• Unimpressed, 100 Abandoned Houses in Detroit. (http://bit.ly/RZoGO) In #stlouis, that’s just pictures from my daily commute. #
• “corn makes me angry.” – @scarvesrus #
• Eat my rear tire, cars: Law Allows Bicycles to Run Red Lights http://bit.ly/Cemap (via @RiverfrontTimes) #
• hellooooooo, Big Lovin’ Luggable: http://bit.ly/1HEoQ1. (This tweet brought to you by NG IT Solutions.) #
• why??1! don’t hold out on my semantically-sound rounded input element corners, jquery! http://bit.ly/11XHyU #
• the following has been screened by TSA for weapons, unauthorized liquids, explosives, and ill intent: http://twitpic.com/fdvxf #
• ny ny. Cabbie to @paigeweichbrodt’s new pad took us past the Apollo. I had an American pop music history geekgasm. #
• great mustached Americans sought for Annual “Goulet Award” by American Mustache Institute! http://bit.ly/ObMfY (via @RiverfrontTimes) #
• new versions of facebook and yelp iPhone apps remind me that the software is just as important as the hardware, but simpler to update. #
• his superpower is, of course, the ability to make it work: http://bit.ly/16h0mj #
• Korean-Japanese-Mexican-American cultural mashup of a wedding. God bless it; only in NYC. #

August 29th, 2009 | Memory | No comments

• insane rhetoric from the right is traditional: “In America, Crazy Is A Preexisting Condition” http://bit.ly/KpnWw (via @GreatDismal) #
• boning up on Mound City history. 1000-year-old garbage piles etc: http://bit.ly/PLCf1 #
• waiting out the rain at the AT&T employee smoker’s lounge aka 801 Pine. http://twitpic.com/eagzj #
• “The business of Mr. Bennet’s life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennet’s was to get them married.” #
• picked up 3 Beck albums from Vintage Vinyl. Can’t give him my cash after he publicly reconciled with Scientology, but fine music iac. #
• “Hello, my name is Olafur and you are my canvas” “I’ve done more installations than Time Warner Cable” http://bit.ly/3kgLB (NSFW) #
• tried to watch season premier of Mad Men. Had to stop. Pregnancy, childbirth, newborns all still too raw for me to spectate as they go awry. #
• r @_why you could also write a program for the government. 15 years is but a blink in a bureaucrat’s eye. in reply to _why #
• “They thought they had skills and insights [to] make the nation safer. But good persons in extreme circumstances can…” http://bit.ly/jrFoR #
• constructing a 1 person scrum. I don’t really know how to work otherwise. http://twitpic.com/ei0ab #
• ah, much better. Also, I still suck at estimating. http://twitpic.com/ei4y3 #
• every 3 months I have a minor commuting disaster. Today my wallet fell from an open zippered pocket somewhere on my ride back to the train. #
• bless the upright, helpful citizen of Shiloh Il who ran over my fallen wallet, then retrieved it and turned it over to the police. #
• on Iran policy: “Radicalism creates radicalism,” “engagement was pressure.” http://bit.ly/3ErY4i #
• r @culturemaking I always give my plane a loving pat on it’s exterior skin by the gangway before and after each flight. “that’s a good boy.” in reply to culturemaking #
• gaze upon my rounded HTML element corners, ye mighty, and tremble! #
• r @ebenhewitt a refinement: #strangeloop is a strange loop, but with added self-reference. in reply to ebenhewitt #
• #strangeloop harmonies in code. #
• #strangeloop consider the set of possible programming language talks P. Assume a function f(p) that assigns a unique natural number… #
• after the first round of the Premier League, I am certain that Manchester United will finish < 4th. Unbalanced squad, weak tactical shape. #
• Oddly comforting: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ (via @GreatDismal) #

August 22nd, 2009 | Memory | No comments