Tweet Digest for Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (GMT)

attn @arthurwyatt @ChrisFossArt robohub.org/x-47b-makes-fi… – 12:53 AM GMT
on iOS attn @Telemetristttt ffffound.com/image/38c8f524… – 12:54 AM GMT
on iOS biodomes. hoo boy. isolationism via technology. we create temples to our psychology and this an especially succulent example. – 01:00 AM GMT
Savages, OK? Have I mentioned this, Savages? I mean, this is where it was heading in ’87 and GODDAMN am I glad to hear it coming around. – 01:03 AM GMT
nerd buddy @paulconstant on STID: spoiler edition. tl;dr: JJ is tardin it up and a non-Trek fan has noticed. slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/… – 01:15 AM GMT
Worth noting here is Paul has generally enjoyed the films in the past but not the series, to the extent he has watched them. – 01:17 AM GMT
I’ll note here again that there is only one prior Star Trek film I find worthwhile. – 01:19 AM GMT
wow, fuck that shithead that killed himself in Notre Dame today. Baise-lui. – 01:24 AM GMT
@clarissawam fuck that guy. he was a shithead and will not be missed, – 01:41 AM GMT
@sumit i opened it and read it – 01:47 AM GMT
“@jessmisener: Inventor of the GIF: “It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/an-…” MAKE A NOTE OF IT – 01:48 AM GMT
@brownpau ping 4eva – 01:50 AM GMT
@brownpau oooooh ouch – 01:52 AM GMT
soft gee, for the record, as it has been since the invention of the format. I feel so vindicated! – 01:58 AM GMT
@sambosambo @brownpau lol. it was all Greek to hir, I guess – 02:01 AM GMT
RT: @_py: gist, gigantic, giraffe, ginseng, giant, ginger, gibberish, gigolo, gilet, gizmo, gyllenhaal, gif – 02:01 AM GMT
geez, take a day to bear down on work and it’s two hours of tweets and RSS to plow through – 02:06 AM GMT
@sumit it said they were suckers – 01:41 PM GMT
@mubay reading this from my upstairs early-morning horizontal office, I smile – 01:45 PM GMT
@DanEngler somewhere beneath the fog and tract homes in the shriveled peat leathery, pressed arms stir – 02:02 PM GMT
@DanEngler mysterious hole reported in area backyard – 02:04 PM GMT
attn @DanEngler behance.net/gallery/Imagin… /// note cup of coffee – 02:53 PM GMT
Wired offers a rewrite to Abrams & Co., free of charge wired.com/underwire/2013… – 05:27 PM GMT
on iOS Well, not a rewrite per se. Call it a lambasting. Who’s next, Ars? – 05:29 PM GMT
@hell0jed I’ve told you before that this is what you should do, because if you don’t, twenty years from now, you won’t have. – 11:55 PM GMT
@ftrain I like that you kept the designer’s working drawings close to hand. ascertaining intent is important for end users. – 11:58 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (GMT)

wow, I tore the hell out of my hands getting the moss off the roof yesterday. – 12:14 AM GMT
had planned on fish, might default to spaghetti, but what I want is snausages! – 12:21 AM GMT
@levarburton long, long ago, and in a neighborhood far away from Cal’s, there was a terrible TNG tribute dive bar called Ten Forward here. – 01:17 AM GMT
@DanEngler @manwhoyells impressive. can this disruptive methodology scale and monetize? Can we get funding for a Dan-driven incubator? – 07:04 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @DanEngler have plans with @arthurwyatt & spouse next weekend – 04:04 PM GMT
“@io9: Star Trek Into Darkness: The Spoiler FAQ on.io9.com/bv0l2QR” WOAH funny! mad as shit! but, as it says, spoilers, so hold off, OK? – 04:40 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Monday, May 20, 2013 (GMT)

