Tweets from 2010
January
2010-01-01 06:31:48
This year is already off to a great start.
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2010-01-01 15:15:49
#1yearago I was listening to the sound of exploding firecrackers from a cabin in Pak Chong, Thailand.
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2010-01-01 21:06:37
Too. Much. Coffee.
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2010-01-01 23:54:32
Chinese takeout noms and a office rearrangement in progress. Pretty good year so far.
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2010-01-02 00:54:10
#10yearsago I started out the new decade in a hot tub at a party that made all of 2000 a distinctly horizon broadening year for me.
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2010-01-02 02:26:28
Starting to think I'm officially sick. Thought it was just too much coffee, but now I'm fed and don't feel any better.
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2010-01-02 03:41:52
It's 2010: that's why I have a wireless touch screen $180 computer connected to a limitless network of knowledge in my palm.
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2010-01-02 03:57:32
Picked this flier at the library. Not sure what it means that only the one box is checked.
http://yfrog.com/335y4j
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2010-01-02 15:54:28
Another month of my life converted from paper to digital bits. Good times!
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2010-01-03 01:43:23
Does it seem like a bad idea to do development on a server named chaos?
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2010-01-03 15:05:01
Anyone for breakfast in Parkville or Towson?
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2010-01-03 17:11:57
Angie's List helpfully reminded me to keep searching for a basement waterproofer today. Like Wentworth River under the stairs doesn't.
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2010-01-03 17:46:10
@ralban Your recommendations haven't failed me yet!
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2010-01-03 19:09:33
I wonder how much retail cigarette sales drop the first three weeks after January 1.
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2010-01-03 21:51:40
Wondering how hard it would be to attach a drink holder to my new desk chair. Moving from table to table leaves my beer far away.
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2010-01-03 23:22:44
Deeply considering the possibility of some pizza delivery.
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2010-01-04 01:20:15
Home office reorganization for 2010 is complete!
http://flic.kr/p/7sSPyk
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2010-01-04 03:14:43
Okay, now I'm just kind of bored.
http://flic.kr/p/7sYMqJ
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2010-01-05 17:22:14
"Are you feeling threatened by the burger man?" -- @amandaudoff
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2010-01-05 17:47:14
Today is a good day to be happy.
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2010-01-05 23:28:33
This day has been a mixed bag so far.
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2010-01-06 19:39:29
RT @citythatbreeds: MAYOR DIXON ATE A BABY WHILE RESIGNING 100% FACT #dixontrial
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2010-01-06 21:21:29
Today is a little out of focus. Hoping the evening chores clear out my brain a little.
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2010-01-07 17:53:27
DOCSIS modem/router/WAP combo on my Verizon FIOS is crap. Second unresponsive hang in a week. Might have to plug direct to ONT ethernet.
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2010-01-07 18:17:25
@gotwalt If it hangs then I still have no service beyond it.
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2010-01-07 18:47:11
"It's like Beatboxing, but with fart noises. It actually sounds kind of cool. That's the worst part."
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2010-01-07 19:03:01
@jongaynor I don't have any TV or phone service, just FIOS Internet.
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2010-01-07 19:03:49
@ralban I believe I have the MI424WR. Maybe it just can't handle all the in and out connections coming from my house.
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2010-01-09 02:36:33
"He's storing it in his pouches for later. He is the beer squirrel."
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2010-01-09 03:15:11
"So every girl I saw in an orange sweater, I was checking out her boots. I said BOOTS. I saw you making the I heard boobs face."
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2010-01-10 02:00:50
Wireless AP on a BoltBus at White Marsh mall made my iPod think I was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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2010-01-10 22:29:49
Enjoying Django. Got to learn the inside of some of the magic (framework) I've been taking for granted to change minor behavior.
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2010-01-11 23:03:30
Join us for burgers and beer at Hamilton Tavern tonight at 6:30 pm. $12 for local source burger, Resurrection and chips.
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2010-01-11 23:35:14
I'm at Hamilton Tavern (5517 Harford Rd, at Wisteria Ave, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-01-11 23:58:15
The wait here gets longer every week.
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2010-01-12 18:53:58
Speed camera truck at 695 east in the york road work zone.
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2010-01-12 19:13:44
Looks like the SMS delivery was delayed a few hours. Speed truck was there at 9am, not necessarily 1pm when the tweet went out.
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2010-01-12 22:50:49
Off to St. Joe hospital for a county radio exercise, but first, a head-sized burrito at Chipotle.
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2010-01-13 02:04:38
Is this day over yet? I'm beat.
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2010-01-13 02:38:55
RT @CenterMaryland: Welcome to MD's most comprehensive nonprofit news site with original reporting, aggregated news, and centrist opinio ...
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2010-01-13 14:46:41
Women: "in D.C., don't bring more than two condoms in your purse, or you could be arrested as a prostitute."
http://bit.ly/6uoXij
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2010-01-13 22:29:00
Your thoughts: where am I likely to get more work done tonight? Home
http://flic.kr/p/7sSPykor @redemmashttp://flic.kr/p/6ojGoU?
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2010-01-14 03:21:56
Home was the wrong answer to my previous question, but I have no idea what the right answer might be.
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2010-01-14 20:42:03
Are you having a lousy day? Here's a kitten in a basket.
http://flic.kr/p/52uYW2
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2010-01-14 21:15:53
@howardjp That's only because you learned git between SVN and Hg. If you learned it CVS->SVN->Hg->git it would all seem reasonable.
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2010-01-15 14:30:03
Today is a good day to be happy, considering the roman numeral representation of this year is MMX.
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2010-01-15 16:10:18
My mortgage payments are 19.5% of my gross income. For every week I work, the first 7.8 hours belong to the house.
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2010-01-16 15:48:48
9 years, 170000 miles.
http://flic.kr/p/7w9815
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2010-01-16 17:03:19
BGE bill up 91% over last month. 51% more electric, 185% more gas. $320. Welcome winter. End soon.
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2010-01-16 17:51:31
Revalued my car on Edmunds on a hunch, and its now worth $2,197 in private sale at 170k, worth way more to keep running.
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2010-01-16 18:36:44
MD MVA: "Amateur Radio Operator registration plates must be surrendered immediately upon suspension of the FCC license."
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2010-01-16 18:55:32
Guess I made it seem like I am having money trouble. I'm fine. It's all this fretting and calculation that helps me hold on to it.
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2010-01-16 21:06:40
At my "standing desk" in a dark empty room of my house for high-level architecture thinking. Impossible to do in fluorescent-lit cube.
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2010-01-16 21:08:32
Did I mention I'm also wearing earplugs?
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2010-01-16 21:15:34
@dj_kittycat Has nothing to do with computers and everything to do with heaters, appliances, and holiday lighting.
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2010-01-16 23:14:33
Good thing I consider 5 pages of tightly handwritten system design notes on grid paper as "progress," cuz that's what I've got.
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2010-01-18 05:22:33
I wonder what percentage of hours I can work this "holiday" out of the 24. Aiming for a solid 65%.
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2010-01-18 05:34:53
The "retro profile picture" fad where you post a picture of you from 15 years ago makes Facebook look like every dating website.
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2010-01-18 15:26:32
Played "The Warrior Song" for Caitlin yesterday. She called it a testosterone festival. Can't disagree.
http://ow.ly/XKT2
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2010-01-18 15:28:51
RT @HamiltonTavern: MONDAY = Crosstown Burger or Veggie Burger + Seasoned Fries + Pint of Select Draft = $12
http://bit.ly/8qLPiu
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2010-01-18 23:34:47
Sitting at the bar at @redemmas deciding what to do next.
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2010-01-19 19:11:45
The office coffee is so very terrible today.
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2010-01-19 19:21:05
@AliciaStill There's always Playa del Fuego planning.
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2010-01-19 19:38:09
@kendallmiller Thanks, you saved the day. Mmm Obsidian.
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2010-01-19 22:17:24
Anybody want to meet up for Taco Night at Clementine on Harford Road with me and @amandaudoff?
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2010-01-19 23:05:39
0-5 mph #baltraffic
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2010-01-19 23:46:08
I'm at Clementine (5402 Harford Road, Gibbons Avenue, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5wXUUj
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2010-01-21 01:51:32
Ginger is supposed to be good for soothing the stomach, so a pound of ginger snap cookies should be WAY better than that! Right?
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2010-01-21 16:21:36
Women with vaguely British accents singing wistfully through a talk-box make my knees go weak. To wit: Mistigris, Imogen Heap.
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2010-01-21 17:41:50
Just checked in on my e-mail box: 252 messages behind. How does this happen so quickly?
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2010-01-21 18:33:36
Nominated as honorary social media organizer for the company. Good or bad to be known as resident Facebook and Twitter expert?
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2010-01-21 18:41:21
@chelandria Got to remind the folks at my neighborhood association what I look like, so I'm committed to the meeting tonight. Sat maybe?
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2010-01-21 20:46:36
@TomLoveland Difficult to conceal a social media affinity. That would pretty much defeat the entire purpose of it.
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2010-01-22 01:49:10
A front door to back door tidying of first floor common areas (including litter and dishes) takes 32 minutes a week if I keep up.
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2010-01-22 04:59:17
There's nothing left in my inbox that can't wait until tomorrow. Time to get a good night's sleep to prepare for an awesome day tomorrow.
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2010-01-23 22:40:15
Congrats to @tomloveland, named Friday to the Rawlings-Blake economic development transition team.
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2010-01-24 00:53:43
Inbox zero! Now for to-do list zero.
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2010-01-24 01:30:44
I'm at Hamilton Tavern (5517 Harford Rd, at Wisteria Ave, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-01-24 01:45:31
Giant beer!
http://flic.kr/p/7xVcf7/via @amandaudoff
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2010-01-24 07:53:10
Sleep is elusive. Not sure why. Wouldn't be so bad if I could still think straight. Trying again...
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2010-01-24 23:08:03
I'm at Red Maple (930 N Charles St, @ Eager St, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5WEAe8
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2010-01-25 22:32:48
I titled my task list "To Be Done" until a college roommate asked how I expected to do anything on a page titled in passive voice.
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2010-01-26 00:09:11
@scott_cover Hello old Hamilton Tavern mayor!
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2010-01-26 14:28:35
#baltraffic Speed camera truck 695 west at York
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2010-01-26 17:29:49
Google Alerts quote of the day: "[S]he traded nudes with Rob Carlson for fucks sake."
http://bit.ly/c79Diy
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2010-01-26 18:34:03
To clear up any confusion, aforementioned Rob Carlson is not me.
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2010-01-26 19:09:14
The Cato Daily Podcast is very interesting.
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2010-01-27 01:28:11
I'm at Clementine w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5wXUUj
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2010-01-27 16:38:38
@DCTenor1 What are they inspecting?
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2010-01-27 20:38:43
Snow expected Saturday. I'll be inside painting. Seems like a good combo.
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2010-01-27 21:47:38
Well hell, this day's been worthless. Hoping for better evening.
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2010-01-29 00:02:13
Between the cold and the wind I'm wiped out for the day. Might reconsider after a nap.
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2010-01-29 16:15:23
Life is good.
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2010-01-31 05:40:57
Idly wondering how much electricity my cats flowing water dish consumes in a year. At 9 watts: 78.8 kwh or $32.32. Seems high.
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2010-01-31 05:53:56
Big tree branch fell across the Comcast coax today. Luckily it caught the branch soundly and protected my FIOS line from harm.
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February
2010-02-01 03:52:48
Painting and new bedroom decor complete. Almost two 15 hour days of work.
http://flic.kr/p/7zN9GK
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2010-02-01 03:55:20
Before:
http://flic.kr/p/64YjVDAfter:http://flic.kr/p/7zN9GK
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2010-02-02 00:10:44
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-02-02 02:30:51
Interminable Uno.
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2010-02-02 14:45:55
Can't speak highly enough of my cool mist humidifier penguin.
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2010-02-02 23:02:07
Snowing here.
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2010-02-03 01:45:19
Listening to the detective's (ISU) channel on the scanner, some sort of drop-off/vehicle follow going on. Interesting stuff.
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2010-02-03 03:24:05
My Eee PC gets consistent 8% ping loss on the wifi, but my MacBook doesn't have any. Wonder if its hardware or software?
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2010-02-03 14:52:58
Cat just knocked full coffee on to both laptops, work papers, chair. All electronics fried, papers ruined. Typing from iPod. FML.
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2010-02-03 15:36:10
Damage is not as bad as I'd feared but not as good as I'd hoped. Worst part: can't work from home without a computer. Headed to office.
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2010-02-03 15:59:04
#baltraffic Speed camera truck 695 west at York
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2010-02-03 17:53:37
New unibody MBP on order. Even if I can recover the old one, I'm not going to trust it for long.
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2010-02-03 21:03:51
I suppose that any well-used composition book is going to get a few coffee stains on it. It held up better than the laptops did.
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2010-02-03 21:41:40
Day one of 4 lbs of Jelly Belly beans in the candy dish on my desk. Already a distinct dent from passing foot traffic.
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2010-02-03 23:45:43
Recovered Eee PC from coffee of doom. Have hopes for the MBP survival in a few days. Maybe sell and recoup some new MBP cost.
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2010-02-04 00:23:37
I'm at Hamilton Tavern (5517 Harford Rd, at Wisteria Ave, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-02-04 02:03:50
MacBook Pro disassembly is much easier than the G4 in so many ways
http://flic.kr/p/7Avc7t
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2010-02-04 22:27:01
Everyone is allowed to work from home tomorrow! Thank you #snowpocalypse!
