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March 2014

82 tweets
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4 retweets
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"Where once physics was only the study of matter & fundamental laws, it has graduated into the study of organization in all its forms."

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That quotation was from Nexus by @Mark__Buchanan, which is about small-world networks, ie ones with clusters & weaker long distance links.

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@bjfogg @nireyal oh, this seems to have lost the original tweet. Anyway, for exercise, first thing everyday I go outside & lift both feet

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Replying to James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn @XplodingUnicorn ·

A Mississippi man was found alive on the embalming table. It either shows the awesome power of God or the sad state of Mississippi medicine.

@XplodingUnicorn I wonder if #FloridaMan had anything to do with it...

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What's Not Being Said About Bitcoin by @brian_armstrong nzzl.me/1hzfDac via @Nuzzel

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I have a new twitter handle! It's @Malcolm_Ocean. Last time I did this, I needed to notify people, but twitter's autocomplete is better now

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Accidentally locked myself out of my own site because wordpress thinks it's on my old domain... which redirects to my new one. #awkward

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Replying to fotobetty @fotobetty ·

@BManTickets @burningman Done and done. Thank you so much! <3

@fotobetty @BManTickets @burningman Haha: "Delivery: Estimated between Thu. Mar. 6 and Mon. Mar. 10" ...yeah that's not going to happen.

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Retweeted @C2Cdjs

The Beat is my native Language youtube.com/watch?v=2b03ho…

.@Ramez Naam's More Than Human on the ridiculousness of drug vs supplement regulation.

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Retweeted @HistoryInPics

The Future of Gaming

I'm looking for a more commonly-used synonym for "idiolect". Anyone? @GretchenAMcC?

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Google voice rec... What? I said "remind me to put looseleaf in my binders"

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I like using the word "technology" to refer to stuff humans invented decades ago and which now feel passé. Like telephones.

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It's hard to choose all-time "favorite Xs" because that also requires choosing a method for assessing their value on a single scale.

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Replying to Nir Eyal @nireyal ·

Why It's Scary When 0.15% Mobile Gamers Bring In 50% Of The Revenue buff.ly/1kvP1u9

.@nireyal That is by far the most extreme pareto-style breakdown I've ever seen.

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Replying to Noah Tye @noahlt ·

Best line of copy: "Designed by Apple in California" Worst line of copy: "Just another Wordpress blog"

.@noahlt Second-worst line of copy: "Not just another Wordpress blog" Because nobody's thought of THAT Before...

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Replying to ayman nadeem @aymannadeem ·

Something insanely gratifying about walking through -10 degree weather sippin a semi-frozen drink.

.@aymannadeem Is it kind of like how when you do something in a more-challenging way than necessary, you can't complain? #idothatsometimes

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.@spritzinc Can you add faster options for those of us who can already read at 500wpm easily? I can do 800wpm on spreeder.

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Fantastic comparison of newbs on a support forum and people asking activists etc banal questions, and of group norms. buff.ly/1f9gQAx

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.@robrhinehart Rob. Rob. Fiat lux. kickstarter.com/projects/17616…

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January!Malcolm sent today!Malcolm an email. Subject: "so dst. much zone. very time. wow" Oh, fads.

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Replying to @XplodingUnicorn

@XplodingUnicorn I thought Resistance held that honor?

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Retweeted @sondosia

“This Should Not Be Hard Between Two Sane, Consenting Adults.” | Ferrett Steinmetz buff.ly/1f98rBK

Confessions of an Uber Cab driver. Reminds me of a pretty wild not-a-cab ride I had once. gq.com/news-politics/…

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.@GoogleChrome, where did you put my recently closed tabs?!

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.@couragemylove "you're all I need & it's never been clearer, 'cuz baby you're all I see when I look in the mirror"... is this a twin thing?

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Retweeted @ZJemptv

(I don't like that word, I prefer "clothes", as in "wore clothes")

Retweeted @ZachWeiner

A lot of pickup artist "advice" is like commonsense advice paired with evil. Like saying "you should stay fit" ... "so you …

@kerri_shore Yay!! Also I saw you got a new patron! #winning

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I scored 843 on #threesjs! ^_____^ threesjs.com I'd wanted to give this a try but I'm android. Thanks @angelaconstance

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Want to ruin your kid's potential career in academia? Change your last name to Ibid.