@deathmtn oh me the fuck too times infinity – 12:41 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo becoming? dude, that beer was practically endorsed by the sex pistols before I was 11. – 12:43 AM GMT
@manwhoyells ha ha. maybe I should pipe the tweet digests into tumbrl – 12:44 AM GMT
@gjcharlet i only hope you were wearing the apron. – 12:46 AM GMT
@ElSaborAsiatico WHAT? – 12:47 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm @BitterOldPunk BOP be ribbin yez. – 12:50 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo yes, but not far. Tacoma or Portland. Expect to. – 12:51 AM GMT
RT: @attackerman: Jersey time. Custom made at Yankee Stadium. #GameofThrones #GoT pic.twitter.com/Lr05zeZnTp – 02:04 AM GMT
my fave joint in chitown. chicago.eater.com/archives/2012/… – 02:07 AM GMT
on iOS @levarburton wait wait WHAT where when why – 03:01 AM GMT
ha ha they didn’t kill kenny – 03:33 AM GMT
@gjcharlet i’m almost surprised there was no hoodie. Good job, Mad Men dicks! – 03:36 AM GMT
SCDP coffeemugs. Hell yes. – 03:51 AM GMT
Peggy is quoting Brian Wilson? – 03:54 AM GMT
@billbarol i’m with you on this, Bill. – 04:00 AM GMT
RT: @jasongrote: SO HAPPY THIS EXISTS RT @shakeymike: Also, here is the Ken Cosgrove GIF we all ordered with our minds and hearts. i.imgur.com/giOntby.gif” – 04:04 AM GMT
Grandma Ida what? – 04:14 AM GMT
wooden spoon POV? are you SERIOUS? – 04:19 AM GMT
CHVEY – 04:22 AM GMT
I have no idea what just happened there. Don did take responsibility for a fuckup there, so there’s that. – 04:25 AM GMT
RT: @hodgman: I don’t want mom to buy my tumblr. – 02:01 PM GMT
@ftrain Delany! I love that book! It’s the secret key to “Dhalgren”! – 03:44 PM GMT
@ftrain sure is. since Dhalgren’s in an unnamed southeastern city I gaped to see it grew from Gotham. great call on Mad Men counterpoint. – 10:15 PM GMT
RT: @gedeon: Unboxing the ‘My First Computer’ LEGO set that arrived today from @actionfigured. So much fun! instagram.com/p/Zis5P_kqfZ/ – 10:47 PM GMT
@mubay huzzah! – 11:00 PM GMT
RT: @BitterOldPunk: Ray Manzarek, who produced and played keyboards on X’s “Los Angeles,” has passed away.#howichoosetorememberhim – 11:01 PM GMT
woah. great job, Flickr. – 11:05 PM GMT
Two clicks to local TV news coverage of OK tornado on KFOR. I forgot we live in the future. – 11:40 PM GMT
@hell0jed git ’em – 11:43 PM GMT
Tornadoes, yeah, um. Always tough for me. Suzy was just completely phobic when we kids. Always attribute it to this: mike.whybark.com/archives/00008… – 11:47 PM GMT
@hell0jed fair enough. my main input to you on this stuff is go for it and ask for what you want. even if you’re unsure about what that is. – 11:49 PM GMT
somewhere I have a Rainbo photobooth strip of me and Viv from, what, twenty years ago? That can’t be right. But it’s close. – 11:52 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Sunday, May 19, 2013 (GMT)

@praguepainter the other amusing thing here is one of my early gigs here was designing logos for labor union locals – usually for patches. – 01:31 AM GMT
@praguepainter dig it: picasaweb.google.com/10152336274073… – 01:32 AM GMT
@praguepainter so I used to have to crank out four or five of these on spec a day. got fast. really, really fast. – 01:33 AM GMT
After a slow start, I got in a solid six hours of plant-related maintenance and destruction activity, with my customary light electrical. – 01:36 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt you know, we don’t have dinner plans – 01:53 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk unknown, but it is his shtick. where the unknown bit is important. – 02:04 AM GMT
OMG so sore! Cain’t rise fum mah chair with the fluidity of youth! – 02:27 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo nope, me too. also I like and fear the idea of KFC ortolan – 02:28 AM GMT
@manwhoyells yr scaring me – 05:12 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo oh hellz no. orchestral brass heavy minor key scores, no pop elements what-so-ever. maybe only organ music, noir was silent 1st – 05:15 AM GMT
“@BoringPostcards: Can I just say … “It’s A Shame About Ray” is the best pop song ever? Shut up. No, It is.” cc @johnpstrohm @Evan_Dando – 05:21 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo hm, well there’s an argument for contextual soundtracks. “Before Dark” first to do so successfully I recall, circa 1989 – 05:24 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo but even then they used The Cramps as Montana (?) roadhouse music circa 1989 which is clearly not in-world accurate – 05:25 AM GMT
RT: @slowdumbshow: @mwhybark this is timely. I’ve been listening to Lemonheads’ “Fan Club” release lately because it’s just stupidly happy and awesome. – 05:26 AM GMT
oops I mean fwd @johnpstrohm @Evan_Dando (prior RT) but uhhhh there’s no actual fwd huh – 05:27 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo exactly! that’s why no pop elements is a better choice, mostly. Like, legit pre-electric blues would be fine. Blind Blake. – 05:29 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo but ZZ Top or the Rev or Dexter Romweber? nope, only some specific places at some specific times. – 05:30 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo OTOH *some* specific electric blues might work. More or less any Howlin’ Wolf/Hubert Sumlin sides, for example. – 05:35 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo @arthurwyatt in PDX – 06:45 AM GMT
.@mubay oh, and on reflection, it seems possible the maneuver and damage system is licensed from Ace of Aces. – 07:14 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt there’s a wooden (no longer) tallship up on the coast near um Port Angeles iirc that is all overgrown and still recognizable – 12:50 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt i’ve casually looked for it in gmaps but never have, um surfaced it. – 12:52 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt this is different from the one I was thinking of but still neat: virtualglobetrotting.com/map/wooden-shi… – 01:19 PM GMT
@zipties I have several editions. These are oldest, (c) sez 1980, all copy is typewritten. Great game. Llew? who dat? pic.twitter.com/fYUFSdXJCp – 07:02 PM GMT
@zipties The other unnamed game I was referring to is the new Sid Maier iOS game, Ace Patrol. If you like one, you might like the other. – 07:04 PM GMT
@noahi neat! – 07:05 PM GMT
@JohnBlackWriter @arthurwyatt @arthurwyatt good lord, that Jonny Seven is INSANE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Se… – 07:16 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm Dolly! – 07:18 PM GMT

