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

January 2013

RT @WarTard: Mali: The French go to the desert.:    It’s time always time to break out the popcorn when the French go to war…. http://

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I now know more about international postal codes than I ever desired. I even corrected the wiki entry for Mongolia. https://t.co/6JmSDy4O

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@knucklesandwich It’s been far too long since “Practical Pig: Preventing Perilous Pitfalls for Prestige & Profit” - cute piglet overload.

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Reading from your presentation slides? You’re doing it wrong. Slides are just for funny pictures to keep your audience’s attention.

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jefft Plenty of room left in @Bronto’s new Thunderdome for @TriHUG tomorrow! Come hear about @Cloudera Impala. RSVP: http://t.co/SCvloI9d

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It turns out my house insurance policy considers the detonation of a nuclear device an exempt “act of war” even if it’s an accident! #ripoff

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Job opportunity: Riot police officers needed. Interviews are being held Monday at police HQ. Arrive early to beat the crowd.

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I can’t wait for a reality augmentation device such as Google Glass so that I can install an ad blocker for real life.

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@flyosity “A gun in every womb so that fetuses can defend themselves!”

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“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” - Warren Buffett http://t.co/u8REISKT

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@flyosity Methinks I shall be selling my $NFLX and using the proceeds to buy $AAPL

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Go go gadget $NFLX!

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That feel when you pull the gym towel away after drying your face and see that large, faded brown stain.

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pmccall777 When you see @lopp offering candy, asking for and eating some before knowing what it is can be a bad move: http://t.co/RlBRgE4n #faceburns

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MolotovUSA Self-reliance. #theresanappforthat http://t.co/J2Iuz1rf

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@drewpotential A law enforcement source said the gunman shot the man he was arguing with, then accidentally shot himself in the buttocks.

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@pmccall777 @danlowe Aha; how caffeine affects your brain without altering the molecule itself - it binds to receptors. http://t.co/CXFCHUWP

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@pmccall777 @danlowe Maybe; never took organic chem or biochem. I equate “metabolize” to “chemical rxns transforming the original inputs”

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@danlowe Wat. How do you get any benefits from it if you aren’t metabolizing it.

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@danlowe It’s cool, brah - it’s all-natural.

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@flyosity The benefit of having “fuck you money” is being able to say “fuck you” and mean it.

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@mark_a_phelps Isn’t it the default sig? I equate it to dumbasses who leave the sticker / license plate frame of the dealership on their car

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mindnovelty “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. #powerful

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I can’t believe that @KimDotCom’s Mega doesn’t accept Bitcoin as a payment method. https://t.co/YpggHmRB

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A challenge to the spread of liberty-centric ideologies is being seen as uncompromising, but one does not request freedom; one declares it.

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@pig_poetry Aw smack; I dun goofed.

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My new favorite media fearmongering term is “potential terrorist.” Um, everyone who is not currently a terrorist is a potential terrorist.

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ncpolicelogs A former Brunswick County teacher charged with having sex with teen student has married him, preventing his testimony. http://t.co/C6x99yZy

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ncpolicelogs 3 Durham officers arrested on B&E, assault, & false imprisonment charges while trying to recover stolen police ID. http://t.co/yPxE4Omb

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When I cancelled my @VerizonWireless account I was hoping that would be the end of our relationship. They keep emailing me bills for -$0…

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QR codes: you’re doing it wrong. http://t.co/Tu6WYbOp

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@covati Yeah, right. I’ve never received a Twitter reply from a senator or representative. I bet 90% are run by a staffer peon.

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@pmccall777 Word on the street is that you can get super drunk via an alcohol enema. Wonder what would happen with an espresso enema…

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@pig_poetry Durrrrrr tell that to the hundreds of millions of democide victims. http://t.co/uXhbM7BE

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@pig_poetry Hm? Most people can’t handle true liberty because they prefer to feel protected by a government. Anarchism has a bad rap.

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Most Libertarians are INTJ, or at least _NT_ - this explains a lot. http://t.co/0acV8izo

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@hoorayimhelping Twitter’s WebUI dun broke yer referral, brah! They’re screwin’ you over!

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Only food left in the office is bananas. #CodeMonkeyIsAppeased

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@elcaltrider You’ve been on a roll lately; UMAD, brah?

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@emilepetrone Because you pay your sellers in dollars? Why not allow them to elect to receive BTC so that you don’t have to exchange?

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@emilepetrone Have you thought about accepting Bitcoin on Tindie?

