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Tweet Digest for Monday, April 14, 2014 (GMT)

spent all winter upping my pie game. really. had no idea. none. – 05:46 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo i don’t care about spoilers, but i decided before i watched the show i won’t read the books until after the show ends. – 06:09 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone @desjardins if you think I’m clicking a blind twit pic link today you are mistaken sir – 10:10 PM GMT
@imontheradio that woman was straight outta central casting! – 10:14 PM GMT
@deathmtn Mystic Seaport! – 11:36 PM GMT

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TNG Rewatch

Over the past year, I subjected Viv to a slow-motion rematch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was well worthwhile. I learned that I had missed huge sections of s07, presumably due to being in a band in 1994, so many of those episodes were entirely new to me. Overall the series held up quite well, persistent issues with overall interior set design choices and alien effects costuming aside. Hotel beige and forehead appliqués!

We moved on to the movies, having started the TNG project after watching the TOS films, and here I am sorry to report just as had been the case on initial viewings on release, the four TNG movies are pretty terrible, mostly for reasons of character adjustment (Picard is not the character seen on the small screen) and big-screen movie drama (wholesale starship wreckage). The films also feature the sloppy in-universe detail management characteristic of Brannon Braga and Rick Berman’s post-TNG series, Voyager and Enterprise.

That said, there are moments in all four films that have stayed with me, notably Data’s final act of self-sacrifice.

We’re weighing what’s next. It’s baseball season now, and both Game of Thrones and Mad Men are running concurrently for the first time for us, so the issue is not pressing. I’m giving some consideration to trying DS9 again, a series that clearly succeeded on its’ own terms to a greater degree than the other two post-TNG shows, but which lost me as an audience member on initial run due to longer story arcs and an insistent focus on a made-up religion. I don’t pay attention to real-life religions, so I could never see a reason to care about something as far from my areas of interest and experience as a fictional one. We’ll see.

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Tweet Digest for Friday, April 11, 2014 (GMT)

@BitterOldPunk but the way you get past that is to do it again – 03:44 PM GMT
@BitterOldPunk oh pshaw. you have opinions and are entertaining. here’s an endless supply of pixels. go forth and scriven. – 04:09 PM GMT
@brownpau @gjcharlet was there, man – 10:07 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Thursday, April 10, 2014 (GMT)

RT: @LeavittAlone: Chef friend watching Mad Men ” is it any wonder US cooking improved when people stopped smoking a pack a day and downing ten cocktails” – 12:38 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone wider than a mile – 04:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt on the other hand this means i won’t have to crack my buys to get them on my ipad – 08:26 PM GMT
@johnmoe there’s an abandoned mall in hawthorne, near redondo beach. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne… – 08:44 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt side note: Comixology maintains two separate sales streams, desktop purchases do not always migrate to iDevice – 08:47 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt also, Amazon in-browser purchase process on iPad is superior to Comixology in-app or in-browser, I nearly always abandon cart – 08:49 PM GMT
@ZombieJohnsus @arthurwyatt recent sale was not available in-app, only avail in-browser. result: i have not read what I bought. – 08:50 PM GMT
@jay_beans @arthurwyatt doesn’t Kindle already support .cbr? i haven’t ever tried it, sees like i saw that in examining import options – 08:53 PM GMT
@ZombieJohnsus @arthurwyatt recent indie bundle thing – 08:53 PM GMT
@ZombieJohnsus @arthurwyatt the sale was not enabled in Apple-managed DRM chain, to skip Apple tax. – 08:54 PM GMT
@ZombieJohnsus @arthurwyatt hm, support request called for here then. – 08:58 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Tuesday, April 08, 2014 (GMT)

