Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-05
- This CPC election manipulation story is beginning to fail the duck test. Starting to walk, talk, and look like a duck. #cdnpoli #
- Seriously? Teaching is an "essential service" but they can still seek leave to strike from the LRB? So it's only "kinda essential"!? #bcpoli #
- Teacher on radio: "Students are getting a good deal". Something about this bugs me. Students should be getting an education, not a deal #otc #
- Vancouver tonight. http://t.co/9maH4buu #
- We, too, avoid AC if at all possible RT @buzzbishop: the policy of overselling airlines is terrible http://t.co/g11YhlDD #
- Someone's Skype is going nuts on the radio. I keep checking my phone… @CBCEarlyEdition #
- Ooops. Ran out of bread. Plan B on lunches today… #
- I thought this post wasn't going to see much traffic, but the trolls are emerging: Burrard Bridge NB http://t.co/ehyBmS1B #bikeyvr #
- Anti-science crusade? RT @chriswalts: Canadian High Arctic research station forced to close due to lack of funding – http://t.co/hvVKQlVf #
- Dear mathematicians: Wha? Huh? Sincerely, an engineer. #computationalgeometryisgreektome #
- Pink Project 2012 http://t.co/xk4qkiQa #pinkshirtday #antibullyingday #needlesscontroversy #suckitburnabyparentsvoice #
- The over-the-top rhetoric of Ms. Lambert (BCTF) does not make me want to even consider what she's saying as plausible. #bced #otc #
- That was a seriously miserable ride tonight. 3C and mixed rain/sleet. #bikeyvr I'm chilled to the bone. #
- Who said #cdnpoli was boring? RT @natnewswatch: The guy the Tory bus ran over apparently survived and he ain't taking the fall #
- In which I leave a 950 word comment on one of my own posts. I'm not sure they deserved it. http://t.co/pppv7ib6 @kitsilano #bikeyvr #
- It's amazing that my kids rediscover, every night, that it's easier to go to sleep if they just stop talking for just one minute. #gtfts #
- And now to carve some slopes. #ssx #
- Trying to decide how safe it will be to cycle into work this morning, given the #chubbyrain cc: @CBCEarlyEdition #snomg #
- Might have to take transit today, but I'm worried about being propositioned. #leapday #
- Oooh. Microsoft's "free-to-play" Flight is available today https://t.co/bbfmAoTh #flightsim #avgeek #
- Ok, this pic seals it. No riding today #bikeyvr MT @_Cuddlefish_: @AnthonyFloyd awful. Walking is tough. http://t.co/vO053z9v #
- Twitter is not the right forum for a wide-audience chat. It's like 100 people shouting all at once: there's no conversation flow. #
- For an example, look at #bced right now. @georgeabbottbc is "hosting" a "twitter chat" that is … failing miserably to make any sense. #
- It's essentially 90% hecklers, 10% questions, and the occasional response from the minister. How can that have any chance of succeeding? #
- .@lazinryder It's noise, characterized by a loud annoying whine and the occasional blip of spin. #
- Saw a demand from someone in the #bced chat that teachers be allowed to claim UI during the summer months. That's insulting. #
- Today I learned the intricacies of bivariate spline fitting and manipulation in Python. #
- There was *another* explosion at 686 West Broadway? Same bldg exploded in 2008! I don't think I'd be too thrilled about working there. #yvr #
- Lots of geo-Tweeps tonight at the Flashlight Flash Mob tonight. #geocaching @_Cuddlefish_ @hollyburn Thanks for organizing @KathyKatcogo! #
- US seizes a .com account of a Canadian company, registered with a Canadian registrar, based on allegations it violated Maryland state law #
- Link associated with previous tweet: http://t.co/u5y4LFfi #
- Vancouver-South MP equates #robocall scam w/ "being smeared" in campaign. She doesn't seem to get it. #robocall is about cowardly cheating. #
- It's about immoral lying to suppress votes. It's one of the biggest affronts to democracy Canada's ever seen. It's utter outrageous.#cdnpoli #
- So, Vancouver students will have no teachers next Monday thru Wed, 2 days of school, then 2 wks March Break. /shakes head. #yvr #
- If the BCTF is still on strike at the end of March and takes its additional 1-day strike, VSB kids will have had *8* school days in March. #
- Sporadic phone and internet connectivity issues all morning long. It's been as fun as it sounds. #MustBePluggedInToWork #
- The UK's Guardian covers the Three Little Pigs saga http://t.co/iUS96Za8 (via @CBCStephenQuinn) #badwolf #
- Thursdays always knock me six ways from Sunday. #
- So, the upcoming school strike raises an interesting question: How old should a kid be before being left at home all day long? #
- The consensus seems to be the minimum age for leaving home along during the day is 10 yrs old. #
- This strikes me as odd for some reason: Iceland to adopt the Loonie as its official currency? http://t.co/yPVWIWye #
- This #robocall scandal has just reinforced my habit of not answering any phone calls at home from unrecognized phone numbers. #cdnpoli #
- Picking up @aidanfloyd in the liquid sunshine. He's going to be thrilled with the 16 block walk home. http://t.co/iJFXBRC4 #
- Finally got something home with A with regards to the upcoming teacher's walk-out: two pages of BCTF propaganda. >:( #
- Mind you we did get something from the VSB via the school secretary by email. #
- This is what we got from A's teacher today wrt upcoming walk-out 1/2 http://t.co/XaFdwVCY #
- This is what we got from A's teacher today wrt upcoming walk-out 2/2 http://t.co/uOnoCNCp #
- I know I'm prone to saying good things about @CarouselTheatre but today's performance of Frog and Toad was spectacular. #
- I mean, I don't like the Frog and Toad stories but thoroughly enjoyed the show at @CarouselTheatre #
- That geocache that shut down Disneyland recently? Wasn't a geocache: http://t.co/VVAY9TyW Damned "spiritualists" #geocaching #
- Bubble bath + jacuzzi = lots and lots of bubbles http://t.co/1kPd6uUB #