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

January 2011

a day in the life of a motorcycle rider (watch the traffic lights) http://www.youtube.com/w…

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@ameir I retract the last sentence. Tweet was better without it.

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@ameir I think you confused touch screens with women. And me with you. And something something your wife / mother / sister.

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pet peeve: touch screens and key pads that can’t accept input at Jameson speed

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@emilepetrone ubuntu 10.10, firefox 3.6.13

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@emilepetrone gotta give you props - I’ve never had this happen http://i.imgur.com/8aW87…

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@ddahlke you’re 4 days behind on your redditing

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Egypt to Al Jazeera: “We’re shutting you off” Al Jazeera to Egypt: “Fuck it, we’ll do it live” http://t.co/f4oi31e via @reuters

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@hoorayimhelping I’m not drunk, I’m self medicated

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tried gargling, sinus douching, chloroseptic spray, cough drops, mucinex, and sudafed but the only cure for the cold was http://goo.gl/stkgP

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@hoorayimhelping OMG ME TOO BRO! CAN’T WAIT 2 COMPARE HAIRCUTS MONDAE!

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biggest. tax. refund. ever. damn, it feels good to file as ‘single’ again.

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sign here to tell those fuckwits in Congress to let PATRIOT Act expire: http://t.co/llMKbSc

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Youths in Cairo have formed a human chain to protect the national museum from looters during the riots. #doingitright

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dhh LinkedIn is 8 yrs old, has taken $100M+ in VC, lost $4M on $120M in revs in ’09, made just $1.8M on $161M in revs in ’10. Would you invest?!

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@ameir I’m a little rusty on my squigglylinese - how do you pronounce خط بارليف?

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concealed carry discussions can result in some very interesting hypothetical scenarios http://goo.gl/mnghn

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Fun fact: Alan Hale Jr (the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island) played a fry cook in an episode of Batman. His character’s name… was Gilligan.

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the excitement of watching my netflix shares jump by $28 today was quashed when I remembered I only own 4 of them.

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@hoorayimhelping it really grinds my gears when people do retarded shit like that

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“Let’s go for a walk!” “Fuck that, let’s go for A RIDE!” http://i.imgur.com/Vp98i…

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the original Batgirl theme song wasn’t quite the came caliber as the Batman theme http://www.youtube.com/w…

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@hoorayimhelping I actually thought, when we were picking out targets, that they’d make a killing on zombie targets http://goo.gl/Ousjp

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people who live in glass houses shouldn’t play out their sordid sexual fantasies behind closed doors

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@hoorayimhelping I’m not addicted, I just prefer my pee to have the rich aroma of espresso

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reason #323 to carry a handgun: there are people out there who would beat or even kill you for honking your horn at them http://goo.gl/TWR33

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@emilepetrone shading adds the perception of depth. depth makes it easier to forget that you’re just staring at a 2D screen. UX FTW.

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life’s a game: interplay wordplay with gunplay to outplay splayed dismay but downplay swordplay foreplay in case it’s replayed as screenplay

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invest in yourself; stop being a fucking pussy. http://inoveryourhead.ne…

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They need to hurry up and make Forrest Gump 2: Gump Harder. It will feature Forrest Gump Junior who ends up averting the 2012 apocalypse.

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not ironic, just retarded: market value of my house drops 20k, insurance company says i need to raise my coverage by 20k.

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counted 99 problems; they’re all bitches.

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Sometimes I wonder if it’s overkill to have this many mags full of hollowpoints. Then I remember what happened at Raccoon City. #beprepared

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Bucky’s firing range trip idea worked out great - during our wait for a lane I met the owner of the BMW motorcycle dealership in Raleigh :-)

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@mark_a_phelps There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Jameson Lopp.

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my idea of professionality is refraining from connecting my twitter feed to my linkedin profile

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currently watching an extremely underrated movie http://www.imdb.com/titl…

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@hoorayimhelping which is cold relative to the temperature of my mouth. BAM!

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Ignorant coworkers blew the electrical circuit in the kitchen by using too many appliances; have to eat my soup cold. #firstworldproblems

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RT @TheThryll: The only reason any country should reasonably have a military is for potential alien attack.

