Twitter Digest for 2010-07-16

  • wow. triple-threat inbox 0. (work, gmail, paper) ok, nobody send me anything! let me enjoy this (rare) moment. #
  • reason #9724 why I'm not on the money-handling side: forgot to sign check before depositing into the ATM. :\ altho apparently it's all good. #
  • @kegill at 1 point I wanted to get more involved with http://olyblog.net/ and put some of my talking-out-of-my-hat theories into practice. #
  • @kegill not that sun chronicle is doin it rite, but it should be doable in theory. #
  • @kegill I don't see why they couldn't be…esp given that they're likely to actually live in the same community. #
  • @simonstl "Office 2010 has many new features to let users be more creative and expressive." O.o #
  • OTOH, can I just say once more for emphasis that I <3 the internet? #
  • I think my brain is stalling out. #
  • @Oakwright 4u: http://bit.ly/bmrZq0 🙂 #
  • @dylanw @kegill wheeee! (srsly, #mefi is my personal favorite example in talking about an excellent online community.) #
  • @kegill I had that happen too. IIRC, used the contact form & was sent password to my new email! (altho I knew my username) #
  • @kegill @dylanw I swear I've read someplace (more than once) in which @mathowie talks abt the $5 also serving as a useful speedbump. #
  • @kegill worth looking at the current signup process, I think. uses paypal for payment, altho u can send $ or stamps (!) to @jessamyn IIRC. #
  • @kegill @dylanw yes, pseudonym, but consistent one becomes stable identity over time, & many choose to associate w/IRL identity in profile. #
  • @kegill @dylanw beat me to the bunch on @mefi reg fee. It's been my impression that's made the site work all this time. (11 years today!) #
  • @myerman wasn't gonna say this, but when I only put in 1st page & a half of the NaNo: Stephanie Meyer #shootmenow in reply to myerman #
  • @dylanw but wow, that is pretty. #
  • @dylanw I'm still ::this:: bitter about not getting the web manager job there some years back. (3 damn interviews, incl multi-hour marathon) in reply to dylanw #
  • @myerman my last long blog post: David Foster Wallace. the first section of my novel: Ursula K LeGuin. (woohoo!) in reply to myerman #
  • @dylanw y'know, I applied to UPS mostly because of the pretty brochure & late deadline. I bet now that would be "website" instead. in reply to dylanw #
  • 2nd conference call of the day. reasonably productive ones, actually, altho mismatched audio levels are crazy-making. #
  • @russ668 sounds a bit like chai w/out the tea. (yum.) in reply to russ668 #
  • @myerman @simonstl reaffirms my instinct that the cell cos trend towards evil. (wondering if it was Motorola's idea or Verizon's.) #
  • @gusandrews fascinating stuff — def. keep me posted! in reply to gusandrews #
  • So I hear that traffic downtown is INSANE. (If it were me, I'd either go 'round or if actually going downtown, take bus or walk.) #
  • @lauras totally agreed! just thinking abt the last time I had to talk someone out of it. I always use the "person in cubicle" example. in reply to lauras #
  • Was in so early (module updating) that the only things in the parking lot were me & a deer. amazing, gorgeous dawn, btw. #
  • @gusandrews CONGRATULATIONS! moar info? in reply to gusandrews #
  • RT @dori: How to use HTML5 on your website today http://bit.ly/bS28iI —my 1st article for InfoWorld! #
  • @lauras they're in love with whatever their audio is, and they haven't thought it through. (IME) in reply to lauras #
  • @stormtwitter I worked as a housecleaner in college. yes, cleaning can definitely induce flow. (helps if it's a nice house.) #

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also:

Very happy to see that Plinky is back. (The Brizzly folks sold it to Automattic, apparently.) I like their prompts quite a bit, and I love getting a weekly email with a bunch of prompts. There’s usually one or two that strike a chord, like the “what’s your favorite quote?” question that started my last entry. So yay.

Two quotes from my morning tea

One of the teas I really like has this incredibly pretentious flourish in their design: pithy quotes on the bag tags. Some of them are obvious or dull, but I do have one on my desk at work:

“Fortune favors the brave.” (Virgil, the Aeneid, 70BC – 19BC)

It’s one of those semi-cheesy quotes that just strikes a chord with me. Because I need to remember — often! — to be “brave” or bold or whatever. Also, that fortune is what we make of it, and that sometimes action, any action, can bend fate in the right direction.

There’s another one that I had on the fridge at home for a while, until it fell off and got lost, so I can only paraphrase: “it’s easier to stand up for your beliefs than it is to live them.” (or live up to them, can’t remember which.) It’s a fancy way of saying “talk is cheap” — I’m not entirely sure why it appealed to me so much, I suppose that it’s something of a hard-nosed alternative to most “inspirational” quotes.

Interesting: both quotes favor action over talking or planning. I think they’re both ways of reminding myself not to fall into my personal bad habit of dithering and over-planning.

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  • @JillNow No. Never. (ew.) in reply to JillNow #
  • RT @zacpalmer: Anyone know an honest #honda auto mechanic in the #Portland #Beaverton area? #
  • @sitepointdotcom why no "multiple" option? I have Win @ work, Mac @ home, do dev on both! (plus I keep meaning 2 put together a linux box.) #
  • wow. personal efficiency FTW. left office at inbox 0; 10 days later, got back to 0 before 10am! I must be more rested than I thought. #
  • @cell911 re: zombies, 1st time I gave blood I passed out cold: on Halloween & I was dressed as vampire. Classmate thought I was dead. in reply to cell911 #

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