Tweets from 2009-02-13

  • Wow. Carrburritos is now open on Sundays & serves huevos rancheros until 2. I consider this proof that prayer works! Thank you, Jebus. #
  • Hmmm. My tweets from SMS are are showing up about 6 hours after I send them! FYI, I don’t normally tweet at 2am. Is this normal, @twitter? #
  • For those not following 2am tweets: Carrburritos is now open on Sundays & serves huevos rancheros until 2. I am a very happy camper. #
  • @davidb You need to start a blog of grammy-isms. She’s unreal. in reply to davidb #
  • Rtwt @jayrosen_nyu: GOPproblemsolver.com. Blank screen w/ “enter any problem here.” Click. Tells you how big tax cuts need to be to solve. #
  • @silverbell Yes, but the soap opera character was named after a very cool tree (Jessenia), no? Plus you have “yes” in your name. πŸ˜‰ in reply to silverbell #
  • Cold e-mailing a generic spiel for your service to 10 staffers of a NP when you know one of them personally = marketing fail. #nptech #
  • Say what you will about Dreamweaver. For its ability to find and strip out tags and attributes, I still want to marry it. #
  • Retweeting @amazonmp3: Valentine’s treat – Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” FREE SONG download 2/13 & 2/14 only. http://snurl.com/bsexi #
  • @rosswhite I don’t think there’s anything special about embedding video in Drupal. Just make sure you use the geekiest “Input type.” in reply to rosswhite #
  • @nerdette Imagining what it would have been like if @BrianR & I had been tweeting on our 1st date (in 2003). We would *totally* do that. in reply to nerdette #
  • @nerdette Oh wait, your #blinddate is a Republican? What a waste of time. Hope it’s entertaining, anyway! in reply to nerdette #
  • Getting ready for HKonJ3 (huge, annual progressive rally in N.C.) tomorrow. I wish there was more logistical info on http://HKonJ.com. #
  • @bakeeneitje Cool, but they charge for tracking food/calories which others do for free… in reply to bakeeneitje #

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Tweets from 2009-02-12

  • Woke up today (at 5:30, sadly) in such a bad place. Things can only get better. #
  • Retweeting @steveburnett: Happy Darwin Day! http://www.darwinday.org/ #
  • @AnneHyde Thank you. in reply to AnneHyde #
  • Prolly the *only* place hiring. Rtwt @nancyscola: Dust off them resumes: WhiteHouse.gov’s job board is open for business. http://ow.ly/f5W #
  • I just bought this book http://faulknerfox.com/thebook.htm & am now fantasizing about taking the day off to read it. Will try to hang in. #
  • LIttle girl LOLcats. = a very Good Thing. Video: “Kittens, inspired by Kittens!” http://tinyurl.com/dezupg Via @totn #
  • I β™₯β™₯β™₯ Salma Hayek! Retweeting @acarvin: Salma Hayek, Breastfeeding and One Very Public Service: http://ginx.com/-Edzb #
  • @matusiak Mostly trying to ignore it, as usual. in reply to matusiak #
  • IMPORTANT! Rtwt @acarvin: If you get at tweet saying “Don’t click” followed by a link, don’t click it, people. Virus-y nastiness awaits you. #
  • Retweeting @nerdette: Sunlight Labs clears up the “Don’t Click” virus/phenom/annoyance. Great post @cjoh! http://is.gd/jjQs (pls RT) #
  • Retweeting @acarvin: Today’s Joss Whedon story is online: http://tinyurl.com/d3k3uf #
  • oooh. Retweeting @nprpolitics: Sen. Gregg withdraws as Obama’s Commerce nominee due to “irresolvable conflicts.” / @acarvin #
  • About to find out if I can still fit behind the wheel of our little pick-up truck. #
  • Researching doulas. Anyone have local recommendations? (In central N.C.) #childbirth #naturalchildbirth #
  • Retweeting @gcorrin: Interesting that only 11% of Internet users have created a blog. And yet there are more blogs than internet users now. #