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2010-02-05 02:30:35
Coffee covered MacBook Pro spins up. Reassembly in progress.
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2010-02-05 05:19:55
Final verdict on coffee-dosed laptop: keyboard assembly inoperative. Need to replace it, everything else seems OK.
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2010-02-05 05:21:38
Wegmans produce section picked clean. Packaged meat shelves half empty. Milk was surprisingly plentiful. #snOMG
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2010-02-05 15:41:40
@davetroy I thought mine was about double, but 3x could be right.
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2010-02-05 16:04:40
As Baltimore City and Baltimore County change their snow emergency status, I'll try to post it here as soon as I can.
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2010-02-05 16:56:26
Snow questions? Baltimore City: 410-396-SNOW. Baltimore County: 410-887-3560.
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2010-02-05 20:23:55
RT @mrmatt57: Stocking up for the storm
http://img.ly/siy
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2010-02-06 14:59:22
Baltimore County folks: Please reply with your location, snow depth, temperature, whether your road and around are passable.
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2010-02-06 15:06:25
@tadmaster How you guys holding up over there? Need any milk or TP?
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2010-02-06 15:29:22
@derekharmel Good luck without power!
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2010-02-06 18:06:43
My car is just a white bump in the driveway.
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2010-02-06 19:39:46
I don't see the logic of shoveling out while the flakes are still falling, and seemingly getting fluffier. Godspeed to neighbors tho.
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2010-02-06 22:19:34
Mid-leap into a snowbank. #snowpocalypse
http://flic.kr/p/7B68oH
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2010-02-07 17:05:03
"She looks like a lemur but she moves like a sloth."
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2010-02-07 17:52:18
Today is a great day to tackle my paper inbox stack. It was up to a foot high, already back down to a few inches.
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2010-02-07 18:33:45
If you live in Baltimore County please reply to me with your neighborhood situation and road conditions to relay to EOC.
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2010-02-08 01:24:11
It's possible "The Back-Up Plan" could be as bad as it looks, but its almost definitely worse.
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2010-02-08 02:07:04
Thanks to @virchow @dj_kittycat @falfenix @thephotogirl @nealcrovo @timkrahling @kendallmiller for neighborhood snow reports.
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2010-02-08 02:38:54
Know what I was done with before it even started? Screaming chickens.
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2010-02-08 04:31:47
Can't imagine that there will be county garbage collection tomorrow, but I know there will be if I put nothing out tonight.
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2010-02-08 04:35:37
Would be nice to know if permissive telecommuting was in effect tomorrow, but I doubt any e-mail will show before 7am, if at all.
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2010-02-08 14:00:04
@chelandria At least not spilled on a laptop. :-/
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2010-02-08 15:13:34
@janewynn Did you see all the articles about how membership holders basically get left with nothing?
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2010-02-08 22:23:44
Headed to @hamiltontavern with @amandaudoff in her 4WD jeep. Anyone daring enough to join us at 5:45?
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2010-02-08 22:25:21
I admit that hearing "Dispatch to Hummer One" on the fire dispatch makes me chuckle on the inside.
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2010-02-08 23:36:20
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-02-09 14:23:59
Couldn't get car out of the driveway to get into work today. Working from home for the 17th consecutive hour today.
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2010-02-09 14:40:03
I hear BGE is predicting outages, so the big deep cycle battery and all laptops are back on the charger.
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2010-02-09 19:02:28
My porch awning is less likely to collapse now thanks to a broomstick and Caitlin and @amandaudoff cheering me on.
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2010-02-09 19:03:07
Snow in 21234. This is just the first round.
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2010-02-09 22:03:27
The county plow came up the street right before the snow started falling. I don't know whether to be annoyed or grateful.
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2010-02-09 22:20:28
@amandaudoff At least we still have streaming Netflix to keep us all sane.
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2010-02-09 22:58:33
My holiday lights still look lovely against the snowscape.
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2010-02-10 01:24:20
"Ow! He stepped on my uterus!" Cabin fever sets in. #snOMG
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2010-02-10 03:46:47
My best work gets done late at night after my brain quiets down. Sometimes you just have to go with the biorhythms.
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2010-02-10 15:11:23
Blizzard in Baltimore, 3.8 earthquake in Chicago. Wow.
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2010-02-10 15:34:11
Office connection is saturated today, making RDC more difficult than usual.
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2010-02-10 15:41:30
Snow Emergency Phase 3 just announced. NO ONE (except for emergency vehicles) is allowed on the city streets. (via @RyanatMGH)
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2010-02-10 16:27:55
@tadmaster Let me know if you're interested in more folks for Uno. :)
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2010-02-10 18:35:51
Accepting neighborhood situation reports to relay to Baltimore County EOC. Please reply here or to rob@vees.net before 1:40pm.
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2010-02-10 18:39:56
@janewynn From the Towerlight:
http://bit.ly/99ctaR
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2010-02-10 18:57:36
Listening to the scanner and two ham radios and watching WebEOC in my home office. Girlfriend calls it "hot."
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2010-02-10 19:56:55
Send Baltimore County neighborhood situation reports to me by 3:15pm. Temp, snow depth, roads, power. Will relay to EOC via radio.
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2010-02-10 20:16:56
Cats getting along together
http://flic.kr/p/7C4Gtn
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2010-02-10 20:49:56
What's the best way to measure snowfall out there? I can't give a good number to the county. I got 7.5", Caitlin came back in with 11.
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2010-02-10 22:52:19
@EliW Predicted when?
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2010-02-12 21:47:42
"How do you spell baggery? As in douchebaggery? Is it A-R-Y or just R-Y?" --@pseudolus
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2010-02-13 00:06:07
Damn, it's Friday already.
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2010-02-13 04:17:51
Enjoying my first five hours alone in the last six days.
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2010-02-13 16:17:46
@thekatermom Teaching moment for washing machine operation?
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2010-02-14 00:37:55
My Wii bowling skills are declining with every beer. Shocker, that.
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2010-02-14 22:02:14
I'm at evergreen cafe w/ 2 others.
http://4sq.com/aEMAgo
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2010-02-17 18:45:29
Rick just unveiled a giant gong to ring in the office to celebrate the arrival of new work. Everyone is very amused.
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2010-02-17 19:32:45
Irony is dairy farmers dumping milk in a snowstorm.
http://ow.ly/18nUx
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2010-02-18 23:15:40
695 east at 795 parking lot #baltraffic
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2010-02-19 23:28:07
On 2/3 I put four pounds of jelly belly beans in my cookie jar. Today the last four were consumed. That's .3 lbs per work day.
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2010-02-21 17:17:59
Warfish is back. I am soothed.
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2010-02-23 17:53:56
Today is a good day to be happy about the little joys that life gives us.
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2010-02-23 22:50:00
695 w at 795 solid jam to 83 n #baltraffic
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2010-02-24 00:05:22
Google Voice: "At a more sensible hour than me, I don't know why I've been there" = "My son clarinet me know why the message"
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2010-02-24 15:54:52
In the last few weeks, commuting on the Baltimore beltway has become almost unbearable.
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2010-02-25 14:49:06
My job is to convert coffee and business problems into pee and technical solutions.
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2010-02-25 14:55:38
A very happy second 29th birthday anniversary to @tanzabear!
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2010-02-25 15:56:47
Kirkland cleverly named their cetirizine "Aller-Tec" and loratadine "AllerClear."
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2010-02-25 16:02:02
@ahsonwardak Neither is prescription, and both are pretty harmless. Not sure why you mention that.
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2010-02-25 16:09:45
@ahsonwardak In this case it could actually be clearer to the customer: AllerClear=Claritin and Aller-Tec=Zyrtec.
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2010-02-27 01:09:26
I'm at Kali's Mezze w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/bIyiLZ
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2010-02-27 03:00:38
"The dog just keeps the grizzly bears away and eats a moose all week."
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March
2010-03-01 23:39:29
Finally closed the smalltimore connection loop with @mdith the other night after intro by @amandaudoff.
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2010-03-02 00:00:21
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-03-02 13:24:50
@kenleyneufeld I hoped I'd see one of these in my feed one day.
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2010-03-03 00:32:43
At some point I'll stop feeling like its significant that I'm not going to Playa del Fuego.
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2010-03-03 14:39:14
Downloaded the first SXSW 2010 unofficial torrent, now listening to the first of 646 new songs on my iPod.
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2010-03-03 14:41:37
@derekharmel Anger helps me clean.
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2010-03-04 16:24:45
Back up to 435 e-mails in my inbox, many more in the to-do list. Not sure how that happened.
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2010-03-04 16:52:40
@BaltimoreGal Google Reader appears to be down too.
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2010-03-04 19:22:23
U. of PA adds sexual orientation to their admissions application. Wonder if there is a choice for "L/B/G until graduation."
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2010-03-04 22:19:18
I'm on the fence about @ignitebaltimore tonight. Anyone interested in my ticket?
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2010-03-04 22:24:40
@chelandria Thanks!
http://yfrog.com/62pczj
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2010-03-04 22:37:39
@jmichaliga I sent you a text.
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2010-03-04 22:39:29
@jmichaliga I sent you a text.
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2010-03-04 22:42:05
@jmichaliga Text me back.
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2010-03-07 04:28:24
Cat unclear on the operation of water dish.
http://yfrog.com/dylabvj
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2010-03-07 21:32:55
Emerging from my food illness induced stupor with saltines and Gatorade.
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2010-03-09 00:13:07
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-03-09 22:40:53
Bad choices in the last 24 hours: medium burger and fries, chicken pad thai, oreo cookies, mountain dew.
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2010-03-11 00:13:37
I'm at Hamilton Tavern (5517 Harford Rd, at Wisteria Ave, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-03-12 01:37:09
My CLI BitTorrent client was failing randomly, discovered tonight it is a per-process open file limit.
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2010-03-12 20:09:49
My analytical brain is stalled. Need to figure out how to snap it back into the right mode.
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2010-03-15 19:41:14
Metro Transit PD says smart-phone and electronic device thefts are up, and to sit away from the doors to listen to your iPod.
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2010-03-15 20:20:25
Joints in my fingers are super painful today. A weekend of hacking on a low-travel, high-impact keyboard was a big mistake.
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2010-03-15 22:59:20
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-03-16 23:34:45
Anyone interested in Taco Night at Clementine? Headed out there in like 15 min.
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2010-03-17 17:37:59
Today we demo a rapid prototype that works great, looks fantastic, and was made in under two person-weeks. Go us!
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2010-03-18 03:40:45
Finished rounding up paperwork for my taxes. Turns out I was a real scrooge in 2009. Two digit charitable contributions. Oops.
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2010-03-21 12:08:35
"That's baby monkey Icarus. He died. He fell out of a tree. That's why you don't name a baby monkey Icarus."
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2010-03-21 23:40:28
"Less talking more rum and punch."
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2010-03-24 20:02:37
Of all the SCUBA equipment that could have malfunctioned today, I'm glad it was just my camera enclosure seals.
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2010-03-25 13:39:10
First late morning all week. First boat leaves at 11. I can handle that. Camera still roasting in desiccant.
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2010-03-25 14:59:59
RIP Canon SD600. 3 years, 4 months and 19,052 pictures.
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2010-03-25 15:05:56
Invasive Lionfish are a serious matter here, but I can't help but laugh at the phrase "venemous anal spines."
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2010-03-26 20:28:08
Opened CDC article "Annual Rate of Injury Episodes for Leading Causes of Injury, by Sex." Sadly they meant "divided by gender."
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2010-03-26 21:10:15
On a big wooden boat, watching the sunset.
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2010-03-26 23:26:31
@kendallmiller I had no idea! Congrats!
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2010-03-27 22:01:33
Sad that Sprint won't offer me service w/o a 2 year contract. Would do a year and pay for equipment up front, but 2 is too long.
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2010-03-29 17:44:44
Old Saturn models from the 90s still put out a noticeable birdie on 146.52 MHz. Passed one in the GSP this weekend.
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2010-03-29 20:29:33
Perry Hall man kills home invader. Via @BaltimoreSun:
http://ow.ly/1skeq
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2010-03-30 15:44:28
MiFi: Verizon vs. Sprint? Looking for advice.
http://vees.livejournal.com/215449.html
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2010-03-30 19:36:06
@mlcalderone Congrats on the Yahoo job. Heard /via @dcrtv.
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2010-03-30 19:57:56
Photographed these silvery egg-shaped things inside coral on a Bonaire reef. Any ideas what they are?
http://flic.kr/p/7N9WVv
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2010-03-30 20:42:21
Baltimore County Office of Emergency Management is now sending community alerts on Twitter as @BACOemergency.
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2010-03-30 20:59:23
@LiXarDoh Thanks, good identification.
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April
2010-04-01 17:11:12
Chévere. Because nothing says revolution like a bottle of wine.
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2010-04-02 00:20:02
Maybe I'm drinking the Kool-Aid, but Google Sidle doesn't sound half bad. Free food...
http://bit.ly/9eQsR1
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2010-04-03 16:26:07
Headed out to be a classic DC tourist at the Cherry Blossoms, except I will still shout "STAND RIGHT WALK LEFT" on the Metro.
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2010-04-03 16:36:20
@kn0thing Charge them interest if you fail to negative pay.
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2010-04-03 19:37:04
Anyone else down here by the Washington Monument? Direct or call 5409998337.
