Disorderly Content
One Silicon Valleyite's perspective on life, politics, tech toys and whatever else comes by his desk.
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2010-11-15
| 06:27 | Hotel WiFi all screwed up. Keeps bumping me off, but thinks I've been on all night. Argh! |
| 06:27 | Crap! It did it again! |
| 09:03 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 12:22 | I think hotels design junior suites to be incredibly difficult to photograph in. It's the only explanation for the way they're laid out. |
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2010-11-14
| 09:02 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 11:39 | Rough morning. External hard drive roached itself. Disk Utility gave up. Disk Warrior is trying, but not looking good. But all not lost! |
| 11:40 | Thanks to Time Machine and a new drive from Fry's, should be back in business in a few hours. Thank you, Apple. Time Machine's a lifesaver. |
| 16:33 | Another new hotel and another new model. |
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2010-11-13
| 09:02 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 12:22 | @MythBusters Taking candy from a baby. Seeing different tactics at different levels of development was interesting, and also mean! |
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2010-11-12
| 09:04 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:20 | @billamend 10.6.5 went smoothly on both my Macs. Go ahead, be brave! |
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2010-11-11
| 05:49 | I don't think he liked the book, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't like its subject. http://ind.pn/aecF9C |
| 06:27 | Going to see the Flying Karamazov Brothers at @SJRep tonight. Rather edit photos & get to bed early, but sometimes you have to sacrifice. |
| 09:07 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:56 | This week's challenge: not sneering when I use the word "propagation". So far, not so good. |
| 13:43 | @JustaSunGod Downloading 10.6.5 now. If you don't hear from me, it probably didn't go well! |
| 14:08 | @JustaSunGod Update's done. He's baaackk! |
| 14:23 | @JustaSunGod Dunno. I'm at work, and all my images are at home. |
| 14:53 | RT @Action_John: #BenBrowder Photo op with #MoreaBaccarin http://bit.ly/9XGxRq [Lucky doll!] |
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2010-11-10
| 03:36 | At the airport. Car turned in, and I'm on the way to the terminal. Ominous word, terminal. Especially at this hour. |
| 05:10 | On the plane now, just a little bit closer to employment. Four hours to go... |
| 05:12 | Final count for the weekend: 2046 photos and one dead studio strobe. Luckily it was an eBay special and won't cost much to replace. |
| 05:14 | @TomTomUSA mine's Homer, after The Simpsons voice. Sure would like a Stewie Griffin voice, though. |
| 08:21 | @scapersuse Yep, today's the day. I'm in my car, waiting for the badge office to open. 40 minutes to go... |
| 09:25 | @scapersuse Sleep? What's that? Hope to start catching up tonight after work. Wow, that sounds weird. Haven't had an office since Jan '06! |
| 11:15 | @scapersuse I worked from home and traveled for my last job. No office, which make the commute really brief! |
| 12:52 | The hard part about starting a new job is being so useless. Of course, it would help if I had a computer. And email. But I have a nameplate! |
| 14:16 | @scapersuse Knock 'em dead, doll! |
| 19:29 | @Tim_Matheson Wouldn't that be "I vas jus givink orderz"? |
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2010-11-09
| 19:52 | Shoot weekend in Phoenix at an end. All packed. Will be up in 7 hrs to catch flight home to 1st day on new job. |
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2010-11-08
| 19:20 | An interesting day. Helped a model friend deal with a missing phone meltdown. Still missing but the crisis has been contained. |
| 19:21 | Shootout in the desert is done, but two more hotel room shoots tomorrow. Sucks to be me, I know. |
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2010-11-07
| 12:21 | Overheard at Cowtown: "I have a Mohawk of fiery goodness." |
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2010-11-06
| 08:04 | Beautiful day in Phoenix. Shooting this afternoon, meet & greet for the weekend event this evening. Goofing off this morning. |
