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Dirty look from the kid at Firehouse watching me sip the last drops from a hot sauce bottle turned to horror when he saw which bottle it was

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Wanna make work more fun? Come in wearing a mummy costume consisting of approximately 30 meters of gauze and some David Bowie eye makeup.

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Also? Bonus points for visible ant bites before 10:00.

October 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Two guy in the bed of a truck, in the rain...two lengths ahead of a city bus bound for the same place. Public transit awareness fail.

August 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Some dastardly creature snuck in here and took the batteries out of my coffee. It's so weak I had to help it into the cup.

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Nothing like a blast of diesel exhaust and a misting of filthy backwash from an industrial window cleaning operation to start your day.

August 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Is Gmail's refusal to sync Multiple Inbox settings to Gears offline store is a glitch, an implementation deficit, or just me? #gmail

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A trainload of armored personnel carriers thunders by to the wistful innocence of Percy Faith. Espresso with a side of surreal. Make it ...

July 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Just saw Moon. Shades of LeGuin, Clarke, Asimov, Dick. Stellar performance by Sam Rockwell; beautiful sci-fi. #Moon

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Finally let myself watch the Tron Legacy trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch... My inner 80's geek-boy is nearly comatose from excitement.

Finally let myself watch the Tron Legacy trailer: http://is.gd/1LXHZ My inner 80's geek-boy is nearly comatose from excitement.

July 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Off to The Happy Berry to gather some materiel for a (hopefully) tasty and nutritious contribution to this afternoon's cookout.

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Downloading Windows 7 RC. This alpha geek business may be more trouble than it's worth. #windows7

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@aarmstrong128 Thanks for the input. From what, it does seem to be the consensus that Hg is the way to go in a windows environment.

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@djco Thanks for the info re mercurial. Windows compatibility a plus, and since Bespin 0.2 rolled out full integration, looks like Hg it is.

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I just noticed that @rww has posted some screenshots of soon-to-be-live Wolfram Alpha in (demo) action: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... #wolframalpha

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Best Video I've Seen Today Will Make You Smile [Virtual Studio] - http://gizmodo.com/5231112...

April 29 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

I almost passed this one over as 'Up With People', halftime-show schmaltz. Then I listened. You should, too. - Derrick Burns

Calling all fanboys: Can someone please answer the following in 20 words or less: "Git or Mercurial?"

April 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Compound interest, coffee roasting, professional wrestling, and the epistemology of a temporally non-local collective mind: Good morning.

April 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Urgent Mission - http://xkcd.com/567/

April 10 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

A kindred spirit. - Derrick Burns

MIT builds battery from bacterial virus, humans to power machines by 2012 - http://www.engadget.com/2009...

April 3 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

High-efficiency, high-density batteries that are nearly self-assembling and can be produced at or below room temperature: yeah, I'm sure we'll find a way to do something foolish and short-sighted with this technology. - Derrick Burns

Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time [Science] - http://i.gizmodo.com/5196845...

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Of course, the true test of any research-oriented AI is going to be how [he/she/it] navigates the subtle--and not-so-subtle--politics of publishing academia. - Derrick Burns

MIT lab unveils bacteriaphage battery, speculate that scale, commercial production perhaps on horizon: http://is.gd/quWd (via engadget.com)

April 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Pint Night @ Delaney's with J-Mar and the Wailer

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@baldheretic Re: 'conficker snicker': they must think there's a special Mac internet, one that can't be crippled by huge zombie botnets.

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@sohmer So are the protesters, for the most part.

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Nmap source and binaries incorporating Conficker detection are now available: http://insecure.org/

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Via @rmogull: Tillman Werner and Felix Leder of the Honeynet Project release paper on Conficker as well as a PoC scanner: https://www.honeynet.org/papers...

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

RT @dakami Just posted Windows Executables for Tillmann/Feder Conficker scanner, and docs for nmap on both Unix and Windows. www.doxpara.com

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Nothing makes for a shorter party than a bunch of bored teenagers standing around pretending to be interested in a kung fu panda birthda ...

March 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Following Clemens' immortal advice and not letting school get in the way of my education: Academic Earth is awesome! http://is.gd/n7mx

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