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• 11:51 snipurl.com/ukchd #
• 12:43 I promise you this is not true RT: @Mo_throttle: Listenin tuh dem new chunes with @ULTRAKNOCK @D00Di @justpat it's a reggae night in SD #
• 15:03 At the pork bun meetup. Mulberry n Bayard #
• 15:45 First pork bun was too sweet. Second pork bun wasnt pork. Awaiting third pork bun. #nycfoodcrawl #
• 15:58 Awaiting the third bun. #nycfoodcrawl #
• 16:15 Serious pork bun shortage in nyc chinatown. #nycfoodcrawl #
• 16:34 At vegetarian place, sitting down inside. #nycfoodcrawl #
• 21:50 Half-watching "The 39 Steps" on PBS. It feels like a low tech episode of Dr. Who. #
• 22:42 The worst thing about badly written popular entertainment is that people adopt its speech patterns and dialogue in real life. #
• 22:51 Watch "Bullitt". Watch "Serpico". Both movies contain ER scenes without any yelling. Nowadays such a quiet ER scene would be impossible. #
• 23:34 Stop using the construction "A has B; C, not so much". it is lazy writing. #lazywriting #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:57 CNN anchor re Chile - "It's a miracle more buildings weren't flattened." No dummy. It was design and engineering. #CNNStupidity #
• 12:05 Ric Sanchez: "Haiti is on the Pacific Ring of Fire" WTF????? No, really, WTF????? #CNNIDIOCY #
• 12:45 CNN - Chile, tsunami; MSNBC - Chile, tsunami; FOXNEWS - health care debate #
• 12:50 I think the people on CNN are saying *anything* just to let sound come out of their mouths. #
• 13:19 Hawaiian beach/resort webcams down or overloaded. Can't get a picture. #
• 13:58 Wild MS-DOS quality tsunami movies, modeling effect of 1960 Chile quake tsunami on Hawaii. bit.ly/amBeAU #
• 14:00 It was FoxNews RT: @ejgertz: Gobsmacking condescention of cable newscasters: "This is not Haiti. #Chile knows how to prepare for #quakes." #
• 14:49 Report that the tugboats are leaving Honolulu harbor. #
• 14:54 Dave Schuster, stop saying "and whatnot". #MSNBC #
• 14:59 Harold and Kumar livestream the evacuation from Honolulu: www.ustream.tv/channel/ineenz-istreams #
• 18:25 Six hours later: CNN - Chile, tsunami; MSNBC - Chile, tsunami; FOXNEWS - health care debate #
• 19:44 Post apocalyptic movie, tv, book, comic book, and anime list snipurl.com/ujz6y #
• 20:35 Deal with clients? Feel free to play along! snipurl.com/uk01a #
• 22:59 Is there anything in the Olympic rules preventing a same-sex couple from skating? #

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• 04:35 Double glazed windows yay: practically no heat leaks out! Double glazed windows boo: outer glass is coated with a sheet of ice! #
• 07:14 Is it still snowing? I can't tell -- the windows are coated with snow and ice. #
• 07:32 New York Traffic Cameras. At 7:32 AM, most roads are still snow covered, even in Manhattan. nyctmc.org/ #
• 10:35 IN this day and age, it's probably cooler to say I have a zero-tolerance policy toward lactose. #
• 14:11 I think I've spent far too much time on nuclear war. #
• 15:33 I am fully prepa red to cut the galaxy in half. #EditingTheScienceOfBSG #
• 00:20 Reading the book _From Here To Eternity_. I had no idea it was so long. #

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• 08:32 Awakened by a robotic phone call from UPS. So surprised and somnolent I missed the tracking number. #
• 16:10 My new phone arrived. We're not serious, just taking it slow, getting to know each other first. #
• 16:55 Test tweet sent from new phone. #
• 17:28 I am proud to be on the same planet as @jopearl; www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/10yearsafter/ #

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• 02:58 Editing the final version of the book manuscript, and killing my darlings along the way. #
• 10:59 Bluejay outside the window. #
• 13:56 They said the same about GenX at that age. RT: @NewsHour: The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. bit.ly/9P5lDw #
• 13:58 next season on Fox! RT: @thomasroche: authorities say supermodel leads an int'l drug gang--of supermodels. tinyurl.com/y8n2clz #
• 14:38 Sanctuary fades, congregation splits / Nightly military raids, the congregation splits ... #
• 14:41 Oh, where have we heard this before? RT: @NewsHour: "Will this be the generation that ends the red/blue divide?" - @woodrufj #millennials #
• 20:09 Is there a way that I can temporarily hide Gmail messages that have a specific label? #
• 21:35 Go ahead, you know you want it: bit.ly/byXYxF #

