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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-​02-​01

  • “Valentines’s Day” has an awe­some cast, but con­sid­er­ing I boy­cott the actual hol­i­day as the MOST ANNOYING DAY OF THE YEAR for sin­gles… #
  • @JNGold I’m still wait­ing for George Carlin’s sug­ges­tion of active land mines under the field. #NFLiswar in reply to JNGold #
  • @Alli_​Flowers Funny, I was just say­ing the same thing about my shorts. #over­share in reply to Alli_​Flowers #
  • Okay, coat­ing the ball in Crisco does make the game more excit­ing. #saints #
  • Saints coach just slapped the ref with a glove and chal­lenged his honor. #nflshould­haveduels #
  • @JNGold That’s what she said? in reply to JNGold #
  • And Favre does NOT look happy. #saints #
  • @jen­ny­beanses It’s okay, that’s what clowns are for. in reply to jen­ny­beanses #
  • I can read his lips, and he’s not pray­ing. #Favre #
  • Just bought 2 sniper apps for my iPhone. Research for my next book. #hon­est #
  • Note to NFL: Teflon balls NOT FUNNY #
  • All this talk about turnovers is mak­ing me hun­gry #apple­orcherry #
  • @Eclip­sante That about sums it up! in reply to Eclip­sante #
  • Switch­ing to Seesmic on my net­book from Sim­plyTweet on the iPhone. Faster snark. #
  • Drew Brees: When your hands are under another guys ass, grab with author­ity. #life­lessons #
  • @crimsonsky76 10 fin­gers still faster than 2 thumbs in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @crimsonsky76 Actu­ally, I’m just enjoy­ing a rarely com­pet­i­tive play­off game. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • Favre is now throw­ing to the invis­i­ble gophers only he can see. #
  • @Eclip­sante I heard box­ing was FABULOUS in reply to Eclip­sante #
  • Sure looked like porter was look­ing back for the ball. #come­on­refs #
  • Great goog­ley moog­ley #
  • Katy Perry makes every­one feel dirty. #idol #
  • Sadly, there’s not way the Super­bowl is going to be this close. #
  • Every time they show the stands at the Super­dome, I have to choke down a Kat­rina joke. #yesI­amthat­evil #
  • I’m offi­cially out of fum­ble jokes. #ifon­lythatwerenotaprob­lem #
  • @MariKurisato What would an agree­ably hate­ful her­mit be like? in reply to MariKurisato #
  • Who expected the game to come down to the Saints DEFENSE? #
  • Darn that Favre! #
  • Seri­ously? The Saints are going to let Favre pull this AGAIN? #
  • And there’s not a blessed thing Brees & Bush can do about this. #
  • I’m con­flicted about the refs now. #ihaveno­prin­ciples #
  • OMG, we’re going to OT in a con­fer­ence cham­pi­onship! #
  • FTR, part of me is pulling for the geezer (2 whole years older than me), but the Saints are such a feel-​good story… #
  • @Alli_​Flowers Do you need a crash cart? in reply to Alli_​Flowers #
  • The Mayans had Cer­tain Death over­time. #
  • @Bsti­Natosi Game’s almost over, then we’ll resume the usual lunacy. in reply to Bsti­Natosi #
  • RT @West­ern­wiz­ard Some­thing tells me the OT will go much like the rest of the game, some­one fum­bles to cost it #
  • @KateSh­er­rod For about 3 hours, prob­a­bly. in reply to KateSh­er­rod #
  • @jchutchins War with Fluffy? in reply to jchutchins #
  • Ray Edwards should have a com­mer­cial license plate. #
  • That was nearly and inter­fum­ble. #
  • @crimsonsky76 I almost didn’t watch, given that there’s only 11 min­utes of action in an NFL game. But this promised to be a good one. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @robotech_​master But did every­one in the bar call you Norm? in reply to robotech_​master #
  • Choco­late crème Oreos will even­tu­ally kill me. #okay­with­that #
  • @mau­reen­john­son Dead­line nin­jas are wait­ing in 8A. in reply to mau­reen­john­son #
  • Oy veh, such a busi­ness… #
  • That may be game right there. #saints #
  • Am I the only one skeeved out when the announc­ers keep talk­ing about pen­e­tra­tion? #nfl #
  • Receivers: Stop bob­bling your balls. #youll­go­b­lind #
  • @jen­ny­beanses I heard they have keabler cook­ies. Elves live in a moose’s antlers. in reply to jen­ny­beanses #
  • #who­dat Con­grats, Saints! #
  • Seems Drew Brees is already ham­mered. #Saints #
  • I think Shockey may be a shaved Sasquatch. #
  • Huh, there seems to be a party going on in the French Quar­ter. #becausethey­haveoxy­gen #
