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FebruaryFeb 11 Wednesday Wed 09

Precipice

What a tenuous position to be in. I'm standing on the precipice of a new life eagerly and anxiously ready to get started. I've earned this. God knows it took longer than I expected, but I'm finally ready to take that first step off the cliff.

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FebruaryFeb 9 Monday Mon 09

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-02-08

trying rather hard not to mope around (too much). #

brutal day. hopefully relaxing tonight. #

I judge Mac users who leave those dirty dirty .DS_Store files all over the place. It just furthers my believe in their smugness. #

no, I don't actually have anything productive to contribute today. #

@danschawbel Netvites.com #

http://is.gd/i6XI get Acronic True Image 10 for free ... usually $50 #

not feeling so great...ready for this day/week to be over already. #

playing with SQL server 2008 this evening ...I know, you're jealous. #

@edythemighty it took far too long to setup SQL Server 2008 express and Visual Web Dev 2008 express ...but now I get to play in reply to edythemighty #

literally just got the new Move to/Labels drop downs in Gmail ....cool stuff. These could be handy. #

@ruby Move to -> Inbox ....doesn't that work? in reply to ruby #

tired, but also bored ...so bored I don't actually feel like going to bed *sigh* #

got wifi on my Treo now...happy camper now #

http://bit.ly/j8NJ Dems in the Sen. have filibuster-proof majority and I'll finally be able to gay marry a stem cell-created illegal alien #

Sesame Street hurts my ears. Elmo just keeps squeaking, but the Count is awesome. #

http://is.gd/iw4S Cookie Monster Rap vs. Jay Z "99 Problems" #

@thirteen23 is there actually no way to resize the window? Or am I just missing something obvious here? #

http://bit.ly/2tYGc4 6 Ways Your Credit Score Changes Thursday FICO 08 just rolled out, your credit score is different now. read this. #

anyone need an invite for Dropular.net? it's kinda cool. #

@kozel basically a bookmarking site that's geared toward visual stuff (images, video, audio, etc). in reply to kozel #

http://bit.ly/G4jKW -- caption: "I can haz sn0wballz prez?!" #

http://bit.ly/R4MH Gmail now has a multi-pane view ...pretty damn cool. #

http://xkcd.com/540/ "the 'base' metaphor explained" ...SO wonderful. #

hating life (and my job) right about now. #

@bangbang023 my job is jerking me around again. told me mid-Feb I could go to NYC, now it *might* be mid/end-March. so sick of this shit. in reply to bangbang023 #

@bangbang023 just sick of getting jerked around. it's been since NOVEMBER, and March isn't even a sure thing either. such a joke. in reply to bangbang023 #

@DougH no speed/crashing problems with Twhirl here. Loving the spell check functionality though. in reply to DougH #

@bangbang023 they are now telling me maybe *knocks on wood* *crosses fingers* 2/27... but I'll still miss that March 1st move in date. in reply to bangbang023 #

Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod, tested positive for steroids in 2003, acco ... #

Dear god...hair cut place has 10...yes 10 candles burning. All different scents. #

formatting my desktop before I sell it ...I'm sure I'm going to forget to backup something *sigh* #

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FebruaryFeb 3 Tuesday Tue 09

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-02-01

don't know what to do or where to go, but I can't stay here. #

http://bit.ly/vUcn Pirating the 2009 Oscars ... a break down of which Oscar-nominated movies leaked online and when. very interesting. #

http://xkcd.com/535/ "It Might Be Cool" ...awesome as always. #

http://bit.ly/iiCB Country codes around the globe ...I think I need to buy this for my wall. Looks awesome! #

just avoid CNN this afternoon/evening. no really. it's depressing as hell. just avoid it. #

maybe a busy day today...we shall see. drinking coffee and going through the motions. #

http://www.wouldyoudothatifbarackwaswatching.com/question.html yes. it's awesome. Try it -- no. really. #

anyone have the Google Gears feature added to Gmail labs yet? ...should be added in the next day or two. #

@jackpea that's exactly what it means gCal coming soon too apparently. #

glad to be working from home. watching the snow fall. drinking coffe, and working/cleaning. #

http://bit.ly/13QI6 get your very own 'I survived the Bush administration" t-shirt! ...I really want one. #

@dacort Tweetstats seems to be down? 502 proxy error at the moment. Just an FYI. in reply to dacort #

@dacort no, no worries Just wasn't sure if you knew about it. in reply to dacort #

