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  1. C: Old Faithful is in Calistoga. Me: I saw. My 1st thought was, "Wow. THE old faithful? We should see that." My 2nd thought was, "I am old." about 9 hours ago from web
  2. Found a weird, very obscure IE6 and 7 browser bug. "Inserted Left Margin" bug. http://bit.ly/77ZVZv Has anyone seen this before? about 13 hours ago from web
  3. 23 year coma guy is a cruel hoax. James Randi: http://bit.ly/7TKTEH "Facilitated comm." is so exploitative it's painful. 7:44 PM Nov 24th from web
  4. Whew. Finished my slides for tomorrow's "5 Minutes of Fame" presentation. Stop by Noisebridge tomorrow at 8pm. http://bit.ly/2uYOYv 11:04 PM Nov 18th from web
  5. I don't want the dog stolen while I'm shopping, so I'll lock him up. The legs too, otherwise someone will take the legs and leave the rest. 3:11 PM Nov 18th from web
  6. Text looks funny when you capitalize the prepositional objects in your Sentences. 1:53 PM Nov 13th from web
  7. Started a Google Adwords campaign for the Python book because they gave me $100 credit when I started the account. Fingers crossed. 5:30 PM Nov 8th from web
  8. 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. 12:41 PM Nov 6th from web
  9. 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. 6:51 PM Nov 5th from web
  10. "Deepity" is my new favorite meme-ish word. 4:54 PM Nov 4th from web
  11. Idea for next Python book: Multiplayer 8-bit Zelda clone. Is this awesome? (Y/N) 2:29 PM Nov 3rd from web
  12. Latest cover design for the Python book's 2nd Edition: http://bit.ly/HI62X What do you think? 3:12 PM Oct 30th from web
  13. 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. 4:00 PM Oct 28th from web
  14. Awesomo. Done with the 2nd edition of the Python book. Know anyone who wants to learn programming? http://inventwithpython.com 9:10 PM Oct 26th from web
  15. 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 11:35 AM Oct 22nd from web
  16. Bomb threat at Millbrae station. I'm stuck on a nonmoving Caltrain. 6:43 PM Oct 21st from txt
  17. That's odd. Cops boarded muni N to check for tickets. Never seen that before. 6:52 PM Oct 20th from txt
  18. 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. 12:48 PM Oct 20th from web
  19. Just finished "Out of Our Heads" by Alva Noe, a book on embodied consciousness. In short: I hate it. 6:40 PM Oct 16th from web
  20. Just watchin the rain. And by "rain" I mean online national weather maps. 5:11 PM Oct 13th from web