Metrotwit, my twitter client of choice for my pc, has been discontinued. I hate change.
Although I should probably just stop tweeting, because two nights in a row I have thrown an f-bomb at the wrong people. I meant to target Jeff Greenfield the “newsman” and some poor software developer with the same name got a screen full of hate.
How is everyone else?
Big R
And how did that mixup make you feel?
Omnes Omnibus
Dude, anger issues much?
Violet
At least you didn’t throw a mop and some mustard at the poor guy.
ruemara
interview, nervous. weightlifting tongiht, ouchies. need to recut reel. probalby fall asleep.
RobertDSC-iPhone 4
I’m still on iOS 6 on my iPhone 4. I got an email from Twitter saying that I needed to update my system software in order to continue receiving my tweets through the official app.
Bleh. I hate iOS 7/8.
Mike J
Unrelated, this weekend I proved over the course of six hours that mercer island is round by circumnavigating it. Went anti-clockwise this time.
Mike in NC
We don’t Twitter, or tweet, or text, or twerk, or do any of that other dumb shit that people who have too much time on their hands do. Hell, our cell phones are ten years old.
/ Luddite
trollhattan
@Mike J:
Used to love circling Mercer Island on bicycle, riding over the I-90 bridge from my Seattle neighborhood. That was back in the day it wasn’t populated solely by Lexus-piloting assholes. Come to think of it, Lexus didn’t exist.
Mike J
@trollhattan: You were probably going at least twice as fast, and since you didn’t need to tack, half as far. On the other hand, I didn’t have to peddle up any hills.
Quaker in a Basement
and some poor software developer with the same name got a screen full of hate.
He’s probly still laughing about it.
Mnemosyne
I finally moved some of my yarn over to the new place, so G is no longer worried that he’s the only one who has stuff over there. ;-)
pseudonymous in nc
Metrotwit got shuttered because it hit the access token limit, and Twitter disabled API access over SSLv3 today because the POODLE exploit was made public, so with no updates… yeah, kinda sucks. The dev actually says he’s going to push out a final update that fixes that issue tomorrow, so you should be able to keep using it. Consider yourself on an unintentional breather.
I see they found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, just they were the ones that the US helped supply and they were buried or long-abandoned.
Nanjosf
I’m a lurker, must say I’m impressed with your blogroll and enjoy the reading. Thank you
suzanne
So this morning, I went to a meeting with client, engineers, and contractor. Head contractor was chewing tobacco the whole time, and kept spitting it into a cup during the meeting. Then he came into my office and spit it in my trash can. Looked like diarrhea coming out if his mouth. I barely hung on to breakfast. I have to go out to lunch with him tomorrow. God help me.
trollhattan
@Mike J:
Heh. I miss hills now that I live in a place flat as a tortilla. What I do with these 27 gears?
Pharniel
So James Desborugh (Dudebro if you’d prefer), author of such charming things as “The Slayers Guide to Females”, the spell “Summon sex partner: Partner summoned may not be willing but is compelled by spell anyway” (because rape lol) and currently crowdfunding the GOR RPG has started his inevitable pitch that Table Top RPGs are full of SJWs and that gaters need to get on that.
In brighter news RPG.net declares gaters to be a hate group and banning people for reporting gater talking points the same way they would someone from Stormfront.
OH right, the NRA makes us all safer – thanks to Utah’s conceal/carry law a talk by Anita Sorken was cancelled when the university informed her that they could not ban weapons from the event after someone sent an unhinged Elliot Rogers style manifesto.
Team Asteroid indeed.
AliceBlue
@Mike in NC:
Same here. We don’t do Facebook either (or as my cousin calls it, “Facebutt”).
srv
> change.
First world problems.
Here, have some change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsP3rHs3oUI
44 year old lyrics could have been written yesterday.
? Martin
@Pharniel: Yeah, once we fully militarize all of the white people in America, we’ll be able to finally run this place like Libya. Let the dudebro militias blossom!
mai naem
I don’t think the Dems are going to manage to hang onto the Senate. I think Landrieu, Begich and Pryor are all going to lose. Add in Iowa, WV and Montana and they’re done. Top that off with the Kansas guy and Angus King caucusing with the GOP and you’re really screwed. I’m just hoping Reid pulls the same shit that the GOP did except that ofcourse you’re going to have Obama trying to get deals done. I personally would rather he veto everything since he doesn’t have to run again so that the GOP can whine.
