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9/10/09; 11:56:08 PM Pacific
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ev: Adult faces look giant after you stare at a baby for a while.
11:39 PM 
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al3x: Good meetup but had to get home to watch more "Rome".
11:36 PM 
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carolinehttp://twitpic.com/ha8hi - yeah yeah yeahs!
10:54 PM
twitpic
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ronpepsi: I can't answer the same bazillion questions over and over again. Maybe someone can make a wiki of them.
10:43 PM 
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ronpepsi: That didn't go very well.
10:27 PM 
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evan: Woah, power outage.
10:14 PM 
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mutgoff: RT @autgoff: Our wedding guests drank all the Patron we bought, and we bought a LOT. I'm very impressed. #sputgoff
10:13 PM 
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jillyface@kRissy is the best advice giver ever. And i'm just european. At least according to @audomatic.
10:10 PM 
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jillyface: Yummmmm. Burned mexican smores! And continuously scandalous conversation. http://mypict.me/B8X9
10:03 PM
mypict
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andr8a@goldman sad
9:59 PM 
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goldman: Bummer that @Energy927_KNGY was taken over today. Sounds like @FernandoAndGreg were taken off the air too. Weak!
9:42 PM 
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evan: Sleep deficit not serving me well.
9:19 PM 
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jillyface: More scary-ness masks on @delbius with @audomatic, @cascadem & @krissy. A night of scandalous-ness. http://mypict.me/B6Ez
8:41 PM
mypict
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ronpepsi: Vincent: You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.
8:34 PM 
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Magnuson: There my not be such thing as a 'free lunch' but no one ever said anything about free dinner! http://twitpic.com/h9vdl
8:32 PM
twitpic
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ronpepsi: Are you freaking kidding me, Heinz Ward? End this madness.
8:29 PM 
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biz@ronpepsi never save anything for the swim back!
8:28 PM 
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ronpepsi: OK, I'll do my best to move on to Gattaca references.
8:25 PM 
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stevej: watching the end of the NFL season opener on the web. They have different cameras you can switch to! we're checking out the sideline cam.
8:04 PM 
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mzsanford: my loaner @willcom_store phone from @niw can now tweet.
8:04 PM 
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ronpepsi: NFL and Blade Runner. Not a bad evening. Pizza shortly. (Notice the symbolism in the nail through the palm @MisterWillNot.)
7:53 PM 
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ej: Headed to @umi with 3 others
7:50 PM 
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ded: when will people understand, Norton IS a virus
7:43 PM 
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sean: Wine is more approachable to me now thanks to @randallgrahm's talk. Great wine, great knowledge.
7:35 PM 
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rk: Politics would be a lot more civil if we still had duels.
7:26 PM 
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jack: Have a great Fashions Night Out, NYC! RT @InsideDVF: Such a wonderful night! The city is alive with shopping - store is open til 11!
7:25 PM 
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jessverr: Best way to gain energy: expend some exercising. Trying to maintain the discipline to do so :)
7:25 PM 
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jack: If you ever take @VirginAmerica, you can buy carbon offsets for your flight from your seat! Via these folks: http://carbonfund.org/
7:23 PM
carbonfund
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rk: May have just earned an entry in @TFLN, and its only 7PM.
7:14 PM 
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kevinweil: Lots of wine tasting at the Twoffice. Time to code until I can drive!
7:03 PM 
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ronpepsi: Tyrell: The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
7:03 PM 
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al3x: Church Key is a great venue. Quality beer selection, nice vibe. Good call, @abhay.
7:01 PM 
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dougw: The wine tasting from @randallgrahm is making me wonder, "what life is without passion?"
6:59 PM 
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andr8a: rt @TheCafeSF RIP Energy 92.7! America loses it's greatest dance radio station. To learn more, head to their FB page: http://bit.ly/17ABB8
6:58 PM
facebook
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meangrape: Exceptionally amazing work event. @randallgrahm stopped by with a small truck-load of wine.
6:57 PM 
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vl: “Twitter is fun, but it’s not useful.” @ev: “Neither is ice cream.”
