I just accidentally an intermediate crossfit workout. #fittertwitter
October 2013
@gretchenbehnke Whoa, this looks awesome. Which podcast was this?
Man, @WatPD needs to get some people from the drama department to act in the videos. They're so canned it's painful. #cooplife
@WatPD @shalecraig Oh man, and then I watched the next one, and... one of my friends in drama. #awks Maybe they need... new script-writers?
"If you can't find an actual quote to disagree with, you may be arguing with a straw man." — @paulg ...these are the worst arguments.
I don't think I understood the concept of "lean" until I had three paying customers for a business that doesn't have a name yet.
Change your posture to change your power-level. Apparently people slouch before interviews. I always strut & dance. buff.ly/15FSMHu
Retweeted @ozymandias314
@Malcolm_McC @paulg no, the worst is when they find an actual quote to disagree with and are STILL arguing with a strawm…
Retweeted @andymangold
If anyone is wondering why the Horse eBooks news came as such a blow to some of us, @dansinker pretty much nailed it: http…
That bittersweet feeling when FINALLY you figure it out... and the answer is really annoying.
Replying to @GapOfGods
@tipsfromkatee You're assuming intelligent design...? #shutdown
"Every act of making begins with an act of unmaking. Everything starts by copying our predecessors." — @CoryDoctorow at #onecityonebook
"Information doesn't want to be free. We had dinner, & at the end it whispered in my ear & said it just wanted not to be anthropomorphized."
Retweeted @meta_ebooks
wise men say, "only fools rush in", and i was a good and the universal schelling point.
@GretchenAMcC !! That's so cool!
@dreev Just saw this service "Accordive". For customer support, and very compatible with your humanistic model :) accordive.com
Retweeted @NightValeRadio
Update: Please replace "It was probably nothing." in your day-to-day speech with "Nothing is probable."
s/[A-Z]{2,4}/g #InitialsOfSomeoneSpecial
Retweeted @wlue
"I used to have a plasmatuv, now I need a lucudatuv." Amazing. youtu.be/xqpd7WcBmjM?t=…
@shalecraig Yeah man, special people all over the world. But only those with roman alphabet initials I guess. #oops
@GretchenAMcC that was something @CoryDoctorow said, btw. But there wasn't room in the tweet for his name. He spoke @twoffice yesterday.
The subtitle says it all: "Girls gone average. Averages gone wild." vudlab.com/simpsons/ via @vicapow
Retweeted @imavip
HTML liberal media bias. RT @silviakillings Good filename, @Slate pic.twitter.com/UGxCxXSanr
Replying to @hubbs
@hubbs This tool is pretty great but I had to go change the popup so it wasn't actively presuming I was wasting time. Too antagonistic.
Retweeted @ltm
Twitter founders (@ev, @biz, @jack) in the house today.
@shalecraig @Twoo Lol, and if you look at their twitter timeline, it's mostly them trying to handle people with the same issue. #fail
I completed "You Can't JavaScript Under Pressure" in 5 minutes, 20 seconds! Can you code quicker? toys.usvsth3m.com/javascript-und…
Why on earth doesn't my @AmazonKindle app let me tweet a quote with a link to the book?! #nobrainer
@vskarich I met a woman on BART last night named Elena, who said she knew a tweep with a name like... "velcro" I think? Would that be you?
Anyway, the quote was "We're becoming less like Rodin's Thinker and more like Kasparov's centaurs" — Smarter Than You Think by @pomeranian99
@pomeranian99 They even have a "share progress" feature in the [ ⋮ ], and it STILL doesn't link to the book. It links to the app -_-
@iaboyeji Oh man, British folks with no context would be so confused.
Replying to @CorbettBarr
@CorbettBarr Hmm, confounding variables. There are probably some people who'd find each of them way easier. People are pretty diverse!
@gaynor Hey! (not sure if you check your work email on weekends) You're gonna want to contact CFAR asap (<2days) re the workshop.
Try to fix windows partition. InstallCD fails. Now comp won't even load bios. Best part: Dell tech support thinks it's a keyboard problem.
Ha. After the gov't seized SilkRoad's bitcoin wallet, people are posting graffiti there via 0.00001BTC transactions. blockchain.info/address/1F1tAa…
Retweeted @jeromejarre
ALL I DO IS LOVE LOVE LOVE NO MATTER WHAT.
@Connoropolous check out this collaborative website platform: "Concept" concept.so
Just found a simple cloud-dice app that would be great for probabilistic payments. rolliodio.com CC @dreev
@jessicafung_ Haha the url looks like it's just saying "28 people marry..." and I'm like "wow, that's not many at all..."
Every time Heart Attack comes on, all I can think of is Buzz Lightyear. Watch this: vine.co/v/hOdFHFvLwK1 You're welcome.
@shlns I did the twit dm thing, but fyi some people will unfollow you for auto-DMing them... congrats on HN btw :)
Retweeted @alexbard
Don't rush me. I'm making mistakes as fast as I can.
