Tweet Digest for Saturday, August 30, 2014 (GMT)

@ftrain Suburban Seattle. I mean obviously. – 12:53 AM GMT
@DanEngler @manwhoyells I’ll sign up just to be the point of delivery to Dan – 12:57 AM GMT
@DanEngler upset? – 12:58 AM GMT
it is possible bachelor dinnertime has arrived – 12:59 AM GMT
@pjern @gjcharlet well – 01:50 AM GMT
@jonwurster isn’t that how we determine gender lately? – 01:51 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn ice cream – 01:51 AM GMT
RT: @KagroX: OMFG #tansuit pic.twitter.com/OjKAiDfFs7 – 01:53 AM GMT
goddammit my interwebz acquaintance with a private twitter just twitted this “The pumpkin spice must flow” and you must all RT it now hear? – 01:55 AM GMT
@mubay because you are a T-Rex? – 03:08 AM GMT
@mubay perhaps you need to look into voluntary reconstructive surgery. wait, no, don’t do that. @neiltyson just got back to me. the answer i – 03:16 AM GMT
@mubay s “play that funky music”possibly with reference to a stringed instrument – 03:17 AM GMT
@surlygourmand most of us were not permitted to view wire recordings of señor wences – 03:19 AM GMT
@noahi RT’d – 04:46 AM GMT
RT: @noahi: . @mwhybark metacynth.deviantart.com/art/The-Pumpki… – 04:46 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt you got off work at 9:30 on your last day? – 04:52 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt then the ops team comes in and strips the place of mouse related goods, shhh honey – 05:14 AM GMT
RT: @dorkly: Amazon Customer Service Rep and Random Guy Pretend They’re Thor and Odin – Link: ow.ly/ARXCX pic.twitter.com/cMO1FwZorn – 05:15 AM GMT
For more than a year now I have been playing this silly Trek-licensed game on my iPad, Trexels. – 07:12 AM GMT
With one exception it’s the most game time I have ever put into a pixelgame. – 07:12 AM GMT
it’s structured to drive monetization by pay-to-save-time. fuck that, I want it as slow as possible. Game play is strictly breaktime casual. – 07:14 AM GMT
That means the interactions are highly ritualized, low stress, and not hard to resolve. Perfect for bedtime. – 07:15 AM GMT
As a result, the game, set in a low-rez riff on TOS Trekspace – the Trexelian Expanse – is bleeding into my book-read sleepytime memories. – 07:16 AM GMT
So when I remember reading this Paolo Bacigalupi or that Charlie Stross or Alastair Reynolds or China Mieville or colonial history book – 07:19 AM GMT
my mind’s mise-en-scene: filled with blocky little caricatures of near-Kirk and not-Spock, like Lego avatars of the Laundry crew or whatnot – 07:22 AM GMT
I believe I approve. Retroactive hallucination, dreamtime into readtime. – 07:23 AM GMT
@ezrakilty an old MMO flightsim called Dawn of Aces. Around 2001, I think. Might still exist, I guess. – 04:11 PM GMT
@ezrakilty quite plausible! – 04:19 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Friday, August 29, 2014 (GMT)

@arthurwyatt I believe that is slated for just after the raging tropical epidemic hits either EU or US. – 12:03 AM GMT
@AdamBertocci sure, like, hanging out on the lot with Alf – 12:04 AM GMT
@zipties LOL. Not sure I would have noticed it if I hadn’t seen those sales number stories. – 02:01 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone in more ways than one. The museum’s original displays included exhibits moved from Flushing Meadows, iirc. No longer viewable. – 04:27 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone roadsideamerica.com/tip/13013 // used to be in a room with crazy, trip-inducing tilted floors designed like the inside of a cabin – 04:30 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone so it seemed like you were in a cabin held by paul bunyan as he tilted it this way and that – 04:31 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone an exhibit sponsored by weyerhauser. INDUSTRIAL MYTHOCUBOFUTURBRUTALIST ARCHITECTULPTURE. Sorry Granny broke her ankle. – 04:33 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone and the sliced humans, moldering away in their formaldehyde. – 04:33 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone exactly. last time I was there I found the last of the World’s Fair pieces behind a screen up on the second floor. – 04:35 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone I mean, an actual artifact of that rhetorical style and practice. hidden. – 04:35 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone nothing to see here nope – 04:37 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone just some gears sorted by size and manufacturer with EXCELLENT typography – 04:37 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone history if you are interested in a read amazon.com/Inventive-Geni… – 04:40 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone of course the building itself was made for the Exposition that Chris Ware uses as backdrop to some Corrigan stuff – 04:41 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone google.com/search?q=jimmy… – 04:42 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone (building on right) hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/upl… – 04:44 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone why else do you think they keep the Zephyr down there? – 04:44 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone railpictures.net/images/d1/8/7/… – 04:45 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone Remember that thing where you could apply to live in the museum for a year? oh man – 04:46 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone without question. – 04:55 AM GMT
@NickHanauer great to hear you on Tavis today – 06:21 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Thursday, August 28, 2014 (GMT)

.@jebbanner @Uber i love that this is a surprise. IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME. cc @anildash – 03:46 PM GMT
@whybark at least you figured out how robe works – 03:47 PM GMT
@whybark have you looked for youtube tutorial? – 05:42 PM GMT
@iasshole for godsake – 05:44 PM GMT
@mallelis @LeavittAlone did you deliberately channel Fry and Law or is that just in my head? – 05:49 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone @mallelis deliberate ambiguity! – 05:51 PM GMT
Amazon package arrived today with Fire phone promo packing tape. It felt kinda like getting panhandled. By someone much wealthier than you. – 11:54 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone U-BOAT – 11:55 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone That place was the Best Place Ever for many years. The circus dioramas used to be in this gallery where you had to … – 11:57 PM GMT
@LeavittAlone …look at them thru tiny slots, in dark cabinets, with careful theatrical lighting. Now, giant boxes with fluorescent lights. – 11:58 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Wednesday, August 27, 2014 (GMT)

