RT @tiedtiger: Google also threatening to take the +1 "all the way to +11". When asked why not 10, they responded "11 is 3 times as much ...
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Felt ridiculous, standing with 3 iMacs fresh from Covent Garden on the pavement of Brick Lane.
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@simonv3 but it's the most beautiful building. And the science museum has rockets and a difference engine and why don't I go more often?
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@simonv3 oh, and how comes you're in London? And what are you up to?
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@JamesWallis hail Eris!
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@simonv3 dude, I totally know Emma. And sure thing, but I might be at a party in the evening?
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@musebloom good listens! I'd love to see Gold Panda live.
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@simonv3 in ... Essex? I'm currently getting drunk on brick lane. And excellent! Where are you staying?
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@BinaryTweedDeej ".Count"! Yes, I don't know why, either.
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RT @kitrichardsonuk: Wait over. First track from my EP on the 'net today... EEP! http://soundcloud.com/kit-richardson/you-always-did-f ...
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@kitrichardsonuk I bet that feels good! (and it sounds great, by the way)
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@gemmagtaylor Failed with Facebook, but hello anyway. You free, say, Thursday night?
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@KommanderKlobb I could really do with that jam (God knows!), but I would quite like to lure in virgins.
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@docky Oh, that reminds me! I need to write a shader to make the colours be all offset from each other!
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Left it a little late, but booked a space for #londonindies tomorrow. Yes yes, everybody games and drinking? http://londonindies.com/
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@docky Wobble from side to side at the same frequency as the bullets. Copy your x-coord, with a delay. Circular movements.
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I'm out of practice with these flapjacks. Also my first go at using silicon bakeware. We shall see when they cool...
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@asponge *blush* All I did was telephone a pub...
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@S0phieH I played it yesterday, it was excellent. Did you do the naughty thing?
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@S0phieH Yeah, you don't have to turn Arianna down. (I did, but poked at the ren'py files after I played). Only makeouts, but still...
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@christinelove @S0phieH I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about *whistles*
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@awesommelier in related questions, what's the plan this evening?
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@awesommelier it's okay. Good luck with your stupid day!
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@psychicteeth But you couldn't break mine! The indomitable business card prevails!
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@edclef What was the Huscarls? I still do want to make the broken, recursive Borges game.
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@edclef @asponge @psychicteeth it would be the loneliest MMO. Or maybe if you always spawn at the same point. Huddled in a tiny fragment.
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@edclef but lets make this world our videogame own. And let bookreading bots run along the shelves, scanning for words in any known language
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@tomscott it must be a good idea in that case, well done.
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@3en @londonhackspace @tomscott i assumed that's what he was planning, but i wasn't sure who'd volunteer to be the victim...
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@awesommelier dawwwww! My pity for you is only diminished by you knowing I'm free tonight.
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@MaxTundra I know, I did too. But due to forgotten tickets, so it feels all the more tragic.
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Running late, running late, I'm on a tube but running late.
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Unity3D uses Google Analtics to track occurrences of compiler errors in the Editor. https://gist.github.com/905462
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@RubZo you know, some people talk to their supervisors and feel terrible. Luckily (?) , that wears off too.
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@miguelsicart Currently in the process fo being tempted by Sonar festival...
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@increpare naw, I'm afraid I'm going up to my grans, as it's her birthday. You probably can anyway, though, will ask.
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@asponge I'm in a courtyard, does that count? (Vibe bar, brick lane, feel free to join)
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@increpare ah, good-o. No worries.
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I made tea happen!
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RT @michiexile: One of the best stories I've read in a while: http://squid314.livejournal.com/293753.html
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@_joecavers please do! Not that I'm an expert. Also, @oh_cripes likes both music and games.
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@increpare Glad to hear it! Hope you have fun.
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@therussmorris The long ordeal is coming to a close.
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@bentosmile joke games and jasmine tea? Can't think of a better way to spend time.
