@paulconstant TEN REDDIT SECRETS ABOUT ONE WEIRD LINKBAIT TRICK – 12:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt Samizdat Squad dwarf sex – 12:43 AM GMT
Been working on Mantel’s Ennery series. The SF readers among you will grok me when I compare it to Wolfe, specifically Severian at court. – 01:45 AM GMT
It is of course radically different and she eschews his vocabularist obscurantism. And of course Wolfe’s Catholicism informs his work. – 01:47 AM GMT
I have no idea of Mantel’s faith; I suspect she and I share a dismissive, sympathetic disinterest, but I can’t derive it from the text. – 01:51 AM GMT
at any rate, I commend the books to yr kind attn, &c &c, yrs most truly, obdt svt yadda yadda – 01:52 AM GMT
And now, Herman’s Hermits, on Ed Sullivan, before you were born. m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=GisC… – 01:56 AM GMT
COMMAND OPTION PEE RAM – 02:10 AM GMT
@esinclai the midpoint turn, where the misdirected third person narration shifts to something less self-deceiving, is awesome. – 03:24 AM GMT
@ridetheory early seasons anyway. but and how! – 03:28 AM GMT
@manwhoyells pledge in bitcoin – 03:29 AM GMT
@theBees alligators. – 07:03 AM GMT
@theBees sure, you know how people get rid of baby alligators by releasing them into the air vents – 04:49 PM GMT
@theBees or maybe crocodiles, it depends – 04:50 PM GMT
@theBees evolution in action! – 04:54 PM GMT
@theBees although of course, we overlook the obvious. 4.bp.blogspot.com/_6xoH967aC00/T… – 04:57 PM GMT
@moniguzman @toddbishop ugh – 08:53 PM GMT
“@adamnash: Let this roll around in your brain for a bit: The Winklevoss twins are Bitcoin moguls. dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/as-…” yo @manwhoyells – 08:55 PM GMT
@paulconstant you need a quick-inflate Boba Fett hoody – 09:50 PM GMT

@anildash user-optin plugin. kickstater that, stat. – 02:18 AM GMT
@matthewbaldwin /flings stuff – 02:19 AM GMT
RT: @gen: “Amazon is held together by adrenaline, spreadsheets and people running around like crazy.” bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/one… – 02:21 AM GMT
@whybark my bad, sorry – 02:39 AM GMT
Finally getting up on Mad Men. Opening sequence at the Royal Hawaiian? Viv & I had our 15 year anniversary dinner overlooking that stage. – 03:09 AM GMT
Saw a huge meteor stripe the sky down west over Mauna Loa. A good night. – 03:10 AM GMT
Mauna Loa? Diamondhead, anyway. – 03:12 AM GMT
outrage. OS X sleeps, loses resolution sensing. The fuckers. THE FUCKERS. – 03:33 AM GMT
RT: @arstechnica: Google mines Frommer’s Travel for social data, then sells the name back ars.to/10SA5tT by @MeganGeuss – 03:34 AM GMT
RT: @TokyoReport: 3 Patriot missiles deployed in Tokyo sns.mx/w31wy9 – 03:38 AM GMT
Script doctor sez: PFC Dinkins gonna get whacked in ‘Nam holding Don’s lighter, leading to investigation. – 04:16 AM GMT
@surlygourmand killjoy. commie beatnik hippy. – 05:07 AM GMT
RT: @manwhoyells: @mwhybark steeev – 05:07 AM GMT
@surlygourmand you and sally’s mama make goulash in a dirty pot off St. Mark’s place. If you know what I mean. – 05:13 AM GMT
RT: @_py: the patriot missile batteries currently deployed in tokyo are on my commute route. maybe i’ll get to see a launch on my way home! – 06:37 AM GMT
@manwhoyells /slap – 06:37 AM GMT
tod corm! noted, useful, will be empoloyoed! – 06:49 AM GMT
For eccentric book-lovers with beards and cats mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/for-ecce… – 07:12 AM GMT
re mac os x 10.8.3 rez on sleep issues: discussions.apple.com/thread/4896422… (tl;dr, try zapping PRAM) (THE FUCKERS) – 02:22 PM GMT
XMBC: updated. Broken addon: patched. Cats: indoors hiding from rain. Dog: competing with cats for petting. – 02:32 PM GMT
@anildash right. Hire a sociopath and an aspergery genius and you’re good to go. – 02:34 PM GMT
@manwhoyells Pseudo RAM – 03:39 PM GMT
@mubay zapping PRAM – 03:40 PM GMT
I’m gonna zap some PRAMgot my static strap in my socketI – I – I’m hunting, looking for a tech notethis fucking drives me crazy – 03:45 PM GMT
Reboot while holding down keys Cmd-F-U. – 03:49 PM GMT
Try reseating VRAM. – 03:50 PM GMT
Flip machine over twice to dislodge sticky bits, should unbind DNS and release the boot block so HD cylinders can spin up. – 03:54 PM GMT
Carefully use nylon putty knife to ssh through clickwrap, releasing USB hub latch. Insert shim. – 03:58 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt oh for – 09:05 PM GMT

