Month: July 2009

• Izzy woke me up 4 times last night and was done with sleep by 7. Gonna be hard to do anything involving mental coordination today. #notGSD #
• Coffee kicking in, ready to get up and at em… babysitter overslept. D’oh! Still #notGSD. #
• Wow, @WUNC going off the air for 20 min with abt 1 min notice. A transmitter is being upgraded. Maybe the white noise will help Izzy sleep. #
• @cwhittle Hope all your tests went/are going well. Watching your status hopefully… Let me know if I can do anything. in reply to cwhittle #
• Something seems very wrong w/ my new MacBook Pro. Starting up applications takes 3 minutes and/or hangs the whole system! #mac #osx #fail #
• Looks like #Songbird might be the culprit. Or at least *a* culprit. Maybe Mozilla-based problem? #mac #osx #fail #
• RT @natthedem @DavidCornDC: WH announces Medal of Freedom winners: S. Hawking, Jack Kemp, Ted Kennedy, B.J. King, Rev. Lowery, & Harvey Milk #
• Check out my boss (@catinstack) talking about digital media and learning: http://bit.ly/LRcrC #

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• @RUBYforWomen No, “@rubyforwomen” is how you promote yourself. “@ruby” is how you promote ME. Do you not see the difference? in reply to RUBYforWomen #
• Left charger @ work –> dead phone –> ergo no tweeting from the bus this AM. #PalmPreBatterySux Now setting my brand new MacBook Pro! #
• Awesome! RT @bpuccio: Check out our beekeeping photos! http://tiny.cc/RCXgf #
• Is there any way to sync Apple’s Address Book with Google Contacts? It seems to support Yahoo, Outlook, LDAP… but not teh Goog 🙁 #
• @steveburnett Yay! Thank you! in reply to steveburnett #
• Hey world, who are your favorite speakers who have connections to digital media and humanities and/or academia? #
• Esp interested in suggestions of speakers that are women or not white…. #
• Take note, @brianr! http://twitter.com/awsamuel/statuses/2884970833 #
• Thx for suggestions. Most also came up in the mtg. I suggested humorist/futurist @baratunde and smart old coots @dsearls & @dweinberger. #
• Also need to check out @womenwhotech and all those lists of brilliant, women speakers… #
• Hee hee, #Dook student store’s website shows a happy student with her Pismo (ie: ancient) Mac Powerbook: http://is.gd/1T8FO #
• It’s been great working with you, @jonerthon. Dook will miss you! Kick some planning butt up there in Ann Arrboro. 🙂 #
• Another perk of riding the bus: running into colleagues and having productive impromptu meetings! 🙂 #
• RT @dcm: U2’s new stage prop requires 120 trucks to carry – a carbon footprint a Chinese factory could be jealous of: http://bit.ly/ogxus #

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• @blogdiva Uhmmm, so… Ping.fm malfunction? in reply to blogdiva #
• @philklein Would we call it… NetSquared? Or NETx? in reply to philklein #
• Listening to public radio out of Austin b/c @WUNC’s is one of the streams that mysteriously don’t work on the #Pre. WNYC & WAMU neither. #
• RT @acarvin: Wondering what cool hacks people will come up with now that NPR transcripts are a part of our API: http://tinyurl.com/lwbmlq #
• Just realized that if I join the @chcYMCA I will have to buy new shoes. Fuh. Not sure I can afford the time & money for shoe shopping. #
• @tbeckett I have special feet that needs serious support. Can’t just waltz in to the gym in ratty old sneaks. #plantarfasciitis in reply to tbeckett #
• @CHCYMCA Thanks, that’s kind of you. I have plantar fasciitis (sp?) so I need shoes with supportive arches and good lateral stability. #
• @_spell Wrong, wrong, and wrong. But thanks for playing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciitis in reply to _spell #
• Treading water when I need to be doing laps. #
• That Twitviwer thing is a scam y’all. Stop clicking it. #
• This TOTN piece on black males in America is so painfully NPR. Guests = black & comfy. Don’t seem to see modern racism & classism. #
• Rtwt @CatinStack: Tim Lenoir et al–public diplomacy via new MMORPG “Emergence” http://tiny.cc/xor39 #
• Rtwt @CatinStack’s “Crowdsourcing Grading” is a hot topic on @hastac. Get yr comments in before 11pm tonight! http://tiny.cc/Cy7HK #
• @RUBYforWomen It’s easy: just stop using the phrase “@ruby” in your tweets. in reply to RUBYforWomen #
• Rtwt @FORpeace: Did Someone Say Uppity Or Was That Just My Imagination?: Can we imagine a white male SC nominee… http://bit.ly/QzCXR #

