@imontheradio aw, no. So sorry to hear this. – 12:08 AM GMT
@wedgex @arthurwyatt winter molt – 03:50 AM GMT
BOUGHTEN because dayum pic.twitter.com/7FMWkXxpYW – 11:59 PM GMT
it was all I could do not to just start eating it then and there – 12:00 AM GMT

@sculpin oh I dunno, there was the time I picked up some pals when they got sprung from the hoosegow for roofing the cop shop – 01:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt the thread or the post? – 01:16 AM GMT
NEW ALANTUTOTORAIL – 01:16 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt hm… I can see where you might look askance, but H-1Bs are, and always have been, baloney. We’ll beer on it anon. – 01:18 AM GMT
@zipties q) get shoestrings r) dust s) research WKRP endtitle lyrics – 01:26 AM GMT
(last night when I tweeted that HPLHS CXmaghths CD I put it on without telling Viv) – 01:30 AM GMT
(about halfway through she looked up and said, “Death to the world? That’s not how it goes, is it?”) – 01:32 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt well, I glanced at the post and was unimpressed due to grammar and framing, but there’s no labor shortage, never has been. – 01:49 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt H1Bs are an anti-worker measure, plain and simple. No need to involve xenophobia or racism, those are side effects. – 01:50 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt It’s not a new strategy in the US, Carnegie did it back in the 1890s. Import workers from poor places to break strikes. – 01:53 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt The difference here is that H1Bs were invented before there was any meaningful organized labor in tech, specifically to prevent – 01:54 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt which, I suppose, minimizes the likelihood of further machinegunning of strikers. – 01:55 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt so it can be seen as a humanitarian measure. Not by me, but the view can be constructed. – 01:57 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt I utterly disagree. – 01:57 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt it’s not just about salaries. it’s about undercutting labor organization and about maintaining unreasonable working conditions – 01:58 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt which were were, you’ll recall, just joking about here. – 01:58 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt eg, under 35 no kids and willing to work 60+ – 01:59 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt well, yes, of course. but just having H1B available and without enforced limits prevents the development of the mechanism – 02:01 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt which is its actual and intended function. – 02:01 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt but we’ll beer about this in January. – 02:02 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo squatter towers FTW – 02:41 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt this reminds me I need to drag you to the tank and V2 museum – 02:42 AM GMT
@hell0jed radio said the 90 span is closed for the duration due to *semi* spun out with cab off roadway, thru rails. driver safe and out. – 02:44 AM GMT
@hell0jed my wife talked to me from just south of downtown at 5, she’s still south of the ship canal. – 02:45 AM GMT
@hell0jed she left work at 4. – 02:45 AM GMT
RT: @dduane: RT Imperial War Museums: RT BBC Radio Manchester: Weapon used by J R R Tolkien when he fought at the Battle of… fb.me/6vXnhnauV – 05:21 AM GMT
@poupou bizzy time! make bizzy! clear thoughts bizzy! – 06:31 AM GMT
@poupou ack. well, sympathies and well wishes then. sorry to hear it. maybe nice quick early sleepytime. – 06:57 AM GMT
@hell0jed and then where would we be – 07:26 AM GMT
Noted for debunkery on FB the next time one of the BS maps rolls by. deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-f… – 11:57 PM GMT

@poupou Roobio? Maybe? I have that from not-celestial seasonings. It’s OK. Now, sassafras, or birch bark, thems appeals to my Hoosierness. – 05:50 AM GMT
@poupou But I do remember a vanilla-y tannin-y thing from CS, what was it called – 05:51 AM GMT
@poupou “Ingredients: Roasted barley, roasted barley malt, roasted chicory root, roasted carob, cinnamon, allspice, and star anise. “ – 05:58 AM GMT
@poupou sounds very promising, I love toasted anything. still wanna hunt down my sassyfras. hm. – 05:59 AM GMT
so apparently sassafras is banned by the FDA in root beer production. er? – 06:02 AM GMT
“animals … given oral doses of sassafras tea or sassafras oil that contained large doses of safrole developed permanent liver damage …” – 06:03 AM GMT
“… or various types of cancer.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras… /// well then. – 06:05 AM GMT
This ban, for the chemical safrole, included tea from 1960 to 1994, yet I have strong childhood memories of sassafras tea. Huh. – 06:07 AM GMT
ah, I see. safrole per se was banned in distillate form in 1960; sassafras itself was banned in 1979, so it was available to me as a child. – 06:11 AM GMT
@poupou i’m bummed out! – 06:19 AM GMT
@sumit delightful! – 04:28 PM GMT
@praguepainter you’ve prolly seen this, since it’s on the wikipedia main entry for camo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dazz… – 09:21 PM GMT
@praguepainter WF is your great-uncle? Dude. – 09:25 PM GMT
@praguepainter far out. you’re like an imaginary character just off the page of a tangled fambly tree. I mean imaginary to the reader, mind. – 09:30 PM GMT

