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Tweets for the week of 2009-08-17

  • Do you think bicyclists should be represented on CA Traffic Control Devices Committee? Tell Devinder.Singh@dot.ca.gov http://bit.ly/rairw #
  • T-60 days and counting. (The T is for Thesis) #
  • New Belgium's Tour de Fat almost makes me wish I had a car, just so I could trade it in for a bike, faith-healer style: http://bit.ly/2Ypkl #
  • nodding off. must. brush. teeth…. #
  • It's funny to realize that despite having been to someone's house dozens of times, over years, you have no idea what their address is. #
  • Just reported four people for running their lawn sprinklers in the heat of the day. Does that make me a prick? http://bit.ly/1w4mel #
  • Got my Hunter S. Thompson Freak Power! shirt. I can't believe he was almost the Sheriff of Aspen. http://bit.ly/TbCDx #
  • I would surrender, if only it would make the endlessly circling police helicopters go away. But they don't want me. (yet) #
  • There are only so many lucid hours in the day. They begin now. #
  • Who would have thought Caltrans could be so personable and responsive? http://bit.ly/g9fD1 #
  • Have had to restore information from backups twice today. Thank goodness for SVN and Time Machine. #
  • Surprisingly satisfying to start putting words and figures into a file called Thesis.ltx #
  • Went to bed at midnight, still didn't wake up until 10:30am. What's wrong with me? #
  • Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski! Point Dume State Beach may be slated for closure, under pressure from the rich & famous. http://bit.ly/1sBk6y #
  • Vastly more people have played The Oregon Trail than ever emigrated via the Oregon Trail. What a fascinating modern age it is we live in. #
  • Thank you California for legalizing sensible graywater systems. Now that wasn't so painful really, was it? http://bit.ly/32n8aB #
  • I feel silly (and good) for missing @michelleselvans after only 4 days. #
  • Time to hitch up the trailer and go foraging. #
  • Tonight it was berry season: blue, black and rasp. Pounds of them. Plus eggs (of course), grapes, chicken salad, apples and a bit o cheese #
  • might be as much a non-theist Quaker as a freegan. Definitions-wise anyway. Community participation obviously makes a difference though. #
  • Honestly, the way grad students act and feel about never having been doing enough work is downright Catholic. #
  • I am a digital pack rat, but I think my grandkids and the family AI will probably appreciate it: http://bit.ly/MDYi8 #
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Tweets for the week of 2009-08-09

  • A graphical plea for pedestrians, bicycles, and mass transit… but no cars in our cities: http://is.gd/20R4f #
  • Apparently there will be no further public Pasadena Bicycle Master Plan meetings: http://is.gd/21jmS (unless we make a stink about it!) #
  • Not a big fan of muckraking journalism, but occasionally it works. #
  • OH in Caltech Seismolab stairs: "Richter and Gutenberg came up with the Richter scale. It's a mathematical formula."; "Huh, that figures." #
  • 16 years after donating blood while I unknowingly had mononucleosis, the Red Cross still doesn't want me. That's ~50 liters of lost blood. #
  • Some part of me will be sad if the era of human spaceflight ends in my lifetime, and I never went to see a launch. #
  • Had a gourmet dumpster brunch: french toast w/ bread from EuroPane, eggs from TJs, jelly made from backyard kumquats. #
  • When I start to work, suddenly I always have to go pee. Then I have to put on my headphones. It just isn't work without the headphones. #
  • Today's iPhones are 20,000 times more powerful than the computer used to do the fluid dynamics calculations for the first hydrogen bomb. #
  • http://img.ly/2lT South Mudd is such a great place to watch sunsets. #
  • RT @bikeportland Detroit radio show hosts encourage listeners to throw things at people on bikes as they drive by. http://bit.ly/17Hkli #
  • Apprehensive about (terrified of?) giving my PhD committee some kind of update, but it has to be done. #
  • Mmm, chickenfat. #
  • Sometimes when I look at things I did or wrote very late at night, it's almost like looking at some other person's work. Some stupid person. #
  • #whentwitterwasdown I mixed up a go-to-sleep-before-dawn potion of sake and strawberry lemonade. Heading to JPL early tomorrow morning. #
  • New Matplotlib release v0.99.0 http://bit.ly/1HQlaf now with 3D plotting! Seems to be asymptotically approaching v1.0. #
  • The ride up to JPL and back is so nice. If only working there wasn't so governmentally obnoxious. #
  • Heading down to Little Tokyo for some free Taiko… to be followed by a midnight bike ride back to Pasadena. #
  • Taiko was awesome. Scoped some dumpsters on the way home. Cool summer evenings are the best for riding LA to Pasadena. #
  • Am I really a freegan? Would I really want to be? One word labels are so confining. http://bit.ly/EcpVv #
  • Got distracted on the way to the hummus by the fresh pesto, bread, tomatoes, basil, and balsamic. Oh well. #
  • Uh oh. Getting light outside. It must be bedtime. http://bit.ly/lUxcN #
  • Selling my old laptop. $100 discount and a free laptop case if I know you and you can pick it up: http://bit.ly/Qh1OS #
  • Starting to work in the afternoon on a Sunday reminds me of being an undergrad. #
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Tweets for the week of 2009-08-03

