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January 2014

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6 retweets
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Replying to xHaustedDancer @xanydee ·

Looking at quotes from 2013 that I have written down - favourite so far: "Strip Prisoner's Dilemma."

@xanydee Was this at a (now-UV) House party? Pretty sure I was there for that. Good times. Any other gems?

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Replying to xHaustedDancer @xanydee ·

@Malcolm_McC I left as the game was being organized. I'm not sure if it actually came into being.

@xanydee It didn't. Though we also talked about Strip Newcomb's Problem...

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Retweeted @psobot

twitter.com/BillB/status/4… Quite worried about the anti-Tech movement in San Francisco. I was considering living there, but I'm n…

Replying to Peter Sobot @psobot ·

x.com/BillB/status/4… Quite worried about the anti-Tech movement in San Francisco. I was considering living there, but I'm now hesitant.

quoting @BillB: I've lived in Oakland for 33 years and never seen this kind of hate. It doesn't help anyone. http://t.co/lZE2JU2Omv

.@psobot Whoa. I wonder though if it's just a few very vocal people? It's so hard to tell with stuff like this... still, scary.

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YHZ ✈ YOW ✈ YTZ, on @porterairlines of course. Glad my flight was today, not yesterday.

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#IdeaOfTheDay: ~gantt chart for tracking books I'm reading. I'm making this right now.

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Replying to kudeki @kudeki ·

@anthny yes, how would you even do that emoticon the other way??!

.@kudeki @anthny using the character U+15e1 Canadian Syllabics Carrier Tha, of course! :ᗡ #unicodetotherescue

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Retweeted @destraynor

@asymco At some point people will no longer say smart phone. Then they'll no longer say mobile phone. Then we'll realise th…

Replying to Magic Pics @magicpixx ·

@kudeki @anthny

@kudeki @anthny can we also just talk about how weird and random @magicpixx's tweets are? I swear, gives my @ Connect tab +2 to surreal.

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Replying to anthøny @anthny ·

@Malcolm_McC but when it nails it, it's pretty amazing. ie x.com/magicpixx/stat… // @kudeki @magicpixx

quoting @magicpixx: @anthny http://t.co/EJ7pTMPRIq

@anthny Mmm. This one was pretty good too: ... but like... twitter.com/magicpixx/stat… ??? @kudeki @magicpixx

Magic Pics @magicpixx ·

@Malcolm_McC

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Never underestimate the power of sentences starting with "Never underestimate the power of".

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Retweeted @luminousalicorn

If you had an all-you-can-eat restaurant that was themed around garlicky dishes, you could call it Buffet the Vampire …

At the @BufferBox to get my new Nexus 5, pull out my Galaxy Nexus and it powers off. Scared of replacement, I guess. #strangerthanfiction

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As of today, giant tech company C̶i̶r̶c̶l̶e̶-Google is using your name+photo next to ads, to "benefit" your "friends"

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Retweeted @graymachine

Apparently in recent months the word “This” has become an entire sentence in itself. I was not aware. This.

@WolfTivy @graymachine I think there's a kind of time-(conceptual)space thing when one talks about culture, due to disparate groups.

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"All ability to do things requires a gradient. Your body's act of living is a hundred-year struggle against equilibrium."

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"Old, bad habits of mine returned, in what I consider to be a case of revertigo..." — Sandy Maguire's 2013 review sandymaguire.me/blog/2014/01/1…

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I'm coming to #sehackday soon! Anybody want to hack on my pebble? Or my extra android phone, if you want to android-dev & don't have one.

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Replying to Ryan Bateman @FluxDenisty ·

Working on a game named by GitHub's repo name suggestion: "Cloaked Wallhack" at #sehackday

@FluxDenisty Is the idea for the game based on the name, or did it come first?

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Replying to Ryan Bateman @FluxDenisty ·

@Malcolm_McC surprisingly GitHub picked a name with some similarities to the idea I already had. I knew I wanted to build a stealth game.