@arthurwyatt Ebert, duh. – 12:18 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm to get you to give access to tracking on your FB account – 02:37 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm something like that. the basic gist is in some circumstances a click into an applike interactive grants data gathering access. – 02:42 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm … I think. There is some straight-up shady BS in the clickchain and FB is rightfully concerned with CYA inattributability. – 02:43 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm … beyond FB privacy tracking access, if you use a browser, a click-out can grant cookie access and various levels of tracking – 02:46 AM GMT
“@dduane: “Fish hitched ride to US in Japanese #tsunami boat” arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/04/fish-h…” If they don’t name the fish Pi I will eat something. – 06:41 AM GMT
Although I suppose Dory would work too. Just as long as it’s a reference to an ill-advised movie. – 06:42 AM GMT
@imontheradio you’ll kick ass, never fear – 02:48 PM GMT
@alan_maguire vimeo.com/18923281 – 02:50 PM GMT
wake up puzzled to sounds of Viv ichopping something up in the kitchen. why is she doing it for so long? She’s an hour late out the door. – 03:40 PM GMT
Chop chop chop chop chop. walk into kitchen to sound: no one there, sound continues. What? – 03:41 PM GMT
And as i write this, it returns. Tried to get a video but muffed the shot. It’s a flicker, nomnomming at the house. Hope the bugs are ants. – 03:44 PM GMT

@phoebenorth @arthurwyatt we are on the internet-delay viewing plan – 12:06 AM GMT
RT: @lorenacupcake: the wrong time to watch rock and roll high school is pretty much never – 12:11 AM GMT
“@EnglishHeritage: A private triumphal arch celebrating a public victory #landmarklisting ow.ly/jFt96” attn @arthurwyatt – 12:13 AM GMT
RT: @billbarol: Hey hive mind: What’s the one burger place/sandwich place/coffee shop/bakery a person ought to make an effort to get to in Chicago? – 12:27 AM GMT
“Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Awww yeah. – 02:00 AM GMT
“This war isn’t supposed to be happening” EFF YES – 02:07 AM GMT
How can such a flawed episode be so much better than all but one of the films? – 02:19 AM GMT
Nearly every protagonist’s action is by a female character; Picard’s accession to Giunan (Gynan, FFS) is an act of fealty. Fuck yes. – 02:22 AM GMT
This episode blew my mind, drove me crazy because of the script flaws, and totally convinced me that TNG was the best thing ever. Still true – 02:25 AM GMT
@ob1quixote ha! yes, that move was awesome. still. – 03:11 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt the pot laws only apply to grups yo – 03:15 AM GMT
Viv looks over as episode ends, notices I’m crying. Complete spit take, followed by goggle. Hope the marriage survives. – 03:20 AM GMT
@VictorMourning …but then, we think of the 1970s Narnia adaptation and worry – 04:49 PM GMT
RT: @VictorMourning: This could be very tasty: BBC to Adapt ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’ as Mini-Series tinyurl.com/coung77 – 04:49 PM GMT
Paul McCartney at Safeco in July. Hm. Implies a hometown Sirvana bit, I would think. – 10:45 PM GMT