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RT @ncpolicelogs: A Greensboro man was arrested after he broke into a woman’s home and tried on her clothing. http://t.co/tJhuJMuj

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durhammag Don’t let those smelly hippies from #asheville win. Vote for #Durham! http://t.co/mSSVREe2

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Remember when you were a kid and you thought that adults knew what the fuck they were doing?

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@hoorayimhelping Can’t we just have a good ol’ fashioned circlejerk instead?

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@hoorayimhelping @Jeremy_DeGroot @jbeardsley Dude, folding stocks give you +20 on accuracy and kill ratio.

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@ameir @jbeardsley Hay U guise talking ‘bout guns? That’s old news; lemme know if ya want some body armor.

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danlowe Looks like another brewery is scheduled to open in the Triangle http://t.co/qkhchUug

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@mikestable Did you have to pay sales tax on that money?

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@covati Those fuckers made it iOS-only! What a bunch of dicks!

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@ameir It’s worse when you’re actually a member. I’ve had to unsubscribe from half a dozen different NRA lists in the past 2 weeks!

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NY State bans mags that hold more than 7 rounds while @DefDist shows successful use of 3D printed 30 round mags. Tech trumps politics!

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TuckerMax I used to say it takes a lot of balls to publicly admit you cheated, but Lance Armstrong proved it only takes one

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@flyosity Dang, Australian possums are a lot cuter than American possums. https://t.co/L7Di6rtB

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“If your wife doesn’t enjoy the aroma of your cigar, change your wife.” -Zino Davidoff

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If we should have the right to same sex marriage, we should also be able to marry multiple people. Repeal bigamy laws! #forwardthinking

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@flyosity That’s not gay; now, if it were his son, THEN it would be gay.

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Information wants to be free. R.I.P. Aaron Swartz.

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“Sandy” is going to be a really unpopular baby name for the next few years.

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RT @mcuban: The Stock Market: Haven’t blogged in a while. So I decided to look back and pull out one of… http://t.co/QXuhDkQp

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VeryShortStory “I want you to know, you’re the only thing that ever mattered to me,” I said. “I know,” whispered the bottle of Jack Daniels.

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“Sorry [recruiter], I cannot relocate to California because I own weapons that are banned in that state.”

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@hoorayimhelping You’re in luck; I hear the iPhone has an app for that.

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Go go gadget $NFLX!

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Watched @aiww’s documentary “Never Sorry” and have much respect for his fight for civil rights in China. http://t.co/P8QJ5WPr

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FortnightBeer Cary could get its first beer brewery http://t.co/qkxk4oBS

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The parable of the ox: http://t.co/IyL50laH

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@mark_a_phelps Must be hard to tweet while eating an apple as well.

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@whosthedoss The next logical question is how so many of the incumbents managed to hold onto their seats this past election cycle.

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Hatred has an incredibly poor ROI.

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@hoorayimhelping To give headhunters something to do.

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@hoorayimhelping If’n by trees you mean hemp or bamboo.

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@twiz718 Probably at least 5X as much as I paid for my minimalist head unit!

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Making a @reddit post that gets front-paged is kind of a curse because some fuckheads will inevitably try to pick apart your grammar & logic

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Follow-up on the shooting in my neighborhood last night; it turned out to be a teenager who accidentally shot himself in the stomach.

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…and it appears that we may have just had our first shooting in my neighborhood. No details yet.

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Yowan Declaration of Independence 1322 words, US Constitution 7794 words, Government Regulations on the sale of cheese 34,823 words #Libertarian

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Completed my first aftermarket head unit install in 2 hours. New head unit only supports radio, bluetooth, and USB. #feelsgoodman #DIY

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@mark_a_phelps could be worse; at least they aren’t sexting you

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@ericboggs I’m pretty sure that the exact same logic can be applied to making money on @reddit

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climagic Linux sex: date; unzip; strip; touch; mount; yes; etc.. Windows sex: start; explore; reboot; viruscheck; solitaire

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I don’t care that the movie is 16:10 aspect ratio, I paid good money for this 16:9 TV and am going to use every square inch of the screen!

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Many developers know the joy of fighting with time zones; fewer know the joy of reconciling international postal codes with geodetic data.

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ncpolicelogs New Year’s Eve celebratory gunfire in Raleigh missed a sleeping child by inches. http://t.co/xF4YLv4V

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Went outside and heard dozens of celebratory gunshots. Happy New Year you ignorant fucks.

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