2011 08 01 tweets
Replying to @jmittell
Yay! Enjoy!
Packed myself a fantastic lunch last night, including leftovers from last night's fab dinner- and proceeded to leave it in the fridge. Rats.
More information about this November's Berlin9 Open Access Conference is now available: http://www.berlin9.org/news/11-0801.shtml
Replying to @rgfeal
Ah, just wait until you see the awesome Chemex carafe I'll be bringing to the office. I'll be unstoppable.
Replying to @rgfeal
It's a 3-cup, so I suppose I could be persuaded to share. Just more frequent brewing!
Fantastic blog post on obsolescence and nostalgia, jumping off from my first book, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: http://digiauthors.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/obsolescence-and-nostalgia/
Replying to @mmwwah
I've requested @Profhacker update that, but it's taking some time.
Replying to @nancybaym
It is very hard for me to imagine that this is the same place that was in single digits at the start of my visit.
Replying to @dancohen
If you're looking for more early humanities bloggers, you might look at my blogroll from June 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030802101442/http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/
Replying to @dancohen
Some familiar folks there...
Replying to @dancohen
Blogging completely transformed my sense of scholarly community, esp when I met the Wordherders!
Replying to @jasonrhody
I absolutely herd words honorarily. It's a calling. :)
Replying to @eetempleton
Perfectionist.
You go, @mariabustillos: "I wrote about Aaron Swartz and JSTOR and all that, because I have got THOUGHTS on this matter http://bit.ly/qQnk6g"
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Read that sitting in my doctor's waiting room this morning and it was all I could do not to laugh out loud. HI-LARIOUS.
Replying to @tcarmody
Eh, it was just wishful thinking on my part.
Replying to @tcarmody
I get that, I guess. But it serves TWC, not HBO. I'd pay more for HBO Go by itself than I would for HBO as a cable add-on.
Replying to @tcarmody
Heh. Hard to separate them. On the previous convo: TW might in the long run be okay with a no-cable HBO; TWC would certainly not.
Am enjoying my first cup of made-in-the-office Chemex coffee. Holy moly, I may never drink anything else.
Oh no: Just saw a report saying Etta James has passed away. An enormous loss.
Just finished revising a short piece for a certain higher ed publication. Prepare to have your swashes buckled - and by a girl, no less!
Replying to @kathiiberens
What a heartbreaking version. I got to see her play Jazz Fest in 2006; she was just amazing.
Replying to @escapegrace
Oh, thank goodness!
A hoax like this is enormously depressing. Particularly given the more than sufficient sadness of the actual situation. http://www.nme.com/news/etta-james/58450
Replying to @jmaxsfu
True. Though one does feel scientific when making coffee with it! If only I had a Bunsen burner...
Replying to @jmaxsfu
Oh, no. Surely not. Just gadgetyness.
I had to get a tetanus/whooping cough booster shot yesterday, and today it feels like my shoulder has been punched from the inside.
Replying to @eetempleton
It *was* vaguely obscene; she was raunchy in the best possible way. An amazing performance.
Replying to @mattthomas
As I already noted. But thanks.
I am suddenly NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY AT ALL. Cooperate with me, world. #sheesh
Replying to @tmcphers
Thank you! PS: if you know someone looking for an awesome rental about 35 miles east of you, let me know, okay?
Replying to @plragde
INDEED.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
That is not the worst idea anyone has suggested to me. Any book in particular this evening?
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Excellent! What time will you be there?
Replying to @Ed_Raso and @amandafrench
Hey, now there's an agenda I can get behind!
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Great. I'll try to make it by unless I've already pulled the covers over my head by that point.
I really, really hate the degree to which one craptastic event can utterly undo an otherwise rockin' day.
Replying to @rgfeal
imwtty :)
Perfect weather for a drink on the terrace, though. Mood improving already!
Replying to @patrick_mj
Srsly. Exactly the right kind of overcast. Low humidity. 80 degrees. What could be better?
Replying to @mariabustillos
I *told* you you rock. :)
Replying to @jwolman
I'm testing it out, but only have one friend there yet, so am not yet getting the full benefit, I think.
Replying to @karikraus
Excellent column, Kari!