pic.twitter.com/HQXL9ii2Ws – 12:13 AM GMT
“@_py: this is one of my favorite washrooms in tokyo. pic.twitter.com/8RRg5lM9Gs” attn @manwhoyells – 06:03 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough so of course I’m like oh goody and see I was already there – 08:19 PM GMT

ATTENTION ATTENTION YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: amazon.com/Star-Trek-Unif… (1 of 2) – 01:04 AM GMT
atTENTION ATTENTION YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: amazon.com/Dynomighty-Com… (2 of 2) – 01:05 AM GMT
@heyho58356 looks awesome. – 01:10 AM GMT
@heyho58356 is that the Wabash St. bridge? – 01:41 AM GMT
@Cabbage_Babble “Miss Fancy often escaped from her enclosure and wandered the streets of Avondale, Woodlawn and Forest Park…” – 01:43 AM GMT
@heyho58356 I get it now! – 03:28 AM GMT
@manwhoyells oh I have been observing, you bet. eventually the bitcoin miners will take over the midsea NOCs, missiles and all. – 03:30 AM GMT
@heyho58356 between this and the baseball game imma have a palpitation – 04:10 AM GMT
@sugarfreak seriously, when did they lower the drinking age – 04:11 AM GMT
@billbarol I actually wrote a paper about the iconography of wallpaper and upholstery fabric in “Clockwork Orange” in college. – 04:14 AM GMT
@billbarol I’m totally not joking. – 04:14 AM GMT
@hell0jed that sounds unbelievably awesome. – 04:16 AM GMT
@BallardBot @BoringPostcards THANK YOU POSTIE – 04:17 AM GMT
“He serves himself some more of Thurston’s jelly crenellations, the scarlet and the pale, the airy stone and the bloody brick.” – 06:29 AM GMT
@mubay i do all our accounting in Quickbooks, does that count? – 03:39 PM GMT
distractionsinspace.tumblr.com – 06:40 PM GMT
@DanEngler @mubay rum your family like a boss – 06:43 PM GMT
Google ads now displaying in Japanese. Due to use of Google Translate? Weird. – 06:47 PM GMT
PAUL LAFFOLEY YOU GUYS PAUL LAFFOLEY – 07:58 PM GMT

come back little kitty – 01:01 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt north korea – 01:01 AM GMT
@Sherman_Alexie Kevin Costner lies dead on the ground? – 01:13 AM GMT
if I actually take a crack at a narrative version, I guess I’d need to write it from their viewpoint, rather than me getting phone calls – 01:55 AM GMT
been thinking about this all day: Ebert’s Sex Pistols movie script. blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/… – 04:31 AM GMT
@sumit damn right – 02:02 PM GMT
via Manny’s RSS. fine, sad short story about technology, memory, and obsolescence. mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/a-new-ph… – 02:50 PM GMT
RT: @levarburton: Twice as high!RT @aliciamc: Received my t-shirt from the Reddit exchange today and it is AMAZING! (Cc: @levarburton) pic.twitter.com/vE8QFYcXH4 – 03:52 PM GMT
@imontheradio like YT guy morishowta m.youtube.com/watch?feature=… – 04:02 PM GMT
Tell Ira @ThisAmerLife: “unfit to air”: jenniferlaurenkates.tumblr.com/post/471296428… – 05:24 PM GMT
That story and re-airings were like chalkboard fingernails. I love TAL, but Marketplace bugs me and Planet Money sometimes buys into the BS. – 05:25 PM GMT
@annkpowers Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls called me at work, to speak to Scott Colburn, and told me before I passed the call on. – 05:35 PM GMT
Felix Salmon on the bitcoin bubble: medium.com/money-banking/… // via @waxpancake attn @manwhoyells – 05:54 PM GMT
Artist Lecture: Paul Laffoley, 1p Sat, at the Henry. henryart.org/events/show/724 – 06:04 PM GMT
on iOS @jackwilliambell TNG eps: aliens refuse to engage until Picard presses big red button, then show screen: “all your base are belong to us” – 06:18 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt YOUR SOOPER SEEKRIT PROJECT – 10:05 PM GMT
@ezrakilty that scamp – 10:18 PM GMT
@samantham um – 10:19 PM GMT
@samantham oh I see. – 10:19 PM GMT
PAUL LAFFOLEY YOU GUYS PAUL LAFFOLEY HE HAS A LION FOOT NO REALLY HE DOES – 10:31 PM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo you are going to start crashing weddings with a pair of r/t tix to Italy? That kind of stuff is liable to get you hitched up. – 11:44 PM GMT