6:36 PM 
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al3x: It seems counterproductive to be leaving the wine tasting going on at the Twoffice for tonight's Functional Alcoholics drinkup.
6:24 PM 
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bs: "The primary purpose of wine is to get you interested in the food. Dance with the food. Play with the food." -- @randallgrahm
6:21 PM 
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Magnuson: Just placed an order at a Chipotle in Mountain View from my iPhone. I will eat anywhere that allows me to order food with an iPhone app.
6:18 PM 
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mzsanford: Just returned from a trip to 築地市場 for an amazing sushi breakfast with @ruth. I can feel @pagannn's envy from here.
6:18 PM 
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netik: Wine tasting at twitterhq with @randallgrahm of bonny doon vineyards. http://yfrog.com/0b9ybj
6:18 PM
yfrog
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bs: Truly inspirational chat with the great wine-maker @randallgraham. Tasting. Emergecy deploying. http://yfrog.com/0oag4uj
6:16 PM
yfrog
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jillyface: My new name c/o @delbius : defense defensey pants.
6:09 PM 
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abdur: Wine tasting at T @randallgrahm of Bonny Doon winery. It's tough working at Twitter some days. http://twitpic.com/h9bun (via @kevinweil)
6:08 PM
twitpic
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jennadawn: Socially-induced RT @dougw http://twitpic.com/h99ud
6:08 PM
twitpic
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kevinweil: Wine tasting at Twitter with @randallgrahm of Bonny Doon winery. Working at Twitter is pretty rough sometimes. http://twitpic.com/h9bun
6:07 PM
twitpic
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kevinweil: Wine tasting at Twitter with @randallgrahm of Bonny Doon winery. It's tough working at Twitter some days. http://twitpic.com/h9bun
6:07 PM
twitpic
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jennadawn: Getting a wine tasting lesson from @randallgrahm from Bonny Doon. They have a fun site https://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/
5:59 PM 
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dougw: We are enjoying @randallgrahm's wines today at the office http://twitpic.com/h99ud
5:54 PM
twitpic
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Magnuson: The theme of this week seems to be: lost in translation
5:47 PM 
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mutgoff: Listening to Charlie Parker and riding in a cable car for the first time. I'm actually really enjoying this.
5:39 PM 
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dougw: Looking at chart porn http://bit.ly/TAVvk and look at that -- teens are in fact using Twitter.
5:33 PM
comscore
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abdur: Amazing Wine Labels: 30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs http://ow.ly/oB5x :) (via @AmazingPics)
5:31 PM
thecoolist
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rk: "don't bite off more than you need to chew" -@nk
5:20 PM 
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Magnuson: Ebay and Yahoo have the longest and most difficult registration processes ever. I feel like I just got done wrestling a bear.
5:18 PM 
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mutgoff: Getting out of pajamas and the house makes me feel a lot better. Work tomorrow is totally happening!!
5:12 PM 
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mutgoff: Convinced it's a good idea to go to an open house, I've crawled out of bed and put myself together but the mirror is not agreeing with me.
5:06 PM 
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biz: Some good coverage of Twestival in USA Today http://bit.ly/tHh21
4:45 PM
usatoday
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crystal: Meetings and meetings! Whew! Catching my breath before another... meeting! Looking forward to watching Ponyo with @krissy's lil varmints.
4:42 PM 
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kevinthau: The @Rhapsody app 4 iPhone is really nice. http://bit.ly/tH0x7 #iTunes
4:36 PM
bit
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mutgoff: Watching an interesting piece on Women's soccer players shooting down Turkish taboos. http://bit.ly/1bi5g3 Go ladies!!
4:28 PM
worldfocus
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bs: RT @Lukester: Very intense game of shuffleboard with @bs. Twitter vs. AKQA. Go Twitter. @thecerrashow hanging tough. http://twitpic.co ...
4:16 PM
twitpic
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bs: If you read just one thing today, read this: http://j.mp/11F6oi Thank you Alan Turing.
