Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-25

yeah, I’m just going to go ahead and ignore that stuff because I don’t feel like getting pissed off today. #
Dear Ubuntu, I’d like to use you on my laptop if you’d just actually detect my wireless card without a hassle. You failed again, sorry. #
http://is.gd/glz0 – Obama’s Inbox …. great article with ideas about what he should do first. #
Retweeting @dcagle: best cartoons covering the whole 8 years of the Bush Presidency http://twtr.us/EY #
@ebygum just left you a bit of a rant in response to your “Why I hate the Palm Pre” posting… sorry about that 😛 in reply to ebygum #
@ebygum I forgot to add this: Palm Pre has copy & paste …. Palm +1 😛 in reply to ebygum #
@ebygum and replaceable battery 😛 in reply to ebygum #
@ebygum then again …it looks like it’ll only be on Sprint for a while … Palm Pre -100 😉 in reply to ebygum #
@DearIE6 I’d love to have all those hours of my life back. Please just die IE6. Please just die already. in reply to DearIE6 #
I really should just go to bed right now. Not in a great mood. #
looking like a busy Monday… at least XKCD is amusing: http://xkcd.com/532/ #
http://bit.ly/p8RM “Feeling blue? Today – January 19, 2009 – is the most depressing day in HISTORY, say experts”…well that’s uplifting 😛 #
going back into hiding. that sounds about right I think. #
https://www.lotuslive.com/ Lotus Live is IBM’s cloud solution. Really? You had to include “live”? Where have I heard that one before…(MS) #
it’s finally Inauguration Day! …enough said. #
Sums it all up: NBC – inauguration stuff, CBS – inauguration stuff, ABC – inauguration stuff, CNN – inauguration stuff, Fox – Jerry Springer #
http://twitpic.com/153hu @jakemarsh my collection of inauguration streaming videos #
Obama is as cool as the other side of the pillow. He looks SOO calm. #
@sendchocolate It’s not mine 😛 …I stole it from Sportcenter in reply to sendchocolate #
Barack Obama is officially the 44th president … we just passed noon. 🙂 #
Retweeting @roadhacker: There goes the chopper!! SEE YA BUSH CHENEY!!! Sauron has FALLEN!!! #
Our new government has an RSS feed! http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog/ My geek heart is now happy. #
Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CONFIRMS SENATOR TED KENNEDY HAS COLLAPSED AT THE INAUGURAL LUNCHEON. #
http://is.gd/gCyJ Wordle visualization of Obama’s inauguration speech. …turned out pretty well in my opinion. #
Whitehouse people to follow: @TheWhiteHouse @USSupremeCourt @NationalDebt @SenateFloor @HouseFloor #
http://bit.ly/18nQJ “CNN: Roberts ‘screwed up’ oath of office” #
http://is.gd/gAFh “Looking Ahead: 4 Ways To Make Fun of Obama” #
http://is.gd/gEi4 absurdly adorable picture of Sasha Obama giving Barack a thumbs up. AWESOME! #
http://is.gd/gEks “Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present” …every.single.presidential inauguration. speech. EVER. SOOO cool. #
http://is.gd/gEM9 The Obamas First Inaugural Dance To Beyonce (VIDEO) #
listening to Billie, Ella, and Louis … hoping work today goes well. #
Retweeting @nizzer: Laughing at: CNN took this headline down quickly ( http://tinyurl.com/99plcc ) #
flashing my Treo 700WX with Windows Mobile 6.1 … *fingers crossed* …lets see how this goes. 🙂 #
Hoping T is ok… 😦 #
http://is.gd/gLbl It’s official. I have a crush on Obama. WhiteHouse.gov is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Geeks rejoice! #
Don’t think I can stand 3 hours of Lost tonight…1 1/2 might be the max. #
wishing this week (and weekend) would just be done already. #
http://is.gd/gR9g I have a game for you: it’s called “which of these is not like the other” … (hint: the guy at the desk) #
tired of a lot of things. #
http://bit.ly/3pqsL8 “If I Fell” …yeah, pretty much. #
http://recovery.gov “after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act see how and where your tax dollars are spent.” #

Visualization of Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech 1.20.09

…I thought this turned out pretty well. Words that were mentioned more often are larger in size.