| 17:08 | First shoot of the weekend: three hours with the incomparable Brenda. |
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2010-11-05
| 07:16 | One more interesting stat: of 6 deceased candidates for office, 4 won. Effective, but not a great long term strategy. http://bit.ly/9YFyHX |
| 14:57 | On the plane. Next stop is Phoenix. There will be photography, oh yes there will. |
| 15:26 | I love you, $5 airborne WiFi. I'd marry you if we weren't headed to Arizona, where that's probably illegal. |
| 16:45 | Landed. Sadly, my left ear is still at 30,000 feet. |
| 17:18 | @cabri It's getting better... |
| 18:53 | @RaynaRamsay It was cheap. But it stopped working almost immediately. Anyway, it was a short enough flight that I entertained myself. |
| 20:31 | Plate spotted on N 7th St in Phoenix: MDLFCRS6. Too dark to see what kind of CRS6-mobile it was. |
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2010-11-04
| 06:40 | Pretty satisfied with election in California, even if the rest of US not so positive. More Repug obstructionism, no doubt. |
| 06:41 | Nice to see Meg Whitman give so much to California for so little return. Wish it had been inspired by altruism, but still. |
| 07:22 | If not for the Tea Party, Repugs would likely have taken the Senate too. So have you thanked a Tea Partier for their support? |
| 10:02 | I may have to get an iPad just so I can put it in one of these cases. http://bit.ly/d8JUqi via @sandrift |
| 14:13 | Today's my last day of freedom. Off to Phoenix tomorrow for photo weekend. Tuesday morning I fly back and head to the new job. Feels odd. |
| 15:27 | RT @counternotions: If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft http://bit.ly/9sA5b8 via @hackernewsbot [Screw with the interviewer!] |
| 15:30 | Southwest just emailed to tell me my flight tomorrow has WiFi. Most excellent! |
| 16:36 | Kanye's remark was worst moment of Bush presidency? How about those 100,000 dead Iraqis? How about the nonexistent WMDs? The mind boggles. |
| 16:40 | 16 House Dems voted against extending unemployment benefits. 13 of them are now unemployed. Ironic, huh? http://bit.ly/ar9SMy |
| 16:53 | It is 80 degrees right now in Mtn View, CA. In November. Maybe not Global Warming, but sure is Local Warming. |
| 19:25 | A friend of Joseph Finder's on the DC Police says #rally4sanity estimates are way off. Figure 500k or more. http://on.fb.me/b8n7CC |
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2010-11-03
| 09:06 | I got 67 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:42 | Done voting. Guess that means no more phone calls from pleasant young women until this time in 2012. |
| 09:43 | RT @JohnRossBowie: Cali: if you've got kids, do the right thing. No on 23. Please. [Or even if you don't.] |
| 10:40 | @JustaSunGod Did, did, did, did and did. Okay, only did it once. But that's enough, right? |
| 11:56 | Every time I read a #w00tstock account like this one from NYC, I'm glad I wasn't there. http://is.gd/gCWYL Okay, that's a complete lie. |
| 17:24 | Christine O'Donnell may indeed be a witch. She's just not a very good one. |
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2010-11-02
| 07:41 | RT @JohnRossBowie: Sarah Palin said CBS stands for Corrupt Bastards Club. She's just ... great. http://fdl.me/cegQ9A [Spelling is elitist.] |
| 07:41 | Off to the dentist, one of my less favored activities. Then again, false teeth would be worse. |
| 11:37 | Scarf down some bacon. Yum! http://j.mp/bkaO9z |
| 11:49 | Stewart & Colbert offended that people think Fox & Friends are real 'Newspeople'. http://tpm.ly/dazqGo (See what I did there?) |
| 12:03 | @RaynaRamsay I retweeted, but I also reversed. Funnier that way. |
| 13:28 | O'Donnell calls TV stations biased for not running her ad. Stations accuse campaign of screwing up by not buying time. http://bit.ly/9r61s6 |
| 13:58 | The Lost Prequel: Ben Kenobi - Private Jedeye http://bit.ly/cKQC3h Shoulda kept this & lost Episodes 1, 2 & 3. |
| 20:35 | RT @gruber: http://bit.ly/b8dpoy [Awesome.] |
| 22:03 | @crystaljsilk My pleasure. Already ordered mine! http://j.mp/bkaO9z |
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2010-11-01
| 05:11 | Still in a post-rally haze. A couple of hours before I have to leave for National Airport (refuse to call it Reagan) & the long trip home. |
| 08:52 | Back at National Airport. No WiFi here, free or otherwise. |
