The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

June 2009

hope you have a great canada day tomorrow, @justinjas - maybe we’ll get a tweet out of you?

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“Hey man, you’ve got a boner!”
“That’s a perfectly normal reaction to the adrenaline of combat!”
“NO, I dont wanna fight no more with you!”

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i have 3 TB worth of drives sitting on my couch but i’m afraid to plug them in due to the potential for irrevocable data loss… FML

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Computer Science for life, and that’s my direction. Instead of b-balls, my homies throw exceptions…

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don’t know who to blame (ubuntu?): why when I copy something from firefox to the clipboard, if I close FF it clears the clipboard contents?

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good to know, @أمير

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Four Loko keeps pushing the envelope - now 12% alcohol by volume - leaving Joose in the dust

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day-old dunkin donuts coffee or ‘fresh’ freeze dried extract mixed with hot water?

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so yea, i wondered why there wasn’t a FB chat client and turns out there is a pidgin plugin ( http://idek.net/HIr ) - too bad it seg faults!

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WTF pidgin? FB FAIL:
facebook: message from 2714431 to 2723419
dns[19378]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait…!
Segmentation fault

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I wonder if Verizon is going to charge me for the text msg advertisement they sent me about buying a text msg bundle. my gut says yes…

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I KNOW I’m a million times as humble as thou art. Will you join me in the Amish paradise? http://idek.net/HCN

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rebootless kernel patching in ubuntu? yes, plz! seems to work on my laptop; want to add to my server if it proves stable http://idek.net/HBO

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@McGinity: you’re gonna be an awesome dad - keep it real.

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i love the various depictions of futuristic racquetball found throughout the star trek franchise - http://idek.net/H6g

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better order your salvia now before it becomes illegal Dec 1 - http://idek.net/H6X

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world kitchens old fashioned beef jerky: A++ WOULD BUY AGAIN!!

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$20 to anyone who can mow my back yard and survive. @grillmaestro ? @lucas_weber ?

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http://twitpic.com/8o5m2 - i haven’t vacuumed around remi’s cage in a few weeks…

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went on a nice ride w/neighbor before the sun really came out: Durham -> Chapel Hill -> Carrboro -> Hillsborough

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what happens in the holodeck, stays in the holodeck

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@seanmcnichol: yea my understanding was that it’s illegal to charge different prices for different payment methods. it SHOULD be…

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virgin making this year’s festival FREE was a dumb idea; just made the scalpers froth at the mouth. tickets gone in 60 sec, now $60 scalped

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city of durham no longer accepts echecks; only credit cards. why do they charge extra cc process fee for vehicle taxes but not water bills?

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annnnnnnnd just now the ‘smart’ cat has learned how to open cabinets. random cabinets opening and closing all over the house. <thump><thump>

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i forsee spammers latching onto twitter. feels like they’re now testing tools to bulk follow people: was just followed by 10 bots in 5 min.

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RT @rands - The reason nerds are bad at schedules is because once we’ve built it in our minds, we think we’re done.

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@haleyjo: i got my hands dirty working my way up to ‘barely pass inspection’ status. reaaaaaaaaaal dirty.

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bwa ha ha the camaro managed to pass inspection on the first try

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tired of reading PHP optimization articles suggesting double quoted strings over single quoted. string interpretation is not bottleneck

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now remember, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… except herpes; that shit will come back with you

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remi has good taste - his favorite toy by far is simply the racquetball i gave him as a pup

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just concluded the first official roast in which i’ve ever participated… never heard so many dirty jokes told by guys 2X to 3X my age

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i called it. freshman yr of high school, i had a bill accepted to NC mock House to req insurance for coastal properties http://idek.net/Ggj

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somehow, some way, a fly became trapped inside my helmet as i was driving down highway 98. distracting to say the least.

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@brontomatt - the williamson organic cuke was delicious. i hope to reciprocate with lopp’s steriod enhanced corn

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@goddamndave: You’re confusing Amish Fever with Reefer Madness. I failed to mention I was bitten by a transient Amishman a few weeks back.