  • It is by will alone I put my mind in motion. #
  • It seems as if one could be arbitrarily well fed dumpster diving: http://is.gd/1PhME #
  • A golden age of propaganda is upon us I say: http://manhattanairport.org/ #
  • Glad to once again have a positive net worth. Bummed the global economy is still organized like a massive Ponzi scheme. #
  • Just downloaded thesis.cls from CU Graduate School… #
  • Bleah. Heuristics are so easy to get wrong. Or at least, not quite right. #
  • my new Turing clone is almost finished. #
  • Annoying that Apple's Time Machine doesn't let you swap out your backup disk or laptop easily. #
  • Going to sleep. I have a date in the morning. #
  • I name all my backup disks after burial structures. My new one will be Dakhma: a Zoroastrian Tower of Silence. http://is.gd/1UMEl #
  • Voicemail instructions are a billion dollar scam (who doesn't know what to do with the beep?) http://is.gd/1UP6K #
  • watching a decade of my life quite literally flash before my eyes. #
  • Can I fall asleep before the sun wakes up? #
  • OCR: for Europa tidal stresses are insensitive both to the theological structure beneath the ice layer and to the thickness of the icy shell #
  • Not doing anything worth taking a picture of. #
  • Just saw Food Inc. I figure, if we're going to eat trash, it might as well actually come out of a dumpster. #
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Tweets for the week of 2009-07-27

  • Knowing humanity is capable of greatness makes our stubborn bickering mediocrity so much more tragic. Apollo trapped in a monkey's mind. #
  • From the moon, it's a full earth. #
  • Paper draft finally handed off for first direct outside input in quite a while. Mmm, beer at dawn. It's thesis time… #
  • Figures lie and liars figure. I think I'll start with the captions. #
  • Like it or not, there are values embedded in the way we convey facts: http://is.gd/1JnkV #
  • Working on Saturday. EIther that, or I wrote a cron job to update my status… #
  • RT @AlexSteffen: More Americans are killed by cars when walking or biking than die b/c of drug overdoses & violence. #
  • When the revolution comes, we will be ready, with our metric units intuition… #
  • Heading to the dumpsters. #
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Tweets for the week of 2009-07-20