  • @Bsti­Natosi No we won’t. Next week is the Pro Bowl, a mean­ing­less exhi­bi­tion game. But the week after that… in reply to Bsti­Natosi #
  • RT @CRA1G It’s gonna be darn near impos­si­ble for Jobs et al. to live up to all the expec­ta­tions that have been cre­ated around the tablet. #
  • @CRA1G Still can’t think of any­thing I’d need a 10″ tablet for that I don’t already do with my iPhone or net­book. in reply to CRA1G #
  • @mau­reen­john­son Are you sure that’s sea­wor­thy? in reply to mau­reen­john­son #
  • Won­der­ing how long tomor­row will seem to be the per­fect day to start my new book. #amwrit­ing #almost #
  • I’m sure the Apple iPad will be nifty, but notebooks/​netbooks will always be a bet­ter form fac­tor for writ­ers. #
  • @crimsonsky76 The iPhone did what other smart­phones did, but bet­ter. I fail to see how a tablet will be bet­ter than a note­book for writ­ers. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • Given the hype over­load, the Apple iPad is almost guar­an­teed to be the Seg­way of per­sonal com­put­ing. #
  • @mau­reen­john­son You use the same burn­ing pants gag in Suite and 13LBE. Any­thing you want to tell us? in reply to mau­reen­john­son #
  • @mau­reen­john­son BTW, I bought 13LBE because I enjoyed the free Suite Scar­lett so much. #new­fan in reply to mau­reen­john­son #
  • @crimsonsky76 I’m really lik­ing Smart­Time Pro. Works bet­ter for the way I think than PI. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • RT @crimsonsky76 Sum­mary of Apple’s earn­ings report today: They made a ton of money. #
  • @RobT43 There was a ton of hype around the Seqway too. At first. in reply to RobT43 #
  • @jen­ny­beanses I will never grok why peo­ple think “if you can’t say some­thing nice, don’t say any­thing” adage doesn’t apply online. in reply to jen­ny­beanses #
  • @jen­ny­beanses Good arti­cle btw. Only vam­pires would wear bell bot­toms. in reply to jen­ny­beanses #
  • @crimsonsky76 Smart­Time Pro is prob­a­bly the best $10 I’ve spent in the App Store. And I bought PI for $12. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @crimsonsky76 The under­doc­u­mented catch is you have to cre­ate the Google cal­en­dars to sync your cat­e­gories to man­u­ally. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @KateSh­er­rod Wow, that does look cool. in reply to KateSh­er­rod #
  • Ambidex­trous chil­dren ‘at more risk of hav­ing learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties’ http://bit.ly/7GDVMs /​/​Great, they didn’t know this in the 1970s… #
  • @yonsy Yeah, that’s at least two “dis­or­ders” (mul­ti­hand­ed­ness and ADHD) I have that no one knew about when I was a kid. in reply to yonsy #
  • @Melzer Yeah, there’s a pretty good rea­son Love­craft didn’t write much dia­logue. in reply to Melzer #
  • @Eclip­sante o_​0 in reply to Eclip­sante #
  • @crimsonsky76 BURMA!!! #ipan­icked in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @Dar­ren­Humphries Fum­ing, no. Dis­patch­ing turtle­necked assas­sin squads, yes. in reply to Dar­ren­Humphries #
  • @Philip­pa­Jane It’s not us, blame Noah Web­ster. in reply to Philip­pa­Jane #
  • Mmm. Narn breen, just like Mom used to make. #
  • @Melzer You’re just real­iz­ing this now? in reply to Melzer #
  • Wait, the SotU is tomor­row too? #may­be­watchin­gapple­tooclosely #
  • @MariKurisato Sure, why not. I mean yes. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • Two hours until the pregame! #apple­hy­peoverdrive #
  • @Human­Race­horses But… Apple! Uni­corns and rain­bows! in reply to Human­Race­horses #
  • @crimsonsky76 I’ve been sug­gest­ing that for weeks now. His Steve­ness is a mas­ter of the­ater! in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • All I want to see today is res­o­lu­tion inde­pen­dence for the iPhone OS the tablet runs, set­ting up the 720×480 iPhone HD this sum­mer. #
  • iPad is EPIC FAIL. Pixel dou­bling is not res­o­lu­tion inde­pen­dence. #
  • I have an iPad nano in my hands RIGHT NOW. #
  • Once devel­op­ers recode to 960×640, that’s just another code fork like the GPU code for the 3GS #ipad #
  • RT @sunilsebastian: The iPad is just a iPhone Maxi. Mak­ing it an iMax­i­Pad. #
  • iBooks? Yay, more ebook mar­ket frag­men­ta­tion! *flail­ing mup­pet arms* #notre­ally #
