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  1. OSX: Win8: round-rect your windows & buttons or don't. This changes almost every release for no good reason. No wonder big bugs get ignored!
  2. Remember when fat Homer mashed the phone keypad with his fingers? Such is precision touch, forced to live inside tablet-ed UIs. #dialingwand
  3. Touch-revamped interfaces on both Win & Mac recently make my trackball feel like a child with sloppy predictions & leaky borders. Mouse WAAH
  4. @NorthernlionLP watched some dude swim in Fez for 5 minutes but all he got was having to swim back the same amount
  5. I start by turning my R brain on- coming up /w all kinds of stuff- then L brain comes on [gets it organized, coherent & fair] -Steve Jackson
  6. Chinatown NYC Bus ops "crackdown" means lots more people getting fired that can't reschedule. It took 9/11 to stop air travel. bus class-ism
  7. TV Tonight: #RookieBlue after #Touch Tim Kring likes sappy globalism & it pays off like #SixDegrees done right tonight- with Maria Bello! :P
  8. Job Interviews didn't always "Used to Feel" (-fitting) like an invasive TSA-style patdown, but here we are.
  9. 1000x Yes! Why (Some) psychopaths make great CEOs forbes.com/sites/jeffberc… Tony Soprano Walter White Marlo Stanfield Stringer Bell Jackie Dexter
  10. If Underworld made out with Depeche Mode & Flood, It'd sound a lot like "Vector Lovers - Crash Premonition" youtube.com/watch?v=mt-sU4…
  11. and my 'new' jam: Womack & Womack – Conscious of My Conscience Belive ♫ blip.fm/~1bl01a
  12. The Family Stand - Connected ♫ blip.fm/~1bkzwc
  13. Summer TV that doesn't suck: #Suits #WhiteCollar #RookieBlue #Louie #Damages #BreakingBad
  14. "It has come time for me to stary my diary. I am 13-" later "cupping mittened hands around a glowing mug" twitpic.com/9qtugi
  15. "when casting a sexual psychopath with a van, you don't have to ACTUALLY cast a sexual psychopath with a van!" [he a... bit.ly/KPPpjW
  16. Jabroni: a Rastafarian aficionado of "My Little Pony"