MORE MEDICAL FUCKERY this time featuring a receptionist who told me she was hanging up on me as they do not take messages. The free market! – 01:41 AM GMT
@telemetrist @manwhoyells hal holbrook in clown makeup – 05:34 AM GMT
@ardaniel @hell0jed astounding and delightful! i do a similar thing but just baselines, and the hard way (no guide, but WANT) – 05:41 AM GMT
@NekoCase yes. lovely and delightful and that man is just infuriating. Men. Those men. And women. Back then. – 05:42 AM GMT
@NekoCase …and of course, all the time through both books I have Herman’s Hermits ennering away in my head – 05:43 AM GMT
@NekoCase it was a bit crazy making. not Mantel’s fault by any means. Seriously great reads. – 06:46 AM GMT
@jebbanner good eatin! ew – 04:25 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt no superheroes caroming off buildings or battling proletarian robots? – 10:34 PM GMT

@DanEngler @poupou that’s it! – 12:33 AM GMT
Viv subscribed to a $25.95 “wellness plan” for each of the pets, purporting to reduce annual petcare costs. – 12:36 AM GMT
This was a couple three years ago. Three pets, a grand a year. Dog got way sick in December. Whoops! no savings for that stuff! – 12:38 AM GMT
Then the provider was too slow to get x-rays back to us before his cancer doc appointment, meaning more x-rays. Which were less than prior. – 12:39 AM GMT
So today I went to cancel the charges. No can do! Full year only! Ok, so I work it through, and through a script-thicket of dissuasion. – 12:40 AM GMT
First, they told me I wasn’t allowed to cancel because I wasn’t Viv. So I called back, as Viv. 45 minutes later, cancelled, more or less. – 12:44 AM GMT
Then they CALLED VIV and told her someone pretending to be her had “tried” to cancel the subscriptions. gather we are back at square RIPOFF. – 12:45 AM GMT
So, please do yourselves a favor: don’t go to Banfield Veterinary, and don’t subscribe to their “wellness plans”. Think I’m alone? – 12:46 AM GMT
here’s a touching story about trying to cancel Banfield Wellness Plans: itchmo.com/fine-print-of-… – 12:48 AM GMT
Here’s an experience regarding Banfield Wellness plans from Fremont, CA: yelp.com/biz/banfield-p… – 12:49 AM GMT
Here’s a heartwarming tale of paying the balance on a Banfield Wellness Plan on the day the dog is put down: petinsurancereview.com/reviewComment.… – 12:53 AM GMT
Finally, it seems nearly certain that Banfield also employs a social-media reputation management team. So expect some fun here shortly. – 12:56 AM GMT
@mubay @ftrain you have consciousness? – 12:56 AM GMT
@mubay is that like push? – 12:57 AM GMT
@ftrain @mubay sorry, sorry. sorry. – 12:58 AM GMT
@DanEngler lordy – 01:07 AM GMT
Armstrong’s helmet pic.twitter.com/lTkFLr7Dsw – 03:48 AM GMT
plantoons – 05:37 AM GMT
.@earinc it’s strange to stop reading an article for minute to glance at twitter and find someone tweeting about the article you’re reading. – 05:42 AM GMT
.@johnpstrohm let’s take that a step further. Why not Donald Trump? – 12:16 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm Kim Kardashian! – 12:17 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm Ke$ha! – 12:17 PM GMT
@mathowie because you are not using Tweetbot – 02:38 PM GMT
@isaiahmustafa @djkeng @MadMen_AMC well, yes, but not Arne’s. – 03:07 PM GMT
Fucking goddamn snow on the goddamn dog with his goddamn broken fucking leg again – 04:04 PM GMT
@djkeng @isaiahmustafa @madmen_amc ha ha! Don wouldn’t take Megan to California yet though. – 05:37 PM GMT
what an unpleasant waste of a day – 11:54 PM GMT

Anyone ever heard of a series of physical paintings based on various OS UIs? I feel like I’ve seen such a project but googles fail me. – 05:55 PM GMT

