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- Wd be awesome for #dnd RT @LightStalking: Incredible Photos of Ancient and Medieval Underground Cisterns http://bit.ly/kpmWtk #
- @spaceninja re hosting I've always heard good things about pair.com. no direct experience, tho. in reply to spaceninja #
- @Oakwright color me unsurprised. in reply to Oakwright #
- @Oakwright at this point I should probably join (?) smug. /feeling kinda dumb in reply to Oakwright #
- @Oakwright this would be the antithesis of open source, and yet somehow just as impenetrable. in reply to Oakwright #
- after spending an hour on bright new idea, I discover that, um, everything I need already exists. I can haz documentation?! #
- @rogue_3 @olyhillary O.o in reply to rogue_3 #
- going back to the drawing board, literally: reviewing whole process on the whiteboard. lots of arrows. #beenWatchingTooMuchNumb3rs #
- today I think I'm ready to tackle the thing I was so despondent about yesterday. #hopeOverExperience #
- "@obsidianportal: What's your single favorite weapon of choice? Any setting, universe or genre, go!" current #dnd game: shuriken #
- New post – Towards a taxonomy of bicycle parking: http://ridiculousbikeparking.com/2011/05/27/towards-a-taxonomy-of-bicycle-parking/ #
- Commute musings: bus = time to read/write. Bike = exercise. Driving = neither, just a few min time savings. (5mi commute) #
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Twitter Digest for 2011-05-27
- @dylanw O. M. G. WANT. in reply to dylanw #
- @eaton w/out finishing article, I have hesitations abt requiring outside commitment, what biases that introduces. But will read/think more. in reply to eaton #
- @olyhillary @rogue_3 http://ask.metafilter.com/7921/If-you-killed-somebody-how-would-you-dispose-of-the-body-without-getting-caught #
- @RepoRat human brain is almost always the easiest hacking target. in reply to RepoRat #
- @Oakwright altho I think I got it on sale. (oh hey, are you doing bike commute contest? IIRC there's a coupon for rain gear.) in reply to Oakwright #
- @Oakwright I have the women's version of this: http://www.showerspass.com/catalog/men/mens-jackets/mens-double-century totally worth it. in reply to Oakwright #
- ok, maybe not *totally* useless. but at this rate, definitely not launching when planned. #
- so 1 of my basic assumptions about project turned out to be entirely wrong. which makes my super-clever jquery useless. #WTF #shootMeNow #
- feeling stymied and/or befuddled by technology today. #
- @rogue_3 @olybuzz altho when I tried testing connection speed here, it crashed. 🙁 #
- @rogue_3 @olybuzz FCC also has android app for testing mobile connection speed! https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ookla.fccbroadband #
- @jbertrand congrats! And totally earned. #
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- Waiting for the bus. Damn it's cold. #
- @dylanw buzzkill. Hope the night gets better. in reply to dylanw #
- @Oakwright go you! Rain is actually pretty awesome. in reply to Oakwright #
- #olympia folk: anything I shd bring up at city bike/ped advisory cmte meeting? (In 15 mins) #
- Yep, good thing I decided to take the bus. Didn't want to show up at meeting soaking wet! #
- Attn @libbabray RT @epersonae: @quasarbaby timeline's been broken off & on today. Check the status page. #
- @quasarbaby timeline's been broken off & on today. Check the status page. in reply to quasarbaby #
- @geekandahalf yep. also Hellboy! and Salvatore in The Name of the Rose. in reply to geekandahalf #
- oh, IE, how I hate you. (and of course, the second I wrote that it started working again.) #
- @fakebaldur I think @RepoRat used to work in ebook conversion, had some horror stories on her blog (RIP). don't remember specifics, tho. in reply to fakebaldur #
- hey, my timeline is back! (obvs.) #
- RT @olybuzz Stoked to read new book 'RISE OF THE IRON MOON' by Stephen Hunt aka @SFcrowsnest http://t.co/fPdIfmc – mine next! #library in reply to olybuzz #
- @einmaleins Oreos: plain original. (store brand is usually pretty good too.) liked double-stuf when I was younger, too sweet now. in reply to einmaleins #
- @notlikenormal last Sun playing Settlers of Catan, ended up saying "u get sheep & u get sheep and EVERYONE gets sheep!" that is all. #oprah in reply to notlikenormal #
- @Oakwright yes. in reply to Oakwright #
- so that's weird: that last tweet appeared on my "Your Tweets" page, but not in my timeline. /cue spooky music #
