Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 09:34 All those who chanted "Drill, baby drill", report immediately to the Gulf Coast for cleanup duty. #
• 12:58 Some communities compost and sell their sewage as agricultural fertilizer. Austin made a tidy sum every time you took a dump at SXSW. #
• 20:58 HELL YES! RT: @lemay: HELL YES RT @lmorchard: Max Headroom: The Complete Series, on DVD. Hell yes. amzn.to/bTAcuJ #

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• 18:35 #shatner / #esperanto fans: set your DVRs -- the movie Incubus will be shown on #TCM on Saturday morning at 2:15 AM. #

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• 09:47 Florida agency responsible for the licensing of firearms and carry permits? Department of Agriculture. bit.ly/9VfbFO #
• 10:25 Why I love my job: I just sent an email with the subject line "Media inquiry about cow manure" #
• 15:47 About to speak to a class of Columbia University journalism students. My advice: Marry for money. #
• 18:34 Either Danny Bonaduce or a post-suicide Vincent Van Gogh got on the subway at 14th st. #

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• 13:46 Did you have reason to contact the American Mulch and Soil Council today, as I did? I didn't think so. #
• 01:09 You NEED to help Patrick Farley kickstart his Electric Sheep Comix! bit.ly/9vNvpo #

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• 15:12 Well, that was kind of sucky. #
• 21:19 Person #1:"Snow, then 65 degrees on the same day? Weather doesn't even surprise me anymore." Person #2:"That's why global warming will win." #

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• 13:40 Rep. Duncan says since 9/11, 'more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.' bit.ly/a3WN5E #

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• 02:51 Sad to report that I can no longer hit the high notes in "Dead Puppies". #

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• 21:50 Best cold blooded cinemaic murder: HAL terminating the hybernating astronauts in 2001. #
• 22:24 Ever notice how the protagonist of each section of 2001 has something to eat just before seeing the monolith? #

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• 10:00 I'm having a mid-week crisis. #
• 22:52 Jane Wiedlin for real this time: twitpic.com/1hdr4i #

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• 12:16 Pronounced "Bjork" RT: @ejgertz: EY-ja fjat-lya yo-kut. Got it? #
• 17:01 I think I got too much sun. #
• 23:14 Do NOT miss tonight's (20 April 2010) Daily Show. #

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• 09:44 Spent the weekend prototyping an #iPad app! Haven't coded that much, that fast, in a while. #
• 10:35 Is he saying "Ba Ba", "Da Da", or "Ga Ga"? #illusion www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html #
• 17:10 twitpic.com/1gw7fy - I hate when my baat karo is limited #
• 21:20 Sitting in a quiet room, computer off, phone soon to be off, reading a real book. No one said you had to like it. #

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• 23:36 Bullshit. Spousal rape. RT: @cshirky: Bryan Caplan: "Women were freer in the 1800s..." bit.ly/ddCkzR #

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• 11:44 Does #processing 1.10 have a memory leak in #windowsxp? Still coding along regardless! #

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• 11:05 40 Years Ago, #Apollo13 returned to Earth. But things might have been very different: bit.ly/9dGyAu #
• 11:49 Croatian girl wakes from coma speaking German. Sometimes when I wake up I can't speak English. vb.ly/26u0 #
• 13:00 Rermember, a world of questions and answers await you at www.formspring.me/justpat #
• 13:59 Signing off. Will spend the next few days intensely coding like the old computer programmer I am. #
• 16:49 At the main library. All the C# and Java books are still on the shelves; all iPhone programm ing books are out on loan. #

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• 09:24 What should be our nation's Grand Challenges for the 21st century? The White House wants to hear from you: vb.ly/26so #
• 11:04 That #volcano erupting in #iceland? Its name is EYJAFJALLAJOKULL. For simplicity's sake we'll just call it "Bjork". #
• 13:22 Flying while disabled? United Airlines requires you to rely upon the kindness of strangers. evilpuppy.livejournal.com/365126.html #
• 13:24 SNL cast roundup: 4 are dead, 1 is in the senate, 2 are batshit insane. How does your graduating class compare? #
• 15:37 VASIMR, one of t he "new breakthrough technologies" that will get us into #deepspace: www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR #
• 16:15 Ringo says God is in his life. Certainly _someone_ has been looking out for him. bit.ly/dm44g4 #
• 16:49 Great news --the iPad ecosystem will be carefull weeded! Let a thousand flowers bloom elsewhere! gizmodo.com/5517890/ #
• 17:29 Maker Faire NYC Sept 25-26!! bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/the-robots-are-coming-to-new-york-for-maker-faire/ #

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• 18:54 Remember: lack of intention does not equal lack of blame. #
• 00:20 Disabled and flying? United Airlines tells you to rely on the kindness of strangers. evilpuppy.livejournal.com/365126.html #

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• 07:17 My childhood #LEGO were chunky, lowrez, 8-bit. Current LEGO are HD. I'm not entirely sure this is better. #
• 09:32 Why are the internet tubes all plugged today? We need more fiber. #
• 11:31 Vatican: Ok, maybe they _were_ more popular than Jesus. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/1943017.html #
• 15:32 TV commercial directors: you know that thing with the rectangular signs over people's heads, like augmented reality only suckier? Stop it. #

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• 15:14 Ventriloquist Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop's pal, wrote the ST:TOS episode "The Lights of Zetar" about ventriloquist aliens: bit.ly/cHsyEc #
• 18:46 Found a wallet in the street. Afraid to take it to a police station, for fear of a sting operation. bit.ly/cKtQDg #
• 18:47 I found the wallet owner's phone number; voice mailbox is full, can't leave a message. #
• 18:49 Called #311 to ask for advice about the wallet I found. They said take it to a police station. I asked about stings. They said not to worry. #
• 18:51 Took the wallet to local precinct, whic h I just discovered is not a precinct but an NYPD "task force". Whatever that is.Out of my hands now. #

