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jmccance

  1. @Draskireis Hello, hello! Let me introduce you to my inability to respond in a timely manner. I'm sure the two of you will be great friends! 2:37 PM May 17th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to Draskireis
  2. Diageo, which probably owns almost all the booze you drink, makes asses of selves at expense of independent brewery: boingboing.net/2012/05/10/hug… 5:00 AM May 10th via Tweet Button
  3. @pterodactylus "Ogg like fire. Ogg like wheel. Ogg also happy with neither, but Ogg REALLY HATE fiery wheels." --The NANDerthal 8:45 AM May 5th via Twitter for Mac in reply to pterodactylus
  4. May you live fourthrightly and prosper! ...wait, that's not right, is it? 6:56 AM May 4th via Twitter for Mac
  5. Gotta love banks with arduous password requirements that don't allow "special characters". Like " ". 11:40 AM Apr 24th via Twitter for Mac
  6. "Do you know Matthew's last name?" "Matthew who?" "..." #overheardatwork 9:27 AM Apr 18th via Twitter for Mac
  7. "Just tell him that when that Internet Explorer came out, Jar Jar Binks was in the theaters." --Overheard web designer 8:48 AM Apr 18th via Twitter for Mac
  8. Professor, you might convince these kids this is a real algorithm, but you & I know "Lamport's Logical Clocks" came from a D&D sourcebook. 1:29 PM Apr 15th via Twitter for Mac
  9. It's a special kind of scary when you've meticulously altered your 2008 bumper sticker to just say "PALIN". 8:44 AM Apr 5th via txt
  10. Software leads to some great mental images. "My firefox is corrupted!" "Well you should've kept it away from that demon blood then." 8:49 AM Apr 4th via Twitter for Mac
  11. @Clockwork_Grape Eh, most teens who read Rand get over it. It's people in suits reading Rand you should be afraid of. 2:37 PM Mar 29th via txt
  12. “@simonpegg: Another first for Greedo twitpic.com/92wykn” Look closer. No, closer. Also, down. So...weird... 1:28 PM Mar 29th via Tweetbot for iOS
  13. But that's not going to stop me from mentally substituting this: trailers.apple.com/trailers/dream… with this: i43.tinypic.com/2csdhsm.jpg 2:19 PM Mar 28th via Twitter for Mac
  14. Though I guess maybe Pitch the Nightmare King is sort of canonical. Best source I can find: amazon.com/Nicholas-Night… 2:18 PM Mar 28th via Twitter for Mac
  15. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS kind of had me with its creative design. But…they're fighting Pitch? Like, *this* Pitch? mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Cla… 2:17 PM Mar 28th via Twitter for Mac
  16. "Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment." Is that supposed to be a perk or a warning? 12:56 PM Mar 27th via Twitter for Mac
  17. @helenahandbag Every three days? Wow, mine must be defective. It hasn't detected Jesus since the repairs I made to it in junior high. 5:58 AM Mar 23rd via Twitter for Mac in reply to helenahandbag
  18. Noticed a batch job at work labeled "JesusDetector". Always nice to see Religious Studies making use of the supercomputer. 5:48 AM Mar 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  19. @jephjacques GF and I called our first cat "Cat" for like a year while debating a name for her. Then she turned out to be a dude. 6:57 PM Mar 20th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to jephjacques
  20. @BawdyPolitik A tech site I read once reviewed their development studio as an old-school text adventure: arstechnica.com/microsoft/news… 9:09 AM Mar 20th via Twitter for Mac in reply to BawdyPolitik