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2010-04-03 20:43:30
Resting with Caitlin in the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial. Blossoms are lovely.
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2010-04-03 23:15:33
"I'm going to come out of this city with some cake in my hand."
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2010-04-04 17:16:27
Combining a few of my favorite things: being outdoors, using a standing desk, writing code, and Car Talk.
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2010-04-04 19:32:17
Grass, leaves, slop, grass, leaves, slop, grass, leaves. That's how you make a compost pile.
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2010-04-04 20:38:07
@thekatermom Always funny to watch you guys do something over the fence, then read about it on Twitter.
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2010-04-04 20:45:42
@tadmaster Scarier because I didn't realize until you sent the picture that the fire had started up from the ashes again.
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2010-04-04 23:38:50
My VISA number was copied and re-striped onto a fake card in Laredo, Texas. Chase caught it and is sending me a new one.
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2010-04-05 03:07:16
Wonder why my back is sore - then realize I was shoveling compost and dragging enormous garbage bags to the curb today.
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2010-04-05 17:31:19
@dj_kittycat Can't put a sprinkler out?
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2010-04-05 19:54:17
I no longer have a cell phone. This makes me very happy.
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2010-04-05 20:01:54
The internet surrounds me in a soothing bubble of 4G wifi. I am connected and content.
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2010-04-06 14:44:59
Today is a good day to be happy.
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2010-04-06 16:20:11
Court: FCC has no power to regulate Net neutrality - CNET News:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20001825-38.html
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2010-04-06 19:24:53
Temperature report: 77.9 (inside), 87.5 (outside), 140.0 (laptop cpu), 71.6 (server hdd).
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2010-04-06 20:07:39
One day in, and I'm fairly impressed with the Sprint Overdrive. I have had to reboot it a few times after a lot of activity.
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2010-04-06 21:58:09
695 e at Stevenson 0-10 mph #baltraffic
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2010-04-07 03:06:43
T-Mobile was so sorry to see me unsubscribe. It was actually sort of sweet.
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2010-04-07 12:49:16
795 ramp to Owings Mills/RT road - Accident cleanup left shoulder slowing #baltraffic
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2010-04-07 13:17:14
Water outage in Central Baltimore County. Try to minimize your water use as much as possible so pressure lasts longer.
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2010-04-07 17:37:45
695 WEST at Stevenson debris in lane 2 wheelbarrow just dropped from pickup #baltraffic @mdsha
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2010-04-07 21:42:09
Why isn't anyone making any global warming jokes today?
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2010-04-08 11:15:06
RT @disappearinjon: Vegan at Slate says it's OK to eat oysters:
http://www.slate.com/id/2248998/
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2010-04-08 11:58:59
695 west at Loch Raven minor accident in right exit lane #baltraffic
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2010-04-08 15:55:02
Omeprazole and I have different favorite spots on the Bristol scale.
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2010-04-08 21:47:40
Disabled vehicle right lane Reisterstown road northbound at Tollgate. Police on scene. #baltraffic
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2010-04-09 02:20:49
Stupid body, sleep is for the weak. There's code to write!
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2010-04-09 23:19:56
Car fire 695 outer b/n 83s big delays #baltraffic
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2010-04-10 22:12:39
At Frank Gasparro historical placard.
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2010-04-10 23:25:01
Bite to eat before the Jerzy Jung show at Tin Angel. D me to hang out.
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2010-04-10 23:44:26
Jerzy Jung show. (@ Tin Angel)
http://4sq.com/7va9YL
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2010-04-11 01:54:39
I'm at The Khyber (56 South 2nd St, btw Chestnut and Market, Philadelphia) w/ 2 others.
http://4sq.com/1HG1yD
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2010-04-12 15:16:50
Today is a good day to be happy and eat homemade sourdough bread.
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2010-04-13 16:31:41
This KFC can't keep up with the Double Down demand. @pseudolus has to wait for his to get cooked.
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2010-04-13 16:55:10
@ralban And more!
http://yfrog.com/eu3rorj
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2010-04-14 01:51:57
Eight days phone-free! It feels fantastic. Outside work, an invasive ring will never interrupt a reverie or evening out (or in).
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2010-04-14 03:49:17
@shanselman Have an Overdrive for a week and love it.
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2010-04-14 22:29:58
@shanselman it's the Sprint 4g spot. Can be flaky after extended (4 hr) use. Nothing a hard reset doesn't fix.
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2010-04-15 18:31:52
@thursdayb Did they forge the postmark? They can get in a lot of trouble for that.
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2010-04-16 13:58:39
Worst allergy day so far this year.
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2010-04-16 18:57:46
Nothing soothes me quite like an empty e-mail box.
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2010-04-17 23:48:24
Such a relief to have disposed of my 75 pounds of personal documents at the BBB shredding event today.
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2010-04-18 15:20:39
FourSquare is already a silly game based around VENUES, Adding transient events like parades and your own house is lame.
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2010-04-20 23:10:28
Foxtrot over Govans
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2010-04-21 22:12:51
It took me until 8pm to realize that yesterday was 4/20. I remember when that used to be important.
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2010-04-21 22:32:05
Disabled truck right lane eastbound Northern Parkway past Charles Street. #baltraffic
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2010-04-21 22:50:37
RT @jbaumann72: There should be a foursquare workaholic badge for checking in too often at work.
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2010-04-22 14:09:52
BoltBus responds to St Paul bike lane issue... with a reasonable answer.
http://blog.cyclosity.com/?p=1840
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2010-04-23 18:07:57
@elvestinkle I love my cloud.
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2010-04-24 18:08:05
@pseudolus Turns out just under 1400 rain barrels sold out in 3 hours.
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2010-04-24 21:53:16
Local ham walking past my car saw my license plate and tried to recruit me to Salem County (NJ) ARES/RACES.
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2010-04-26 19:29:06
Really enjoying Weapon of 2010 remix by Fatboy Slim and Lazy Rich on Radio 538 Dance Department. Redone classics are awesome.
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2010-04-27 13:01:15
3 veh acc ol 695 bn rt rd and 795 #baltraffic
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2010-04-27 13:07:26
695 outer at 795 lane 1 closed. No delays. #baltraffic
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2010-04-28 17:41:41
New couches delivered. Highlight of my day.
http://flic.kr/p/7X4487
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2010-04-28 19:21:46
Turns out May 8th, 2010 is National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day. I just thought you should know that.
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2010-04-30 13:15:02
Congratulations to @moodlerooms on moving out of the tech incubator and into their very own space!
http://ow.ly/1F8Rg
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2010-04-30 15:00:38
Two days of every AZ police agency demanding citizenship papers from every white suburbanite would end this thing completely.
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2010-04-30 16:14:09
Apple-themed cake for our CIO's office birthday party. Pic by @tomloveland.
http://yfrog.com/izyullj
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2010-04-30 19:10:09
"Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty," - Bill Maher
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May
2010-05-01 21:12:04
Ordered a pizza from Pizza Polo in Parkville using FoodTec Solutions, was a bad experience.
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2010-05-01 22:46:11
@ralban The pizza there is good when it arrives, but I'd recommend ordering by phone.
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2010-05-03 18:35:00
Got Downfall from Netflix so I could watch the bunker room Hitler meme scene with the actual subtitles, then mailed it back.
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2010-05-03 19:53:08
First book I ordered on Amazon was @yesthattom's Practice of System Administration. He signed it the next week at Old Bay SAGE.
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2010-05-04 17:49:40
Does anyone have an old USB to WiFi adapter they're not using? I could use one, don't want to buy new.
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2010-05-05 14:56:33
When writing documentation, the "Remove Formatting" function is the most useful. Control-Space in Word, Control-M in OpenOffice.
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2010-05-05 20:25:50
The Sharp Boys mix of Boy George's Amazing Grace has a sample that sounds exactly like my desk phone ringing. Bad form!
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2010-05-06 14:35:50
The last Tech Plus class license will expire on June 12, 2010. /via @ARRL
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2010-05-06 19:19:04
Anticipating a sharp decline in my net worth after all my retirement funds report their value at the close of the market today.
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2010-05-06 20:14:27
Traders have been waiting for weeks for some signal of badness. They got it today in an error and all piled on.
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2010-05-07 16:48:24
WBALTV: "Animal Shelters Wave Adoption, Shot Fees For Cats." As Google would say: did you mean "waive"?
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2010-05-10 13:20:49
Was able to video conference my sister in Chicago to join my family at my grandmother's nursing home in NJ for mother's day.
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2010-05-10 14:54:37
The burrito lunch truck just rolled into the office park.
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2010-05-10 16:58:59
Drove at the 45 mph speed limit on the Garden State Parkway between Toms River and Manahawkin this weekend. It was surreal.
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2010-05-10 20:54:20
"KittenWar totally stressed me out. I mean, how can you choose between kittens?"
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2010-05-10 23:40:52
I'm at Hamilton Tavern (5517 Harford Rd, at Wisteria Ave, Baltimore).
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-05-11 21:51:30
Anyone up for a quick bite in Towson between now and 7pm?
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2010-05-12 15:49:32
Does SONY hate our troops?
http://ow.ly/1Kahd
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2010-05-12 20:57:06
It's interesting which people in the office are envious of my portrait-rotated monitor.
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2010-05-13 16:01:16
I think I'm about to become the mayor of BJ's, if you know what I mean.
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2010-05-13 20:11:18
Will I ever get used to blue M&Ms?
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2010-05-13 21:07:23
RT @OpenCongress: Sen. Murkowski [R, AK] today blocked a bill designed to ensure that BP pays the full cost of the spill:
http://bit.ly/...
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2010-05-13 22:11:48
The @bacoacs meeting tonight got cancelled. Now I'm irritated with no plans.
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2010-05-14 00:06:21
"We didn't fail, we just achieved a non-positive success rate." -Bill Carlson
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2010-05-14 04:23:19
Rereading chapter on trust from @berkun's Project Managament book. Critically important and yet so easy to forget.
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2010-05-14 04:39:47
I've been Tweeting since March 11, 2007 (1160 days). HT @amandaudoff for the link.
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2010-05-14 13:56:07
My experiment of "Internet-Free Sunday" begins again this weekend.
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2010-05-14 15:56:22
"If a cop stops me in Arizona and says "papers" and I say "scissors", do I win?"
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2010-05-14 17:48:17
Infinite vees:
http://yfrog.com/13zz7pj
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2010-05-14 19:19:25
Two things I enjoy more than is reasonably healthy:
http://flic.kr/p/824BG8
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2010-05-16 19:33:34
English needs an easy word like "yesterday" that means "last business day" to fill that awkward weekend time gap in work e-mails.
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2010-05-17 23:19:03
Every time I see the RSP charge on my BGE bill, my desire to vote for any incumbent legislator in Maryland fades more.
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2010-05-18 23:38:09
"But is it okay if I'm drunk at BJ's?"
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2010-05-19 15:53:29
@bryanl If any of them drop an iPhone -- don't pick it up!
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2010-05-20 13:25:44
Google transcribed voicemail OTD: "Come on sun 8 areas of fun. This is lenders up in anyway. Come on now."
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2010-05-23 14:21:25
Dengue in Key West:
http://bit.ly/cy9nWu
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2010-05-23 14:23:07
RT @mrmatt57: Time Lapse of Owings Mills, MD -
http://bit.ly/9ORQJ3
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2010-05-23 20:45:57
Not ashamed to admit I'm prepping for the LOST finale at the grocery store right now.
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2010-05-23 22:16:24
@bthesite Been a busy weekend so we're going with pizza and ice cream for low prep factor.
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2010-05-24 12:21:45
New speed camera Bellona at Taplow In the city. #baltraffic
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2010-05-25 15:14:06
Dear Universe, please arrange a full-length LOST movie starring Michael Emerson and Jorge Garcia as island protectors.
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2010-05-26 03:51:57
Enjoying the start of my two week XM free trial. Great marketing idea: turn on old radio and it just works.
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2010-05-28 18:21:31
At festival with two radios and a badge on my belt and I was just randomly asked if I had any narcotics to trade for shrooms. No.
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2010-05-28 19:21:41
How do you get thousands of hippies to bathe all at once? DelFest 2010!
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2010-05-29 18:29:18
DelFest 2010 partial frequency list for your scanning enjoyment
http://vees.net/~rob/delfest-2010.txt#delfest
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2010-05-30 00:36:22
Enjoying a cool Resurrection Ale in the mountains of Allegany County as Del McCoury plays live on the radio in camp.
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2010-05-30 23:45:46
Hey man. Do you want to punch this balloon? No. Okay, then I'm going to hit you with it. whump Fair warning.
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2010-05-30 23:45:47
Elaborate marker graffiti on the mens room stall walls from DelFest 2008 and 2009. Classy.
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2010-05-31 01:31:30
@allogagan1025 who sang the Porto-pot song?
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2010-05-31 01:34:43
Most beautiful day and night at DelFest this weekend. Chilling with my crew at the camp and listening to Del on the radio.
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2010-05-31 14:21:23
My email appears to be down this morning.
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June
2010-06-01 22:10:53
Trying to decide between a coffee house and my house to get some extra work done.
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2010-06-02 20:54:13
Tom Cole: BP spill is "act of God." Connie Hair: Ron Paul is in "radical gay lobby." Are these people for real?
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2010-06-02 22:29:14
@LaurenAnanas I thought it tasted real good from the can when I tried it this weekend.
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2010-06-03 12:55:17
Battery in my 2-month-old @SierraWireless Overdrive hotspot won't hold a charge. Defective? Contacting @Sprint today on how to remedy.
