Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-26

Anthony on , 26 Oct 2009 03:15 am
  • 21st C problems: RT @gregeh: @loxyisme I was a little apprehensive getting a roommate with more followers than me […] #
  • I've got 214 on my YVR-Tweeps list – real ppl, or biz or orgs that interact. Got lists? Did I miss you? Send me an @ http://bit.ly/4iVhFC #
  • 8-6-7-5-3-oh-niiii-eee-iiiinnne #earworms #DamnYouWineMaker! #
  • Now all those online technical universities are getting pissy about me missing my appointments to talk to them. Letting them down gently. #
  • Funnily, one of those online uni's that my homonymus applied to is now following me on Twitter. You'd think they'd realize their mistake. #
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  • The last two tweets were brought to you by "I have no idea which window on my desktop has focus" #
  • Yes! Opt out of receiving dead-tree phone indices: http://www.ypg.com/delivery/ [via @Miss604 @mojaveband] #
  • Good lord. The Yellow Pages opt-out is only valid for the next 2 deliveries. WTF? I DON'T WANT THEM EVER AGAIN! #DyingBusinessModel #
  • I don't understand the BC body armour prohibition. The GUNS are restricted and the gangs still have those! How will this change anything? #
  • She Sells Sanctuary on CBC Radio 1. Didn't see that coming. Awesome. #
  • But seriously? A DANCE version of She Sells Sanctuary?!? #FAIL #
  • .@ProvidentMike It seems ppl are generally against a gun registry but for a body armour registry. That seems ass-backward to me. #
  • RT @Anna_Cook: HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Crap cycle lanes http://bit.ly/2L9LMa [In the UK, via @chriswalts] #
  • Tor is giving away some bumperstickers. To enter, tweet "Bela is a Darkfriend @torbooks" #
  • Also "I want WoT @torbooks" for a nifty WoT logo sticker http://twitpic.com/md44q #
  • .@torbooks I don't know who killed Asmodean, but I #blamedrewscancer #
  • WTH? @BCGeocaching tweeting ads now? Twitter account compromised? #
  • Twitter find of the day: @FakeAPStylebook #WordNerd #
  • RT @vanmacguy: XP Users. If you have to reinstall and copy all your files back anyway, move to a #mac. [Or free yo'self and install Ubuntu!] #
  • ROTFL: Former snowboarder Ross Rebagliati will run for federal Liberal nom'n in Okanagan-Coquihalla, currently held by CPC MP Stockwell Day. #
  • I've got a new @dadcamp post up today: "They grow up so fast! Or do they?" http://bit.ly/4avvjF #
  • Also today: @LeftCoastMama is interviewed by @sweetmamadotca http://bit.ly/3bsl4 #
  • Epic knock-down company meetings should be prohibited from Friday afternoons. Especially ones centred at my cube. #
  • Nifty! Tweeting my XBox! #
  • For the evening crowd: RT @AnthonyFloyd: I've got a new @dadcamp post up today: "They grow up so fast! Or do they?" http://bit.ly/4avvjF #
  • Thanks to @Dadcamp we're the new owners of an HP Photosmart A640. Thanks Buzz! I'll bring it to Dadcamp 3 http://bit.ly/299P2z R you coming? #
  • Geez FOX. Dollhouse on haitus? Why do you always hurt the ones you love? #
  • .@zenFish FOX always screws with the air schedules of their good shows http://bit.ly/2e2MPS #SerenityNow #
  • So who's doing NaBloPoMo this year? #
  • Happy Birthday @StacieBee! Tease your hair, put your leg-warmers on, and go crazy! #
  • Out for our first full family bike ride along the Richmond Dykes! #
  • http://twitpic.com/mt3bu – Quinlan's first bike ride – 12km along thr Richmond Dyke #
  • http://twitpic.com/mt3v4 – End of our ride, Garry Point Park in Steveston. #
  • Marmite gets it, Warner Bros doesn't. Old media circles the drain… http://bit.ly/4qJbTN [via @raincoaster] #
  • .@OnlineStrategy @ColleenCoplick @Zoeyjane Twitter Lists are a neat idea, but I'd like to maintain an annotated "I don't follow" list … #
  • Tonight I discovered that given a choice between The Shrieking Eels and The Shrieking Toddler, you should always choose the eels. Always. #
  • New LCF post last night: http://bit.ly/3svLwv *and* new LCM post too: http://bit.ly/1M9HU2 #
  • Today we celebrate our youngest's 1st birthday! Happy Birthday Quinlan! #
  • Thanks @tjrossignol @SlvrLambStudios @alexishinde @buzzbishop @AmberStrocel for the birthday wishes for Q! #