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about 5 min into the horribly slow muder with the extremely inefficient weapon, i laughed. and again. and again. and again. and again…

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anybody resized multi-TB partitions on linux? i want to expand my 4.5 TB partition to 7.5 TB but I’m reading bad reports http://idek.net/GaR

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my latest foray into page load optimizationland: parallelization of static file downloads via distribution across multiple hosts

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hopping on the FAILwagon: @msofficeus abandons web standards, using Word to render HTML emails in Outlook 2010. http://fixoutlook.org

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@shannonholato: i’m sure if you change your twitter password, twitterscope will no longer be able to post to your account

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almost nobody supports the max RFC spec email address length; the avg address length in our database is only 21 chars http://idek.net/GTK

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@haleyjo: i have an OBDII scanner and can pull the code for you if you like; that’s how i fixed my camaro’s engine light problem

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i like the concept of this email service almost as much as hugeurl - http://idek.net/GTA

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it came out of nowhere! http://bit.ly/GLhZJ

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commander Riker has The Perfect Beardâ„¢

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Lakewood YMCA is closing in august for a YEAR of renovations… where the $&%@ am i going to play racquetball?

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apparently the half bro of eve carson’s murderer is now in jail for two murders himself, and he was jailed for refusing to testify about eve

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@covati: the only man-made beverages I consume are those with alcohol, coffee, and the occasional sweet tea

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I have no problem with Jesus / Mohammed / Xenu. Historically speaking, they sound like swell guys. It’s their fan clubs that I don’t like.

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time management FAIL http://idek.net/GLe - might as well ban spray paint to prevent people from huffing it?

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just got an email from an EPA employee; apparently they want to buy my excess java moss!

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quite interested to know how twitux, a nearly featureless twitter client, manages to use 450MB of RAM if I leave it running for a few weeks

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@michaelbrooks: shit. shit? SHIT!

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I can tell you why /
People die alone /
I can tell you why /
The shadow on the sun

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i don’t trust those single nozzle gas pumps. i bet they went for simplicity and thus when i buy premium i get a hose length of regular first

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i’ve got one for you, @michaelbrooks - would you rather be accosted by muddy paws or urine soaked paws?

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nota bene: i tweet in order to chronicle my life events and musings, not whoring for attention. negative nancies can GTFO

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to put things in perspective: i just calculated that my 350Z had 170 horsepower per ton (including rider) but the CBR has 459 HP / Ton

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alas, it seems the iBrick is no more… i have a hole in my pocket and it could have fallen out anywhere around durham.

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Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

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@seanmcnichol: planning on getting way over your head in debt, then going on a coked-out rampage before then committing suicide?

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just added 3 terabytes of storage to The Machine 2.0 for $200 - thanks, Dell!

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best way for an introverted geek to get dates? buy a motorcycle! http://idek.net/G7Q apparently machine guns are a turn-on as well…

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i was doing a buck ten on 40 and a trooper pulls out in front of me from an on-ramp… thankfully he was doing 90+ so i didn’t slow much…

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do not use twitter to join trending topics because you think “trending” == “trendy”. jackasses.

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has anyone made the comparison of these auto-twitter-follow apps to ‘list selling’ of twitter names? spammer tactics http://idek.net/FwW

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just sextupled my investment in the corn plot with a bottle of organic insecticidal soap. DIE japanese beetles, DIE!

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@seanmcnichol: i haven’t gotten it inspected yet, but i have been screwed over by both chevy & ford dealerships so far w/the camaro

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why can i no longer find the NC vehicle inspection checklist? if i don’t know the laws, i don’t know if the station is trying to screw me…

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and thus comes to a close this somewhat productive clusterfuck of a week

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getting pissed at ubuntu’s performance on my craptop; major WTF that system monitor task list CPU usage does NOT match the output of ‘top’

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it’s going to be a nice, quiet day because all the iphone fanboys are standing in line

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But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

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The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was.

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new side mirrors installed on the camaro. 14 upgrades remain - more parts coming in the mail.

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why no one takes PETA seriously; they send Obama a ‘humane fly catcher’ after he swats a fly, yet they kill thousands of animals per year…

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annnnd the twitter-facebook sync app is borked. According to their facebook app page, “Something is technically wrong.”

