Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-12

Anthony on , 12 Apr 2010 04:15 am
  • RT @BadAstronomer: The most amazing space pic *I have ever seen*. It is that simple. http://is.gd/bfRYJ #
  • Yes, I just used "youse" in a tweet. It *is* a real word. You're just not reading the right dictionaries. :p #
  • RT @realreporter: 13-yr-old girl, 5-yr-old brother, missing from parking lot of Granview Canadian Tire in Van. http://bit.ly/9az6bS #
  • Today, the Canadian dollar is worth more than the American dollar again. It's mostly psychological, but hits our intern'l small company HARD #
  • Why? B/c we get paid in USD while all our expenses are C$. It's like we're an NHL hockey team w/o any on-ice skill. Kinda like the Oilers #
  • Yawn. Another too g-d early telecon. The saving grace to these is leaving the office at 2pm. #
  • This morning's very-early-ride-into-work excitement? Almost hitting a poorly lit, jaywalking (jay-padding?) coyote on UBC campus. #
  • Look who's on Twitter! It's @CBCStephenQuinn from @cbcvancouver #
  • 2c fl 2c sugar .5tsp salt 2tsp b.soda 1c oil 2tsp cinn 1tsp alsp 4 eggs 3c grated carrots. 90 min @ 350F #CarrotCake #140CharRecipe #
  • Yum, carrot cake for @LeftCoastMama's birthday tomorrow. A helped with grating the carrots. Icing goes on tomorrow (recipe to come then) #
  • Hmmm, enticing! RT @sbr*msstr*hlung Hey @AnthonyFloyd, looking to meet local swingers in your area? Check this out [redacted] #StupidBots #
  • For those keeping score, artery-clogging choc cake last wk, hi-cal carrot cake this wk, + lemon meringue pie next wk! Bday month continues! #
  • Ah, spring time! New flowers! Warm weather! The sound of your cats regurgitating the hair they're shedding… #
  • Just read Globe iview w/ Barbara Budd. I have no idea what CBC mgmt was thinking, but they've made a huge mistake http://bit.ly/9u082f #
  • Today, my best friend marks another orbit around the Sun. Happy Birthday @LeftCoastMama! #
  • The future is weird. Someone sent a txt to landline, which Telus txt-2-speech'd, recorded by our VM, transcoded to .wav, sent to my email #
  • How did I miss this? $150 e-Ink e-Reader from Chapters: http://bit.ly/9jpitS #
  • I see the wind has blown all the clouds away! Awesome! We won't be putting on a @geocaching101 event in the rain like we expected. #
  • Apparently @wilw is in Vancouver. Hope the wind doesn't blow him back to LA. Maybe we'll get a Vancouver W00tstock? #
  • http://twitpic.com/1e473i – A beautiful day to learn about geocaching in beautiful Vancouver #
  • Phew, back from a long afternoon in QE park, putting on a @geocaching101 for a local high school. Went extremely well, weather held up! #
  • Observation from today's event: The prevalence of iPhones in the general population is much, much lower than amongst Twitter users. #
  • The carrot cake is a big hit with the under-6 crowd. With the over-6 crowd, too. #nomnomnom #
  • Still lots of space at the Police Museum Geocaching 101 event coming up on April 18th: http://bit.ly/deRQmy Won't you join us? #
  • Watching Idol from a few nights ago. WTH? Dude brought in a bagpiper for "Hey Jude"!? #
  • Ok, just followed by a wedding cake. Married 10 yrs ago, kids *at least* 15 yrs from marriage. I'm not sure the market research is in place #
  • RT @paulandstorm: [S] There once was a girl from Nantucket / She hated limericks. #
  • #YVR Looking outside at the sun and thinking it's time to get back on your bike? Come "Bike the Blossoms" next Saturday http://bit.ly/9GXzz0 #
  • Got a new filing cabinet at work. This excites me way more that it should #TypeA But, it means I'll have a usable desk again! #
  • Ah Fridays. The day when politicians give up. Or are given up. Today, a 2-fer: #CPC #039;s Helena Guergis and #BCLib Kash Heed! #cdnpoli #
  • RT @wilw: When I walked into @scienceworldca I was afraid it was just for kids. Turns out it wasn't; I frakking LOVED it. #
  • I wonder how @gregeh is making out riding the mean streets of Vancouver. Is being a bike courier all that … and a bag of chips? #
  • RT @darrylw4: New show – CAM Ep. 172: @TulameenTurtles http://bit.ly/aTOPee [They're org'ng BC's biggest #gc event: The Great Copper Rush!] #
  • Finally back in the comfort of the concrete jungle after spending the day up the Fraser Valley. #