Lawrence Wells on Soundcloud

My old college chum Lawrence Wells and I have been goofing on each other on Twitter (I refer you to the inevitable Twitter digest, of course). He bruited a terrible metal band named “Midlife Crisis,” and I flung him a backpanel logo sketch promptly.


He then suggested a distributed band, and passed his Soundcloud URL along:

Lunar Lander.

I post it here so I can find it easily later. I don’t think we’re actually gonna do the collaboration but I do want to hear his music.

Tweet Digest for Saturday, May 18, 2013 (GMT)

hey @arthurwyatt go take notes on the Rob Ford thing. it is literally taking place in a megacity. – 04:08 AM GMT
RT: @jackwilliambell: My verdict: the 2nd new Trek is better than the first new Trek. A lot better. – 06:15 AM GMT
.@jackwilliambell interesting! you are the second tweet review that makes me look forward to it instead of fearing it. – 06:16 AM GMT
RT: @samuelpepys: A boy showed us the church where Van Trump lies. There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I saw. – 04:39 PM GMT
Sammy’s talking about Maarten Tromp’s grave. Check out his bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_T… // twice enslaved after capture by pirates. – 04:41 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough it’s where the Swedes finally put paid to Napoleon – 04:43 PM GMT
@poupou 🙁 – 04:54 PM GMT
@mubay it’s pretty good! I haven’t cared for any of the top-down real time drag-to-navigate sims. this is classic old-school hex gaming. – 05:14 PM GMT
@mubay makes me think, yet again, the old SJG stuff could be ported. OGRE! – 05:15 PM GMT
@praguepainter awesome – 05:16 PM GMT
RT: @praguepainter: motherlode of heavy metal iconography, battle jackets etc tshirtslayer.com – 05:16 PM GMT
@praguepainter yes! here’s a start. pic.twitter.com/Gv9Mryf3PN – 05:52 PM GMT
@praguepainter go man go – 05:53 PM GMT
@praguepainter fooo – 05:55 PM GMT
@praguepainter there is merit in this nonsense. been meaning to figure out the soundcloud thing for this use. world’s first twitter band. – 05:57 PM GMT
@praguepainter i hear that. I’ll check out the soundcloud thing. my ipad as painting device experiment is looking promising in some ways – 06:03 PM GMT
@praguepainter this is all iPad, the Japanese pitcher for the M’s I like. lotta photoreference, obviously. pic.twitter.com/g1obop4Rlq – 06:04 PM GMT
@praguepainter the small size of the surface is weird. resizing works ok. lack of physics between stylus & mark shape is WRONG – 06:06 PM GMT
@praguepainter but the thing is, I have it with me ALL THE TIME, it’s more accessible than a sketchpad even. no setup time. – 06:07 PM GMT
@praguepainter i should get my paintnin gear at least laid out so I see it on my way to, like, mow the lawn or whatever – 06:09 PM GMT
@praguepainter I think screens push one to an illustrative thing, the camera and photoref is just soooo handy. musing on how to beat that. – 06:11 PM GMT
@praguepainter I used to do these elaborate mechanical-pencil and graphpaper blueprints for imaginary things, like when I was 12 – 06:13 PM GMT
@praguepainter have always dug the rush i get from successful mimesis, though. i look at my charcoal stuff from 20 years ago and it’s crazy. – 06:16 PM GMT
@praguepainter insane, harsh marks, totally physical, like I smashed the charcoal into the paper without trying to control the mark – 06:17 PM GMT
@praguepainter but the marks add up to a representational image. Can’t get the markmaking on a screen, yet, I think. – 06:18 PM GMT
@praguepainter you know, it’s funny, I don’t recall seeing her drawings! we never had a studio class together. – 06:21 PM GMT
Viv just fired up Dr. Horrible. Damn, still so good. – 06:46 PM GMT
grr, bugs in Ace Patrol: lost the starter campaign when app failed to connect to App Store. – 07:30 PM GMT
Time to go install some exterior lighting. – 07:31 PM GMT
@praguepainter totally right after I saw your tweet. look at my reply timestamps, and you can time it, I bet. – 10:47 PM GMT
@praguepainter I’m kinda proud of the broken Yggdrasil. I feel subculturally literate. – 10:48 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Friday, May 17, 2013 (GMT)

