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What are the people of Twitter twittering about?


6/11/09; 11:59:04 PM Pacific
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mhegge: Waited in line for 3 hours but I did get a cool doodle of a hybrid Abe Lincoln turtle type creature. http://flic.kr/p/6vNDjC
11:50 PM
flickr
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evhttp://www.tweetphoto.com/17924orp @biz feeling weary?
11:48 PM
tweetphoto
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ded: My interview on Strobist.com - http://bit.ly/V8dog
11:46 PM
blogspot
3,019
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rk: via @diveintomark "The Wikipedia page on ADHD is like 20 pages long. That's just cruel. http://is.gd/Zoct"
11:41 PM
is
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kevinweil@meangrape are you free that night? :)
11:37 PM 
491
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vl: Bourbon & Branch drinks with @bs, @ded and @phiggins. These guys are awesome.
11:19 PM 
3,517
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ev: via @badbanana "Would it kill Green Day to include a flute solo every now and then?"
11:12 PM 
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jessverr: Roomates are like the older siblings I never had - attacked when I came home http://twitpic.com/76fcm
10:57 PM
twitpic
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rael: Thanking my gut for it's good instincts with a lovely take-out meal.
10:56 PM 
6,729
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rael@nk Hah! I stumbled across the same criminal use of code today.
10:53 PM 
6,729
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nk: I'm pretty sure I found a bug in the Scala compiler. :(
10:51 PM 
2,630
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mzsanford: Listening to someone explain the communism of pimping
10:37 PM 
2,133
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ev: via @StephenAtHome "smuggling saddam's chandelier back in my carry-on bag. don't tell army or t.s.a."
10:34 PM 
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rael: via @ev "Long Twitter feature debate with @rael and @zhanna. I don't get into these convos often enough any more. Good times."
10:21 PM 
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rael: Enjoyed hearing the sounds of home in the background — kids getting ready for bed — while talking with @parenthacks on the walk from work.
10:18 PM 
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mzsanford: Missing @ruth but my Old Fash. & Sake double-up
10:14 PM 
2,133
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meangrape@kevinweil reminds me that I haven't made chili in a while. Perhaps next week.
10:07 PM 
2,930
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al3x: Made some tasty pork with a mustard sauce. Yams on the side.
10:06 PM 
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kevinweil: Alright, I give in: this is a good party. The open bar and the chile are convincing.
10:02 PM 
491
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mzsanford: Drink and food with the Twitter climbing crew
9:48 PM 
2,133
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evan: I see that @nk is having some trouble with structural types.
9:44 PM 
2,884
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ronpepsi: The cats: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ailurophobia
9:37 PM
wiktionary
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stop: She turned 10 months old today. Happy Birthday, little E. http://yfrog.com/623ljj
9:34 PM
yfrog
7,724
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evan: Good time at NoSQL, and good time out with @spyced, @beisenberg, @jchris, and others....
9:25 PM 
2,884
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ronpepsi: Oh wow, L.A. is going to do it again. Oh well, we still have baseball. Oh, wait, we only might.
9:14 PM 
1,733
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Magnuson: RT @ungulation: Photoshop arms onto birds: http://bit.ly/AtXEd
9:12 PM
somethingawful
1,173
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evan: Github charges a million dollars a year for a 4,000 user license?
9:09 PM 
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ev: Long Twitter feature debate with @rael and @zhanna. I don't get into these convos often enough any more. Good times.
9:03 PM 
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ronpepsi: Feeling like turning off the game and looking at fog.
8:58 PM 
1,733
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krissy: Sitting with family & friends on family night. Appreciating every moment with them.
8:57 PM 
7,226
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evan@stevej Me too.
8:49 PM 
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ronpepsi: Maybe this will turn into a three-game series with one-game home court alternation. That would be good sport.
8:47 PM 
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al3x: Falling out of love with the bar at Bacar.
8:29 PM 
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ronpepsi: I cannot remember my Original Position: http://bit.ly/3zJU2R
8:25 PM
stanford
1,733
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mhegge: In line waiting to get my book signed. Currently snaking my way past the Romance section. Should be half way (Canadiana) in an hour or so.
