My husband @fallingrock is into Linux, we’re geeks, and @wilw will be there too… very tempting! Penguicon: the free software and science fiction con in southeast Michigan, May 1-3 – Boing Boing “The weekend of May 1 through 3, Penguicon brings together science fiction, open source software, and other geek interests in southeast Michigan. In its seventh year, the attendance target for the convention is one thousand, three hundred and thirty seven. Guests of Honor are ubergeek Wil Wheaton, alternate reality game creator Jane McGonigal, Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP, steampunk author Sarah Hoyt, and John ‘maddog’ Hall of Linux International.…
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I wonder what MrRileycat_Esq would do if I came home wearing CROCS? Would he react like this stalwart cat, saving his or her human from committing shoe crime? Every now and then, I think about getting a pair of CROCS, because they’d make pretty practical gardening clogs and also for those times when we’re on vacation and need a comfortable slip-on sandal that won’t get ruined by salt water. Fortunately, the good people at I Can Has Cheezburger were there to stop me from doing irreparable harm to my dignity and self-respect.
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Has your cat been flirting with Firefox while tweeting on #meowmonday? This is the result!! see more Lolcats and funny pictures
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Why in the world did the Trib (and also the Sun-Times) bury the lede on the story about the Chinese naval and merchant vessels harassing a US Navy ship? U.S. ship sprays Chinese with fire hose :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World The USNS Impeccable sprayed one ship with water from fire hoses to force it away. Despite the force of the water, Chinese crew members stripped to their underwear and continued closing within 25 feet, the Defense Department said. A somewhat Pythonesque scenario suggested itself to me.
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Doyce, whose blog posts I read most often at one remove via the miracle of quotes and feeds, starts it off: I’m actively communicating online all day, every day, but my main blog languishes. Why is that? Simplicity. Twitter tweets, facebook updates, Flickr photo posting, and sharing news articles with commentary… all of those things are easier and faster BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE than posting via Movable Type. Via What it boils down to is this… – doycetesterman And ***Dave carries it forward: Now, I don’t do Facebook, and have never had a justification (see below) for using Twitter.…
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Last night’s snow (or as I originally typo-ed, slow), dumped only about 4 inches on suburban streets in the area, but the traffic was horrendous and there were enough minor accidents to put corks in all the bottlenecks. And due to the way the east-west arterials around here are blocked by large tracts of parkland or shopping malls, there’s only a few ways to get between work and home. If there’s bad weather, or traffic, everything gets choked off at one of two places. I started out pissed, as I had a late “hit” call where someone needed an exchange…
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Southwest Airlines (WN) is giving out free socks from Old Navy today at their Dallas Love, San Francisco, and Providence counters. How do I know? Because they Twittered it, of course. They “tweet” as @SouthwestAirlines and even took pictures (will add links later).. Here’s one adorable lady repurposeing her socks: UPDATE: Isn’t this lady awesome? So cute and feisty. She reminds me of a friend at Holy Moly. Same playfulness. Clearly, she loves her sox.
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My jeans keep buttcancelling my iPhone apps. Maybe iOS 8 will make it so my jeans buttTweet gibberish. 2014-09-17 In, uh news that I didn't tweet at the time because reasons, @MrRileycat_Esq crossed the #RainbowBridge on 31AUG. 2014-09-17 Thank you, @NPR, now I've got #Badiyah stuck in my head! 2014-09-19 @pedzz_bd Thank you, Stan – pets give so much, it's hard to lose them 2014-09-19 @MoRocca She must be sad, but she'll always be a monarch of singing. 2014-09-19 RT @nprAudie: @NPRinskeep @MorningEdition completely worth it to see you jamming out in the studio to it #badeeya 2014-09-19 @NPRinskeep @nprAudie…