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tweets for the week 2010-03-27

by zach @ . March 26, 2010 . 11:59PM

• @chrisgrant happened to me when i was going from 40th street last summer: a transformer exploded. #
• oh yes: http://bit.ly/cnlZfA "Faerie Mound of Dragonkind" #
• @alexknowshtml hold out for the hex tattoo guy, he prolly has a phd in compsci #
• James Randi's sexuality – oh wait, why am I allowed an opinion about it? That's right, I'm not. Loved The Faith Healers. #
• RT @fredrin – more photos from inside the abandoned USAF base in Fuchu (off-limits kinda place): http://bit.ly/byGQ4t #
• 2^x/(2^x)^1/2 solve for x #
• @PressSec if financial reform works, looking at last year's numbers we could save taxpayers at least $700 billion a year. #
• what's this? job fair at the holiday inn at Kutztown? $5 at the door? don't park at the burger king? you had me at hello. #
• reading bash.org: <El_Pompo> what would be the best language to build a crawler in?
  <Emetri> jawa. #
• Parents: talk to your kids about drugs before its 15 years later and you are talking about drugs coming home from detox and you're fucked. #
• Another reason I love Law and Order UK: the good guys only win like 65% of the time. #
• Temple's banner server: "all lines are busy." Makes sense when the ui looks like a bbs anyways. #
• Applying for an entry level DB-Web Dev position. Brushing up my acronyms. #
• omg iPhone on woot every dance now. #
• iphone's gone faster than i could type a tweet correctly. E-commerce is so hard. #
• @LILWAYNESWORLD just screw guys, you know? No guys. I just wanna dance tonight. No guys. #
• Gender Discrimination Linked to Poor Project Management – Network World. Racism linked to VB – Me. #
• This just in: Skype on Android still sucks. That is all. http://bit.ly/d6w8MG #
• I'm in the Urban (13) 21! #
• @alexknowshtml i just did some CS homework on Basecamp and noticed they have big companies on the client list but they're small teams. #
• confused at http://bit.ly/auxo4k #
• The free @digg app comes to your iPhone! To celebrate they're giving out a custom ColorWare iPad each day for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
• I just realized how much my dad wouldda liked Mad Men. #
• I can't wait till I'm middle-aged and have a show made that took place in the 90-00 changeover days. #
• http://www.sleepingtime.org/nogrrlsallowed is remarkablly accurate. #
• Got a G5 Mac Pro (dual) for sale – $500 obo. DM me with questions. #
• I average .741 woots! per month. I wonder where that puts me, statistically speaking. #
• just about 1.5 years late to finding this laying around http://bit.ly/RdaM1 #
• upgrading my server to WHS 3.0: about 80% done. I'm glad I'll never have to do this again. #

