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• Note to self: check out new Randy Newman album. #
• It’ll be cool when Kindle tech gets cheap enuff so you can grab the the NYT or New Yorker Kindle, both auto-updated, and head out to dinner. #
• Disturbing observation: the longer I remain an ovo-lacto vegetarian, the more I come to love eggs & cheese in food. Time to go vegan? #
• Hmm, sticking to English in US is valuable to avoid a disparity between Spanish & Chinese schools, helping equality 4 all future citizens? #
• At the museum yesterday I was reminded of how much I hate to see dorks like me use iPhones like cameras, or seeing them used for anythin … #
• Movie premise: story of an amnesiac, who all the while is maybe faking. Little hints and memories start to leak out. #
• Waiting @ CalTrain 4 the first time in months and months. I did this 4 days a week for a year and a half once. Cozy feeling. #
• CalTrain is now 10 minutes late. Getting nonplussed. #
• Damn, nevermind. Weekend schedule. Got 18 minutes to wait. #
• @fairycat that’s what the party I’m going to is for. Also I’m scared to dance by myself. #
• @fairycat good thing I’m not going to a goth party! But I don’t mind much either way. #
• I suspect dating these people I know I can’t love is a waste of time. #
• Seems like Pandora can limit the number of unique concurrent stations to stay under heightened internet radio taxation. #
• Someone tell @djgraphite to come pick me up! #
• @carmiendo tell vijay I’m walking along el camino #
• Walking around on El Camino at night is scary. No sidewalk and dark. #
• This party make me feel socially awkward. Also I am really really bad at Rockband. #
• 1:13 keg stand #
• I might be getting out of touch with technology. I think the singularity is personal. #
• Kind of want to go out to the local all night restaurant, Sparky’s, for some tasty morsels. It is past my bed time tho. #
• @bexamazing damn. I know whats it’s like to be the guy being held up. Sucks when you have to witness really messed up events. #
• When does twitter push past the 140 char limit? 5 years? 10? Never means a pretty drastic statement on the future of human communication. #
• Part of me really likes the idea of humping some day job to financially support a particle physicist SO who is committed to research. #
• Twitter as the drummers from the diamond age? #
• I hope an ex-olympic archer sets the man on fire early with a flaming arrow. #
• I think the Twitter-on-blog experiment should end soon. The impact is too far reaching, unpredictable, and out of my control. #
• Amazingness at SIGGRAPH: http://is.gd/1t9s & http://is.gd/1DKt #
• Data-driven attractiveness enhancement used for hinting in facial plastic surgery? Trippy. Face of Tomorrow, Today. http://is.gd/1FhL #
• @corbett if anything, blog+twitter gave some kind of initial transition between the two mediums. #
• I’d like a timeline graph of my social tech exposure; BBS, usenet, IRC, blog, twitter, facebook. Does anyone have exhaustive Linuxnet logs? #
• I’m on the can in my apartment. I live a couple blocks away. Are you at ti couz? I’ll hurry… #
• Dammit twinkle, stop embarassing me. #

• Giving away startup ideas to fresh Harvard Biz School graduates may have been a bad idea. #
• @fairycat because I have a big mouth and want people to like me? #
• @fairycat I think I don’t have much choice there #
• I think I just got turned down for a date tomorrow. Phone reception was bad, and her accept is thick. #
• Kind of in the mood for hacking tonight. But what? My editor? My window manager? My web startup? My work work? #
• @fairycat hmm, maybe I’ll go to rickshaw stop to watch the olympics and see if my friend is bartending. Want to come? #
• @fairycat up at 5 am? Ouch! #
• I’m sick of the cute gayboy haircuts my stylist gives me. #
• @codinghorror I’d argue that the URL bar is just as important. Both it and the back button are genius. #
• Looking for a good intro to statistics class in SF. Berkeley extension has one, but it’s non-mathy. Recommendations? #
• Watching skype video of my brother spitting up on cue cheers me up! #
• @toshok ooh. Wonder if I’ll flop on the math. CCSF MATH 80: Probability and Statistics looks good tho. #
• @plumpy asks in email about grabbing a beer after seeing my “omnipresent updates” on twinkle. Psyched to meet strangers from twitter! #
• Facebook says: Happy Birthday @juziel ! #
• My new brother, Lachlan, video comedian: http://tinyurl.com/5jqpn4 (requires facebook login) #
• Considering a master cleanse for 10-14 days. Anyone tried this? #
• Note to self: buy more Levi 527 jeans, except a few inches bigger so you can fit in them without gastric pain. 31 -> 33 waist, 34 length. #
• @djgraphite yes, exactly! That’s why I need to get a mac, so I can write tomboy for iphone and add twitter integration. #
• iPhone 3G SMS keypress has ~1/2 second delay! Totally infuriating. Anyone know how to fix this? Tempted to start deleting SMS history #
• Two O’reilly books I want: Computational Biology in a Nutshell, and Genome Hacks. #
• It’s time to grow up and stop carrying a laptop around everywhere. One at work for work, one at home for hacking/writing, phone for minutia. #
• Just realized I want my boss to get angry and yell at me more, like that scene in So I Married an Ax Murderer. #
• @natfriedman I hear a lot of robot hackers still write in basic. refreshing to see it up on stage at a talk recently, and every1 grok it. #
• @plumpy oh cool. i should really upgrade. wonder if i can do that if i just show up at the apple store and act dumb. #