RT: @daveexmachina: Just saw some Star Trek spoilers and I was RIGHT! Cumberbatch is Oberon, the Faerie King! – 12:40 AM GMT
RT: @Horse_ebooks: Unfortunately, times have changed for mariners – 12:43 AM GMT
RT: @sambosambo: Saw this at the mall and couldn’t help myself: pic.twitter.com/xSJyW5KDBo – 12:47 AM GMT
@manwhoyells lolololol – 01:38 AM GMT
@DanEngler hey! that was uttered in the very spirit of disputandum! – 05:30 AM GMT
Abrams tried to block TOS merch marketing, citing “brand confusion.” Villain revealed! cinemablend.com/new/Star-Trek-… – 06:05 AM GMT
on iOS Oh, man, that story is spun opposite of my read, and I can see the thought, but for real: go away, dude. Star Wars is much more your speed. – 06:07 AM GMT
@DanEngler but his job was to fix it, not fuck it up. Fan-produced recasts and alternate TOS riffs that inspired his shot are niche, sure. – 06:20 AM GMT
@DanEngler but shitting on that same basis of inspiration? IDIC, or alternately in this case, just DICK. No aspersions on cast & crew, fwiw. – 06:22 AM GMT
never bettered, never bested. pic.twitter.com/lus809PuBT – 06:25 AM GMT
@DanEngler correct, and precisely why I am upset. Star Trek will be rebranded as action bullshit forever, unless he leaves. – 06:33 AM GMT
.@DanEngler it should be noted I am not a particular fan of Trek movies. I more sort of endure them than enjoy them. – 06:34 AM GMT
.@DanEngler Enterprise planetary crashes being only the most recurrent among many things that make me groan and hide my face. – 06:37 AM GMT
@DanEngler I’ll bring the borg-rid trivid producers back home safe from the Delta Quadrant yet by mere strength of my vituperative rhetoric – 06:39 AM GMT
@DanEngler on the holodeck i mean – 06:39 AM GMT
.@DanEngler all worthy heritors. you neglect the book-men, notably Mr Banks and Mr Mieville (among the utopianists). – 06:43 AM GMT
.@DanEngler note that the film-falm men you cite are dystopianists, but ones I adore. Might be a Dredd sequel too, and that was a fine film. – 06:46 AM GMT
@DanEngler why are you sleeping with your twooter specs on? – 12:20 PM GMT
“It was Larry Page, naked, save for a pair of eyeglasses.” – wired.com/gadgetlab/2013… – 12:25 PM GMT
on iOS “If you look at the laws we have, they’re very old. A law can’t be right if it’s 50 years old.”…”Here, put on these glasses.” / guffaw – 12:28 PM GMT
Apparently, in my dream, @manwhoyells is a rogue counterterrorist operative. No, I have no idea. – 12:32 PM GMT
@ftrain it’s the good stuff – 01:10 PM GMT
hey .@mubay, check it out: itunes.apple.com/us/app/sid-mei…turn-based WWI aircombat, designed by Sid Meier, freemium. Dunno about HW reqs. – 04:26 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm it’s the Mariners taking-the-field theme this year: m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=fWeQ… – 04:42 PM GMT
RT: @gedeon: As someone who did not really enjoy JJ’s first Trek outing, I have to say Into Darkness was pure and simply ‘Awesome’. #OneHappyTrekker – 06:29 PM GMT
(Ged is pretty hardcore, that’s good news, I think) – 06:29 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Thursday, May 16, 2013 (GMT)