@FluxDenisty ...weird.

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#sehackday people, I've now arrived with my pebble! Anyone want to try hacking on it? I'm the guy in the rainbow sweater.

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Looking at the #sehackday @visibletweets wordcloud and I'm like "man, now I want a fridge magnet set with these words."

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Retweeted @the_deange

Redoing my website and realizing I can't keep up with NewFadThisWeek.js

My new #Nexus5 is so new it's on newfoundland time. ...I wish I were joking.

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.@lall_sonu "Your new phone is like 7 years newer than your old one." me: "uhh... two?" sonu: "2 is 7 in phone years"

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Replying to Michael Keenan 🔍 @michaelkeenan_0 ·

@Malcolm_McC You're on OS X, right? Hold shift while hitting the volume change buttons and it won't beep.

@michaelkeenan Nope, Ubuntu.

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Replying to @everydaydude

@everydaydude Amazing levels of depth and distance in that photo.

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Just joined the Puttytribe! A community for serious multipotentialites! puttylike.com/puttytribe/ #puttytribe via @emiliewapnick

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The fog of writing is like the fog of war ♫ You lie to yourself & you pretend you can do it, so you can do it more ♪ youtube.com/watch?v=MH2zkI…

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"Okay Google, Mike Rowe my crow" Holy shit. Speech rec has reached new heights. It found the thing.

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@felspahr Oooh! I love your new site design!

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*push button on @pebble* ↳pebble tells phone nextsong ↳@rdio app tells rdio-playing-elsewhere nextsong ↳laptop plays next song fyeah.

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@itsashleyperez Just took your quiz. Wtf is #YAASS?

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Had to get >70% on "Evils of Plagiarism" quiz pre-course. Yet no feedback once I got 75%. So I guess I can plagiarize 1/4 of the time...?

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Retweeted @XplodingUnicorn

Me: Here’s the plan, team. *draws X’s & O’s on the board* *watches as players hug and kiss each other* *wins the S…

Just installed @SwiftKey. First five words in my Markov chain: "I am a beautiful person". This.

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Just watched #Her. All of my human concerns seem really small now.

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Replying to @anildash

@anildash Do you... have... back end CSS? @shanley

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Retweeted @sondosia

I Finally Saw the Movie "Her" and I Loved It and Had Feelings wp.me/p2WIFs-T6

Do something every day that makes you feel like badass.

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Retweeted @magicpixx

@Malcolm_McC

Replying to Peter Sobot @psobot ·

While in Montréal, I will be tweeting in both English and French. Tandis qu'à Montréal, je vais tweeter en français et en anglais.

@psobot was this a joke or were you actually planning to do this?

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Replying to Peter Sobot @psobot ·

@malcolm_mcc A bit of both… but this is the only tweet that was totally bilingual.

@psobot Lol, imagine having only 69 characters per tweet.

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"What do you want?" The index vs the menu. Seth Godin explores they shape behavior: sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/201… via @sebpaquet

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I think @foreverfm is addicted to Molly. It's played this song by @CedricGervais twice in the last hour.

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I meant to say, I didn't actually listen to it last night. I just guessed (correctly) that I'd want it on repeat today. @luxlisbonmusic

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Still can't top Get Some Scars, but I've listened to this >20 times today. ♫ t.thisismyjam.com/Malcolm/_7m0pf…

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Replying to Miri Loves Leafies 🌻💙💛 @LeafyMiri ·

When ppl make fun of me for being "politically correct" all I hear is "I am making fun of you b/c you care about trying not to hurt people."

@sondosia "politically correct" has always struck me as a really weird term for this.

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Retweeted @sondosia

@Malcolm_McC I think it comes from the Soviet Union, where you could lose your life for saying something "politically incorre…

I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) buff.ly/LLz8Be

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Band name idea: "The Massive Photons"

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Replying to Linda Carson @lccarson ·

To review, more students would dump the ex in a text message than have ever received a letter, in an envelope, with a stamp on it #ENVS131

@lccarson Wait, there are ppl who've never gotten a letter ever? I mean, I don't get 'em often, but... long distance relationships, I guess?

