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

January 2012

This car wash has free popcorn? That’s enough to convince me not to go anywhere else. #simplejoys

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wired The exact date of Ice Cube’s “good day,” arrived at through shrewd deduction. bit.ly/yRjlkv

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drance I honestly had Facebook pegged as the next MySpace. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong.

(h/t @McCarron) yfrog.com/gzc0tmp

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@kim_mcneill I’m right there with you. I also like homework and memorization.

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I just discovered the joys of “With Friends” games with random people. So handy!

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Phew! My sedentary lifestyle caught up with me at that soccer scrum at a kid’s birthday party. But I totally schooled that five-year old!

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@bkaid At least they’re not getting rid of it until May 2012. Notice is something the old Facebook never gave.

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Just printed my W-2 and saw my “contributions” to the welfare state. #feelingstabby

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@mwickens It looks like a homegrown Django app—probably the worst route they could’ve chosen.

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@GoDaddy: It’s certainly the best company I’ve ever worked for! No surprise that it made CNN’s Top 100: http://x.co/cfxk

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@mwickens My thought exactly! Let someone else deal with the infrastructure. They won’t, I’m sure, due to sunk cost fallacy but they should.

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Actually those are only 54 calories because they use raw instead of refined sugar. The cookbook is great, by the way: http://x.co/cXaL

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Just made @chefdevin brownies: http://x.co/cXZM I had forgotten how scrumptious they were. And all for 88 calories!

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I finally got PAL working http://x.co/cUgY and I’ve got to say that it lives up to its name. So handy!

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The idea of this both cracks me up and illustrates why I love programming: http://x.co/cTwA

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I wonder if 4chan or the SA crowd will buy the gTLD .fart (http://x.co/cTtO) just so they can make this a reality: http://x.co/cTtm

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ASULibraries @billbrown We’re glad that was just a bad dream. Sadly, that happens too often. It’s not safe to walk away from laptops, even for a minute.

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Awoken yet again by the same nightmare: I’m checking out some books at Hayden Library at ASU, set my laptop bag down, and it gets stolen.

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@danesparza SuperDuper nightly with weekly-rotating external hard drives.

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Just replaced my failing 2006 21.5” iMac with a 2011 21.5” iMac. No trauma, no drama thanks to regular backups!

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“It is what it is” strikes precisely the same tenor and note as “who is John Galt?”

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I’m at podcast inbox zero. I’m finally caught up on current @managertools and can start on the five-year backlog now.

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jonlovett If Mayans were good at predicting the future, there’d be Mayans.

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On a related note, here’s hoping that 2012 is the Year of No-Attic-Based Home Repairs.

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Every year we get more Christmas paraphernalia. And every year, as Master of the Attic, I have to get more and more creative logistically.

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Legal fireworks and honey crisp apples. 2011 was a year for new experiences.

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