Twitter Posts for 2008-10-03

  • Palin did better than I expected. She didn’t say anything entirely idiotic, but she rarely ever answered the questions/stayed on topic. #
  • uh oh … backuping up my Touch is REALLY slow again after I just updated iTunes. I was getting used to the fast backups… 😦 #
  • @stillgray oh totally, she spouted off quite a lot of bullshit. Biden did a little bit, but not nearly as bad. #
  • http://is.gd/3rFN “Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. ” #
  • feeling relatively rested for the first time in quite a while. I actually slept failry well. wow! #
  • http://bit.ly/2LnClS the Woot shirt deal today is pretty funny (for those with a simple mind like myself) #
  • http://bit.ly/1pBe8w “”Boring but right (Biden) versus exciting and wrong (Palin) — that’s America’s choice?” #
  • looking like a busy Friday so far. we’ll see if things improve though. #
  • holy crap, Lotus Notes is 5x slower today than it normally is (and it’s usually pretty damn slow). #
  • stomach is not happy with life today. hoping this day flies by. #
  • http://is.gd/3sHo “the strongest expression of real paternal love we have seen from a public official in recent memory and maybe ever” EVER? #
  • mail server crashed. just lost the last 2 hours worth of mail …son of a bitch. not good. #
  • http://bit.ly/LF4x “Palin said ‘nookyular’.If you can’t pronounce nuclear, you just don’t get to be Vice President. We’ve had 8 yrs of that” #
  • anyone know a shortcut to automatically make *all columns* in Excel go to autowidth (max width for largest value)? #
  • “a pretty pony-powered purple purveyor of propulsion!” …don’t ask. T will get it though. 🙂 #
  • http://bit.ly/1yP38z “Slimming down iTunes 8” — basically calling out Apple on all the BS included with iTunes. Hypocrisy at its best. #
  • in 4 1/2 years of using Gmail I have 5,300 emails. In 1 1/2 years of work I have 7,700. geez. #
  • http://bit.ly/1Ssfa2 FACTCHECK.ORG – Who [Really] Caused the Economic Crisis? #
  • slogan for women’s hunting equipment: “shrink it and pink it”. Make it smaller and make it pink and then they’ll buy it. That’s appalling. #
  • ready for the week to be done. 1 more hour of work. *sigh* #
  • 5 Incredible Underwater Habitats http://tinyurl.com/4ejgqa #
  • CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year http://tinyurl.com/53e8yq #
  • http://bit.ly/1DgZoO VERY happy about the mental health parity part of the bailout. It’s a HUGE step in the right direction. #
  • http://bit.ly/3CViW4 LHC@Home — grid project for processing data from the LHC. Like Folder@Home, but for the LHC. (duh) #
  • http://bit.ly/2hbXqA What the f**k? Bailout included a “excise tax exemption on type of a very specific type of arrow used by child archers” #
  • it’s amazing how quickly the president will act and sign something into law when it’s actually something he wants. it’s shocking. #
  • holy shit. … Brightkite just logged me into someone elses account …like full access. how the hell did that just happen? #
  • @bangbang023 I’m glad my “pain” amused you so greatly. 😛 #
  • reading for game 2 of the Red Sox vs Angels series tonight #
  • watching Casino Royale and making some dinner #
  • in case you didn’t realize … the bailout bill wasn’t for $700 billion …it was for $850 billion after all the stuff the Senate added in. #