3:59 PM
gov
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sean: Huh?? OS X 10.6.1 is already out?
3:46 PM 
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kevinthau: Congrats @MotoMobile on the launch today. We are excited about the native Twitter integration and so are our users http://bit.ly/3eVw10
3:46 PM
twitter
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stevej: why does 'svn up' update every branch? this is so painfully slow. the documentation doesn't show a way to turn this off.
3:36 PM 
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sean: RT @timhaines: Google's developing a micro-payment platform: http://bit.ly/U4wTT
3:34 PM
niemanlab
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stop: It's not the size of your search box that matters... it's how you use it.
3:23 PM 
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meangrape: I've got cabbage.
3:15 PM 
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robey: RT @daveweigel: BREAKING: @CongJoeWilson clarifies his remarks, explains that he was saying "Boo-urns!"
3:09 PM 
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mutgoff: I still don't get what's so bad about giving health care to illegal immigrants.
3:07 PM 
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Magnuson: The amount of coughing in the Support/API room makes me nervous
3:03 PM 
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goldman@robey Acting like an ass in at political events has kinda become their trademark. And it kinda worked so far.
2:57 PM 
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mutgoff@jillyface amusing songs, yes. I don't know if I would call them good. Do what you gotta do though. Ain't no shame in that.
2:54 PM 
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robey: joe wilson's winning percentage in his last 4 elections: 84%, 65%, 63%, 54%. as an R in SC. i guess he figured he'd go out with a bang.
2:50 PM 
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robey: just now reading about joe wilson. do republicans ever want to be in power again, ever?
2:49 PM 
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jillyface: Is it bad that I'm unable to stop rotating & repeating Obsessed/The Warning? They're such good songs! I blame @mutgoff. And Mariah & Eminem.
2:42 PM 
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evan: Worms360 dual screen, lol.
2:22 PM 
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rael: Writing the codes.
2:19 PM 
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sean: Playing goalie.
2:15 PM 
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dougw: Happy Birthday, @momdabom!
2:11 PM 
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dougw: Wondering what happened to / being the next big thing.
1:48 PM 
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al3x: Watched a documentary on the deep ocean last night. The abyssal plain is totally metal. #fact
1:43 PM 
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jessverr: Initiating into our routines http://twitpic.com/h88qx
1:34 PM
twitpic
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mutgoff: Funny picture of me looking ridiculously happy at my sister's wedding: http://bit.ly/2OhRUE
1:34 PM
flickr
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stevej@ej did you wave at them? they waved at you.
1:33 PM 
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ej: I just saw @stevej's feetsies under the desk
1:20 PM 
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evan: Goodbye '95 Taurus. :'-(
1:07 PM 
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evan: Where are @codeslinger and @greatseth? Hmmmm.
12:14 PM 
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bs: Shiny things. Self-imposed dress codes. Conversations on social dispatch. Doing a deploy. Happy about it.
11:56 AM 
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bs: RT @defunkt: My "Rippin' Off Python" talk for RubyConf got accepted. See you in November.
11:42 AM 
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jack: "But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day." http://bit.ly/112KeW General purpose mobile computer.
11:42 AM
nytimes
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crystal: Bellwether Farms strawberry sheep milk yogurt has helped me overcome my hunger attack. Sweet relief.
11:40 AM 
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al3x: RT @mojombo: Don't miss the combined GitHub/Functional Alcoholics meetup at Church Key in NoBe tonight at 7:30! First round's on GitHub!
11:39 AM 
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evan: Tom remembers the "number 1 finger" night.
11:30 AM 
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robey: Commie, what you did to the bathroom is not okay in any culture.
11:27 AM 
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evan: At Scott's! @tomish is here.
11:17 AM 
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krissy: going through business cards I've received in the past month and following those that are on Twitter before I file them away forever
11:01 AM 
7,468
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al3x: I'm really enjoying seeing the world through a child's eyes. I hope he doesn't need them back.
10:49 AM 
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jillyface: Busiest. Morning. Ever.
10:47 AM 
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