@arthurwyatt starveling wretch – 10:29 PM GMT

@arthurwyatt you should d/l all the fake ones and play them instead until they catch on. – 04:33 AM GMT
@praguepainter good plan. – 08:42 AM GMT
@praguepainter appears to be historically correct! Last model I made was a cardstock P-51D, iirc. – 09:35 AM GMT
@praguepainter NO! A cardstock sparrowhawk, still unfinished, at least 15 years old. – 09:36 AM GMT
@praguepainter built version, same model, not mine: papermodelers.com/gallery/showph… // built a swallow from same company as a kid – 09:40 AM GMT
@iasshole hey now he’s got two, three hours to make good – 09:42 AM GMT
Well, an hourlong drive thru a snow commute to deliver emergency diabetic supplies is not quite how I thought this day would start – 04:54 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt made it to T-town, waiting around in the parking facility for the handoff – 05:00 PM GMT
@DanEngler have your mom try – 07:45 PM GMT
@manwhoyells @iasshole he was right on the money this time – 11:19 PM GMT

Please address the following issues in the iOS app:

1. Departing the app and performing other tasks in iOS often resets the scroll state of the currently-being-read article to the top of the article rather than presenting the scroll state to the reader w it was when the reader switched to another app.

This is infuriating.

2. Related, please add a bookmarking feature such that should scroll state be lost for whatever reason, the reader can at least set scroll state to the last bookmarked position. This would also allow a reader to rapidly switch between specific locations in multiple articles, as well.

3. Please enable arbitrary zooming of photos and illustrations. At least once an issue I attempt to do this. Just as is the case with the loss of scroll state, it is infuriating: it communicates a visceral sense of hatred of the reader, unintentionally, but unmistakably.

Disregarding fundamental operating system behavior at the app level is the issue here; it communicates that you, the app publisher, expect me, your customer, to alter the way I expect my device to respond to my input when I am using your app. It adds needless distraction and confusion to the experience of using your app, and in the end, if left unremedied, will drive me away from it altogether, and presumably therefore, away from the magazine in the end as well, since I simply do not even look at the print version any more.

I think we both would prefer to avoid that.

4. Please add a method for providing technical and usability feedback such as this within the app itself. In order to write this, I’ve had to switch out of the app, causing… a loss of scroll state.

I am confident you will addess these issues in a timely fashion. Thanks very much.

@alantutorial blue dog painter artist guy dead – 01:10 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt passes the sniff test. OTOH I about choked on my beignet when I heard the OS in the new Jonze film “Her” is named Samantha – 05:41 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt heard some early raves, and some of the plot deets sound hilarious – 06:28 PM GMT
RT: @mathowie: The song Jingle Rock Bell (it’s still got it!): music.metafilter.com/2881/Jingle-Ro… – 06:29 PM GMT
@hell0jed i know this seems crazy but you need to take the snow hysteria seriously, I was just in Mad Park and that hill gwine be fuct. – 08:38 PM GMT
@hell0jed don’t drive and plan on some issues getting in. – 08:39 PM GMT
@hell0jed once a decade or so we get a big one that shuts the grid down completely. this may not be it but it overlaps the commute perfectly – 08:43 PM GMT

@sumit it’s a piperoo! – 01:07 AM GMT
RT: @G5SikhMedia: Sikh, Muslim & Hindu pilots of #WW2 who flew Spitfires built in #Birmingham. #Unity pic.twitter.com/Kr8wptxMTM – 01:49 AM GMT
Long-lost 1984 Atlantic thinkpiece on Stantz / Venkman et al privatized detention of unwanted trespassers in NYC. theawl.com/2013/12/the-po… – 02:04 AM GMT
@anildash dear Anil: please drop “Here’s” and “Here’s a” and go with “Link: ” instead. If you don’t mind. It’s jarring to see them at once. – 02:07 AM GMT
@anildash sweet! @theoldreader just added tweet linktoss too and they are also refining the format. – 04:16 AM GMT
@manwhoyells @mubay both yes maybe – 04:18 AM GMT
@esinclai one has but to ask charlessilver.com/portraits.html – 04:36 AM GMT
@gjcharlet @manwhoyells GJ, my buddy manny in in NOLA. Send him off to do stuff. DMing you his cell # for texting purposes. – 10:51 PM GMT
@gjcharlet @manwhoyells if you can him arrested via text-based adventure instructions, we’ll call that a win all around. – 10:53 PM GMT
Revs. Tweaks. Ballistic and buoyancy adjustments. pic.twitter.com/5gaFt7h1lS – 11:40 PM GMT