| 09:03 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:59 | My best view of the stage, from the day before. #rally4sanity http://plixi.com/p/54137429 |
| 11:35 | Funny moment leaving #rally4sanity: guy next to End Road Work sign, shouting "End road work! End road work now!" |
| 11:45 | TPM collects some wonderful images from #rally4sanity. I got bupkis. http://tpm.ly/9tVZv2 |
| 11:53 | Travel lesson for today: after leaving Security, put your belt on *before* you put on your backpack! |
| 15:05 | Sitting at the gate in Dallas. Bored. |
| 16:25 | All American S80s not created equal. This one has less seat room, making laptop use challenging, and power to run but not charge. Argh! |
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2010-10-31
| 03:11 | Up way too early, as if something important is coming up. #rally4sanity |
| 04:25 | @Leannarenee Enjoy the bus ride. I'll see you on the Mall. #Rally4Sanity |
| 04:38 | @devans00 I'll be onsite! Heading over to the Mall in a little while. #Rally4Sanity |
| 04:39 | @JustaSunGod I was afraid it would be crazy when I arrive at 9:30. Good thing I brought a long lens. #Rally4Sanity |
| 05:24 | @JustaSunGod Waiting for the shuttle to the Metro. Be there soon. |
| 09:02 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 12:59 | Completely fscking insane. #rally4sanity |
| 13:00 | Sorry I couldn't tweet the rally. AT&T had a network meltdown. But it was great. #rally4sanity |
| 13:06 | @reduced Sadly, no @paulandstorm. But it was epic even without them. #rally4sanity |
| 13:08 | Parks Service gave unofficial crowd estimate of 200k. #rally4sanity |
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2010-10-30
| 07:55 | Where is everybody? Only 25 hours to go! http://plixi.com/p/53583009 |
| 08:24 | In line at the Capitol. As long as I'm in town... |
| 09:06 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:54 | At the Air & Space Museum. Just got a book signed by a Tuskegee Airman. Talk about living history! |
| 11:11 | Eastern was my first airline. http://plixi.com/p/53619616 |
| 11:43 | I was wrong. First flight was on National, not Eastern. |
| 12:18 | Enjoying a Häagen-Dazs smoothie. Probably really bad for me, but I don't care. |
| 12:21 | @JustaSunGod You never sounded better, Lee. |
| 15:19 | @gruber I'm here. For at least a few hours, I'll be sane. We're grading on a curve, right? #Rally4Sanity |
| 15:47 | Need sanity? There's an app for that. http://bit.ly/axFMPz #Rally4Sanity |
| 16:29 | @RaynaRamsay No app for fear. Or surprise. Or ruthless efficiency either. #obligatoryPythonReference |
| 17:13 | Score another one for Google Maps. It pointed me to a bunch of restaurants behind Pentagon Fashion Mall. Very nice Italian meal followed. |
| 17:15 | @jagwriter78 Thanks, Sammy. I don't get compliments like that nearly often enough. |
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2010-10-29
| 03:14 | Awake already. Couldn't sleep; could I be excited about flying to DC? Am I not the height of rationality? #Rally4Sanity #RhetoricalQuestion |
| 07:03 | Every time I think airport security can't get more tedious, TSA proves me wrong. Full body scanners are the latest indignity. |
| 07:13 | One positive: rows of seats with power outlets at the gate. Not as comfortable as Southwest's seats, but very welcome. |
| 08:26 | On the plane to DFW. Full flight. |
| 09:02 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:08 | Inflight WiFi used to seem miraculous. Now it's commonplace. But still pretty darn cool. |
| 09:23 | @JustaSunGod I'm on American. Had maybe 50% success getting WiFi on their flights. Looking forward to Southwest getting their act together. |
| 09:38 | If you ever doubted we need campaign finance oversight, here's a fine example from KY: http://bit.ly/beO8Be |
| 11:23 | Descending toward DFW. Big questions: 1) Will I have time for lunch before my next flight? 2) Is it worth buying WiFi again? |
| 12:40 | Guy next to me is reading Vince Flynn. Somehow I don't think we're destined to be best buds. |
| 17:01 | I don't get it. Why is WiFi $3 more on the short leg from Dallas to DC than the long one from San Jose to Dallas? |
| 19:15 | Hotel WiFi has FTP blocked. Too bad for them they didn't think to block Secure FTP! |
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2010-10-28