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Intuitive explanation of ceil() function: traveling by transit. Leave @ 9:01 or 9:05, arrive at the same time b/c same bus. 9:12? Next bus.

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You're stuck in 2nd person and you can't get out. Help you. Help you. Please. Help you.

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Unh. Tabata sprints. Can barely think. Can still tweet, apparently.

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Didn't they do a study and find @Wikipedia has only 3-4× the errors of EncycBritannica? (ie not many) Remind me again why I can't cite it?

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I just accidentally made all of the titles in my report have alliteration. ...for really weak definitions of "accidentally".

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@felspahr @gretchenbehnke's skillz: Moved Permanently.

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"We try to reverse-engineer the universe from our own ego. Hilarity ensues." — @gapingvoid ...and tragedy.

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Retweeted @LordChisholm

Essential toolkit for understanding world problems: bystander effect, confirmation bias, prisoners dilemma, inferential d…

Replying to @jchyip

@jchyip @hnshah The 10kh thing WAS for deliberate practice. The bigger issue is that it only applies to games where the rules never change.

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@jchyip @hnshah So chess, tennis, and violin-playing, sure. But you want to master fashion, or business that way? Ha. Good luck.

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Retweeted @ValaAfshar

Successful people intentionally struggle.

"Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people." — @BenCasnocha 99u.com/7161 via @99u

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It's a meal-replacement-drink-for-every-meal kind of day. I'm not upset. They're chocolate. It's a chocolate-for-every-meal kind of day.

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Replying to @jchyip

.@jchyip @hnshah Sure. I'd add that goes beyond being mindful. It's also about being opportunistic. (See @Frans_Johansson's TheClickMoment)

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@jimio Sometime back in the fall, I promised to eventually send you this article. I keep my word, apparently. messymatters.com/autonomy/

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Gah, nearly nerdsniped myself on the way to bed by trying to write an app to [REDACTED]

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The intro to #LSH2014 was one of the cheesiest experiences of my life. ...this from someone who once performed High School Musical.

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I reserve my right to snicker at any #LSH2014 cheesy stock photos

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Replying to @ZFiscr

@ZFiscr Oh yeah I'm well aware of soylent. But it's not available yet, so in the meantime...

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@ZFiscr btw, just checked out SpeakMe... Looks cool, want to grab coffee sometime?

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Highlight of #LHS2014: having #LarrySmith call us out on copying his generation using the word "cool." "In our days, it was REALLY cool."

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"I'm not actually torturing you... for no reason. I'm a professor. Torturing young brains is my job." — #LarrySmith at #LHS2014 #uWaterloo

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Replying to @ZFiscr

@ZFiscr I'm planning to be in Toronto midFeb... Like 19-22.

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"My dream growing up was to be an accountant & ride my bike to work." —@AdamKreek, gold medalist. Wow, you really failed at that. #LHS2014

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Replying to Miri Loves Leafies 🌻💙💛 @LeafyMiri ·

There Will Be a Lean In Movie buff.ly/1gbke4O No.

@sondosia Oh god.

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The moment you start trying to think about something differently, you've succeeded, because you're now meta-thinking about it.

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Ze Frank on Imaginary Audiences: "It’s almost as if, with each comment, the size of the room changes." 99u.com/5923 via @99u

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@pomeranian99 I think (based on STYT) you'd like this interview with Ze Frank on Imaginary Audiences: 99u.com/articles/5923/…

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Those winter sundays when I just spend the whole day in my room reading, writing, and thinking. Mmmmmmm.

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I present... The Footselfie. #selfie #nofilter

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@Jolly Thought this bluetooth headset that tracks your alertness might be of interest: kickstarter.com/projects/jason…

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My inner apophenic wants to be really excited that I arrived at the bus stop at the exact moment the bus did, & that it had exactly 1 seat.