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Tweets from 2009-02-11

  • I think a vendor should have to pay you every time you correct their support staff about their own product. Grrr. #
  • Retweeting @dcm: IntraHealth Open is a go tweeps! Go forth! download! donate! – http://www.intrahealth.org/open #
  • Rtwt @dweinberger: Hollywood wants ISPs to examine your traffic for copyright infringement, as part of Stimulus. http://tinyurl.com/cxphq4 #
  • Hey NYers, date my friend Rik! Retweeting @rikomatic: I’m on the TimeOutNY website now! Woot! http://tinyurl.com/bvw7x3 #
  • I am deleting anything in my inbox this week with the word “valentine” in it (and looking askance at the word “love”). It’s all spam. #
  • Retweeting @RobCottingham: Love the contrast in these two photos: Bush on abortion, Obama on fair pay http://bit.ly/43SYuf #
  • @acarvin Tell Growl to stop talking to iTunes (or vice versa)? in reply to acarvin #
  • @nathanhewitt Ha. The woman who treats her uterus like a clown car wants donations for her 14 kids. When they’re in foster care, I’ll give. #
  • Trying to figure out why Firefox keeps sucking up my hard drive’s memory. Anyone know what “places.sqlite” is? Could it be related? #
  • It’s so funny to run into ppl you know at prenatal yoga when you both didn’t know each other were prego. #
  • Those of you who don’t enjoy my basketball tweets may want to unfollow for next couple hours. #
  • Which tag do folks prefer: #beatduke or #beatdook? #
  • 3 votes for #beatdook. Sorry @waynesutton. Speaking of which, UNC leads 14-6 early. #basketball #
  • UNC had a drought and Duke’s up 40-36 now. For stat junkies, RT @UNCStats: http://tinyurl.com/bs42sb #beatdook #unc #basketball #
  • My friend (and Orange Co. Commissioner) spotted at the scorers/media table. He’s one of my favorite Dookies. #beatdook #basketball #
  • The officiating isn’t that great, but it’s better than obscenely gawdawful I’ve come to expect. #beatdook #unc #basketball #
  • Duke leads 52-44 at halftime. We’re losing momentum, but there’s a long half ahead. #unc #beatdook #basketball #
  • I really find this useful: http://tinyurl.com/bgdmuo You can see the momentum shift as well as key stats. #
  • Technical foul: Singler throws an elbow at Hansbrough’s head. #unc #beatdook #basketball #
  • *Reeeeally* missing Woody’s play by play today. He’s always a possession ahead lately. πŸ™ #unc #beatdook #basketball #
  • UNC & Duke are tied at 58 w/ almost 15 minutes left. #beatdook #basketball #
  • Hey Dookies, ya think you could keep yr court dry so guys don’t fall down every few min? UNC 83 – Duke 71, in spite. #beatdook #basketball #
  • Insightful. Retweeting: @daggoo: I love watching Coach K ragequit a game. #
  • The NCAA should fine Duke for endangering students on this fucked up Cameron floor! #
  • @monicarolevans We gotta fill in for all the tweeps who don’t get Woody Durham’s true blue play-by-play. πŸ˜‰ #unc #basketball #
  • Duke’s turn for a drought. No points in the last 4 minutes. UNC leads 88-71 w/ 3:15 left. #beatdook #unc #basketball #
  • UNC leads by 10 with less than a minute left. Retweeting @xarker: Duke goes 0-for-Hansborough at Cameron. #unc #beatdook #
  • UNC breaks 100 points inγ€€οΌ£ο½ο½ο½…ο½’ο½ο½ŽοΌŽγ€€οΌ₯ο½–ο½…ο½Žγ€€ο½ο½™γ€€ο½ƒο½ο½ο½ο½•ο½”ο½…ο½’γ€€ο½‰ο½“γ€€ο½†ο½’ο½…ο½ο½‹ο½…ο½„γ€€ο½ο½•ο½”οΌŽγ€€οΌ›οΌοΌ‰ #
  • Gerald Henderson is incapable of NOT fouling Hansbrough. #beatdook #
  • Final sco’: UNC 101 – Duke 87. Good game, nice tweeting it with y’all. #beatdook #basketball #
  • Who’s going uptown? I can hear fireworks or something nearby. #beatdook #
  • Kudos to Ty Lawson for 25 points! Plus all the other good stuff. #beatdook #
  • Coach K: “They’re better than us.” #UNC #basketball #beatdook #
  • Duke actually turned OFF the A/C in Cameron. Then watched players slip & fall on the sweat for 2 hrs. Fucking sadists. #beatdook #
  • @silverbell Oooh, maybe I can try that with my old kitty that won’t stop peeing on the floor. Hmmm. in reply to silverbell #