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• Listening to Carol Channing on Free to Be You and Me. Somehow makes me think of you, @darlingtristin. Hope all is proceeding nicely. #f2bu&m #
• Rtwt @orangepolitics: WE CAN HAS MAPPAGE! OP’s Election 2009 section now features an interactive Google map: http://is.gd/1OWSM #local #
• @jelosta Cool, check out http://orangepolitics.org for indoctrination. 😉 You may be a good excuse for an overdue @orangepolitics meetup. in reply to jelosta #
• Appreciate the help from http://www.childcareservices.org & http://ncchildcaresearch.dhhs.state.nc.us but their search tools SUCK. #
• Plus, researching random day care places online is depressing. Need personal referrals from people *I* know & trust. #
• @tjstankus Didn’t I say people I *trust*? Just kidding! We need a place that will take a 4 month old, though. in reply to tjstankus #
• What Palm shd have done: focus on Songbird sync, screw iTunes. http://bit.ly/KjrPj
  #Pre #
• To Sen. Richard Burr: Every American family deserves quality health insurance now http://bit.ly/IlDEn #hc09 #NC #27516 #
• @RUBYforWomen HEY, stop @-ing me! 🙁 in reply to RUBYforWomen #
• . @coxn I was pretty annoyed with Y as well. But I still read all of them. It gets more interesting, but not less annoying. Happy to loan. #
• OMG new neighbors seem to have a car alarm. Would be quaintly retro if not so F-ing annoying. #
• RT @bellesouth: I’d rather they tax the snot out of my Snapple & Mountain Dew than out of my vegetables. If it pays for #hcr wellness, good. #

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• Dreamt of crazy airport security system: lady couln’t understand how 1 of my shirts fit under the other so she confiscated & destroyed it. #
• http://twitpic.com/bqww3 – Poppa’s shoes #
• . @secantnet Rock on @pink_plaid! I look forward to yr reports from the @catscradle as I lie here in bed with my sleeping baby. 🙂 #xxmerge in reply to secantnet #
• @pink_plaid (& @secantnet) Err, not at Cradle but any way, rock on, momma! #xxmerge #
• RT @nprpolitics: Please welcome the new NPR.org! http://npr.org / @acarvin #

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• How much do I want to be awakte now? None. None much. #
• Currently seeing NO bars on my phone. What gives, Sprint Airave? #
• @jedmiller Not sure abt music scene, but check the unique college/community in Berea, KY. in reply to jedmiller #
• @bpuccio Congrats on the great haul! What will you do w/ it all? Honey party?! in reply to bpuccio #
• @jedmiller I just now figured out what you meant by “deliverable.” 🙂 Yuk yuk. in reply to jedmiller #
• @rossgrady I noticed folks waltzing around Carrboro with open containers this wk. Did someone tell the indie rockers this was NOLA? #xxmerge in reply to rossgrady #
• RT @natthedem: NC Tweeps: Obama’s in Raleigh on Wednesday. Register for the ticket lottery here: http://is.gd/1N2au #

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• I can watch Spirited Away on my Pre! Whee! http://centro.laursifer.com/Videos/ #
• @CAPAction Thanks but it’s really @orangepolitics you want to see for progressive local blogging. 🙂 #pstateblog in reply to CAPAction #
• So I’m speaking at @IgniteRaleigh: http://igniteraleigh.com/p7f What should I talk abt? Local politix, soc net analysis, open stuff… #
• Just found out Izzy’s 2-mo. vaccinations were during the 30 days that I was between insurance policies (but I was already employed). :-(( #
• @rachelannyes Didn’t have COBRA. Probably would have cost as much as the Dr visit. in reply to rachelannyes #
• @rossgrady Just remembering that transcendent Lambchop show of ’99. Those were the days. #xxmerge in reply to rossgrady #
• @rossgrady Wow, Lambchop & Polvo tonite at @catscradle! I am officially jealous of you, & @dav & @secantnet etc. Have fun, y’all! #xxmerge in reply to rossgrady #
• @ericagee I know – exactly. I’m a walking commercial for universal coverage. in reply to ericagee #
• RT @jayrosen_nyu: No, Jonathan Klein, head of CNN. http://tr.im/tX52 No freakin’ way. You are entering on the off ramp. Go back. #dobbs #

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• Dear institution leaving me an automated voicemail: I might be more likely to reply if you would say who you are! #
• On a related note, dear UNC Hospitals billing dept: you are the absolute pits & are ensuring I will (continue to) avoid UNC at all costs. #

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• Grrr, TTA (regional bus) running almost 10 minutes late. Again. #weneedrail #
• Kudos to @smalljones & @ibiblio for being part of http://opensourceforamerica.org advocating gov’t use of #opensource software (@oss) #
• @BrianR Happy 3rd anniversary to us! 🙂 in reply to BrianR #
• @tbeckett Me (JK)! I have teh Goog Voice, but I don’t think we have the ability to send invites to others (yet)… in reply to tbeckett #
• No!Rtwt @freedarko: Is it weird to say that “Maus”, not “Schindler’s List,” really got the Holocaust revival going? #
• Rtwt @culturekitchen: POLL: Can’t a black man be a prick w/ police inside his home without having to fear arrest? http://bit.ly/193Fk1 #
• You know that feeling of being so stuffed that you can’t imagine eating another thing? I haven’t felt that way in months! #lactation #
• A million thanks to my friends Jeff & Melissa for taking care of Izzy so we could have a date night. I look forward to returning the favor. #
• Enjoying yr tweets from #xxmerge @dav, @rossgrady, & @sassafrassv. Have fun for me! 🙂 #

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• RT @Mlsif: Google is personalizing search, making it “better for shopping and worse for learning,” @sivavaid sez. ++++ #isdt09 #
• Yay, my office is no longer hot and plastic-smelly! It’s the little things… #
• @WomenWhoTech Hey, my husband is friends with the singer of the Pie Tasters! #randomconnections #granfalloon #ska in reply to WomenWhoTech #
• Heh. Rtwt @nprpolitics: McCain, GOP Apologize To Jackson Browne http://bit.ly/26FCDs #

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