Friday, February 18, 2011

From Twitter 02-17-2011



  • 02:58:51: actually the #RoyalWedding seems to me fairly low-key. i’m not getting a lot of hype yet
  • 03:22:24: >330 non-custodial mothers kidnapped her children & fled to #Japan who doesnt acknowledge #American dads’ parental rights
  • 03:26:26: i’m just flabbergasted by how cheap the “free gifts” are that one gets for calling those scooter stores
  • 03:28:42: total membership in churches in #America continues to fall
  • 03:30:59: a well-known #atheist said “without doubt, every #American knew more atheists at the end of 2010 than they did at the beginning”
  • 03:33:35: @badwebsites they tend to say that since QDOS was written for a different chip, it had to be re-written, not just ported
  • 04:01:28: i didnt know @VinitaNair was leaving #WorldNewsNow on #abc, & it doesnt look like #tvnewser knew either
  • 04:12:04: @badwebsites here’s one of the articles i read, from @BusinessWeek: http://t.co/5VwA8wQ
  • 04:13:34: @badwebsites but if u know of an article, send it along. i’m fascinated by the history of computers
  • 04:19:21: @badwebsites i’ve read this book twice! Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of #Computers: Stan Augarten: http://t.co/pORa7qD
  • 04:21:41: on #TonightShow, #CharlesBarkley snickered & said there was no chance the #Cavs could beat the #Lakers
  • 12:39:30: i find our current obsession with “low price” to be obnoxious
  • 12:41:21: i got a lot of sleep last night, was awoken at 1145a by a phone call from Jeannie w/an invite to go to lunch at @BobEvans
  • 12:43:35: phooey on IBM Watson! while the humans used their memory, Watson got an open-book test
  • 14:52:20: done w/chili spaghetti, now leaving (@ Frisch's Big Boy) http://4sq.com/gh8xJP
  • 14:55:40: here with Jeannie (@ Highland County Bureau Of Motor Vehicles) http://4sq.com/gwOErw
  • 15:55:40: I'm at Flagway (122 East Main St, North High St, Hillsboro) http://4sq.com/enB8B5
  • 15:59:03: @davesib mary emailed me this morning saying she plans to attend
  • 16:47:51: walking home from getting coffee, i had a pleasant chat w/my next-door neighbor Kathy. she's having trouble w/our neighbor to the north
  • 16:49:09: she has an easmt to a driveway at the north end of my property, but those other neighbors have rutted it up
  • 16:50:17: she wants to put a "no trespassing" sign on the driveway. sounds like trouble. just leave me out of it.
  • 16:54:45: then my lupus neighbor Angie came home, so i came over to visit w/her and her nurse-companion Beth
  • 16:56:02: but they're not visiting much, they changed Angie's pain patches & making a grocery list
  • 16:56:22: Beth does Angie's shopping
  • 19:54:37: meeting over, on my way home (@ Former Employer) http://4sq.com/dLvrYN
  • 20:19:03: even if i could stand the stunts on #Wipeout enuf to watch the show, i absolutely despise the snarky commentary
  • 20:29:07: @PickledLlama yakity sax?! some goofy 3 Stooges music? i would definitely have to mute it.
  • 21:03:38: “@markhudson17: I just ousted @dynama as the mayor of McDonald’s on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9pdkBH” how dare you! lol
  • 21:05:11: “@PickledLlama: Facebook now needs to add self ufcker as a relationship option. For me.” hmmm…how about soloist?
  • 21:09:31: i’m losing all my #4sq mayorships cuz @foursquare stopping letting mobile web users earn them. i’ve had 16, i think.
  • 21:35:36: @octoberthehotti #4sq changed the rules, now u have to check in w/a smartphone w/gps to earn mayorships
  • 21:43:39: @octoberthehotti i’ve lost 3 mayorships since yesterday :(
  • 21:46:24: @davesib i had never seen it before, but 2 minutes tonight was enuf to hate it
  • 21:58:24: stop saying “deja vu all over again”, that was a deliberately redundant phrase said as a joke
  • 22:26:23: Since 1998, the working age population in #USA has increased by 30.5% while employment in the working age group increased by only 3.9%
  • 22:29:03: (working age is 16 to 64, employmt is liberally defined, includes self- & part-time-employmt)
  • 22:33:57: #shutup cloud! you can’t post a family picture that doesnt exist
  • 22:36:17: there is no, nada, zero, zilch evidence that adding #antioxidants to your #diet has any benefit whatsoever
  • 22:47:17: @octoberthehotti well, you need to get out more!
  • 23:08:50: if u insure the health of 5 sick ppl, & then “force” 10 healthy ppl to also buy ur insurance, the price of premiums *must* go down
  • 23:11:04: the current problem is that sick ppl are more likely to buy health insurance.
  • 23:13:27: i won’t care about my local #nfl team, the #bengals, until they demonstrate a burning desire to win. personally i think that’ll be never.
  • 23:21:24: the #cincinnati #bengals have about the same winning percentage as the #neworleans #saints…but the latter have won a #superbowl
  • 23:24:22: the #bengals, #saints, & #atlanta #falcons were all founded in the late 1960s and have about the same winning percentage
  • 23:32:41: In the last 20yrs we’ve seen an uptick of popular bands who are known primarily as ripping off other bands; Stone Temple Pilots…→
  • 23:32:59: ← and Creed did it to Pearl Jam, Interpol did it to Joy Division, and Coldplay did it to Radiohead.
  • 23:44:25: a common #JayLeno joke is to take some bizarre behavior in the news & attribute it to a current celeb. i hate it.
  • 23:47:23: #shutup #jayleno! the woman who stripped off all her clothes on a #Delta flight was not @LadyGaga & saying it was is not funny
  • 23:52:02: several car commercial joke that hiring a person to do a task is cheaper than electronic equipment that does the same task. nuts.
  • 23:56:20: i hate #DaveLetterman’s tendency to joke about stuff that happened before the show started.
  • 23:56:48: no, i’m really not in a bad mood


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