  • Out geocaching today in an unfamiliar area with full BirdsEye aerial photography on the Oregon. Don't know how we ever cached without it. #
  • RT @granvillemag: City councilor Jang succumbs to peer pressure, rides bike, doesnt die http://ow.ly/1wYOa [hahaha] #
  • Sigh. Woman in her 20s was sexually assaulted this morning on our block. #
  • In other news, local media is reporting that assault happened at 7th Ave, when their own photos clearly show taped off scene btw 8th/B-way #
  • I suppose it's too much to ask your own photographers where they took the photos. Or, to verify with the very hand Google street view. #
  • s/hand/handy #Twypo #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-05

Anthony on , 05 Apr 2010 04:15 am
  • Longest power outage in recent memory, over 2hrs now. No one's getting their cars out of the garage this am! #
  • Dug out some candles, making b-fast by head lamp. Good thing I'm not a coffee drinker! #
  • Anyone in Yaletown with a Pringles can? #NeedMyWiFi #
  • Power has been on twice now, gone out with loud bang each time. Time to go to work. #
  • Third time lucky? Haven't heard a third transformer blow yet, the lights might stay on this time. #
  • Although it was pretty funny with Aidan trying to figure out what things work and what things don't when there's no power. What!? No TV!? #
  • RT @BCLiberalCaucus: Feds passed the HSt in Dec, we're repealing the PST. [Haha, technically true, but interesting spin] #
  • OMG my sinuses can't take this MASSIVE RAIN followed 2 minutes later by BLINDING SUN then GALES OF WIND … then repeat #HumanBarometer #
  • Some very interesting insight on being hired and hiring in the tech industry by local small-business owner @Stv http://bit.ly/b9PQg6 #
  • RT @DanGoodchild: Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom! [LHC fully operational today!] #
  • I don't understand kids part MMDIII: Aidan is having a melt-down over W10th Ave becoming University Blvd at UBC. Yeah, I have no idea. #
  • News that the grad pub at UBC (Koerner's) has had its liquor license withdrawn is sad, but not surprising. UBC grads need better alternative #
  • Uh, after reading this: http://bit.ly/aT8kF5 it seems I need to follow the 'old lady' @MargaretAtwood #
  • Our Christmas cactus is mightily confused, blooming in March… http://twitpic.com/1c3cb4 #
  • That looks like lightning on the North Shore. Either that, someone's filming another apocalyptic movie downtown. #yvr #
  • Interesting reads by some local gurus: @davemacdonald on bikes http://bit.ly/bVoFB3 + @JonJennings on Agile development http://bit.ly/cgtfXX #
  • For some reason the @CBCVancouver online stream today is actually @cbcnorth . While interesting, not quite what I'm looking for. #
  • Another Canadian charter airline bites the dust. Skyservice shuts down, Sunquest and Signature Vacation travellers left in the lurch? #
  • Home at last. Dealing w/ a customer challenge work that was done 5 yrs ago is irritating. Saw my kids 1 hr today, hate not seeing them in pm #
  • Dear geek friends. This collective madness called the iPad? Still don't get. Yes, I know I'm not the target audience … but why are you? #
  • Huh. Smoke detector just went off for no apparent reason. Unsettling. Changed the battery, we'll see what happens. #
  • RT @danudey: Remember, tomorrow is Hate The Internet Day. Believe nothing. #
  • RT @geowoodstock: Want to be the Ace of Spades? The Joker? The King of Hearts? GW8 Deck of Cards bidding live! http://tinyurl.com/yagl53f #
  • This Granville Island Brockton IPA is pretty good. So is this one… #
  • I need to get an AT&T signal w/o crossing the US border. Anyone know a place in Tsawwassen or Surrey where I'm guaranteed a signal? #
  • The Garmin Birdseye imagery is very cool. It is, however, v. slow d/l'ing images. And a bit awkward to work with in Basecamp. But, awesome! #
  • Thought it might be a nice, quiet day in the office today (I'm swapping today's holiday for one next week) but the boss called me at 9:15! #
  • Crazy. It's 27C in Ottawa right now, 5C in Vancouver. Welcome to the new springtime in Canada. #
  • Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello, how low. #NeedsEntertainment #AloneInOffice #
  • For no apparent reason, @CityofVancouver engineering has closed Spruce St right beside our condo. WTF? Makes getting out of our garage hard. #