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Tweets from 2009-02-10

  • I think today is going to be the prettiest day of the year so far. (And if that doesn’t get me off my ass, nothing will.) #
  • What the frak? I’ve lost weight again! Midwives don’t mind ’cause my uterus keeps growing. #
  • @ntenhross I don’t know the Beyonce song, and I advocate vegetarianism, so I reckon I’ll be voting for the trombone… πŸ˜‰ in reply to ntenhross #
  • Just found out I have Monday off. Bonus! (Thank you, presidents.) #
  • OK! Just finished being in meetings since 10:30 this morning. What did I miss? #
  • Thanks, @huffpost/@baratunde! Good to know the collapse of society is proceeding apace without my help. πŸ˜‰ in reply to huffpost #
  • Memo to marketers trying to sell me baby stuff: don’t say it’s great for “moms” unless it requires breasts & a vagina to operate. #nosale #
  • @jehb Heh. I guess now I have to go look that up… in reply to jehb #
  • I like http://everydayhealth.com, & http://healthehuman.com is OK, but none let own my data. Isn’t there something better? #health2.0 #
  • @kimazoid I looked at Google Health, but didn’t see the tracker/log/journal kinda things I need. Watching glucose, also food & exercise. in reply to kimazoid #
  • @rootwork What do you have against smartphones? I still <3 my Treo… in reply to rootwork #
  • @mistersugar Tufte is smart but overrated. Only take training if it’s free. And if you have a high tolerance for pompous white dudes. in reply to mistersugar #
  • Have decided I can do a better job tracking my glucose, etc. in a spreadsheet. #Health2.0 fail. #
  • @10ch Fair enough. I think his ideas are good, but it doesn’t take all day or 3 books to explain them. in reply to 10ch #

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Tweets from 2009-02-09

  • Feeling especially pissed off about Monday today. #
  • @pink_plaid That’s what I thought, but it’s not in my TV lineup. Want to watch together? #
  • @josephrschwartz Perhaps my fatal flaw was creating a huge to do list for the weekend. I created a lose-lose situation. #
  • Off to drive my sweet little Honda Civic for the last time. It found a good new home. #
  • @margot_lester I won’t know whether to be pissed about our re-evaluation until I see the new tax rate. #
  • Retweeting @kanter: social media and salmonella http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/ #
  • Aww. Retweeting @BrianR: Dail Lama twitter account was fake http://snurl.com/bl4uv #
  • @pink_plaid That is a product that should never have existed. Who would buy that? #
  • Retweeting @underthedome: Nate Silver ranks Sen. Burr’s (R-NC) seat 8th most likely to change parties in 2010. http://tinyurl.com/dytrdy #
  • @rootwork I think social networks (esp. LinkedIn) are useless if you approve connections to people you don’t really know or trust. #
  • It lives! Retweeting @OHHDL: Welcome to the UNOFFICIAL Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Check back for news & travel itinerary. #

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Tweets from 2009-02-08

  • Motherfucker. Woo. #
  • Dalai Lama on Twitter! RT @ohhdl: …thought it was prudent to make his office open & assessable to a more … technologically adv audience. #
  • Hansbrough spotting at Breadman’s. Just in case you were wondering where he was… #unc #basketball #
  • Working on this gift registrty really feels like work! Becoming an expert on cloth diapers and other baby arcana… #
  • Movie theater muzak playing a lite jazz version of “Eye of the Tiger.” Brain melting out my ears a littlr. #
  • @smalljones Oh, I haven’t seen Slumdog yet so you’re not quite the last. Did see Coraline today. FUN. #
  • Hey @DrHorrible, do you happen to know if Dolls is really starting on Friday? I can’t find it in my TV listings. #
  • @minorjive You saw Dark Knight? I’m sorry. Easily the most overrated film of 2008, IMO. #
  • Starting to write my birthing plan! (I know things will be beyond my control, but articulating goals is still helpful.) #

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Tweets from 2009-02-06

  • Retweeting @FORpeace: Reaching out – If it’s good for Republicans, why isn’t it good for Iran? http://tinyurl.com/azowjd #
  • @MeEloise I do the same thing. Always switch to streams from WAMU or WNYC (AM) during WUNC’s pledge drive. #
  • I slept sitting up b/c of reflux last night and now all I want to do is lie down. #pregnancy #
  • @lisawilliams Yes, Tums Smoothies are my very good friends. And as @catcloud points out, there’s always light at the end o fthe tunnel. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Thanks, Ivan! Retweeting @rootwork Finally moved the Nonprofit Twitter Pack to its own page. http://tinyurl.com/cwtprn (expand) #nptech #
  • @lisawilliams I feel confident that I’ll be ready when it’s time. Except a few important logistics like childcare (!). #
  • This month’s regular meeting with Mr. Doesn’t Play Wll With Others was even worse than usual. Becoming a real problem. #
  • Me: “I can’t give feedback on things I don’t know about.” Him: “That’s not helpful.” err? #
  • Watch “Don’t Divorce Us!” http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce (Almost made it thru w/o crying til I got to the pregnant couple.) #
  • Trying to motervate myself to #GSD before the work week slips away. #
  • Tech support people who *make up answers* because they think I don’t understand their product should… I don’t know, try maybe fucking off? #
  • @msfour Next time I see you I’ll tell you some lame-parent stories to make you feel better. (Afraid mine might be reading Twitter.) #
  • Rtwt @uncpressblog: ethicist Karey Harwood (author of The Infertility Treadmill) on the California octuplets case http://tinyurl.com/bv2rqj #
  • @msfour It’s OK. Look how great I turned out anyway! πŸ˜‰ (Dunno the back story, but you can probably say the same.) #
  • Thinking about the breeder and the breadwinner roles, and feeling very conflicted about being both. That’s my topic for weekend brooding. #
  • @josephrschwartz I know you probably already found something, but here’s some more Saturday music: http://is.gd/iGbz Good luck tommorrow! #
  • (But why do we need to abuse monkeys to prove it?) Retweeting @nerdette: Love Makes Kids Smarter http://tinyurl.com/bhx48c #
  • Congrats on becoming a father, @chimprawk!!! Get used to things not going as planned. πŸ˜‰ #

