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allisonrandal

  1. @sonofhans Yes, certainly (chat about Puppet DSL). 1:14 PM Apr 30th via web in reply to sonofhans
  2. Really, what interests me more is whether these experiments will offer any evidence for String Theory/Brane World model. 12:50 PM Apr 30th via web
  3. The same theory predicts that cosmic rays also create black holes, so huge numbers of tiny black holes might have lived and died undetected. 12:45 PM Apr 30th via web
  4. But, they'd have such tiny mass, and such high heat, that they'd radiate all energy, shrink, and disappear in 10^-26 seconds. 12:41 PM Apr 30th via web
  5. Twummary: In theory (String Theory and Brane World models), the LHC could create tiny black holes at 10 TeV (currently it's at 8 TeV). 12:38 PM Apr 30th via web
  6. Invited to a talk on why black holes created by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN won't eat the Earth. #perksofstudyingastrophysics 5:07 PM Mar 30th via web
  7. I'm disappointed that aptitude doesn't support multiarch. :( Its searching capability is far more usable than apt-cache. 10:50 AM Mar 15th via web
  8. Finished listening to Maya Angelou's "Letter to my Daughter" on the drive from Seattle. What an amazing woman! 1:29 PM Feb 21st via web
  9. @czajkowski Congrats! :) 6:35 PM Feb 12th via web in reply to czajkowski
  10. @Jettamakka Ha, you win the prize of worstness. :) 12:12 PM Jan 25th via web in reply to Jettamakka
  11. @Jettamakka true, it could have been Rick Astley ;) 3:07 PM Jan 24th via web in reply to Jettamakka
  12. Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" #stuckinmyhead 12:40 PM Jan 24th via web
  13. A long way off from "inbox zero", aiming for "inbox golf". Right now that's down 1000 messages/day, but it gets harder as I approach zero. 10:15 AM Jan 2nd via web
  14. Combined Debian/Ubuntu Local Bug Squashing Jam/Party in Portland this Sunday bit.ly/tN9qdx 9:43 PM Nov 28th, 2011 via web
  15. @jzb Introductions made. A FLOSS "good karma" moment. :) 5:03 PM Nov 27th, 2011 via web in reply to jzb
  16. @jzb "fork and don't talk to the source" is a bad FLOSS pattern. Always a mistake, and can take years to repair the damage. 4:28 PM Nov 27th, 2011 via web in reply to jzb
  17. @jzb I'd be happy to put MATE in touch with the GNOME leaders. 4:27 PM Nov 27th, 2011 via web in reply to jzb
  18. Will Linux Mint contribute their GNOME3 extensions, or patches for their fork of GNOME2 back upstream to GNOME? I'd give them a thumbs up. 4:06 PM Nov 27th, 2011 via web