This week in beans & greens: chickpeas and kale. And holy moly, is it good. #whatimeatingfordinner
Replying to @2xlp
This was a Bittman-inspired soup, starting from dried chickpeas; kale went in for the last 30 mins. Yum.
Replying to @2xlp
Cool - I'll check it out!
Starting another week of plotting the reinvention of scholarly communication!
Replying to @torstenreimer
Not quite yet -- but very soon, I hope! :)
Replying to @AlecHosterman
Mwahaha.
RT @zota: The stock price crashed through the bottom of the chart. I though it only did that in cartoons?
http://yfrog.com/h8ghjop
Went to the gym on my lunch hour. That right there, friends, is going to make a huge difference in my quality of life.
The only alarming part is that it took a colleague to suggest it to me; I'd never have thought to do it on my own.
Replying to @fraistat
Something like that!
Now sitting at my desk scarfing down some guilt-free leftovers and preparing to write a report.
Replying to @rgfeal
NYSC, at Wall & Broad.
Incidentally, the gym I went to is more or less diagonally across from the stock exchange. And there are sure a lot of TV crews there!
You'd think something big was happening.
I've lost track of who it was in my stream that linked to this - http://www.hussalonia.com/HRC_011.html - but thanks. Really. +
A completely bizarre opportunity to relive a key period in my utterly misspent youth.
My head just exploded: I'm sitting here wondering why I knew every word of every song in the first half of that Glass Houses cover, but +
was only familiarish with most of the second half. Why? Owned it on vinyl. Duh.
Oh this has just been an AWESOME day.
\(Previous tweet was not meant to be sarcastic\.\)
Evidence that Plan Go to Gym at Lunch was a rousing success: late-day endorphins rock. \(Not to mention a thoroughgoing sense of virtue\.\)
Replying to @JenHoward
So. Jealous.
RT @ClaraJeffery: Guys, if the London Eye were on fire, there'd be wall-to-wall cable shots of it. Keep Calm, Carry On.
Replying to @JenHoward
I have no doubt.
Replying to @surlyF and @jenhoward
Red Dragon Tattoo remains my favorite pull-me-out-of-a-bad-mood song.
Day 2 of Project Go to Gym at Lunch successfully completed! I could get used to this.
Replying to @midwinter_
Next stop: treadmill desk. Oh yes.
Replying to @patcohennyt
Wow, that's fantastic - thank you, and thanks for letting me know!
Okay, today was another rockin' day, but all this rockin' is wearing me out a little.
And oh, Twitter client? Autocorrect? On my desktop Mac? QUIT IT.
Seriously: how is there no preference to turn this abomination off? I do not want to be autocorrected when I have a proper keyboard!
Replying to @jwolman
Not really. Really?
RT @jwolman: @kfitz I think that's an OS-wide Lion thing. // Insanely enough, he's right. Food news: off switch in System Prefs > Lang&Text.
Dammit. That was GOOD NEWS. Not "Food News." \(Would love to blame autocorrect for that\.\)
Replying to @jwolman
SIGH.
Replying to @maplemuse
Indeed.
Replying to @miriamkp and @mkirschenbaum
Me too. Problem is I got support for taping but not digitizing/hosting.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @miriamkp
It's depressing. I really hated that some amazing talks languished in my desk drawer.
I want a PhotoSynth-like app that uses face recognition & the Flickr API to let you find yourself in the bg of other people's vacation pix.
\(Because I end up in at least 2\-3 a day here\. and I'm curious what they'd look like all together\.\)
Replying to @surlyF
Google Alerts for your face? Hmmm.
Replying to @briancroxall and @nowviskie
The core MC site \(i\.e\., the not MediaCommons Press parts\) are all in Drupal, including #alt-ac.
Replying to @lisagrimm
Wow - I misread that as "ran 4.4 miles in 15 mins" and thought "and felt good??? Good grief!"
Replying to @rgfeal
Looking forward to having you back at #mla!
Gym and quick lunch, soon to be followed by a Skype talk with @OxyCDLR.
Replying to @DrGnosis
I can think of a couple. But any particular reason? Or just on general principle?
Replying to @sivavaid and @tpm
Hey, White House: How about reassuring the humanities community of your funding commitment? We're a bargain by comparison.
Awesome chat with the folks at @OxyCDLR. Nice way to spend part of a Friday afternoon!
