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6/1/09; 11:56:02 PM Pacific
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meangrape: Tinnitus is ridiculously bad tonight. Probably caused by electromagnetic emanations. Going to make faraday cage hat.
11:41 PM 
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evan: Foot. http://twitpic.com/6g9ri
11:16 PM
twitpic
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evan: Kitty brought me the shell of a blue mouse.
11:15 PM 
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mrtall@evan yeah, the cool kids are navigating by smell
11:08 PM 
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ronpepsi: The Chet speaks and may be acquainted with the Brigadier General. That makes up for a dry reception.
10:18 PM 
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abdur: I am such a sucker for MA films and the new Pang Brothers' Storm Warriors is not exception http://bit.ly/19aWVx
10:15 PM
firstshowing
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evan@mrtall Signs are for lame people.
10:13 PM 
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krissy: Back to track night tomorrow. I'm in desperate need.
10:10 PM 
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evan: Have a super-annoying errand tomorrow.
9:50 PM 
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ronpepsi: And here we are again. On Call, my friend, you never fail me. You should call more.
9:50 PM 
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mrtall@evan there's a neon "24 Hour Fitness" sign
9:43 PM 
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mrtall: Sacha Baron Cohen is my new hero
9:37 PM 
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bs: Hurrying home from the gym to do some cleaning before @promethea comes over. Hopefully she scans past this tweet!
9:26 PM 
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ded: LOST is a big pile of CTO gels and daylight balanced lights at 2500 kelvin.
9:18 PM 
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jkalucki: Fiddling with something that rhymes with frak.
9:14 PM 
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jack: Everyone is still at the office quietly and intently working away.
8:33 PM 
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cmagnuson: I wonder how Tony Hawk would do on a pair of these Freeline Skates - http://www.freelineskates.com/FREELINE/website/videos.html
8:19 PM
freelineskates
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rael@evan woohoo!
8:15 PM 
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rael@al3x aw man, who told?
8:15 PM 
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rael@meangrape let's see you prove itin practice.
8:10 PM 
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delbius: Feel as though even my drink is reminding me of Twitter (so I twittered about it): http://twitpic.com/6fzat
7:56 PM
twitpic
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jack: The amazing @sam_wen is in the office. Oh wait. @sam_wen has left the building.
7:50 PM 
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cmagnuson: Dan McCormick and his watershed sculptures: http://bit.ly/23smT Very cool stuff!
7:48 PM
makezine
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evan: At Kennedy's with my family.
7:47 PM 
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stop: Still haven't figured out why page-down, page-up, and home don't work in @tweetie in addition to spacebar and shift-spacebar.
7:42 PM 
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mhegge: Weekend surfing numbers: water temp 49, waves attempted 30, waves ridden (sorta) 3, nose dives 2, sea water swallowed: an unhealthy amount.
7:40 PM 
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evan: Did not realize there is a gym above Safeway!
7:37 PM 
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meangrape@evan @al3x In Texas it's called ice cones.
7:32 PM 
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noradio: Very welcoming first day at Twitter. Someone pinch me.
6:41 PM 
1,405
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anamitra: Sometimes SF can feel like coldest wind tunnel in the world. My ears have attained a color unknown to medical science.
7:22 PM 
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mhegge: If dogs are ever banned from MacKenzie Beach don't blame me, blame my dog.
7:22 PM 
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ded: resolving an unauthorized credit card purchase of $18.56 for a pizza... boy do I feel, greedy? no, that's not the word i'm looking for.
7:22 PM 
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cmagnuson: Jake and Amir: Swine Flu - http://bit.ly/xklEn
7:19 PM
jakeandamir
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al3x: So @noradio works at Twitter now. He's smart and awesome. If you're smart and awesome too, why not apply? We're just getting started.
7:18 PM 
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jack: RT @craignewmark: RT @common_squirrel: blink
7:02 PM 
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cmagnuson: In the late 1960s, pop artist Andy Warhol predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
6:53 PM 
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rk@krissy makes sense, pie isn't a kind of animal
6:52 PM 
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jackhttp://bit.ly/2aj64e
6:49 PM
youtube
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krissy: Haley says she is giving up meat cuz she doesn't want to eat animals. Only exception is chicken pot pie.
6:48 PM 
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evan@al3x It's called water ice in Delaware.
6:30 PM 
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al3x: Why is today the first time I've ever had shave ice? I haven't really been alive at all until this moment. Also: SUGAR.
6:23 PM 
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mikelimondba@ronpepsi we could even have an electronic book of faces... a face-book if you will
6:07 PM 
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mhegge: Back from Tofino and planning our next trip back. Hoping for next weekend. It was that good.
5:51 PM 
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vl: Working software is the primary measure of progress.
5:46 PM 
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alissa: I wish @JhonenV and @ursulav would make animated shorts and put them up on youtube. I would watch the hell out of them.
5:37 PM 
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mutgoff: via @YouLookGreat "says deep down we are all the same, except for our differences which are considerable."
5:31 PM 
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meangrape: Heading home now.
5:27 PM 
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robey: my "print your own boarding pass" has ads in the printout. i guess the only surprise is that they didn't think of that sooner.
5:16 PM 
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vl@ded thx for the new rando followers.
5:08 PM 
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ronpepsi: For no reason I am worried that I will forget the word "athazagoraphobia".
4:58 PM 
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evan: On-call, woo-hoo! Wait.
4:51 PM 
2,804
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ded: Such a purdy website http://bit.ly/xlcJb
4:50 PM
vlourenco
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jkalucki: RT @gnipsupport: blogged today: Gnip: Transitioning to new Twitter Streaming API in June http://bit.ly/14ber1
4:40 PM
gnip
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ronpepsi: Very glad to see a corkboard getting populated with employee names and photographs. Looking forward to the wiki.
