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dsaff

  1. @marick You mean it all starts innocuously, and before you know it, you've proved the incompleteness theorem yet again? 4:28 PM May 26th via TweetDeck in reply to marick
  2. (@kcsaff) RT @JamesFallows @bradplumer: What oil-sands mining in Alberta actually looks like. read.bi/MAOG8q 1:43 AM May 22nd via TweetDeck
  3. RT @StefanBirkner System Rules 1.2.0 has improved support for testing code which reads from System.in. stefanbirkner.github.com/system-rules/i… 1:37 AM May 22nd via TweetDeck
  4. @PaulRubel this swap was in the kids' room? More details, please! :-) 3:37 AM May 12th via TweetDeck in reply to PaulRubel
  5. @kcsaff Here's to a future in which the War on Terror feels as quaint as the anarchist scare. 2:58 AM May 11th via TweetDeck in reply to kcsaff
  6. RT @stevenkaas Haskell's Wager: what if infinite lists can suffer infinitely even when lazily evaluated? 8:55 PM May 9th via TweetDeck
  7. RT @newsycombinator Perspective: All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere j.mp/fbl6jH 8:36 PM May 9th via TweetDeck
  8. RT @mfeathers Systems take on biological characteristics when growth favors the current structure over restructuring. 4:46 AM Apr 23rd via TweetDeck
  9. @kcsaff We never thought to just ask its name, and now it's too late... 5:05 AM Feb 10th via TweetDeck in reply to kcsaff
  10. RT @mfeathers "Life is, for most of us, a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected. " -- Anonymous 3:39 AM Jan 31st via TweetDeck
  11. (That last @cschools retweet was actually from my own anonymous feedback form. Happy to de-anonymize. It was great.) 7:25 PM Jan 28th via web
  12. RT @psysal Do television writers have bumper stickers that read "I support our Tropes"? Is that even funny? Well do they drive SUVs or not? 11:37 AM Jan 28th via TweetDeck
  13. @ckeithray sadly, not as often as sisyphean. 8:58 PM Jan 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to ckeithray
  14. @wallingf Thanks! 3:21 PM Jan 17th via TweetDeck in reply to wallingf
  15. I'm joining the Android Books team: saffgreenbar.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-ro… 8:34 AM Jan 17th via TweetDeck
  16. RT @Jury An interesting read for the many of us who struggle to lose or maintain weight: nytimes.com/2012/01/01/mag… 4:57 AM Jan 2nd via TweetDeck
  17. RT @ashalynd If the programmers like each other, they play a game called "pair programming". If not, then the game is called "peer review". 5:20 PM Dec 31st, 2011 via TweetDeck
  18. @marick Totally missed it. Thought you earnestly meant humiliation for the giver, not sarcastically for the recipient. Tin ear, mea culpa. 10:19 AM Dec 28th, 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to marick
  19. @marick Which verse is that? (Not that it's a bad idea, just citation desired...) 7:32 PM Dec 27th, 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to marick