8:20 PM 
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nk: Information technology has a moral character. Privacy is sacred and secrecy is evil.
8:18 PM 
2,624
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jkalucki@stevej LucidDB and SQLstream were started 5 years ago. Java and C++ hybrids both.
8:03 PM 
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jkalucki: A painful lack of science at #nosql conf. No reproducible performance stats or cost functions. Stress & negative testing anyone?
7:59 PM 
1,803
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abdur: Two great dinners at @umi this week. :)
7:56 PM 
8,729
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ronpepsi: Trying hard to think of something not related to work. The Kohler Wall of Plumbing Fixtures isn't doing it.
7:53 PM 
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sean: I backed up a lot of stuff though, so there shouldn't be much data loss...
7:44 PM 
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alissa: "I don't deal with time wasters."
7:40 PM 
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robey: troubled that setting a query timeout in mysql's connector/j makes it almost immediately "run out of connections". :(
7:40 PM 
2,030
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santojay: OH: He smoked three packs a day but he was a lovely guy
7:37 PM 
2,194
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sean: Computer hdd is dead.
7:36 PM 
1,219
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ded: "drinking a martini makes me want to put my pinky out" - via @phiggins
7:24 PM 
2,977
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crystal: I came home and found my mom reading the i can has cheezburger book
7:20 PM 
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santojay: "I was the son of Irish potato farmer and the first in my family to have gone to University", Lord Patten
7:14 PM 
2,193
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santojay: I miss my university days. Nostalgia galore
7:10 PM 
2,193
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Magnuson: The TP at my apt got a bail out. We now have 4 rolls but they won't last long. A permanent stimulus package is needed.
7:07 PM 
1,164
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ronpepsi: Ideally, all that would need doing is to toggle switches and turn knobs.
7:05 PM 
1,733
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ronpepsi: Thinking of asking @MisterWillNot what he's up to on Sunday.
7:03 PM 
1,734
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Magnuson: Been a while since I had a real lager. It's...interesting... http://tinyurl.com/new3j7
7:01 PM
dailybooth
1,164
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dougw: Chance encounter with @dom at Hotel Utah. We talked @twitter, of course.
7:01 PM 
3,696
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santojay: Listening to Lord Patten speak at Presidio Golf Course. Funny guy
7:00 PM 
2,193
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bs: Bourbon and Branch with @phiggins, @vl, and @ded.
6:37 PM 
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al3x: "The triumphalism currently sweeping web developers is a sure sign of the end times." - http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=270
6:36 PM
alarmingdevelopment
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kevinweil: On my way to the "Portola Valley Men's Club" dinner. Apprehensive about men's clubs, but was told last year I had to go.
6:33 PM 
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al3x: Booked travel to @strangeloop_stl. It's not until October, but planning in advance is how I roll.
6:31 PM 
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mhegge: Waiting for the funny man to take the stage. David Sedaris has a no photo policy which if I understand correctly includes twitpics :(
6:29 PM 
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biz: Back in the Bay Area after a week spent in NYC and Chicago and @livia has the Lakers vs Magic on TV—who are you rooting for?
6:19 PM 
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mzsanford: FYI: "Place a period outside a closing parenthesis if the material inside is not a sentence (such as this fragment)." - http://idek.net/Ed2
6:18 PM
essayinfo
2,129
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ronpepsi: Today was a pretty decent day.
6:05 PM 
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stevej#nosql couchdb vision is wildly different. I hope they keep if up!
5:47 PM 
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stevej#nosql java as a systems platform has come a long way. All these systems 5 years ago would be c++
5:46 PM 
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stevej: thing I learned from todays #nosql conf was that people believe perf numbers published without context (sys specs, distribution, etc)
5:44 PM 
5,224
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jillyface: Working harder than I ever thought was possible. Fortunately I love what I do.