| 09:04 | I got 14 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:11 | Trying a new parking place at SJC tomorrow. It's less than half the price of long term. We'll see if I'm making a big mistake. |
| 10:16 | @JustaSunGod I'll be there! Flying out tomorrow ayem! D'you still have the same mobile number? #Rally4Sanity |
| 11:03 | RT @markos: You know who else demand apologies from their victims? Domestic abusers. [Not such a big leap from abuser to terrorist.] |
| 11:06 | Conan's ready to go to court to defend Masturbating Bear's right to self-abuse on his new show. What a guy! http://aol.it/bzTmVu |
| 22:00 | Got to visit tonight with my manager from my last job. I suspected being let go was a blessing. Sure sounds like I was right. |
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2010-10-27
| 07:17 | Rand Paul supporter who stomped MoveOn member wore Don't Tread on Me pin. Ironic, isn't it? http://bit.ly/dfHEem |
| 09:08 | @sandrift Which #w00tstock did you attend? I've been to two, and would do another in a heartbeat. |
| 09:39 | Yuma County AZ Repugs claim massive voter registration fraud, are determined to be massively full of shit. http://bit.ly/cVK0AY |
| 10:31 | Meg Whitman can't stop talking about how great California was under Jerry Brown. http://gaw.kr/bnJjn5 |
| 20:32 | Don Imus tells Bill O'Reilly he's a pinhead. I find myself respecting Don Imus. Weird, huh? http://bit.ly/druvYR |
| 20:36 | My first studio shoot in a month. That's way too long. Good thing the Arizona Shootout's coming up real soon. |
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2010-10-26
| 08:13 | Snow on the mountains outside Reno. Sun is out; it'll be a much nicer drive home than my drive in yesterday. |
| 14:11 | Heavy rains in the Sierras yesterday. Pretty dusting of snow on the mountains today. |
| 14:26 | New manager orders my laptop. PC or Mac, he asks. ♫ "I think I'm gonna like it here..." ♫ |
| 14:41 | Google's Eric Schmidt paraphrases George Carlin's Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman: "If you don't like Google Street View, just move!" |
| 15:15 | Nielsen reports 1 in 3 iPad users have never downloaded an app. Nielsen now admits they were full of shit, it's more like 1 in 10. |
| 15:24 | @scapersuse I don't start for two more weeks. They just like to have everything ready, including my shiny new MacBook. ☺ |
| 15:32 | Developer puts Apple's abandonment of Java in context. Desktop Java is dead, so let's get on with life. http://bit.ly/cBhcVC |
| 16:26 | As a vertically challenged American, I find these comments on the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tall policy painful. http://gaw.kr/akOIsh |
| 16:50 | Owner of Gold's Gym gives $2m to Rovian group hostile to gay rights. Now who could have predicted a problem with that? http://bit.ly/bZcAem |
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2010-10-25
| 07:41 | The Banana Jr. 9000, another obscure object of desire. I miss Bloom County. http://bit.ly/9bBAqn |
| 08:40 | @ebertchicago To be patient & reasonable is not to be one of us, so NPR must be one of them. QED. |
| 09:38 | Packed and ready to head off to Reno. Boomtown has all-you-can-eat lobster. But that's not why I'm going. Okay, that's a lie. |
| 10:58 | @VictoriaDahl I loved Bosconian. Once spent most of an evening at Disneyland pumping quarters into one. |
| 14:52 | Storms all the way from Sacramento to Reno. One car turned around, another flipped over. Separate incidents. |
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2010-10-24
| 09:32 | Happy birthday to @grantimahara & @alyankovic. Thanks for all the entertainment, guys! |
| 11:33 | Should not have gone into the Apple Store today. No, I didn't get a MacBook Air. But it's only a matter of time. |
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2010-10-23
| 09:28 | Just ordered a #Rally4Sanity scarf & paid as much for shipping as the scarf. Maybe not sane, but only way to know it'll arrive before I go. |
| 09:57 | This is why all the design awards go to Apple and not HP. Okay, it's one of the reasons. http://j.mp/d8NR1R |
| 10:56 | SF is getting its own #Rally4Sanity. Which I have to miss, 'cuz I'll be at the one in DC. Poor me. http://on.fb.me/95PJcM |
| 10:59 | Sears going after the zombie demographic? (I almost typed demongraphic, which isn't far off.) http://bit.ly/dzP0jI |