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@pmccall777 that reminds me: Justified is my new favorite TV show http://goo.gl/quGEt

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an added bonus to killing a criminal is that their accomplices get charged with murder. the more you know… http://wkrg.com/1203926

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Max Brooks puts a great twist on the zombie apocalypse genre by writing a short story from the viewpoint of vampires http://shar.es/XNyj4

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life is a party; don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re “fashionably late”

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angrydeveloper 5.25” floppy -> 3.5” floppy -> zip drive -> external -> usb drive -> usb flash drive -> HOLOGRAPHIC FUCKING STAR TRECK CRYSTAL

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Your body is a temple; fill it with virgins.

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@mark_a_phelps man up and write it yourself

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Certain Exes of mine used to say one of my weaknesses was apologies. Jackasses obviously didn’t know that admitting mistakes is a weakness.

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@hoorayimhelping maybe we should add that to the ‘company perks’ on our job descriptions.

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I’m really enjoying Swype - I’ve already trained it to spell all the important curse words and even a new one I learned today: “emogothfuck”

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your body is a temple. you should burn ‘incense’ in it as much as possible.

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@mark_a_phelps @hoorayimhelping it really grinds my gears when someone ends a sentence with a preposition.

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@mark_a_phelps would you say it grinds your gears when people express the grinding of their gears?

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this swype thing almost offsets the naive idea that a QWERTY keyboard layout works for thumb typing

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@emilepetrone you should direct him to the nearest lemon party

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Re: APIs. If you’re syncing your entire database with a remote service daily, you’re doing it wrong.

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overheard in unicorn land… @mikestable: “”I was going to try to swallow it inside, but that just led to more questions”

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it’s important to note that the proper pronunciation of PHP is “fap”

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Replaced the gas fill neck on the Tundra. Thanks Toyota for placing all nuts / bolts / clamps in the most inconvenient orientations possible

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they wouldn’t have gotten the respect if they called themselves “the n-words with attitude”

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Hello world from my shiny new Droid X

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the U.S. patent system is so fucked up that someone has successfully patented a stick http://goo.gl/0h50B

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be good or be good at it

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@jefft @ddahlke or he might not have yet even disclosed the actual ingredient; the mole is just how MUCH of it he’s using

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@jefft @ddahlke nah i think he’s just found a creative way to get rid of some garden pests

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sometimes I wish I were less paranoid, but there are people who would kill me for my wallet. should I not carry a diamond encrusted wallet?

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@flyosity “Apple’s weakness is its control-freak nature and insistence that there is only one way to make a smartphone.” http://goo.gl/XClcS

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played some multiplayer goldeneye on wii. got pwned, but at least I didn’t have to endure being called a fag by 10 year olds the whole time.

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@jbeardsley the trip will be mostly national parks and monuments, thus it’s good to know I can bring along ol’ Betsy

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@flyosity @hoorayimhelping all I’m saying is that the logical progression was gen_url => url_for => url_three

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@hoorayimhelping don’t get me started about gen_url => url_for => url_five

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I never use my work email to register for stuff, yet I get spam for webinars / professional BS. Here’s a “fuck you” to LinkedIn data miners.

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rundlesreposts You are what you eat, so I only eat beautiful food. For example, I love cheesy poofs, but the usability is terrible, so I won’t eat them.

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This makes planning my cross country trip just a little bit easier! http://t.co/uX0FmYl

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@emilepetrone fuck paypal. google checkout?

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T-Mobile takes a huge step back from the future of mobile Internet use: http://bit.ly/fYSkBw

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@mikestable lawl that makes more sense. i thought you had a talking dog for a minute.

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@jefft sports statistics hold no meaning for me

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NC Democrat Congressman Heath Shuler vows to use his concealed carry license when in his home state http://goo.gl/29JEn

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rundlesreposts It’s snowing in Durham! I love how simple and beautiful snow is. It’s like sub-pixel anti-aliasing.