  • I mean, sure, it's windy. And yes, there are trees there. But, there are lots of other trees in Vancouver, lining open roads. #
  • Mystery solved. There is a tree that is _about_ to come down but hasn't yet. Clearly @CityofVancouver was merely being prudent. #
  • Weird intersection of interests today as I verify cache coords for upcoming @geocaching101: Easter Egg hunts in the park! #
  • http://twitpic.com/1d7rpv – The Easter Bunny isn't a very good cache hider, btw #
  • Hey @ALotofLoves @kevleviathan @StacieBee @johnbiehler FWIW we got an AT&T signal as soon as we hit 56th St on Hwy 17 in Tsawwassen! #
  • Sitting in the parking lot of a Starbux slurping wifi, finishing setting up our US cell phone. And tweeting. The future is surreal. #
  • And now? Some geocaching in Tsawwassen! #
  • Finished logging today's caches. On our way back home, we though we'd logged 6 on the day but GPS field notes show 7. Middle age is rough :) #
  • Aidan had his 1st @CarouselTheatre class today. One kid came out saying "I loved it!". Aidan came out and said "I had *so much* fun"! #
  • I can only conclude that the class was a tonne of fun, or @CarouselTheatre spent the hour teaching the kids how to sing their praises! :D #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29

Anthony on , 29 Mar 2010 04:15 am
  • Time to replace the GG I see. Not that anyone outside of Canada has any idea who our GG is. Quick: Who's Australia's GG? See what I mean? #
  • For that matter, how many people outside Canada know what a G-G is? And really, how many IN Canada? #ComfortablyNumb #
  • Aidan voluntarily put the Lego he was playing with away and asked to go to bed. Who is this boy, and where did my son go? #
  • Ugh. Are we sure we want customers that schedule meetings so damn early? #
  • Encountered a different guy on a bike on today's 5:30am ride. This one had no lights or reflectors. Fool. Of course he was biking at 5:30… #
  • RT IlusElu: @AnthonyFloyd ninjas should not travel by bicycle, obviously. [hahaha] #
  • Once again throwing myself at the mercy of UBC food services. This never goes well. #
  • Wow, UBC Phys prof, Nobel laureate, + uni education reformer Dr. Carl Wiemann appt'd White House assoc dir of science! http://bit.ly/c0bS0C #
  • Just checked our PVR for the latest episode of The Amazing Race. WTF? It started 54 minutes late. What's the point? #CBSFail #
  • Another day, another crazy-hour meeting. >yawn< #
  • An completely unlit taxi slinks the wrong way down a road to make an illegal left turn on to an ALMOST deserted bike rte #PostcardsFromYVR #
  • Pro tip: Don't frakking chew your breakfast without muting your phone while on an early morning telecon. MORON. #
  • Windows 7 upgrade from RC1 to Ultimate retail "may take hours". Say what? #ItsNotRocketScience #
  • Other than having to use gparted to resize my .vdi, hack Win7 setup files, and reinstall borked VBox guest additions, that went smoothly. #
  • The Libs lost a vote yesterday in the #HOC on their own motion that the other opp parties supported. On women's health. Embarassing #cdnpoli #
  • How embarrassing? Watch the CBC clip on #HOC reaction: http://bit.ly/bEoTph #cdnpoli #
  • Content-aware fill? A bit early yet for April Fools Day, isn't it? http://bit.ly/aTEH0h #
  • RT @SusanDelacourt: Hilarious: From @macleansmag : Most exclusive PM interview ever http://bit.ly/a5XDqt #cdnpoli (via @dangoodchild) #
  • Q is not feeling well. Ask his vomit-covered mother. #yuck #
  • Russell. FTMFW. #Survivor #
  • These 4:30am mornings are catching up with me. Tomorrow no early meeting, but 4 yr old turns 5. This will be a Big Deal. À Bientôt! #
  • The doctor is out. Or, will be soon. #IMeanItThisTime #
  • AIdan is 5 today. How can it be simulatneously so long ago and only yesterday? #
  • RT @policemuseum: Interested in Geocaching? @AnthonyFloyd and @LeftCoastMama are running a workshop with us on April 18. http://ow.ly/1qTcw #
  • RT @LeftCoastMama: New blog post: Happy Birthday to My Little Boy http://bit.ly/ardluA #
  • RT @LeftCoastMama: http://twitpic.com/1aw1jj – The cake [OMG that looks amazing! HUNGRY.] #
  • RT @smuttysteff: I'm officially with options open in a few days. Need a writer? #
  • While the Twitterati parties it up at #yvrtwestival I'm eating cake and celebrating my boy's 5th b-day. That's a check in the "win" column. #