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@awesommelier I bring you, MU! http://open.spotify.com/album/2YdVEcSJLwcJ56VyGfpA7V
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@pozorvlak I think it's you? Read a nice blog post explaining it by translating it to a DAG.
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Photo: Err… http://tumblr.com/xui2115jih
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@auntiepixelante claim it! all glory is fleeting...
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@carlafrantastic @zunguzungu what subculture isn't formed with the aim of being superior (by their own definition) than the alternative?
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@zunguzungu playing loser is merely a means to feel superior-if you can't win their game, change the rules. Once you win, you're t'new power
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@zunguzungu John Dolan describes this process beautifully, will send a link if I find one.
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@zunguzungu http://exiledonline.com/stupid-or-how-to-lose-money-running-a-speed-lab-part-2/ , for instance.
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@richlitt I, too, am curious.
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@CphGC This guy is awesome. :D
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@psychicteeth Why not lie to the Internet?
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http://iplanwebsites.com/404
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@Slaktus yeay, Razor1911's Mario Airlines is on Spotify! Thx.
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"Does a game need a win condition?"
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@christinelove I'm totes fascinated to see what results. Trying and failing to imagine what a Christine Love game without text would be like
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@simonv3 me, just now. It's a thing I like to have arguments about. Happy to have them with you?
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@carlafrantastic you see that same pattern happen a lot with online services - what's more important, content-producer or aggregator?
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@carlafrantastic I guess I'm saying Google is the ultimate hipster.
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@alitheg ah, this is like Minecraft. Very cunning design. Will spend this train journey writing blog post on the topic.
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Does Minecraft have a win condition? http://post.ly/1s0bz
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@alitheg Christ, that was quick. See v21.posterous.com/does-minecraft-have-a-win-condition for my thoughts. s/Minecraft/Dwarf Fortress/ I guess.
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@iamtef I only play games where I can construct an oversized cock and balls. Can I do that in chess?
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@edclef yeah, that was pretty much the blog form of a rant I first performed at #londonindies. Good to finally get it out.
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@simonv3 WoW is an interesting case. Maybe attack via the explicitness of win conditions? They all do, just more subtle and implicit.
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@BinaryTweedDeej but how does Ubisoft survive, in that case? They're 70% shovel.
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@simonv3 also, see my drunken blog post from earlier.
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@simonv3 or actually, fuck it - 'tetris'. But I think you can argue you need progress. Which ties with play as a means of acquiring mastery.
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RT @opentechuk: Hope everyone at the #linkedgov hackcamp and the @1010 gamejam have fun this weekend. Look forward to seeing what comes ...
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@awesommelier come to the gig on the 7th!
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Feynman's lectures on physics reliably flips my lid about every two pages.
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@awesommelier frinstance, this passage : hackvan.com/brain/msg00058.html
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@oh_cripes - damn, now I get to be even more jealous of all thr tasty food I'm not eating...
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Uncle is drunk and talking about his perpetual motion machine. 'I've built half of it and it seems to work'
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@oh_cripes I showed my cousin, she really enjoyed it until my battery died.
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"I actually went to a patent attorney and he looked at me like I was nuts. But I think I can make it."
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@simonv3 WoW is an interesting case. Maybe attack via the explicitness of win conditions? They all do, just more subtle and implicit.
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@kitrichardsonuk excellent! Sorry I couldn't be there, glad it was good.
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But I only came for the Tantalum! twitpic.com/4ja0xo
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New simpsons is ... different. Weird. Funnier. Featuring Werner Herzog.
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Yeeeeah, videogames are being weird and pervy and gross, not just loud and violent and shiny, I am glad.
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@medeasin Well, http://bit.ly/hW19vh , and http://bit.ly/fkmdDy , and also I guess http://bit.ly/hGjNtc .
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@awesommelier su-weet! You're making me want stupider hair.
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@simonv3 I'm going to their night at Corsica Studios. Getting properly excited already.
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@simonv3 But I hain't delved into Chrissy Murderbot yet. But I am now.
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@iamtef sad face, exciting gig that weekend. Else I would be in like Flynn.