300 looks incredible in HD ...too bad the plot of the movie sucks so bad. #

http://bit.ly/263tuv and the winner for title of the day goes to: "Cox Suckers BitTorrent Users with More Slowdowns" LOL. #

well Gmail's offline support is ...uh ...well a start. The limitations make it far less fun than I thought. #

I take that back offline Gmail is kinda cool...it's just a bit slow to get going. I now have 2 months of mail offline. cool beans! #

an exciting morning filled with cleaning and errands... #

http://bit.ly/14G89 Mim's god awful song "This is why I'm hot" in Wordle form ... bigger size = higher frequency #

drowning in student loans and health insurance payments. this sucks. #

anyone in the market for a relatively cheap Mac Mini? @ me or DM me if you're interested. #

http://bit.ly/MJkS it's official. Google is evil: they killed bambi. One of their street view vans hit and killed a baby deer. #

TGIF ... hoping the day goes quickly. waiting for T to get here already... #

it's a good day so far. Getting my new laptop this morning, big meeting with the bosses, and the girl coming to visit. Even still TGIF! #

http://bit.ly/Otiw Bush "science" advisers ...you are fired. so funny! #

@RuViljoen amen brotha, let the weekend begin! #

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JanuaryJan 27 Tuesday Tue 09

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-25

yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and ignore that stuff because I don't feel like getting pissed off today. #

Dear Ubuntu, I'd like to use you on my laptop if you'd just actually detect my wireless card without a hassle. You failed again, sorry. #

http://is.gd/glz0 - Obama's Inbox .... great article with ideas about what he should do first. #

Retweeting @dcagle: best cartoons covering the whole 8 years of the Bush Presidency http://twtr.us/EY #

@ebygum just left you a bit of a rant in response to your "Why I hate the Palm Pre" posting... sorry about that in reply to ebygum #

@ebygum I forgot to add this: Palm Pre has copy & paste .... Palm +1 in reply to ebygum #

@ebygum and replaceable battery in reply to ebygum #

@ebygum then again ...it looks like it'll only be on Sprint for a while ... Palm Pre -100 in reply to ebygum #

@DearIE6 I'd love to have all those hours of my life back. Please just die IE6. Please just die already. in reply to DearIE6 #

I really should just go to bed right now. Not in a great mood. #

looking like a busy Monday... at least XKCD is amusing: http://xkcd.com/532/ #

http://bit.ly/p8RM "Feeling blue? Today - January 19, 2009 - is the most depressing day in HISTORY, say experts"...well that's uplifting #

going back into hiding. that sounds about right I think. #

https://www.lotuslive.com/ Lotus Live is IBM's cloud solution. Really? You had to include "live"? Where have I heard that one before...(MS) #

it's finally Inauguration Day! ...enough said. #

Sums it all up: NBC - inauguration stuff, CBS - inauguration stuff, ABC - inauguration stuff, CNN - inauguration stuff, Fox - Jerry Springer #

http://twitpic.com/153hu @jakemarsh my collection of inauguration streaming videos #

Obama is as cool as the other side of the pillow. He looks SOO calm. #

@sendchocolate It's not mine ...I stole it from Sportcenter in reply to sendchocolate #

Barack Obama is officially the 44th president ... we just passed noon. #

Retweeting @roadhacker: There goes the chopper!! SEE YA BUSH CHENEY!!! Sauron has FALLEN!!! #

Our new government has an RSS feed! http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog/ My geek heart is now happy. #

Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CONFIRMS SENATOR TED KENNEDY HAS COLLAPSED AT THE INAUGURAL LUNCHEON. #

http://is.gd/gCyJ Wordle visualization of Obama's inauguration speech. ...turned out pretty well in my opinion. #

Whitehouse people to follow: @TheWhiteHouse @USSupremeCourt @NationalDebt @SenateFloor @HouseFloor #

http://bit.ly/18nQJ "CNN: Roberts 'screwed up' oath of office" #

http://is.gd/gAFh "Looking Ahead: 4 Ways To Make Fun of Obama" #

http://is.gd/gEi4 absurdly adorable picture of Sasha Obama giving Barack a thumbs up. AWESOME! #

http://is.gd/gEks "Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present" ...every.single.presidential inauguration. speech. EVER. SOOO cool. #

http://is.gd/gEM9 The Obamas First Inaugural Dance To Beyonce (VIDEO) #

listening to Billie, Ella, and Louis ... hoping work today goes well. #

Retweeting @nizzer: Laughing at: CNN took this headline down quickly ( http://tinyurl.com/99plcc ) #

flashing my Treo 700WX with Windows Mobile 6.1 ... *fingers crossed* ...lets see how this goes. #