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this is for you, @knucklesandwich :

poke ‘er face 8===D~ (^o^)

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have gun & horseless horse, will travel

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the bad news: unknown animal is nibbling on the outer edges of the corn plot. the good news: ample supply of ladybugs.

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just got the complete original series of Batman - Adam West FTW

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Zardoz is trippy… who doesn’t love Sean Connery in a speedo and calf-high boots?

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I AM A WELL TRAVELED INTERNET EXPLORER. YOUR MIND WOULD SHATTER IF YOU SAW ONE THOUSANDTH OF THE THINGS I HAVE SEEN.

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I believe this twitter fad is another step toward a collective consciousness - imagine a not-so-distant future with twitter-like telepathy

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enjoying a nice cup of watered down quick frozen liquid coffee extract, with hazelnut creamer

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@ameir: sadly, Data’s foray into beardedness only lasted for those two quotes

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@ddahlke: rsync -r ~/Music/ jamesonsmachine:~/Music

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Data: “It is a beard, Geordi. A fine, full, dignified beard. One which commands respect and projects thoughtfulness and dignity.”

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officially the most boring sports commentators of alllllllllllll time: professional bike racing

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facebook msg from joose: “It is almost summer. You know what happens in summer, right? You drink DOUBLE the amount of Joose!” (hilarilame)

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@rands how do you feel about the fact that there is a wikipedia entry for rands, but not for michael lopp?

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betcha didn’t know that Teri Hatcher played Transporter Chief B. G. Robinson on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988

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things that would make my life easier: catchable PHP warnings, stack traces upon memory exhaustion, full text mysql indexes

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UPS shipment emails give me a chuckle: “You can track your shipment by visiting <link> on the Internet.”

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common logical fallacies, OR, why humans make dumb decisions: http://idek.net/FE8

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perfect re-creation of the half life atmosphere; i hate jerky camera movement though http://babel-research.eu…

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best training class evar - remi will now actually walk politely on a loose leash

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remi is becoming quite adept at plucking balls out of midair http://idek.net/F8p

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Ford service manager asserted that the mechanic would have reported seeing a cut spark plug wire. I guess they employ blind mechanics…

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converting my downstairs 40 gallon tank to a lake malawi cichlid environment since the cichlid tank upstairs is overpopulated

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*&#%^&@#$ - Can’t create more than max_prepared_stmt_count statements

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@goddamndave - i’m surprised you don’t follow @turdferguson (FYI there’s only one ‘s’)

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@sweetlydrifting: if you’re lucky then it’s just a loose bolt that secures the track to the door; disassembly might prove insightful

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@seanmcnichol: i have precise specs - my bet is that the pump charges you for gas that is between the nozzle and certain section of the hose

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readins dont never not done nothing for not NONEBODY! never not no one didnt about no reason not NEVER and BY GOD they never not aint gonna!

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i understand businesses treating people like idiots but what about us who are not ignorant? BP gas pump just sold 4.2 gal into my 4 gal tank

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@sweetlydrifting: lost count of how many times i disassembled the door on my 350Z to fix the window. is the problem the motor or the track?

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camaro is purring like a tiger, and hella fast now that the full power band is available. few dzn upgrades left to attain status of bitchin’

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thx to the genius who designed the cylinder 6 spark plug wire to be TOUCHING the exhaust manifold, I had to fashion an aluminum heat sleeve

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never been so greasy in my life, but F U ford & chevy dealerships; I fixed my engine misfire AND discovered you both witheld info from me

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couldn’t get ‘lopp’ as my FB username due to length, and couldn’t get ‘jameson’ even though it looks like nobody has registered it… whatev

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Corollary: A sufficiently advanced being is indistinguishable from God

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corn plot @ 6 wks http://idek.net/EmG - and YES, preston, miracle-gro says ‘for use on vegetables’ so i’m not poisoning myself

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Google is developing a 4 dimensional database - cue head explosion

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today is DTV transition day (about $&*@ing time) - I hope to pick up another dozen channels or so if antennaweb is accurate

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i’m seriously considering applying for the vanity plate SHTNCMRO

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is there such thing as a relational database that scales well past billions of rows per table?