Friday. Beer. Terrace. Whew. #fried
The park is not a terrible place to be today. http://yfrog.com/hs8vxeaj
Replying to @mmwwah
I confess to being a little lost. Blogs devoted to the MTV series?
Replying to @mmwwah
Well, clearly if Nels is commenting, these are a serious Scholarly Interest.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Agreed. And a pretty reasonable use of the flashmob form, for that matter.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
But as train station musical performances go, this one remains my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68
Replying to @mmwwah
Heh. #greatminds indeed!
Replying to @fearv
Perhaps late, but: careful, deliberate hamstring stretching. Srsly, lower back issues are often due to too-tight hamstrings.
Huge announcements from the good folks at @zotero: http://www.zotero.org/blog/major-upgrades-underway/
Replying to @RepoRat
Oh, Dorothea - I'm so sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself; I'll be thinking about you.
Replying to @moncia
I'm glad you had a good vacation, but it's very nice to see you back!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
This is the point at which I found that I fit perfectly in the spot in my built-in living room shelves where the TV had been.
Replying to @ibogost
If you find out, please repost: is making me crazy.
I am trying not to vomit. // RT @kdrum: Girl Forced to Apologize to Boy Who Raped Her http://mojo.ly/q4QUyo
Heck yeah. // RT @cscannella: friday > thursday
Replying to @plragde
Perhaps. Though a Sunday-Monday lineup might challenge that.
Replying to @academicdave
Because these things cost a lot to produce, alas. But we've got some plans in the works that will make you happy!
Replying to @academicdave
Primary cost is labor \(editing, design, layout, etc\), not printing. But again - we're working on some great new stuff.
Replying to @academicdave
Trust me, you'll like it.
Replying to @academicdave
Design & layout can be templated, but they can't be done away with entirely. Editing is still a lot of labor. +
Replying to @academicdave
But I'll look forward to sharing the new plans with you when I can; I'm super excited about them!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @academicdave
Book editors receive a fairly standard \(i\.e\., small\) royalty arrangement. The real cost is staff labor.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @academicdave
Editing is not just done by the faculty; there is a lot of work in development, acquisitions, copyediting, etc.
Replying to @captain_primate
Hey, congrats! Very exciting news.
Replying to @captain_primate
Aw shucks. Glad to be a good influence! :)
Took the afternoon off to catch up on rest. Actually had a nice nap! From which I woke up with a raging sore throat. NOT FAIR.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
That's usually how my body responds to the end of a semester. But to a Friday afternoon off? Hmph.
Replying to @rgfeal
I am all about the crowdsourcing, but still believe rhinoviruses are best individually handled. Call me old-fashioned.
Looking a little dramatic out here. http://yfrog.com/ke8tjtwj
Replying to @rgfeal
Boy, you want to talk about dramatic? The lightning right outside my window is really something. Earth-shaking, if not -shattering.
Replying to @rgfeal
Ooh, it would be. I didn't see that - the lightning was a bit north of the ESB. But I'll keep an eye out!
Replying to @rgfeal
Wow - now that's dramatic!
The crucial question for the morning: coffee or tea?
Throat is still very unhappy, which makes me think tea. But then… coffee. You know?
Replying to @acavender
I like the way you think. :-)
Replying to @eetempleton
Good grief! I'm glad you weren't there.
Replying to @eetempleton
No kidding. Judging from the damage it was able to do to the garage, having it hit the house would have been bad.
Replying to @eetempleton
Wow. I just assumed that you guys got hit by one of the storms we've been getting lately!
So I missed @mkirschenbaum's birthday yesterday \(happy belated, Matt\!\), but I haven't missed @nowviskie's today! Happy birthday, Bethany!
Morning view from the terrace, looking down 3rd Avenue. http://yfrog.com/h3nvulwj
Replying to @rgfeal
In the foreground? Just lower buildings between 33rd & 35th.
Replying to @patrick_mj
Not bad, eh?
Replying to @rgfeal
The thing I find most amazing is the trees. You never think of 3rd Ave as being tree-lined, but from up here, it is.
Replying to @rgfeal
I'm going that one better: coffee, then nap, then tea.
Replying to @rgfeal
Not a huge brandy fan, but whiskey, sure.
Replying to @ryancordell
Go Cordells! Sending all my best wishes your way.