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2010-06-03 23:16:46
Checked my Overdrive into the @Sprint store to repair battery issues. Promised back tomorrow by noon.
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2010-06-04 14:44:22
Happy #followfriday, here's @cosmicvibesblog for DC music scene, @DelFest for next year, and @declanm for news and info.
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2010-06-07 14:21:53
The Cato Daily Podcast on the financial crisis in Greece is titled "IMF Greece Trap."
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2010-06-07 15:38:05
Back to @Sprint store today. New battery didn't fix problems with my @SierraWireless Overdrive. Wrote out list of issues for tech.
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2010-06-07 17:27:09
Back from @Sprint with a replacement (refurb) Overdrive unit. CSR Ms. B. is an asset to store #1161.
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2010-06-07 18:03:16
RT @timwindsor: So the best camera that you have with you is now a pretty darned good camera, period. 720p vid, too! #wwdc
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2010-06-07 18:44:54
My refurb Overdrive has admin password already set, and the hardware reset button is missing. Another trip to @Sprint store tonight. :(
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2010-06-08 21:06:27
Has anyone used the Pelican 1470 or a similar water-resistant laptop case? What are your thoughts?
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2010-06-09 02:00:00
Amazon order: Maglite bulbs, velcro ties, grid-ruled Moleskine, Canon NB4L battery. My life is very exciting, as you can see.
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2010-06-09 12:06:44
@disasterstudent Do they have LED bulbs available for the AA flashlights?
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2010-06-09 12:20:59
WYSE Financial Services just bought an debt account for Ronald Mitchell II so the dunning calls to my (his old) phone number started again.
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2010-06-09 13:40:01
@travisd1000 Most agencies go away after I say it's not his phone number anymore, then they sell the debt to someone else. Rinse, repeat.
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2010-06-09 16:05:23
Headline of the Day: "Police astonished by rectal capacity of prison smuggler."
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2010-06-09 20:11:20
Why is the State of Maryland buying slot machines for Hollywood Casino Perryville now? This is insane.
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2010-06-09 20:14:09
Doing enough outdoors stuff in distant counties that I need a NWS SAME/FIPS code list in my camping gear to program my All-Hazards Radio.
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2010-06-09 21:01:52
Why do people blank out their license plates when they post pictures of their cars to the Internet? It's not like it's a secret.
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2010-06-10 12:23:49
Major VHF tropo prop this morning out about 130 mi. Fm band is full signal end to end.
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2010-06-11 00:28:26
Forgot that I disabled lid close suspend on my Eee and only noticed from the smell of hot plastic coming from my bag. FML.
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2010-06-11 12:45:18
City approves $15 million in new taxes. Very happy I live in Baltimore County under Jim Smith's fiscally responsible leadership.
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2010-06-11 13:38:13
@elvestinkle I probably took weeks off of the life of the computer, but both are OK.
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2010-06-14 18:23:10
Alvin Greene primary election is an awesome story of hijacking a bureaucratic political machine.
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2010-06-15 19:05:42
Rand Paul is "board certified" by National Board of Ophthalmology. NBO's President is Rand Paul. The VP is his wife.
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2010-06-16 14:21:27
New Apostolic Church head Johann Bischoff died fifty years ago. He declared the second coming would be before his death.
http://ow.ly/1ZfLM
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2010-06-16 23:10:22
Maryland has a new standard license plate with illustrations. I like the old plate better: clean, functional, and high contrast.
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2010-06-17 03:53:29
Saw my first 1812 Maryland license plate today in White Marsh. It's as dreadful as I imagined.
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2010-06-17 14:43:51
RT @f3ew: The problem with IT today is that freedom, responsibility and liability are given to different people.
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2010-06-17 16:29:35
WD2XAB is back on the air with a strong signal from Catonsville on 93.5 FM, looping a HD Radio "interview". @dcrtv take note.
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2010-06-18 06:07:49
Pro tip: Display dd progress with 'killall -INFO dd' from another shell.
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2010-06-18 18:53:24
Lots of friends have compromised e-mail accounts today, or are suddenly very fond of Chinese manufacturing and ED pharmacies.
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2010-06-20 03:50:42
Caitlin says my home office looks like what would happen if my brain threw up all over a room. I can't disagree.
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2010-06-20 17:32:42
Remember when there was two feet of snow on the ground and we all said we'd never complain about Maryland summers?
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2010-06-20 19:41:12
RT @greggersh: Speed trap on Slade near Reisterstown is up. Happy Father's Day! #baltraffic
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2010-06-20 20:52:32
@tadmaster If I had a lovely looking pool on a 92 degree day like this, I'd invite you over to swim in it. :)
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2010-06-21 15:03:33
Cubicle shuffle at the office. Many are pleased with new digs. A vocal few are very unhappy.
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2010-06-21 15:54:04
Trying Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook on Asus Eee 4G. SMART scan triggers false positives about imminent SSD failure. Disabled warning.
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2010-06-21 16:54:45
Everyone should be terrified when the sound of an electric drill comes from the programmer's cubicle.
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2010-06-21 20:28:26
RT @BaltimoreGal: ONE MORE story about $3k worth of bicycles stolen from Jenna Bush's SHED and I will lose it. We had 12 people SHOT in ...
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2010-06-22 16:01:07
Brady Campaign selling their donor's mailing list, ie. thousands of houses with disposable income and no defensive weapons.
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2010-06-23 23:24:00
RT @bookletting: Laughing at tweets from people in Chicago who are freaked out by the tornado sirens. Stop tweeting & get in the basement!!
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2010-06-24 13:36:18
Just touched @mrmatt57's iPhone 4. Shocked by the amazing resolution, reverse camera. Lusting in progress.
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2010-06-25 02:11:53
"I've been thrown under the bus so many times I should be the company mechanic."
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2010-06-25 12:55:58
BREAKING: Michael Jackson is still dead.
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2010-06-25 16:51:40
Multiple 10-50 on 95 n imm prior to rt 24 (x 77) 2 lanes blkd #baltraffic
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2010-06-25 23:30:26
RT @johnrcarlson: Celebrating my parents' 60th wedding anniversary
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2010-06-26 00:37:05
This PHI/TOR "away" game at CB Park is a little disconcerting. At 8-0 they've definitely got an "away team advantage" tonight.
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2010-06-26 00:44:56
@technosailor Same thing happened to @mrmatt57, was delivered by 11am the day before. AT&T activation distribution was his hunch.
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2010-06-26 15:15:11
Google Alert of the day: "Rob Carlson be sailin' on Ye Olde Facebook. Get on board t' parlay with otharrrr fellow pirates who ye may know."
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2010-06-27 03:09:25
My TS-530 has decided not to transmit on 40 meters anymore, just 20. No more Field Day contacts until the sun rises again.
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2010-06-27 16:08:10
Heading to @redemmas for @doctorow talk at 3pm.
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2010-06-27 18:16:30
FD 2010: W1AQ, W1ACT, K1BKE, K1R, WA8UXP, KB8APA, W1KOO, W1DGG, NB1RI/MM, W5UGD, AF2C, W4CQ, W1MWV, VA2HV, VE2UMS, W0IW, VE3PRV. Score: 84.
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2010-06-28 01:36:45
@disasterstudent I sat down for 4 sessions of 30 minutes or 5 contacts each and came out with 17 contacts - so not bad.
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2010-06-28 13:50:25
Today is a good day to be happy about air conditioning (if you have it).
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2010-06-28 13:53:45
PRO TIP: Found a sawed-off shotgun behind your couch you never saw before? Don't pick it up by the trigger.
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2010-06-28 13:58:18
Dance music tracks with heavily distorted electric guitar solos are the best kind. Thank you Daft Punk!
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2010-06-28 15:13:48
RT @nprnews: High Court Extends Gun Owner Rights Nationwide
http://n.pr/c0zYWb
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2010-06-28 18:08:35
Police make drug arrests at Phish concert. That's a headline? It would only be news if they didn't.
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2010-06-28 18:55:30
FEMA: Beginning 7/1/10, all new 1 and 2-family homes built in Baltimore City will be required to have residential fire sprinklers.
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2010-06-29 03:10:20
"It can grant up to three wishes, even if one of those wishes is an iPhone." Classic.
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2010-06-30 01:22:27
RT @BaltimorePolice: Today, @MayorSRB & @BaltimorePolice announced hotline for survivors of sexual assault to connect w svcs & report pa ...
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2010-06-30 21:18:41
Is it pareidolia when I hear random beeps and try to decipher them as Morse code?
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2010-06-30 22:47:06
Off to @HamiltonTavern for fried chicken and merriment. Reply if you want to join.
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July
2010-07-02 14:59:17
Making random and stuttering progress on some of my brain babies.
http://github.com/vees
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2010-07-02 16:27:20
Speed enforcement north Owings Mills Blvd under 795 overpass #baltraffic
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2010-07-04 03:37:49
Odd that the fireworks tonight bring me back to New Year's Eve outside Khao Yai in Thailand.
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2010-07-05 00:59:36
Caitlin and I at BSO show and fireworks show. She was confused at loud "O!" during national anthem. Baltimorism explained.
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2010-07-05 01:24:07
Honestly, Rick Dempsey's singalong is the worst part of this concert. I'm told he was a decent ballplayer, at least.
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2010-07-06 02:12:48
Headline of the day: "7-foot-tall Elvis statue stolen from roof of Rosedale diner"
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2010-07-06 12:52:03
Speed enforcement MD-41 north between Taylor and Putty Hill #baltraffic
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2010-07-07 14:16:32
Thoughts on order, creativity, and clutter:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/3
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2010-07-07 18:39:32
Headline of the day: "Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters"
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2010-07-08 14:43:43
My iPod keeps changing PHP into phó which is delicious but not very helpful.
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2010-07-08 14:44:47
The power was out last night out but we had lights, wireless Internet, music, fan and ice cream all night thanks to backup battery.
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2010-07-08 15:42:17
The power was out last night but we had lights, wireless Internet, music, fan and ice cream all night thanks to backup battery.
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2010-07-08 17:10:41
If I read one more political article that includes the phrase "This is why Trig matters," I may lose my mind.
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2010-07-08 18:31:04
RT @BaltoBeerBaron: Zen West Roadside Cantina, 5916 York Road, request for outdoor table service granted
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2010-07-09 12:28:16
Off the social grid until the end of the workday today. For anything critical, use the phone number or link at
http://vees.net/
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2010-07-10 00:11:26
New Delaware Travel Plaza has Sprint 4G coverage. Nifty.
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2010-07-10 19:50:57
Headed to Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria later today if anyone wants to meet up.
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2010-07-10 21:32:40
Listening to the worst cover of You Can Call Me Al ever. This band is trying really hard, so that counts for something.
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2010-07-10 21:49:30
It's like these guys are playing Rock Band for the first time at a party you can't leave. Timing is everything, guys.
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2010-07-10 21:52:02
Finally over! Time to say something nice. Okay. At least the singer mumbles less than Rick Dempsey. That's something.
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2010-07-11 17:14:46
This weekend proves to me that NYC is the city that FourSquare had in mind. Baltimore, not so much.
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2010-07-11 18:54:38
Rooftop view FTW.
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2010-07-11 20:25:45
Sharing free wireless Internet on NJ Transit car 7502. Two other people enjoying it right now.
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2010-07-11 23:39:18
New Apostolic Church benefit concert (with my sister in the orchestra) is a trending video on ustream.tv right now.
http://j.mp/cqehYO
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2010-07-12 13:37:22
I will be at the Elephant and Castle in the Chicago Loop on evening of 7/14. If you're around and want to meet up, let me know.
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2010-07-12 14:28:23
@genehack Doesn't that completely miss the point of git?
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2010-07-12 23:50:17
Rain delay at Ripken Field. Game starts at 8pm.
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2010-07-13 01:02:31
Ironbirds are kicking some butt so far in the bottom of the third, 5-0 against the Auburn Doubledays.
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2010-07-13 16:05:25
That storm did not help getting ready for this business trip. Bail, mop, repeat.
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2010-07-13 18:44:02
Weather is not in my favor tonight. Thunderstorms plus flash flood warning equals delayed flight plus refilled basement.
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2010-07-13 20:50:43
@BACOemergency Good signal on WXK97 162.55 from Sudlersville on portable radio in 21234.
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2010-07-13 20:51:50
Lots of weather activity today but your All-Hazards Radio might not alert because KEC83 transmitter is out of service. /via @bacoemergency
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2010-07-14 00:19:04
Southwest just announced planes grounded for "level four thunderstorm" approaching, next update 90 minutes. Flight was in 45.
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2010-07-14 00:35:36
FAA: "Due to WX:Thunderstorms...Gate Hold...1 hour and 30 minutes in length and increasing." Gate staff underestimating wait.
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2010-07-14 03:58:32
Landed safely at MDW. Awaiting CTA train departure just a few minutes. Informally racing coworker in rental car.
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2010-07-14 04:20:09
Rental car wins at 11:18. Oh well!
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2010-07-14 12:31:39
RT @webmink: SugarCRM jumps the Open Source shark claiming closed is open and it's the rest of us who are mistaken:
http://icio.us/ljnhre
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2010-07-14 17:20:30
Client site in Chicago. Spectacular trip so far! Looking forward to seeing Geoff, Cindy, Kathleen et al.