  • Mmmm. Cake. #
  • Thrilled to have passed the Turing Test this week @oakridge604 #
  • Weather in Vancouver has been teeth-aching today. Magic pills have been largely ineffective. #HumanBarometer #
  • Guess what? Border line ups are crazy right now #justsaying #stuckinaldergrove #
  • Look at that! Tweetimg via phone in the states. We live in the future! #
  • 1 hr in '40 min' border line and we and we just see the booths now :( Kids at end of rope, parental tolerance failing #
  • Home finally. Earthhour now? Sorry, gotta put the kids to bed. #
  • I though @grousemountain was going to extinguish their lights for #earthhour They didn't. #
  • Doing research so you don't have to: Screeching at full volume, high freq, for an hour does NOT make the border crossing easier. #dadcamp #
  • Robert Fowler at #can150 "Liberals don't stand for anything" "It's all about getting to power and it shows". Will this be the #LPC wake-up? #
  • Shameful that even those groups meant to defend + help the disadvantaged exploit them. Eg: DERA http://bit.ly/ddsb9M #
  • One of several bonehead moves today: Forgetting the "Don't give the toddler fresh blackberries rule". ZOMG the mess. #dadcamp #
  • Things Q wouldn't eat for lunch: Blackberries, pepperoni, bread, orange juice. Things he did: Mandarins, Ritz crackers. #KeptMeOnMyToes #
  • Oh, and to-die-for chocolate cake. Guess which list *that* landed on. #BeatingHimAwayWithAFork #
  • Making cache containers for the @policemuseum @geocaching101 GC101 workshop on April 18th http://bit.ly/bgMNYV Coming? #
  • Out of camouflage duct tape. Don't you hate when that happens? #geocaching #
  • Between the blackberries I gave him for lunch, and the spaghetti for supper, I am no longer certain what my son's natural skin colour is. #
  • Boeing's new 787 tested to 150% ultimate load, 25 FOOT wing tip deflection (photo): http://bit.ly/csSVK6 Article: http://bit.ly/bQHZuM #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22

Anthony on , 22 Mar 2010 04:15 am
  • This is a *bit* early to be at the office. >yawn< #
  • Yay! @brianmckeever (he of the denied-to-ski-in-both-the-Olympics-and-Paralympics fame) won GOLD today in the 20km xc Paralympic event! #
  • I must admit to being somewhat amused and confused by my Fraser-Valley-targetting followers. #GreetsFromVancouverCentre #
  • Hopped up on Pepsi and chocolate. I might make it through the afternoon now before crashing in a huge ball of flames… #
  • Upside to being at the office at 5:30 this morning? I get to pick A up from preschool in the pm #
  • Got our boffo #GeowoodstockVIII tags today, thanks to @coreynjoey. They look great! We'll leave a few unactivated ones in local caches soon #
  • RT @karlwoll: [A Canadian] army helicopter lands on Black Tusk [mountain, in BC]! How sweet is this!? http://tinyurl.com/ya4dzr2 #
  • http://twitpic.com/18z0ql – Must be field trip day at the sledge hockey venue! #para2010 #
  • (that last tweet was the bus parking lot for the Thunderbird Arena sledge hockey venue for the Paralympics) #
  • So Canadians can now order a Google Nexus One, but only the version that works with Rogers, not the one that works with @WindMobile. WTF? #
  • Oops. Wrong. Ambiguous order page made me think that the @WindMobile compatible phone was only sold bundled. Nevermind past few tweets :) #
  • I had to read the NYT "mommy-blogging" article again http://nyti.ms/clmFfH I don't get the fuss. Really. Over-sensitive much? #
  • I mean, it seems sometimes that (some) social media folk are awfully quick to beat the war-drum. Who is the bad-guy-du-jour? #
  • If I were *really* insensitive, I might call it a "tempest in a sippy cup" but that would be going too far. :D #
  • RT @limelitePR: @AnthonyFloyd because women in business stories rarely make the business section unless they've made a million bucks #
  • OK @lindsaydianne @alexishinde @crunchycarpets @limelitePR @miss_scarlet99 fun discussion, but I've got to get back to work. :) #
  • RT @bobmackin: CTV to air closing ceremony of 2010 Paralympics from Whistler on Sunday, live at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET. #
  • Does anyone want a ticket for Paralympic Alpine Skiing at Whistler on Saturday (11:30 to 15:30)? We have an extra one. #
  • Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! #