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Just recognized Mr. Silly from the fact he was wearing the shoes Ramona in Scott Pilgrim was wearing when she was wearing Mr. Silly's shoes.
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@musebloom I sit on a exercise ball. Can imagine it helps?
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Edinburgh people!(@Rachelbug1 @RubZo @awesommelier @tonicblue @musebloom @la_miaow @iamtef @simonv3 &c) I visit your fair city this weekend!
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@richlitt boo, i knew I'd miss people. Also I ran out of characters. Sorry :<
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@iamtef In an ideal world, it'll be as ridiculously sunny as it has been, and I'll get trashed in the Meadows. But after.. Meadow Bar?
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@iamtef I have been away too long! For one thing, I forgot where I was referring - I meant Dagda. Tho' meadow bar was always good, boo.
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@awesommelier sounds ace, do I need tix in advance?
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@awesommelier up on Saturday, down on Monday.
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What a weird future we will live in! http://i.imgur.com/gFSTN.png
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This is a game I loved and played endlessly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury3 I kinda wanna play it again.
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@kitrichardsonuk shamefully I never played Diablo, though I am professionally required to look knowledgable when people talk about it.
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@kitrichardsonuk and I mainly just liked swooping over the mountaintops in Fury. Seeing how low I could skim them, visiting the clouds.
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@musebloom @la_miaow Yep yep, I plan to be a pure reprobate, drinking and eating in parks.
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@la_miaow in case the first 4 run out?
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@awesommelier @tonicblue but then you are so very old...
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Photo: A new machine has arrived at the hackspace… http://tumblr.com/xui23cz1s9
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Night bus home. No money on my oyster card. Ugh. Hate. Always forget how much I hate til it happens.
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@musebloom I find the main advantage of flux is I get tired using computers in the evening.
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Probably shouldn't bid on a Utah teapot on the bus home in order to stay awake. But I do want it...
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@musebloom yeah, I've fucked a bunch of photo white balances with it. (I just slept on the bus, woke up a half hours walk from home...)
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@musebloom yeah, I did thanks. And now I'm up and on a tube to work. Hope AutoCAD bent to yr will last night.
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RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: After try 5 SQL and 8 NoSQL product, Azamat is still search for database. Requirement is not even hard! Is must only h ...
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@ijmad I bought a months travelcard this morning.
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@iamtef @glassarmy Not that I am at all surprised, but I don't think I knew you knew each other.
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Hello Dad! @guybuckenham
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@tigershungry @reallyfancy I actively dislike Spotify, but yet pay them money each month. I wish Grooveshark would fix its metadata...
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@tigershungry @reallyfancy Also worth noting that Spotify is part owned by all the major labels. A part-ownership pretty much given away...
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@srules Flip yeah! Weird watching your friends become people who are published...
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@nicholaslovell Eve also has high-sec areas, which fulfil the same purpose, no?
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@Slaktus there is. but it's small. and you have to work with the facebook api. without hope of payment.
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@SiriHoho oh damn! Someone bullied me into coming at Yuri's Night, but I am totes away. :<
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@glassarmy Who does? See if you can tolerate Grooveshark, they're a rival.
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@CharlesYarnold @tomscott PI-ZZA PRI-NTAH! PI-ZZA PRI-NTAH! PI-ZZA PRI-NTAH! (yes)
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@Slaktus What counts as "subversive"?
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@bendmob @Mystrogen Summer playlist add (but, no, I did click away...)
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RT @la_miaow: Oh Julian http://i.imgur.com/lOty6.jpg
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Photo: All gone :D http://tumblr.com/xui24ehmuf
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@tomscott "bracing outburst" indeed. At least no-one got felt up. :D Enjoy spring break. Be careful not to do anything amusing on camera!
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Video: And indeed - http://joerg.piringer.net/unicode/alldisplayablechars.txt A mess of symbols, just... http://tumblr.com/xui24jordn
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I think they call it "ambient computing"? http://post.ly/1twij
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@asponge the bank of empty promises?
