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Rode the US-2/97/I-90 loop with a friend through Leavenworth today, then had a quiet date. Crashing now. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for Mac
silentbicycle gnuplotting.org, cool graphs made with #gnuplot 4:01 PM May 25th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by BrianTRice and 2 others
@nein09 If shades are involved, it had better be an 11011. 2:03 PM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA in reply to nein09
This weekend marks a year since I've returned to Seattle! It's mostly worked out fine, even if I complain about car collisions and such. :-) 1:46 PM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
@nein09 Oh wait I forgot about my Kinesis keyboard that I type with every day. :p 1:42 PM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
@nein09 I own a Lisp machine of my own, which is maybe analogous (and exactly the sort of thing that the author of that blog seeks). 1:37 PM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA in reply to nein09
fogus "Engelbart's Violin" --> bit.ly/JYIxBn 1:05 PM May 25th via TweetDeck Retweeted by BrianTRice and 4 others
.@swartable Etoile/GnuStep/EToys all need more concurrency and (far) better abstractions. 11:56 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA in reply to swartable
@swartable I disagree; they're still making choices confined by the C/90's mindset (excuse my drastic shorthand). 11:43 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA in reply to swartable
@alexsuraci Slate was supposed to fix this, damnit. 11:42 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA in reply to alexsuraci
Everyone's chasing the 90's beige/grey aesthetic while making completely unproductive, modal or semi-modal UX choices. 11:42 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
Seriously, who's going to make a usable workstation OS over the next decade? Not Apple or Microsoft; they're busy leaving for other markets 11:40 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
My only beef is that everyone's given up on even making a decent "truck" before it existed: "Computers = Trucks": lilly.tumblr.com/post/237196999… 11:39 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
NB: I am very long AAPL. :p 11:15 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
Kickingbear Three Things That Should Trouble Apple. kickingbear.com/blog/archives/… 10:40 PM May 24th via Tweetbot for iOS Retweeted by BrianTRice and 15 others
Demoing again today. Lots of refinements; hopefully they won't clamour to ship too loudly. ;-) 11:10 AM May 25th via web from Seattle, WA
CodeWisdom "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise" - Edsger Dijkstra 8:10 AM May 25th via Buffer Retweeted by BrianTRice and 257 others
StOnSoftware Pharo is breaking away from the monolithic smalltalk image with Mariano's Fuel. In a multi-core world we need multiple images. #Pharoconf 1:49 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by BrianTRice and 4 others
@built This is all I can find: rapha.cc/caps … Sounds like nostalgia to me. 10:04 PM May 24th via Twitter for Mac in reply to built
@zrail FYI “@Strabd: Made a Voyager captioned screen cap. This is actual ST:VOY dialogue cheezburger.com/6262422272” 9:50 PM May 24th via Twitter for Mac

Name Brian T. Rice
Location Seattle, WA 98108
Web http://www.briant...
Bio mad computer scientist, motorcyclist, programming language hacker, analytics/data geek