  • The mildly depressed make more accurate assessments. #
  • Sadly, my camera seems to have either been lost or stolen. #
  • I had no idea I was supposed to talk to Caltrans about http://bikewise.org this morning! Gah! #
  • Good day+night of paper/thesis writing. It's like a story (well… kinda). Now time for a sleep inducing beer, blindfold, and earplugs. #
  • If I don't find my lost/stolen camera in the next couple of weeks… suggestions? Thinking a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3: http://is.gd/1zBEP #
  • That wasn't quite enough sleep. Or quite enough tea. How to tell which? #
  • Europa TPW/NSR paper at 55 pages double spaced, including figs. Time for the sustainability symposium. This week's topic is @wattzon #
  • Will remember 2009 as the first year we actually got the tomatoes to work. So many we have to give some away. #
  • Do you know where your Pareto frontier is in Salary-Vacation space? http://is.gd/1Bjmy #
  • How did I spend all day writing, but only go from 55 to 57 pages? I guess that's what editing does. #
  • Publisher got Amazon to forcibly delete their legally purchased e-books from all Kindles. What book? 1984. Double plus ungood irony. #
  • I ordered a new camera, and the lost camera mysteriously reappeared within minutes. Weird B&H Photo conspiracy? Except it's the sabbath. #
  • Writing conclusions. Who could have guessed there were so many ways to generate the same observations? #
  • 83 days until I have to submit my thesis. Ugh. #
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Tweets for the week of 2009-07-13

  • Whoa, LA Metro considering lifting rush-hour bike ban on light rail. Voice your support! http://is.gd/1p2vy #
  • Going to Trader Joe's… this time for stuff they haven't thrown away yet. #
  • Riots, hundreds dead, burning buses and looted businesses. This is Xinjiang, not Iran: http://is.gd/1qfrX #
  • Emerged from my improvised home sensory deprivation chamber. True Roman bread for true Romans! #
  • I love the irony of having the wallpaper on my laptop be a piece of weathered parchment or papyrus. #
  • Has humanity really learned anything new about government in the last 2000 years? Sometimes I doubt it. #
  • Writing something you wouldn't want to read is frustrating. #
  • Maybe this is cheesy, but I feel kind of inspired by Artichoke's songs about 26 scientists: http://is.gd/1v3cy and http://is.gd/1v3db #
  • Soon to be burning the midnight oil. It's been a while. Thank goodness for thumping trance beats. #
  • Holy crap, I am older than more than half the human beings on earth. #
  • I've been sitting here for more than 12 hours. Time to sleep. #
  • Even the internet is quiet on weekends. #
  • Are you a scientist frustrated by programming? Check out Software Carpentry: http://software-carpentry.org/ #
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This week in tweets

  • Would somebody please catch Senator Inhofe (R-OK) having a homosexual extramarital affair already? http://is.gd/1ipLM and http://is.gd/1ipHx #
  • RT @ceidotorg They call it peer review. We call it censorship. http://is.gd/1ir0J #
  • feels like a nuclear powered sleep zombie. #
  • Tired of being social. Tired of being tired. Tired of being tired of being social? Stressed? Introverted? Crazy? #
  • The Cynics were wise-asses too, and old Zeno they liked to refute. Don't think too hard when you move, 'cause it makes it much harder to do. #
  • I can only love the God that does not care. #
  • Another nuclear dawn patrol… #
  • Go / where you wanna go / but know as you leave that / no-body ever gets / where they're goin' to… #
  • Amateur Earthling says: no nukes is good nukes! Or is they? http://is.gd/1lTZt (A Review of Nuclear Energy by David Bodansky) #
  • I don't even really have to write anything here now do I? #
  • Replacing explosive patriotism with a harvest celebration. #
  • I really don't want a revolution. I also really don't want an apocalypse. #
  • searching for suspicious things on the internets. Don't worry coppers, I really meant it when I said I didn't want a revolution. #
  • No, I don't have an Adventure Pass, I didn't drive. No I wasn't dropped off. Yes, I biked all the way from the city. All 3 miles! #
  • Watch "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" if you want to see what a mess trying to run an insurgency is… #
  • I just pulled a week's worth of food out of a Trader Joe's dumpster. What are we doing? http://is.gd/1oAMF #
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This week in tweets