  • Ooops, missed @SeanFunk in the Happy B-Day wishes for Q. Poor guy, *his* kids grow too fast :D #
  • And another oops: Birthday wishes from birthday-girl +1 @StacieBee. Tweetdeck is failing me today for some reason :( #
  • RT @LeftCoastMama: Quinlan's first birthday. Cake! http://pic.gd/5f6265 #
  • U2 will live-stream their concert from the Rose Bowl in Pasedna tonight at 8:30 PDT http://bit.ly/3khr9n #u2webcast They're here on Wed! #
  • Apparently the U2 concert doesn't start until 9pm, they're just streaming promo stuff right now http://bit.ly/3khr9n #u2webcast #
  • U2 in concert NOW. http://www.youtube.com/u2 #u2webcast #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-19

Anthony on , 19 Oct 2009 03:15 am
  • RT @RickMercer: When Harper said he wasn't running a deficit in 2009 he was already 6 billion in the red. Shocker. #
  • Why do we allow our politicians, and indeed our highest office, to LIE to us? Where's the accountability? Where's the integrity? #cdnpoli #
  • http://twitpic.com/la8g5 – Today's bike ride with Aidan is 30 km round trip to Stanley Park! #
  • Back from awesome Thanksgiving ride to Stanley Park. 3 pm is too late for lunch, too early for supper. Solution? PIE! #
  • In 3 days we've put about 55 km on the new bike and Trail-A-Bike. I guess the boy likes it … and shares his father's #wanderlust #
  • Late to the party, but I want to be a member of the #LoyalOrderOfKnightsOfTheCurve (#LOKC) too! #KarLagerfeldIsAnAss http://bit.ly/7Zg8d #
  • Rather than emaciated, @EmmeRogers reminds us that #CurvesAreSexy (and normal) http://bit.ly/i3oCx #
  • RT @newfiehun @AnthonyFloyd Pie is the solution to many, many things. [Urp. At least 3 I can think of: Breakfast, lunch, supper] #
  • RT @rhh: "Nova Scotia’s 3 CPC ridings getting more stimulus cash than the other 8 put together". *Totally* a coincidence http://bit.ly/X5cJw #
  • RT @rhh: Peter MacKay's riding getting more than all 5 Liberal NS ridings combined. http://bit.ly/X5cJw #cdnpoli #
  • RT @tararobinson: So thats what all that black smoke was from… http://tinyurl.com/yk5jybf #yvr #coalharbour #fire [Great shot!] #
  • RT @krisjoseph: VANCOUVER TWEEPS: Check out Nick Di Gaetano's clown show, "Inclement Weather", this weekend at UBC: http://bit.ly/QwkTv #
  • Increasingly frustrated with the Canadian public. It's becoming clear there's never been a gov't more corrupt than the Harper Gov't #cdnpoli #
  • How the #CPC can maintain a 40% poll despite Harper gov't corruption is a sad commentary on public's view of the #LPC + Ignatieff #cdnpoli #
  • RT @dadcamp: DadCAMP 2 is coming up on Saturday. Will be giving away an HP A646 portable printer. RSVP now! http://www.dad-camp.com #
  • OH: "I'm *trying* to get the freakin' track cleaned up". Angst and a lack of self-censoring from our 4.5 yr old. #
  • RT @TweetDeck: RT @mashable: TweetDeck Adds New Notification System and New Follower Column – http://bit.ly/1CA6V [Nirvana!] #
  • About the only @Tweetdeck feature that is missing now is to have an "Ungrouped Friends" column instead of "All Friends"! #
  • Oh, and the other @Tweetdeck feature that would be handy is a mute button to temporarily turn off all notifications #
  • Since becoming a Dad almost 5 years ago, my emotional tolerance for "bad things happening to kids" has been acutely diminished #BoyInBalloon #
  • That's it. Can't watch video, too much chatter on Twitter. Going dark for a while. #
  • RT @dougsymington: Hope the wee balloon dude is ok. Meanwhile there are *many* 6 year-olds in your own communities in need of your support #
  • In skimming through my Twitter stream, it's readily apparent who has kids and who doesn't. Some of you childless ppl seem pretty heartless. #
  • RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — MISSING BALLOON BOY FOUND SAFELY. [Awesome. Whew. Now, what happened?] #
  • And, of course, I'm sure @BreakingNews meant that #BalloonBoy was found safe. Well, I'm sure he was found safely too, but that's secondary. #
  • RT @jaypiddy: If I was six and let that ufo sized balloon of my dad's fly off into the sunset. I would have hid too. #balloonboy #
  • Twitter Lists! Now we need @Tweetdeck to synchonize its groups with Twitter lists! #
