Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 04:41 Priestly sexual abuse peaked during my Catholic school years. douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/the-pattern-of-priestly-sex-abuse/ #
• 10:32 Power is out. No idea when it will return. Wonder if this will become an increasingly common occurrence in 21st century. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 12:33 Why did the "hula-hula" become the hula? Why did "to-day" become today? Why did "Tokio" become Tokyo? #
• 14:32 Why is being Mayor of something on Foursquare so important? To me it all seems kind of sad. #
• 15:19 If you plan for it and it doesn't happen, you're a fool. If you don't plan and it does happen, you're to blame. #americanpostulates #
• 21:32 RENT THIS NOW!!!! RT: @ebertchicago: Nina Paley's "Sita Sings the Blues" is out of copyright hell and on Netflix. j.mp/bYMWO0 #

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• 12:42 I seem to have stumbled onto an interesting story. Interesting because of the _way_ people aren't talking; they're nervous and apologetic. #
• 13:59 Why do the strings on this song kick such awesome ass? Because they were arranged by a guy from ELO, that's why! ♫ blip.fm/~nrn2k #
• 17:15 "All The President's Men" in the bg as I work.Those guys had it too easy -- Gov't officials who returned phone calls? Spoke w/o PR "help"? #
• 19:20 A ZIESEN PESACH TO YOU AND YOURS! #
• 21:17 Marx Brothers Night on TCM. There will never be a time when these guys are not funny. #
• 23:55 Enjoy it while you can: we're too stupid to save the planet. nanophilosophy.org/humans-too-stupid-to-save-planet-says-loveloc #

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• 11:50 Why do Bond Villain's henchmen stick around for the big battle? Don't they realize they're not going to be paid once the island blows up? #
• 13:43 Eating raw toast. #
• 19:54 Speaking of Bond Villains, where does one recruit and staff a henchman army from, anyway? #
• 01:26 My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. #

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• 11:43 DAMN It is cold. My body had already moved into spring mode. #
• 18:14 Was that Colonial One on the ground in the first opening frames of last night's #caprica ? #

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• 10:17 Because everyone knows ugly women smell bad. www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/032210-New-Scent-Boasts-Vaginal-Aroma #
• 11:11 Pope Pius XII planned to resign if captured by Nazis. #pope #resign www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000534.shtml #
• 11:53 Serious question to #globalwarming #deniers: What do you get out of it? What motivates you? Why do you feel the way you do on this topic? #
• 12:03 Pygmalion, Faust, Leviathan, Oedipus: Four iconic stories, told in various cultures and times snipurl.com/v30ge #
• 13:39 It wasn't Jesus: it was the Soviet constitution that said "if you don't work you don't eat" bit.ly/dkHhFz #
• 14:19 I didn't use my #americanexpress credit card for a year. So #amex canceled it for me. How nice. #
• 14:31 South Korean ship sunk after naval battle with "unidentified vessel" near maritime border with North Korea. snipurl.com/v332w #
• 14:58 Beware of the Giant Asian Dust Cloud covering most of the United States! www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?scimsg_mims2002&lang=fr #

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• 12:08 You know that thing I was writing yesterday? Gone. Google Docs has Wednesday's version. Thanks, cloud. #
• 15:28 TV sound is off and I am watching a commercial for something called "Carbonite". For when you have to freeze someone who owes you money? #
• 15:49 Rep. Anthony Weiner's NY office. "Suspicious Substance | 80-02 Kew Gardens Rd Queens, NY | 3/25/2010 1:53 p.m." snipurl.com/v24kx #
• 20:41 Dinner at the fabulous Double Windsor in #windsorterrace with @cascio. #
• 21:22 Wall Street Journal says Frum resigned. blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/03/25/the-break-up-frum-quits-aei/ After he was kicked out. #

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• 09:57 Hitler Discovers Republicans Have No Ideas youtu.be/AQGBYY6HVMs #
• 18:23 Across America, Tea Partiers are lighting bags of dog shit on porches and then running. bit.ly/bLk6BQ #
• 18:35 George W shakes hands with poor man, wipes himself on Clinton's shirt. 0:47 snipurl.com/v1j8n #
• 00:40 "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov snipurl.com/v1ph5 #

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• 18:33 DAMN! Time Warner Cable in Brooklyn no longer has a Karaoke-on-Demand channel! #

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• 11:04 It's...INTERNATIONAL..talklikeShatnerDay! And... weALL..should.. joinin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePPTg1b1tg&feature=player_embedded #
• 12:36 Well enacted / Well rehearsed / Shakespeare's take on / Who's on First: youtu.be/BaGHVWKrcpQ #
• 01:52 The man who invented the drug that keeps my heart beating true has died. www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/23black.html #