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Retweeted @codinghorror

It's all part of God's plan. piecomic.tumblr.com/post/786806667…

As a Canadian, I always put the snapchat text bar across my mouth. Because South Park. I don't even watch that show.

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Every time, @AmazonSES. Every time.

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Retweeted @rockpapercynic

A high-school student is running for Mayor of Toronto. She's definitely more articulate than the current mayor. http:/…

Replying to @conradhackett

.@conradhackett @MikeAnissimov @BenedictEvans Me interviewing for "ninja software devr" mid2011, taken by interviewer

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I BEAT #2048game gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ via @gabrielecirulli

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.@svenardocom I love your Real-time chess play.svenardo.com/chess/ . Know where I might play against friends? Is that on your todo list?

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Replying to Robert GT @rjgoodin ·

Great class resource/fun. yournameinlife.com @Malcolm_Ocean I like "R YjH" as seed - gets to a point with only 1 glider, restarts.

.@rjgoodin I'm sad. For something so deterministic as #GameOfLife, they went and made the initial state wildly dependent on screen-rez.

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It's Pi-day, Pi-day, gotta get round on Pi-day ♪

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If you havin' coin problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 wallets but @MtGox ain't one. #BTC

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I like watching drive.google.com and dropbox.com compete for who gets autocompleted when I type dr[ENTER] into Chrome.

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Retweeted @StartupYou

Test Your Startup Idea with a Minimum Viable Transaction bit.ly/1gqgMN9

A feature for @gmail like the forgotten attachment one that detects if you say eg. wednesday march18 and march18 is tuesday. #ideaoftheday

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WhatsApp claims that facebook acq isn't going to change their privacy policy. Sure, maybe not this year. Maybe. nzzl.me/1gyHJyc

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Somebody hook a DDR mat up to 2048, right now. #2048game

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Retweeted @russelltovey

Never apologise for enthusiasm x

Replying to @suchnerve

@VanguardVivian @Jennimason0990 "my body is still laying bone" sounds like a euphemism to me...

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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm… (via @iwsfutcmd )

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My #FirstTweet - trying to help out Iran in 2009 twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…. What was yours? first-tweets.com

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Just went to type "2014" and typed "2048" instead. WTF.

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Replying to @XplodingUnicorn

@XplodingUnicorn yeah no kidding.

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Unicode character of the day: U+2324 GRUMPY CAT ⌤

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Retweeted @JasonSilva

"Cell phone calls warp cyberspace in the same way wormholes warp physical space: the two minds at… instagram.com/p/l5sN5dx6dp/

"I don't eat vegetarian. It's ethical. I don't think humans should be treated like this" Mitchell&Webb - Dinner Party buff.ly/1dmgigA

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Team FocusFlyer got 3rd place in the #SYDE 3rdyear #designsymposium at @uwaterloo with our neurosky ADHD focus training game :D

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Replying to Princess Cafe @princess_cafe ·

We've got each other from Montreal playing in the cafe tonight with battlewulf and life in vacuum from k/w. Show starts just after 9pm! PWYC

@princess_cafe Is the band "we've got each other" or just "each other"? Some capital letters might help :P #syntacticambiguity

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Wow, the BMO mastercard password has to be exactly 6 numbers and letters. So that's... 62^6 = 36 bits of info. #insecure #wtf

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.@Malcolm_Ocean Aaaaaaaaaaaand the security answers are also only alphanumeric. Seriously, @BMO, this is ridiculous.

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.@BMO Also you got my email wrong. I dunno who transcribed it, but if you email the one in the system, the delivery fails. #sounimpressed

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Replying to @anildash

@anildash @thinkup I'm really unimpressed with the service so far. Like all evidence points to it being great, but the insights haven't been

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@anildash @thinkup Am I not the target market or something? I'm actually confused about this, because it looked really cool...

