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Northern CaliforniaJoined June 2011
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"Yo, yo, yo, yo -- Mahler's Fifth is in the hizzy, Super Bowl 57. Let's light this symphony UP!"
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Just wait until Georg Solti's Super Bowl halftime show appearance.
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JUST IN: Beyoncé wins her 32nd Grammy, surpassing conductor Georg Solti as the most decorated artist in the award's history trib.al/tEHajFA
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The first thing they teach you at business school is to make a bunch of dumb decisions then immediately walk them back when everyone screams at you
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The iPhone can't do this. Space zoom on Galaxy S23 Ultra. 🔭 1x / 10x / 30x / 100x
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Been thinking about this for the last 30 minutes, and I'm sorry to say Andre Roussimoff's oversized strike zone and slowness on the base paths make him one of Farhan Zaidi's worst signings. Giants fans should be angry.
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Me to : What are you reading?
Her: Well, it's a story about Nantucket...
Me: Was once there a woman there?
<the bitter cold of winter sets in, entirely localized in our kitchen>
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it’s cool that Dave Bautista is basically “what if Bob Hoskins juiced?” now
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I also occasionally recite the Denevi Camera jingle from the 1980s ("Dublin, Berkeley, San Lorenzo, Cupertino, San Jose!") so apparently the way to drive things into my skull is to randomly list Bay Area towns.
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When it's hot and right off the grill
Fremont up to Vacaville
Got to be a Nations.
East Bay, Westlake
Napa when you need a break
Got to be a Nations.
Pleasanton to Pittsburg
Out Orinda way
Livermore, Benicia, Tracy any day
Everywhere you go, people say
It's got to be a Nations
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what’s a random, obscure jingle that just pops into your head from time to time and just won’t leave for days. I’m looking local ads/news jingles that are region-specific
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In a related story, A's are expecting 7-10 fans to watch Shea Langeliers buy a baked good at the Cinnabon in the Stoneridge Mall.
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Giants expecting 7-10K fans here today for FanFest, just now underway.
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It's time to talk about the thing at phone launches that drives me up a tree.
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My daughter reading 90% of my tweets.
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Maybe I do 80 for Brady, too, sign. Maybe I do too.
In which Gloves Colombo learns that we have a neighbor.
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It is impossible for me to read the name "Timothée Chalamet" without then repeating it a dozen times in Tom Brokaw's voice.
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I wondered if part of the reason iPhone 14 sales slumped was because people were underwhelmed by the standard iPhone 14. So I asked some folks. And it turn out people just like Pro phones these days.
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Hey, it's the same letter I sent to Ron Howard in 2018.
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What’s more fun than my work voicemail? Getting my actual mail at the office.
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It's not so much a song as it a quarterly recap.
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Actual lyrics from the actual song playing on Apple's earnings call feed:
I'm waiting on a sign
That something's gonna save me now
But everything I try
To build is going down, down, down
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The power of 200MP. Galaxy S23 Ultra
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Try to discern the pattern in what I've been writing about lately.
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My Dinner with Pander (1981) — Dir. Louis Malle
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MCCARTHY is dining tonight with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
Here's my first hands-on impressions of the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Yes, it's 200 megapixels... but there's some other awesome upgrades
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Good morning.
All this news summarized, along with a graphic of the world's smuggest Man of Steel.
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Superman's got a peanut allergy!
Batman's parents are alive and well, but he's still really messed up inside!
Green Arrow will feature tasteful nudity!
We're paying Philip Michaels $60,000 for his Booster Gold treatment!
Do you folks want Kilowog? BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING KILOWOG!
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Here are just a few of our plans. Up, up, and away! #DCStudios #DCU @DCComics
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Every so often there's a story that's 100% enjoyable, with no real stakes - a little break from the normal news every time I see it. That's the "To Leslie" controversy, which will be forgotten by normal people by June and a Film Twitter joke forever.
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I very much enjoyed Reboot, so yes, this is a big bummer.
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My review of the Apple HomePod 2. A great but pricey sequel
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We Burgled a Zoo
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BREAKING: per @DallasZoo—two emperor tamarin monkeys were missing this morning.
Their habitat—intentionally compromised and officials believe they were taken.
@DallasPD now investigating.
(@wfaa)
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Which writer from a movie are you?
Here's mine:
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Kitty deep face.
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Chrysler Building: Look, we don’t even _know_ this clown.
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Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory.
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Mike Trout at the Eagles game, finally getting a chance to enjoy a postseason.
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Happy birthday, Tom Selleck!
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“Oh they got a little sign by the side of the road which says ‘15 miles to the TROUBLEd WATERS.’l
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