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• 12:42 Installing Sun's Java environment on Debian system. #
• 13:50 Question about "Italian Seasoning": what do Italians taste like? #
• 20:27 There must be a reason politicians on both sides are unable to say "social" security", preferring instead the pathetic "sosecurity". #
• 22:52 i don't like all this emotion on the House floor. It's undignified. Makes me think of the Italian parliament. #hcr #
• 22:55 'It is up to THIS HOUSE to protect the children!" Until they're born; then their care is a privilege, not a right. #
• 22:56 Does anyone know how many abortions are paid for by health insurance money, anyway? #
• 00:02 Donald Trump acts the way poor people think they would act if they ever struck it rich. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 10:50 On the way to the greenmarket at Grand Army! #
• 20:17 If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. #

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• 15:05 The sidewalks are spring-like, but there's still wintry cold on the subway platforms. #thermalinertia #
• 18:53 Two sirens that sound remarkably like air raid sirens have just spun up here in Brooklyn. This may be my last tweet. #
• 19:32 Bats are the Rodent Air Force #
• 02:01 @1101111 #

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• 12:42 In the 2009 Dead Celebrity Income Comparison, Albert Einstein earned more ($10M) than Jimi Hendrix ($8M): vb.ly/25rb #
• 13:51 Doesn't everyone need some choropleth maps (i.e. cartograms) from time to time? www.mapresso.com/tool/index.html #
• 14:13 Businesses do two things: what we pay them to do and what we allow them to do in furtherance of step 1. It's futile to pretend otherwise. #
• 18:13 Wrote about company for article due tomorrow. Company just declared bankruptcy. Evening fun canceled as I search for another company. #
• 23:22 Anoth er Jon Stewart tour de force on tonight's #dailyshow #

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• 11:21 Does anyone have a press/media contact at Paramount Pictures #
• 13:49 Folks, "Paddy", with two Ds, is the diminutive of Patrick. Not "Patty" with two Ts. Signed, Patrick. #
• 14:12 The Kindle will not replace the mass market paperback until you can make a flip animation along the edge. #

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• 02:34 Just awoke from a nightmare in which my character had just had a nightmare. Scariest part: waking up and still being asleep. #
• 14:28 My email beginning with 'patrick' -- you know the one -- hasn't been working for a week. If you sent anything there, resend it please. #
• 14:45 Congratulations! RT @bxchen Hey guys -- I've been waiting for this day. It's official: I GOT MY BOOK DEAL! #
• 19:45 Paramount Pictures has decided that video of my grandmother dancing violates their copyright. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJ6S_dVr2g #