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2010-07-14 22:26:18
I'm at Elephant & Castle (111 W Adams St, btw LaSalle & Clark, Chicago).
http://4sq.com/3dZkb
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2010-07-15 00:41:26
Headed to giant eyeball sculpture in Prtizker Park.
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2010-07-15 13:32:29
Biking all around the Lake Shore and Millennium Park in Chicago with KME last night. Great times all around!
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2010-07-15 15:53:43
Ubuntu VPN, work PPTP, Sprint 4G here in Chicago are conflicting. Wish I had time to diagnose and file bug reports with TCP dumps.
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2010-07-15 17:27:44
At least two of the three new Mountain Dew flavors are awful. Need to track down the last one to see if it's a hat trick.
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2010-07-15 20:20:56
Train to home.
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2010-07-15 23:01:50
This flight appears to have a large number of people returning home from a Pampered Chef conference.
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2010-07-16 00:03:18
As much as I wanted to share my wifi with the gate, the hotspot kept kicking me out of the available 5 spots and knocking me off the net.
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2010-07-16 00:11:46
Flight very delayed.
http://j.mp/9oQi0Q
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2010-07-16 02:30:23
Had a flight-long conversation with teacher from rural PA about a dozen different topics. Now in BWI pickup zone. Hot. Slightly ill.
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2010-07-16 20:26:39
@jongaynor I've been out like a light all day after my trip. Didn't feel a thing.
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2010-07-17 18:37:00
BGE bill for July: $290, and 58.6 kWh per day.
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2010-07-18 21:28:57
First workout at the Parkville Y today. 15 min elliptical, 15 min bike, while watching music vids from my iPod on the displays.
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2010-07-19 02:39:50
Loaded up my iPod with MIT video lectures to watch while running on the treadmill this week.
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2010-07-19 03:45:30
Batten those hatches, Baltimore. Weather radio just called out a big thunderstorm about to rip through here around midnight.
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2010-07-19 14:40:35
RT @BYT: For those of us who survived the morning, a picture of the devastation in Gaithersburg.
http://twitpic.com/25txue
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2010-07-19 16:51:47
Bored? I have just the thing. Watch me sit in my cube all day.
http://ustream.tv/channel/vees
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2010-07-19 17:49:16
Bill Paulshock lives at the office:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/30
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2010-07-19 23:18:33
@marshallk host is secretly wafflehumpr, is loathe to reveal. :)
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2010-07-20 00:17:37
Food coma.
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2010-07-20 03:13:06
Tomorrow's declared treadmill goal: 3 miles.
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2010-07-20 17:02:22
Segmented off 74.217.100.0/24 to send my UStream webcam traffic through my Sprint hotspot instead of the work T1. I'm a considerate geek.
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2010-07-20 17:45:30
Resolution for this month: Stop scribbling "this sucks" in my work notes, even when it does.
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2010-07-20 19:59:21
RT @acarvin: Via WaPo: "Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks."
http://bit.ly/99fDBS
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2010-07-21 00:06:12
TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL BALTIMORE COUNTY. My All-Hazards alert radio is getting a real workout this week.
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2010-07-21 00:23:35
Made it 3.2 miles on the treadmill. Took me 41 minutes, but improving pace will be relatively easy.
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2010-07-21 15:55:14
PowerEdge R410 replacement motherboards contain malware /via @sans_isc
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2010-07-22 16:04:02
My stress-reduction strategy: exercise at the Y, home-cooked meals, beer, True Blood, and not opening the fucking laptop after 7pm.
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2010-07-22 17:12:00
Worst project estimate ever: by the time I unwind an issue to identify/estimate the fix, I'm 5 min away from finishing actual task.
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2010-07-22 18:45:07
Finally put some thoughts together about joining the new Parkville Y:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/35
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2010-07-22 19:05:47
Just wiped away a week's worth of work in a single errant mouse click.
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2010-07-22 19:19:58
I will use this loss as an opportunity to write it better and faster with what I learned about the process the first time through.
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2010-07-22 21:14:10
All code rescued. Thank goodness for source control that keeps copies of everything behind the scenes, even if the UI needs work.
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2010-07-23 00:03:55
Swam so much my fillings hurt.
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2010-07-23 04:14:43
Lately my creative output manifests as 130 character tweets, 250 word blog posts, and 2 megapixel photos. I'm okay with that.
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2010-07-23 15:43:08
Got a call back from the FCC. WD2XAB is a valid license, renewed in March of 2010. Find it odd that I can't find it in the ULS.
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2010-07-23 16:10:59
At our morning meeting, @kendallmiller walked in wearing an "I Reverse Polish Notation <3" shirt. That makes him my hero.
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2010-07-23 17:28:18
Universal Licensing System and WD2XAB:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/38
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2010-07-23 17:38:51
Going off the social grid for the rest of the day. Call me if it's urgent.
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2010-07-23 22:35:48
Live streaming my commute home. Should be interesting.
http://ustream.tv/channel/vees
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2010-07-25 14:24:36
I used to be embarrassed to use a hotel concierge. Now I just consider them research librarians for buying stuff and going places.
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2010-07-26 15:19:11
Joe Biden: "...a mainstream American who is an articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."
http://ow.ly/2gEqJ
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2010-07-27 01:12:04
The vet says I'm not allowed to give my cat Gizmo food or water after midnight tonight. True fact.
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2010-07-27 12:47:50
A morning without any new e-mail just means /var was full.
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2010-07-28 00:53:26
Linked data: From first name to everything else:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/41
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2010-07-28 18:57:30
Among the many reasons why I don't pay chess with people who know how to play chess: En passant.
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2010-07-29 12:38:29
Was just thanked for writing an AAR on yesterday's crisis detailing the mistake I made six months ago that precipitated it.
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2010-07-29 17:49:29
And just as quickly, the sun is shining again.
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2010-07-29 21:25:04
FourSquare cautionary tale:
http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/809428679
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2010-07-30 02:05:15
Round of applause when King Kong kills the Tyrannosaur with a curb job. Baltimore can be a cruel place.
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2010-07-30 04:47:12
Domestic abuse and gun ownership:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/46
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2010-07-30 14:57:24
Pinched a nerve in my finger this morning coming up the elevator and lost all feeling. Now recovered all but sense in the tip.
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2010-07-30 14:58:21
RT @justin_fenton: Officer on scanner: "There's some comic con, fantasy con, whatever, people dressing up in costumes, and traffic is ju ...
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2010-07-30 15:41:14
My #FollowFriday recommendation is @yesthattom and @magurski who are both annoyed by it.
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2010-07-30 19:10:53
If you live in Charles Village, you should be reading this post by Page Croyder on John Wagner's case.
http://bit.ly/crmuJy
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August
2010-08-01 18:51:00
Interested in working with me? Check out this job posting at my company:
http://bit.ly/aGRS9a
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2010-08-01 21:12:51
"What do you think of the Indianapolis 500? They're all guilty!"
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2010-08-01 22:14:35
Got a solid Sprint 4G connection here in 07080. The network appears to be growing with every trip I take.
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2010-08-02 04:34:13
My e-mail is down due to what appears to be a routing error between multiple locations and AiNET. Should be back by morning.
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2010-08-02 04:35:34
"First, hit them on the snout with your fist. If that doesn't work, poke them in the eye with your stump." #sharkweek
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2010-08-02 19:17:31
Listening to Enya's Boadicea on Pandora. She's not nearly as annoying when just humming to a quiet synth bass and not singing.
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2010-08-03 00:50:50
If Sookie Stackhouse ever gets turned, would her gap go away when her fangs came out? #snarkweek
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2010-08-03 17:19:02
Spam subject line of the day: Legendary tales of your sausage.
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2010-08-03 18:37:16
If every car in US was parked in a parking lot, 1000s of empty spaces would be left, most of them at Owings Mills Mall. #snarkweek
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2010-08-03 19:15:49
Monthly e-mail newsletter from Michelin arrives about 36 times as often as I want to think about car tires. #unsubscribe
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2010-08-03 22:01:36
Thousands of dollars of computer equipment on each desk, but try finding a three-hole punch on this side of the office. #snarkweek
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2010-08-03 22:10:52
@magurski Have you seen @wegmanshntvlly on a weekend? It's pretty packed.
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2010-08-04 01:00:59
Guess the Cybex 750T treadmill knew I was going to say something mean about it so it screwed with me for my ENTIRE RUN. #snarkweek
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2010-08-05 03:51:41
RT @RHLiz: lets just say ill take that Android tablet off my 'possible' list
http://cot.ag/dwONp1
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2010-08-05 19:29:18
Co-worker thinks Shark Week "is boring" and should be replaced by Kitten Week because "everybody would watch that." Blasphemy.
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2010-08-06 03:35:52
Mike Ertel, candidate for Baltimore Co. 5th council district stopped by today at my invite. Nice guy, good and practical ideas.
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2010-08-06 18:00:35
Closed my old blog at
http://epistolary.org/rob/today but relevant posts will remain online as a static archive indefinitely.
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2010-08-06 19:17:05
Candidates for Harford Park (from Baltimore County to Maryland):
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/53
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2010-08-08 00:06:48
Finished 13.5 mi on the NCR with Caitlin. Feels great!
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2010-08-08 20:17:05
Chambers ads on state’s right-of-way:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/55
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2010-08-09 19:24:37
Patience is a virtue with big purchases. SECU just came through with a 3.74 APR car loan, beat PBCU by .75%.
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2010-08-09 22:28:08
@cmsg Every driver should be deputized to write "blocking the box" tickets if they are first in the perpendicular intersection.
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2010-08-10 16:13:45
Can Jessamy really believe more press conferences and releases will help in a reputation war against Bealefeld and Waters?
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2010-08-10 20:49:59
Google Maps just fixed the problems it had with ignoring the Key Highway exit off I-95 South that I reported some time ago.
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2010-08-10 21:17:18
Didn't Steven Slater have the ability to sanction the abusive passenger for disobeying specific direction of the flight crew?
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2010-08-11 00:30:05
Overdraft protection’s high pressure sell:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/60
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2010-08-11 13:58:57
Last night's treadmill run was only 2.5 miles in 40 minutes, replete with left knee pain, right shoulder pain, lots of walking.
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2010-08-11 15:34:34
Mr. Chelsea's BBQ is closed -- where to go for good BBQ or pit beef in Owings Mills now? Any suggestions?
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2010-08-11 15:59:35
Article in @baltimoremag mentions that Elizabeth Gilbert fans often called Lizbians. Really?
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2010-08-11 18:59:14
Vote Frederick Bealefeld for State's Attorney
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2010-08-11 19:20:31
Headline of the day: "SWAT team requested for violent midgets"
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2010-08-11 20:40:57
Two possible headlines from the same data: "iPhones get you laid" vs. "Sluts buy iPhones." OKCupid reports, you decide.
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2010-08-11 22:16:53
One sign, thousands of impressions:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/59
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2010-08-12 10:40:21
It's been a while since I woke up to a nice big thunderstorm.
http://yfrog.com/283vzdj
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2010-08-12 11:45:23
RT @bookgrrl: Holy shit! Huge storm! Woken up by loudest thunder I've ever heard. Now it's hailing. Power is out. Cats are hiding.
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2010-08-12 13:22:06
Cat that's afraid of EVERYTHING is unfazed by thunderstorms, strolling around the house while other cats hide under furniture.
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2010-08-12 16:31:06
Feeling some cognitive dissonance when State's Attorney brags about imprisonment rates as a plus, even when rationally it is.
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2010-08-12 21:12:09
Tom Russell: O'Malley remains "happy to debate whoever is the Republican nominee after the primary." Ouch.
http://bit.ly/cZEwfB
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2010-08-14 17:38:17
Who the hell rings doorbells at midnight and runs away? Hey kids, that's a good way to get acute lead poisoning in this hood.
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2010-08-14 17:49:14
@elvestinkle I'm not threatening anyone, that's an honest warning. Lots of armed Republican residents down my street.
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2010-08-15 14:25:05
Just learned about New Jersey's new Kyleigh's Law, only legal because everybody grows out of being young:
http://flic.kr/p/84cM2S
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2010-08-16 14:29:20
I must have slept well last night because I feel great this morning!
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2010-08-16 21:36:57
Whew, that's just a smoke detector hanging over my head at work. For a minute I thought it was a hammer waiting to fall up there.
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2010-08-20 15:40:13
This weekend's plans include a ton of yard work. It's either been blazing hot or drenching rain for the last two months.
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2010-08-20 17:15:46
County Air and police activity around Garrison Forest Shopping Center right now.
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2010-08-20 17:49:12
SomaFM should not ask listeners to send cash via USPS. Not illegal but puts SFO mailman in danger of robbery for that money.
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2010-08-21 14:46:25
Just saw my first Jessamy sign on Guilford. After all this I had no idea what her signs looked like.
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2010-08-21 17:58:28
Maryland MVA says no tag or title services on the weekend. So I'm required to take time off work to get a new car?
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2010-08-21 18:30:15
@torrez Except there's only one full-service MVA per county, so it would be 25 min drive plus wait time. Long lunch.
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2010-08-22 02:11:24
Baltimore Police show of presence 33rd at Greenmount: cruiser parked at gas station with lightbar flashing, officer inside.
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2010-08-22 16:47:30
Just paid my first $24 interest on a car that still has no license plates. Screw you MVA.
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2010-08-23 03:36:08
Adventures in learning Dvorak (yet again):
http://bit.ly/cXvTCF
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2010-08-23 12:14:01
Okay MVA, you have one more chance not to fail us again this morning. Let's see how you do.