Replying to @sherah1918
So sorry! Next step: plain white rice. It's a miracle food.
Replying to @ryancordell
Congratulations, Cordell family! So glad he could join you.
Gee, I wonder what the weather's like outside? http://yfrog.com/gy86610800j
Hey Twitterati: my TV has two HDMI ports. I'm about to have a third HDMI device. Do any of you know of a switcher that works?
Replying to @academicdave
Awesome, thanks!
Replying to @imaniperry and @rgfeal
Hey, me too! And I'll look forward to following more from you.
Have just received a nice invitation to submit an article to an open access journal of psychiatry. Almost makes me wish I were in the field!
Replying to @mattthomas
I think it would need to be a clinical study of the effects of open access on the mental health of academics.
Am thrilled that I've taken the afternoon off and am getting to enjoy a little of this insanely perfect weather.
Replying to @crsbecker
That's what kills me about the start of fall semester. One second you're standing still. The next you're doing 90 in traffic.
Replying to @crsbecker
Exactly. It's the feeling of driving in the fast lane on LA freeways - retaining wall next to you, traffic on the other side... +
Replying to @crsbecker
The lane is always too narrow and the guy behind you is right on your bumper. -
Replying to @cforster
Don't know, but I think it just hit us in NYC.
Replying to @crazymonk
Yes. Very interesting on the 16th floor!
Well, that was exciting. Thanks, Earth! #ileftsoutherncaliforniathanks
USGS says 5.8 centered in Virginia. Whoa.
Replying to @jbj
Gee, thanks! Um, you don't happen to have the receipt for that, do you?
Twitter really is faster than seismic waves. Heard about the VA earthquake a full minute before feeling it in NYC. http://xkcd.com/723/
Completely crazy. Sending all good *non-shaking* vibes to folks in C'ville...
Replying to @dougreside
It was a fair bit more disorienting on the 16th floor. The building definitely swayed.
Replying to @amandafrench
Completely true. I read @cforster \(https://twitter\.com/cforster/status/106061061282729984\), went in the other room, washed my hands, & thought wow, that's weird.
Replying to @amandafrench
Uh, maybe.
Replying to @amandafrench
Many thanks! It's certainly been an exciting one so far.
Replying to @CCdiglib
You make a very interesting point!
Replying to @veek
Hey, thanks! I hope you're doing well up there.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Yeah, no kidding. Last afternoon off, a cold. Today, an earthquake. I'm going to stop telling anyone when I'm taking time off.
Replying to @briancroxall
Hey, thanks! A plague I can look forward to.
Replying to @kathiiberens
Yeah, tell those guys to chill just a bit, maybe?
Replying to @veek
You bet! I look forward to discovering his superpower.
Replying to @veek
Worry not; I wouldn't be able to talk about anything else, either. \(Hi\!\)
Replying to @jwolman
Meaning you've been out there for 20 minutes, or 20 minutes later someone said, hey, maybe we should evacuate?
Replying to @fraistat
No kidding! I'm just happy it happened before the party.
Replying to @dougreside
No, it's usually just that everybody calling their mom swamps the system, preventing emergency calls from getting through.
Replying to @cforster
Hey, thanks! I hope you and yours are all safe down there...
“@CatinStack: Okay, okay, more shameless self-promotion. NOW YOU FEEL IT: How the . . . . enough, Cat, ENOUGH!”
Replying to @crazymonk
I bet!
Replying to @jwolman
Nice. Be safe!
Replying to @fletcherdurant
I definitely felt it in Murray Hill, but I'm on the 16th floor, so it was mostly like my building suddenly got drunk.
RT @crazymonk: Mock away, West Coasters, but your earthquakes don’t travel as far and your buildings are safer.
Replying to @fletcherdurant
I would not be in the least bit surprised… but I don't know.
Replying to @fletcherdurant
I like to think there would have been if the thing were done. But that's all projection. As it is…? \(trails off, shrugs\)
Replying to @fletcherdurant
I think that's a fair assessment. I also think the intended project was way too ambitious, if not flat impossible.
Well, I was going to take a nap this afternoon. #somuchforthat
Replying to @acavender
Thanks, Amy!
Replying to @captain_primate
Thanks, Ethan!
Replying to @JenServenti
Glad you're home safe -- and thanks!