  • Steve thinks Apple invented ebooks. Wel­come to 1996 Steve. #
  • Even though the OS is pretty much te same, wanna bet the iPad ver­sion of iWork doesn’t work on the iPhone? #
  • I know I’m the poster boy for writ­ing on mobile devices, but any­one really itch­ing to make Keynote pre­sen­ta­tions on the iPad? #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I’ll stick with my iPad nano, BT key­board and oh, look, a net­book! in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • RT @CRA1G: $500 for a bare-​bones “use it 1⁄4 of the time” device? Wow…that’s some cajones. #
  • Will the iPhone get iBooks too? #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Keep in mind, it’s $700 if you actu­ally want to put a rea­son­able amount of video on the iPad. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @rcartwright DON’T GO INTO THE LIGHT RICK! in reply to rcartwright #
  • RT @PhilippaJane: Now that the iPad’s released, can we smoke a cig­a­rette in the after­glow, then qui­etly agree never to talk of this again? #
  • RT @CRA1G The #iPad doesn’t: mul­ti­task, out­put HDMI, phone calls, take pic­tures or video, text mes­sages, or hold as much as an iPod. :-( #
  • The iPad is a FAIL if you already own a smart­phone and a net­book, espe­cially for writ­ers who need a hard­ware key­board. #
  • RT @CRA1G Any­one seri­ously think­ing the #iPad is a game changer needs to put down the Apple kool-​aid now & go into rehab. #
  • @nyne­shaydee Pretty much. Today’s announce­ment is pretty much the least I expected. in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • I’m wait­ing for some­one to say that the iPad makes bigscreen TVs obso­lete #brain­washed­masses #
  • Wake me when they jail­break the iPad for mul­ti­task­ing. #
  • Not say­ing I won’t buy an iPad when I have to replace my net­book, but I need a few more fea­tures (ProSwitcher, Stanza at native rez) #
  • @mike­cane No Pages > iBooks work­flow. FAIL. #
  • The only rea­son I’m even con­sid­er­ing the iPad is that I already type that with w/​iPhone and Stow­away BT key­board #
  • Does the 3G ver­sion really weigh a pound more than WiFi only? Why? #ipad #
  • @somas1 Give it time to wind down. in reply to somas1 #
  • I can cut off the screen of my HP 2133 net­book and pre­tend it’s an iPad. #
  • @Palm­PreLawyer Oh, hells yeah. My iPhone wouldn’t be half as use­ful as it is with­out jail­break­ing. in reply to Palm­PreLawyer #
  • @sunilse­bas­t­ian Stanza? in reply to sunilse­bas­t­ian #
  • @CRA1G Ditto, plus it wob­bles when you try to touch type on the screen on a flat sur­face. Back is *curved*. #ipad in reply to CRA1G #
  • @crimsonsky76 You can ten fin­ger type on the screen, but since the back is curved, it wob­bles if you type on a flat sur­face. #ipad in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @sunilse­bas­t­ian Just tested it. Tap and hold on a word, then tap the “Anno­tate” but­ton. in reply to sunilse­bas­t­ian #
  • RT @Dar­ren­Humphries Here’s what we learn from the Apple iPad: Even Steve Jobs makes mis­takes. #
  • @crimsonsky76 I’d bet good money that the iPad ver­sion of iWork (and iBooks) will not work on the iPhone. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • Was going to post my thoughts on the iPad, but it’s just too gor­ram depress­ing. #
  • @rohde­sign My prob­lems with the iPad aren’t so much what it got wrong as what it *just missed* get­ting right. in reply to rohde­sign #
  • @rohde­sign And to be fair, I said the same things about the orig­i­nal iPhone, but bought a 3G. in reply to rohde­sign #
  • @mws­me­dia 8 east­ern in reply to mws­me­dia #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I was hop­ing for some­thing truly rev­o­lu­tion­ary rather than an over­sized iPod touch. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @rpro­kic BTstack Key­board, it’s a jail­break app on Cydia. in reply to rpro­kic #
  • @rpro­kic It’s just a dri­ver that runs in the back­ground. You type into any app you want. in reply to rpro­kic #
  • @rpro­kic Yup, the best portable BT key­board ever made. Works great. The spe­cial keys don’t work yet, but the dri­ver is still in active dev. in reply to rpro­kic #
  • @rpro­kic The only prob­lem I have with it is that some­how it makes the iPhone’s auto­cor­rec­tion lower case words I delib­er­ately cap­i­tal­ize. in reply to rpro­kic #