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Replying to @lindaxthorn

@LindeeXie my twitter feed right now

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Huh, I can't fork my own repo on github? Weird.

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Two questions. One, is there a band called The Bad News Bears yet? Two, if not, does anyone wanna play lead guitar?

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Retweeted @ramez

Wow! MT @angryrobotbooks: Ramez Naam Shortlists with BOTH Nexus and Crux for Prometheus Best Novel - bit.ly/1gVBGnI Als…

Retweeted @jefftiedrich

The Little Engine That Can't Even Right Now #RuinAChildrensBook

Replying to جســــار @Jassar_80 ·

Things I Am a Master of: •Ceremonies •Dungeons •Chess •Butts

@DanKCharnley you forgot bation.

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Replying to Jey Kottalam @jeyjey ·

TIL: In Python, "if two numbers compare equal (such as 1 and 1.0) then they can be used interchangeably to index the same dictionary entry."

@jeyjey that's like the opposite of javascript :P

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Retweeted @jeyjey

Founders Fund should sell t-shirts with their tagline "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." …

On a whim, "it's my birthday, so... ice cream for supper" ...turns out that at @marbleslab it's on the house!!

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...but it feels really weird to be holding an ice cream cone with my winter gloves on. @MarbleSlab

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@AyersZachary dude you need a profile pic. You're not an egg.

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I GOT THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER. #2048game Thanks @tralexanian and @anjali_gopal :D

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LISTEN UP. TIL that you can drag something directly from Chrome's download bar onto an upload box. WHAT. #winning

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#Helios is going to charge your phone using energy emitted from the display? Dubious... #2ndLawOfThermodynamics #VFFW14 @UWvelocity

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So many medical techs at the #VFFW14 $1k this year! #embla #chemotracker #newallergy @UWvelocity

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.@rap_pad dominates with traction. Approaching a million views. #VFFW14 @UWvelocity

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I can't wait for #TapToTell to come out for Android

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Good morning @bmndr!

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Just saw a couple walking arm in arm, both tapping white canes in front. & I'm struck by how, arms linked, they've got more senses together.

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Replying to Velocity @UWVelocity ·

But wait! A surprising new grant of $10K! and it goes to @palettegear

.@UWvelocity A wild grant appears! Level 10000. Wait, what? @mmccauley @palettegear

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Replying to Clive Thompson @pomeranian99 ·

@yishaym No worries. Twitter has long needed a way for people to simply/easily chain a series of tweets together ….

@pomeranian99 if you reply to your own tweets, it works pretty well. You can even remove your username, and as long as you hit reply first

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@aydaring You going to colloquium today? I'm planning to :)

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Replying to Clive Thompson @pomeranian99 ·

@Malcolm_Ocean Aha, yes, that's a cool idea ... I'll try it!

@pomeranian99 Yeah! It has the other curious effect of pulling the old tweet to the top of people's timelines, with that blue bar.

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Replying to FunnelFeed @FunnelFeed ·

@sethdrebitko Hi Seth! We're dealing with a server issue - hoping to have it resolved soon :)

@SlingbotApp Hey, loop me in when it's fixed :)

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Aaaaaand the @greyhoundBus site is down.

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Bussing to Toronto for #GottaBeGood by @givegetwin!

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Replying to Josef Wasinski @JosefWasinski ·

Brand New Week, Some Monday Morning Motivation TO Do The Work That Matters! #MorningMusings #MondayMotivation

@JosefWasinski So many Ms...

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@CoreySmith54 I'm currently biphasic; I sleep ~6h per night and take a REM nap around noon. This works way better for me than 7.5-8h @ night

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@JosefWasinski check out what my deals include this week: frozen blueberries and broccoli. I'm taking your advice!

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Retweeted @uWaterlooSE

@psobot USPS in particular is amazing; have you seen improbable.com/airchives/pape…?

Replying to Peter Sobot @psobot ·

I hate mail. The thought that my penmanship is crucial to the safe delivery of my envelope is very scary.

@psobot I started writing a song about this at one point. I'll sing the verse I've got for you sometime.

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