The Dangerman
@mai naem:
Just about nothing will get to him (the Dem’s can gum up the Senate just as much as the Rep’s do currently).
srv
There’s always a silver lining.
Like to roaring 80’s and a good fuck you to Russia at the same time.
Violet
@Pharniel: What’s a gater?
Mike J
@The Dangerman:
They can, but the question is will they? When a Republican is obstructionist, he’s standing by his principles. Democrats are just throwing up roadblocks to stop the congress from doing what it has been elected to.
pseudonymous in nc
@The Dangerman:
Indeed they can: the only potentially squishy Dem might be Michael Bennet in Colorado, but the 2016 Senate elections are split heavily towards Rs defending their seats, and there are a handful of Dem targets, especially in the midwest.
Brandon
@srv: i read that at other sources. The catch is that the Saudis explicitly say that they are doing it to preserve market share. They picked a floor price of $70 explicitly because about $65 is cost of production of US oil shale. Add in the fact that cheap oil makes renewables and electric cars uneconomic and you get the picture.
srv
@Brandon: Exactamundo. Texans still think the invisible hand wiped them out in the mid-80s. Who knew Adam Smith wore a kuffiyeh?
Now if we can just collapse the LNG market, Texas might be re-inhabitable in a few years.
Adam Lang
So, is the style sheet gone for anyone besides me?
BethanyAnne
Me? I’m *great*. I just got home from seeing the Eagles in Houston. W00t!
Geoduck
@Violet:
“gamegater”, referring to a supposed “gamegate” scandal. It’s a complictated ugly mess currently spreading its toxic way through the computer-game culture. I don’t pretend to understand all the nuances and personalities involved, but the core is your typical privileged-misogyny crap wrapped up in the aforementioned scandal-talk.
jl
I for one have never targeted the wrong Cole with my righteous internet wrath. That is all I got to say.
Breth
When I was little I was at a baseball game but got bored so I looked for mustard and ketchup packs to stomp on. Splattered a mustard pack perfectly then looked up and saw I had sprayed mustard all up the backs of two cops watching the game.
kc
@suzanne:
He spit in your trash can? IN YOUR OFFICE? That’s rude as hell. You should be plotting your revenge.
Mustang Bobby
Nice people:
It’s all just a big misunderstanding. You people take things way too seriously.
FlipYrWhig
@Mustang Bobby: The Constitution gives authority for military coups? What the fuck is this “Constitution” they’re reading and professing to love?
Mustang Bobby
@FlipYrWhig: It’s in there right after the copyright mark from Jesus.
Manyakitty
@Mnemosyne: Which bug got you-knitting or crocheting? I’m afflicted with both. You should see the size of my yarn stash!
Mnemosyne
@Manyakitty:
Knitting. I can’t crochet to save my life — with crochet, everything ends up as a trapezoid, but I can follow the straight line of a knitting needle just fine. I dabble in hand-spinning sometimes, so I have fiber and spindles for that, too.
Berial
Does nobody use TweetDeck anymore?
Mustang Bobby
Florida Man needs a friend.
I’m not sure which is sadder: that he used a stuffed animal or that he did it in Walmart.
burnspbesq
@trollhattan:
Rack the bike on the back of your car and head east or north. You’ll find all the hills you could ever wish for. Markleeville Death Ride, anyone?
burnspbesq
@kc:
First Rule of Professional Services: Clients can do anything they want, as long as they pay on time.
Rick Taylor
To me, twitter just looks like a tool for sticking one’s foot in one’s mouth.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Violet:
Man arrested for “aggressive mopping”
Cole, is that you?
Manyakitty
@Mnemosyne: Oooh! Spinning! I’ve been curious about that! I crochet trapezoidal “square things,” but other shapes turn out okay.
EthylEster
@Omnes Omnibus wrote:
Mr. Cole, I hope you are addressing this as part of your recovery process. Many people comment approvingly when you get into a major rage. Ignore them. You have a real problem in this area.
Mnemosyne
@Manyakitty:
Spinning and weaving are surprisingly popular out here in Los Angeles — there’s more than one weaver’s guild, but this is one of the biggest (they have a good show every year).
The spouse will not allow me to get a spinning wheel or a loom because I already have too many hobbies. There is occasional sadness in marriage. ;-)