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• 03:28 Can't sleep. This is getting annoying. #
• 03:45 I wonder how many of the troubles in our lives come from having standards? #
• 00:02 I want to thank everyone for all the birthday wishes! Normally I let the day go by unnoticed, but this year you all made it very special! #

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• 23:35 Watching The Richard Pryor Show marathon. Funny but weird sketch comedy.Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhardt, Edie McClurg got their start here. #

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• 10:15 I'm so vain, I think every song is about me. #
• 14:43 Glass is analogous to dry ice for the Horta. #
• 14:50 "Evangelical scholar"-- that's the problem right there. @stevesilberman: Evangelical scholar fired, endorsed evolution bit.ly/dCaoV2 #
• 19:11 The photographer in the Philadelphia Story is the prettiest one in the movie. #
• 19:24 I have a feeling The Philadelphia Story is loaded with subtext that I'm just not getting. #

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• 12:22 Found some hacker tools. Now I want to spend the day cracking. #
• 14:52 WOOOOOOOO! The Buenos Aires Metropolis at Film Forum May 7-20!!!!!!!!! www.filmforum.org/films/metropolis.html #

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• 15:12 2007 tax refund arrived! Four dollars fifty one cents! I'm buying! #
• 15:25 Blew half my refund on a bottle of soda and a bag of pistachio nuts. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta! #
• 17:03 My double major in college!!! RT:@wired: Columbia J-School offering a new dual degree in computer science & journalism: bit.ly/bQcvH5 #
• 17:03 When in St. Louis, visit the Vatican Microfilm Archive: libraries.slu.edu/special/vfl/visit.html #

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• 13:30 The rest just weren't listening RT: @patkiernan: WSJ: 10m US adults w/ADHD, but only about a 1/4 know it. pape.rs/adultADHD #
• 15:18 Costa Rica = Kentucky's population, North Dakota's GDP, and has a land area halfway between Maryland and West Virginia. #
• 20:31 Reading "Reporting at Wit's End", a collection of St. Clair McKelway's pieces for the New Yorker. In book form. bit.ly/aWVbPh #
• 00:50 "I don't mind choppin' wood / And I don't care if the money's no good" -- is Virgil Caine talking about low wages or Confederate dollars? #

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• 12:01 Why are so many tweets of the form "my way is the ONLY way to think about this topic"? I find it ridiculous and tedious. (see what I did?) #
• 14:30 Serious Q to free culture fans: when others sell your stuff, how do you stop yourself from saying "why should they get rich from my work" ? #
• 16:58 RT: @justpat: Serious Q to #freeculture fans: when others sell yr stuff do you stop yrself from saying Why should they get rich frm my wrk? #

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• 10:57 Off to Easter. #
• 23:13 I feel stupid and contagious. #
• 23:15 Solar panel outputs 19 volts, then 9 volts, then 19 volts, then 9 volts, caused by the blinking LED display. Steady 2.1 amps, though. #

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• 11:00 Just told my favorite knitter about cellular automata. I could see the synapses fire and the fingers twitch. What beast have I set free? #
• 20:52 Charleton Heston's lines in "The Ten Commandments" were written by fortune cookie scribes. True story. #
• 21:22 To be sure, an app for the iPod Touch should work on the iPhone and the iPad, right? #

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• 10:29 Sooner or later the great New Media Expert bubble is going to pop when marketers realize the 'experts' are just talking out of their ass. #
• 11:41 twitpic.com/1cmy7z - Found in Key Food parking lot #
• 12:01 Damn, it feels bad to be a poacher! www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100324075248469C323709 #
• 12:18 Birds outside the window singing"Check me out! I'm so hot!" to other birds. #
• 16:14 It's GODZILLA!!! RT: @BreakingNews: S. Korean Coast Guard loses contact with boat searching for missing sailors from sunken warship - Yonhap #
• 17:10 Jesus told the mob, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Can you even imagine that admonition dispersing a crowd nowadays? #
• 17:36 Watching Jesus die, 1927 silent movie style. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbo91LFWWyo&feature=related #
• 22:09 I plug the Arduino into the USB port, the computer goes absolutely insane. I wish I knew what program it was running. #
• 00:05 Sanity is not statistical. #
• 00:21 How about this: if you want an iPad, get an iPad. If you don't want an iPad, don't get an iPad. Either way, shut the hell up, both of you. #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 06:41 Which one of you came over in the middle of the night and used my computer? All the open files are different. Confess! #
• 06:48 You never went to Catholic school? RT: @msignorile:Pope-named bishop accused of "ritual beating" w/ carpet beater. WTF? bit.ly/cXxua6 #
• 10:43 Cross file under "Why the F*** Do You Even Have A Kid": notalwaysright.com/santa-baby/4850 #
• 13:30 Happy Toshiro Mifune's Birthday www.mifuneproductions.co.jp/mifune.html #
• 16:40 Ewaste recycling event, april 10, 2010, 10 - 4, Tekserve, 119 W 23 St. #
• 17:17 That's me! RT: @wired: It'll clean your teeth–and so much more. @justpat explores what's inside Freshburst Listerine: bit.ly/bqTK77 #
• 17:34 On twitter, _every_ day is April Fool's Day. #
• 22:38 Scandalous Victorian sex survey that had to be kept hidden: women actually enjoy sex! vb.ly/266n #
• 01:00 A bouncy, positive love song that reminds you "You're so lucky I'm around"... ♫ blip.fm/~nz3dj #