@anildash PEANUT BUTER JELLY TIMEonly in my dreams – 02:07 AM GMT
@mwhybark @anildash BUTTER i mean – 02:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt stay true to Blöödhäg and Stovokor! – 04:08 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt but they are so refreshingly optimistic and dramatic and hopeful and crushed! – 04:11 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt also young people today are much pudgier than I was at their age – 04:12 AM GMT
Have I told you about my arthritis meds? – 04:12 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt they would not last ONE DAY in the mean imaginary streets of Mega City One! – 04:13 AM GMT
@hidvorak @arthurwyatt he’s too young, see – 04:24 AM GMT
“He sounds like a man who has put aside a task”… “maybe being a funeral director—to make music”newyorker.com/online/blogs/c… – 04:30 AM GMT
yes. what this guy says. slate.com/articles/arts/… – 04:47 AM GMT
on iOS @arthurwyatt @hidvorak now for that I think you are a little on the wizened side, but my timeline of appropriateness is nebulous – 04:48 AM GMT
@jackwilliambell “an initiative to give all of Google’s products a more consistent look, so everything would be easier to use” ha ha ha – 03:34 PM GMT
RT: @saladinahmed: Original Star Trek becomes ‘Terrorists in space!’ Tolkien’s Hobbit becomes ‘Killing goblins = true courage!’ Notes from a sad, ugly culture. – 03:38 PM GMT
@jackwilliambell lower data density is certainly the handmaiden of needlessly inflated pageviews – 03:42 PM GMT
@jackwilliambell although the description of the UI was interesting in it echoing both Metro and Hypercard – 03:43 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt i know! all the glowing reviews from people… who like movies that I don’t 🙁 – 03:47 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt what’s funny about that is you *like* action movies – is it the turrist bandwagoning? – 03:58 PM GMT
Turns out Cumberbatch is really playing J.J. Abrams – 05:01 PM GMT
When Kirk realizes this, his face contorts in rage. “Unforgivable ending,” he mutters. “LOOOOOST!” he howls into the darkness. – 05:05 PM GMT
Mac OS X removed the full active window screencap option at some point. BOOOO! Solution? derailer.org/paparazzi/ // YAAAY! – 10:22 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (GMT)

RT: @phoebenorth: Excuse me while I have a nerdgasm. captainrobertapril.angelfire.com/Star_Trek_Writ… – 03:31 AM GMT
@sambosambo isn’t that a yellow Angry Bird? – 04:57 AM GMT
@telemetrist were you rockin’ out in the aluminum tube? – 04:58 AM GMT
@gjcharlet excellent basis for a country song though – 04:36 PM GMT
@telemetrist redirects to m.microsoft-careers.com on iOS 🙁 – 04:41 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (GMT)

RT: @manwhoyells: @mubay new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/503441005… – 12:14 AM GMT
@jebbanner we’ve all seen The Postman, man – 12:15 AM GMT
@paulconstant how can you tell if you’re a brolancer? When your listicles drop. – 12:17 AM GMT
@pedantrix you live nearer the west coast. soft gee – 12:18 AM GMT
@djfood @arthurwyatt Art, this looks beautiful. I mean, considering the body count. Tut tut. – 12:20 AM GMT
@sugarfreak there’s a man making a face in that store – 12:21 AM GMT
what just happened? was there a tornado? I seem to have got shit done. Which, I, well uh – 12:28 AM GMT
@paulconstant I should totally split that up into ten secret tips slideshow – 12:51 AM GMT
attn @telemetrist // critique worthy of examination, I think nytimes.com/2013/05/14/tec… – 12:56 AM GMT
on iOS memory of watching an enormous sea lion and offspring pacing a distance swimmer back and forth, back and forth at Richmond Beach last year – 06:12 AM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells i think we can blame caesar and the babylonians for date math. those fuckers. – 04:11 PM GMT
@mubay @manwhoyells i mean, sure, do your cow accounting by sealing seeds in little ceramic envelopes but BASE TWELVE? Come on! – 04:12 PM GMT
@gjcharlet oh man – 04:15 PM GMT
@baconmeteor i know, like how Carnegie suffered from philistinism, so he built libraries. – 11:13 PM GMT
RT: @praguepainter: Heavy Metal Forever, details of the #painting #rock #art #death lwells.tumblr.com/post/504349326… – 11:16 PM GMT
@jaubertmoniker @deathmtn reuse of the “hands as a knife” tomato smash bit from the ginsu ads – 11:18 PM GMT