Replying to @sherah1918
I suspect that there is a whiskey in my very near future. Thanks!
Replying to @kuchtam
I can absolutely confirm that. By what felt like a full minute.
Replying to @dancohen
Thanks! \(Or, as a FB friend dubbed it, \#birfquake\.\)
Replying to @rgfeal
Lots! It was an awfully good one, tectonic plates aside.
Replying to @tanyaclement
Thanks, T! I hope Texas is treating you well.
Replying to @mickimcgee and @karikraus
Thanks for the birthday wishes, and I hope you're both well!
RT @MLAnews: MLA members: you can now access the online MLA Handbook from your mla.org account! http://www.mla.org/new_from_mla/news_summary#t412
Replying to @wynkenhimself
It's an exciting development, for which I take no credit! The amazing #MLA scholarly communication staff deserves all praise.
If you have talked to me recently and wondered what has gone wrong with my accent, rest assured that all is well. +
It's just that I've been on a 5 season, 2.5 week Friday Night Lights binge. The Texas will fade quickly. -
Replying to @midwinter_
Oh, it does. And it doesn't take much for an accent like that to creep into my voice.
Replying to @jamesjbrownjr
can't lose!
Wow, overnight GCal update: past events now dim. Very interesting.
Replying to @rgfeal
Heh.
Replying to @plragde
Mine would require a system by which the past gradually faded out, all except for traumatic moments I'd prefer to forget.
Replying to @nancybaym
Not really cramping. Stand up, straighten your leg, and flex your foot, pulling your toes up. If you have a sharp pain in the +
Replying to @nancybaym
center of your calf muscle, go to the emergency room. \(I had a DVT several years back\. I don't recommend it\.\)
Replying to @nancybaym
The primary way I knew I had a DVT, though, was that the pressure of a chair seat on the back of my left thigh made my foot hurt.
Replying to @nancybaym
Excellent. The nurses showed me that in the hospital; the difference between the calf w/clot and w/o was shocking & distinctive.
Replying to @aeguerson
I think they must be rolling it out gradually...
Another nifty thing in this GCal update: not only do past items dim out, but the further into the future you go, the paler events become.
Replying to @deandad
I assumed it was "slew."
Looking more closely, it's apparently only recurring events that gradually fade as you move forward in GCal.
Replying to @jcmeloni and @gowalla
I will confess to being a little bummed myself. And not just because I had some cool stuff.
Replying to @surlyF
I am apparently influential about academics, conferences, and anxiety. Klout seems to know me better than I might like.
Replying to @unsworth and @surlyf
I am super curious where the mickey mouse came from.
Replying to @unsworth
That's one influential slide.
Replying to @lincolnmullen
Aw! Congrats!
RT @popthought: There should be a Bechdel test for syllabi. #sayin
Replying to @jmaxsfu
This is something we've been wrestling with; how do you cite something when formats and instances becomes so fluid?
My building manager just slid a hurricane preparedness memo under my door. My cats are now fascinated by the idea of what's out there.
Both are staring at the crack under the door, waiting to see what it produces next.
Replying to @samplereality
Of course my cats have gone back to staring at shadows on the wall again...
Replying to @jmittell
Which is to say, cats.
Replying to @poetichentai
Indeed. The magical appearance of paper!
Replying to @jmittell
Good point. Mine have their moments.
A friend who is also a Louisianian by way of SoCal says that we are probably the NYers best equipped to deal with this week's freak events.
PS, NYers: there's already been a run on D-cell batteries at my Walgreens and on water at my D'Agostinos, so you may want to stock up soon.
Replying to @boone
It is possible that Murray Hill puts a premium on preparedness, true.
Replying to @ernestopriego and @dancohen
I think that's only partially true. More crucial is that many key academic change makers don't yet read online. +
Replying to @ernestopriego and @dancohen
Getting their attention requires a certain backwards compatibility. -
Replying to @ernestopriego
My understanding is that that's what Dan is doing; pieces of the project are appearing on his blog, w/book to come. +
Replying to @ernestopriego
But don't underestimate the importance of reaching those \(deans, provosts, presidents\) who still want the printed object. +
Replying to @ernestopriego
Dan's definitely practicing what he preaches, but the work of conversion requires going where the audience is. -
Replying to @ernestopriego
I get that. This does seem to me one key use of books: persuasion of those who won't be reached otherwise.