  • RT @IanAMartin: @cognoscento I'm following you playing Quinn's Quiz. @CBCVancouver #
  • Frackin' #Rogers. 2 months since I canceled my phone service and they're still billing me! On hold w/ billing 3 months running! #RogersSucks #
  • I think at this point the #CRTC will be getting a letter. Un-freaking-believable. #RogersSucks #
  • Watching @donttrrythis and the guy with the 'stache and beret on Craig Ferguson with a cranky toddler on my lap. #Mythbusters #
  • Dark, slick leaves, and rain // Cycling to my work // Fall in Vancouver #twaiku #
  • RT @timbray Tear down the Vancouver viaducts! http://bit.ly/3h5F3 [via @kaler] #
  • Someone in USA who shares my name has been applying to universities. With wrong email accounts. Yes, plural. Hint: Uni might not be for you. #
  • I mean, seriously. He's given wrong Gmail *and* Yahoo addresses to a number of universities. Either he hates me or is new to teh intertubes. #
  • This person has looked at Kaplan University, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, ECPI College of Tech, and Colorado Tech U Online. #
  • Really? Online technical universities? Getting your own email address wrong? A clear demonstration of natural selection. #
  • The biggest problem with the @Twitter lists is going through hundreds of tweeps to categorize them. There needs to be a better way. #
  • Ha! Stephen Harper's response to being challenged about spending only in Tory ridings: "So?" (paraphrased) #cdnpoli #arrogant #corrupt #
  • Who's coming to the pumpkin patch with us tomorrow? http://bit.ly/4dc8PW #dadcamp #
  • RT @gmarkham: Dear #LPC: I'm lifelong Lib voter who will abandon you if you back business over citizens in anti-spam bill http://is.gd/4n2MX #
  • Let's raise a glass to @DixonTam on his last night as a wild bachelor! Slainte! #
  • Oi. The #dadcamp'ers had better have gumboots. Oh great, now I have @TheKerplunks "Gumboots" song going round and round… #
  • http://twitpic.com/lwbv9 – Pumpkin patch in the rain and mud #dadcamp #
  • Thanks to @buzzbishop for organizing today's #dadcamp at the pumpkin patch! A bit wet and muddy, but — meh — that's Vancouver! #
  • Great meeting @stv @karlwoll @_EricLowe @jaypiddy @buzzbishop @kylerstorm at today's #DadCamp. DadCamp 3: Giant's game 15 Nov 5pm. Join us? #
  • Congrats Dixon and your bride! RT @DixonTam I do. #wedding #
  • Now that we've returned from sloshing around the pumpkin patch … the sun has come out. Ah Vancouver, you're so fickle in the fall! #
  • Didn't take many photos at #dadcamp but I like this one in the corn maze: http://bit.ly/1vRhFt #
  • Freaking Windows driving me nuts this morning. We use Messenger to webcam btw grandparents, kids. Latest version unable to webcam. W.T.F? #
  • Search Google, turns out many, many people have same issue. For months. No response, fixes from MS. Typical. iChat for Windows anyone? #
  • Wow, overwhelming support for Skype. I'll push that option and see how we do. Thanks @gnb @buzzbishop @zenfish @kabutar #
  • Witching hour and wife announced she's going down for a bath. Seems like payback, but for what? #dadcamp #
  • Of course, it *could* be that I'm never home at witching hour (at work instead) so … you know … it's my turn … #
  • Decided to put some music on to try to quell the witching hour behaviour. Let 4 yr old choose the music. The Weakerthans? Really? Weird kid. #
  • I wonder what the correct technique for drinking wine out of a tumbler is… #
  • Doesn't look like I'm making it to the photowalk. Nuts. #
  • Going through my following list, putting tweeps into lists. What happened to @tofufighting? No tweets for months, no blog updates… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-12

Anthony on , 12 Oct 2009 03:15 am
  • .@iheartthatdance Ah, now, see you should have purchased the Tylenol Extra Zero Strength. Seriously. http://bit.ly/2OWufM #
  • Wow, rabid iPhone fanbois drooling on Canadian GSM network competition — based on one article citing anonymous sources. #DrunkOnKoolAid #
  • Does anyone have any experience with Trail-A-Bikes? Any thoughts about them? #
  • 1st day of the riding season w/ gloves. I'm so adapted to the West Coast climate I've lost the right to ref that winter spent in Sudbury :( #
