Monday, February 21, 2011

From Twitter 02-20-2011



  • 10:06:53: going out to breakfast at @mcdonalds
  • 10:37:39: I'm at McDonald's (1474 N High St, Harry Sauner Rd, Hillsboro) http://4sq.com/g6CRkB
  • 12:23:07: I'm at Walmart (540 Harry Sauner Rd, Hillsboro) http://4sq.com/gP7xLe
  • 22:57:50: wow, a facebook app that puts a numeric value to your friends and your friendships. seems outrageous.
  • 23:12:31: For the week ending 12 
Feb, 308,043 Ohioans received unemploymt benefits, 155,927 receiving regular state benefits, the rest fed benefits
  • 23:16:56: Ohio's Unemploymt Fund stays solvent by borrowing from Fed http://t.co/CP5K2bK via @daytondailynews
  • 23:38:48: “@JeanGreasy ⠡⠚ ⠛⠓ ⠕⠖⠗ ⠏ ⠟⠧” ←how’d u write braille characters? does that actually spell something?
  • 23:52:52: Obit Miss May 1975 Bridgett Rollins - This Week Community Newspapers http://t.co/jCuq6tU via @AddThis


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Sunday, February 20, 2011

From Twitter 02-19-2011



  • 00:02:55: #NYC is considering laying off 6,000 teachers. can no one see a downside to this?
  • 00:05:24: i have no faith, except for faith in humanity
  • 00:06:12: can we still afford to paint lines on streets?
  • 00:55:57: whoosh, #AnnCurry is wearing great shoes! @LateNightJimmy
  • 00:57:29: “@Linda_NH: I’m going to tweet and have sex at the same time.” bring it!
  • 00:59:40: whoosh, @AnnCurry is wearing great shoes!
  • 01:00:30: RT @dsurman: #Religion is an excuse 4 the liars to lie, the hateful to hate, the killers to kill, & the evil to control your lives.
    #Fai ...
  • 09:17:59: i’ve had trouble sleeping 3 nights in a row
  • 09:19:42: durn, we’re in for a new round of culturelle pro-biotic commercials
  • 13:11:50: our Cabinet meeting has begun
  • 17:57:30: Saw a werewolf drinking a piƱa colada in Trader Vic’s. his hair was perfect.
  • 19:14:47: only 9% of our (US) #oil comes from the #PersianGulf
  • 19:17:45: who’s surprised that not eating (i.e. #dieting) reduces your #bloodsugar and helps your #diabetes?
  • 20:44:34: can fetal alcohol syndrome be diagnosed without knowing the family history?
  • 23:54:41: pretty sad, #windex, to say that blackbirds know it’s #saturday but the boys don’t