@DanEngler i realize you are aware of a logical inconsistency here, but perhaps you should review your findings – 12:45 AM GMT
I miss oldtime Boston-area blogger Gummi Bear, who had a compulsion to eat obviously moldy food from the back of the fridge. /eats moldy nnn – 01:58 AM GMT
@hell0jed houndstooth? – 01:59 AM GMT
urgent midnight call from prospective client’s wife, an intense, organized person. – 07:28 AM GMT
wants to know if i presented some portfolio work to mutual contact, asks me to use a set of pdfs she has prepared when i do. – 07:30 AM GMT
their little girl in the background, fussing. wants to know when daddy’s going to be back. client’s wife sighs, consoles kid. – 07:32 AM GMT
“where is he?” i ask, politely. “at sea,” she says, putting in his shift on his employer’s south china sea data center. – 07:34 AM GMT
he works for a large local multinational data services and ecommerce company you have surely bought something from. – 07:35 AM GMT
She’s kind of complaining. “they quit, you know?” the on-site guys, after they get there, after a couple weeks. not what they want to do. – 07:37 AM GMT
they’re not military, and they have to work with the company’s on-site military subcontractors. the what now? “the military guys.” – 07:39 AM GMT
i’m like, wtf. the how’s that? apparently these guys are there to tend the defensive missiles on the data center. the WHAT? – 07:41 AM GMT
So the problem is that the local site PM, that’s her husband right now, is supposed to be the effective military commander of these missles. – 07:42 AM GMT
He’s never spent a day in any military. the military guys seem to know what they’re doing but it undermines his authority to the tech team. – 07:44 AM GMT
So he, like lots of his predecessors, is thinking about quitting to come home. the whole korea thing isn’t helping. – 07:45 AM GMT
her anxiety about this portfolio business is displaced anxiety about her husband and korea, i realize. we get off the phone. – 07:47 AM GMT
then i woke up. the whole thing was a dream I just had, every bit of it. i have a new client and a business call first thing. – 07:48 AM GMT
it’s my anxiety, not hers. after i figured out it had been a dream, i thought, wow, that’s a pretty good sf story. write it using tweets. – 07:50 AM GMT
And so i have. Title suggestions? – 07:50 AM GMT
To reiterate: no south china sea data center. no ecommerce zaibatsu missiles or mercs. no midnight client’s wife on the phone. no client. – 07:52 AM GMT
@DanEngler i am amused by what my subconscious did with Bezos’ rockets. – 08:07 AM GMT
@DanEngler and I can sleep soundly knowing Stephenson has nested in my head forever, keeping the datasphere safe for the corpocracy. – 08:11 AM GMT
BIG COLD WAR BONUS BEAT: the dream is implicitly a nuclear annihilation dream, something i haven’t had for over a quarter century. – 08:13 AM GMT
@anticdent yay – 01:57 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt I heard Howey (the Wool guy) on the radio the other day, discussing this deal. – 03:13 PM GMT
@zipties have been thinking about a prose rewrite. that might cascade forward. – 04:17 PM GMT
some of the details from that dream that I left out: the layout of the portfolio pages, nothing special, clearly recalled. – 04:19 PM GMT
offered to run them on her office Tektronix color printer. I don’t even know if Tektronix still exists. Used to rely on a wax-based model. – 04:22 PM GMT
Imaginary sea-based datacenter one of a global network, apparently, implying secret private army and navy for imaginary ecommerce zaibatsu – 04:24 PM GMT
not clear if sea-based NOCs are seagoing ships or semipermanent anchored installations a la oil drilling platforms, suspect both. – 04:27 PM GMT
seaborne nonsense appears to be sourced in the @samuelpepys twitter feed, in which Sam has just been given the task of ordering the Navy. – 04:30 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt la la la la we cant hearrrr him la la la shutup shutup – 04:34 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt I lived in Chile in 1969. I have an anonymous currency-propaganda book, published by the regime after the overthrow in English. – 07:24 PM GMT
Thanks, Roger. – 08:26 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt I was pretty little, mostly I remember the moon landing and some scattered scenes. I have some taped letters my dad recorded. – 09:01 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt like, walking around with us in the town on a weekend, taping a sunday brass band concert in a park, like – 09:02 PM GMT
@mubay well done Midge! – 09:05 PM GMT
Hypothesis: Uncle Wiggly was correct concerning his rheumatism and the weather. – 09:56 PM GMT