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Currently listening to "Demoscene Time Machine - #ifndef _BASS #define _BASS #endif" - what a fantastic name.
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@musebloom @Rachelbug1 @la_miaow @tonicblue @RubZo @illegaljacks I arrive tomorrow at around 3pm, so non pour moi. But - then?
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@tonicblue boooooo! will you be able to lunch on Monday?
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@timburke55 but homophobic :c
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@timburke55 yeah, fair call. Was out at the bricklayers last night, felt a bit ambiguous about it.
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@la_miaow @musebloom @Rachelbug1 @RubZo I will be drinking while I'm up. If it's beautiful, the Meadows!
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@RubZo who is this, I don't even
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@la_miaow @musebloom @Rachelbug1 @RubZo so I arrive at 3:30, and am off to a balkanarama thing later. Food/drinks between?
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@musebloom Oh, thank fuck!
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@3en I find it one of the hardest things I try to do. But totally worth it. (everyone loves teaching)
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@awesommelier illegal jacks at 17:30?
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@iamdanw did you see my thoughts on yr lovely DisplayCabinet project? v21.posterous.com/i-think-they-call-it-ambient-computing
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Hello Edinburgh! Hello cherry blossoms, and wide streets and sandstone buildings, and brewdog on tap and weird money. It's good to be back!
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@Gillespionage ah, mouselook, my old friend!
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RT @Dick_Hogg: #screenshotsaturday http://bit.ly/gNonex
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@createordieldn I make games, I guess that counts. What's up?
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@S0phieH that looks so sweet! You've earnt a sale here. Now all that's needed is a auto UV unwrapper...
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@iamtef off to balkanarama after illegal Jack's. But free tomorrow evening and Monday day (lunch?)
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@richlitt I'm totes leaving Monday at 5ish. Work beckons me on Tuesday morning.
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@iamdanw I can feel my nerdling instincts calling for tools with power. & maybe that's all it is.
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@iamdanw but I think I can accept bounded info from something I don't interrogate. When I do, that's when I expect more.
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@Huitlacoche_Too multicoloured sand ain't so great - it just looks brown...
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@iamdanw or maybe - you went past ambient and made a shrine to perform metadata rituals at.
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@createordieldn true enough, 'pologies, am out n about! My email's vtwentyone@gmail.com
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@alitheg hey! You wanna get a drink this weekend?
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@iamdanw shades of if on a winter's night, a traveller...
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Haha, whoops!
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@alitheg ah, shame. But I'm currently waiting for a train back from glasge' so... will let you know when I am - come visit London!
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@marksteward (i am aware you're joking but) you'd be able to tell the next week, when all the genuine chromes have updated.
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@iamtef totes running late getting back from Glasgow. Be there past 10.
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@la_miaow @musebloom bonsai at 1?
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@RubZo demerererera
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@musebloom Boooooo. Also woo! laser cutters. Good luck!
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@RubZo demerarerarera!
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Heading home. This train ride has the best view.
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I guess I'm not going to be reading the internet today, then? #portal2 #onmywaytowork
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@gemmagtaylor & open street map have been doing this for years. And that way you don't just help a giant corporation.
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@laurenivory yeah, it prompts you every once in a while, just for security's sake.
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World's End Girlfriend and second guessing control schemes.
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@chris_mandle @SongbyToad sadly not... http://ind.pn/hncjWa
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This is just beautiful: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/04/the-jasmine-revolution.html
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RT @KBsGameTOILET: GameToilet#252: BOMBING FOR DINOSAURS - Incoming, INDY ! http://post.ly/1v5e6
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@bhmwong sounds ace. But I'm only on my way home now. Drinking in parks!
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@awesommelier I know how you feel.
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RT @Dick_Hogg: I made a game! "Owlprey" Watch this film... http://bit.ly/hJCaNN ...and waggle your mouse-arrow where he is jumping. avoi ...
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"Since 1974, the share of national income of the top 0.1% of Americans has grown from 2.7% to 12.3% of the total" http://bit.ly/fPocpa
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Oh wow. The Mail Rail. http://www.silentuk.com/?p=2792
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Considering walking into work next time I'm up in time and it's lovely. Should take about 3 hours...