tweets for the week 2010-03-20

by zach @ . March 19, 2010 . 11:59PM

• Jenny's reading me savita bhabhi comics. #
• playing FFXIII and Psychonauts this weekend. #
• fine, i'll go get a stupid battery for you, computer. #
• Someone needs to explain the whole "huge clip-on key ring full of keys" problem that otherwise attractive women have. Janitor = unsexy. #
• Even though you can, don't put your dick in a box. #fakeapplehumanuiguide #
• Reverse engineering "Windows 3.11 for Workgroups" just so you don't have to port Castle Of The Winds is a no-no #fakeapplehumanuiguide #
• Wanna see how democracy is slain in America? http://bit.ly/aclPCL textbooks seem like a logical start point. As does TX. #
• Since I've moved to Port Richmond, two people have been shot in the head at the Aramingo Diner and one time I was dumped there, too. #avoid #
• Use pop-ups to illustrate situations a user needs to action before progress is made i.e. You pop a chubby. #fakeapplehumanuiguide #
• Beware the ides, because my rent is due on them. Et tu landlord? #
• Ohes, Turner (18 year old RHP, Tigers) looks great in Spring Training. #godimissbaseball #
• since we can't trust you to not fuck up shit this important, bone up on how to meet alien life: http://bit.ly/b0un3M #
• Since I make 8 route 15 trolly trips a week I ought to just install an office right here next to indeterminate stickiness and opaque liquid. #
• Reggie Brown was still cheaper @ $22k/catch than T.O. for the Bills. #
• I'm only an amateur economist, but I really like the idea of a strong yuan – we could import more from the EU and reverse trade imbalance. #
• Spring must be coming – I just saw my first sleeveless guido of the year. #
• Ouch. All the Windows machines in the house got malware'd good. #
• restoring from backup on my desktop and then performing rituals to banish the malware demons running rampant across my network. #payme #
• Almost done with FF13 and I'm up to 87 saves (i just save at every save point as a new save) #
• whats this now? the T410 is sneaking into my thinkpad fantasies. get out of there, its the only place i get to carry an X301. #
• No laptop today – more staring at walls than I'm used to. #
• Hey me: Buy that asterisk book I saw at Borders on Amazon. #
• Fingerbang me I'm Scotch-Irish #
• Guilt me two of my great-grandparents were Scotch Catholics. #
• Subsidize me I'm an American science student. #
• Jaundice me my liver was stolen by a former right-wing paramilitary group. #
• Pirate me, I'm a NOAC. #
• i think i found a laptop that @jdotames could use and afford! http://bit.ly/ckIyfs #
• Dude this Pokemon Red on the gameboy color I got at the thrift store has some epic rares on it! Best $7 ever. #
• I also got the recently-republished Icewind Dale trilogy for $3. Its no alarm clock/tv for $4, but its close enough. #
• newegg has mirror's edge for $9.99 – should i buy? #
• read this via digg: http://bit.ly/9V1gpR #
• Aberdeen seems kinda fucked on digg today, first the cutters, then the http://bit.ly/9twKbH penis assulter. #
• what is it with the UK in the news lately? http://bit.ly/aYHXYP now we have piles of Vikings that got died. #
• BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY http://bit.ly/a4J2x0 #
• God, women in Philadelphia hate bras that fit them. #waytoruinsomethingsimplelikeboobs #
• A transformer just popped on top of Tuttleman Learnin' building, some smoke billowed forth and the lights took a 3 second break. #temple #
• Oh your god HP is finally shipping my 3.0 upgrade for my WHS-based ex47x. You know? #
• getting warmer: that means its Rescue Me & Mad Men time before too long! #
• i just remembered that my girlfriend never got caught up on mad men and lost respect for her. #
• half in the bag, off to make new friends http://bit.ly/8Xlw9M #