…and another interesting chapter begins. For the third time, a label has expressed interest in releasing some stone age tracks I played on. – 12:29 AM GMT
@DanEngler nice! – 12:30 AM GMT
@manwhoyells huh? no, definitely not. – 12:32 AM GMT
we’ll see what can be done. It’s hard to herd all the cats in the same direction, which is part of the reason this keeps happening. – 12:34 AM GMT
@DaveSFoley get a pic with Mune! – 12:42 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm how weird, I was just thinking about you telling a version of this story last week. is this the show you worked out “Luca” at? – 07:43 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm also, somehow the word “Brookline” in this story never penetrated my brain previously. That’s where I lived in first grade. – 07:44 AM GMT

robins chirping, more firepit fire. spring. – 12:49 AM GMT
it’s like a recipe for sleep. I know there’s rain tomorrow so it’s just as well I didn’t set up a hammock. – 01:18 AM GMT
@mubay but with singing waiters – 04:16 AM GMT
dog magic: palm toy, pretend to eat. dog begins to whimper. extend through high pitched puppy barks. produce toy. enjoy look of amazeballs. – 04:21 AM GMT
@iasshole ergo: it’s a clown car – 05:10 AM GMT
@the_hereford missed this. that’s @ichimeterlady. – 06:05 AM GMT
attn @bradleystein @paulconstant Dan Savage, high school senior, 1982, Chicago. bit.ly/ZVnXoH – 05:59 PM GMT

@BitterOldPunk /*grunts*, nods – 12:24 AM GMT
@matthetube eeurgh I bet. I at least got a couple stumps cut down first today. one more to go, then sizing it all down. – 12:25 AM GMT
@mubay i’ve never noticed it but unless the refresh is all at once it would be an expected result – 12:27 AM GMT
Backup fire in case I run out of propane. pic.twitter.com/gv4MLo5gcK – 01:32 AM GMT
Woah! Ethan Phillips is in the Momma Troi/Ferengi episode! – 02:14 AM GMT
RT: @levarburton: At the AMC in Century City for #BESTOFBOTHWORLDS#StarTrek#onenightonly – 02:47 AM GMT
Less talk. More synthahol. – 03:13 AM GMT
@mubay @fireland /slams mug to plexiglas table – 01:16 PM GMT
RT: @JoeTheDough: And with one last modification, my new iPhone is ready to go. pic.twitter.com/VydHs7wdqA – 01:21 PM GMT
the Surface Pro review you’ve been waiting for, I think. If you’re me. jonathancase.net/my-transition-… (tl;dr – still no pressure sensitivity in CS) – 03:40 PM GMT
@hell0jed @arthurwyatt Gotta give Manga Studio a spin. My holy grail is steel-nib emulation, unsure they’ll have it, but at least: inkish! – 03:52 PM GMT
@phoebenorth obv F due to poor question phrasing. give yourself a perfect score. – 03:55 PM GMT
MAN THINGS V: chainsaw fixed. Logs logged. sawdust and brush done cleaned up. – 09:29 PM GMT
@tclancy delightful! what PM does not love defeaturization! Goal added, goal accomplished, labor hours, zero! – 09:42 PM GMT
@manwhoyells no, the chain was in good shape still. – 09:46 PM GMT
@esinclai your favorite! – 11:42 PM GMT
RT: @Astro_Box: When we return back to Ellington in T-38, we often fly the Columbia arrival in honor of the fallen STS-107 crew. pic.twitter.com/sYxjWSQczP – 11:45 PM GMT

It’s time to air Cooper Union’s dirty laundry mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/its-time… – 12:10 AM GMT
@DanEngler no fault of its own. oldreader would be the best, if it were reliable. Newsblur’s halfbaked app is a case study in good enough. – 12:25 AM GMT
@DanEngler but it is the *only* app. and it’s… ok. so, kudos to them. The dev asked me for some use cases even. Of course, I’m a lazy user. – 12:27 AM GMT
For example, that share misleads. You’d think that tweet was my comment on said story. It’s not; that’s the originator’s title. I hate this. – 12:30 AM GMT
@ElSaborAsiatico are you *sure* it’s your sock? maybe your jeans contain the sock wormhole. – 12:32 AM GMT
@ElSaborAsiatico shake ‘em out! – 01:07 AM GMT
The Laumann Galactopedia – 02:47 AM GMT
“Sarek”, TNG s03. Woah. I remember liking it a lot but having older parents makes it pretty amazing. Geez. – 03:56 AM GMT
@mubay you fundamentally misunderstand every single thing about this. – 02:33 PM GMT
@mubay the mystery of Broadway Musicals explained. Something which has etc etc turns out to be a CIA sham. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CIA_a… – 02:38 PM GMT
@phoebenorth on the fence – 03:27 PM GMT
@phoebenorth i don’t think I’ve been yet but have never heard a bad thing about projection quality. our rewatch is at end of s03, too. – 03:30 PM GMT
@middleclasstool nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded – 10:15 PM GMT
MAN THINGS IV: chainsaw fail. chain unseated; had to take bar off to fix. retaining bolt, swallowed by engine cowl. Have to disassemble. – 10:17 PM GMT
@BitterOldPunk it would help with the overload of man stuff around here lately. GTG get burgers for the grill BRB – 10:22 PM GMT