  • napping on soft grass in the shade of an aspen grove just leafing out at 3000m on summer solstice is very close to heaven. #
  • viewing the garden after a long weekend away is always an adventure… #
  • Uh, note to potential vertical (urban highrise) farmers: where exactly are you going to get the sunlight from again? http://is.gd/1blxV #
  • Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click – http://helpiranelection.com/ #
  • People of Earth: talk to the hand. #
  • eating pasta with crispedy crunchedy castaño beans from the garden, lightly sauteéd. #
  • I'm starting to wonder if anything sensible has ever been effectively legislated anywhere. #
  • enjoying finding old ideas in new media. Like running into an old friend, in a new city. #
  • Waltz with Bashir was strange and heavy and painful. #
  • coal left in the ground is by far the best option for carbon sequestration. #
  • RT @AlexSteffen: Some days, it's good to remember that optimism is a political act. #
  • Sliding toward dawn… #
  • The sound of ice cubes in a quart jar. Summer is finally here. #
  • Fourth annual Parkwood shadecloth raising is complete. It's BBQ season! #
  • Ate a shady lunch in our makeshift courtyard, all food harvested from the garden, or gleaned from society's waste stream. #
  • There's no place like "away": http://is.gd/1gA2j #
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This week in tweets

  • Is it actually possible to get an overnight wilderness permit to backpack into the Cottonwood Basin in the White Mountains? #
  • A surreality TV idea: Bright Green. Like Wa$ted, except ppl go fully sustainable, eventually requiring transformation of entire city/state! #
  • not sure which is worse: the thought that the Iranian elections were rigged, or the though that they weren't. It all seems so… Y2K. #
  • And now a recount! I think Iran is making fun of us. Why *didn't* Florida look like this in 2000: http://is.gd/13GYj #
  • I'm drinkin' tea out of a big ol' jar. Ah, Hugh. #
  • This guerilla art project was probably worth getting arrested for: http://is.gd/14DsX #
  • This is the kind of housing I want to build in Boulder: http://is.gd/14Ejt #
  • Frustrated by code. Again. Sometimes I wonder why I even try. #
  • has an audience with Peter Goldreich. Gulp. #
  • Okay, brute force it is then. Where's my hacksaw? #
  • yeehaw, my data is demonstrably not just noise. Signal this strong randomly has chances of something like 1 in 50,000. Whew! #
  • going to pretend I'm backpacking in some post-apocalyptic Caucasian republic… olives, sheep's cheese, dried fruit, lavash bread. #
  • Okay computer, it's up to you to do the science while I'm gone. And don't run out of memory again. Or download any kiddie porn. Mmmkay? #
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This week in tweets

  • Yann Arthus-Bertrand's HOME is gorgeous, but all such films need a more concrete vision of their preferred future: http://is.gd/TMtI #
  • O Brave New World, Where Are You? http://is.gd/TXGN #
  • EarthDesk is *almost* awesome. Needs (much) higher resolution images: http://is.gd/VINA #
  • momentarily confused by cross dressing co-worker at the urinals. I love Caltech. #
  • Last year's Terry Lecture at Yale looks interesting: The Scientific Buddha http://is.gd/WiTO #
  • Headache. Must dissolve myself into the quiet darkness. Ugh. #
  • still unclear whether two mugs of black tea is enough to stave off a no-coffee headache… #
  • In Pasadena, about 20 people are killed each year in car "accidents". Seems strange it doesn't make more news. #
  • I'm not shaving until I'm done with grad school. #
  • LA Metro finally getting on board with Google Transit: http://is.gd/Z5un #
  • Anyone else out there search for both "naked gardening" and "k-dimensional search tree" today? I didn't think so. #
  • kd-tree seems to be functional. Now if only I could have done this in my sleep. #
  • Congrats to all the new Caltech PhDs! I wIsh commencement weren't so early. Good luck getting tenure… #
  • I love the June gloom. Hope the tomatoes and cucumbers don't freak out and wilt when the sun finally appears. #
  • Okay, maybe 1L of black tea is sufficient to get me through the day. #
  • watch out for TV riots this evening, when the masses realize their analog idiot boxes have stopped working. #
  • Well dang it, this doesn't make it any faster either. Maybe I should have known that? #
  • still sooo sleeeepy… #
  • biking from Pasadena to Griffith Park, on what appears to be a gorgeous summer day, but one that came from Seattle or Portland, not LA. #
  • Rode 35 miles across northeast LA, through Griffith Park and back. Friends, picnic, bocci, and a temple to the sky. Near to heaven #