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thanks for the extra days of PTO @bronto

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I haven’t received a bday present I actually wanted in years. This year I get to work all day & night for Fall Release. I ask only for JOOSE

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@seanmcnichol: you work out enough that you qualify for the ‘bicep encircling barb wire’ tattoo

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@seanmcnichol: I dropped $500 to fix the other problems when I bought the bike and didn’t want to shell out $200 more for a new tire O:-)

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wore the tread on my rear cycle tire all the way down to the cords; now it won’t hold air. FML

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@brandonwilkins: 88% on social media? BS. 22% of US residents are < age 10 or > age 70. i guarantee few of them are on social sites

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@tab126: you’d think by now we’d have the technology to have an accurate gas gauge in a motorcycle tank… reserve tanks are so outdated

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you can’t comprehend pure speed until the only thing separating you and a hundred miles per hour is a half inch roll of the wrist

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When Man plays God, who will God play? http://www.explosm.net/c…

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in reality, narwhals only have a single magical tusk http://www.flickr.com/ph…

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just when you think things are settling down, you discover your two largest fish have mated; welcome another hundred! http://idek.net/E7d

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completed the quiz “How much do you hate Facebook Quizzes?” with the result: More than Israel hates Palestine. GTFO my home feed.

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I’ll soon be the 10th most senior employee in terms of time served; can I be admitted to the inner sanctum, papa @colopy ?

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i love riding in dense fog; it makes me feel like i’m in a video game with fog of war (turok, anyone?)

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the final episode of star trek: enterprise is PURE %&#*$&n GENIUS

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Dr. Phlox on love: “This is one ailment that is universally untreatable… you’ll have to suffer through it.”

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♫ It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.
♪ I will see my dream come alive at last… I will touch the sky.

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utter defeat to @covati and his slip ‘n slide backfield kicks. $25 bar tab is better than nothing.

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advancing to the @bronto foosball champtionship game at 4:30 - $50 bar tab is on the line. watch out @covati & @slyons72

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go TN! I believe people who have been certified to carry a firearm should be able to take it anywhere if they’re sober http://idek.net/Djw

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rally racing is hardcore http://idek.net/Djp

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‘cause every Mother’s Day needs a mother’s night…

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Lieutenant Dangle demonstrates how easy it is to perform a wheelie on a motorcycle in this week’s Reno 911!

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who knew star trek: enterprise has some great guest appearances, including Seth MacFarlane and Daniel Dae Kim

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i’ve never had to troubleshoot a dishwasher before… IT support experience to the rescue!

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progressing to @bronto foosball semi-finals tomorrow with skip - watch out @grillmaestro

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B is for… meh

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A is for Apathy

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@sweetlydrifting you get to meet a lot of assholes when you’re on a motorcycle, and the stakes are much higher

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FB ramped up their addictiveness w/addition of IM, feeds, and apps. total # min spent on FB is up 700% http://idek.net/DQ9

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“the reality is that we’re too insecure to sell and too incompetant or lazy to create something of value” http://idek.net/DOR

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geez @dailytarheel - can you make those media sharing icons any bigger? this icon should be easier for visitors to find http://idek.net/DMC

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how long until the proliferation of SaaS pushes us to online OSes / thin clients? should M$ be afraid? eyeOS is already making it reality…

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if you respond to one of my craigslist ads IN ALL CAPS, you have lost the chance to buy my crap. i don’t need the $ that badly.

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epiphany regarding recent @facebook slowdown - school is out and all the kids are jumping on FB to take quizzes rather than getting a life

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Are you as sick of URL shortening services as I? FIGHT BACK with http://hugeurl.com

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If the temptation [to masturbate]seems overpowering… GET OUT OF BED AND GO INTO THE KITCHEN AND FIX YOURSELF A SNACK http://idek.net/D71

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murphey’s law #56532 - give the user a max length of 65,535 characters for a field and some of them will find a way to use it all - FML

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sweet; the producer of Terminator tv show agrees with me about the original John Connor not being fathered by Kyle Reese. See prev link.

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best analysis of terminator timelines (includes tv show) - recall in the show Derek Reese meets his GF from a diff line http://idek.net/D1G

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aqua teen hunger force season finale was hilarious - live action with T-Pain as Frylock! http://idek.net/C_q

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