Which could be great for that homey touch in your Megatokyo capsule conapt, I would think. – 01:29 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed ooooh – 01:30 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed lolshock – 01:31 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed no seriously, lol – 01:31 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed to quote another, LIRL – 01:32 AM GMT
Typhon expanse! Fuck yes! – 02:13 AM GMT
Braga’s unquestionable masterpiece. Like a Glass opera. – 02:43 AM GMT
Correspondent on FB wonders if Bertha is having a Quatermass moment. I approve. – 02:52 PM GMT
@joshmillard I liked the early disembodied heads better, I think – 04:29 PM GMT

@alan_maguire hey now that’s by my hometown boi hoagy now now – 01:13 AM GMT
@mubay @matthewbaldwin *zzsnort* – 01:14 AM GMT
well. as someone with significant left-aligned political theater experience, I’m totally sympathetic to the bus dude. – 01:20 AM GMT
RT: @macklemore: SEATTLE… I’m pumped to announce that for our Key Arena show on the 11th we’re bringing out Sir Mix-A… instagram.com/p/huM-X8QK9V/ – 01:27 AM GMT
@EricIndiana that’s kick in the bears, innit – 01:29 AM GMT
Sy Hersh, LRB, today: another stovepipe? lrb.co.uk/2013/12/08/sey… /// why is this in LRB, not the New Yorker? Hmmm. – 01:52 AM GMT
back to TNG for a while. oof: Riker and the nongender people. Gawd. – 03:14 AM GMT
“RIKER: I’m picking up a neutrino emission from within the null space.” no, really. actual dialog. – 03:18 AM GMT
ah well, the episode’s heart is in the right place. But Riker? “neutrino emissions”? Geez. – 03:25 AM GMT
@hell0jed driftpark? – 03:57 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC well it is “like you don’t care,” yeah? So now you have a care and indeed will act as prescribed, in defiant simulacrum – 04:00 AM GMT
@surlygourmand @CanonSeattle (aren’t there two smoke drinks?) – 06:10 AM GMT
@surlygourmand @CanonSeattle (on reflection, I am thinking of the N2 one, maybe) – 06:38 AM GMT
@hell0jed @arthurwyatt Canonical source: yelp.com/biz/value-vill… – 09:03 AM GMT
@mubay don’t eat it! – 05:14 PM GMT
@hell0jed was he like, ‘no-one here gets to spend Christmas with your loved ones’ – 10:17 PM GMT
@hell0jed thousand-bug stare – 10:22 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @hell0jed PEASD – 10:35 PM GMT

@esinclai thought about that, but pot roast insisted on primacy – 12:57 AM GMT
@DanEngler @mubay there’s pie? i want pie! – 05:21 PM GMT
attn @DanEngler gizmodo.com/the-fascinatin… – 08:21 PM GMT

My grandmother loved every bit of ink Agatha Christie ever consigned to paper. – 04:54 AM GMT
Whenever I burn an hour or two on Christie adaptations, I think of her. – 04:54 AM GMT
When I commit larger blocks of time to them, and see Christie’s themes emerge, I cannot even express how much I wish we could converse. – 04:56 AM GMT
RT: @alan_maguire: You are all a massive disappointment to me twitter.com/alan_maguire/s… – 09:24 AM GMT
RT: @alantutorial: Hey guys It’s really warm, thanks guys – 09:44 AM GMT
“@rubenglez: Un ejército de policías protege en estos instantes el Senado de México frente … pic.twitter.com/xGPQu8IsbN” attn @arthurwyatt – 10:47 PM GMT

@gjcharlet you could mail them to us. – 07:22 PM GMT
@gjcharlet of course! – 08:21 PM GMT
RT: @PeteCampbell_NY: .@The_Don_draper, anything new on the Spaghetti-Os creative? The client has some ideas. – 10:24 PM GMT
@jonronson shows little regard for your feelings, then. action taken without remorse. – 10:28 PM GMT

