Twitter: 2012-08-31 Fri 07:08

Skater street rat complimented my goatee. Yep. Time to shave again.

Twitter: 2012-08-31 Fri 14:35

Looking forward to telling my wife that we need to watch The Daily Show tonight because Clint Eastwood did performance art with a chair.

Twitter: 2012-08-31 Fri 15:28

So many skinny jeans for some reason.I shouldn’t be laughing. It’s rude of me.

Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 20:00

So I decide to turn on the TV & see what’s going on with the #RNC. Clint Eastwood is talking to a chair. Right. OK. TV back off, then.

Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 20:04

Ah, I see. The chair was Obama and it was telling him to shut up. Tempting, but no. The TV stays off.

Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 20:18

I know it’s wrong, but I’d vote for Clint Eastwood and the chair. Together they can fix anything, I just know it.

Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 20:52

Oh look, I can dismiss promoted tweets. Hadn’t thought to look until tonight.

Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 21:39

That’s what I was waiting to see. RT @BarackObama: This seat’s taken.

http://OFA.BO/c2gbfi

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Twitter: 2012-08-30 Thu 22:14

Got about 30 seconds of work in my Rails project before bed. Best I’ve managed in 3 weeks, so I’ll take it.

Twitter: 2012-08-29 Wed 15:35

What’s with all this sunshine? I was promised clouds and rain today.

Twitter: 2012-08-29 Wed 19:39

This newish garbage sorting system in Seattle is surprisingly easy: garbage, recycling, and pizza boxes.

Twitter: 2012-08-28 Tue 07:38

It takes a while for Ubuntu to update in a VM on a clunky machine.

Twitter: 2012-08-28 Tue 13:17

You see someone’s typo flying through the air. All you can do is cringe and hope nobody else caught it.

Twitter: 2012-08-27 Mon 10:34

Wanted to post something snarky about work, but actually it’s a decent day. Fun stuff.

Twitter: 2012-08-24 Fri 07:46

That was fun, but only 90? I’ve gone slack. I got 90/100 in this html5 kerning game

http://type.method.ac

Twitter: 2012-08-24 Fri 17:24

Downloading #GuildWars2 in the background while prepping dinner.

Twitter: 2012-08-21 Tue 12:35

Thinking happy thoughts for @popcap neighbors. Newly unemployed, check the stream. Looks like recruiters will kill for your amusement.

Occupy Ruby: Why We Need to Moderate the 1% by Ryan Davis - YouTube

Found out about this talk from Ryan Davis at Cascadia RubyConf because of an incensed reaction to it from Giles Bowkett on his blog. Thing is, I like the talk. I even like the bits that Bowkett doesn’t. Of course, I wasn’t one of the folks specifically mentioned, and he was. So there’s going to be a different perspective there.

But I could have been. Heck, I tried my hand at cute ranty posts a few years back, and one of them threw what I thought was a light hearted jab at Ryan. But it really bugged him. He told me so the next time I logged into IRC, much later. I could see why it would when I looked back at the post and imagined it without context. The joke wasn’t even that funny with context. Our posts on big or little blogs - or social networks, for that matter - have a reach far beyond what we might think when we’re sitting at the keyboard. They can span the globe in a split second, and still be out there for years.

On revisiting the forgotten joke, I saw that it could be considered offensive if you weren’t in the unique garden of my brain. I was really shaken by the fact that somebody I had such respect for (the guy is basically a genius in Ruby and other domains) had taken a lasting offense to something that I’d long forgotten about. So I cleared the post and got into the habit of checking myself before wrecking myself.

I don’t mind if someone somewhere thinks I’m a jerk. I want it to be for a better reason than me pretending to be an insult comic, though.

So, yeah. The guidelines mentioned by Ryan Davis for tending to the community are great, but it wouldn’t do any harm to use them as guidelines for tending yourself. You know: “Don’t be a dick!”

Activity Log

Twitter: 2012-08-20 Mon 07:13

First thing I learn checking into Twitter today is that Tony Scott is dead. Going back to bed before something else happens.

Twitter: 2012-08-20 Mon 07:34

Checked the discover tab. Twitter suggests Mitt Romney and an account that hasn’t tweeted in 2 years. That amuses me.

Twitter: 2012-08-20 Mon 15:27

Turned out to be a nice day. I was not emotionally prepared for this.

Twitter: 2012-08-18 Sat 09:59

Getting outside while it’s still safe and gray.

Twitter: 2012-08-17 Fri 06:59

You complain about pants, people suggest you try a dress. Sorry - kilt. Anyways. I love Seattle.

Twitter: 2012-08-17 Fri 12:37

You know your brain’s in low gear when you forget fib.

Twitter: 2012-08-17 Fri 16:03

It still makes me giggle that @ThePhoenixJones tweets in caps.