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Tweets from 2009-02-05

  • Happy birthday to @smalljones, @davidb, and BIlly Sugarfix! All 3 of you are in good company with each other. #
  • Oooh, looks like my Google Calendar just got gears (offline access) too. Finalmente! #
  • Again? Anyway, good news. Retweeting @dcm: Spinal Tap have reformed: http://bit.ly/95bC #
  • Woke up at 4:30 AM needing to make an org chart. Indulging myself in OmniGraffle now. #
  • @WomenWhoTech Boss’ visit went well, thanks. Always good to connect with colleagues that you don’t see much. Now mulling some Qs raised. #
  • I love you, OmniGraffle. #
  • I’m suprised no-one has made a 3rd-party add-on to Gmail that would allow people to merge contacts. Even at $1 per user you’d make a mint. #
  • @josephrschwartz Thx. I heard it on the radio for real this morn! BTW, I didn’t say the bill “won’t work” but that it won’t matter. πŸ™‚ #
  • @feral_child Actually, Google makes it easy to find and add on all kinds of gadgets for using their tools. eg: http://is.gd/5gc #
  • “Hey, let’s start an independent media center!” <– It’s how I met my husband, it works! #nerdpickuplines #
  • Suddenly have a strong desire to be on vacation in London. Not likely to be able to act on it for a long, long time. Sigh. http://is.gd/ixtr #
  • @bekamop Yes we did, but it only lasted a few yrs. Fortunately, someone else picked up the torch, kinda. http://nc.indymedia.org #
  • Will Bunch is on Fresh Air right now with his book “Tear Down This Myth.” I think I met him at ConvergeSouth. #
  • I can’t beat that. πŸ™‚ Retweeting @ayse: My milkshake brings all the #taxcuts to the yard. #
  • @chimprawk Alright!! We’re pulling for you and especially C. I know she’s gonna do great. Sending love & support from me & @brianR. #

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Tweets from 2009-02-04

  • Methinks the author’s of UNC’s new “sit-in policy” don’t understand the point of civil disobediance. http://is.gd/im6C #
  • @Braineyson My guess is Graves did something seriously bad but not illegal. I don’t know how this can stay secret. #unc #basketball #
  • @jacksonfox It’s getting there. Gmail should add navigation by keyboard as well… #
  • @jacksonfox Awesome, but why no ‘go to [label]’ shortcut? I know there’s a Labs feture, but I’d like a button that works like Move to. #
  • @ayse No problems logging in, but my Gmail gadgets still keep breaking, disappearing, or rearranging themselves. #
  • @kellan I was just thinking how it’s crazy to put the spam & delete buttons right next to the archive button, which has the opposite effect. #
  • Good episode on the State of Things right now about post-partum depression. I can’t wait to get mine. http://wunc.org #
  • @josephrschwartz Mortgage payments are awesome! So much better paying yourself instead of some a**hole landlord every month. #
  • About to have my boss (who lives in NY) visit my office here in NC. Which is IN MY HOUSE. Freaking out? Just a little… #
  • @WomenWhoTech Uh, my entire *house* is messy. And smelly. (Thank you, 15-year-old cat that has never learned proper manners.) #
  • @tbeckett πŸ™‚ I tried to steer him to @CarrboroCowork, but the flip side is that I want him to see me telecommuting in my natural habitat. #
  • This was a really good show on postpartum depression. Rtwt @wunc: State of Things: Motherhood & Mental Health… http://tinyurl.com/c6etsb #
  • @efriend Thanks, I didn’t hear it on @wchl but hope the clips at http://wchl1360.com/details.html?id=9331 will work soon. in reply to efriend #
  • @pink_plaid Yes, but considering my circumstances, I think I might as well prepare for PPD. Hope for the best but expect the worst… in reply to pink_plaid #

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