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@AequitasZA How much experience to you have with that analogy? 10:00 AM Jun 1st via web in reply to AequitasZA
@dislekcia I just wish they would come out and say "Yes our servers suck. Here's what we're doing." I can't imagine they just don't care. 11:24 AM May 31st via web in reply to dislekcia
@dislekcia why? What are you going to do? Return it? Hah! 11:19 AM May 31st via web in reply to dislekcia
Cupcakes are difficult to eat. 10:41 AM May 30th via web
North Carolina says, "Science? We don't want any of that in our state!" blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/201… Thanks @greatmanly 10:01 AM May 30th via web
Back in Detroit! Thanks for the great time Minneapolis (and @fallenpickles) 8:03 AM May 28th via Twitter for iPhone
Great thunderstorm in Minneapolis! 6:10 PM May 27th via Twitter for iPhone
ignu "The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing" miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/281… #OpenYourZombieKit 6:12 PM May 26th via TweetDeck Retweeted by benbarefield and 5 others
Well hello Minnesota, how *you* doin'? 8:45 PM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone
Off to Minneapolis for a weekend adventure! Goodbye Detroit! 6:19 PM May 25th via Twitter for iPhone
notch "Hi, Mojang, we want to ruin the internet. Want to help us?" i.imgur.com/DnYS0.png 9:08 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by benbarefield and 1433 others
@LaScaldaferri if you weren't so lazy, you'd *actually* tilt those tables! :-P 1:05 PM May 23rd via web in reply to LaScaldaferri
@GreatWhiskahs Diablo 3! Great solution :P 6:41 PM May 22nd via web in reply to GreatWhiskahs
ARrrrrR! Heisenbugs are the worst! 7:04 AM May 18th via web
craignicol In honour of the Day against Homophobia : A Teen's Brave Response to "I'm Christian, Unless You're Gay" bit.ly/HeX8ot 1:32 PM May 17th via identica from Glasgow City, Glasgow City Retweeted by benbarefield and 2 others
@K2theSwift boooooring!!! :-P 1:31 PM May 17th via web in reply to K2theSwift
@JayRWren I don't get it... :-P 8:11 AM May 17th via web in reply to JayRWren
@GreyTheTick aaahh! You just sent me into the bowels of the internet looking for whether Quarians have hair. 7:29 PM May 16th via web in reply to GreyTheTick
@fallenpickles Don't know about Salarian distribution, but Krogan's recent history has messed up theirs, we don't really know what is normal 7:13 PM May 16th via web in reply to fallenpickles
@fallenpickles I bet human females look just like human males to Salarians. 7:11 PM May 16th via web in reply to fallenpickles