From now on, I'm going to call short shorts "meta shorts".
@pomeranian99 I'm so confused... These have been around for years. One of the characters in The Bucket List (2007) wears some. I own some.
Retweeted @destraynor
People say "hustle" a lot, but they usually just mean "send emails to people you don't yet know"
.@GretchenAMcC Did you see this? Psycholinguistics! Personality revealed from tweet analysis :O venturebeat.com/2013/10/08/ibm…
Replying to @arjunsethi
@arjunsethi @hnshah I mean, given that you're asking the question on Twitter, not @Quora...
@AndrewBieronski The gHangout smileys are so messed up! :O looks nauseous, :S looks sad... I feel unable to properly express my emotions!
@AndrewBieronski Worse, last time I checked there was no way to see, from mobile, who's online. That's so key! We're not all always-on...
Apparently the #ICC is threatened in Africa. Sounds like extortion to me. Join @TutuLegacy call to support the #ICC secure.avaaz.org/en/justice_for…
Retweeted @aristosophy
The Pareto diet: you can eat anything, as long as it's at least as good as the previous thing you ate in every possible wa…
Someone is enacting revenge plans you were mentioned in. cc @aristosophy
.@salkhanacademy proposes: rather than having a variable competency reached in fixed time on a subject, the reverse. buff.ly/18QCXM8
What, summoned to jury duty in NS when I'm on the other side of the (large) continent, in a different country. What. *sigh*
I'm an aspiring superstimulus.
@GretchenAMcC Well, or just anyone who only tweets news.
@pomeranian99 @tcarmody @alexismadrigal You can get the prism glasses on Amazon for like $13. amazon.com/Prism-Glasses-…
@donovanable Is he asking this as a conversation starter? Or did he decide this would be a better Q to answer than his deepest secret?
Why do we feel so much more threatened by those with different beliefs than those with different goals?
#Win of the day: taught someone how to do a backflip. (On a trampoline, but still!)
Just looked up the etymology of Zuckerberg. Now I want someone to make a hiphop origins conspiracy with this... ancestry.com/name-origin?su…
"Cabs are so dead," I say as I unwrap the candy given to me by the @Lyft driver.
As the movie Gravity ended: My friend: I think it should have been called "Momentum". Me: I would have called it "Things Go Wrong In Space".
Retweeted @usmanm
This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.
Collapsing onto a memory foam mattress is about as soft a landing as a belly flop.
@ASAPMO Sure, whatever excuse you need... cc @caliChander
@kristahennigar Oh man, I've only been journalling for a few years, intermittently. But I can't wait to look back in a decade :)
.@psobot I went to add an event to my gCal & found one called "Tell someone something important". Thanks past-me, really helpful...
@psobot I will! But I'm not scheduled to do so until next Sunday :P
“Some things aren’t black or white. Like human beings.” Coming Out as Biracial by @omgstephlol medium.com/human-parts/c2…
I don't always feel cliché, but when I do, it's while reading #TheLeanStartup on a bus in #SF because of #BARTstrike.
L'etweet d'escalier, n. When you think of something that would have been amazing and timely to tweet... if you'd tweeted it yesterday.
Retweeted @ThatSarahK
"You wouldn’t believe how attractive you become to the world once you start doing what you love." -@MattPRD (that's my favo…
@MattPRD I just read your pieces on @Medium. Love'm. Then I was like wait, how'd I find this guy. Oh, you fav'd my tweet. How'd you find it?
@tralexanian HAY! :D
@MattPRD Well, I'll just put in a request for a new medium post about THAT :P since you're looking for post ideas :)
Just realized the compound angle formulae totally make sense when you think of complex numbers. #thingsiwishknewinhighschool
Replying to @FallonBurns
@FallonBurns @roberthuczek Also, stop telling them they're smart. Because then failure means "I'm dumb" instead of "I need to work harder."
@roberthuczek @FallonBurns Oh totally. The point is that what the person thinks when they fail. Related to #growthmindset.
@MattPRD Also note my liberal use of emoticons ;)
WHY DO I SUDDENLY HAVE ALL OF THIS JOIE DE VIVRE TODAY? #notcomplainingbut #confused
Retweeted @icculus
There should be a word for "something that takes 2 seconds on a computer that you could maybe struggle through in an hour on a…
@neilpatel @hnshah I dunno, I think nothing is possible. Not certain, but possible. Nothing is certainly not certain. ...wait, what?
Retweeted @MarcusRomer
The Creative Process 1. This is awesome 2. This is tricky 3. This is shit 4. I am shit 5. This might be ok 6. Thi…
@Wikipedia Not to be confused with Palatial. That messed me up once... thought I was going to a castle party but it was just taste-testing.
Retweeted @XplodingUnicorn
If you think someone is beautiful on the inside, then you’ve never done an autopsy. Humans are mostly filled with gooe…
Replying to @betsyphd
@betsyphd Wait, you can do that? Forget LinkedIn, start a business teaching people!