tweets for the week 2010-03-13

by zach @ . March 12, 2010 . 11:59PM

• best. usb. gadget. ever. makes the peek look slick in comparison: http://bit.ly/b3IhVD #
• this looks neato: http://bit.ly/cm4AGO #
• japanophiles may not love this, but here it is anyways: http://bit.ly/cYZuOE – thanks Tim! #
• just a fool to believe i have anything @jdotames needs. shes like the wind. #
• watching a Hindi-language comedy show. #
• Scientology is like a RPG with all the levels and titles – I want to audit my whole family to level up! #
• my GTD groove is steamrolling all my someday/maybes into a fine powder which i will eat on a bagel with one knee raised. #
• i'd love to see Philadelphia done in this style: http://bit.ly/cCWRdF #
• pretty crappy performance of zsnes on my currently-ubuntu'd netbook. what is it with linux and sound? #
• watching some awful "internets movie" conspiracy crap. what makes conspiracy theories work in people's heads? #
• Staten Island: meh movie, liked the script. #
• now starting FInal Fantasy XIII #
• FF13 minute 4: I now have no idea whats happening #
• FF13 minute 14: i studiously avoided all coverage of this game, and i'm pleasantly surprised thus far. #
• FF13 minute 24: I've saved my game 5 times already #
• FF13-28: Haven't used a potion yet. 'member when they called them Cure1 in FF2US? #
• FF13-33: My gaming setup – http://tweetphoto.com/13915906 #
• FF13-39: They rendered her boobs at one object "boobs" #
• FF13-43: Even Earthbound cared how you run into the bad guys in the field. #
• FF13-45: You have to be < F-cup to get boobs separately rendered. #
• FF13-47: Wat a tweest! No, not really. you were wearing a shirt that read "disposable NPC" when i met you. #
• FF13-53: oh look, a Panelo #
• FF13-59: Thanks for the belated tutorial. #
• FF13-62: Dude, this is some serious Paladin's Quest music up in here. #
• FF13-71: Read the 'codex' and it turns out there's this evil empire and a buncha misfit rebels who work out of a cafe – why are you leaving? #
• FF13-118: So, its like a zombie-esper-Jenova kinda thing? #
• FF13-120: really, you're gonna call it Anima? the chains and stuff did half that job for you anyways! #
• FF13: End of chapter 1, thank you for not unfollowing me. #
• FF13 – Chapter 13: These shifting paradigms are making me miss the granular control of FF12's gambits. #
• Every woman I've seen go by the apartment today needs to get back under their bridges. #
• FF13 – OK, the Odin fight took me 9 tries. #
• FF13 – I'm most of my way through chapter 4 and I've over 35 saves #
• FF13 – Disc 2! #
• FF13 – Took me 37 saves to complete the first disc, this means I should have over 100 by the end of the game. #
• We live in a world where dual-booting operating systems can be done on a cell phone. #
• i am thankful for these netbeans c++ compiler install instructions as well http://bit.ly/cKV8UO #
• self indulgence you are twitter's bitch lover tonight. #
• damn, wear a cup if you go to interview at Penny Arcade. #

[Podcast] Quick discussion of Final Fantasy XIII

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . March 10, 2010 . 1:48PM

In which Nelson and I talk about the beginning experiences of playing Final Fantasy XIII. I’m a little disapointed so far, but Nelson (the die hard FF fanboi) tells me to keep my chin up until we get a little farther along.

Final Fantasy XIII – Chapter 1

tweets for the week 2010-03-06

by zach @ . March 5, 2010 . 11:59PM

• I think we all need to be like @RedPenOfDoom and make more die hard references #
• informative interactive graphical representation of how bittorrent works http://bit.ly/a9Fs80 god help those who draw graphics in Java. #
• so, after/during my being educated by an accredited university in Information Technology, I need to pay someone else to take other tests? #
• Jenny never heard the song "Lucky Man" before today. Makes me wonder about holes in my pop culture upbringing. #
• I'm relinuxing my netbook tonight so I can get comfortable with bash. I always revert to dos commands and that is too nubbish. #
• holy crap i love Casino. #
• SOA architecture allows data from disperate systems to be shown on a unified "dashboard" that excites management (like a new Excel beta!) #
• really excited for Civ 5 – hopefully I won't be buying a new computer to play it (for the first time ever) #
• regarding tea parties http://bit.ly/a4qJQV They're noisy and whiny and can make big scenes in public; but beyond that, there's no real power #
• Since I'm taking a German class this semester, does watching Die Hard count as homework? #
• but its gonna need a paint job and a shitload of screen doors. #
• after shooting the last terrorist dead, carl winslow moved to chicago to start his family. #
• Working on my cover letter for a quick meeting, then I'm eating a hoagie thats as large as my head. #
• Tonight, I'm gonna play some C&C and put on some Zubaz pants. I am all about the early 90s lately. #
• hey, i have software devs who follow me: is it harder to prove non-coding IT skills? Is there a better way than 3rd-party certifications? #
• new tech i'm excited about this week: Android wi-fi phones, $85 sub-netbooks, the insane Radeon HD 5970, Lomo instant film back. #
• deal BROKEN: http://bit.ly/5JjNEP #
• holy crap pivot is awesome. #
• Giving a talk (in a group) re: cloud computing today. I've been impressed with my group-mates during this whole process, so no stress. #
• Apple calls feature creep "feature cascade" – that so much classier. #
• Uh oh, it looks like @hotdogsladies is eating lunch with the proles again. #
• Listening to some old junkies discuss their legal problems. #
• Listening to Reggie, which I should never do when alcohol's around. #