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

January 2010

@shlevy Let’s just say that the issue of having children cannot be ignored. If it were physically impossible, it’s a private matter to me.

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@WilliamGreeley Yep, that’s the distortion I was thinking of. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.

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Just found a @tweetie feature: when replying, you can pull down the text input area to reveal the tweet to which you are replying. Slick!

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@WilliamGreeley By “environmentalist policies” do you mean ethanol subsidies? Or something else?

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Just saw a 60-Day Lock costume here at work. Hilarious! I’m still chuckling over it.

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@shlevy That’s fine. My general principle is to avoid neologisms and slang where there already exists sufficient terms.

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@shlevy I suggest you do what you like. I think it’s an abomination and never acceptable but you’re welcome to not care a whit what I think.

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@shlevy Twitter search doesn’t go back very far but nothing in http://tr.im/Ma1y hit the 140 constraint and couldn’t be replaced.

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@shlevy Readers? Followers? How do you refer to your friends? Do you call them your “peeps?”

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(Too subtle? How about: “tweep” is a bastardization of a bastardization that immediately diminishes any respect I have for someone.)

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It’s rare that a good portmanteau springs up. “Tweep” does nothing to decrease that rarity.

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HAH! Evolution of a Python programmer: http://gist.github.com/2…

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@rationaljenn It’s empirically ridiculous. My daughter has a peanut allergy and are not germophobes by a long shot.

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“The end is near when you can bootstrap a new iPad application on an iPad.” Good analysis @ http://tr.im/M1Jp

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@ironicsans How close is Celebration, the Disney planned community? That could be interesting.

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atebits “It’s just a big iPod touch” is the new “less space than a nomad”.

The Mac had a great run, but this is the end of the desktop OS.

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Boy howdy am I feeling every one of those 588 points I just scored on the Obstacle Course on Wii Fit Plus.

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Twitter appears to have been taken over by Beavis and Butthead because of this iPad name. Do any of you need iTP for your iBungHole? *sigh*

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@shlevy Also, I can type faster on my iPhone than I could on my old BlackBerry. That really surprised me, too.

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@shlevy Then we’ll have to just disagree about browsing with touch vs. laptop. To me, the former is perfect though less efficient for text.

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@shlevy Have you used the iPhone to browse? Touch is such a great way to interact with the Web (and anything, really).

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Ugh, you have to be a paying developer program member to get the SDK. Fine, I’ll pay again, Apple. (Annoying how many times I’ve said that.)

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@shlevy A bigger iPhone that you can read a PDF on without incessant pinching to zoom and swiping to get it positioned correctly.

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@shlevy That’s fine. None of those are remotely compelling to me.

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@shlevy Here’s the thing: you will have a Kindle if you buy an iPad http://www.amazon.com/gp…

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Come on, one more thing. No family appreciation closing!

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I wonder if that iPad keyboard dock will work with an iPhone…

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Must. Resist. Reasonable. Pricing. GAH!

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I hate rain. There are places where rain is a feature, like Seattle, and there are places where rain is a bug, like Phoenix.

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@MomentoApp *sniff* That was beautiful. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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“I mean, the invitation is clearly a Rorshach test. You know, think different—I sure do.”

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Nothing like an imminent Apple announcement to bring out the morons. “Uhh, it’s probably gonna use your brain waves for input.”

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@WilliamGreeley Sadly, no TiVo (no cable). I’ll just end up watching online the next day.

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Blurgh! I just realized that the Lockitch event is going on at the same time as the LOST premiere: http://tr.im/LHvS

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I think I’m going to use this to subscribe to blog entries I comment on: http://tr.im/LCId

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Keynes vs. Hayek, an econ rap: http://www.youtube.com/w… Liked it, but 7 1/2 minutes? Too long to be effective, IMHO.

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@mwickens A crank?! I remember leasing phones, party lines, and wanting a non-rotary but that beats all.

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@shlevy You can tell them it’s like a thoughtcast except they took 15 minutes and you had to use your ears to process them.

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@mclazarus I love those generational disconnects. I had two recently about the black and white TVs of my youth and payphones.

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codinghorror I am officially adding “eat some silica gel” to my bucket list.

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@shlevy Make a bar bet at an OCON in 2020. You’ll mop up.

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Mountain Dew is a great flavor for Chapstick.

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@momentoapp Love the app. I’d like a “new moment” button on a date view that would default to that date. I’m annotating tweets.

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Today’s chicken enchilada entrée is exceedingly bland. Which suits me perfectly!

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@rationaljenn nope, never had a crash on either the Mac or iPhone.

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The 101 is ridiculous! It’s been 45 minutes to move 1/4 mile.