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• 12:19 If I had a touch more self-confidence and larceny in my heart, I would make a fantastic television evangelist. #
• 13:48 OK, now its your turn. Ask me anything you want at formspring.me/justpat #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 15:28 Your entire life you've been adjusting to Daylight Saving Time. Suddenly in the past few years everyone's become a big whiner about it. #
• 18:45 All of my computer time today (my standard mixture of work and play) has been spent in Ubuntu. Some interesting side effects have arisen. #
• 18:46 I deliberately did not bring my web bookmarks over to Ubuntu. If I wanted to go to a site, I had to think about it first, maybe google it. #
• 18:48 The Ubuntu experiment has made me think a great deal about where I visit on line and why I go there. And what happens when it's not free. #
• 18:52 My Ubuntu experiment happened accidentall y on Daylight Saving Day, but it leads to an interesting idea: 2x a year, erase your bookmarks. #
• 18:54 F'rinstance, if you have to type in "www.facebook.com" and your userid and password every time, will you visit it so obsessively? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:09 This is a day to make soup and work on programming while the 6 hour version of "Until The End Of The World" plays softly in the background. #
• 12:19 I hate the Russian bounty bear in "Until The End Of The World" SO FREAKING MUCH! #
• 14:52 the soup is thick and hot, the movie is now "From Russia With Love", and I am writing software to control my home media player via twitter. #
• 20:34 Watching 'Broadcast News'. In an alternate universe in which I went into TV news, I am Albert Brooks' Aaron Altman. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:40 Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearances: snipurl.com/usrpa #
• 11:56 Voo Lay Voo Coo Shay Ah Vek Mwa, Say Swah: The BBC offers online language courses - snipurl.com/usrys #
• 16:48 tweeting from within Ubuntu karmic koala, finally! now to install the compilers. help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingCompilers #
• 17:34 Just think: if SyFy hadn't rebranded itself, we never would have gotten the wonders of Dinoshark #
• 18:29 Configured the Ubuntu weather app to give wind speed as Beaufort scale ratings, because I can. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 14:07 Jon Voight's brother Chip wrote the songs "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning". #
• 00:48 Ubuntu won't use my 3945 wireless card. It sees the card. It lets the card scan the WiFi environment. But it won't connect to the network. #
• 01:00 Is there a way to compile Linux programs under Windows XP? I can't compile on my Linux box. #
• 01:42 OK, now its your turn. Ask me anything you want at formspring.me/justpat #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 20:51 Every time I see the headline "Massa groped workers" it's like I'm reading the Plantation News Network #
• 22:30 A rainbow in Maui snipurl.com/urj87 #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 09:38 From some alternate universe where high speed data arrived before high quality graphics: 8-Bit NYC snipurl.com/uq6se #
• 09:57 Taurons: the Sicilians of the Twelve Colonies #caprica #
• 11:09 I am a cognitive hermaphrodite!!!!!! I have an equally male and female brain! snipurl.com/uq9dz #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:54 I wonder how Woody Allen feels now that 'Annie Hall' is no longer the lowest grossing Best Picture winner? snipurl.com/upi9j #
• 15:07 "I know how you feel; if this gets out, I'll never be able to show my face at a Furry-Con again." snipurl.com/upo59 #
• 15:14 "Jack Griffin takes a variety of jobs to earn enough money to continue his research." snipurl.com/upo7y #
• 15:16 All right, the cream is obvious, but where does she keep the sugar? snipurl.com/upo8k #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 13:13 "There few more harrowing experiences than a sweep across the radio bands of the American South, especially on a Sunday morning," Arthur ... #
• 14:20 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first give television" - Arthur C Clarke, 1961 #
• 14:41 Intense guy on cell: "unfortunetely, I'm waiting for a haircut...Because there are other people ahead of me...I know, the fucking nerve!" #
• 20:38 Come to New York, where it's legal to choke someone! snipurl.com/up7f6 #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 10:53 What a beautiful day. It smells like the beginning of spring. #
• 14:11 You know that day in November when you walk outside and smell winter approaching? This is the day in March when you can smell spring! #
• 15:59 Brooklyn flea at One Hanson Place is like a very upbeat post-apocalyptic village. #
• 22:00 I used to think SteelyDan was singing "How about a kiss for your cousin the priest." #misheardlyricsthatimprovethesong #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 05:02 Who set up a one way FTP server? Me, that's who. I have no idea how I did it. #
• 11:09 "What's Inside Head & Shoulders* That Nukes Yeast, Zaps Static?" snipurl.com/ungs0 #
• 20:52 The FMC broadcast of "Patton" lacks subtitles when the Germans speak. How fortunate that I geekily have the movie memorized. #
• 21:29 Speculation: Sister Clairesse gets turned into an Avatar/Cylon, becomes the progenitor of the Threes. #
• 21:34 Bought a robotic mouse cat toy. Cats ignore it. Startles the hell out of me every time I see it. #
• 21:36 Speculation: Sister Clarisse gets turned into an avatar/Cylon, becomes the progenitor of the Threes. #caprica #
• 21:39 Well, now we know the Caprican slang for penis. #caprica #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 10:52 Kermit Tyler, Pearl Harbor's "Don't worry about it" officer, Dead at 96 snipurl.com/umthe #
• 19:57 Sometimes I'm ahead of the crowd. Sometimes not. Like just getting into Transmetropolitan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 01:56 The Westchester Amateur Astronomers no longer meets at the Hudson River Museum? What happened? #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 10:22 "There was a virus goin' round, Papa caught it and he died last spring. Now momma doesn't wanna seem to do much of anything." #showdonttell #
• 10:43 #whatiswrongwithpeople "Boyfriends "pleased" by unintended pregnancies?" snipurl.com/ulli2 #
• 15:19 Some of these chapters have been so eviscerated they literally do not make sense. #
• 15:32 twitpic.com/169877 - Kitten on couch #
• 15:32 twitpic.com/16989h - Kitten on couch #
• 16:40 Very few days can't be cheered up by Jaan Pehechaan Ho. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgoak2kP6A #
• 19:15 Have we yet built a conspiracy around the fact that the missing Cylon was named Daniel -- JUST LIKE DANIEL GRAYS TONE? #
• 19:17 What was the name of the arcade game that said "Enemy fighters approaching.France! Destroy all aircraft by X hours or MIRV will be launched" #
• 00:08 I am physically sick to my stomach with stress. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 02:50 Type O- blood is the universal donor, accepted by anyone. But, O- people can ONLY accept O- blood. So doesn't it have to be saved for them? #
• 11:01 Pat Kiernan is just a riot! yfrog.com/4apatcanadaj #
• 15:14 How old were you before you realized that the song "Afternoon Delight" was not exactly about watching skyrockets in flight? #
• 22:45 Brooklyn Time Warner cable users: type "104" into your remote and don't press select. Do you get a weird audio infomercial? #