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HA! via @pmccall777 - “I before E except after C except for 66% percent of the words with C” http://goo.gl/m3vhU

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history should be learned, not repeated http://i.imgur.com/6v7tR…

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@pmccall777 I before E except after C, and sometimes S, and sometimes any other letter.

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tonight’s snack: perky jerky (www.perkyjerky.com) via @abbydactyl followed by a four loko chaser

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Leaked: US government strategy to prevent leaks http://t.co/0ucyimy

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Apparently I should quit Reddit for 4chan. http://encyclopediadrama…

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just discovered a reason not to ride in freezing temperatures - throttle sticking in the open position

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1st draft of cross country motorcycle route complete. If I’m coming your way & you want me to visit, shoot me a message! http://goo.gl/o9uy4

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alas, @verizonwireless would have earned my business today if they allowed customers to use their data-only plan with android phones

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@TuckerMax I thought you were an asshole, not a pussy

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time to lighten the mood after today’s flamewars, so here’s a fat naked jew on shrooms firing two .357’s in the desert http://goo.gl/q3Eer

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@ameir so… it sounds like the dev DID force apple to reconsider DRM, and it didn’t take them long to decide.

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@ameir what are you talking about? Everything I’ve read says that APPLE was the one to remove the VLC app http://goo.gl/DZrX7

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@flyosity don’t get me wrong, it IS moronic that they’re deleting shit they posted earlier. it’s like running from the cops for no reason.

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Palin did nothing wrong by using firearm-laced rhetoric. Freedom of speech, bitches. Not her fault that a weak-minded fool took it literally

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sorry, Sarah Palin - the hive mind of the Internet does not allow revisionist history

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fuck yeah you can say whatever the hell you want http://bit.ly/gW2uMM

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@emilepetrone was that as good for you as it was for me?

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@emilepetrone there is a saying: “loud pipes save lives” IDK if it’s true, but I get sick of oblivious ‘cagers’ nearly killing me every day.

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The Agonizing Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller http://t.co/kdRDd9h

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@flyosity YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE ANNOUNCEMENTS

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@ameir HAY THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WE’RE MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT

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Freedom of speech has an enemy and its name is “political correctness.” http://goo.gl/okUAk

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is a concurrency problem a concurrency problem if it’s actually a load (resource contention) problem?

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what a coincidence - I’m running a processing facility myself! I call it ‘my liver’ http://goo.gl/BFIl9

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For a 10,000 mile cross country trip. NEED: http://goo.gl/0AheF WANT: http://goo.gl/87ves

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It appears the ‘golden voiced homeless man’ Ted Williams is real because he, too, has been screwed by the TSA http://goo.gl/fq6lK

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Dog has diarrhea. Rolls in it. Shakes it off. Onto the walls. As high as 5 feet. The Aristocrats!

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lucas_weber I’ve had an app store on my PC for years, it’s called the internet. The best part? No iTunes! #schmappstore

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Bitch, real Gs move in silence like lasagna. #epic #wordplay #lilwayne

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I’m constantly amazed by how CA manages to simultaneously be so progressive and so ass-backward http://bit.ly/g8mcwl

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@emilepetrone phone screen? half an hour sure is short for a face-to-face

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despite all my rage against the machine, I am still just a man with unvented spleen http://goo.gl/XEZuS

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hunting down concurrency bugs involves making Heisenberg your bitch

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@hoorayimhelping using the internet to meet people? how well has that worked for you so far?

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@hoorayimhelping what do you gain by announcing where you are to everyone?

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this is what your government does to heroic men with heavy consciences http://goo.gl/SvUxM

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This year I resolve to increase the length AND girth of my e-penis by pointing out everyone who is wrong on the Internet. Also, The Game.

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ConanOBrien In 2011, the first digit equals the sum of the last two. This hasn’t occurred since… 2002. Sorry, I thought I was on to something.

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I’ll be keeping my 2011 resolution at 1280 x 800, but only because it won’t go any higher

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planning a cross-country motorcycle trip for summer. going to head up the east coast, cross to west coast, go south, then cross back.

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started off the new year by calling the cops at 7 AM

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