@whybark and all the goddam techies taking over the place. What would Ginsburg say? – 02:09 AM GMT
@whybark (and you are KILLING me lately, so funny) – 02:09 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone Taylor Swift / Buffy? DO IT – 02:10 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk “now”? – 02:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo who among us can TRULY claim to have SEEN a Transformers movie? – 02:14 AM GMT
@ardaniel @arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo crew exempted, er included um grandfathered – 02:15 AM GMT
@deathmtn something jewelbox something – 02:26 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @deathmtn oh damn I gots it: “pentimenti”, from pentimento, meaning, roughly, sketches or tentative thoughts – 02:28 AM GMT
@joshmillard get on up putchyer hands up – 07:21 AM GMT
RT: @History_Pics: The Graf Zeppelin being repaired in mid-air en route to Rio De Janeiro, 1934 pic.twitter.com/JQwzursbJU – 05:34 PM GMT
The image I just RT’d came via @Ufog. It kicked off a bout of floatything surfsearching. The research results are pursuant. – 05:37 PM GMT
First, I was (and remain) a bit confused by the image. I had thought the topside of the Graf was biaxially symmetric, with interior ladders. – 05:38 PM GMT
The streamlined blisters in the photo are staggered, and vary in size. Why is there a line over the side? Did they climb up from a gondola? – 05:39 PM GMT
These@questions, sadly, remain unanswered. However, what does one want to answer them? How about modern, hi-rez blueprints! – 05:40 PM GMT
highriskadventures.com/airships/ // by David Fowler. Graf Zeppelin II and Hindenburg. Galleries with PDFs. GZ rev date 2010. – 05:44 PM GMT
Which is awesome and all. – 05:44 PM GMT
David notes he hopes to tackle the US ships too, but it’s been some time, so let’s not count on that anytime soon. The work as is is great. – 05:46 PM GMT
let’s look at that in-flight pic again now that you’ve carefully examined the topside disposition of the gas vents on David’s drawing. – 05:48 PM GMT
Here’s a post with better sourcing: simotron.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/rep… – 05:48 PM GMT
Alfred Eisenstadt! Woah! – 05:49 PM GMT
And the vents don’t look right. Oh! Of course. This is the Graf Zeppelin I, not II. So David’s plans are for a different ship. D’oh. – 05:50 PM GMT
Right. So what have we got on GZ I? How about a 1929 Popular Mechanics article concerning an inflight repair? – 05:51 PM GMT
blog.modernmechanix.com/crew-risked-li… “Crew Risked Lives to Repair Graf Zeppelin” – “the stabilizing fin on the left side had been ripped open” oh dear – 05:53 PM GMT
@esinclai WUT – 05:54 PM GMT
@esinclai amazing – 06:02 PM GMT
so here’s a side view and cutaway showing access via interior ladder for the LZ-127. airships.net/lz127-graf-zep… – 06:13 PM GMT
No top plan showing the vents and functions yet. Keep digging. – 06:13 PM GMT
More on LZ-127 from Airships.net (which I am delighted to see still active): airships.net/lz127-graf-zep… – 06:15 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/8Hxb5uQrCH – 06:33 PM GMT
Which originated here (better scans of the art, too): blog.modernmechanix.com/why-dont-we-bu… – 06:33 PM GMT
Russians too pic.twitter.com/TjRNXymjXr – 06:34 PM GMT
so all that led to this. gotta bake the bread. pic.twitter.com/OsnBwzlvWU – 09:31 PM GMT

@BitterOldPunk we’re all blocking out the visualization of a twenty-three baby midwinter pileup – 12:37 AM GMT
NPR has been eulogizing Peter O’Toole with an etymologically appropriate dick joke. I think that’s awesome. metafilter.com/134806/Last-of… – 01:19 AM GMT
Can’t link to the segment, darnit. – 01:21 AM GMT
so after our dog died i was motivated to complete an iPad-based Procreate-only painting, based on a pic of him. pic.twitter.com/i7KBkcNort – 01:26 AM GMT
it’s impossible to determine based on my twitter app UI (Tweetbot) but I think that’s the current and interim “final” state. – 01:28 AM GMT
Viv told me she wants that as a wall-hung artpiece for Xmas. So, with reservations concerning my painting quality, commitment, etc … – 01:30 AM GMT
I ordered a sealed giclee-on-canvas-on-stretcher. – 01:31 AM GMT
It is astonishing. I did not add a layer of digital-only impAsto shadows or anything, which means the image is entirely 1D with no elevation – 01:33 AM GMT
It is very, very persuasive. My marks are generally broad and intended to indicate planes. in order to achieve that on canvas I tend – 01:35 AM GMT
to use a loaded brush, the density of the pigment effacing my missteps. – 01:35 AM GMT
The stretched giclee has no depth or history to my marks, and as a result, the end object appears to be the work of a painter so supreme – 01:36 AM GMT
in confidence and accuracy of mark that the hand behind the image never used a loaded brush, but instead confidently applied the correction – 01:38 AM GMT
with no variance in brush load or uncertainty in stroke. astonishing, and truly, most astonishing to me, … – 01:39 AM GMT
… because I never know what the fuck I am doing. Not that I would have it any other way, but damn, that thing looks good. Better than it is. – 01:40 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt yes, and yes. Leg cancer, then amputation, then gut comeback. He was the best, and my good buddy, i think as noted: the best. – 01:41 AM GMT
RT: @EricIndiana: This is my best tweet ever – 01:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt yes, he was. – 02:10 AM GMT
@hell0jed you want hamrick.com – 07:34 AM GMT
@hell0jed it has a TERRIBLE ui but it is EXTREMELY full featured. – 05:20 PM GMT
@levarburton that’s WITH the visor, man 🙂 – 05:22 PM GMT

@linguinidimare dude it is BEAUTIFUL fish. freezing it overnight to be on the safe side but tomorrow, oh tomorrow NOM NOM – 12:01 AM GMT
@quonsar intensified past tense; Past, pasten. Fast, fasten. Tensed, tenseden. Was, wasnen. Mixed, mixeden. – 12:26 AM GMT
@quonsar youtu.be/9yL8LYXgwbU – 12:48 AM GMT
mmmm desmond dekker. maybe that’s my dinner cookin music tonight. – 12:52 AM GMT
@zipties nom – 01:35 AM GMT
RT: @johnpstrohm: Skulls instagram.com/p/h7UVMhoFse/ – 04:04 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm crucial – 04:04 AM GMT

@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