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If you want Netflix Streaming on your Wii, here’s the URL to reserve your disc: http://www.netflix.com/I…

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HAHAHAH: “But anyway, we fired the guy, and we’re probably going to sue him too.” http://tr.im/L9LL

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Is there a name for the fear of inadvertently typing “Love,” as a close in a work email or saying “love ya” in a work call? There should be.

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joelkodner I just unlocked the “Nobody Gives a Shit” badge on @foursquare!

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:55 AM, Jan 20th, 2010 via API)

So Scott Brown won. Now let’s get down to the business of making sure socialized medicine never sees the light of day, 1994 style!

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It’s amazing how many comments and replies I’ve made and discarded simply once I realized that I actually didn’t care enough to make them.

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Camel casing works best when you have an excellent command of word breaks. Otherwise, err on the side of less humps.

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“Why don’t you believe God exists?” almost got me there, kid. Classic bedtime stalling technique.

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peterbromberg Too many Screencasts and Videos! Just give me a nice article with code examples, please! What is this, Hollywood?

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DrBobParsons The suffering in Haiti is so sad. GoDaddy.com sent check for $500,000 2 help w/rescue efforts. http://bit.ly/6B1POl

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“The Success Admiral?” That’s a new low even for social media d-bags.

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Also on lunchtime walk, I found the fabled Ford Clubman: http://twitpic.com/xy2yx

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Not sure though if they’ve got pushy salesman trying to sell windshield repair—that’d be full service: http://twitpic.com/xy2p3

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@snej Been there. I had a librarian tell me how to get out of paying my $100+ fine once. No, I earned it. Sadly, it was not my highest fine.

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2 of the 4 blogs I own now disallow comments. I’m firmly in the I-don’t-care-what-you-think camp (or is it the get-your-own blog camp?)

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Long time since I’d read Steve Pavlina. Last I remember, he tried polyphasic sleep. Uh, he’s off in a very different direction. Nevermore.

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@Carnage4Life Even when it’s true, no one ever seems to regard it as helpful.

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I thought Up was terrible, my first Pixar disappointment. It scared my kids a little—they actually declined seeing it again, another first.

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How many more places will Phoenix have to jump before it starts being used as a default in articles and lists like NYC, Chicago, and Boston?

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mod_rewrite, you just lost my business. I guess I’ll just have to accept mixed-case URLs. *sigh* again.

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Feeling the mod_rewrite pain. I had some mod_alias rules working great until I up and decided that I wanted to change some case. *sigh*

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Today was the first recently that I was really looking forward to the kids’ bedtime. If in-laws weren’t here, we might’ve pushed it to 6:30.

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OmniFocus upgrade for the iPhone finally makes the thing a pleasure to use. Before it was functional but tedious; now it’s fast and robust.

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@DrBobParsons But both were caused by government economic intervention in the first place. I’d recommend Woods “Meltdown” http://tr.im/JPOp

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KendallJust Stossell publicizes Rand: http://www.youtube.com/w… please RT!

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Carnage4Life Google censors results related to islam in search suggestions - http://i.imgur.com/BL3Lo…

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@dclevitt Google Chrome: speedy, stable, and minimal screen real estate.

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The Contract From America is intriguing (though unprincipled) as a Tea Party platform: http://tr.im/JHOs

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“That’s not going to be good for business.” “That’s not going to be good for anyone.”: http://tr.im/JHLL

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@JivaDeVoe My understanding was that Maps was an Apple application that integrated with Google Maps, not a Google app on the iPhone.

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@KendallJu In my experience, “few” is an understatement.

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@sanbient I’ve been an old fogey since you were playing with Transformers. Wait, bad example. ;-)

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I’d still have it if Google Voice offered LNP. I gave up waiting, essentially.

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Just cancelled my “land line” with Vonage. I resisted cutting the phone number I’ve had for the last 13 years out of pure sentiment.

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@wildfiction In the script? 100%. I’m almost positive that all-male juries didn’t last past the 19th Amendment.

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@wildfiction I’m not sure if that was a serious question, but I think “12 Angry Men and Women” or “12 Angry People” lacked the same effect.

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@shlevy Yet 1909 was nineteen-oh-nine and 2009 wasn’t twenty-oh-nine. I can’t force myself to care one way or the other how 2010 is said.

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@WilliamGreeley Good to know. I’ve got it in my library but Put off reading it for that reason.

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@peterbromberg Sorry, I guess your client doesn’t show context for replies. It was about domains. I work at the largest domain registrar.

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@peterbromberg I sure hope that never becomes the case. My family will be cast out on the streets, penniless.

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I can report that “isoactive” toothpaste is a marketing gimmick.

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