  • @mws­me­dia I’m increas­ingly for­get­ting what things were like in the ana­log 20th cen­tury. Ug, dark ages. in reply to mws­me­dia #
  • What hash tag are we using for the State of the Union? #sotu ? #
  • @Eclip­sante So unlike the iPad, Mass Effect 2 actu­ally lives up to the hype? in reply to Eclip­sante #
  • @natal­iewhip­ple Chip­munk genes? in reply to natal­iewhip­ple #
  • Great, more hope. Now do some­thing. #sotu #
  • Appar­ently, Obama thinks Amer­i­cans are Ter­mi­na­tors. #sotu #
  • Joey B. saw the punch­line com­ing. #sotu #
  • @mws­me­dia I keep wait­ing for him to get medieval on Con­gress. in reply to mws­me­dia #
  • Now the Rs refuse to stand up for tax cuts? #sotu #
  • I blew all my extra money on marsh­mal­lows. #shame #sotu #
  • Great, but I can haz job too, plz? #sotu #
  • Y’all let me know if I ram­ble too much. #
  • Slums are hir­ing! *flail­ing mup­pet arms* #sotu #
  • So, he calls for a bill, Con­gress picks at it for months, and even­tu­ally passes a watered down, inef­fec­tual waste of time? #seen­this­movie #
  • Boehner was an oom­paloompa when he was younger. #sotu #
  • NEW JOBS IN JET PACKS #sotu #
  • Based on the applause lev­els, it looks like Repub­li­cans hate jobs. #div­i­dend­snot­wages #sotu #
  • Uh, Barry, we’d be lucky to get up to 2nd place at this point. #sotu #
  • Save Amer­i­cans. Shoot a lob­by­ist. #sotu #
  • THAT got the Repub­li­cans on their feet? Men­tion­ing nukes? #sotu #
  • Finally! Appeal­ing to green tech as a way to make money. That will get atten­tion. #sotu #
  • Wait, Amer­ica is sup­posed to *make* stuff again? Can we do that? #sotu #
  • RT @jkarpf @Barack­Obama is livetweet­ing his own State of the Union. He really is The One. #SOTU #
  • But if we edu­cate peo­ple they’ll be able to tell how the right is screw­ing them. #sotu #
  • @jeanet­temarsh Your cats clearly believe you’re unable to hunt for your­self. in reply to jeanet­temarsh #
  • We need a laugh track for this speech. #sotu #
  • Good lord man, stop talk­ing! #sotu #
  • @Eclip­sante Do I need to play the orig­i­nal Mass Effect to under­stand what’s going on? #nota­hard­coregamer in reply to Eclip­sante #
  • Wow, Obama just threw SCOTUS under the bus. To their faces. #sotu #
  • @KateSh­er­rod Nope, strictly ter­res­trial. in reply to KateSh­er­rod #
  • @jeanet­temarsh Drop a cow in front of them. They’ll get the idea. in reply to jeanet­temarsh #
  • He never said “the state of our union is strong” like Dubya said every time. Nice to get some hon­esty. #sotu #
  • “The proper, lim­ited role of gov­ern­ment” gave us Enron and Black­wa­ter, you schmuck. #sotu #
  • @Bsti­Natosi And the 1 thing he DID do wasn’t all that great. Poe did emo before and WAY BETTER than Salinger. in reply to Bsti­Natosi #
  • It’s spooky how much of my daily work­load I can do with just the iPhone. Oddly, this makes me less inter­ested in the iPad. #
  • @CRA1G Odd that some­one who sees why the iPad is a seri­ous com­puter also finds it redun­dant. in reply to CRA1G #
  • @CRA1G Touché in reply to CRA1G #
  • @CRA1G I’m no Ayn Rand fan, but that was her one good point in The Foun­tain­head: new tech­nol­ogy imi­tat­ing the old is never opti­mal. in reply to CRA1G #
  • @CRA1G The iBooks app already annoy­ingly apes paper. You can have excel­lent typog­ra­phy with pre­tend­ing to be ana­log. in reply to CRA1G #
  • @crimsonsky76 Gah! You haz a snow! in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @jkendrick Hon­estly, the iPad is all the com­puter my mom needs. I’m amazed at how much I can get done with just my iPhone. in reply to jkendrick #
  • @crimsonsky76 And now Don will not see the light of day for weeks… #xbox­is­thede­bil in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @crimsonsky76 The trick, I hear, is to shoot the bad guys. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @aslap­inthe­face NO CAPES! #ednamod­eis­wise in reply to aslap­inthe­face #
  • RT @indieauthor: Why aren’t authors irked @ Macmil­lan instead of Ama­zon? Higher #ebook price doesn’t = bet­ter roy­alty, just fewer pur­chases. #
  • Remem­ber two days ago, when the titans of tech and pub­lish­ing weren’t all fight­ing with each other? Good times… #

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