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  1. Started a Google Adwords campaign for the Python book because they gave me $100 credit when I started the account. Fingers crossed.
  2. Invention idea: Umbrella that plays the "Friends" theme song when opened. Also: time machine so I can go back 10 years when that's relevant.
  3. It's kind of embarrassing how often I come up with solutions to my problems while I'm on the toliet. Time to replace the Aeron I suppose.
  4. "Deepity" is my new favorite meme-ish word.
  5. Idea for next Python book: Multiplayer 8-bit Zelda clone. Is this awesome? (Y/N)
  6. Latest cover design for the Python book's 2nd Edition: http://bit.ly/HI62X What do you think?
  7. Whenever I spend more than a couple hours on a single programming problem, I get the bad feeling that the solution is really, really easy.
  8. Awesomo. Done with the 2nd edition of the Python book. Know anyone who wants to learn programming? http://inventwithpython.com
  9. Got home at 10pm last night. The "suspicious package" turned out to be full of toliet paper. My life is a sitcom. http://bit.ly/3hMaOx
  10. Bomb threat at Millbrae station. I'm stuck on a nonmoving Caltrain.
  11. That's odd. Cops boarded muni N to check for tickets. Never seen that before.
  12. Finished "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer while I was sick. Easy read with lots of anecdotes mixed in with science info. I liked it.
  13. Just finished "Out of Our Heads" by Alva Noe, a book on embodied consciousness. In short: I hate it.
  14. Just watchin the rain. And by "rain" I mean online national weather maps.
  15. I wonder how much bandwidth Google is saving with their simple, black & white barcode logo today.
  16. Huffington Post adds spam to your clip board if you copy/paste something from their site. (Win, FF 3) Blehck.
  17. Websites that try to prevent copy/pasting are revolting, in my eyes morally so. I'm looking at you, snopes.com.
  18. Working on book edits for so long, I'm kind of going blind. As a learning project, I'm trying to make the book XHTML compliant.
  19. Ran out of business cards in my wallet. Doh. Cardinal networking sin.
  20. Some coworkers are talking about their cats, and I want to join the conversation. This makes me reconsider some notions I have about myself.