Replying to @ernestopriego
Absolutely! I think it's a goal that lots of us share.
Replying to @bluesaepe
Look at the plugin options page; there's a switch to delete the CP database modifications.
Replying to @bluesaepe
Happy I could help!
RT @NYCMayorsOffice: Low-lying \(Zone A\) areas include: Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Far Rockaway, Broad Channel, South Beach, Midland ...
RT @NYCMayorsOffice: We’ve never done a mandatory evacuation before – and we wouldn’t be doing this now if we didn’t think this was seri ...
Replying to @mkgold
Ugh. Take care of yourself and your family, Matt!
Replying to @CapitolClio
Hey, I didn't know it was your birthday! I hope you have a good \(safe and dry\) one.
Replying to @hcayless
Do you know if the DLTS servers are being shut down as well?
Replying to @CapitolClio
No, happily; my building is in a "no zone" zone, so there shouldn't be flooding. Beyond that, I'm not sure what we're in for.
Replying to @hcayless
Ay. I'll see if I can figure it out. Thanks!
Replying to @hcayless
Ah, good to know. Yes, I think I remember hearing that there was an off-campus migration...
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @capitolclio and @jenhoward
I can confirm that. 30s were better than 20s, but 40s are better than 30s. So let them blow away!
I find myself incredibly irritated with the folks in the blding across the street who still have folding chairs & things on their balconies.
Replying to @nancybaym
EXACTLY.
Replying to @academicdave
If I had secret spidey powers, I would TOTALLY do so. But they're way over there.
Replying to @nancybaym
Quite possibly. But the building managers should be authorized to pull that stuff inside.
Replying to @academicdave
He's too busy falling off of Broadway stages these days. Although, not today, I guess.
Replying to @afamiglietti
Indeed. Airborne debris is really the only thing I'm worried about here.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Super quiet, huh? Take care down there!
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Oh, good grief; I didn't realize you'd gone out to LI! Be very careful, okay?
All my devices and rechargeable batteries are topped off. Got a month of 3G on the iPad. Have water & food, pulled stuff in from terrace. +
Now there's nothing to be done except to sit around and read all weekend...
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
We've got a light drizzle here, too. Here's hoping cabin fever is the worst thing we face.
Light drizzle has just turned into actual rain. Here we go.
Replying to @plragde
I've got my fingers crossed. My phone is AT&T and the tablet is Verizon, so I've got two shots at it.
Replying to @rgfeal
I know. Here's hoping I continue to feel that way!
This is really the first time I've watched the local news since coming to NY last year. It's freaking me out a little.
The anchors are the same ones as in the mid 90s. Older, sure, but not quite enough.
Ch. 4 is running footage of people buying supplies at a hardware store behind every phone call, regardless of the subject.
Replying to @negaratduke
That would be great!
They're now running footage of people playing on the beach behind a call with a representative from the Red Cross. #sigh
Replying to @annettemarkham
I stopped watching the local news when I moved to SoCal; it was all Hollywood & high-speed car chases.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Back in the mid 90s, Leslie Stahl went to my gym. And she'd show up at 5.30am in what looked to me like full hair and makeup.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
This sounds vaguely familiar, yes.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
I'll have to look for that!
Pretty uneventful night here. Uneventful enough that I slept through it. In the eye now; wind about to shift. So far, so good.
Replying to @mannahattamamma
Indeed. This was easy but it could have gone another way.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Yeah. Today's still likely to be a little rough; the back side of the storm can be very windy, so it'll take a while.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Me too! And for you as well.
So basically posted that all was well and then my Internet connection crapped out. Can't tell if the problem is on my end or TWC's.
The good news is that I've got cause to use some of the 3G access I bought yesterday.
Oh, and by the by, for folks who haven't been through a lot of hurricanes and who see yesterday as paranoid over-preparation? +
There is no such thing as overpreparation. Many storms just missed New Orleans in the years before Katrina; any could have been just as bad.
In fact, people forget: Katrina missed New Orleans. The morning after, everyone said, that wasn't so bad! And then the storm surge hit.
Replying to @2xlp
Having grown up in hurricane country, I strongly disagree. It wasn't a terribly strong storm, but the potential risks far outweigh +
Replying to @2xlp
the costs and inconvenience of preparation. Better a letdown, always.