@LeavittAlone oiliens (cf. x-files) – 12:59 AM GMT
@mubay on reflection, I decided waiting for the roomba scythed hoverbot was a bad move and just did it myself this day – 08:05 AM GMT
jets overhead at two am. odd. – 09:09 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough shaved goats innit – 09:40 AM GMT
@deathmtn canonically, paper prototypes and blind user testing. paper part seems to get skipped a lot. User tests shd be A/B. – 04:49 PM GMT
@deathmtn supposedly A/B stuff should involve large enough samples to be statistically significant. afaik that really can only happen … – 04:50 PM GMT
@deathmtn … in deployment, so ads are the place that gets most used, since UX A/B deployment increases dev labor load. – 04:51 PM GMT
@deathmtn in a way, your process description is like user testing sans users. so add a user testing loop and see how that goes. – 04:52 PM GMT
@marikamalaea oh man, Human Barbie. you have NO IDEA. – 04:53 PM GMT
@marikamalaea gq.com/women/photos/2… – 04:55 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn i hear tell in the olden days iterative stuff on the mac side was sometimes done in hypercard – 04:58 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn toward the paperless office! – 05:00 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn i have actually done that with scrrenies, imagemaps, and cold HTML – 05:00 PM GMT
@deathmtn start with the cats. – 05:02 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn yes. never show the client a near final illo comp, a scene with placeholder scoring, or UX graphics that might change – 05:03 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt hm, not sure i follow. trad issue is de-escalating fancy bullshit and encouraging nav persistence and order – 05:05 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt but in my experience much of that stemmed from designers not being computery. seems like that may no longer apply. – 05:06 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt flip side of that is as UX was always excluded from scope in engineering process, dev design choices were often bad. – 05:08 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt classic example is feature dumping where overwhelming choices for user input appear on screen at once – 05:10 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt or non-intuitive setting-option navigation where user must leave primary context to control output (Win, iOS, XBMC) – 05:11 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt that’s a standard workflow, I’d say. if it looks like the PSDs are bad UX, ask upstream if it’s being tested – 05:13 PM GMT
@deathmtn @arthurwyatt but I’d also shrug and build it. If they want to pay you to do twice as much work as might be needed, cool. – 05:14 PM GMT
this is sort of exciting. i’m going to a baseball game today and it’s the anniversary of Hank Aaron’s record. – 05:15 PM GMT
the stadium I am going to has one of the largest video screens in the world. – 05:16 PM GMT
one of my earliest baseball memories, vague and eroded in time, is watching Hank make his hit on a 12″ black and white TV. – 05:16 PM GMT
there is a non-trivial chance I will see that hit tonight in a packed stadium on a video screen larger than my childhood home. – 05:17 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn “pixel perfect,” you rockstar ninjas – 05:18 PM GMT
RT: @mubay: The more scientific reasoning skills you have, the more your ideological beliefs interfere with critical thinking. pocket.co/s5VNU – 05:25 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn last RT has content applicable to A/B testing and analysis, obliquely – 05:27 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt next level x-files shizz – 05:28 PM GMT
@phirephoenix yikes! to the apple store wi’ ye! ask for a new one even if out of warranty! – 05:30 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn i thought you had a stable gig these days. are you on temp contract now? – 05:40 PM GMT
@manwhoyells excellent career choice – 05:41 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn Disney, woah. I heard there was some blood a ways back. And carefully review your noncompete / scope stuff! – 05:43 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn I remember Starwave! Early handhelds, Paul Allen, iirc. Some of the CD-ROM designers ended up there for 20 seconds. – 07:01 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn can’t lay cursor to link on device, but early tech core leaders were fresh from creating Java at Sun. possible vector – 07:06 PM GMT
RT: @DaveSFoley: This Friday on #SpunOut #I’m haunted by my past. pic.twitter.com/kOSuETWjsT – 07:08 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Monday, April 07, 2014 (GMT)

@mubay i can’t make the refrigerator stop beeping – 04:40 PM GMT
@tclancy have you seen the recently-approved HQ design? google.com/search?q=amazo… – 04:44 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt did you see FTL iOS is finally oot? – 07:57 PM GMT
@imontheradio dang you Foo! – 10:42 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Sunday, April 06, 2014 (GMT)

@mighty_flynn oooooooh – 12:38 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn i don’t think i can access that on xbmc. that rules. – 12:40 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn xbmc started out on xbox, but now platform-agnostic. better video quality at fullscreen on computer. mildly technical install. – 12:42 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn is the park audio feature available in the native ATV app? tell me later when you have it up if you’re not sure. – 12:47 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn shoot. – 12:48 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn science dropped – 01:23 AM GMT
@akaWorf @tessus I am starting to hear all your responses in Worf voice, which is amusing me no end. VERIFY WORF SON OF MOGH – 05:50 AM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells ooh ooh i know i know or i knew i knew but now i don’t shoot – 04:45 PM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells i think manny found a similar compilation at a diff loc with similar bumpy strip – 04:47 PM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells which led me to conclude that the up-and-downs are common on runways but exacerbated by extreme telephoto. i think. – 04:48 PM GMT
RT: @sumit: A man has just declaimed “Baaaa,” my hircine riff on Ginsberg’s “Howl,” to an, er, stunned audience pic.twitter.com/0WypRtOZZE – 05:02 PM GMT
@sumit omg helpless giggles – 05:02 PM GMT
RT: @EricIndiana: Get $1 for each retweet. Somehow. – 05:07 PM GMT
@EricIndiana twitter.com/EricIndiana/st… – 05:07 PM GMT
@akaWorf Is this real life? – 06:17 PM GMT
@akaWorf YAY – 06:18 PM GMT