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• 00:23 Murdering my darlings. Computer dripping with lexical blood. Where was this sentence before it was born? Where will it be once deleted? #

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• 15:24 Can we refuse to go through as a religious right? "Pope Benedict XVI criticised use of airport body scanners," snipurl.com/ugwc2 #
• 20:13 Acknowledging. #
• 23:46 What is your vote for the worst backronym? Aside from Cybernetic Lifeform Node for Cylon, that is. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:32 "The louder the [cell phone] voice, the duller the conversation." - Randy Cohen, The Ethicist snipurl.com/ugew9 #
• 13:20 But he's still a terrorist. RT: @flyosity: Obama caught more Taliban leaders in 1 month than Bush did in 6 years. idek.net/14dn #
• 13:30 What is the word for a comment that irretrievably changes a relationship (e.g. "You're not Timmy's father")? #
• 14:30 Songs about nuclear war from the 1980s. snipurl.com/uggwk #
• 19:33 I'm back. Didn't even know I was away, did you? #
• 19:46 To answer my own question: "biga peula" is the utterance of an unspoken truth so devastating that things won't be the same afterward. #
• 23:24 I just noticed that the three-arrowed Recycling Symbol is a Mobius strip. bit.ly/aaBCGa #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:36 "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. " - Edward R. Murrow #
• 18:07 Romeovoid's lyric "I might like you better if we slept together" #simultaneousinsultandcomeon #

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• 15:27 There's a container of yellow ice in the freezer. it is either chicken broth or urine. I don't know why it would be urine. #
• 00:38 We all have to do this now. Get out your old photo albums! www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/ #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:55 The 60s pop song "I Only Want to Be With You" should more properly be "I Want To Be With Only You". #
• 16:34 In the song "Strawberry Letter 23", the singer has just received Strawberry (scented) Letter 22 and is already anticipating the next one. #
• 20:01 The guy has a point. The animated menu is the most egregious, since it has absolutely no purpose. i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg #
• 20:43 Listening to Hooked on Classics. Can it really be 29 years old? #
• 21:05 The crappy netbook speakers distort the songs in my Super Sounds of the Seventies mix just enough that they all sound like alternate takes. #
• 23:46 Has anyone thought to choreograph a skating routine that deliberately consists of falling down every so often? You'd never lose points! #
• 23:55 Another great Olympic skating idea: use Philip Glass music, and choreograph the same skating moves over and over and over and over and over. #
• 00:29 DVR correctly stopped recording at midnight. Right in the middle of Plushenko's routine. Entire recording lost. #
• 00:48 Enjoy the Tourette-like spoutings of Thomas J. Zaleski of Sedona, AZ, right-wing (at least, non-left wing) candidate: @ZALESKI4CONGRES #

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• 12:45 I'll pay in advance. Afterwards. clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/post/393404819/payment-options #
• 14:08 On this day in 1958, Pope Pius XII named St. Claire of Assisi the patron saint of television. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_of_Assisi #
• 17:08 Watching June 1984 Soul Train on TV. Audience is evenly divided into Prince frills, Jacko uniforms, and everybody's jheri-curls. #
• 20:50 Watching 'District 9' . I can't count the number of ways this movie is brilliant. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:34 No one should be forced to schlep out in the rain to look at toys. Looking at toys should be sunny. Just saying. #
• 08:58 "The longer I work in law enforcement, the more seriously I consider a career in crime." tinyurl.com/ybuzle6 #
• 09:19 "But I thought you were a FREElancer!" - client astounded at the idea of paying to have work done. tinyurl.com/ykngomr #
• 11:20 F Train not running. Trudging back home over the ice floes, with the hounds on my trail... #
• 11:52 "'Free' is an enormous amount of work done by someone el se." - Chris Lee, tinyurl.com/ylj8sm2 #
• 01:04 Is anyone else having Google voice problems? Google voice has been calling me all night. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:42 Remember the days when you called your 13in laptop your "small computer"? #
• 08:52 SpinMaster Toys wouldn't let me into their booth at Toy Fair. I don't remember writing anything particularly scathing about them. #
• 10:02 What is it about Playmobil that makes me deeply content? #toyfair #
• 10:21 Chatroulette ended for me the second time I saw the naked guy with the transparent inflatable doll. #
• 14:45 Toy Fair is packed with young inventors from Australia. Come on, American toy inventors, get with it! #
• 20:45 90% of Canadians live betwee n their border and ours? No, really? And the rest just float? #STFU,NBCOlympicsCommentators #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 14:08 Most of the "new and exclusive" toys at Toy Fair are copies of things I saw in the pages of Make or Instructables over the past few years! #
• 20:50 #NBCOlympics -- Can you PLEASE give us a second audio program with just the sounds from the event without the commentators? Please? Begging! #
• 20:53 #NBCOlympics - We understand you paid the commentators a lot of money to comment. But give us the option not to hear them. SAP, please! #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 21:13 NBC, wtf is with these brown tweed jackets and bright blue shirts? I've already lived through the 70s once, thank you. #
• 21:23 And yes, this new version of We Are The World sucks auto-tune's balls. That is all. #