4:32 PM 
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sean: Whether it be the SAT, math, translations, whatever, go with your first instinct. Overthinking it rarely gets you the right answer.
4:30 PM 
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al3x: When two people in Hawaii love each other, they perform a bonding ritual, as set forth by gods of nature and sea. They ride jet skis.
4:27 PM 
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kevinweil: Guido van Rossum: why python 3000? "can't miss the release date."
4:21 PM 
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kevinweil: Guido van Rossum: rewrites take many years of bug finding to get back to parity. Don't rewrite from scratch. http://twitpic.com/6fj52
4:12 PM
twitpic
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meangrape: "This cup has jpeg artifacts on it." --@evan
4:12 PM 
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kevinweil: Ok, I'll stay to watch guido talk about python 3000 with @niels. Earning myself a late night getting work done :)
4:08 PM 
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jessverr: Congrats to Sugar Inc for adding @shopflick to their team and $16M to their bank acct - I just bought the turquoise ring http://bit.ly/Hbv1o
4:06 PM
shopflick
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jessverr: I LOVE turquoise jewelry http://bit.ly/1MtlU
3:55 PM
shopflick
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stevej@ded wait, didn't you have a javascript readability review? ;-)
3:49 PM 
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mzsanford: giving money to the @kexp membership drive but listening to the podcast for the day. I'm just here for the music.
3:42 PM 
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ded: Nice ponderings on the challenge of developing JavaScript within a team http://bit.ly/Htx7g - no conclusions, but worth thinking about
3:42 PM
dandean
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cmagnuson: Cat house on the kings - http://bit.ly/3dT7Ut
3:15 PM
youtube
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sean: I couldn't even try and make that previous tweet funny. The screenshot's mildly entertaining. Take a peek if you want.
2:58 PM 
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evan: Prostyle cat lady: http://bit.ly/3dT7Ut
2:56 PM
youtube
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seanhttp://twitpic.com/6fdc5 Found an interesting screenshot of bing, going for the obvious joke
2:52 PM
twitpic
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jack: Going against my 10th lesson: RT @Ed Life lessons from @Jack http://twitpic.com/1e711 (thanks @Caroline)
2:47 PM
twitpic
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jfray: As if Bone Thugs N' Harmony hadn't already become irrelevant: http://bit.ly/1KL9N
2:42 PM
youtube
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kevinweil@stevej yeah, it sounds like it. erlang-style hot code patching for java. @niels was saying the same thing.
2:40 PM 
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stevej@kevinweil javarebel is really great.
2:35 PM 
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kevinweil: With @niels, just listened to the JavaRebel guys strategerizing about how to talk to their booth babes.
2:31 PM 
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rk@rael In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
2:28 PM 
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evan: Waiting for Phusion to integrate the MBARI patches in REE, so we don't have to.
2:15 PM 
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meangrape@rael That's just a theory.
2:09 PM 
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rael: The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.
2:07 PM 
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ded: Trying to come up with a JS architectural path for Twitter that will help us move from "always" attaching biz logic to DOM nodes, to "never"
2:06 PM 
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kevinweil: Congrats @cloudera @hackingdata @mikeolson (et al) on the series b!
2:03 PM 
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kevinweil: Watching the grid engine/hadoop talk at community one. http://twitpic.com/6f8sa
1:51 PM
twitpic
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stop: Ah, the confusing and humorous situations that happen now and then with two Doug's in the office. (There's also @dougw.)
1:34 PM 
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cmagnuson: I find it hilarious when people are surprised that they stumbled across porn while using the internet.
1:33 PM 
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dougw: Feeling bad that I wasn't able to call into @pamro's b-day extravaganza. Pam, here's a cake to make up for it: http://bit.ly/vRUfB
1:17 PM
photobucket
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cmagnuson: This is GENIUS! Camouflaged beer cans - http://bit.ly/6Kvam (via @drafternoon)
1:13 PM
mobstarentertainment
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cmagnuson: This is GENIOUS! Camouflaged beer cans - http://bit.ly/6Kvam (via @drafternoon)
1:12 PM
mobstarentertainment
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al3x: I have been with K for one year today. Time flies.
1:12 PM 
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evan: Twitter integration in Xbox Live!
12:48 PM 
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kevinweil: Heading over to the Hadoop talk at CommunityOne in a few. One of the perks of being in the city now!
12:37 PM 
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cmagnuson: Just found my first Twitter post: 2008-04-01 10:16:09 cmagnuson: Avoiding my ERS homework by watching GeekBrief.tv on Miro
12:28 PM 
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ded: WTF Twin Peaks Pizza charged my credit card after I gave them our 10 magnets we saved up for our free pizza!
12:26 PM 
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goldman: via @superfoot "discovered something great with jason this weekend. http://bit.ly/SQbwC creative breaking"
12:23 PM
bit
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jessverr: Pricey print! E Ink acquired for $215M NYT: http://bit.ly/HV2BE
12:22 PM
nytimes
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evan: via @jack "I need a haircut."
12:16 PM 
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jack: I need a haircut.
12:09 PM 
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krissy@pankaj congrats to you and your wife!
11:57 AM 
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cmagnuson: RT @mashable: Tweeting Bar Tweets Every Beer Pour - http://bit.ly/pOnD9
11:56 AM
mashable
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sean: Didn't think it was possible to get sunburned in Seattle, but obviously I was wrong. ouch.
11:51 AM 
1,170
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kevinthau: Congrats @pankaj and mrs. @pankaj!
11:41 AM 
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netik: office is absolutely freezing today. hot liquids, stat.
11:36 AM 
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