• I am now the proud owner of postnerd.org. #
• Man, domain registration has gotten so streamlined! 20 minutes from PayPal to DNS resolving jump page. #
• Headed to Berkeley to buy more Transmetropolitan comics and dinner with Jacob. #
• Need to read the Golden Ass. #
• Lady on the train says a start counting years from the birth of Christ, not the death. Good to know! #
• The problem with economics is that when we discover the gene for nationalism, no one will pay to remove it from the pool. #
• Seems like altering the Sun’s trajectory is the right way to do space travel. #
• Ted Naifeh, you motherfucker, let’s make a comic together. #
• Your reality can be recreated too. #
• I miss Jacob A #
• I miss Jacob Appelbaum. #
• If VMware was smart they’d summarily fire anyone who had not shown to be top 1% after say 4 years. People like me. #
• Yay ambiguous drug taking culture! #
• I have such a strong desire to keep the cards and trinkets of my relationship with Carrie hidden safe in drawers, after these 3 years. #
• @corbett I’ve flipped through Transmet before, but never really got into it. It’s gooooood, like a cozy teddy bear. #
• Power company shut off power for nonpayment of $600 power bill. Waiting around for reactivation. #
• @djgraphite it would seem I forgot to update PGE autopay after my CC was stolan a while ago. #
• Sweet, I needed to report to jury duty yesterday. At least they let me reschedule without a fine. #
• I am only really attracted to women who make me want to try harder. #
• I can’t stand people who are nice ALL THE TIME. The older I get the less patient I am with them, preferring to be around 100% rat bastards. #

• New long pea coat, brown blazer, and flag-colored shorty shorts are cheering me up. Yay for shopping with the pros (Jason Hartline). #
• Reading comics at the bar. Headed to DNA lounge later. #
• Damn. Got dressed too soon. Now I’m just sitting around trying not to wrinkle. #
• Just made out on stage with a PM from Google I just met. That is pretty hot. #
• My room is a pigsty. #

• @gabaug nah, it’s easy: everything you eat was once living and eventually you will die and be eaten. #
• Clarity of youth. #
• While high on drugs just now I tried to smash my iPhone as hard as I could. It still works. I like it more now. #
• @jeresig don’t feel bad about your demo. Everyone knows you rule. #
• @jacksonh grurrah.com is such a nice idea. I’m going to try to think of things to add. #
• I should probably be around other people tonight. Who wants to help a friend out? #
• Thinking of heading to 1015 Folsom for a free party. Hopefully Jason Hartline will be there. #
• Holy shit 1015 is blowing up. #
• Went to Shine after 1015. Dirty sexy music grinding. Reallygood. Lovely to see Suzahnah, all tanned following a trip to Abu Dhabi. #
• Headed to Thirsty Bear for intern goodbye lunch. #
• Mostly hungover. #
• @Toshok let’s bike to Burning Man! #
• @toshok ooh, big man. One 150+ mile ride and you’re invincible. Pfft. #
• @tberman nitrous oxide addiction is a strange and scary concept. Avoid if possible. Or if you score a tank, give me a call. #
• Wow. Go playing program beats pro with 9 stone handicap. Welcome to the wane of human cognition. #
• Wow. Silverlight just went bigtime. NBC’s online Olympics streaming is using it exclusively. Major coup for Microsoft. #
• Okay. Which of my friends have a big TV with Cable so I can watch the olympics for the next two weeks? Jacob? Todd? #
• @tberman when do opening ceremonies start? #
• I’ve been having trouble coping withthe absurdity of life over the last few days. #

• The girl responded to post-date txt I sent. We have SMS parity again, leaving the door open to future communication! Yay! #
• This free software geek just spent another few bucks on iPhone apps. Crazy. #
• @ian wonder how many decades until we can get an ammendment binding the courts to Intl Court of Justice rulings? #