The essay that caused me to no longer be offended by rape jokes. fearofletterwriting.tumblr.com/post/648164518… You probably know someone with a similar story.
@shanley I was sharing this post written by a friend of mine; thought you might appreciate it. fearofletterwriting.tumblr.com/post/648164518…
Replying to @jasonlong
@jasonlong For my next app, I'll take the average of those 96 icons, and...
#OH "I'm having that 'I just drank a beer' feeling, with having actually drank one" #iknowthatfeel
.@KarlTheFog what're you doing in East Bay these mornings? I know #BARTstrike's over, but why bother commuting to SF?
Retweeted @julien
Reasonable people never get anywhere. The key is knowing the limits of your unreasonableness.
@donovanable The Facebook one (#7) was really weird. Like reading "10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Race Times" and seeing "Run downhill".
Wow, I'm really excited for @coverscreen. I recently tried aviate, but it looks like this'll suit me better :) tmblr.co/Z_qx4qyWF0Zc
My friend Sandy writes the article about interviewing that I would have written, had I written one. sandymaguire.me/blog/2013/10/2…
Retweeted @XplodingUnicorn
We could fix society’s problems with preschool rules. It’s hard to commit crimes when you’re forced to keep your hands…
I thought twitter was about "now". Then #throwbackthursday happened, and I was suspicious. Now #flashbackfriday? What's even the difference?
@Fast_Co_Is_Fast @meat Damnit I actually clicked on this, excitedly. Then I was like, "wait, where's the li—noooooo"
Gah, I'm getting so sick of headlines. My Entire Timeline is in Title Case ...everything feels like linkbait... *unfollow* ... *unfollow*
#nowplaying She's So High by Tal Bachman #catchy youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM…
Huh, @snapchat can kind of be like texting but with only 20-30 characters, and a facial expression.
@WrongBotWrites ...possibly interested? Go on...
You only YOYO once. (this one's stable :D) RT @WrongBotWrites '"You only YOLO once." #Overheardontheinternet'
@WrongBotWrites Ahh. Don't think that's me atm, but sounds cool! I love the "bonus dice for cool description" thing xD. #perverseincentives
@CMoz, you still into Arduino? techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/hey…
Retweeted @Hayleystevens
Imagine what went through the mind of the first horse to have ever been sat on by a human. Imagine it. IMAGINE IT!
@ozymandias314 Now you just need a Scot. Whoa, wait, a Scottish Scottish Scot named Scott. Err, overkill, nevermind.
@ozymandias314 How does Scottism work, anyway?
@ClassyFunTime @UncredibleHallq but it's super redundant. You have on avg 99.9% of data in 10 randomly chosen sperm. wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1-0.5…
Replying to @ZJemptv
@ZJemptv Mind Projection Fallacy strikes again! (Also, hi! I'm a cis(-by-default) guy who likes interesting (∴ often femme) clothes)
I woke up with a weird mashup of Lorde's Royals and Ylvis' Stonehenge in my head. #weirddreams
@k_arin Can you tell me more about your virtual incubator?
@CMoz I know right?! And like, $20!!! What's new with you?
@ozymandias314 @slatestarcodex Oh. That sounds right to a 1st approximation, which is more than can be said about most words ending in -ism.
Replying to @k_arin
@k_arin Hmm, yeah, we might :P I was thinking you might have a page to link to, but I guess it's still in early stages?
@k_arin I'm in early stages of starting a biz ( malcolmm.cc/2013/10/im-sta… ) & wondering if it's a fit? I'm a @UWVeloCity alum but not there now
@ozymandias314 @robbensinger @slatestarcodex Or Yvianism? Hmm, no. What about slatestarcodianism? Or just starcodianism? I like that.
This is such a weird song. I love it. #NowPlaying Farrah Fawcett Hair by Capital Cities on @Rdio: rd.io/x/QX55-zdetahk/
@donovanable You do realize that if you start the tweet with the @, only Leah and her followers will see it in their timelines? Try using .@
.@GooglePlusTweet is all like "You can have whatever custom URL you want, as long as it's this one we picked out for you." #srsly?
.@tferriss I tried to apply the air-squats-pre-meals thing without reading the next page of #4hourbody and thought you meant jumping squats!
@GooglePoetics I keep trying to do this but I always just end up with lyrics...
Retweeted @GooglePoetics
are you gonna be my girl are you ready are you mine are you there, Chelsea? #GooglePoems
@asraimun So... HUGS!
@aristosophy This Machine Kills [N random people, where N is enough to make you hesitate in this push-red-button-get-$1M thought experiment]
@CMoz Nothing hardwarey lately, though tempted by Tessel. Interning at Twitter & working on a business to help people achieve their goals.
@CMoz Super busy and I'm having a blast. Internship goes til xmas, then I'm headed back to Canada.
The guy across from me on the BART is twiddling his thumbs non-ironically. #what #thatsathing?
@CMoz How long have you been gone?