  • Rather improbably I passed another cyclist commuting to Pt Grey on my way in this morn. At 5:45am. It was a nice stress-free ride! #NoCars #
  • I must admit that Google Translate is becoming quite a useful service as our small company does more business in non-English countries #
  • Amazingly, gone are the days of garbled translations. (mostly) #
  • Excerpt from disclaimer on bottom of an email just rec'd: "You may not read, copy, distribute, or use this information." Uh … thanks? #
  • http://twitpic.com/19679w – This is the full disclaimer. Email disclaimers are stupid at best, but … huh? #
  • RT @nep: Comic: The Difference Between Firefox, Opera, Explorer & Safari http://bit.ly/8XcaSB #
  • Part of what bothers me about the NYT mb fuss is this: If you bluster so much about an apparently minor thing you risk cry-wolf syndrome. #
  • RT @mrlady: An unpopular reaction to the NYT piece: http://bit.ly/bFey8M (via @countryfried) [Proving this ISN'T an XY vs XX thing] #
  • Pretty windy down in the city and yet Grouse Mtn's "Eye of the Wind" isn't turning. Anyone know why? Still not functional? #
  • Since Twitter seems Tango-Uniform, off to deal with the train wreck that is my Google Reader. #
  • RT @gpstracklog: DeLorme PN-40 for $219.99 http://bit.ly/aR6Od7 [Great deal, good for geocaching! Too bad it only ships within US] #
  • There are some days when the number of idiots on the road seems to outnumber the rest. It's like a cascade effect somehow. #
  • And then I think, "Well if it seems like everyone else is an idiot, chances are it's me, not them." #
  • But I fail to see how stopping on a bike rte under a "no stopping anytime" sign, driving on wrong side of road, or blowing stop is my fault. #
  • In other news, I can't believe that Wente column. Seriously? I wish I had a G&M subscription to cancel :eyeroll: http://bit.ly/duFV9L #
  • .@bgrier No, sadly she sounds like another member of "Old Media" who Just Doesn't Get It. Dinosaurs, I believe they're called. #
  • Apparently the G&M felt the need to one-up the NYT in disparaging women bloggers. Is this the asteroid that will kill Old Media dinosaurs? #
  • Whose laptop are we watching the #smcyvr ustream from? #
  • Don't think I agree with @kirklapointe's citizen dentist analogy, too apples vs oranges, too simplistic an analogy #smcyvr #
  • Surprised how many people at #smcyvr are new to SM. Impressed by the initiative they're showing by attending! #
  • RT @anndouglas: You know it's all fun, all the time, when you follow me #
  • Wow! @News1130radio is reporting that the Paralympic tie-breaker tomorrow btw Italy and Sweden (2:30pm) will have free admission! #
  • And now, to bed. Admittedly, it's to listen to @neilhimself read Neverwhere to me (one of the best audiobooks, ever) but … g'night! #
  • Still have that single ticket for tomorrow's Alpine events at Whistler. Any takers? It'd be a shame for it to go to waste. #para2010 #
  • RT @bobmackin: Too sunny to enjoy free Paralympic wheelchair curling? Attendance for Italy vs. Sweden: 800. [Sad. Admission was FREE!] #
  • Heading to the Windjammer Inn for fish & chips. Best in Vancouver! #
  • Gwen, trying to wake A to go Whistler: Lights on, AFI playing in the room, loudly. Boy doesn't stir. "I have worries about the future!" #
  • Waiting in a huge line at Tims in Squamish after dealing with #pukeaggemmon #
  • Somehow I think we're going to be late for our event :( #
  • http://twitpic.com/19tk26 – The boys at the super g sitting. #
  • http://twitpic.com/19tl90 – The Paralympic alpine venue #para2010 #
  • http://twitpic.com/19vfx8 – Happiness is … a mostly empty McDonalds PlayPlace #
  • Back from Whistler. Exhausted. Cleaning 10-hr old puke residue from car seat. This is how parents roll. #
  • Wife is telling eldest about mice who made their own lt rail line, with aluminum rails. Haven't the heart to tell her why that's a bad idea. #
  • The aluminum rails, not telling the story. #
  • Finished migrating our geocaching finds from my "Aerodoq" account to our team "LeftCoastFloyds". Thru the magic of Python only took few hrs! #
  • Aidan is serenading us: "The garbage truck, the garbage truck, a de-liv-ery service for the trash" #
  • Of course, it makes more sense when you realize it's sung to the tune of "Bloodmobile" by TMBG #

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