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  1. @funranium (alpha particles are the physicist's equivalent to white truffle oil) 2:54 PM May 19th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to funranium
  2. @funranium You're really not refuting my statement here. I assume it's also just a bit radioactive? Y'know, for flavor? 2:53 PM May 19th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to funranium
  3. @funranium Commodore's coat? Really? Is there a point at which self-parody loops all the way back around to simple definition? 2:44 PM May 19th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to funranium
  4. If you introduce yourself with, "I spent 30 years in MI6..." you don't have to say anything else. Your credibility has been established. 7:12 PM May 18th via Tweetbot for iOS
  5. The Community season finale was 22 of the most perfect minutes of television I have ever experienced. #sixseasonsandamovie 11:00 PM May 17th via Wren for Mac
  6. There is an art to finding the perfect place in a document to insert a secret quotation from All-Star Superman. I have mastered it. 4:58 PM May 17th via Wren for Mac
  7. Context for previous: arxiv.org/abs/1205.2024 4:29 PM May 16th via Wren for Mac
  8. Life is weird. I just sent an email to one of the founders of my company with the subject line, "Quantum Teleportation and Lasers." 4:29 PM May 16th via Wren for Mac
  9. Okay. Back to Beethoven violin concertos and writing until I run out of stupid. Hopefully there's some smart stuff at the barrel's bottom. 1:19 PM May 16th via Wren for Mac
  10. I think most problems can be solved with enough dynamite and the freedom to try a few times. newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/18/col… 12:01 PM Apr 26th via Wren for Mac
  11. @aeolianharp Except that one day, lord willing and the creek don't rise, the kid will learn not to eat his own vomit. 9:46 PM Apr 17th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to aeolianharp
  12. If the Cambria font were a person, no court in the land would convict me for inflicting horrific violence upon it. 10:11 AM Apr 17th via Wren for Mac
  13. The world in Game of Thrones has millennia of history WITH CONTINUOUS CULTURE, yet their tech is stuck at Dark Ages level. Why? (cf. Korra) 1:29 PM Apr 16th via Wren for Mac
  14. Is it weird to half-enjoy the oh-god-I've-been-struck-illiterate feeling of writers' block? It means I'm working on something important. 10:17 AM Apr 6th via Wren for Mac
  15. @rambozus Can we pause and consider how monumentally badass Batman must be to knock out a specific tooth with a precision backhanded punch? 8:08 PM Apr 1st via Twitter for Mac in reply to rambozus
  16. Politics: Wherein one tries to convince people one is good at it by claiming to have no experience and rejecting 230 years of progress. 12:11 PM Mar 31st via Tweetbot for iOS
  17. Wow. @MarkWaid and @PaoloMRivera make it look so easy in Daredevil. Almost every page has a moment a lesser book would make its centerpiece. 7:23 AM Mar 28th via Twitter for Mac
  18. @funranium but Uncle Edison always taught me, "Why design what you can steal and patent?" 9:59 PM Mar 26th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to funranium
  19. @funranium New office has a 6'x4' board. Some day I'll rouse from the dry-erase-induced fugue state and find plans to steal a nuclear sub. 5:26 PM Mar 26th via web in reply to funranium
  20. Nothing seems to bring out my inner crazy person like a blank whiteboard. 5:16 PM Mar 26th via Tweetbot for iOS
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