- I'm having this problem: http://status.twitter.com/post/5838460482/some-users-might-be-experiencing-empty-timelines – how about you? #
- @olybuzz omg computer shopper. that thing was (literally, physically) fat back in the late 90s. in reply to olybuzz #
- @heatregister although I had the good fortune (?!) to have a little dead-relative money, made my loan burden MUCH less. in reply to heatregister #
- @heatregister exactly. (somewhat like yrs truly, to be honest.) in reply to heatregister #
- @rshevlin I seem to remember similar studies abt congress: as a collective terrible, but my guy/gal is ok. devil u know something something. in reply to rshevlin #
- RT @simonstl: "Does more economic diversity mean lower admissions standards? No, it does not." – http://nyti.ms/ktesbT (attn @deandad) #
- Oddly enuf, today is bike/ped advisory cmte mtg, & I'm not biking. (Rain?) But will be taking the bus. #
- @olybuzz @olyhillary @rogue_3 I slept thru the whole thing…got woken up by kitty wanting food. #
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
author: Timothy Snyder
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/05/25
date added: 2011/05/25
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
Intense and disturbing look at eastern Europe 1933-1946: “I wish to test the proposition that deliberate and direct mass murder by these two regimes in the bloodlands is a distinct phenomenon worthy of separate treatment” – by “the bloodlands”, referring a region encompassing pre-1939 Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, along with the Baltic states and parts of western Russia. A somewhat different approach, looking at the commonalities of these areas and the waves of killing, starting with deliberate starvation in the Ukraine and going through to the ethnic cleansing (without much killing) of the immediate postwar period. A common theme is the ways that Hitler and Stalin basically played into each other’s hands. The massive numbers make it difficult to comprehend, which is why he uses a lot of particular individual stories to illustrate each phase. A thoughtful book, worth reading if you can stand it.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
author: Timothy Snyder
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/05/25
date added: 2011/05/25
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
Intense and disturbing look at eastern Europe 1933-1946: “I wish to test the proposition that deliberate and direct mass murder by these two regimes in the bloodlands is a distinct phenomenon worthy of separate treatment” – by “the bloodlands”, referring a region encompassing pre-1939 Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, along with the Baltic states and parts of western Russia. A somewhat different approach, looking at the commonalities of these areas and the waves of killing, starting with deliberate starvation in the Ukraine and going through to the ethnic cleansing (without much killing) of the immediate postwar period. A common theme is the ways that Hitler and Stalin basically played into each other’s hands. The massive numbers make it difficult to comprehend, which is why he uses a lot of particular individual stories to illustrate each phase. A thoughtful book, worth reading if you can stand it.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
author: Timothy Snyder
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2011/05/25
date added: 2011/05/25
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
Intense and disturbing look at eastern Europe 1933-1946: "I wish to test the proposition that deliberate and direct mass murder by these two regimes in the bloodlands is a distinct phenomenon worthy of separate treatment" – by "the bloodlands", referring a region encompassing pre-1939 Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, along with the Baltic states and parts of western Russia. A somewhat different approach, looking at the commonalities of these areas and the waves of killing, starting with deliberate starvation in the Ukraine and going through to the ethnic cleansing (without much killing) of the immediate postwar period. A common theme is the ways that Hitler and Stalin basically played into each other’s hands. The massive numbers make it difficult to comprehend, which is why he uses a lot of particular individual stories to illustrate each phase. A thoughtful book, worth reading if you can stand it.