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-18

Looking at apartments in NYC… getting excited/depressed. #
@ckanal no offense to Buffalo…but that’s a REALLY odd choice (I live in Rochester) in reply to ckanal #
this is just getting depressing … done looking at apartments for the night. *sigh* #
NetFlix claims I send them back a DVD. Problem: I never actually received that DVD. What the hell? #
@steelopus I hope so! It was a great movie. I was looking forward to seeing it again. (Thin Red Line) in reply to steelopus #
@vjj96 totally need to update your icon/avatar soon my friend 😛 #
Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: “I never thought a black man would be elected President,” says President Bush …What an idiot! Good riddance! #
@lucky_luciano oh god… 3.5 hrs. I took the hatchet approach. I probably deleted more than I should have, but it was already a ton of work. in reply to lucky_luciano #
@lucky_luciano after 2 hours I got lazy and stopped being so careful. I’m sure I deleted a few things I wanted to keep. Oh well. in reply to lucky_luciano #
running on fumes today. didn’t sleep more than 3 or 4 hours last night. brain was clearly far too busy to actually let me sleep. #
Dear @Gizmodo … if your Facebook Connect code is slow/fails to load it shouldn’t hold up your entire page. #
definitely ready for this for this day (and week) to be over already. #
2.5 mil. downloads * 3 GB image = 7300 TB = 7.15 PB. If we say it takes 12 hrs that’d require a 175 GB/s connection from them. Not bad MS! #
@lucky_luciano just downsizing right now. I may go back and clean up the tags eventually. Didn’t have it in me that night though. 😛 in reply to lucky_luciano #
anyone have an invite for http://justhearit.com/ ? #
http://bit.ly/16JrI “Obama planning quick move to close Gitmo” …as quickly as his first week. ABOUT F****NG TIME! #
Looking at apartments in NYC… getting excited/depressed. #
Someone really should just put Dane Cook out of his misery. #
watching Rocknrolla …hoping it’s as good as I’d like it to be. #
Obama becomes president on 1.20.09 …. Lost returns for a new season on 1.21.09 … coincidence? I think not! 🙂 #
@aliciamk all the essential phrases, huh? 😛 in reply to aliciamk #
feeling pretty optimistic today for no particularly good reason actually. 😛 #
scratch that. enthusiasm is gone. #
I’m just going to curl up into a little ball right about now… #
playing with Mozilla’s Snowl a little bit …it’s a start. Hopefully they add more features though. #
met a friend tody who has had an iPhone for 6 months. had no idea how to zoom in/out …not so intuitive I guess, huh? #
got a hot date with Hemingway tonight… #
it’s 5 right now. yes, just 5. the high for today is only 7 …how pleasant! 😛 #
“xkcd – I’m An Idiot” http://xkcd.com/530 …pretty much awesome. #
way too much work to do in the half day today … no way I’ll be close to caught up when I leave. #
http://is.gd/fQ64 Windows 7 will be far more customizable …. MS’s “personalize your PC” site is already up. #
curling into a hole for the rest of the day…what a day. what a day. #
finishing “Farewell to Arms” and headed off to bed in a bit I think… damn it’s cold right now. #
http://bit.ly/AUFv My 2009 Resolutions … made public with the hopes that I may actually keep some of them this time. #
Leaked MS Office 14 screenshot: http://is.gd/g0aA notice the “Create Mobile Office Device”…”create a USB Office device” ..interesting! #
my laptop can pump 1080p HD content to my HD tv …consider me very amused. 🙂 #
http://is.gd/fVa4 20 Celebrity Lives (In Flowchart Form) …hilarious #
“Farewell to Arms” by Hemingway? Yeah, worst. ending. ever. #
#ItIsColdButIwontComplain here’s hoping this Friday goes smoothly (and quickly) #
busy busy day. TGIF. #
I’m jumping in my seat every time I get a new email or the phone rings… *sigh* I’d love to just get an answer… #
http://is.gd/g8PH “Survival Lessons From a Sinking Plane” very interesting picture/story about yesterday’s plane crash #
http://is.gd/g74k “Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs Women Differences” …HILARIOUS (and true?) #
crap… with Google Notebook being killed I need to export my stuff into a similar platform. Evernote? Why can’t you import from gNotebook? #
@jlogic thank you 🙂 in reply to jlogic #
well all right then…uh. #
well I certainly got nothing all right then… #
Retweet @theinquisitr: “Video of US Airways A320 Crash Landing in the Hudson River” – http://tinyurl.com/7cfeuq #
off to see Doubt this afternoon …it’s going to be a lazy Saturday #
think I need to bite the bullet and update my Touch to firmware 2.2 pretty soon. a bunch of apps require it now *sigh* #
you just sent me to a spam site …. seriously? …wtf? #
how is there not a normal easy to use 64 bit version of Firefox yet? …weird. #