5:41 PM 
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anamitra: launching stuff
5:35 PM 
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caroline: woohoo! just got kissed twice by @waytho from microsoft for keeping *bing* a secret. didn't even tell @santojay. :)
5:30 PM 
9,296
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ej@nk is spitting operating systems fire!
5:27 PM 
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abdur: via @trazzler "Three cities where you can rock climb without losing sight of the skyline>> http://bit.ly/hEQp2 | http://bit.ly/mkQ..."
5:21 PM
trazzler
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rk: via @goldman "Going with @rsarver 's suggestion to start calling the engineering team The Computers Team."
5:05 PM 
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andr8a: via @meangrape "http://twitpic.com/75gj4 - I find these in my pockets most days. A constant reminder of Izzie."
4:59 PM
twitpic
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andr8a: via @MCHammer "Jeremiah and Mello at Gov. Paterson's party. http://twitpic.com/75lha"
4:59 PM
twitpic
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caroline: via @50cent "my mixtape comin tuesday"
4:59 PM 
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andr8a: via @dougw "Getting a lecture on folders versus crumblers from @mzsanford. The other half is always wrong AND dirty."
4:59 PM 
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goldman: Going with @rsarver 's suggestion to start calling the engineering team The Computers Team.
4:53 PM 
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dougw: Getting a lecture on folders versus crumblers from @mzsanford. The other half is always wrong AND dirty.
4:44 PM 
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mrtall: I've been attacked by this species of bird 3 times in SF. @evan has also been attacked. They are a menace: http://bit.ly/RR0f0
4:33 PM
youtube
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mrtall: via @mutgoff "@jessverr's excellent yet scary find http://bit.ly/RR0f0"
4:32 PM
bit
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sean@ded You too? I often have 2+ drinks accessible at all times as well...
4:25 PM 
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krissy: Blood drawn in less than 6 minutes. Wait time included.
4:24 PM 
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vl: via @ded "I'm a drinkaholic. From waking up, to staying awake, to mellowing out. http://yfrog.com/0uu6vfj"
4:23 PM
yfrog
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al3x: "By combining the scalability of XMPP with the flexibility of Flash..." Uh, yikes. Re: http://bit.ly/9f2PA
4:23 PM
hemlock-kills
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ded: I'm a drinkaholic. From waking up, to staying awake, to mellowing out. http://yfrog.com/0uu6vfj
4:20 PM
yfrog
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mutgoff: Least Favorites would be kinda fun, and then mean and terrible.
4:19 PM 
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evan: VPork, simple distributed DB benchmark tool on Github. #nosql
4:17 PM 
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mutgoff@jessverr's excellent yet scary find http://bit.ly/RR0f0
4:15 PM
youtube
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jessverr: Whoopsies - forgot link to Swoops: http://www.frontstreetattackbird.blogspot.com/
4:15 PM
blogspot
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jessverr: I bet Swoops would be a good Twitter-er, watch out @sockington
4:14 PM 
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jessverr: NYTimes on sunglasses trends: "Or else it was “shutter shades,” those ventilated blinders popularized by Kanye West." http://bit.ly/O4FDv
4:08 PM
nytimes
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kevinweil: Loving that the Mac's Java preferences app doesn't update symlinks, so ant still happily tries to exec Java 1.5. Fail.
4:06 PM 
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evan: Hanging around for the MongoDB lightning talk.
4:05 PM 
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evan: Not convinced that Twitter is as good a security baseline as @jchris imagines.
3:53 PM 
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noradio@vl You are an "extraordinary alien" ;-)
3:51 PM 
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meangrapehttp://twitpic.com/75gj4 - I find these in my pockets most days. A constant reminder of Izzie.
3:49 PM
twitpic
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ded: congrats @vl for getting your visa.
3:45 PM 
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evan: Dismayed that CouchDB borrowed MySQL's partitioning/replication "strategy". Convenient at small scale only. #nosql
3:44 PM 
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evan: "...like your ads shi...uh, I mean, business model." - @jchris
3:34 PM 
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evan: Erlang is well represented here.
3:31 PM 
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