Posts published in December 2008
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- @mgrdcm, the @stoutsd DJ just busted out the Humpty Dance. http://looptid.com/ represent. ()
- At @stoutsd w/ @LindsayDayton and @kirinqueen. ()
- OK, people. @stoutsd is going to be awesome tonight. @kirinqueen and I'll be there, and so should you! Things kick off at 8. #nye ()
- What I was looking for: "Hoc dixit illa quoque." Thanks, linguaphiles. http://community.livejournal.com/linguaphiles/4178982.html ()
- That's What She Said, in many world languages (r/reddit.com) ()
- @jonathanlieberm, "la" is the ISO 639 2-letter language code for Latin. Gotta fit these things into 140 characters. :) ()
- Are there any working online en↔la translators? Not one-word-at-a-time dictionaries, mind you, but babelfish-like block-of-text translation. ()
- A Bacteria That Could Keep Your Mouth Clean for Good (r/reddit.com) ()
- Politics is all very well in its place, that place being very much on the periphery of life. — Tim Worstall ()
- @valdelane: @kirinqueen and I were planning on @stoutsd for NYE. ()
- Zen and the art of drinking beer (r/reddit.com) ()
- For my linguistics peeps: http://forvo.com/ ()
- The best thing you can do for your life is surround yourself with good people (r/reddit.com) ()
- Theresa O'Connor updated her status. (Facebook) ()
- I think sci-fi fans writing ranty blog posts should have special spell checkers, that fix things like "cannon" when you meant "canon." ()
- @lisinsd: very nice! Which, the Boston one or the Cambridge one? ()
- @kirinqueen and I are back in San Diego. Yay! Anyone up for http://www.mamatestataqueria.com/ tonight? ()
- At Rangzen with @kirinqueen. Nom. Thanks, @cameo, for the intro to here N years ago. ()
- Hanging out at Park St with everybody else stuck on the Red Line tonight. Oh MBTA. ()
- Sloop John B on the jukebox at Sligo. Someone else is on to my plan! ()
- I think I just ate 1lb of pulled pork in 1min. ()
- Founders' Backwoods Bastard is aptly named1 ()
- Downstairs at Redbones. ()
- At The Burren for a pre-Redbones pint. ()
- Merry Christmas everybody. ()
- Theresa O'Connor updated her status. (Facebook) ()
- Perkins! ()
- @ Bukowski in Inman Sq. ()
- It's official-dinner (with Perkins) at the 21st. ()
- We're currently @ the 21st Ammendment on Beacon Hill. Are up for food near here or Red Line. DM for details. ()
- Sheltering from the cold in the Beantown Pub. ()
- At The Burren for mid-afternoon pint. ()
- Sampling (with trepidation) burritos in Cambridge. ()
- Arriving South Station. Taking Red Line to Kendall. ()
- Taking the next Greenbush train inbound to South Station. If you're around today, DM @kirinqueen or myself! ()
- How To Eat A Burrito (r/reddit.com) ()
- Wait, I left palm trees for *this*? ()
- Yup, @kirinqueen and I are in @scituate (.ma.us) just in time for a snowstorm. Good times. If you're in the Boston area, we should hang out. ()
- Wake Up Your Mac Faster (r/reddit.com) ()
- Theresa O'Connor updated her status. (Facebook) ()
- Did any of you hear the explosion in @scituate? ()
- @perrins, I think perhaps you meant to say XHTML2 when you said HTML5 there... ()
- @sachac, I hope it's OK I've quoted http://twitter.com/sachac/statuses/1057016724 on http://planet.emacsen.org/ (see the bottom of the page) ()
- Gulfnews: Man offers $10m for pair of shoes thrown at Bush (r/reddit.com) ()
- On coding for fun (r/reddit.com) ()
- @ @stoutsd w/ @kirinqueen & @LindsayDayton. ()
- @SDASM: 8 Sep 1966. ()
- Not quite what I had in mind. (r/reddit.com) ()
- Avoiding rain traffic by dining @ Karl Strauss. ()
- Theresa O'Connor updated her status. (Facebook) ()
- Turkish thinkers' Armenia apology (r/reddit.com) ()
- RT @assignmentdesk1: San Diego Fire pits saved by anonymous donor: http://tinyurl.com/5mt62v ()
- Unlike virtually every other Boston->SoCal transplant, I learnt to drive here and am thus as clueless as the natives WRT driving in rain. :/ ()
- Sam Ruby appointed co-chair for HTML Working Group (r/reddit.com) ()
- Lots of good San Diego photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwdarrellarsonphotographycom/ ()
- I'm like come on @fhqwhgads / Said come on @fhqwhgads / Everybody to the limit / @thecheat is to the limit / Everybody! Come on @fhqwhgads! ()
- Theresa O'Connor updated her status. (Facebook) ()
- Nick Gillespie hits the nail on the head, repeatedly and with great force: http://reason.com/news/show/130522.html #jeremiad #politics #econ ()
- Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites? (r/reddit.com) ()
- @bobdc, it makes sense because XHTML2 isn't a successor to XHTML1. Hopefully the XHTML2 guys rebrand like W3C said they would. ()
- @shindotv, I always liked this shot of that sign: http://tr.im/24yi ... For more neighborhood signs I like, see http://tr.im/24yl ()
- @BenWard: That sucks, I'm sorry. :( ()
- RT @mobienthusiast: Please add condolences for Mr. Yoon, who lost his family & home in the F/A-18 crash: http://snurl.com/7qsne ()