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-11

Pretty much miserable to be leaving NYC again. #
just going through the motions today… #
http://bit.ly/ZzQ4 Bush presidency in images. #
http://is.gd/eE2q “A Look Back At Some Of The President’s Misunderestimated Remarks” #
wow…talk about awesome timing. #
http://is.gd/eJce “Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax [For Going DRM-Free] ” #
just going through the motions right now #
http://is.gd/eMfi Barack Obama Pop Art #
http://is.gd/eMIj save/restore text entered into webpage forms in Firefox (in case of a crash). awesome extension! #
http://is.gd/eNoh “25 amazing people celebrated by Google” #
@StarrGazr Google isn’t quite THAT old 😛 in reply to StarrGazr #
@StarrGazr Twitter’s fault I suppose? I sent it, deleted it, and then re-sent it. in reply to StarrGazr #
@StarrGazr well I wanted to include the ” 😛 ” to soften the painful blow, so I deleted the first one. Yes. in reply to StarrGazr #
@StarrGazr iWork 09 just finished downloading for you … so you HAVE to be nice to me. in reply to StarrGazr #
@StarrGazr wow, what an original idea 😛 in reply to StarrGazr #
@StarrGazr whine whine whine….. in reply to StarrGazr #
do you think we could have a blind president? #
Patterson’s State of the State (New York) is pretty darn good. This guys talks a good game. #
http://is.gd/eNWv Obama-inspired Ben and Jerryâ€™s Ice Cream Flavor: Yes Pecan! #
http://is.gd/eNYy “Porn Industry Asking For Federal Bailout. Yes, Seriously. ” #
dinner, some hot chocolate, and a hot date with Hemingway #
http://is.gd/eNFe “Scenes from the Gaza Strip” …wow. just wow. #
http://is.gd/ePBB — Daily Show “Road to the Doghouse – Puppedential Debate” ….this…is…hilarious! #
Microsoft’s got a guy beat boxing before Ballmer’s keynote?! …um ? seriously? #
http://is.gd/ePq8 “Official Inauguration Poster Released by Obama Team” #
http://twitpic.com/10sbw Obama Inauguration poster (the actual image) Buy one here: http://is.gd/eSJ7 ($100) #
good to know updating a clean install of Tiger is just as painful as Windows XP. Had to restart 4 times already. *smacks forehead* yeesh #
typical Microsoft weirdness … Windows Live Photo Gallery doesn’t automatically pull in my pictures library. Um, why not? #
oh man, it really sucks when you wake up 3 minutes before your alarm is going to go off… #
http://bit.ly/Xy9i “Lost — in graph form” …personally I think “wtf” needs to increase more steeply. #
http://xkcd.com/528/ — Windows 7 …well at least it’s better than Vista. 😛 #
@aliciamk what phone are you thinking about? in reply to aliciamk #
yup, pretty sick of this bullshit. #
@StarrGazr thanks dear. really appreciate it right now. in reply to StarrGazr #
@aliciamk just promise me you won’t get the pink one 😛 in reply to aliciamk #
tired of all of this and honestly I don’t quite know what to do about it. #
who is ready for the weekend? dear god…can’t this day just be over with? #
@aliciamk I’ll try hard not to judge you too badly. 😛 in reply to aliciamk #
@aliciamk grade distribution is always such a terrible idea, in my opinion. in reply to aliciamk #
http://bit.ly/xuhl “For BlackBerry, Obamaâ€™s Devotion Is Priceless” — endorsement could be worth an estimated $50 million (if he could) #
@aliciamk exactly. a curve is one thing, but grade distributions are just idiotic in reply to aliciamk #
computer stuff, movie, and then maybe some football #
music library before cleaning: 88GB …. music library after cleaning: 37GB. Holy crap I am tired now. #
@bangbang023 mind numbingly boring stuff…yeah. in reply to bangbang023 #