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@simonv3 It's commercial genius! What to do when you're trendy as, don't have a shelf life, but need to rake in the cash while you're hot?
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@simonv3 I mean, by the time they've written more material who'll give a shit?
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@awesommelier Who would win a in fight: Bjork or Yolandi Visser?
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@awesommelier i totes want her to win, but she's old and an elf. yolandi clearly gets in fights regularly. Dirty fighting.
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@awesommelier Aye. If it comes to ninja shit, Bjork could walk the walk while Yolandi could only talk it.
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New shoes! RT @therussmorris Indie feet! #itsgettingtothattimeoftheday http://t.co/WNOsNSm
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@awesommelier I'm so happy for you!
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SparkleShare looks super interesting - anyone tried it?
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@mdpye boo! it was twitpic.com/4n73bh
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Akron/Family down the road! And I didn't know!? Who's coming? http://www.wegottickets.com/event/104321
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@awesommelier good mornings begin with thesauruses!
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@amyhoy I read that as pasty, and was like - "wait, where is the pastie hidden in Half-Life? I'm pretty sure I've never seen it"
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@timoncheese Don't you just love IT outsourcing?
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@Slaktus that's not true, we have asbestos now.
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@Slaktus Why the hate? http://open.spotify.com/track/4OLnocE2Fhhiy4zg6y3y0Z
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Halfway through the first track, you've started tracking them on Songkick.
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@Slaktus Your problem is in hoping it would. Anything can and will go wrong.Don't fight, take what it gives you. You'll never beat The City.
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@timburke55 oh no, it wasn't that. I just fell in love very fucking quickly. ('Twas Menace - Hz and Tones.)
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@Slaktus I'm sorry, upon a few moment thought, that advice was a terrible way for anyone to live. Here's a better: http://bit.ly/hf5E3p
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@kalligula @KommanderKlobb @Slaktus my old work, I could. But I had to be in at 8, so I only walked home. Was lovely, just time to think...
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RT @PatrickStrud: Kate Middleton's engagement ring is worth £32m? This is £4m more than the Home Office's total 4-year spend on services ...
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@Doomlaser i do not! but would like to!
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@musebloom Want me to ask around, see if anyone needs a flatmate?
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@musebloom and if you need somewhere short term, we have sofa/ballpit you can use.
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@musebloom tbf, my lease ends in Aug. Considering moving Eastwards then...
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RT @acreature: Companies saying "Like us on Facebook for a chance to win" are eerily reminiscent of a desperate kid's "Please be my frie ...
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@iotwatch Those look real neat! Maybe lasercut them out of some nice plywood?
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@BinaryTweedDeej gotta have well defined parameters for rejection, else it becomes very cliquey and resistant to new shit.
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@BinaryTweedDeej gotta have the reviewers take it very super seriously, gotta have a good culture there.
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@awesommelier does it not list antonyms?
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@radiodario eeeargh! Whatcha up to this lovely weekend?
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@radiodario ah cool. Think I'll be picnicking tomorrow and monday, if you wanna?
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@londonlinkspace o shit, should pay that up.
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@Slaktus o no! /unfollows
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@Slaktus Dog who ain't a dog, Creatures, Yoshi, Starfox, Chocobos, Bub & Bob
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@FireHazardGames emailed you about fucking up my friends email srules@gmail.com rather than sarah.rules. Didja sort it?
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Two bottles of wine, some magdalenes, some frozen cucumber pickle - battersea park here I come!
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@S0phieH or marry 'em...
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@lefishy I remember that game jam. So glad to see Upbot goes up! finally in full form. It's been a long road.
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I hope this summer is as good as it looks like it might be.
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@asponge I am also doing well at drinking in parks. But like pros we scurried at the first drops. More drinking is forecast.
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@CharlesYarnold hey, that's near inflation! Sweet!
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Shoreditch park! This afternoon! Everyone!