• Need to see man on wire #
• Saw Gonzo. It’s bad journalism. But god damn I love that man. #
• Going to look for copies of Great Shark Hunt and On the Campaign Trail. #
• The comic I was reading was transmet, which is much better journal of Hunter. At least in the few I’ve read so far. #
• The only man closer to hunter that I’ve known besides myself is Kit, fellow waiter at Pamplona. #
• Or maybe that violent copy editor who I met through Nat. #
• The thing is, hunters America really did die back there somewhere. #
• Maybe the best thing for America these days is it learning to be weak. As happened in Europe after the wars. #
• Apple will degrade rapidly after jobs. There’s no one else there really fighting & risking for clarity of vision. That I know of anyway. #
• …and the iPhone hard crashes in response. #
• This is where the fiction begins. #
• I, we/you, us. #
• The point in Hindu tradition where a man realizes that time is endless. #
• Hang out wiylth people who look and act like children. #
• Hang out with people who look and act like children. Do it! #
• Ruza, what do you think of the wheelchair guy? #
• Why arent my sms histories archived and indexed forever?? All my wheelchairs are bound #
• What’s the smallest binary expression for “it is what it is”? #
• Ruza knows more than I’ll ever know, or could hope to. #
• Ah, a nice cup of ibogaine tea, then back out in the cold to look for 2 books. #
• Remind me to buy a thermos with a screw on cup, to carry warm things around. #
• Headed to adobe books, but damn I left my wallet. May I can put this cute tea cup in escrow for a day with the owner there. #
• Wow, Goethe was not that old… 1749. I had always though much much more ancient! People here playing boggle, I’m nervous to join. #
• Duck u twitted/twinkle for loosing my thoughts! #
• Oh nevermind, thought I’d lost Goethe’s birthday. Whew! #
• No books. Feel like passing out. But have to fold laundry and hack code for work. #
• @codinghorror whoa, colemak layout is interesting! Makes me want to buy an already converted keyboard. #
• @zbowling excellent point. Maybe that’s why the supply-side seems interesting to me. #
• @jacksonh happy birthday you sly mother! #
• ReSMS sent to dad: Why can’t we seem to live closer together? #
• Procrastinating. Headed to 24hour safeway for a thermos. #
• Saught and found failure. No thermos. Bottle of carrot juice, 2.5 shots (mostly bourbon), and flirted with a girl at the bar, who ran away. #
• Thought I did a good job flirting. Shouldn’t have left her alone with her selfish 22yo friend, who I bet stole her away. Girl works at Edo. #
• Neat. Just got asked by a dude at Evernote to review their forthcoming API. #
• @ccascade only tried on the iPhone, but an annoying not interface that has me itching to make something better. #
• @ccascade err, annoying note-taking interface. #
• Okay, will code until Tylenol PM kicks in. That’s all I promise. #
• i want to drunkenly drive my scooter to a pizza place a few blocks away, which is almost certainly closed. #
• No good ideas for the date tonight. Overcast, so I think watching the sunset is out. Anyone in SF have ideas? #

• @tberman: breakfast at bakesale betty’s in berzerkeley. #
• @codinghorror if your’re itching to start a revolt for cecession, I’m in! #
• Hey, whoever borrowed my Dell Widescreen LCD monitor 3 years ago, give it back please. #
• The huge widescreen TV that someone left here a year ago is now gone. Strange how I grow to like objects I don’t want at first. #
• Scrabulous takedown loosely corellates with iPhone Scrabble app from EA? #
• @joeshaw: ahh, illumination #
• @corbett it was. He came to pick it up. #
• I bet walkstore.com could be a very good resource for choosing where to put a new franchise business. #
• What weve come up with for defining love: Whatever there is that’s more then just not being lonely. #
• More Stump the Hindu with my dad: Is evolution a consciousness, with its own karma? It seems to self-perpetuate and problem solve. #
• Can’t sleep. Nervous. Why did I think breakfast date a good idea?? #
• “Richard Graveley added you as a friend on Facebook…”. Uh oh. Do I dare introduce dad to Twitter? #
• Oh man, they finally invented direct-to-voicemail calling. #
• Cuddling in the sun, and googling “rebound relationship”. Warm up date went well. Uh oh. #
• I’ve got a muddy butt! #
• Guy who’s evicting me having a congratulations meeting with all his family out front, laughing and joking. I’m trying not to get upset. #

• Need to keep this streak of having fun all the time going. Anything going on 2nite? #
• Helped my neighbor friends move today. They are being evicted to. #
• A pig, a cock, and a serpent. Ignorance, desire, and malice. #
• @natfriedman *blush* Dangerous idea tho, paying for a twitter feed. #
• I keep wondering when and how we’ll get a Hindu god of the Internet. #
• @natfriedman rest easy. palo alto != sf. I bet perks make it difficult to poach ‘ooglers. I find them off-putting and surreal. #
• @cdibona The perks certainly. The oogles I consider case-by-case. #
• @jdotk what if you were the last KDE person in the whole world? Would you love it any less? #
• Success! NYU girl agrees to warmup date on Saturday! Monday is too far away for someone about to move back to NYC. #
• @migueldeicaza your cloud computering are belong to VMware. Cede! #
• @timoreilly I’m guessing the IP and Open Source book is also the least likely to get read, given the community’s track record :-/ #

• @claylevering interesting. Imagine a future war of guerilla information freedom fighters vs. Big Telco Bandwidth Control. #

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