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

July 2008

There is nothing better than hearing someone you respect casually refer to you as a “genius.”

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OMFG, long story short: I’m back on 1.1.3 for the time being. I tracked down 2.0b1 but every time I install it it looks like 1.1.3. BLURG!!!

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Okay, so the Beta 2 install didn’t go so well: http://communities.vmwar…

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http://xrl.us/Mojave It would have been funny if instead of Vista, they had used Leopard. Free idea, Apple.

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@hohle I wasn’t clear. I meant Spaces the virtual workspace app. The previous beta’s Unity didn’t work with it at all.

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Woohoo! New beta of VMWare Fusion. Might this Unity support Spaces? Pretty please?

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@danesparza My favorite comment: “Seems like a reasonable response to me.”

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My solution, incidentally, was to make a new folder, copy the items in there individually, and then shift click away. Close enough…

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Perils of Virtual Windows Theatre presents “Just Try Selecting Two Non-Contiguous Items in a Folder or: Enjoy Your Context Menu Buddy”

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“It is what it is” is getting so tired. May I suggest “A is A” instead? :-)

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In Spaces hell: I plugged in my iPhone for syncing and could not for the life of me find the iTunes window. Assigned spaces aren’t so bad.

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“It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time” just killed with the kids. How can anyone not smile after seeing it?

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Just heard BBC sports news on NPR. It was definitely English being spoken but I still understood none of it.

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I am so sick of delays. Nothing specific, but my life lately seems to have been defined by nothing so much as waiting around for others.

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I’m following about six fewer people now but I have no idea who they are. And I don’t want to add anyone if Twitter’s going to fix things.

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@sanbient Interesting. Not at all what I was expecting, also.

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@sanbient Yeah, I do. I’m not sure what sort of an app she’d want. She may just need a new template: http://xrl.us/iJoomla

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Time to leave F8. Next time, F8, tell people that there’s an afterparty and hackathon along with the announcement of conference times. Grrr.

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The crowd at F8 is *exactly* what I expected. I can see the attraction to being here and I can see that I’d rather not be here.

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Urinals are absurdly close and sans dividers. WTF?

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I’d wager that it’s mostly Macs at F8. Also, Zuck’s like five feet from me.

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Zuckerberg turned off the music, thankfully.

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I’m mooching off a Mozilla guy’s power.

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Waiting for the Zuckerberg keynote. HOLY SHIT PEOPLE, TURN DOWN THE MUSIC! ALSO, TURN UP THE FUCKING AIR!

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@carnage4life Are you at F8? I’d love to meet you!

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At f8 right now.

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@sanbient Yikes! That wasn’t even the funniest thing she said, just the last.

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Example of stewardess humor: “like my daddy said when I turned 18, get your bags and get out.”

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Hawaiian Air plane looks very inviting. Geesh, now I want to go to Hawaii.

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Brief stop in LA. The stewardess was hilarious. I’m glad that nothing has changed on Southwest since last time I flew back in augur-two

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It’s like a weirdly-orchestrated dance.

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At Sky Harbor. This is the first time I’ve flown in five years. You read about security theater but it’s not the same as living it.

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Getting ready for F8.

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@sanbient For a SMART car? It’d have to $5 or lower. Heh.

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For me, the killer feature of iPhone 2.0 isn’t the App Store. It’s multi-delete in Mail. I don’t know how anyone got along without it.

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Tomorrow I’ll be at F8. It’s going to be a long, long day.

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Writing lengthy screeds and calling oneself a writer does not a writer make.

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Some days I feel like my Mac experience consists mainly of entering my Keychain master password.

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EAI idea: http://www.tempepaintbal… Tuesdays and thursdays are half off

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@haltse Luckily no. Dark night, side yard, avoiding poop. Lost grip, flew through air onto rocks, slight crack around enter. Still works.

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The Dark Knight: a lot to process. Visually arresting, worthy successor to Batman Begins, but long and thematically perplexing. Must sleep.

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Count me in the Twitterific hating club. Seemingly I’m the only member.

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Damn it! I’ve already cracked my iPhone screen.

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The Dark Knight tonight! Woohoo!

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bla.me, whoswith.me, and bbrownisnotla.me are all available. FYI.