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@asponge Not sure. But it would be judged in relation to sundown.
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@christinelove dawwwwwwwwww!
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@asponge It's like when Alfonso Cuaron directed Harry Potter.
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FAKE GRAVITY. FAKE BLOOD. FEELS GOOD.
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Seems like the world is telling me I should be listening to Steve Reich.
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@guided1 eeeagh, Java. Why Java?
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@musebloom :< difficult laser time. How do I have such better access to laser cutters than you?
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@guided1 Despite Minecraft, Java has never seemed a great fit for game dev. And Flash has that much more of an audience.
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@guided1 Of course, I really just want to evangelize Unity3D, if you wanna make 3D stuff, and don't wanna build an engine.
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@RubZo the bell on whrl is retarded. good work, keep it up!
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@guided1 not sure I shared it publicly - let me go dig it up. http://nottheinternet.com/games/cubes/cubes_source.zip is the CUBES source.
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@guided1 C#, these days. But it's usually only the syntax that changes - pick whichever looks most natural. It's Mono inside.
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@musebloom And don't forget - the money to replace the temporary shroud hasn't been raised. It's still not fixed.
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@asponge @HilariousCow with Kevin Eldon, you say?
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@bendmob @Slaktus <s>George R. R. Martin</s> @notch is not your bitch. [ journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html ]
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@asponge Mittens and no.
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@asponge I wouldn't use a soft cheese. I would scream and run away.
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Terrorism? *puts on sunglasses* Not on my watch. YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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RT @russss: The Press Association called the phone in @londonhackspace to ask about the Playstation Network attack.
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@TheWag2 Brink looks good, I know a guy who works at Splash Damage.
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@me_backwards When dya wanna lunch next week? Wednesday?
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http://graphics.pixar.com/library/
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I'm no expert, but http://exiledonline.com/wn-38-ira-vs-al-qaeda-i-was-wrong/ might be the best article on Northern Ireland I've ever read.
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@tiedtiger halfway through, I started reading that in Adam Curtis's voice.
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Games without end. http://post.ly/1xS2j
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@tiedtiger Also, I got distracted by an early bit and wrote a blog post in response - http://v21.posterous.com/games-without-end
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@oh_cripes @srules There's always just having sex with each other, like what couples that aren't sickeningly cute together do.
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23andMe to me : "Your DNA sample has arrived at the lab"
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@Slaktus Yeah, I want a bunch of data to mess with. Data extracted from a little plastic tube of my spit.
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@therussmorris because he's a birther?
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@Slaktus You joke, but ... http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Biohacking
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It's a long-term project. - http://itsbeenawhilesincemylastpost.blogspot.com/
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Probably should stop reading about automatically identifying opportunities to say "That's what she said" and get back to work. bit.ly/kFbsqD
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@oh_cripes @srules is that some kind of come on? (but for reals, you guys should organise a board game night soon)
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@oh_cripes does that mean no boardgames?
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@KommanderKlobb "Dismissed just days ago as self-promotion, Donald Trump's flirtation with a White House run appears to be picking up steam"
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@KommanderKlobb no, but no-one said Arnie would become Governor either...
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Bioinformatics 23andme SNP Top Trumps Fantasy Game Design http://post.ly/1xeP9
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@fridgehead Uhhh, you kinda sparked me in an odd direction, there. http://v21.posterous.com/bioinformatics-23andme-snp-top-trumps-fantasy
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@tomscott This truly is the time of peak bunting.
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RT @dickon_edwards: Experiment: How many comments are by those who've actually read the whole article? http://bit.ly/lXRCYL via @bengoldacre
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Queuing up to my third bagel of the day...
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You'd think after all these times I'd have some vague competence at not falling asleep on the night bus home...
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@srules http://open.spotify.com/track/0anVf1TyYITfnwv1aj2Ryx Oh Polo – Deep Throat
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@therussmorris You've never seen Hook!?
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@Rachelbug1 D:
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Photo: Silhouette! http://tumblr.com/xui2c1cpef