- @beertweeter: the Jolly Pumpkin, Nøgne-Ø, & Stone Special Holiday Ale is absolutely fantastic. http://blog.stonebrew.com/?p=249 ()
- @MarinaMartin: yeah, that happy feeling you get when receiving the refund check is called "intaxication." (Coined by @rafuzo IIRC.) ()
- I hate it when xml namespace URIs don't resolve to something useful. ()
- Defector reaches out to North Koreans by balloon (r/reddit.com) ()
- @Wordie: awesome! thanks for the attention. ()
- @LindsayDayton: that's classic Kathy Sierra. Good stuff. Also, see @t's http://tantek.pbwiki.com/PositiveCommunities ()
- Why do people expect others to answer the phone when the calling number is withheld? ()
- Does anyone know what the police parade along Aero Drive this morning was all about? ()
- @assignmentdesk1 reports two civilian deaths in F-18 crash. :( ()
- Apparently the pilot's seat ended up over near @complinggirl's house. ()
- @jasongeeeee's a block from the crash site! ()
- @assignmentdesk1 is the best Twitter source for updates on the University City F-18 crash. ()
- @aconbere, excla.im looks pretty awesome! Congrats. ()
- Chicago Tribune company files for bankruptcy (r/reddit.com) ()
- Noncontiguous Area Cartograms (r/reddit.com) ()
- Exchanging 12 Pubs survival stories with coworkers. Definitely wasn't the worst off. Thanks to all for coming out for it! And now, detox. ()
- And so it begins. ()
- Three hours until we kick off the Twelve Pubs of Christmas at Bluefoot. You're all invited (including out-of-towners like you, @muliby). ()
- Nordig mulled wine competition last night @DecemberNights: Finnish Glögi > Danish Gløgg > Swedish Glögg. Hungary's forralt bor is ... ()
- Met up w/ @danifesto, @jessimuhka, @ShaunaStannard & @chriszach at @DecemberNights. Missed @laruu, @foxtrotxray, @tillyritter & @nateritter. ()
- Nordig? Really? 'g' isn't anywhere near 'c' on this keyboard. How'd I do that? ()
- We're over near the House of Sweden's tent. ()
- We're in the international booze garden at December Nights. Finnish glogg FTW. ()
- @dacort: -./---/--..-- -.../..-/- .--.-././--/.-/-.-./... ../.../.-.-.- --/---/.-./..././-....-/.-././--./../---/-. ..-./-/.--/.-.-.- ()
- @Adora: Does @nateritter's count as "old ppl" enough? I bet you could find a workable arrangement w/him. ()
- @joebird, any thoughts? http://twitter.com/cameo/statuses/1041139588 ()
- Tomorrow we're celebrating Advent in that most wonderful of ways: the Twelve Pubs of Christmas. 30th St. will never be the same. DM for info ()
- Back in the garage with my bullshit detector / Carbon monoxide making sure it's effective ()
- Introducing 50ft ()
- Sharer’s remorse ()
- @joonspoon: while I do, I've been looking forward to today since this time last year. :) ()
- Obama: Continuity We Can Believe In (r/politics) ()
- Happy Repeal Day everybody! If only there were an actual drug prohibition ammendment to repeal, too. :/ ()
- The Lessons of Prohibition: Repeal Day drives home the folly of the Drug War (r/reddit.com) ()
- Ducking an iPhone Annoyance (r/reddit.com) ()
- Remi Gaillard: Live-Action Mario Cart [VIDEO] (r/reddit.com) ()
- @mhat, meet @t. @t., meet @mhat. I'd do the introduction in person, but I'm inconveniently 500 miles south. @t, @mhat's into climbing. ()
- @mhat, you should talk to @t re: bouldering. Though, now that pownce is shutting down, I'm not sure how @t will coördinate climbing sessions ()
- @beertweeter, I tried the Jolly Pumpkin / Nøgne-Ø / Stone Special Holiday Ale tonight. Fantastic stuff. http://blog.stonebrew.com/?p=249 ()
- Which kind of Yelper are you? The casual racist? The shit-talker? The "I don't eat that kind of food" guy? (r/reddit.com) ()
- @joebird, for your roommates? http://store.glennz.com/rien.html ()
- @gemalynn, I like http://goovite.com/ ()
- Bad: being home sick. Good: @kirinqueen's homemade chicken soup for breakfast. Yum. ()
- Social cataloging—I don’t get it. ()
- @ChrisClarkeCRN, I have long cursed them for beating me to the domain name, and so have refused to try their service on principle. ()
- @zare_k: choose and perish! ()
- Hmm. I guess it was time to stagger those cron jobs. /me facepalms ()
- having server problems. Ugh. ()
- SIGINFO handling in Python for fun and profit ()
- Web design, architecture, and development ()
- @joshthewebguy: shit man, that sucks. Happened to @TheBreeze recently. Perhaps commiserating over pints @hamiltons is in order. ()
- i18nが嫌いだ。 ()
- A letter to Peter Singer on Down Syndrome (r/reddit.com) ()
- Heading to @stoutsd for dinner & a chill off-night w/@kirinqueen. All welcome. ()
- @adactio: Atom, I hope. Right, @leahculver? ()
- @Canthros: there ain't no party like my Nana's tea party, hey, ho! ()
- @hardyhar: @emacs' nxml-mode is incredibly awesome. Seriously, give it a whirl. ()
- Pick discontentment with the things you can change (r/reddit.com) ()
- 24 ways: Easing The Path from Design to Development (r/reddit.com) ()