2009 Resolutions

I’m aware that it’s January 9th. I just wanted to take my time to ensure I actually put some real thought into my resolutions. Why post them on these interwebs? Well, I think it might be a bit more likely that I’ll follow through with these if they are available to the public. So enough mindless banter (in no particular order):
In 2009 I want to…

be sitting in my new apartment, in NYC (hopefully Brooklyn), with Tessa, celebrating our 1 year anniversary on (or before) March 14th.
make a little money. Not a lot, but enough to not worry about it on a day to day basis like I currently need to.
find a way to either make my current job more interesting/fun or to find a different job that fits those qualifications.
make sure that whatever job I end up with actually has good benefits (to quote Homer: “mmmmmmm [health insurance and 401k]…”)
start to pay back a chunk of my debts.
pay off my credit card, and then do the “freeze it in a block of ice” idea. No, really.
take dance lessons with Tessa.
read (and enjoy) a few of those books on my reading list.
actually take some kind of vacation, no matter how brief.
finally kill this blog (and domain) after 5+ years. It doesn’t make a lot of sense any more.
get down to Atlanta to see my brother at least once, but hopefully more than that.
investigate the feasibility of grad school (informatics? information systems? pottery?).
continue to be informed about the news and politics.
scuba dive at least once (preferably some place with warm water).
go camping in the Thousand Islands.
make a point to take more pictures. Good pictures. Bad pictures. Just take pictures.

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-04

zoning out from life (watching football) #
@bpw best I know is “2009” …so who really knows when I guess. in reply to bpw #
going to regret staying up until 2 tomorrow (doh. this morning) morning… gotta be up in 4 1/2 hours. #
busy day, several meetings, but can’t wait to leave for NYC tomorrow… #
really not doing this bulls**t today. there will be hell to pay if my work blocked Gmail. #
packing up for NYC tomorrow morning 🙂 #
20% coupon if you plan to buy the Mac app Thing v1.0 — THINGSPRESALE20 20% off #
http://is.gd/e5Dc new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 …some very handy stuff #
Tired of sleeping in an empty bed…ready to be back in NYC. #
When in Rome (NY)…go back to bed. On the train, it’s already quite full… *sigh* no seat to myself 😦 #
Who do you think is the most popular artist/group of all time? Frank Sinatra? The Beatles? #
Just about to Penn Station, and then headed downtown for lunch with T. #
@lucky_luciano oh, I was serious. I have no intentions of watching “Poughkeepsie Tapes”. I love horror movies, but that just ain’t cool. in reply to lucky_luciano #
@bpw “Poughkeepsie Tapes” leaked out if you wanted to see it: http://bit.ly/8tm3 in reply to bpw #