Totally distracted from serving – and eating – dinner last night by Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish’s one-hit last inning missed pefect game. What a show.

Awaken this morning to news that Iain Banks has announced he has terminal cancer. No more Culture. Fuck.

@manwhoyells @DanEngler helpful – 03:26 AM GMT
@hell0jed no. do not do that. – 03:27 AM GMT
Mae’s on Phinney RIP. Last of the 1980’s funk in Seattle, I think. mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/maes-caf… – 04:54 AM GMT
Paul Laffoley at the Henry this Saturday mwhybark.newsblur.com/story/artist-l… – 04:57 AM GMT
@mwhybark some unclarity on the date, Henry may have pulled entry from blog, implying draft status – 05:01 AM GMT
@mwhybark nope! this weekend is right: henryart.org/exhibitions/sh… – 05:03 AM GMT
@jackwilliambell god dammit – 01:54 PM GMT
Banks: terminal cancer. guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr… – 02:01 PM GMT
On NewsBlur someone had shared a link to his personal statement at iain-banks.net, but it looks like the site is down. – 02:03 PM GMT
@hell0jed hoy shit, I guy I went to high school with has been there his whole career – 06:01 PM GMT
@hell0jed I am wrong! He left games a while ago but worked on the Clone Wars animated series, at lucasfilm. – 06:05 PM GMT
@matthewbaldwin the twist at the end is: it’s Michael J Fox! – 07:31 PM GMT
Huh, I did not know our Swiftsure was defended from Mr. Pepys’ navy. RT @samuelpepys “I took the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, …” – 07:33 PM GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftsure & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Swift… & pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/4… – 07:37 PM GMT
@mwhybark oops, descended, not defended – 07:48 PM GMT
RT: @cultureshipname: GSV: Secular Prayer – 07:48 PM GMT
@hell0jed @arthurwyatt Benson Nadir is totes your new nom-de-something – 08:03 PM GMT
@matthewbaldwin is there a word for words that are their own opposites? autoantonyms? – 08:05 PM GMT
@Specklet many slurms – 08:06 PM GMT
@mubay Happy to help! Just fax it over. – 09:47 PM GMT
The weather has improved sufficiently that I will have to move back down to my basement office to concentrate. – 09:56 PM GMT