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Retweeted @fortes

Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.

@donovanable Erm, I do want to say that my first response was sympathy/empathy. So: sounds like a shitty day. ...so far.

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Replying to @littlebigdetail

@littlebigdetail Oh man, that's nothing.

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The letter s, repeated 503 times in my document. Yup, time to sleep.

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#funregex s/trans/tyrannosaurus/g

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"Pulling an all-nighter is a rite of passage for university students." Ha. I did #IBDiploma.

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Replying to @outcastace

@outcastace Works on bold and italic but doesn't work on highlight, which is a shame as highlight is a great thing to mass-remove.

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Man, #Word2013 is crazy. The text-cursor slides, rather than jumping letter-by-letter. I don't know why that's so weird, but it is.

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Asking the question, "what will the experience of the other person be?" How does that change our interactions? malcolmm.cc/2014/01/perspe…

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#zeroinbox It's been too long.

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Replying to James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn @XplodingUnicorn ·

Me: I’ve got Valentine’s Day all planned out. Wife: It better not involve Jägermeister or a bouncy castle. It's back to the drawing board.

@XplodingUnicorn Ditch your wife and have Valentine's day with me.

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Replying to Seb Paquet @sebpaquet ·

Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they're robots io9.com/freakishly-rea…

.@sebpaquet The robot laughing in the 2nd one is both endearing and freaky. A liiiittle like Samantha from #HerMovie. Wait. Samantha. #awks

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Replying to Jason Silva @JasonSilva ·

I wonder RT“@duivestein: "Bitcoin could alter world as much as Internet" fw.to/oK9zcpe”

@JasonSilva @duivestein Such a hard Q to ask, given that BTC requires internet. Like "internet could change world as much as telecoms"...

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Retweeted @XplodingUnicorn

All right, I got my picture in a magazine for eating Jell-O. Where’s my blue check mark? explodingunicorn.com/2013/11/jell-o… _ _ ht…

Replying to James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn @XplodingUnicorn ·

All right, I got my picture in a magazine for eating Jell-O. Where’s my blue check mark? explodingunicorn.com/2013/11/jell-o… _ _

@XplodingUnicorn This has brought me double-digit seconds of laughter. In like, hexadecimal even.

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"It's frictionless, like everything at university." — #myprof

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The Socratic Method, teaching third-graders binary. Active learning for the win. buff.ly/1goCeJ1

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Retweeted @pomeranian99

"It’s almost as if, with each comment, the size of the room changes." Great @zefrank observation on audience online: http…

*takes off neurosky and puts on zeo* If you'd told 2012-me that in 2014 I'd own 2 EEG devices, I'd've thought I went into neuroscience.

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(Re: appeal to authority) "There's no such thing as a statement being true just because someone said it" Oh yeah? "I said this statement."

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Retweeted @cnvandev

Garçon? I would like one of your finest naps, please. Bring me the nap menu, I would like to peruse your vintages. Send over …

Type word I just made up. No red underline. Type asdf to ensure spellchk is on. No red. Type asdfwefewf. Red. ...asdf is a word now.

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Just read @AriannaSimpson's article "This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup". Fellows. Srsly. ariannasimpson.com/post/744000250…

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Retweeted @rob_sheridan

Discovered today that if you have Siri speak Emoji, she describes each icon. So, naturally… vine.co/v/hOjvdDhdwzF 💩💩💩💩💩💩

Wiki-searched "bad steel", @BASTILLEdan's label. 1st result: "Bad Blood", the wrestling event... and ALSO A BASTILLE SONG TITLE. #conspiracy

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Retweeted @Medium

“How To Slow Down Time” by @bwest87

Who talks more, men or women? Depends on who you ask... madmaudlingoes.tumblr.com/post/748421918… via @ZJemptv

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