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Saturday, February 19, 2011

From Twitter 02-18-2011



  • 00:02:27: #ParisHilton has an unusual walk, she seems to lean backwards a little
  • 00:38:18: the fact that many #unions are run badly should not detract from the accomplishment of unions & the continuing need for them
  • 00:45:27: #economist on @cnn said 20million #jobs were created during #Reagan, 20million during #Clinton, zero jobs created since 1999
  • 00:46:25: #remix the clips on @LateNightJimmy doesnt do anything for me. guess i’m too old to get it
  • 00:47:28: @davesib did u txt me earlier? i thot u didnt do txt
  • 00:48:53: RT @LibertyBelle4: Americans, if you allow those like OH's Kasich & WI's Walker to bust unions, the race to the bottom will kick into fo ...
  • 00:52:37: i watched @ChelseaLately for a while but decided it wasnt about anything
  • 00:54:47: but i turned on @ChelseaLately rather than watch men get their chests waxed on @LateNightJimmy
  • 00:58:16: RT @cdashiell: Conservatives love stupidity, so they hate teachers.
  • 00:59:00: RT @antitheistangie: Goodnight Twitter. Remember to #trustwomen to make their own health & family choices #smallgovt #tcot #prochoice is ...
  • 01:03:20: RT @GreenGoddessVV: I love when I go off on my made up tangents the followers drop off like vaginal warts on Bristol Palin
  • 01:04:07: RT @slackadjuster: YAY ! #UNIONS RT @Shoq: RT @BrnEyeSuss: Unreported, 5000 people demonstrated at Ohio capital today #p2
  • 01:05:16: RT @GeorgeTakei: Gay marriage is like straight marriage, except we each get to double our
    wardrobe. #gaymarriage
  • 01:06:52: @GeorgeTakei do u choose a partner who’s the same size for that reason?
  • 01:15:23: all #IBM’s #Watson proved was how fast computers can look it up. it doesnt detract from the phenom of human memory
  • 01:22:30: cmon #conan, why wasnt the mascot for @TacoBell a #chihuahua?
  • 01:43:23: if #PeterNorth ever writes an autobiography, i’ll read it
  • 11:34:27: the #Kardashian sisters made more in 2010 than #TomCruise, #AngelinaJolie, & #SandraBullock combined
  • 11:40:45: i liked #RosieODonnell as a stand-up comedian, havent liked her in anything since
  • 12:41:29: Former KDVR Morning Anchor Peggy Bunker Set to Take Over ABC’s ‘World News Now’ - TVSpy http://t.co/Fp1hZx7 via @tvspynews
  • 12:57:11: “Steve Jobs does demolition because brains, billions and some Buddhism don’t buy wisdom or even basic respect for others.”
  • 14:47:12: 40% of #US births are to unwed mothers
  • 14:50:00: re single mothers raising children: it’s not a man’s absence that affects the children, it’s the woman telling them what a man is
  • 15:50:18: ppl ask me if i'm happy doing nothing since being laid off 1-1/2yrs ago from a job i had for 30yrs. i reply "i'm not *unhappy*."
  • 16:21:28: a company called @gameloft says it takes more than pressing 1 button to sign up for their services. i contend i didnt press even 1
  • 16:23:07: i have not bought a ringtone, game, or app from anyone! not a single one! @gameloft says i cant get a refund
  • 16:25:39: i'm too cheap to pay for wallpapers or apps. i make my own wallpapers, make do w/the apps & ringtones on my phone
  • 16:26:55: i've been tweeting and emailing from my bathtub for 45minutes
  • 17:30:28: @twittinesis i feel the need to just say thanx every so often!
  • 22:06:15: I'm at McDonald's (1474 N High St, Harry Sauner Rd, Hillsboro) http://4sq.com/ghhTAL


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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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Thursday, February 17, 2011