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2010-08-23 14:21:47
How does G-8 come before C-1? MVA sorting routines are odd.
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2010-08-24 03:45:18
Just accidentally scraped Caitlin's eyeball with my tooth. It's a long story. She's speaking entirely in lolcat now.
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2010-08-24 13:39:15
Car is titled and at the mechanic for state inspection today. Very exciting!
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2010-08-24 14:18:37
Thanks to @edyong209 for featuring my photo in his blog post:
http://ow.ly/2tZok
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2010-08-24 14:32:31
@RyanatMGH I know at least one other person who was affected by this.
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2010-08-24 15:28:04
Just realized that Lindsay Lohan is still in jail.
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2010-08-25 19:04:19
Does anyone have a good CMMI book that I could borrow? Library searches are coming up empty.
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2010-08-26 01:53:56
Reading Jalore's "CMM in Practice" on loan from @davecorun. Interesting stuff so far.
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2010-08-26 15:15:47
Quick! Someone convince me to not stop using Dvorak on my 5th day of typing in nothing but.
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2010-08-26 15:16:36
RT @roboterkampf: @MayorSRB corner of Lombard and Kane st. Resurfacing crews are inept. No traffic directing, lanes are blocked. Dangerous..
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2010-08-27 13:09:50
FedLoan Servicing mixed me up with other Robert Carlson. Months of debt collection and dunning letters. FDCPA violation likely.
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2010-08-27 14:31:41
Just tried to switch back to Qwerty but my fingers got all confused and just started typing gibberish. Guess I'm committed now.
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2010-08-27 15:33:32
Credit Union says no used car loan for private sale because we already paid for the car in cash. Now have no emergency savings.
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2010-08-27 17:16:41
@micahjgates would be a minimum of 6% tax plus fees with each transfer. That won't happen.
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2010-08-27 18:43:16
If mandatory FM tuner law was really about safety, they would tune to NOAA All-Hazards alert channels, not shitty broadcast band.
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2010-08-27 23:30:57
FedLoan Servicing incorrectly connects debt to my address:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/70
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2010-08-29 01:42:39
The irony of a water conservation poster in a state park next to three broken and free-flowing faucets isn't lost on me.
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2010-08-30 01:00:27
Never give your phone number to the Red Cross, they don't listen when you tell them to stop calling. Donate to a local hospital directly.
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2010-08-30 13:09:30
Average daily miles, last 10k: 45.5. Last 180k: 51.6. Assume 30 mph average, is 103 minutes behind the wheel every day.
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2010-08-30 14:02:33
@realestatewonk Underwater based on what value? Comps? Assessment? 1.7%/yr since 2001? I say you're only underwater if you sell.
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2010-08-30 17:03:18
My Dvorak typing experiment is both concluded, and continuing:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/71
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2010-08-30 17:39:40
Will be changing my Google Voice number in the next week or two. Stay tuned if you call me, ever.
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2010-08-30 19:51:06
Building elevator is parked on our floor, doors open, alarm blaring.
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2010-08-31 19:39:48
Two vandalized O'Malley signs this week, one on Harford Rd and the other on Red Run Blvd. What gives?
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September
2010-09-01 14:38:44
PETA reinforces irrelevance by arguing with BARCS about which organization euthanizes unwanted pets more efficiently.
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2010-09-01 17:57:10
About to enter 2 hour meeting to discuss planning framework for writing planning frameworks. Leaving sharp objects in my cube.
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2010-09-01 18:51:20
Two hour meeting turned into 40 minutes. Small favors. Honestly, CMMI isn't so bad. Building good process is often painful.
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2010-09-01 21:49:45
Elevator smelled like butt when I got in on the 9th floor. Everybody getting on at 7th gave me dirty look.
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2010-09-02 13:46:28
RT @harfordpark: Harford Park Community Association Meeting is Thursday 9/2/10 at 7:30pm at 2522 Linwood Road, Parkville. All are welcome.
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2010-09-02 14:21:51
Recommended hurricane update follows: @femaregion3 @fema @RedCrossCntrlMD @BaCoEmergency @BaCoACS @ReadyDotGov @mema_feeds #Earl
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2010-09-02 15:44:57
Handy link for #Earl watching:
https://twitter.com/vees/emergency
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2010-09-02 17:23:58
Well then what number should I call for towels, hot cocoa and a hug?
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2010-09-02 18:18:27
Just noticed that 8th District Delegate @toddlschuler hasn't posted an update in over a year.
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2010-09-02 23:23:01
Fifteen minute phone survey on whether I like O'Malley or Ehrlich better. No, really, I dislike both equally well.
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2010-09-03 11:56:33
RT @mikeash: Slightly reduce the horror:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -int -1
Courtesy of @rudyrichter.
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2010-09-03 18:06:16
Ham radio: f=c/w, id every 10 min, stay in band, swr, cw/ssb, d/e/f layer, be civil, no commerce, space shuttle can do anything.
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2010-09-04 02:37:02
I dislike the weeks where I send more than two registered letters, because it always means someone has REALLY ticked me off.
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2010-09-05 01:10:52
This is the nicest weather of the year so far.
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2010-09-05 22:14:57
Finally retired my "Lautenberg U.S. Senate 1994" tee shirt today.
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2010-09-06 18:59:24
Looking for internal positions: Sr. Software Engineer, Jr. Software Engineer, SQL Server Database Developer. Inquire within.
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2010-09-06 20:32:17
I'm at Hamilton Tavern w/ @amandaudoff.
http://4sq.com/5ob7qK
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2010-09-07 13:56:00
Why are my allergies so awful today? Did the lovely weather bring a bumper crop of late-summer pollen?
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2010-09-07 19:03:48
I have a preferred 6 character login name for most pro sites. When a site requires 8 characters, I add "fu" to the end.
- Favorites: 1, Retweets: 1
2010-09-07 19:14:19
RT @lazycoder: Constantly amazed at the # of people w/opinions on "how to raise a girl engineer" who don't have kids. Idiots. Kids like ...
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2010-09-07 21:22:41
If you like haunted houses and live around Parkville, come find out how you can help @harfordpark association plan theirs tonight.
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2010-09-08 18:23:20
Stock Drupal sites attract a lot of junk accounts, even with e-mail verification. Spammers have this stuff well scripted.
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2010-09-09 13:40:41
Another Jessamy victory: Rick Gilbert's alleged assailants nolle pros. Pigtown prospers.
http://ow.ly/2BHRc
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2010-09-09 22:29:55
Off to the Y for Fitlinxx training so I can hand over my ongoing physical health to a computer program.
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2010-09-10 11:53:10
@BaltimoreGal I'm an hour early for work too! Weird day.
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2010-09-10 12:41:26
Hope that my failure to participate in early voting in Maryland this year doesn't mean that it goes away.
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2010-09-10 12:42:50
My iPod just got dumped off the corporate wifi access list. Good thing I bring my own cell hotspot to work every day.
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2010-09-10 12:49:51
Maryland's new 1812 license plate is so ugly I know two people that got Chesapeake Bay tags to avoid it. Win for CB, fail for MD.
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2010-09-10 12:52:08
Hey Pandora, thanks for putting a full-page Trojan Condom ad on my screen at work. Real subtle and classy.
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2010-09-10 13:03:40
Can I shop at the Ikea that's always filled with 100 cats? I don't feel at home when the furniture doesn't smell like cat farts.
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2010-09-10 13:05:39
My goal for the today is to use the word limn in at least one internal email so I can be as classy as the @baltimoresun.
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2010-09-10 13:08:40
@howardjp Can't fathom why the MSP approved it. The first digit blends in with the blue background, basically unreadable from any distance.
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2010-09-10 13:55:38
Holding community association events between Sep. and Nov. is awesome. Local candidates all suddenly interested and involved.
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2010-09-10 14:21:20
This weekend I will be scanning documents from @harfordpark archives going back to 1937, and documenting the process on my blog.
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2010-09-10 15:48:14
@w3nws It's unclear to me whether a ham tag would be printed on the new standard plate or not. My guess is it would be.
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2010-09-10 16:02:27
The aborted I-70 ramps and highways just west of MLK Blvd in Baltimore are finally being demolished!
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2010-09-10 16:24:09
At the Qdoba in Owings Mills for lunch. Paying cash after their recent credit card thievery issues.
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2010-09-10 17:38:17
Studies of income and happiness seem to indicate a marginal tax rate of 100% over $75,000 would leave everyone as happy as before.
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2010-09-10 19:38:24
I couldn't resist using the tinyarro.ws short link generator.
http://➽.ws/v
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2010-09-10 19:45:01
Just exceeded my yearly allotment of jelly beans in the last 30 minutes.
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2010-09-11 20:25:09
Lawn work counts towards my fitness points on this online tracking. Awesome.
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2010-09-12 18:13:25
Live progress of my @harfordpark document scanning at
http://harfordpark.org/history/Some neat stuff from the 1930s and 1940s.
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2010-09-12 20:39:34
For sale: 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix SE, 103k mi, $1050.
http://baltimore.craigslist.org/cto/1950290413.html
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2010-09-13 01:44:40
Today I scanned 3,671,159,988 bytes of documents, and uploaded them all to Dreamhost to share. I'm sure they're delighted.
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2010-09-13 14:17:03
Today is a great day to be happy about waking up healthy and lucid, just like most of the 11,309 days before it.
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2010-09-13 16:06:05
Over the last few months I've been humming "Another One Bites The Dust" in my cubicle a lot. For, you know, no particular reason.
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2010-09-13 16:41:43
Any time I summarize a data transformation process in conversation, I have the urge to end the sentence with "TECHNOLOGIC!"
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2010-09-13 20:42:09
@benlikesmovies You could probably make more money pulping that many coupons flyers for recycling.
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2010-09-14 02:21:29
Voting tomorrow in Election District 9 Precinct 21? Here's some suggestions:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/74
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2010-09-14 13:31:56
I voted. Sticker says so.
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2010-09-14 13:34:10
@flintsparc Use sudo for audit trail. Delete root unless a single user shutdown for password recovery would be completely impractical.
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2010-09-15 14:21:59
With 88% of Council District 5 precincts reporting, Mike Ertel leads Bill Paulshock by 468 votes.
http://ow.ly/2EBSY
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2010-09-15 21:06:20
Incumbent Gov. O'Malley and ex-Gov. Ehrlich set for November rematch. Marylanders' collective yawn felt as small SFO earthquake.
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2010-09-15 21:15:35
@bsarsgard I don't know about that but I've been lusting after this one:
http://ow.ly/2ESkr
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2010-09-16 13:56:43
Via a Boing Boing comment: "Only dogs can hear you fart when you are tower climbing."
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2010-09-16 17:22:14
My Kindle smells just like when bad things happen to high voltage circuits inside a ham radio. Driving me crazy.
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2010-09-16 20:22:42
@SophieBegonia Be sure to report back with your findings.
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2010-09-17 18:31:55
Thanks to my new Kindle I am reading and looking up more words like "tallow chandler" and "quotidian." This seems positive.
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2010-09-17 20:18:02
Is it still against the law in MD to reply to a text message behind the wheel if your car is at a full stop at a red light?
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2010-09-17 20:44:41
Answer: 21–1124.1.(b) "A person may not [text] while operating a motor vehicle in motion or in the travel portion of the roadway."
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2010-09-17 20:49:23
@genehack Electronic Communications Traffic Safety Act:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/chapters_noln/Ch_194_sb0098E.pdf
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2010-09-18 22:07:18
I'm at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (333 W Camden St, Baltimore) w/ 52 others.
http://4sq.com/3VS9u3
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2010-09-18 22:09:58
At the Orioles game eating all I can, looking forward to another bird win. Section 288 if you're here. @ me.
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2010-09-20 01:42:29
Parkville book club I'm in is reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for 11/1 meeting. If interested in joining let me know.
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2010-09-20 14:18:37
Live streaming my workday today:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vees
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2010-09-20 14:56:55
@elvestinkle What about more people watching it makes it come up in the Roku?
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2010-09-20 15:27:54
My biggest dilemma today is which book to read over my lunch break. I love it.
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2010-09-20 15:58:05
Looks like Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation Real Property Data Search got a nice face-lift. I dig the new colors!
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2010-09-20 18:17:06
RT @bad_decisions: city employee has been sitting in their car napping in the shade for over 2 hours outside the bar. #yourtaxdollarsatfail
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2010-09-20 18:44:41
Enjoyed a few chapters of Hunger Games and my weekly reading of SANS Digest thanks to Instapaper.
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2010-09-21 22:28:46
RT @harfordpark: Construction of the Hall of Horrors begins tonight! We will meet Tues. 9/21 at 7pm. 2522 Linwood Road, 21234. All welcome!
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2010-09-22 13:22:31
Letter from Sharron Angle on 9/21: "If you're the Republican I've been told you are..." Sent to me, the registered Democrat.
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2010-09-23 00:30:29
Verizon just gave me $30 "Out of Service Credit" because my phone was out for over 48 hours in 2Q. I hadn't even noticed.
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2010-09-23 14:36:39
My first 5 followers were @jjthomas, @johnedwards, @thibeaux, @TheWeatherman and @adram. #first5
http://bit.ly/first5
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2010-09-24 15:27:44
1337% of π ≈ 42
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2010-09-24 16:52:28
General Growth Properties OM rules: No bikes, no picnics, no grills, no ball playing, no photography. I feel a blog post coming on.
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2010-09-24 22:37:23
Someone put a "No Parking 9/25 7-7" sign in front of my house. County police say its not enforceable. I'll probably ignore it.