Hoping T is ok... #

http://is.gd/gLbl It's official. I have a crush on Obama. WhiteHouse.gov is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Geeks rejoice! #

Don't think I can stand 3 hours of Lost tonight...1 1/2 might be the max. #

wishing this week (and weekend) would just be done already. #

http://is.gd/gR9g I have a game for you: it's called "which of these is not like the other" ... (hint: the guy at the desk) #

tired of a lot of things. #

http://bit.ly/3pqsL8 "If I Fell" ...yeah, pretty much. #

http://recovery.gov "after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act see how and where your tax dollars are spent." #

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JanuaryJan 20 Tuesday Tue 09

Visualization of Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech 1.20.09

...I thought this turned out pretty well. Words that were mentioned more often are larger in size.

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Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-18

Looking at apartments in NYC... getting excited/depressed. #

@ckanal no offense to Buffalo...but that's a REALLY odd choice (I live in Rochester) in reply to ckanal #

this is just getting depressing ... done looking at apartments for the night. *sigh* #

NetFlix claims I send them back a DVD. Problem: I never actually received that DVD. What the hell? #

@steelopus I hope so! It was a great movie. I was looking forward to seeing it again. (Thin Red Line) in reply to steelopus #

@vjj96 totally need to update your icon/avatar soon my friend #

Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: "I never thought a black man would be elected President," says President Bush ...What an idiot! Good riddance! #

@lucky_luciano oh god... 3.5 hrs. I took the hatchet approach. I probably deleted more than I should have, but it was already a ton of work. in reply to lucky_luciano #

@lucky_luciano after 2 hours I got lazy and stopped being so careful. I'm sure I deleted a few things I wanted to keep. Oh well. in reply to lucky_luciano #

running on fumes today. didn't sleep more than 3 or 4 hours last night. brain was clearly far too busy to actually let me sleep. #

Dear @Gizmodo ... if your Facebook Connect code is slow/fails to load it shouldn't hold up your entire page. #

definitely ready for this for this day (and week) to be over already. #

2.5 mil. downloads * 3 GB image = 7300 TB = 7.15 PB. If we say it takes 12 hrs that'd require a 175 GB/s connection from them. Not bad MS! #

@lucky_luciano just downsizing right now. I may go back and clean up the tags eventually. Didn't have it in me that night though. in reply to lucky_luciano #

anyone have an invite for http://justhearit.com/ ? #

http://bit.ly/16JrI "Obama planning quick move to close Gitmo" ...as quickly as his first week. ABOUT F****NG TIME! #

Looking at apartments in NYC... getting excited/depressed. #

Someone really should just put Dane Cook out of his misery. #

watching Rocknrolla ...hoping it's as good as I'd like it to be. #

Obama becomes president on 1.20.09 .... Lost returns for a new season on 1.21.09 ... coincidence? I think not! #

@aliciamk all the essential phrases, huh? in reply to aliciamk #

feeling pretty optimistic today for no particularly good reason actually. #

scratch that. enthusiasm is gone. #

I'm just going to curl up into a little ball right about now... #

playing with Mozilla's Snowl a little bit ...it's a start. Hopefully they add more features though. #

met a friend tody who has had an iPhone for 6 months. had no idea how to zoom in/out ...not so intuitive I guess, huh? #

got a hot date with Hemingway tonight... #

it's 5 right now. yes, just 5. the high for today is only 7 ...how pleasant! #

"xkcd - I'm An Idiot" http://xkcd.com/530 ...pretty much awesome. #

way too much work to do in the half day today ... no way I'll be close to caught up when I leave. #

http://is.gd/fQ64 Windows 7 will be far more customizable .... MS's "personalize your PC" site is already up. #

curling into a hole for the rest of the day...what a day. what a day. #

finishing "Farewell to Arms" and headed off to bed in a bit I think... damn it's cold right now. #

http://bit.ly/AUFv My 2009 Resolutions ... made public with the hopes that I may actually keep some of them this time. #

Leaked MS Office 14 screenshot: http://is.gd/g0aA notice the "Create Mobile Office Device"..."create a USB Office device" ..interesting! #

my laptop can pump 1080p HD content to my HD tv ...consider me very amused. #

http://is.gd/fVa4 20 Celebrity Lives (In Flowchart Form) ...hilarious #

"Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway? Yeah, worst. ending. ever. #