Replying to @bigjondaniel
As @purplekimchi says, that misses the point: the levee breach happened in the surge well after the storm itself passed.
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @purplekimchi
The storm itself did far less damage than predicted. But no one would say it was overhyped.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Hey thanks! I'm getting intermittent DNS failures. Service is up & down, mostly down...
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Restarted cable modem; restarted wireless router; rebooted computer. Still getting DNS error. Apple diagnostic says all good +
Replying to @TWCableHelp
from the computer to the ISP, but connection btw ISP & Internet is yellow.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Yes, that worked \(if slowly & with a CSS error\), though twitter.com fails to resolve.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Will try & get back to you ASAP!
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Okay, plugging directly into modem didn't work at first but did after restarting modem.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Wired.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Oh wait: you asked about the router, not the modem. I was wired from modem to router, wireless from router to computer.
Replying to @TWCableHelp
Prob seems to be in router. Am resetting it to factory & will try again. Thx for help; I'll let you know if problem continues!
Replying to @rgfeal and @imaniperry
I was literally born on the cusp, an hour into Virgo. Makes me obsessively organized & reall aggressive about it. :)
Replying to @TWCableHelp
All seems well now; seriously, thanks for the help!
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @purplekimchi
No worries. My memories of sequence are obviously fuzzy, except that levee failure came well after storm passed.
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @purplekimchi
& having grown up in BR, I've got the same fondness. My whole goal was counteracting idea that NYC overprepared.
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @purplekimchi
I just remember so many evacuation orders prior to Katrina that came to nothing; better overprepared than not.
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @purplekimchi
I'm in, though it'll take me until November to get there.
Replying to @nowviskie
Awful! Reminds me of a set of before & after pics I blogged from Bay St Louis & Katrina: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/before-and-after/
"More crowded trains" doesn't bode well for the 4/5 tomorrow morning, but amazing that it'll be running at all! @mta http://mta.info
Replying to @rgfeal
In every way except rents! :)
Replying to @rgfeal
I figured. Was joke!
Replying to @rgfeal
c?
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Wow, you *were* the hair zeitgeist.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Yeah, I think you've left the zeitgeist train; otherwise you'd have spent the last two years getting Brazilian blowouts.
Replying to @amandafrench and @wynkenhimself
I think I must not have seen that, or at least I didn't recognize it if I did!
Replying to @amandafrench and @wynkenhimself
Aha. I have seen that a bit. How much do I love that Steven Tyler is in the first page of images? Twice!
Replying to @kylebeachy
Did you tell him Milwaukee means beer?
Replying to @mkgold
Congratulations, Matt; fabulous news!
Replying to @kylebeachy and @johnamatson
I'm just saying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzCBNPtKQMc \(Ignore the charming comments below, if you can\.\)
Replying to @briancroxall
Oh, dear. That doesn't sound good. Sending good thoughts, in case it's not.
Things have reached the point where I need to get a jacket if I'm going to sit on the terrace. Summer, it was nice knowing you. \(Hi, fall\!\)
Replying to @briancroxall
I'm so sorry. My best to you and your family, and take care on your travels.
Replying to @annehelen
The magic word in that sentence is "cafeteria." I lived on-campus at Pomona for 3 years & had dining hall privileges. +
Replying to @annehelen
I think it was the happiest I have been as an adult person.
Replying to @annehelen
Aw man. JEALOUS.
Replying to @mmwwah
Excellent! I can't wait to read it.
Upper back has an impossible to untie tension knot. Am calling it a day.
Replying to @jmittell
Oh no! I hope she's okay. Or will be soon.
Replying to @nowviskie and @clioweb
I would be worried about some kind of Zeno's paradox where you can never get fully past the recursive truck.
Replying to @profwernimont
Hey, congrats on need for impending family leave are in order, I suppose? I hope the fall is fun and all goes smoothly!
Replying to @profwernimont
Counting tiny digits is a most important humanist activity!
My friend Meg's brilliant post on the problem of "identity" in the nym wars: http://xom.blogs.com/xoom/2011/08/say-no-to-the-meat-wallet.html
With a little followup: http://xom.blogs.com/xoom/2011/08/once-more-into-the-breach-dear-friends.html