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• 10:31 Restores Metropolis streams live today! 2:15PM ET, 11:15 AM PT #
• 10:32 Restored Metropolis streams live today! 2:15PM ET, 11:15AM PT tinyurl.com/yf6rjf6 #
• 11:18 I'm not getting any work done, as this is turning into streamhacking Friday. tinyurl.com/yf6rjf6 #
• 12:59 Call me streamhacker! I am recording streaming internet video to my hard drive, and will do so this afternoon for certain European streams! #
• 13:43 DAMN!! The french stream won't play fullscreen and the german stream won't play in the US!!!! I'll take what I can get. #
• 13:45 whew! the french stream just went fullscreen. no sound, though #
• 14:53 Well, this is a pretty big let-down. liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:09 Metropolis crowd is thinning out. liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:28 teeny tiny metropolis is hurting my eyes liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:30 Oh, that's a good idea -- move the camera even further back, Dieter, vb.ly/metropolis #
• 15:44 Watching a few freezing Germans watch Metropolis in the snow. Crowd down to almost nothing now. vb.ly/metropolis #
• 15:58 I hoped maybe a European proxy server might have access to the "real" Metropolis feed, but no such luck. #
• 16:12 Berliners are proud of their cultural heritage, but not when it comes to standing still for three hours at -1C vb.ly/metropolis #
• 17:19 And it is over. From what I could see on the tiny screen, I didn't notice any huge chunks of new footage. They must be spread out. #
• 20:04 Bob Costas is the new Dick Clark: he hasn't aged a day in 20 years. #
• 22:26 In this vast celebration of Canadianness, where is Shatner? #
• 22:46 Is THIS the source of that great Canadian musical, "Fiddler on the Canoe"? #
• 22:50 Canadian Catholic Schoolgirls with fiddles. Be still my heart. #
• 22:53 This whole show is Canada's way of saying "We're good enough, we're smart enough, and doggone it, people like us!" #
• 23:00 Spending th e evening going "Wow, i didn't know s/he was Canadian." #
• 23:27 You'd hope when Rogge uses a French phrase, he'll pronounce it right. #
• 23:38 The only possible way they can end this is with Shatner. #
• 23:45 Olympia has the worst national anthem in the world. #
• 23:46 Julie Payette is my imaginary Canadian astronaut girlfriend #
• 23:47 who brought a baby to the opening ceremonies????????????????? #
• 23:54 the torches look like joints #
• 23:59 vamp the music vamp! #
• 00:01 no shatner. boooo. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:15 I wish I had a Tauntaun. #
• 10:09 twitpic.com/12lg0h - Echo base on the ice planet of Hoth #
• 12:38 I love: using a small spoon to eat a big bowl of soup so it lasts longer. I hate: when the spoons slips and sinks to the bottom of the bowl. #
• 14:11 You mean its not "look for the purple banana till they put us in a truss" ?? #
• 15:05 twitpic.com/12mzxi - #
• 21:51 My porn moustache www.flickr.com/phot os/20976676@N00/4349648066/ #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 03:40 There's a lot of Shakespeare on youtube. One of the best: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935 w/ James Cagney. tinyurl.com/ydvp2nq #
• 10:30 lstening to BBC shakespeare and krautrock to block out the deafening sound of snow #
• 16:55 Walked to PPW in the blowing wet snow, got some Dub Pies, back home through the park, dodging sledders. All very Cherry-Girard-ish. VideoTK. #
• 23:38 You'd think that The Daily Show writers would ping The Colbert Report writers with an outline of the show, so they don't duplicate jokes. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 04:05 Hitchcock movies restored to DVR. I am the world's most fortunate fool. #
• 13:56 Remember how FDIC coverage was raised from $100K to $250K? That's not permanent -- it goes back to $100K in 2014: tinyurl.com/yz978sv #
• 14:59 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Building a Protein youtu.be/tAjVjw7VOCU?a #