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2010-09-25 16:12:18
I'm at Larriland Farm (2415 Woodbine Road, Woodbine).
http://4sq.com/9gyknT
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2010-09-25 17:08:07
Signs were placed by Miller Pipeline Corp. They were out front this morning.
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2010-09-25 21:58:25
Friend in Towson was just visited by the Direct Energy high-pressure salespeople. Don't trust them!
http://bit.ly/cWOUzi
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2010-09-26 19:20:47
Everyone at work who holds my new Kindle 3 tries to use its non-existent touch screen first.
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2010-09-26 21:58:09
Yesterday a cashier saw my OKCupid shirt and said “I like your shirt. Occupied. That’s funny.” I didn't correct her.
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2010-09-27 04:50:53
Google and I are celebrating our shared birthday today.
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2010-09-27 14:58:02
Everyone on this side of the office just sang happy birthday to me. So nice!
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2010-09-27 16:15:41
All my spam filters are much too tight. Definitely been losing e-mails that I've been expecting.
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2010-09-27 16:38:18
RT @ABC2_ALERTS: TORNADO WARNING | Howard County now under a Tornado Warning -
http://ow.ly/2Kwyt
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2010-09-27 17:35:03
RT @jessamyn: Please do not look for Banned Books Week vids by typing BBW into YouTube. Next year I will get a host of zaftig ladies to ...
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2010-09-27 18:53:30
Dear Pandora; Ad for NFL games on a station based off Eiffel 65, Daft Punk and Basshunter? Not sensing a big demo overlap here.
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2010-09-27 20:02:18
Anthony Graber wins taping case against MSP in Harford County Circuit Court, judge declared a traffic stop is a public space.
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2010-09-27 20:12:27
MSP screwed themselves prosecuting wiretap law. Status quo imprecise, now HarCo Court and Atty General against future enforcement.
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2010-09-27 20:19:10
On building collapse: CNN video shows City Truck 10 on the scene, no word on cross streets.
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2010-09-27 20:29:50
RT @thephotogirl: Hey Canton, some coward just held up my aunt at gunpoint at Kurek's Hardware (3242 O'Donnell) Be on alert!
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2010-09-27 20:56:23
Tonight my celebration will consist of a beer, a Kindle and a big ear full of quiet.
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2010-09-27 21:33:13
Now I feel bad for denying @kendalmiller a second cupcake as it sits uneaten and alone on my desk.
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2010-09-27 23:43:28
@kendallmiller It's waiting in the fridge for you tomorrow.
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2010-09-28 19:50:13
Joseph Cassilly implies that police officers are incapable of finding a private place for a conversation with witnesses.
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2010-09-28 20:37:23
Nice not having to worry about the new cell phone hands-free law because I don't own a cell phone.
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2010-09-29 19:16:32
@hmccormack I would like to hear more about this Neal Wyatt talk when it's done. I've noticed my pace is MUCH FASTER.
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2010-09-30 03:01:44
My computer curfew has arrived, and my Kindle is currently occupied by another user. Guess I'll just rest up for a busy day tomorrow.
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2010-09-30 13:55:48
From the scanner: Three feet of standing water at East Joppa Road and Snyder Lane in Baltimore County. #nicole
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2010-09-30 15:09:29
Baltimore County citizens can call the Public Inquiry Center at 410-887-5454 with questions about flooding and shelters.
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2010-09-30 15:13:49
@1dansmith Sorry about the lack of feeds but I don't have a good machine to dedicate to scanner streaming.
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2010-09-30 15:19:42
Baltimore County's @BACOemergency is full of useful information for county residents today. You should follow it. #nicole
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2010-09-30 15:26:59
If you have any storm-related reports: flooded roads, downed trees, sewage backup, etc. in your neighborhood, let me know.
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2010-09-30 20:09:25
Amazon pricing for "Getting Things Done": Paperback, $6.29. Kindle: $12.99. #paperisdead
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October
2010-10-01 00:35:51
Staff of five, census of zero.
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2010-10-01 03:08:11
Any reports of major storm-related issues, please send them to me here or by e-mail to rob@vees.net and I will pass along.
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2010-10-01 18:17:24
Props to @mrmatt57 for the BEST PRANK EVER.
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2010-10-01 19:48:34
Bill Paulshock says he'll vote for David Marks in the general election? PUMA.
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2010-10-01 19:50:21
I bet the Bromwell, Baisden, Bowman, Klausmeier ticket is sure glad they included a candidate who plans to vote Republican.
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2010-10-01 20:54:50
Word of the day: anisotropic. adj. exhibiting properties with different values when measured in different directions.
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2010-10-04 16:31:19
Things are looking up in the office. Fewer empty cubes and the productive sound of tapping keyboards today.
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2010-10-05 15:33:08
Trying not to lose my mind today. So many things to think about all at once.
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2010-10-05 15:47:46
Three people in my office have orange jackets. Was I on the forefront of a fashion trend with my "old man" windbreaker?
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2010-10-05 21:07:12
The first spot I clicked on "Globe Genie" is a beautiful lake in Sweden. Wish I were there.
http://t.co/qoigID8
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2010-10-05 21:20:28
New Google Street View pictures of my neighborhood are up from 8/2009, showing a drying tarp, overgrown tree, and garbage bag in my yard.
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2010-10-06 03:24:03
From Globe Genie: "Nazis asesino, Carlos no te olvidamos"
http://t.co/u8aOY2f
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2010-10-08 19:27:37
Inbox Zero for both home and work e-mail. Lets see how long this lasts.
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2010-10-08 19:38:01
RIP 1-800-GOOG-411. Google says it'll be turned off on November 12, 2010.
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2010-10-08 19:47:41
Maybe I've already mentioned this, but the combination of a Kindle and @Instapaper have changed my information consumption.
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2010-10-09 13:50:29
KK4GV does the research: new Maryland ham radio plates will be issued on the old plain white blanks:
http://www.w3vpr.org/node/959
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2010-10-11 01:56:05
Notes from ALA Conference 2009:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/80
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2010-10-11 08:42:22
4:40am and I'm wide awake and in pain. Been like this for hours. Worst start to a week I've had in a long time.
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2010-10-11 19:07:16
RT @phil_g: Joke I saw today: Q: What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski? A: Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.
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2010-10-11 19:14:01
@elvestinkle Was stomach pain, now mostly repaired.
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2010-10-11 19:42:00
Hey @foursquare and @4sqBmore: I'm done playing until you take care of the Val C. cheater in Towson.
http://foursquare.com/user/-588787
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2010-10-11 21:27:36
Fourth dimensional restroom:
https://vees.net/blog/outlet/article/82
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2010-10-11 21:41:08
Damn, my stomach is killing me again. I don't want to miss another day of work!
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2010-10-11 21:53:50
@pseudolus You're an ass.
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2010-10-11 23:12:48
It's not a sick day if you wind up working all evening to make sure the project stays on schedule. (Suck it @pseudolus).
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2010-10-11 23:47:19
Definition of enthusiasm gap: ex-Governor who made many choices I disliked vs. ex-Governor who made many choices I disliked.
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2010-10-11 23:49:59
Definition of enthusiasm gap: ex-Governor who made many choices I disliked vs. sitting Governor who made many choices I disliked.
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2010-10-12 19:34:06
I'm not homeless, I just needed a nap. RT @MrMatt57: There is a homeless man in this car.
http://yfrog.com/694ratj
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2010-10-13 13:31:30
Howard County residents: Where do you go for your local news and county information and events?
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2010-10-13 19:00:17
Just bit the inside of my cheek hard enough to take a chunk out of it.
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2010-10-13 20:19:38
I can see the Conan O'Brien blimp from my office window.
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2010-10-13 20:25:09
@4sqBmore From my perspective in Owings Mills it's just to the left of the WBAL/WBFF towers on TV Hill, so that seems about right.
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2010-10-14 00:00:36
Everybody going apoplectic about this FBI GPS tracker needs to turn off their cell phone RIGHT NOW.
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2010-10-14 14:49:58
This is the gloomiest day so far this year.
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2010-10-14 21:37:22
Feel bad for being on the MediaWiki::Bot Authors list on the CPAN page without having made a single commit.
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2010-10-15 14:18:20
Amazing words by Councilman Joel Burns (@joelburns) of Fort Worth, TX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4
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2010-10-15 19:48:38
@bsarsgard Isn't one of the goals of virtual hardware that it's storage agnostic, and IO bottlenecks become someone else's problem?
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2010-10-16 14:52:19
Trapped in Canton inside the marathon route. Can't imagine why I thought parking inside it was a good idea.
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2010-10-17 16:23:40
Hard to believe I did a 5K in 31:13 yesterday. My sister says its addictive. My legs disagree. Now to lawn work.
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2010-10-18 11:15:02
@jeffcovey I had to look for minute before I saw the magical "hole in zero."
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2010-10-18 12:46:33
Off the grid until 8:45 pm Monday evening. No email, web or social nets. We'll see how that goes.
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2010-10-22 03:50:55
Why does it feel normal to run the wood chipper at 7pm on a bright summer evening but not on a dark evening in October?
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2010-10-23 12:41:10
RT @harfordpark: Harford Park Hall of Horrors starts tomorrow 10/23 at 7pm! Admission $5, bring friends! All info at www.harfordpark.org.
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2010-10-24 21:22:53
@janewynn Phone call to ChokChai.
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2010-10-25 22:58:08
The rent? Too damn high.
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2010-10-28 00:14:28
P1259 is my car telling my lazy ass to get that oil change already.
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November
2010-11-01 03:48:54
RT @harfordpark: Mike Kaspar received an official commendation from Kathy Klausmeier tonight for his work creating the Hall of Horrors!
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2010-11-01 14:31:31
RT @funnyordie: Guys wearing a homemade Stormtrooper getup shouldn't judge a girl's slutty costume. You're both broadcasting how badly y ...
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2010-11-01 17:50:12
Anyone participating in #NaNoWriMo? My profile is here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/734682
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2010-11-02 22:20:09
Off to vote.
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2010-11-02 22:54:35
@tadmaster Thanks for the warning.
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2010-11-03 14:05:51
Even though #ivoted for Mike Ertel for County Council, many neighbors I respect voted for his winning opponent David Marks.
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2010-11-03 19:09:49
I already miss summer thunderstorms.
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2010-11-04 13:11:02
Just realized that #ivoted for a Green, Libertarian, Republican, and Democrat on the same ballot this year.
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2010-11-04 13:59:18
Today is a good day to be happy about dry indoor employment.
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2010-11-04 19:55:11
Apparently there is a large, dead, drowned rat in my outside trash can at home. I hate rats.
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2010-11-05 18:00:47
Electronica roots, classical influences, headnodic beats, subtle buildup/breakdown, tonal harmonies. I <3 @pandora_radio.
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2010-11-05 19:46:20
Val C. in Towson still has 123 fake mayorships, so I'm done with @foursquare. Cheaters ruin the game & push away real players.
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2010-11-05 19:52:35
Just deleted my @FourSquare account and removed the app from my iPod. Feels like the end of an era, and probably for the best.
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2010-11-08 00:51:53
Can anyone in the Baltimore area recommend a good basement waterproofer, preferably someone you've worked with recently?
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2010-11-09 17:00:30
Sometimes I wonder why I work for an 8 to 5 company when I'm a 10:30 to 7:30 kind of guy. Oh right: because micro ISVs are insane.
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2010-11-09 19:15:03
Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever hour after our work is never over.
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2010-11-09 20:05:37
RT @bpsears: Kamenetz says he believes the transit center will "jump start the redevelopment of the Owings Mills Mall"
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2010-11-09 20:19:40
Dear Amazon, I noticed your front page Kindle ad contains Christmas-themed colors. May I remind you that today is only 11/9?
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2010-11-10 14:23:49
General Growth Properties emerges from bankruptcy. Must be a direct result of their "no fun activities allowed" policy at 10451.
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2010-11-10 20:24:57
Anyone else still use sync;sync;init 0 to shut down a Unix machine? Am I the only one left?
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2010-11-10 20:28:43
RT @robcapps: awesome. amazon's new system lets you intercept gifts from bad gift givers before they ship.
http://bit.ly/aZ3Xge
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2010-11-11 14:36:36
Google Voice is acting very strangely today. Lots of dropped and incomplete calls in both directions.
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2010-11-11 22:01:20
About once a year I'm reminded that small ext4 partitions can run out of inodes and cause very confusing errors.
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2010-11-12 00:30:02
Just now leaving the office. Got in the zone didn't want to waste the inspiration.
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2010-11-15 01:36:06
My Kindle 3 is freezing excessively, but only in the periods after extended use, where it refuses to turn back on. Not happy.
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2010-11-15 02:07:08
In all honesty, I can't wait to wear a traditional kilt for my next TSA "enhanced pat-down." Should be fun.
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2010-11-15 16:55:12
TSA: enjoy the scare-mongering gravy train while it lasts. The public is about to push back way past where they "feel resistance."
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2010-11-15 16:57:46
A former colleague was in a terrible accident this morning on York Road in Sparks. Media reporting one driver dead, not which one.
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2010-11-15 17:18:59
RIP Tom Fink. Thanks for teaching me how to shoot skeet and for many friendly chats during my five years at KCI Technologies.
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2010-11-15 17:37:14
ISO best practices for commenting inline C# code and on check-ins, and recommended tools to extract said comments into documentation.
