{"id":501,"date":"2010-04-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/weekly-tweet-digest-2010-04-04\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:00:00","slug":"weekly-tweet-digest-2010-04-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/weekly-tweet-digest-2010-04-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-04-04"},"content":{"rendered":"

and i'm back in durham again. tomorrow is work. tonight, i'm finishing the last 20 pages of pynchon's "V." & sleeping. #CONTINUEDEXCITEMENT<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
of all the realizations i've had upon coming home from ca, my disappointment at the scarcity of meyer lemons is perhaps the most trivial. #<\/a><\/li>\n
dear associated press, thanks for this illuminating headline: "6-week search finds no Asian carp near Chicago." #searchcontinues<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tiffaniangus<\/a> v. poor timing. thought it was past weekend, & thought wrong. work has hit with all the vengeance; preparing a letter for you. in reply to tiffaniangus<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
robert e lee, more like robert \u00c3\u00a9lan, am i right? #HISTORY<\/a> #SCIENCE #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tobiasbuckell<\/a> so that timewarp feeling doesn't go away? i went last summer & it feels simultaneously ancient & as if i left last month. in reply to tobiasbuckell<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
the taser is the new horsewhip. #<\/a><\/li>\n
Dain's. #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran<\/a> let's get http:\/\/bit.ly\/cmP2BS<\/a> in reply to tofermoran<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
RT @apexjason<\/a>: New blog post: Reminder: Last day of $1 Apex books at Drive Thru Fiction http:\/\/bit.ly\/95zimc<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
hey sisyphus. hey sisyphus. hey sisyphus. whatcha doin? hey. hey. hey sisyphus\u00e2\u20ac\u201d #moreannoyingthanthelaboritself<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
man, i'm going broke from goodbye lunches. #<\/a><\/li>\n
no, @plasticbrentley<\/a>. you are the demons. in reply to plasticbrentley<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
8-bit dark side of the moon, arranged for the NES. http:\/\/bit.ly\/b3PuAg<\/a> via @scalzi<\/a> (looking at you, @tofermoran<\/a>) #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tofermoran<\/a> @mynameis_shoe 8-bit wizard of oz must occur someplace. also: i want to hear & see an 8-bit der ring des nibelungen. in reply to tofermoran<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@mynameis_shoe<\/a> @tofermoran you guys. you guys\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstop it. my brain hurts. it's… so beautiful. in reply to mynameis_shoe<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
in the galaga-fighter over the sea. http:\/\/bit.ly\/a7p5UZ<\/a> via the inestimable @mynameis_shoe<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
What worries you, masters you. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cbcTHD<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
i will see this movie. i will read these comics. http:\/\/bit.ly\/bmS9SS<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
"Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter fool and a sweet fool?" — lear's fool. #<\/a><\/li>\n
@MaryRobinette<\/a> i have no idea what's going on in this movie, because it's in czech, but the puppetry looks cool. http:\/\/bit.ly\/b6Ujdm<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
what if i just listened to moody french ladies singing beside dissonant electric guitars & synthesizers all day? what if that happened? #<\/a><\/li>\n
what if i mixed said french lady listening (not dissonant, most of the time, actually\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe band, holden, via eg) with audiolibro don quixote? #<\/a><\/li>\n
joy will happen, that's what. #<\/a><\/li>\n
using "whom" doesn't make you sound smart; use a semicolon for that. #<\/a><\/li>\n
my housemates are out of town; i could have hosted a raucous party. instead, i read james thurber's collection of correspondence. #nerdalert<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
dreamed that paul park put out a two volume collection of short stories and that i snagged the last copy. #nerdalert<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@nicoletaylor28<\/a> not for a carrot rights activist. leave them roots alone, dread skin oppressor. #windowbrick<\/a> in reply to nicoletaylor28<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@nicoletaylor28<\/a> [enraged slogans in french, demonstrating simultaneously how intelligent and angry i can be] [burning the grater first] in reply to nicoletaylor28<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@nicoletaylor28<\/a> Vive les racines minuscules! Vive les carottes! Vers le bas avec la fraternit\u00c3\u00a9! in reply to nicoletaylor28<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@nicoletaylor28<\/a> je l'avoue, j'ai utilis\u00c3\u00a9 la page de traduction de Google ind\u00c3\u00a9cemment. in reply to nicoletaylor28<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@damiengwalter<\/a> who were you expecting on the list besides le guin? (and these aren't limited to sf, or even prose, are they?) #eastercon<\/a> in reply to damiengwalter<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
does the truth of this comic make my job more depressing, or less depressing? http:\/\/bit.ly\/coCFzG<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
is that owl city guy using the star wars font for his album cover? http:\/\/bit.ly\/cFjsbS<\/a> http:\/\/bit.ly\/9CXISa<\/a> #suchgreatheights<\/a> #ofplagiarism #<\/a><\/li>\n
gentlemen. these are not the correct flashing lights. these are not the correct flashing lights at all. #<\/a><\/li>\n
PROGRAMMATIC PETULANCE. #guitarsolo<\/a> #middlymiddlymeeee #<\/a><\/li>\n
@tamarasheehan<\/a> thanks. a true onomatopoetic rendering of the shredded warble of the electric guitar has been a goal of mine for a while. in reply to tamarasheehan<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
initially proposed: the specimen be classified by its apparent mineral properties. revised: specimen is crustacean of the family Palinuridae #<\/a><\/li>\n
by which, of course i mean: http:\/\/bit.ly\/6x7nbl<\/a> #rock<\/a> #lobstaaah #<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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