From Twitter 02-16-2011



  • 00:04:53: i didnt know #JimmyKimmel doesnt have an opening monologue
  • 00:07:35: i take that back, he is doing a monologue
  • 02:27:48: the price of an item has very little relation to how much it costs to produce
  • 02:51:47: “anywhere from 3 to 5 ppl are attacked by coyotes every year.” interesting but #stupidrange
  • 02:54:08: watched #AC360 for the 1st time in yrs. it was pretty good. i tend not to watch news w/someone’s name in the title
  • 03:06:30: so far i havent found a #snus that’s even remotely preferable to a cigarette
  • 03:08:48: having a kill switch on the internet is exactly the opposite of what the internet was invented for
  • 03:09:39: if 1 person can kill the internet, anyone can kill it
  • 03:18:30: it costs $75 to enter your dog in the #WestminsterDogShow
  • 03:37:44: i dont know what #ATT wants but i entered passwords 17 chars long random, upper, lower case & numbers & couldnt get a rating above “good”
  • 03:41:13: dogs that like people rarely win the #WestminsterDogShow, they are usually aloof or imperious
  • 03:48:44: #Japan almost never gives fathers custody of children & refuses to honor other countries who do
  • 03:53:52: 1 of my pet peeves is what i call #stupidranges, like when someone says “anywhere between 15 and 17”
  • 03:55:07: how is “anywhere between 15 and 17” different from “between 15 and 17” or “15 to 17” or even “about 16”? #stupidranges
  • 04:00:30: the deficit & deficit spending is worrisome but we are still the largest economy in the world & should not have ppl starving or freezing
  • 04:04:55: i’m finding twitter less chatty these days. ppl dont seem to respond as much as they used to
  • 04:09:45: @skirrid good morning...but i'm actually headed to bed :)
  • 04:12:16: i didnt mention what flavor the instant cappuccino was: it was peanut butter cup
  • 04:13:40: that gas station has more flavors than anybody! eggnog and banana flip also sound good. too bad it's 25mi away
  • 04:15:31: i have absolutely no interest in who does the voices in a cartoon
  • 12:03:30: research lab here asking for volunteers to test a female condom.
  • 12:06:06: labs says she must be 18-40 & consent to use female condom as her only birth control during the testing period
  • 12:07:57: i add to the requirements that she must ufck a lot to give the female condoms a good test!
  • 13:05:01: in 2011, #Americans will take 734,000,000 flights
  • 13:05:16: @myvoternation i have no opinion
  • 13:21:59: gawd, @SelenaGomez is hot! is she legal to ogle yet?
  • 13:26:09: i thot i found out the hot woman on the usps priority envelopes ad was named Kim Namahara but now i find its Benita Robledo
  • 13:45:44: “@QuackityQ: @DyNama sorry Norm not yet..” plenty of fish in the sea! i’ll wait.
  • 13:47:11: she said “i can read you like a book” and i said “do you like to read in bed?”
  • 14:55:51: the motivatedness of teachers is overrated. i learned lots from boring rote teachers…just cuz i was supposed to
  • 15:03:30: In 2009, there were over 6.2 million #teachers in elementary and secondary #schools.
  • 15:05:52: trying my 1st #Jakobsson swedish strong mint #snus. didnt give me hiccups, no flood of flavor (that’s good)
  • 15:08:16: @QuackityQ hey waitaminute, #wikipedia says #selenagomez *is* 18, she’ll be 19 in July
  • 17:00:00: “@noudles04: I just ousted @dynama as the mayor of Office Depot on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9kUFfS” ooo, u have a lot of nerve lol
  • 17:34:23: @noudles04 foursquare no longer gives mayorships to users of mobile web so i’ll lose all of them eventually. ah, well
  • 17:40:25: sorry, mr. #widmer, the story is over, u’ve been convicted once & for all, for better or worse #cincinnati
  • 17:42:26: one thing about #snus. after adding #american #taxes & s/h, a use costs about the same as a #cigarette
  • 17:51:52: the @Borders i go to most often, at #Eastgate, #Cincinnati, is staying open. the huge store at #Dayton Mall is closing tho :(
  • 17:54:34: RT @ZodiacFacts: #ZodiacFacts As a #Cancer sometimes you need to stand back in order that you can carefully,and critically,observe how t ...
  • 17:59:11: what i ate yest: ½ @crackerbarrel reuben sandwich, cole slaw, cuppa veg soup, & 10 @hersheys #darkchocolate #kisses, coffee+cream
  • 18:02:04: #America is not broke, some of these cuts are us being embarrassingly cheap
  • 18:08:32: #cincinnati #schools cutting school nurses even tho they have 600 diabetics & 3600 asthmatics among their students
  • 18:16:08: @badwebsites wikipedia says Gates licensed Q-DOS from Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products
  • 18:21:11: @badwebsites interesting.
  • 18:34:21: @badwebsites i didnt know, i’m reading a history of DOS right now
  • 18:47:26: @badwebsites wikipedia just says there’s a controversy about how much of DOS is lifted from cp/m
  • 18:48:24: @badwebsites i bought cp/m for my commodore64 but never got around to using it
  • 22:43:07: durn, fell asleep watching #PBS
  • 23:40:44: “domino’s…really bad pizza.” –#JayLeno


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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