| 12:32 | RT @MySears: @disorderly It's about time someone did...braaaaiiiinsss!!! [Must... shop... Sears...] |
| 13:43 | Went to my local Apple Store a day early. MacBook Air goes on display & sale tomorrow. Sad, but think of the money I saved! |
| 15:12 | Which is worse: when airlines are incompetent, or when they're total assholes about it? http://bit.ly/dfK1me |
| 16:05 | Hey @TeamCoco! I just voted for #VladimirPutin to be #ConansFirstGuest on TBS November 8th! Vote @ http://bit.ly/9osqCh |
| 16:38 | RT @ebertchicago: Urgent to Juan Williams: Photos of Muslim garb. http://j.mp/9dh8cU [Gotta love King Abdullah in his Star Fleet uniform.] |
| 16:59 | Beware the weather penis! http://gaw.kr/9DLRir |
| 17:18 | RT @alwayscoffee: @disorderly Hank, that Tweet just made me spit out my drink. [Then my work here is done!] |
| 19:23 | Don't you hate it when people dial the wrong number, and then do it *again*? Guess she got it right the third time. |
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2010-10-22
| 10:10 | Yeah, Apple, what were you thinking? http://bit.ly/anKFOW |
| 10:29 | Business blogging for success, by my friend Tom: http://bit.ly/9BJGPV |
| 10:40 | Actor who played Tom Ballard dies at 87. Guess the Wait is over. |
| 20:53 | "Holy Moses, how much liquid can be in one tuchus?" I sure hope that was a rhetorical question. #tbbt |
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2010-10-21
| 06:21 | If these crazy ideas worked, wouldn't businesses be crazy *not* to rely on them? http://xkcd.com/808/ |
| 06:25 | What The Duck demonstrates irony: http://bit.ly/d100bn |
| 06:38 | 4th grade text in VA claims lots of black soldiers fought for the South. Scholars say bull. http://bit.ly/bdUCMI |
| 11:11 | Hmmm... Monster.com giving me error when I try to delete job searches. Which I'm doing because I HAVE A JOB! |
| 11:38 | New high end MacBook Air looks amazing. Want one! Wonder what kind of Mac my new employer will be getting me. Did I mention my new job? |
| 11:44 | @ebertchicago I did! They had a special vacuum for chalk dust at PS 162, back in the early 60s. |
| 12:05 | Guess they don't have mirrors in Glenn Beck's world. http://bit.ly/cF71q8 |
| 14:11 | I just tried Facetime between my MacBook and my iPhone 4. It worked, but I definitely have a face for voice chat. |
| 17:43 | @cabri No move. The new job is nine miles from here. |
| 18:15 | Off to @SJRep to the opening of Secret Order. Which I assume is not alphabetical or Dewey Decimal or ascending height. I hate that last one. |
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2010-10-20
| 08:39 | Christine O'Donnell: "You're telling me that (separation of church & state)'s in the First Amendment? http://bit.ly/aHgXVj |
| 09:15 | I got it! ♪Hello income, my old friend... ♫ |
| 11:59 | Shouldn't they call this an INaction figure? http://bit.ly/d7TlLg |
| 14:10 | Sarah Palin endorses senate candidate, gets the state wrong. Guess she couldn't see it from her house. http://bit.ly/d479Fp |
| 15:36 | Elvira does Christine O'Donnell: "I'm you, except with bigger tits." http://bit.ly/alAtdk |
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2010-10-19
| 09:05 | I got 6 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:34 | Last scheduled interview for this particular job. Ending on a high note. Now we wait... |
| 15:09 | Amazing. Who knew you could lose money from fleecing your flock? http://bit.ly/clFtIG |
| 19:33 | Rare a TV ad gets my attention. But this one did: http://bit.ly/bQxsyB |
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2010-10-18
| 09:04 | I got 7 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 17:12 | Meghan McCain says Christine O'Donnell lacks experience. See, Alanis? That's what we mean by irony. http://bit.ly/9f0C7C |
| 17:49 | An inflatable photo studio? One that can be destroyed by hot strobes? Surely you jest! http://bit.ly/9NlNtn |
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2010-10-17
| 08:11 | Not every shithead is on Fox News, but everyone on Fox News is a shithead. http://is.gd/g4vds |
| 09:05 | I got 5 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 10:51 | @alwayscoffee @kylecassidy I'd try connecting to another computer. Or a program like http://bit.ly/aHEQi3 on Windows to recover files. |
| 18:20 | Just because we can, does that mean we should? http://bit.ly/aME5yD |
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