• 00:11 When people say "That's X minutes of my life I'll never get back" I always wonder what they would have done with those minutes? Cure cancer? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 13:34 Such a beautiful, clear, sunny day! The sky above the park is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. #
• 21:39 StephenFry to SalvArmy worker, also a bellydancer: "In my world, respectable citizens who become exotic women at night are usually men." #
• 01:19 Accidentally deleted all Hitchcock movies from DVR. Undelete utility finds files deleted in August, but the Hitchcocks? Not a trace. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:29 NYC seems to have been spared the worst of the snow by an airmass from the north. Thanks, Canadian high pressure cavalry! #nosnowpocalypse #
• 12:59 Magnificent Seven on TCM. Its a shame they tried to disguise Brynner and Bucholtz's accents: the Old West was full of foreigners. #
• 13:38 Magnificent Seven on TCM: I imagine Aaron Copeland is listening to the score and shouting "Enough already!" #
• 16:53 Job loss chart 12-07 to 01-10 tinyurl.com/yhb3dq2 #
• 20:32 Movies <1971 = old. Movies >1975 = modern. Movies 1972-74 = indeterminate. I wonder if that's a funct ion of my age. #
• 20:50 Bullitt on TCM - astounding how polite all the tough-guy cops are in this movie. Big contrast to today's rude, yelling tv&movie cops. #
• 20:52 Bullitt on TCM: ER scene of cardiac arrest; no yelling, no "CODE BLUE!!", no "DEFIB! CLEAR!"; just a bunch of professionals quietly working. #
• 21:38 Bullitt on TCM: a 1967 fax machine with an acoustic modem! But at 300BPS, it would take a lot longer than we see to transmit a page. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 03:40 RT: @BreakingNews: Australian banker David Kiely, caught on live television viewing racy images of a model, to keep job – Reuters #
• 12:28 Does anyone under the age of 25 articulate their words anymore? Or is the goal to produce one smooth stream of sound? #crankyoldman #
• 12:29 As if she will EVER admit to having fucked up. RT: @racheline_m: Carly Fiorina delusional about #demonsheep tinyurl.com/y8wkffe #
• 17:01 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is on TCM. Totally stolen from early Madonna videos. #
• 17:33 All my get-up-and-go has got up and went. #
• 19:57 Third batch of bouillabaisse bubbling on the stove. Maybe this will be the charm. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:41 San Francisco friends, see it on a big screen!!! RT: @ninapaley: Sita in San Francisco Feb. 9-11 at the Red Vic Movie House! #
• 11:45 Back when Woody let himself be funny. RT: @brendankoerner: Better than any movie he's made since "Husbands and Wives": bit.ly/13tW8n #
• 14:02 If I weren't ineligible, I'd be GONE. RT: @nxthompson: wanted: four people go on the run for month. 10K if not found. bit.ly/ccVoai #
• 20:24 Clerk: "You can anticipate delivery on the 9th." Me: "OK, but when can I expect it?" #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 02:46 I hate snow more and more lately. #
• 04:15 On Feb. 5, the Fireworks Ensemble will perform Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music at the Miller Theater, live. WTF? snipurl.com/u9dp9 #
• 05:34 have not yet been to sleep. #
• 14:22 When 'Roids Collide! geology.about.com/b/2010/02/02/asteroids-caught-crashing.htm #
• 16:40 This podcasting stuff is *hard*. I'm not finding the right tone. I need a bright, funny, engaging co-host to exchange witty repartee. #
• 21:12 Did you notice how O'Reilly / Fox edited his interview with Jon Stewart without acknowledging it or leaving cues for the audience? Me too. #
• 22:21 I wonder what Ruth Buzzi is doi ng right now? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 12:03 I uploaded a YouTube video -- How The Seasons Work youtu.be/ayOP0acWUXA?a #
• 12:25 Another animation, made when I worked at the Andrus Planetarium: 1997, how the seasons work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayOP0acWUXA #
• 00:48 With Salinger dead, who is the new supreme recluse? Bill Watterson? T. Malick? Pynchon? Sly Stone is performing again, so he's out. #