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

August 2009

I got it! I got it! I got it! Woohoo!!!!

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@mclazarus iPhone distribution troubles are enough to wear anyone out.

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@PrissyCook Are you saying that there are 3.2 feet in your living room? Sounds like a helluva story behind that.

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#winMBP @taptaptap is giving away a $5999 ColorWare STEALTH MacBook Pro to celebrate launching Convert for iPhone! http://taptaptap.com/+LbS

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@paulhuff Let’s just say that it was a big enough idea that I could have went on my own and attracted scads of VC, but I’m not that guy.

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@paulhuff Sorry, but can’t go into details. It would be a new product for a new team or, I guess, an existing team. With or without me.

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Just spent the last 45 minutes pitching a game-changing product idea to a VP and he got it. He actually grokked it.

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“However, we would like to apologise if Mr Wattson felt dissatisfied with the care he received at Great Western Hospital.” http://tr.im/xbUx

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RT @WilliamGreeley When Obama talked about “shovel ready projects,” we didn’t realize he meant old people. [Hahahah!]

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Thinking about this: http://tr.im/x7sL 444 reviews, 154 questions with 225 answers. Amazon has … 1 review. HFS!

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Amazon says I’ll be getting 10.6 between 9/8 and 9/15. I’m debating whether the sales tax is worth it since I’m already using the DP. Hmm…

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Two more classes to document. Home stretch. (Also, I miss .NET’s XML documentation comments.)

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Good introduction to the peak oil fallacy: http://tr.im/x4RN

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Put in request for 10.6 upgrade at work—they must make sure that it plays well with the network first. I’m sure MS has made them gun shy.

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@sanbient Not for a second. Or was that a rhetorical question?

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If you read Gruber’s “mea culpa,” you might notice an absence of responsibility on his part. FSJ hands him some: http://tr.im/x118

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RT @GoldwaterInst: Goldwater and Sheriff Joe; friend or foe?: http://tiny.cc/MCSO [Yay for Foes of Joe!]

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I can’t wait to read the latest @siracusa Mac OS X review: http://tr.im/x0AC They’re almost as exciting as the releases themselves.

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“And besides, Clang is not the boss of me.” - http://bit.ly/e2qCh

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@Carnage4Life I (and many) would say neither if okay, but one has well over a hundred years of inertia and entrenched interests behind it.

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The journey of a 1000 git push origin masters begins with a single git commit.

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@sanbient Looks like I’ll have to buy this before I rent it from Netflix: http://tr.im/wQE6 It’s a great antidote to bad movies.

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One of the takeaways of the RiffTrax Live event is that I can confirm firsthand that “Plan 9 from Outer Space” is the worst movie ever made.

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RiffTrax Live was fantastic! I laughed the entire time. Just terrific: I miss MSTK3000.

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At RiffTrax Live at Desert Ridge. I guess I didn’t have to preorder my tickets. Heh.

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Also, the state legislature banned the use of a national ID: http://tr.im/wLNq Come on, state nullification for freedom!

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Yay, looks like we’ll get another chance to protect our health care freedom in Arizona: http://tr.im/wLMr

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@sanbient I’m glad to hear it!

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Diggnation was better than I expected in some ways but much worse in others. Oh well, at least I didn’t have to pay for it.

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@JivaDeVoe I don’t know if this changes anything but Go Daddy Girl Anna Rawson will be there at 7:30 PM.

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@dclevitt The baby is essentially a parasite in that she is always sated before the host. I wouldn’t worry one bit.

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@mwickens Thanks! Much of that blog entry was window dressing just to set the context for that line.

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@sanbient It’s bittersweet because “the mailbox mainly receives spam and messages for you.” None of which were ever forwarded. Oh well.

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@dclevitt That’s still my primary account. Since my ActiveDirectory and everything else is tied to bcbrown, I don’t dare rock that boat.

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Today is a great day! Nearly three years after he left, I have finally snatched bbrown@godaddy.com from the grasp of my arch-nemesis Bobby.

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You know it’s bad when you have to use scientific notation to indicate your inflation rate: http://tr.im/wEQ1

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I just had my interview for an internal position. I wish it could have been in person since I’m more nasal than usual. I think it went well.

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@garykamen Can’t wait to finally meet you! See you tomorrow…

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Parent in The Girls’ kindergarten class was a *dead ringer* for Kate Austen from Lost.

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Phew, submitted two internal applications with two minutes to spare! Here’s hoping.

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“There are two kinds of programmers: those who do think in terms of trees, and those who do everything with hash tables.” http://tr.im/wqvW

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HFS! Stephen Hawking lived because of private American foundations after the NHS rationed care: http://tr.im/wqkh

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“Today, it seems it is not contemplation we seek but an odd sort of distraction masquerading as being in the know.”

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Listening to The Fountainhead, some of the opinions seem over-the-top. But then I read this… http://tr.im/wptJ

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Actually, it might be due to the fact that my resume was in AppleWorks format and I don’t have that program any longer.

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(Side note: I’m not leaving Go Daddy, just applying for an internal position.)

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I hate updating my resume; it’s been three years since the last time. I can’t decide if it’s a loathing of bullet points or word processing.

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@peterbromberg It’s like they’re not even listening to you!

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From reddit, one of these things is not like the other: http://tr.im/wl7R Heh, too true. It can be a little verbose.

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pbzip2 is parallelized bzip2! http://tr.im/wl7u If you’re on MacPorts, “sudo port install pbzip2” BOOM!

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Love Phoenix, hate downtown.

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@donniefitz2 Go Daddy is sponsoring it or something. Anna Rawson’s going to be there.

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RT @snej: “Wrights’ Law: as any feature debate gets longer, prob. of a mythical user ‘being on an airplane’ approaches 1.” [Too true!]

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304 bytes!?! That tweet was practically that much. Moving on…

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So I see the ObjectAlloc fill its track and I’m panicking! “Ahhhhh, my scroll view isn’t releasing!” Hover over the bar and it’s 304 bytes..

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Class action lawyers are the scum of the earth: http://bit.ly/nU6TR

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Oh yeah! RiffTrax Live on 8/20 is playing just down the street from me: http://www.ncm.com/Fatho…

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I am really intrigued by the idea of the iPhone as home controller: http://tr.im/vGCZ

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@mclazarus At @newclarion we don’t have a queue. We like to keep it loose and fun—blog when you want as much or as little as you want.

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I just early voted and wrote in a candidate! I sure hope “The Second Highest Vote Getter” wins Phoenix City Council District 2.

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I would have preferred Mignon Fogarty, but oh well: http://tr.im/vrYk

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Oh yes. Yes, I’ll take that: http://tr.im/vnek

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Oh my, it’s like we won’t know we eating poop if it’s called feces: http://tr.im/vmiM

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Khalid Shaikh, buh-bye and good riddance: http://tr.im/vkOH

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Finally got my VMWare madness under control. The snapshots had gotten up to 250 GB and I couldn’t delete anything. vmware-vdiskmanager -R!

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Tomorrow I begin listening to The Fountainhead on audiobook for my daily commute. I’m so excited!

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@mwickens when Yaron Brook or the ARI Twitter feed follows him, then I’ll buy that it’s the real deal.

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