@brownpau Remember that issue of Wired? zippieonline.blogspot.com/2008/02/infamo… – 12:10 AM GMT
@poupou going breatharian for spring – 12:10 AM GMT
@tclancy good dog. – 12:18 AM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells @DanEngler dietmareckell.com/html/#!/3 // site photos of all-saved plane crashes, “happy end” – 12:53 AM GMT
@anildash great idea for a tension stretcher in the next Tom Cruise vehicle – 03:31 AM GMT
@DanEngler @mubay @manwhoyells a Grumman Albatross, apparently. thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/happy-… – 07:00 AM GMT
@brownpau it is commonly cited as the worst Wired story of all time. Thus, like turkish autobots. Didn’t mean for you to read it, sorry. – 02:33 PM GMT
@brownpau aether.com/archives/wired… – 02:33 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm successful campaigns produce public and press resentment? – 02:46 PM GMT
strong childhood memories of this poster from various sources mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/flickr-p… – 02:53 PM GMT
Ben Katchor sounds like one of the little old men in his comics – 09:07 PM GMT
@brandonblatcher noted – 11:34 PM GMT
Man stuff: day III. Washed off, rearranged deck chairs (in honor of the M’s); edging; brush cutting; more pruning. – 11:36 PM GMT
Haven’t been posting this here, because it is baseballish, but each stage is over at @mwhybark2. Today: eyes. pic.twitter.com/lmtyl41H4N – 11:42 PM GMT
I need to do a whole page of eye studies, actually. Think those are serviceable but could be better. – 11:42 PM GMT

@poupou you gotta be billin on that – 12:22 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm “tea”. – 02:02 AM GMT
@Ufog beware the giant hounds that travel between the dimensions – 02:03 AM GMT
Dream of Karel just now. At a goodbye party; he and his GF apparently split town fir NYC tomorrow; then, after that, maybe back to Prague. – 08:38 AM GMT
Guess he’s been dead about five years now. Seems like it was this time of year, so, thank you, brain, dreammaster, what have you. – 08:39 AM GMT
New policy: snarky Amanda Palmer tweeters earn a time out. There are other people to make fun of, like me, while I can’t hear you. – 06:59 PM GMT
RT: @bbcbubblegutz: my twitter feed seems to have more outrage at Amanda Palmer than at the guy that killed three people and injured 282 others – 07:01 PM GMT
@sculpin once you get that treadle going, it just wears your hip right out! – 07:11 PM GMT
@manwhoyells @moniguzman Manny means “@scalzi”. Redshirts, btw, is great, well worth a read. – 09:45 PM GMT
More man stuff: more light electrical, pruning, edging. Sore. – 09:46 PM GMT
tedonitis, arthritis, and yardwork :: thermodynamics, global warming, and the industrial age. – 10:12 PM GMT

@hell0jed it’s just the intro. but yeah, uncomfortable few minutes there. – 05:06 AM GMT
@siblings_at_law @paulconstant heard there was a respected group behind it, but we joked they licensed the Blade Runner soundtrack. – 02:03 PM GMT
Unexpected skeumorphism; evidence of things wrong with the world. pic.twitter.com/zc0zNOW7pf – 04:25 PM GMT
RT: @ChrisFossArt: Joseph Kosinski: I think they were subconscious. I mean I wrote the story about eight years ago, so I was… fb.me/16Onx9m1o – 09:56 PM GMT
Changed a security light at the roof peak, inspected the roof and gutters (gonna have to do a moss removal sweep), mowed lawn. Man stuff. – 10:03 PM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo It’s like a two minutes hate is off limits for the kid but not for her; burn the witch or something. I don’t get it. – 10:15 PM GMT
.@jonronson @iucounu damn you now all my tweets / read like verse / from les mis – er – robs – 10:19 PM GMT
.@poupou ha, if only. I live in iOS, thus, I’m losing my mind. It’s a residence built by the mad for the feeble. I feel at home, of course. – 10:30 PM GMT
@wasta woo hoo! Wait, aren’t many Bungie games murky? Is your job to go around shooting out the lights? – 10:32 PM GMT
@wasta how many render engines does take to change a lightbulb on the USS Marathon? – 10:34 PM GMT
@wasta what are the odds? – 10:36 PM GMT
@zipties @wasta well, as long as we’re crossing the streams, I’d say it’s seven thousand eight hundred twenty four point seven to one. – 11:33 PM GMT
@poupou if a tree falls in the forest, does a mutha get paid? Hell yes. – 11:34 PM GMT
@paulconstant situations involving fucking which resolve often involve some sort of squirting. Therefore you’ve “squirted the clusterfuck”. – 11:41 PM GMT
@poupou These manipedis don’t come cheap yo – 11:42 PM GMT