@LeavittAlone go on – 01:10 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone mm-hm, mm-hm – 01:10 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone right with ya – 01:10 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone oh yes – 01:11 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone gettin fancy – 01:13 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone ah lovely. also blue. – 01:14 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone beard looks good! – 01:15 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone nice! did you see this yesterday? metafilter.com/134441/Its-the… // don’t drink and fly, indeed! – 01:22 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone sadly, PDX’s Aviation Gin lives up to the calumnies cast against the typo-induced rep of that enticing drink, geez, not good – 01:25 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone grey-purple, the color of a sunset stratosphere – 01:25 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone where’s the jetpack flyboy – 01:26 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone no wait that was a rhetorical question – 01:26 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone the Airborne Landing Strip? – 01:28 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone @arthurwyatt a precursor to the PanGalactic Gargleblaster then, as it should be – 01:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone flavor it with raisins, or maybe dead flies – 01:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone (damn Art, that was straight perfect) – 01:35 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone torrent it today! it’s not like Big Brother uh – 01:38 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone @arthurwyatt well, sure, according to Joe Mitchell, Manhattan’s a lost paradise of dead flies – 01:40 AM GMT
off to prep the pioneer slumgullion – 01:42 AM GMT
@whybark i swear to god, you just slay me sometimes. it’s worthy of ponderment. – 03:15 AM GMT
@phoebenorth I’m not a lawyer or accountant, but I think probably so. Ask yours! – 03:16 AM GMT
(Viv has cautiously expressed interest in this Sound of Music thing) (I’m feared) – 03:19 AM GMT
(@arthurwyatt local b/c starts at 8, KING 5) – 03:21 AM GMT
@manwhoyells you’d tap that? – 03:53 AM GMT
@brownpau do a cover of “the Way to Eden,” man – 03:56 AM GMT
Itty bitty teeny tiny mini mini kitty cat! Your name is Lark, it’s Lark. Lark! Itty bitty teeny tiny mini kitty cat! pic.twitter.com/pKBeoERXdu – 04:01 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt quite possible, based on the time she spends sitting on my head. – 06:37 PM GMT

music by artists I don’t recognize the name of or remember listening to, music by artists I love and study, music socially associated … – 01:00 AM GMT
… prior category. – 01:00 AM GMT
Then I tried to group by genre. That way, when I go look for an X CD, I’ll also find Rank and File and the Germs. – 01:01 AM GMT
I imagine there are about ten people in the world who would get it. – 01:02 AM GMT
@esinclai You are among the ten, yes. And I kept thinking of High Fidelity but this is an ANSWER ORG, meaning: there ain’t no system, FU OCD – 01:05 AM GMT
@esinclai ADD FTW – 01:05 AM GMT
@linguinidimare Humbly, I would assert I am personally one, and do retain interest in the tunes of my distant youth. – 01:06 AM GMT
@linguinidimare Minor Threat is canon, of course. Bad Religion depended on the disc iirc. Heard they just dropped a Christmas record! – 01:13 AM GMT
@linguinidimare I was more interested in Estrus in the 90s than any of the other threads. Played in that era though. nobody you know. Local. – 01:15 AM GMT
@linguinidimare had a pretty great eighties though. lived in a college town that was on and off the h/c (and post h/c) circuit. – 01:16 AM GMT
@linguinidimare there was some really cool stuff in the 90s outta Japan, Boredoms and Guitar Wolf (and of course Shonen Knife) – 01:18 AM GMT
@linguinidimare sure, it’s all it’s own thing. yu follow @the_hereford too, yeah? She was into 90s, maybe 80s punk too iirc. Liberty spikes! – 01:24 AM GMT
@linguinidimare @the_hereford she, I think. but of course we’re gender indeterminate on the interwebs! – 01:26 AM GMT
@linguinidimare @the_hereford no, you note the presented cues, it’s all good. Gender undetermined til made explicit: just being polite. – 01:29 AM GMT
hm, time to make the donuts – 01:31 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html via @waxylinks – 01:34 AM GMT
@jkonrath cthulhulives.org/store/storeDet… // cthulhulives.org/store/storeDet… – 04:31 AM GMT
@whybark (@alantutorial) – 03:15 PM GMT
RT: @star_trek: startrek.com – FIRST LOOK (AND HEAR): Vulcan Harp App for iPad bit.ly/1jptqBt – 03:46 PM GMT
Do I have time to make an Osiris Claus advent calendar? – 06:28 PM GMT
Fascinating. I would like to isolate by breaker eventually. hmmmm…. instructables.com/id/Real-time-W… – 10:23 PM GMT
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