  • Dear dumbass pedestrian: PLEASE look LEFT before you step off the curb. I'm doing 50 kph there, and I don't know who wins but it'll be messy #
  • Dear dumbass truck driver: PLEASE look LEFT before running that stop sign. At least you'll know my last words because I KNOW who wins that 1 #
  • Dear dumbass fixie-driving-hipster: Going the wrong way thru traffic circle is STUPID. Stupidity + hubris gave you the win in even match #
  • Dear other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists: Thank you for not trying to kill me tonight. The 5%'ers are giving you a bad name, btw. #
  • Interesting: Google Street View is live in Vancouver … but they didn't include UBC. I wonder why!? #
  • This sure sets the bar high for expectations when visiting Australian research orgs in the future: http://bit.ly/32eYP (music vid runs 4:20) #
  • The inability to block specific phone numbers on my cell is frustrating. 778-785-4596 "You've won $2600" I'm looking at you #PhoneScamsSuck #
  • My 4 yr old just sat and watched the @rickmercer Report w/ me with rapt attention. I'm not sure what that says about me, him, or @rickmercer #
  • Test-riding some bikes after work today. Stoked. #
  • RT @dadcamp: How do you achieve Work Life Balance? post from @anthonyfloyd this am on DadCAMP http://retwt.me/HR2r #
  • Twitter is being clever. I'm trying to RT an update from this am just before the Twitpocalypse and since it's a dupe Twitter won't post it! #
  • RT @dadcamp: How do you achieve Work Life Balance? post from @anthonyfloyd this am on DadCAMP http://retwt.me/HR2r #
  • RT @eastcoastgranpa: @AnthonyFloyd How about this trailer?? http://bit.ly/2ji008 [Wow, *that* is cool!] #
  • Oh look, Canadian politicos, it's Justin Trudeau (@justinpjt) #cdnpoli #
  • .@TassimoCanada *I* live in Canada. I have >500 followers. I'm a Dad! Why the hate? #
  • OK I have to give @TassimoCanada credit, it seems they're not abandoning Dads after all … #
  • I haz Google Wave. Being at the top of my local social tech food chain means that it's a pretty lonely wave to ride…. #
  • RT @mugpie_guy: simply for ~not~ being George W Bush, Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! http://is.gd/46kMp #
  • RT @andreareimer: Just drank some juice..out of the carton…and noticed it has a "best before" date of 2017. WTH? [Was it Happy Planet? :)] #
  • RT @smithcd05: Obama won the peace prize? Did a wire agency take an Onion article seriously? #
  • Rather than "creating a new int'l climate" (2 years in a row now) how about somebody actually tries to advance peace!? #nobel #
  • Uh … "AIRCRAFT" … !? RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — SECOND NASA AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO THE MOON. #
  • Want to get GPS mount for my bike. GPSCentral wants $10 to ship it (<100 g) from Calgary to VanCity. It's a $9.99 part. Grrr. #
  • Reading "Two stupid things ppl say about Welsh" http://bit.ly/KnilR reminded of @julesjulesjules and trying to figure out how to say cwtch #
  • RT @limelitePR: My take on the @tassimocanada contest. How does a free proposition translate into brand value & sales? http://bit.ly/FGRkG #
  • SO, @Cheaty , my son would be all over a pink pull up. I get the BARBIE objection, though :) #
  • Awesome! I think it was my cousin in Calgary who just helped me add a 1 TB drive to our Shaw PVR. Thrilled with Shaw Customer Service! #
  • Just left a comment on @limelitePR's analysis (http://bit.ly/FGRkG ) of the @TassimoCanada promotion http://bit.ly/1a8h69 . Chime in! #
  • Cleaning up and unabashedly using Treehouse to distract kids. They're watching the Chinese equiv of Dora: Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Just as annoying. #
  • In retrospect, though, the Mandarin exposure is much more appropriate than the Spanish exposure. #NewWorldReality #
  • http://twitpic.com/l17m1 – Our fancy new ride: A Gary Fisher and a Trail-A-Bike. At the inevit pgnd #
  • This is quite a bike ride, now at playground at David Lam Park #
  • http://twitpic.com/l1f34 – Toddler euphoria, fire truck shows up to deal with false alarm. #
  • I missed this on Friday, but maybe @Translink could learn something from the Swedes http://bit.ly/15ll4A Piano stairs! (via @dbarefoot) #