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Thursday at 12:01 AM in movie theater land is actually *Friday* at 12:01 AM. I almost argued but it’s not like they’d show it just for me.

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So I bought a ticket to The Dark Knight for Thursday at 12:01 AM. When would you think that was? A minute ago. You’d be wrong, my friend.

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HUGE turnout! Standing room only.

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I’m at Goldwater for panel on the future of conservatism. Dying to know if they’re familiar with Thompson’s essay on the subject. Dying.

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This is why I don’t like Twitterific. I’ve sent several tweets from it that never posted. That *never* happened with TwitterBerry.

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@Carnage4Life I’m going to be there, but we’ve never met before.

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@sanbient Holy crap!! That is amazing news. How far along?

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I’ve finally gotten around to shutting down the BlackBerry. I’m already missing TwitterBerry; Twitterific is not even in the same league.

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I can see how people thought that. It *is* superficially like Idiocracy.

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Saw Wall-E. Better than I expected, but that’s because I was expecting an anti-materialist, environmentalist propaganda piece. Review later.

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I’m feeling handy today: I fixed a leaky faucet. I now have a semblance of a clue how faucets work, which is more than I had yesterday.

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“So help me, dog!” I sound like a dyslexic oath-taker.

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The PedEgg is like a cheese grater for your feet. It works like a mofo.

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Something got unclogged at Apple: now I know two people accepted into the iPhone developer program. Congrats, two-who-shall-remain-nameless!

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Attacking my heels with a PedEgg. It’s disgusting but … See ya later, alligator!

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I finally know someone that’s been accepted into the iPhone developer program. Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s going to be making an app.

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@Carnage4Life Good one. I liked the comment that the downside is that he’s Robert Scoble.

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It’s times like this (with the iPhone 2.0 release) that it pays to be a fanboy. I had it installed without a hiccup yesterday at 9:53 AM.

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I don’t mind saying this but OmniFocus is easily the best iPhone app I’ve found. Incredible work.

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Wow! HUGE line outside AT&T store at Cave Creek and the 101. Even bigger than I wouldve expected.

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This is an excellent and bizarre app: http://is.gd/Q4J (via @siracusa)

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Installing iPhone 2.0 now!

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@sanbient My code is 1719-4256-5808

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@sanbient Congratulations! I’m woefully behind on my unlocking.

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I am in full Mail.app joy now.

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Ugh, can’t get SMTP working properly.

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Wow, importing your email from Outlook 2003 to Mail.app is way harder than it should be. But so worth it.

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It’s adorable wjen my three toddler daughters insist that they need some of my deoderant.

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Good gravy! Hula hooping is not my game on the Wii Fit. Apparently, though, I’m terribly entertaining to watch.

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Playing Rummikub with friend and wife. As usual, getting beaten soundly.

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@_n Not to pick nits, but I think you mean posts : blogs :: articles : magazines

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I think Mr. Magorium’s Bacon Emporium has a nice ring to it.

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Sadly, I don’t think the laticework on the cover piece was detailed enough to tell me where in the map room to put it.

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Just bought iron fire pit at garage sale: $10 but I think the price included another $10 of schadenfreude since it was placed in direct sun

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New puppy chewed through laptop power cord and iPhone sync cord. *sigh*

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After all of my experiences with crows, I like to stare them down when I see them. Just to let them know that I aint no sparrow.

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I’m thinking that three hours of The Tom Green Show might have been a mistake. It’s really skewing my perspective right now.

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Watching Wipeout. I cannot get enough of this show. It may be the best hour on TV.

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Ooo, Wipeout’s on tonight. I’m glad I remembered.

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28 in a 40. Oh, come on!

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Ugh, I hate driving in Scottsdale. I don’t know if it’s demographics, photo radar, or lots of police but people here drive so slow.

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On the other hand, it’s fucking 110 degrees! Good gravy.

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Luck of luck!! They let me into the generating building and showed me around. I’m on cloud nine right now!!

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I don’t remember there being this many small, flying bugs last time. I don’t think they’re biters, so that’s good.

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I don’t go there enough and I don’t know why. Maybe I don’t want to abuse its restorative powers or become less special.

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Time to go to my happy place.

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