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alandowling

  1. Puppet show with Analisa at Happy Hollow Park and Zoo! campl.us/jJEv
  2. "Don't you rain on my recently washed car", he angrily grumbled to the increasingly grey clouds. #lifenarration
  3. @JuanArreguin Sunnyvale (just west of San Jose)
  4. @JuanArreguin It's like an hour to get there! I got things to do! :P
  5. @JuanArreguin Don't make it to the city too often. Maybe sometime in June? How you adjusting to west coast life?
  6. Cuz, ya know, noise - “@JuanArreguin: NoisePNG - Generate noisy PNG-images with alpha-transparency noisepng.com via @Arood
  7. @brainvsbraun "Wait a minute, this doesn't taste like coffee…"
  8. Driving near Google HQ around lunch time: "Nerds! Nerds as far as the eye can see!" #loveit #fellownerd
  9. The More You Know - “@jcroft: If no one's asking for it, don't do it. If people are asking for it, maybe do it.”
  10. Watch out for @mazameli over at dribbble.com/mazameli, he's a tricky one.
  11. @mazameli Niiiiccccce
  12. @chandlervdw Because it makes everything too easy? /s
  13. @simonpegg I thought you were in your late 20s/early 30s. No?
  14. Anyway… sure is beautiful outside! Loving this weather even though I'm mostly trapped in my work cave.
  15. Economic issues in US are not the result of recent bad policy but decades (or more) of bad ones. #imho
  16. Do people really think that the current president is the only one to blame for current national economic woes? Makes no sense.
  17. Well dang. panic.com/coda/
  18. @twestonkendall I hardly ever use Safari anymore. Too slow to open up.
  19. thenextweb.com/google/2012/05… - What happened to you, Firefox?