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Big Bang Theory on Twitter –or– Sheldon vs Wil

October 29, 2009

Normally, I tend to avoid 30-minute sit­coms.  There are two, though, that get an excep­tion.  The first is How I Met Your Mother, which I may go into detail about in the future.  The sec­ond is Big Bang The­ory.  This is a great show that is incred­i­bly nerdy and extremely funny.  Despite being a smart […]

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YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone">Shortening with YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone

October 22, 2009

A few months back, around the pos­si­ble demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice, there was a sud­den rise in pop­u­lar­ity with run­ning your own URL short­ener on your own bou­tique URL.  That was when I set up Ninja Me (nja.me) using YOURLS.  At the time, I reverse-engineered the undoc­u­mented API enough to hack Twitter-Tools […]

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Twitter’s @reply fail: a screenshot of hasty decisions

May 13, 2009

So it looks like Twit­ter took out an option in people’s user set­tings.  This set­ting let you see or not see con­ver­sa­tional replies to which you only fol­low half the con­ver­sa­tion.  It is a lit­tle con­fus­ing and an exam­ple would help paint the pic­ture.  Let us say this is a con­ver­sa­tion on Twit­ter: Costello: @Abbott […]

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Son of Apple and other things

May 2, 2009

It feels like it’s been a while since I posted some­thing here, so I will start with a few cool things and then drop into the var­i­ous and sundry items. First! My sec­ond ever Etsy pur­chase arrived last night.  I know Etsy to be the land of puffy-paint, glit­ter, and rhine­stones; of “fash­ion” sweat­shirts; of […]

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Why I prefer Nambu as a Twitter client

April 20, 2009

For a long while, I used Twit­ter­rific as my only Twit­ter client.  It is a great, well writ­ten, appli­ca­tion that nicely inte­grates into OS X.  Unfor­tu­nately, I out­grew it.  The peo­ple I fol­low in Twit­ter gen­er­ally fall into three groups: the Port­land tech scene, the ARG scene, and “other” (which includes friends that fit in […]

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Portland Monkey Business

April 4, 2009

I do not know what sur­prises me more — that OHSU is per­form­ing research on mon­keys here in vegan, hip­pie, gra­nola, animal-rights Port­land or that sev­eral of said mon­keys have escaped. 3 escaped mon­keys spot­ted near Hills­boro research cen­ter Of course, Twit­ter is going bananas over the mon­keys: #pdx­mon­key (see also: #pdxtmt and #mon­keypoca­lypse).  And […]

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In which I try out barefoot shoes

March 28, 2009

Not too long ago, I was referred to a New York Mag­a­zine arti­cle about shoes.  More specif­i­cally, it is about not wear­ing shoes and how every­one walks wrong.  It was intrigu­ing, and while I am not yet ready to jump on the crunchy-granola, dirt-worshiping, tree-hugging, long-hair-hippie band­wagon (heck, I just cut off all my hair!), […]

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My Ignite Portland 5 Recap

February 25, 2009

It’s okay to do a recap a week late, right?  Last week was Ignite Port­land 5, the night of 5 minute talks, each accom­pa­nied by twenty 15-second slides.  Although I really loved IP2 and 3, I was a lit­tle dis­heart­ened by IP4.  This was for no one spe­cific rea­son — the orga­ni­za­tion and tim­ing seemed […]

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Twitter updates from near and far (but mostly near)

August 9, 2008

If we fil­ter out all of the BrightKite check­ins, replies, and things that are no longer as inter­est­ing as I orig­i­nally believed them to be, then we end up with this lit­tle set of tweets (since my last Twitter-to-blog cross post): I need car­bon nano tube­socks. [*] Ore­gon has crappy but­ter geom­e­try. [*] (this was […]

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15 /more/ minutes of fame

July 16, 2008

vpisteve’s in the iPhone App Store!  Not only is he in one of the sam­ple app images, he is in the first (and thereby default) app image for Twittervision!

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In which we learn the perils of a rimshot

June 3, 2008

vpis­teve: sadtrombone.com has now been banned from the office Bri­a­nEnigma: @vpisteve I decom­piled the Flash and loaded the MP3 into my iPhone for instant sadtrom­bone action! also: rimshot vpis­teve: @BrianEnigma you are my hero Last week, I dis­cov­ered a flaw in this par­tic­u­lar plan.  Let me paint you a pic­ture to illus­trate.  It is near­ing the […]

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Twitter updates from around the world (or, at least, my part of the world)

April 29, 2008

A few of the more inter­est­ing and notable Twit­ter updates that I have made in the past few weeks: Buy­ing shower cur­tains and duct tape. Con­cerned some­one will think I’m up to evil. Today feels like I’m touch-typing with one hand sjifted tp tje rogjt (shifted to the right) Watch­ing steamed clams pop open is so fun! […]

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