#ItIsColdButIwontComplain here's hoping this Friday goes smoothly (and quickly) #

busy busy day. TGIF. #

I'm jumping in my seat every time I get a new email or the phone rings... *sigh* I'd love to just get an answer... #

http://is.gd/g8PH "Survival Lessons From a Sinking Plane" very interesting picture/story about yesterday's plane crash #

http://is.gd/g74k "Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs Women Differences" ...HILARIOUS (and true?) #

crap... with Google Notebook being killed I need to export my stuff into a similar platform. Evernote? Why can't you import from gNotebook? #

@jlogic thank you in reply to jlogic #

well all right then...uh. #

well I certainly got nothing all right then... #

Retweet @theinquisitr: "Video of US Airways A320 Crash Landing in the Hudson River" - http://tinyurl.com/7cfeuq #

off to see Doubt this afternoon ...it's going to be a lazy Saturday #

think I need to bite the bullet and update my Touch to firmware 2.2 pretty soon. a bunch of apps require it now *sigh* #

you just sent me to a spam site .... seriously? ...wtf? #

how is there not a normal easy to use 64 bit version of Firefox yet? ...weird. #

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JanuaryJan 12 Monday Mon 09

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-11

Pretty much miserable to be leaving NYC again. #

just going through the motions today... #

http://bit.ly/ZzQ4 Bush presidency in images. #

http://is.gd/eE2q "A Look Back At Some Of The President's Misunderestimated Remarks" #

wow...talk about awesome timing. #

http://is.gd/eJce "Apple's Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax [For Going DRM-Free] " #

just going through the motions right now #

http://is.gd/eMfi Barack Obama Pop Art #

http://is.gd/eMIj save/restore text entered into webpage forms in Firefox (in case of a crash). awesome extension! #

http://is.gd/eNoh "25 amazing people celebrated by Google" #

@StarrGazr Google isn't quite THAT old in reply to StarrGazr #

@StarrGazr Twitter's fault I suppose? I sent it, deleted it, and then re-sent it. in reply to StarrGazr #

@StarrGazr well I wanted to include the " " to soften the painful blow, so I deleted the first one. Yes. in reply to StarrGazr #

@StarrGazr iWork 09 just finished downloading for you ... so you HAVE to be nice to me. in reply to StarrGazr #

@StarrGazr wow, what an original idea in reply to StarrGazr #

@StarrGazr whine whine whine..... in reply to StarrGazr #

do you think we could have a blind president? #

Patterson's State of the State (New York) is pretty darn good. This guys talks a good game. #

http://is.gd/eNWv Obama-inspired Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor: Yes Pecan! #

http://is.gd/eNYy "Porn Industry Asking For Federal Bailout. Yes, Seriously. " #

dinner, some hot chocolate, and a hot date with Hemingway #

http://is.gd/eNFe "Scenes from the Gaza Strip" ...wow. just wow. #

http://is.gd/ePBB -- Daily Show "Road to the Doghouse - Puppedential Debate" ....this...is...hilarious! #

Microsoft's got a guy beat boxing before Ballmer's keynote?! ...um ? seriously? #

http://is.gd/ePq8 "Official Inauguration Poster Released by Obama Team" #

http://twitpic.com/10sbw Obama Inauguration poster (the actual image) Buy one here: http://is.gd/eSJ7 ($100) #

good to know updating a clean install of Tiger is just as painful as Windows XP. Had to restart 4 times already. *smacks forehead* yeesh #

typical Microsoft weirdness ... Windows Live Photo Gallery doesn't automatically pull in my pictures library. Um, why not? #

oh man, it really sucks when you wake up 3 minutes before your alarm is going to go off... #

http://bit.ly/Xy9i "Lost -- in graph form" ...personally I think "wtf" needs to increase more steeply. #

http://xkcd.com/528/ -- Windows 7 ...well at least it's better than Vista. #

@aliciamk what phone are you thinking about? in reply to aliciamk #

yup, pretty sick of this bullshit. #

@StarrGazr thanks dear. really appreciate it right now. in reply to StarrGazr #

@aliciamk just promise me you won't get the pink one in reply to aliciamk #

tired of all of this and honestly I don't quite know what to do about it. #

who is ready for the weekend? dear god...can't this day just be over with? #

@aliciamk I'll try hard not to judge you too badly. in reply to aliciamk #

@aliciamk grade distribution is always such a terrible idea, in my opinion. in reply to aliciamk #

http://bit.ly/xuhl "For BlackBerry, Obama's Devotion Is Priceless" -- endorsement could be worth an estimated $50 million (if he could) #