@johnmoe like how did that guy go on to invent warp drive – 04:06 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt he says it’s good!i mean come ON, Scott – 05:23 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt so proud of what he accomplished with Prometheus, has to bring same contemporary standard to Deckard’s Return – 05:27 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt Weyland-Tyrell Corporation, first mentioned in association with Prometheus. Not joking. – 05:33 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt Inspector Fong now a star admiral – 05:33 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt all this cinematic legacy will be lost like tears in rain – 05:35 PM GMT
@middleclasstool yesterday as i posted a twitter essay on @mwhybark2 i was flipping b/t laptop, ipad, and iphone to find best client – 11:56 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Tuesday, August 26, 2014 (GMT)

Don’t forget about bad grandpa! – 12:08 AM GMT
DO NOT FORGET – 12:08 AM GMT
they seek him here, they seek him there – 07:51 AM GMT
Here’s an interesting thing about all that Coke bottle name stuff: i don’t think i have had a Coke in about three years – 08:07 AM GMT
so the campaign has reminded me that I am not part of their consumption base. which is fine with me, i think. maybe. – 08:08 AM GMT
@lorenacupcake @LeavittAlone should this fail to happen literally dozens of pixel friends will have sads – 04:24 PM GMT
@sugarfreak I KNOW RIGHT – 11:07 PM GMT
RT: @waxylinks: Pixel-Drifter: software for making glitch art from images, breaking things on purpose   bit.ly/1zA1PCE – 11:08 PM GMT
attn @praguepainter see prior rt – 11:09 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Sunday, August 24, 2014 (GMT)

RT: @lorenacupcake: cash the check and don’t read the comments – 02:20 AM GMT
@elizarde possibly the first time the word kookum ever used in the state – 02:29 AM GMT
@brandonblatcher good one, raising thsi over dinner with the wife – 02:30 AM GMT
@elizarde @BitterOldPunk cansplaining gets a pass – 02:31 AM GMT
it is the very pith of summer in the PNW tonight dear friends – 02:32 AM GMT
RT: @ftrain: If you are like me and listen to weird things to fall asleep might I suggest baseball games from the 1930s archive.org/details/OtrBas… – 04:02 AM GMT
@gjcharlet GJ, in a way, he is there. You already know this. He’s telling you you can do this, and so am I. – 04:44 AM GMT
hunh, “ybarek,” roughly a homophone of my last name, is Arabic for “bless,” I guess. Googlefish thinks it’s written thus: يبارك – 07:12 AM GMT
RT: @mangopowergirl: Enterprise to Space Needle: are you my mamma? @StarTrek on giant screen under the stars @SeattleCenter #startrek LLAP pic.twitter.com/AuKT7YVDWK – 03:56 PM GMT
RT: @mubay: Fremont outdoor movies pic.twitter.com/M1MyijBTbD – 03:56 PM GMT
@sumit lol. easy there big fella. – 04:10 PM GMT
@sumit i found it endearing. for some reason Twitter is well suited to them, I find. Burstlets that summon agitated pacing, handwaving. – 04:14 PM GMT
@whybark Dirty old river must you keep rolling flowing into the night – 05:43 PM GMT
RT: @DanEngler: We are all randering. – 06:38 PM GMT
RT: @AntonioFrench: Subject of iconic photo speaks of anger, excitement stltoday.com/news/local/cri… pic.twitter.com/UKXGfb0gjd – 11:27 PM GMT
Prior retweet is worth a read. When tear gas canisters drop next to you, you get rid of them. How can I not identify. – 11:29 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Saturday, August 23, 2014 (GMT)

@telemetrist gotcha. Looks like Dan in on Wednesday. – 06:55 AM GMT
RT: @DanEngler: Via a confluence of luck and magic (and the sweat of mwhybark’s brow), I get to see the Bears play the… instagram.com/p/sBe_ORATlU/ – 07:02 AM GMT
interesting reflection on Seattle policing and Ferguson: medium.com/@GuarneroRicar… – 06:28 PM GMT
@telemetrist dang it! OK. Hope to see you Monday. – 06:29 PM GMT
.@blakebabies OK, I’m in. Looking forward to what ensues. – 06:34 PM GMT
@mighty_flynn they have a slightly newer variation with frogfoot sox too. I got the frog model when there, though. aquasox.milbstore.com/store_contents… – 06:41 PM GMT
@mighty_flynn and OH YEAH my buddy was wearing his birmingham biscuits tee and there was a man wearing a biscuits cap in the shop too. – 06:42 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Friday, August 22, 2014 (GMT)

The late afternoon sun today is finally sweet warm skin candy instead of an oppressive blistering terrist – 12:10 AM GMT
@joshmillard hey hey HEY people pee in them things! – 12:11 AM GMT
@gjcharlet . – 11:08 AM GMT
@imontheradio didn’t you do a story on some terrible trolls or something once? is it them? – 03:55 PM GMT
@telemetrist this reminds me i have tix for monday and wednesday. pick one? – 03:56 PM GMT
@ftrain WE GOT IT – 09:25 PM GMT