Considered the Following During 2009-10-31

  • If health insurance covers a doc visit, why doesn't auto insurance cover gas? & other zingers on real health reform. http://j.mp/Ehb2R #
  • "There’s a garbage bag in the hallway with a reef shark in it. Just put it in the tub with water and a reef." #
  • RT @ratebeer: RT @BrooklynBrewery: RT @newbelgium Happy Saint Arnold's Day! http://bit.ly/90lKD #
  • RT @lewisshepherd: The military-industrial complex (a good thing in small doses) assembles at 0800 for #DCGS09 #
  • I don't hate writing the unit test; I hate mocking the context around the unit test. CRUD activity especially. Blargh. #
  • “Someone hacked into House Ethics committee files-when announced on the floor, members came running out the doors.” -@rustyscoop [ROTFLMAO!] #
  • r @cdeweese, if I start a company, its motto will be “Making CRUD less cruddy”. in reply to cdeweese #
  • just took the last cupcake in the office stash mentioned by @walljm. Breaking office food social taboos. http://gdzl.la/7bDr5e in reply to walljm #
  • “I really want to like @foursquare. If I have to whip my phone out and check in every time I enter a bldg, I'll lose it.”-@JavaSTL
    [Amen] #
  • RT @puredanger: RT @hudsonakridge: Possibly the best reddit thread of all time, even the future time: http://is.gd/4IuDq #
  • American Halloween was started by Presbyterian Scots secularizing a Roman Catholic holiday: http://bit.ly/4oFPb1 (via @derekhalvorson) #
  • So an appropo Halloween celebration involves pints of Scottish-style “wee heavy” ale in salute to faithful lads & lassies. Also, R. Burns. #
  • I can't really defend premises in the previous link, though the argument seemed sound. I'm a sucker for the post hoc, ergo beer fallacy. #fb #
  • Procured a growler of St. Bernardus 8 Trappist ale from @cicerosstl for my son's baptismal celebration tomorrow. Holy beer. #
  • r @jensonsdaniel my 2-fold definition of art: is it interesting? Is it obsessive? Yes to both == art. A subjective but practical definition in reply to jensonsdaniel #

October 31st, 2009 | Memory | No comments

Considered the Following During 2009-10-24

  • "I love an artist putting everything on the line to communicate to me—to make me feel s'thing. If I can't, I've failed" http://bit.ly/2QhHB9 #
  • http://bestc.am/Bai9N dusk ride home through the dying corn fields b #
  • throw a dart at a map, take a picture where it lands. http://bit.ly/45Eose #
  • my hair is going Morrissey. #
  • "We're believers" after viewing defect rates vs status quo FUD in agile software development for government: http://bit.ly/2vAGtm #
  • "Everything is fine. You don't have any problems," soothsaying disguised as contrarian management advice: http://bit.ly/1d6mf2 #
  • #stl is a Bronze-level 2009 Fall Bicycle Friendly Community Winner! #lowstandards http://bit.ly/WI32 (via @ecoveloinfo) #
  • squee!!! nothing better than crafting a *just right* conference schedule from a plethora of primo tracks! http://bit.ly/4llDty #strangeloop #
  • RT @unclezacharyj: Who wants to go in on a military-grade hovercraft with me? http://bit.ly/1bteIH #
  • 5 texts today. 1 from random TN # "hey baby I got a new phone". 4x system test from WUSTLAlerts emergency warning system. #spamspamspamspams #
  • 4 days after new Mac OS release: order Family Pack. 4 months after new Mac OS release: finish reading @Siracusa review (http://bit.ly/3ywcT) #
  • "we would need cars less if MO DOT didn't confuse itself for a highway dept. & support public transit." – @MayorSlay http://bit.ly/EErdV #
  • am I the only one who rode a bike to #strangeloop? The trees & light poles are empty outside the tivoli. #
  • the lighting is a little dim, but from the apparent density of @headius's facial hair, Duby could be in for great future. #strangeloop #
  • in the #strangeloop keynote with Jaigo (http://code.google.com/p/jaigo/) co-writer and hopeful Googler Sean Foy. He solved the puzzler. #
  • biked home from #strangeloop for dinner with @3rdspace & son before evening session at Blueberry Hill. Love living 6 blocks from the Loop! #
  • Brrrrrraaaaiiiinnnnnnsssssssssss!!! #strangeloop #
  • RT @MarioAquino: #strangeloop kicked ass today. @puredanger deserves a giant hug for making this happen. #humansrule [word] #
  • epic #strangeloop strange passion open bar tonight. 2x Chimay red label, 2x North Coast Cutthroat Porter, 2x quaruble, 1x Delirium Tremens. #
  • Somehow convinced @heathborders that I know ObjC. Hopefully, we can help each other with darts in the future #strangeloop http://j.mp/1lVqjQ #
  • hit me with the jscript, @rhyolight. Awesome title slide bodes well: http://gdzl.la/79GWj2 #strangeloop #
  • does anyone have a recommended tabular data display/datagrid jquery plugin? Free me from my Infragistics chains! (@rhyolight #strangeloop) #
  • ObjC looks like Smalltalk got slapped by the C++ ugly stick. Bleech. #strangeloop #
  • to keep bagging on ObjC, it's scary that Android Java code reads *much* cleaner (even if it's missing power like closures) #strangeloop #
  • word of the times: ployglotic. (#strangeloop) #
  • RT @leebenjp: Most talks so far have mentioned ruby on the JVM at least once (JRuby, Torque Box, Duby, …) #strangeloop #
  • rock on, @al3x. http://gdzl.la/79QYJA #
  • . @al3x laying down an art history lesson for his #strangeloop keynote: http://gdzl.la/79McA8 #
  • Twitter must have global ambitions in a way that other web2.0 companies are missing–as a service for the 3rd world. @al3x @ #strangeloop #
  • “Shazam Shame (n): The emotion felt when using the music identification service to discover that you're listening to Miley Cyrus.” -@rands #

October 24th, 2009 | Memory | No comments