@aliciamk exactly. a curve is one thing, but grade distributions are just idiotic in reply to aliciamk #

computer stuff, movie, and then maybe some football #

music library before cleaning: 88GB .... music library after cleaning: 37GB. Holy crap I am tired now. #

@bangbang023 mind numbingly boring stuff...yeah. in reply to bangbang023 #

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JanuaryJan 10 Saturday Sat 09

2009 Resolutions

I'm aware that it's January 9th. I just wanted to take my time to ensure I actually put some real thought into my resolutions. Why post them on these interwebs? Well, I think it might be a bit more likely that I'll follow through with these if they are available to the public. So enough mindless banter (in no particular order):

In 2009 I want to...

be sitting in my new apartment, in NYC (hopefully Brooklyn), with Tessa, celebrating our 1 year anniversary on (or before) March 14th.

make a little money. Not a lot, but enough to not worry about it on a day to day basis like I currently need to.

find a way to either make my current job more interesting/fun or to find a different job that fits those qualifications.

make sure that whatever job I end up with actually has good benefits (to quote Homer: "mmmmmmm [health insurance and 401k]...")

start to pay back a chunk of my debts.

pay off my credit card, and then do the "freeze it in a block of ice" idea. No, really.

take dance lessons with Tessa.

read (and enjoy) a few of those books on my reading list.

actually take some kind of vacation, no matter how brief.

finally kill this blog (and domain) after 5+ years. It doesn't make a lot of sense any more.

get down to Atlanta to see my brother at least once, but hopefully more than that.

investigate the feasibility of grad school (informatics? information systems? pottery?).

continue to be informed about the news and politics.

scuba dive at least once (preferably some place with warm water).

go camping in the Thousand Islands.

make a point to take more pictures. Good pictures. Bad pictures. Just take pictures.

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JanuaryJan 7 Wednesday Wed 09

Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-04

zoning out from life (watching football) #

@bpw best I know is "20093 ...so who really knows when I guess. in reply to bpw #

going to regret staying up until 2 tomorrow (doh. this morning) morning... gotta be up in 4 1/2 hours. #

busy day, several meetings, but can't wait to leave for NYC tomorrow... #

really not doing this bulls**t today. there will be hell to pay if my work blocked Gmail. #

packing up for NYC tomorrow morning #

20% coupon if you plan to buy the Mac app Thing v1.0 -- THINGSPRESALE20 20% off #

http://is.gd/e5Dc new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 ...some very handy stuff #

Tired of sleeping in an empty bed...ready to be back in NYC. #

When in Rome (NY)...go back to bed. On the train, it's already quite full... *sigh* no seat to myself #

Who do you think is the most popular artist/group of all time? Frank Sinatra? The Beatles? #

Just about to Penn Station, and then headed downtown for lunch with T. #

@lucky_luciano oh, I was serious. I have no intentions of watching "Poughkeepsie Tapes". I love horror movies, but that just ain't cool. in reply to lucky_luciano #

@bpw "Poughkeepsie Tapes" leaked out if you wanted to see it: http://bit.ly/8tm3 in reply to bpw #

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DecemberDec 28 Sunday Sun 08

Twitter Posts for the week of 2008-12-28

I think I'm going to be starting work on a brand new project soon. I'm pretty psyched. #

last day of work for the week...can't wait to be done. really need to catch up on sleep tomorrow. #

I really need to update my Touch to 2.2 ...but I really don't feel like reinstalling all of my *cough* special applications again. #

gotta a date with hot chocolate and my book (East of Eden...SOO good) #

http://is.gd/dfdC ...a house....built entirely using CSS background colors. absolutely ridiculous (and cool) #

Merry Christmas and all that jazz. #

it's snowing now, and yet it's supposed to be 60 something tomorrow.... wtf? #

downloading Windows 7 Beta 1 (I think) ...we shall know in a few hours #

@film_girl I'll let you know once I get this downloaded and installed. Happy holiday! in reply to film_girl #

@jeremyb build is: 7000.0.081212-1400 @kkhipple info on where to download it (for now it's a mess...Chinese site, using an app in Chinese). in reply to jeremyb #

@JamesProud @jeremyb @kkhipple by the way, this has been confirmed to be real. They may release the x64 build soon also. in reply to JamesProud #

@JamesProud yeah right...I wish. Can you still pull some strings to get me in? in reply to JamesProud #

@JamesProud it's a pain in the ass...you need to install an app entrirely in Chinese. A torrent is being made right now. I'll send the link. in reply to JamesProud #