  • Ad in today's @vancouversun for California with boffo shot of Yosemite with sun peaking from behind Half Dome. Must. Resist. Pull. #
  • .@buzzbishop Like @RebeccaColeman I strongly recommend using a removable for an infant. Easier to just unplug & go when they fall asleep #
  • RT @604homesguy: I just verified that I AM an organ donor. Are you? Sign up today: http://bit.ly/14FCqJ [Me too!] #
  • Trimmed my face down from Grizzly Adams to Dr. Andy Brown (google it). Should last for the week. #beardcore #
  • http://twitpic.com/l53pf – I wonder how many followers I'll lose b/c of this pic? #
  • Reality of not owning a minivan: 2 car seats in back preclude anyone else. Wife, kids + wife's sis heading to Burnaby mini trains, me @ home #
  • Turkey dinner's done, pies are eaten. Lost one game of Wizards in the last hand, won one game of Wizards in the last hand. Good times! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-05

Anthony on , 05 Oct 2009 03:15 am
  • Not quite an optical illusion, but this will make your vision swim for a while: http://bit.ly/Nwkri #
  • Aidan woke screaming from nightmare, cascade effect wakes Quinlan. And almost an hour later we've got everyone back to bed. Send vodka. #
  • And so, the 6 months of the Rainy Season begins in Vancouver. Bike traffic reduced to "negligible" today. Lotsa room in the bike locker tho' #
  • Another walk home tonight! Broken spoke this time. #
  • Awesome! Redirected the cat to have her hairball on the kitchen tiles rather than the carpet! I'll take all the small victories I can get :| #
  • "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis" http://bit.ly/1Kh2jT #
  • Some how the 3 minute freq of the 99 on B-Way has stretched to 10 mins + counting #
  • GM to end Saturn. It'll be wound down and dealerships will close (via @News1130radio) A different type of company, a different type of car #
  • No wonder the rest of Canada makes fun of Lotus Land. Crossing guards in the DTES!? :eyeroll: #
  • .@Nicole013 @tjrossignol The first car company that makes online purchasing feasible will have instant appeal. #NewBusinessModels #
  • Got the spoke on my bike fixed just in time … for the rain. Slick wet leaves on the road are the reality for the next 3 months. #
  • RT @LeftCoastMama @anndouglas Just read your article on #Nestlefamily debate/pr nightmare. If only all were so reasoned http://bit.ly/5RSUG #
  • All these "I've got Google Wave invites! Follow me and RT!" tweets. I wonder how many of them are scams? I only trust ppl I'm already f'wing #
  • RT @AvWeekBenet: Surprise! Capt. Sully takes to the skies earlier than expected: http://tinyurl.com/y8abz6a [America's only celeb pilot?] #
  • #cpc candidate Landon quits, stands by pork-barrel charge/PMO muzzle http://bit.ly/TqC5m #cdnpoli (via @davidakin) [if only all so honest] #
  • When the #NDP and #BQ wanted to bring down the gov't, the #LPC wouldn't. Now that the LPC wants to the NDP won't. Payback or karma? #cdnpoli #
  • Follow Charles Darwin as he sails to the Galapagos. Seriously. Seriously AWESOME, that is: http://www.thebeaglevoyage.com/ #
  • Huh. Just happened across Letterman, telling about attempted blackmail attempt and confessing to sex w/ Late Show employees. Huh. #
  • Argh. .docx, .pptx, .xlsx should be pushed back through the Hellgate from which they emerged. #
  • Holy crap. Completely unbelievable, but very intense: http://bit.ly/xrX3i (Youtube link to scene from 2012, runs 5:28) #
  • http://twitpic.com/k4j0s – That's a BIG flag! #
  • Complete and utter preschooler meltdown in progress. Somehow less frustrating at this point than the build-up. Go figure. #
  • I'm mean it's kinda like arguing with the ump. Complaining that you don't want to go to bed when you're already there will go nowhere. #
  • http://twitpic.com/kaykl – At our local playground, Granville Loop #
  • Dear snooty smoker: Going to a playground to smoke is selfish and thoughtless. Moving 6" when we ask you not to smoke near our kids? Asshat! #
  • Battle of the Blades is like DWTS but with a very real risk of a sliced artery and local cable production quality. Very Canadian, eh? #

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