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2010-11-15 20:04:47
@bpsears How did Undercover Boss jump the shark?
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2010-11-16 16:19:37
Plunking down $1100 to fix a basement crack and sump hole, now something under $4000 for drain tile installation. Sigh.
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2010-11-17 15:31:59
President Obama awards Medal of Honor SSGT Salvatore Giunta, first living recipient since Vietnam, calls him "what America is all about."
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2010-11-17 18:24:50
Dear John Pistole, fully aware of the risks, I would get on a plane that had no TSA screening without any hesitation.
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2010-11-17 19:50:35
@ballance I've found that mangled ipsec is very often an MTU issue.
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2010-11-18 15:50:23
My discussions of TSA practices with others tend to involve excessive use of the word "orifices."
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2010-11-18 18:56:38
In my teens I used to make prank calls from the pay phone directly across from the town police station. #TruthfulThursday
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2010-11-19 15:44:58
Today is a good day to be happy about the future.
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2010-11-19 17:12:54
I must open a new query window every 3 minutes in SQL Server Management Window. It's like a sea of one-off tabs.
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2010-11-22 16:38:41
Time to get an eye exam. I think it's reading glasses time.
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2010-11-22 17:08:48
All of my Facebook ads reflect that I'm a tech professional. All of Caitlin's ads reflect that she's a woman of child-bearing age.
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2010-11-22 18:47:29
Remember to opt-out of porno scanners at the airport on Wednesday, November 24.
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2010-11-22 19:27:59
Definition of a fragile system: "Just one or two recalcitrant passengers at an airport is all it takes to cause huge delays."
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2010-11-22 19:37:53
RT @TSAgov: Tonight we put a few backscatter scanners together and formed a Stargate. #tsa #tsagov
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2010-11-23 16:17:36
RT @pennjillette: Don't think of 11/24 as flying home to your loved ones, think of it as a replication of Stanford Prison Experiment ht ...
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2010-11-23 18:50:05
@abbylibrarian Resume experience should go back 7-10 years, assuming the recipient can follow-up with you.
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2010-11-23 20:41:19
RT @jasonmustian: Body scans and genital fondlings would save more lives if our Government was paying to have them done in hospitals rat ...
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2010-11-23 22:50:31
E-mail box empty, tasks delegated, code checked in, documentation updated, desktops cleaned. Thanksgiving, here I come!
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2010-11-24 02:23:48
First personal casualty of the TSA protest, one Facebook friend connection. :(
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2010-11-24 03:54:54
Scope or grope?
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2010-11-24 03:57:15
@dj_kittycat Injured, in a metaphorical sense.
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2010-11-24 15:40:12
RT @TSAgov: TSA Advisory: Children who "opt-out" of scans will be told Santa is dead. #tsa #tsagov
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2010-11-24 17:59:27
I mean, obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies. #palin #wtf
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2010-11-25 04:33:26
Thought hot-melt adhesive was Nylon-based. It's not exactly, but it is sometimes a polyamide for high-performance applications.
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2010-11-25 16:59:40
First snow!
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2010-11-25 19:47:29
Turkey time minutes away. Emergency chocolate-covered espresso bean stash activated.
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2010-11-27 17:13:44
This black tights and big furry boot fashion is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.
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2010-11-27 17:17:04
Caitlin says the leggings and boots fashion makes the girls look like skinny Clydesdales.
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2010-11-27 20:51:59
Malls make me hate humanity in a way that no other place does.
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2010-11-28 03:11:00
Douche guy at reunion just introduced himself as "Astronaut/Spy" to the actual NSA cryptologist, who smiled and said nothing.
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2010-11-28 15:33:48
Sign of the times:
http://yfrog.com/mrauf0j
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2010-11-29 02:28:59
RT @wilw: Leslie Nielson's in a better place . . . "What is it?" A construct to help cope with grief, but that's not important right now.
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2010-11-29 03:35:56
The effective lease on a FIOS IP address appears to be one year. At least that's how long I had 98.117.50.220 before today.
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2010-11-29 03:37:09
@torrez You're right, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I guess they don't have 4.4.4.4 anymore.
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December
2010-12-01 01:57:34
With any luck this is the last rainstorm where I worry about the rising water table for a long long time.
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2010-12-02 18:31:31
Bringing rolling luggage to the office is dumb. How can you possibly be hauling so much stuff from home for 8 hours in a cube?
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2010-12-04 17:32:44
Second flurry of the season. Wish I had a warm hat with me. It's freezing out here.
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2010-12-04 20:15:34
At Paley Center for Media #LennonPaley exhibit with Caitlin. Was there more than the library and screenings ten years ago?
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2010-12-04 21:25:30
RT @bykowicz: An army of Santas has invaded Baltimore.
http://plixi.com/p/60978332
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2010-12-05 05:37:06
On Bridezilla: South Plainfield couple previously married and divorced getting married again in a flurry of arguments.
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2010-12-06 20:58:25
The addition of the free.kindle.com email address is awesome.
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2010-12-07 02:59:10
Just got a prepaid cell phone for the week that Caitlin is away, and thanks to Google Voice I don't even need a new number.
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2010-12-07 20:04:05
Today I skipped past an article called "How to Help Your Spouse With Depression" without feeling the need to read or save it. MLIA.
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2010-12-07 20:12:17
Happy National Hand Washing Awareness Week!
http://www.cdc.gov/cleanhands/
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2010-12-07 21:46:27
Loving cablegateroulette.com. The one sentence summaries are great.
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2010-12-07 21:50:02
It's a simple app but it really classes up my cubicle when the iPod is in the charging stand.
http://yfrog.com/0vre8pj
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2010-12-08 17:55:16
Caitlin's Kindle 3 started randomly resetting itself last night. Now we have two Kindles that aren't behaving.
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2010-12-08 19:19:40
With the Brickskeller closing its doors, which bar will inherit the prize for nastiest public restrooms in DC?
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2010-12-08 19:20:12
@SophieBegonia Same symptoms on mine, especially when it's been in my bag for a few hours.
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2010-12-08 19:26:22
I railed against the TSA and supported Wikileaks before it was cool to do either.
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2010-12-08 20:00:36
Amazed that two dozen people can walk out of an all-hands meeting with two dozen opinions about what was said and implied.
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2010-12-09 02:21:58
My Kindle 3 crashed at 9:20pm today.
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2010-12-09 16:15:43
@davewiner Memes are like Firmicutes. They don't die, they just hibernate until conditions are right.
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2010-12-09 18:06:04
My Kindle 3 crashed at 1:05pm today. #kindlefail
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2010-12-09 18:19:20
RT @the_tech_bubble: If Henry Ford listened to customers, they would've said faster horses. He didnt & now theres no awesome race of sup ...
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2010-12-09 19:39:40
I support legislation to end birthright citizenship, as long as it's retroactive to 1776.
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2010-12-09 21:19:05
My Kindle 3 crashed at 4:19pm today. #kindlefail
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2010-12-10 16:47:47
Flurries outside and a warm lunch with coworkers inside. Not a bad day.
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2010-12-10 21:14:51
I own two flatus-themed tee-shirts, both gifts from my sister.
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2010-12-11 05:19:33
My Kindle 3 crashed at 12:14am today. #kindlefail
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2010-12-12 19:18:54
Wondering why "The eMVA store is not available to Google Chrome users." Can @MD_MVA fill us in?
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2010-12-13 15:45:07
I have an actual ringing cell phone for the next two weeks or $13 worth of prepaid credit, whichever comes first.
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2010-12-13 18:36:21
RT @AvenueAntiques: SPEED CAMERA WARNING-on Roland Avenue near Eddie's of Roland Park. The boxes are there today.
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2010-12-13 19:03:33
Awesome, my brand new prepaid cell number is getting dunning calls from NCO Collections. Keeping a good log for FDCPA violations.
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2010-12-13 20:12:45
Leaked cables say socialist grub is fast, tasty, cheap:
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2010/01/10CARACAS43.html
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2010-12-14 21:51:47
RT @LinkedIn: sorry for the inconvenience, as a proactive measure we've reached out to users potentially affected by the gawker breach r ...
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2010-12-14 23:55:42
Taylor Ave closed between Perring Parkway and Old Harford Road for what I believe is a gas leak. #baltraffic
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2010-12-16 20:57:30
Still snowing out there. Gearing up for my 4 hour and 20 mile commute.
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2010-12-17 15:31:10
No mobile Internet access until Christmas. This should be interesting.
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2010-12-17 18:42:48
Hoping to apply improvement models to the operations of @harfordpark by helping to explicitly define our current procedures.
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2010-12-17 21:28:34
This day passed by surprisingly quickly, and it looks like the weekend will be free of snow.
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2010-12-17 21:38:15
Sitting 20 feet away from me, @kendallmiller would like me and the world to know via Twitter that he would like a cookie.
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2010-12-17 21:46:41
RT @spolsky: YES, the Amazon Kindle 3G cover makes the damn thing freeze up. I can reproduce this 100%.
http://t.co/2x2Cz9t
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2010-12-17 21:52:45
Why your Kindle 3G cover causes it to crash:
http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4633
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2010-12-17 22:02:45
RT @jmspool: If you're signing the petition to convince Yahoo to keep losing money on their no-business-model web app, include a check.
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2010-12-17 22:04:55
Worried about the long term stability of my Kindle battery, now that I know what the problem was. Got a extended warranty, so we'll see.
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2010-12-17 22:10:03
PROTIP: OSSP's uuid 1.6.2 does not generate random GUID by default, but Andreas Dilger's uuidgen does. Use uuid -v4.
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2010-12-19 16:24:26
RT @repgregwalden: .-- .. .-.. .-.. / -.-. .... .- .. .-. / -.-. --- -- -- / .- -. -.. / - . -.-. .... / ... ..- -... / --... ...-- ... ...
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2010-12-19 21:30:44
Water main break at 39.397162, -76.54298, police blocking Satyr Hill Rd. Already sinking asphalt at 4:20pm. (@ParkvillePatch)
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2010-12-19 22:58:14
RT @ParkvillePatch: Water main break on Satyr Hill between Joppa and Old Harford:
http://patch.com/A-cF63
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2010-12-19 23:44:39
Admit it, you've always wondered about the frequencies and duration of Quindar tones.
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2010-12-20 00:08:13
With the classical music playing and the door closed I can almost forget the three cats having a turf battle in the living room.
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2010-12-20 05:02:27
@dj_kittycat There have been three cats here for a while now.
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2010-12-20 17:53:16
Last time I used a credit card to buy food was a month ago on our anniversary out, and I'm sorry to break the trend for lunch today.
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2010-12-21 01:37:31
Tonight's objective: drink until SQL makes sense.
http://yfrog.com/h6b5hj
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2010-12-21 04:25:30
For the record, Amazon just made good on all the Kindle crashes with a new cover. Brand loyalty affirmed.
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2010-12-21 15:56:34
Best wishes to Clara Li who is leaving Mind Over Machines on 12/24 to start the new year with a new job.
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2010-12-21 20:19:40
@jongaynor Simplest explanation yet. I posted a more complicated one a few days ago.
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2010-12-21 21:35:31
Why worry about al Qaeda poisoning buffets when the guy ahead in line poops without washing his hands?
http://cdc.gov/cleanhands
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2010-12-21 23:02:56
RT @Oryx_Gazella "That game blew so hard all of my Nintendo cartridges started working." Wow, best line I've heard all day.
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2010-12-22 15:23:06
QOTD: Anything you are still able to do legally without government approval is a “loophole."
http://ow.ly/3taFD
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2010-12-22 16:38:06
Words can't express how sad I am to not have a Google CR-48. It's the perfect laptop for me.
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2010-12-22 16:53:11
EnduraPro keyboard springs are acting up, so I switched back to a spare. Miss joystick mouse and clack sound already.
http://ow.ly/3teJ1
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2010-12-22 21:23:41
All you haters who are planning to blend, shoot, drown, or disrespect your Google CR-48 please send it to me. I'll pay postage.
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2010-12-23 05:32:56
Today is a good day to be happy about Caitlin returning from the wild west.
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2010-12-24 13:53:02
RT @ihackinjosh: Dear kids, There is NO Santa Claus. Those presents are from your parents. "With love, WikiLeaks"
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2010-12-26 03:09:54
Now that I've Googled the Krampus, it will haunt my dreams.
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2010-12-28 19:31:12
This is Tuesday afternoon Turnpike traffic? Must have been a lot of folks stranded in NJ this weekend.
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2010-12-29 15:30:55
We're convinced this building has no thermostat, just a light switch maintenance flips to turn the heat on and off once a month.
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2010-12-29 20:51:23
Looking for the best intersection of weight, price, and touch type friendly keyboard in a netbook. Online searches not helping.
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2010-12-29 20:53:21
@kendallmiller Great laptop, bad position on the price axis.
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2010-12-29 21:06:54
Just got a $1 Skype credit for an outage that really didn't affect me too much. Great for emergency calls from the iPod.
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2010-12-30 02:40:12
The Hoarders TV show scares the crap out of me, especially when I nod in agreement with some of the justifications.
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2010-12-30 15:34:30
Help discourage obnoxious telemarketing: donate to your local hospital blood bank instead of the Red Cross this year.
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2010-12-30 21:42:27
Looking for strong opinions on the Lenovo Ideapad S10-3?
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2010-12-30 22:03:11
Baltimore City minimal water bill is $26.91 per quarter for water, $36.18 for sewer and a $7.50 bay restoration charge = $70.54.
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