The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @billbrown ever

June 2008

Freakin’ Guitar Center! I went in looking for a good fight and the manager saw my point immediately. http://xrl.us/WindOutOfM…

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Just saw a slick 911 Cayenne S with license plate: OOTO. Nice!

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I had forgotten how exciting a puppy can be. Lucy is as graceful as Bambi and as calm as Woody Allen. With a hair-trigger urination reflex.

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D.A.R.E. copycat bumper sticker: C.R.E.A.M. Cash Rules Everything Around Me. Uhhh.

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@redmonk Happy birthday, Steve!

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Shaved the beard. Experiment a failure (or success, I suppose). Left mustache on. Consensus: creepy. Buh-bye, mustache. Back to baby’s butt.

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This new dog has really united our cats.

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So far: Penny, hesitant; Peach, curious; Daphne, hiding; Lucy, nervous.

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Off to pick up our new standard poodle. I’m excited! It’s no Dalmatian but it’s close enough for now.

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Favrd is excellent as a douchebag blacklist. Yet another example of an application that serves an unintended purpose.

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There are reasons why I love having a swimming pool; today was two of them.

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I don’t understand (and am not fully comfortable with) the fact that fireworks are being shot off so distant from the actual Fourth.

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Fireworks at Deer Valley Park were really great. It wasn’t too hot, we had an expanse to ourselves, and we were very close to the action.

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Time for fireworks. Should be perfect weather. :-|

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Okay, we’re picking up our new pooch Lucy tomorrow morning. She’s the one on the left in this picture: http://is.gd/I5j

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Off to check out a blue standard poodle. The Browns just keep growing and growing.

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BrickBreaker: 3940, level 8. Personal best.

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Why can’t SQL allow either FROM or FORM. My life would be so much easier.

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Come to papa again, Number Eight!

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Beard Report Day 5: still no birds living in it and finally able to do that gesture of thoughtfully stroking it.

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I just discovered /account/profile_image/XXXXX to see the large version of people’s profile pix. Finally, @hohle : http://xrl.us/hohle

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Come to papa, Number 8!

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From the no-credibility dept: McCain’s jailer says McCain wasn’t tortured while captive http://tinyurl.com/6c2x2m

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I’m wondering when my facial hair will go from ‘swarthy’ to ‘UNIX guy.’

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I haven’t shaved for a few days so I’m going to take this foundation and build a house of whiskers on it.

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Guitare Center just messed with the wrong guy. I’m takin’ it to the streets!

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Fail Whale: genius name for the oft-seen Twitter page artwork.

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Add debugging to the “enormous reservations” list.

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Tracked down my first autorelease double free error. Enumerators, *scoff*.

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I do have enormous reservations about it, however. Memory management for one. NSString, for another. There’s an entry here, don’t you worry.

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Okay, Objective-C is growing on me.

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I finally had some success on that project. There’s still a lot of angst surrounding that one thing, but at least I’m seeing progress.

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XML is case-sensitive. APIs are often in XML. Those two factoids should be stored as one unit. Gah.

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REORG!!!!!

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@asocialcontract All too often.Customer service, in general, is awful: http://is.gd/AFg and http://is.gd/AFh

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@tceleste Oh, it’s a direct link to the Firefox 3 download for the Mac. It makes sense in the context of my previous tweet.

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I think this is a direct link: http://tinyurl.com/6anmfx (substitute os=win or os=linux)

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I’m having trouble downloading the new Firefox 3. I wonder why.

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I used the last of the paper and it has been an ordeal trying to get another box to set next to the printer. Three emails and a walk so far.

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Thankfully, I rarely think of the movie. For some reason, I did while walking down the stairs to let the dog out at 1:50 AM.

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Every time I think of There Will Be Blood my mind completes: “Oh yes, there will be blood.” à la Wayne’s World. I doubt they wanted that.

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Forty-five minutes on Wii Fit is surprisingly taxing. Miyamoto is a genius; I wonder if he’s designed any horrible games.

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@asocialcontract Nope. But its intermittent availability is quite well-documented.

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Oy. I gave inches. That was my first mistake.

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All conduit drops from the ceiling. You get the feeling that this site could become a distribution warehouse if the neighborhood went south.

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I had never really noticed, but Costco’s interiors are great examples of shared-nothing architecture. There’s little or nothing affixed.

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I just about ‘sploded my ear drums due to the differing volumes required in my car versus in my ear. Ow.

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@asocialcontract I’d be interested in your experiences once you’ve had it for a bit. I was intrigued by it when it first came out.

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@Carnage4Life “But the opportunity to work in a much smaller company recently presented itself and it was simply too interesting to pass up”

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Walking to my car, it was like parting the Red Sea but with grasshoppers.

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“At least you got it working.” “Sadly, that is not the case.”

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“What did you today?” “Oh, I spent approximately 7 hours trying to get a spinning icon to show up and go away on command.” Puzzled look.

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What I hate about programming: when things just inexplicably stop working even though nothing’s obviously changed. Hours just wiz away.

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HOORAY! Rage dissipating. Chairs nicely moved around. Deep breaths again.

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Damn. I could’ve saved $24.95 on Flickr Pro had I known about me.com.

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Waiting for the keynote to start…

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133 at bowling. Not too shabby. Quite different from Wii Bowling though.

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Sorry, I can’t elaborate on the source of my rage. If you’re a co-worker, I’ll gladly share. Otherwise, it’s going to have to wait.

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I wish I had one of those veins in my forehead in order to serve as a visual red flag that you should keep me away from chairs.

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Where’s that chair? So help me, I need a chair now.

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FUCK! That’s all I’ve got to say. Son a bitch! Damn it, damn it, damn it! I’m about ready to do a Ballmer.

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Also, making half the difference his father made.

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Excellent presentation. I plan to spend my life earning the sort of stirring sentiments that Barry Goldwater Jr. paid to his father.

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I’m sitting diagonally from one bizarrely-dressed lady. Glittery American flag hat, animal print blouse, weird fur boots, and blue eyeliner.

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It is an odd mix of legislators, public policy types, gray hairs, and the occasional weirdo.

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At the Goldwater Institute for a presentation by John Dean and Barry Goldwater Jr. on their new book, Pure Goldwater.

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@hohle I certainly can’t argue. They’ve figured out desserts.

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It would not have taken much to make me a Culverite. I went in ready to be wowed. Plus, I’m easily impressed by burger joints.

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Don’t even get me started on their layout or menu. Train wreck. Decent desserts though. And all right!

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Missed an item? It happens. Forgot three chocolate milks? Uhh, okay. Charged me for an extra meal? Come on!

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Just got back from being Culverized. Short review: it’s hard to imagine them getting more wrong. Screwed up three things on our order. 3!

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I think rather than find a good cupcake vendor, I should really be looking for a good bakery. Phoenicians, any recommendations?

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Serious peanut butter chip cupcake headache. It was good but not worth it. I even took 2 ibuprofen in anticipation. Two more should help.

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