From Twitter 02-15-2011



  • 00:53:51: #GeorgeWashington missed seeing the turn of the century by dying 17 days before it
  • 01:02:36: the college that would become #WashingtonandLee enrolled their 1st #AfricanAmerican student in 1795, their 2nd in 1966
  • 01:04:29: @octoberthehotti good times!
  • 01:16:50: more babies are born in #America in September than any other month, so if #ValentinesDay is a big sex day, ppl must be more careful
  • 01:21:15: park on lovers lane, asked my date if she believes in the hereafter, she says “what do u mean?” i replied →
  • 01:22:21: ←"if ur not hereafter what i’m hereafter, u’ll be hereafter i leave.”
  • 01:31:20: i need to see #GwynethPaltrow’s performance on last night’s #Grammys
  • 14:52:47: i’ve been charged for 3 months for a subscription to @thumbplay on my cell phone, they still havent refunded my money
  • 14:54:06: this month i didnt get charged by #thumbplay but now i’ve got a subscription to @gameloft! i didnt do that one either
  • 14:55:04: the last 4 months, my #ATT bill has included charges for things i didnt sign up for @ATTJessica
  • 18:20:44: I'm at Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank http://4sq.com/exwksQ
  • 23:22:10: so on the way home from #Columbus, i stopped in #WashingtonCourtHouse for a cup of instant cappuccino
  • 23:23:09: i found the machine all disassembled. i asked for a cup & the clerk proceeded to make one by hand!
  • 23:24:25: she opened the machine & shook out powder into a cup & added hot water. i thot it was a little weak so i added more powder
  • 23:25:59: i suspect i still didnt have anywheres near enuf powder mix but i went ahead and paid for it.
  • 23:27:05: she said for my trouble she’d only charge me for a regular cup of coffee, currently on sale for 22¢! [sic]
  • 23:28:19: when i realised that if i was going to my qtrly Eye Bank mtg, i was going to have to drive my own car, i had to get things done quick
  • 23:29:28: so i inflated 1 tire which has a slow leak, then drove to Walmart to fix my broken taillight w/some of that lens tape
  • 23:30:42: in Walmart’s parking lot, i fixed the taillight & inflated my other tire w/a slow leak, then realised the time to leave town was right now
  • 23:32:45: when i left home, i for some reason didnt know i was leaving town, so i didnt really lock up, specifically i didnt pull my back door closed
  • 23:33:55: i got home at 10p, found the back door unlatched & lights on, and all was good
  • 23:35:18: dinner at @CrackerBarrel after the Eye Bank mtg is the best part, but tonight it was just the 2 of us, PDG Norm and me
  • 23:37:12: he ended up paying for my dinner so all i had to do was put out the tip of $2.50
  • 23:40:37: at the Eye Bank, we moved to spend $18,000 of the #Lions money on addition equipment for the #microkeratome
  • 23:48:38: i dont mind the #Eminem #Chrysler commercial except for the line #Detroit is “certainly not the #EmeraldCity.”
  • 23:50:08: i mean, #Chrysler’s ad agency knows the #EmeraldCity and #Oz are just fiction, don’t they?


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

From Twitter 02-14-2011



  • 01:56:35: @TabooLaRossi i said that once to a group of married guys. they just snorted & said “we can tell u’ve never been married”
  • 02:05:19: @TabooLaRossi they acted like being romantic was a burden & they wanted to get by w/the minimum amount necessary
  • 03:08:02: @Linda_NH aw, you unfollowed me :(
  • 11:25:48: #LisaKudrow says she didnt know #JenniferAniston hated her “rachel” hairdo on «Friends»
  • 11:27:15: i thought i misspelled hairdoo in that last tweet
  • 14:00:25: @Aspentroll absolutely!
  • 14:09:12: today is a special day. it’s the anniversary of the St Valentine’s Day Massacre!
  • 14:23:07: in 15 out of 18 areas studied by #PewResearch, there is more support for increasing govt spending instead of decreasing it
  • 14:26:30: i’m not a big fan of #darkchocolate, but dark #chocolate hersheys #kisses are pretty good. i won a bag as a door prize
  • 14:37:22: yes you can borrow ur way to prosperity. every billionaire only succeeded with a judicious use of credit
  • 14:45:46: phooey on spanish being a romantic language
  • 14:48:56: phooey on America’s Beverage Industry putting calorie counts on the front of the can or bottle
  • 17:48:51: had coffee & donuts w/Angie and another neighbor Edna while they swapped congestive heart failure stories
  • 17:50:37: Angie had to go home to rest so eventually i left Edna's to join her at her home
  • 17:51:49: Edna has never smoked but she has COPD. we measured our O2 stats, mine was 97, hers was 93
  • 17:55:32: i consider myself a #Cincinnati an so i watch cincy news, but Angie considers herself a Daytonian so she watches #Dayton news
  • 21:30:30: i just discovered that someone hit my car yesterday and broke out my taillight
  • 21:31:25: i discovered it today at home, but detritus from the broken taillight is not littered all over the ground here
  • 21:32:28: so it must have happened yest while i was shopping in Wilmington
  • 21:35:07: crap. there is a little scrape on my bumper too. i drove home after dark yest. i couldve been pulled over
  • 21:47:48: so this evening, hanging out with Angie, i had to watch a whole episode of The Bachelor. yuck.
  • 21:54:41: forget #Snooki, i want to know why #Meatloaf is famous
  • 22:29:27: RT @devbost: To be fair, Americans DID vote last year to redirect wealth upward to the richest Americans. They just didn't read the fine ...
  • 22:30:56: trying my very first swedish snus. it did make me hiccup :(
  • 23:28:59: local sportscaster just said a basketball player was “hotter than cigar breath” lol


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