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  1. @sgcourtney although, now that i looked it up, the iPad has 256MB of RAM compared to 512 on the iPhone. that _might_ mean more app crashes. 29 minutes ago via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to sgcourtney
  2. @sgcourtney what’re you running now? it should be fine tho. the iPhone 4 (not 4S) has about the same power as the 1st-gen iPad. 30 minutes ago via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to sgcourtney
  3. @cdbarker erm, so. J scores 8 in Scrabble, house rules notwithstanding. (also, JEEZ, base score of 20, is pretty easy to lay down.) 12:02 PM May 31st via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to cdbarker
  4. @waferbaby Traditional. but if Simplified had been invented a few decades later, we’d probably call it Legacy Chinese instead. 4:42 PM May 30th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to waferbaby
  5. @cljohnst not expensive at all. i know a lot of people who keep one at their office and swear by it. amazon.com/Aerobie-AeroPr… 8:39 AM May 30th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to cljohnst
  6. @cljohnst there’s hot water, tho? time to buy an aeropress, it sounds like. 8:08 AM May 30th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to cljohnst
  7. @improperlybusy THIS. THIS. if you* don’t even know, and i treat you as A Person, i’ve fulfilled my responsibilities. *you(arb) 7:57 AM May 30th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to improperlybusy
  8. @VerbingNouns i wonder if herpetologists abbreviate their field as HERP the way linguists use LING. 7:42 AM May 30th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to VerbingNouns
  9. @nmashton hey man, that’s your own black magic come back to get you. no complaining. 7:58 PM May 29th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to nmashton
  10. @wordnik my cousin got sick in camp on Cho Oyu and refused to come home until there was an avalanche. he’s a bit too scansorial, we think. 7:21 AM May 29th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to wordnik
  11. @imnotsatan i was all “psi trees? is that a linguistics thing? OH WAIT.” 5:13 PM May 27th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to imnotsatan
  12. ahem. dear iTunes Match: CASE SENSITIVE TITLE MATCHES BUT ALBUM DOESNT MATTER AT ALL??? ASDFASDFASDFASDF X_x i feel better now. 6:15 AM May 27th via YoruFukurou
  13. @jakemcc @Looukey by far the most surprising result of turning on iTunes Match: twitpic.com/9pvup5 6:12 AM May 27th via YoruFukurou
  14. …and i created a new, very special genre for a song that managed to stay in my library undetected since high school. twitpic.com/9pp47x 8:01 PM May 26th via YoruFukurou
  15. cleaning up genres in my iTunes library, i've discovered the meaning of "alternative" — it's the alternative to choosing a genre. 7:43 PM May 26th via YoruFukurou
  16. ok, kids. time to bring down the righteous fury of @noodle_hazel on the clusterfuck that is my ~/Music folder. 2:41 PM May 26th via YoruFukurou
  17. when 1 x 2 = 1.5. this is crazy-making. i’ve never used 2x before, but i expected it to do what it says on the tin. jots.mypopescu.com/post/228420911… 1:35 PM May 26th via Tweetbot for iOS
  18. SECONDED. "I also dream about a modern replacement for LaTeX" –John MacFarlane john.macfarlane.usesthis.com 12:01 PM May 26th via YoruFukurou