I just did a web search for the exact phrases “severe awesomeness watch” and “severe awesomeness warning.” In each case, google did not have a match for the quoted phrase.
I hearby claim those are my catch phrases! Until I come up with something else new and lame.
Even though I use Twitter, I can appreciate mocking it.
With a tip of a hat to jwz, in response to reading Dr. Horrible’s twitter feed, Dave said
Some people, when they are having site availability problems, think, ‘I know, I’ll put up status on twitter!’ Now they have two site availability problems.
And one should not forgot Skottie Young’s post from yesterday on twitter.
While I was in AZ for work last week I once again got to stop by the Draco Vista studios. This time it was for a recording of Wingin’ It 3D. I had met Mike and Lorrie before, who are awesome people, but I also got to meet the awesomeness of Debbie, Eliza, Chris Kris, Scott Thomas, and Doug. Thanks to all of them for their hospitality.
One of the things I’ve always thought when listening to many of the Farpoint shows has been “I could hang out with these people.” What was nice about hanging out for WI3d was the realization that I was right. These are my kind of people. If I lived in the Phoenix area, I could see myself stopping by quiet often. (If they would have me, of course.)
It was a great time for me, hopefully the feeling was mutual. There was great beer (some of which I brought,) great food, and great people. I highly recommend it.
The show should be up today and tomorrow, I’ll link them when I have time.
[Update 4:14PM: Voicemail Show]
[Update 5/1 12PM: First, Regular Show #36. I realize I should have titled this post "Wingin' It, they be bringing it." But also, it was pointed out in the comments by Brian that I forgot to mention him and Tim and teh aw esome they bring as well. Not sure how the hell I did that. I blame alcohol. Also, I said Scott above when I meant Thomas and horked Kris's name, those were just plain super-dumbness.]
You know, I shouldn’t be shocked by this anymore, but I still am. I love the niche markets that some spammers go after.
Subject: I know what ladies do on a farm. DO NOT leave them there unattended!
Do not leave your spouse on a farm unattended. She may replace you with animals and you will be way out of the competition for the rest of your relationship. I learned it the hard way
After a bunch of complaints and the fact that the blog was like 80% twitter updates, I have ended the tyranny of twitter updates. If you want to follow my twitter feed its in the sidebar or just check it out directly.
Now to know if I should have twitter updated about posts here…but those are less frequent and less annoying.
I first played with Twitter back in August when I was at a Conference and they kept saying “it was the thing to do.” The official conference Twitter feed never got updated and it just seemed like the latest fad of the “social internet.” I just let my twitter account pretty much die.
A week or so ago, Dave started watching my dormant Twitter feed. I thought I’d take another look at Twitter based on the theory that if Dave sees value, there must be some. In talking to Dave last week at lunch, it looks like that is the way a lot of the smaller Mac software guys communicate. I’m not sure what I’d use it for, but I’ll play with it again.
I have to say that it is somewhat addicting to just drop a one liner about what is going on our what went through my head. Twitter also makes it very easy to do so since you can drop a tweet via SMS, IM, or the web. I have at least two of those accessible to me at all times.
The last thing I thought I’d play with is integrating Twitter with the blog. Luckily, the twitter tools wodpress plugin by Alex King make it a snap. So now, every day I drop a tweet, you’ll see a daily digest. We’ll see how this works and/or if I ever say anything of value.
(This has inspired me to take a look at integrating my del.icio.us tags as a daily digest post instead of integrating it to the RSS stream via FeedBurner as I do now. Dan Wooley has posted a ruby script he wrote to do it, so I might rip that off.)
Today two guys from FeedBurner come to visit another team at work. I asked if I could sit in to get some idea of what FeedBurner can do. Right now I don’t really get any stats out of my blog that Technorati or awstats can give me, and those aren’t that useful. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any insight on my blog this way.
The cool part is that this took almost no time to setup. Registering at FeedBurner and pointing it towards my blog took about 2 minutes, and there is a feedburner plugin for WordPress that automatically redirects the RSS feeds (with a 307, so I can switch back at any time.) All in all, pretty painless.
I thought I’d document which Firefox and Thunderbird extensions I’m using. This is as much for me to remember should I have some disk failure or something as it is to generate discussion.
Firefox extensions
Thunderbird extensions
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new
Now I just need to find a thunderbird extension that does arbitrary headers that are updated on sending. And mutt could be removed from my life. So sad.
God bless the Internet and/or Wikipedia. They have a very detailed article on the shocker.
Thanks to Linky for writing this post which inspired me to do a web search for my followup comment.
One final thought:
14:14 <SmooveB> I want to know in what universe this is an encyclopedia article
[ Update:
14:24 <spruance> haha roe's talking about the shocker too
14:24 <Ark> holy crap, Richard Roeper wrote an article yesterday about
14:24 <spruance> the shocker has jumped the shark
14:24 <Ark> spruance: haha, yes!
Also, Richard Roeper had an article about this yesterday]