2012 08 01 tweets
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Hey, super cool. Thanks, @craigmod!
Replying to @brettbobley
What @LibSkrat said. #ORCID
Replying to @sleonchnm
I'll be there! #ASA2012
Replying to @sleonchnm
Or one and then the other.
Replying to @sleonchnm
Actually, I take that back. One one day, and the the other the next.
Kathleen Kirkpatrick. That’s a new one.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Yeah, much less mellifluous.
Replying to @triplingual
That’s funny \(though probably not so much to her\). I get either Katherine or Fitzgerald pretty frequently. Sometimes even both.
Replying to @shermandorn
No beat, can’t dance to it; I give it a 3.
Replying to @rgfeal and @triproftri
Indeed. I’ve had 3 sabbaticals now, and none turned out as I expected - but all led me new, important places. +
Replying to @rgfeal and @triproftri
It’s crucial to focus on where you are and the opportunities ahead; not everything in your plan needs to happen.
Okay, I’ve replaced \(and doubled\) the RAM in my 3.5 yr old desktop. Blazing speed, here I come.
Replying to @sxflynn
Hmmmm. Quite possibly.
Replying to @jbj
Good grief, that’s terrifying. I’m glad to hear everybody’s okay!
Replying to @captain_primate
Hey, totally looking forward to seeing you, too!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @captain_primate
I’m popping in for a two-day workshop on campus. So sorry you won’t be around!
Replying to @captain_primate
I would love to see MATRIX, of course! I’ll ponder other possibilities. As to EL excitement, I’ll happily take suggestions.
Replying to @captain_primate and @MATRIX_MSU
Well, hey! Ask and ye shall receive, I guess. :)
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @captain_primate
I will bear that in mind.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Relax! You’re two tents.
I am completely stagnated. Stuck in writing an article I can’t figure out a point for. Stuck in reading a book I’m utterly bored with. +
I should move on to other things, but the need - partly internal, partly external - to finish these keeps me from taking up something else.
Replying to @mariabustillos
I like the way you think.
Replying to @sleonchnm
I haven’t! Perhaps I’ll give that a try.
Replying to @sleonchnm
Oh, magical escape sounds like just the thing.
Replying to @PatcohenNYT
Liberating, indeed. I’ve had a compulsion to complete everything I start since I was a kid, and letting that go can do wonders.
Replying to @billwolff
Ooh, I’ve wanted to read that. I’ll put it on my list.
Hey, incidentally: that whole double the RAM experiment? Huge success. 1.5 days later, tons of apps running, page outs still 0, no slowing.
Replying to @zachwhalen
Aw, little dude! Congrats to everybody!
LGA. From here thru ORD to LAN. I do love to travel, but two weeks at home was not quite enough to have me excited to be in the airport.
Happy to be here! // RT @gossettphd: On the way to the airport with @lizapotts to pick up @kfitz and @warnick for #digidiss workshop!
Congrats, and thanks for the shout-out! // RT @wynkenhimself: Hey, I got a new contributor's contract! http://bit.ly/OJB5cM
At a 2.5-day ODH-sponsored workshop on digital dissertations, run by @LizaPotts and @gossettphd, at @MATRIX_MSU. Follow #digidiss for more!
If you have blue sky ideas for an open-source archive for digital dissertations, tweet them with #digidiss !
Replying to @moncia
Yes, focused on born-digital work, but not necessarily separate from traditional forms of the dissertation. #digidiss
Replying to @amandafrench and @moncia
The former is what was meant, but the latter might be a component.
RT @leverus: Writing a novel seems hard. But you chip away at it bit by bit and one day you look at what you've done and you say jesus t ...
RT @mediacommons: Launching today at The New Everyday: Rough Cuts: Media & Design in Process, edited by @karikraus. http://bit.ly/TcvnTL
Hear, hear! // RT @warnick: Had a fantastic time at the #digidiss workshop. Thanks for everything, @gossettphd, @LizaPotts, and @MATRIX_MSU!
Dear guy in the airport playing the annoying video on the iPad: HEADPHONES. Learn about them. #grrrr
Replying to @eetempleton
Yet. :(
Replying to @plragde
Indeed, though I do think this video is of the Jackass or Tosh.0 variety, so it’s awfully close.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
This is a good question.
Replying to @warnick and @eetempleton
I think those are indeed about the odds. And given my luck...
Okay, srsly: am going to have to move to the other end of the \(admittedly very small\) terminal to get away from this dude’s audio track.
I will stipulate that I am a bit of a travel prima donna. But I have 2 hours here and need to get some work done.
Replying to @eetempleton
Don’t tempt me, bro.
Replying to @fraistat
I’ve got mine in -- was hoping he might take the hint. No dice.
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
Sigh. True.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I am indeed in LAN. I was the only non-TSA employee for miles around at security, so it went quite fast. :)
Replying to @CCdiglib
Nice!
Replying to @fraistat
I have retreated to the cafe area, where the TVs are playing some Olympic sport at low volume, instead of loud iPad Tosh.0.
Replying to @savasavasava
I thought about it, but he doesn’t give off a receptive vibe. :(
Replying to @savasavasava
Just earbuds, alas. I’ve moved to get away from the annoyance, so all is better.
Replying to @katinalynn
I know, right? Crazy.
Replying to @radiokath
Srsly.
About to travel in time: departure LAN, 3.56 pm; arrival ORD, 3.55 pm.
Replying to @captain_primate
I'll be on the lookout for paradoxes.
Replying to @captain_primate
Greetings from the past! It was great seeing you as well \(more recently than you saw me\).
Replying to @ranti
Thanks!
One of those "hey, where do I know you from" moments: the incredibly familiar woman sitting directly behind me is Hoda Kotb.
Replying to @savasavasava
At least she's not clipping them.
Replying to @jwolman
I did not see that - thanks for passing it on! \(Ah, that class\. 8\.20 am, and completely miserable, but so much fun\.\)
Replying to @LizaPotts
I clearly left one day too soon.
Replying to @nowviskie
Whoa, whoa --@scholarslab has a 3d printer? Why am I not working for you?
Replying to @nowviskie
“I promise to be home in time for the next meeting!”
Replying to @nowviskie and @sramsay
Be careful; I may take you up on that.
Replying to @publichistorian
Yeah, “was alive to experience” is not the total of “remember”; by that math, very few people today would remember WWII.
Replying to @meganeabbott
DUDE! That. Is. Awesome. Congratulations! \(By the by, I devoured the book over the weekend\. Just amazing\.\)
Replying to @BendProf
Read it this weekend; it’s brilliant. \(Full disclosure: I went to grad school with Abbott\.\)
RT @MLAnews: Three weeks remain in the NVS Digital Challenge; what can you do with our data? http://www.mla.org/nvs_challenge
Replying to @jmittell
Ooh, I’m a big fan of the High West Rendezvous Rye. Crazy aromatic.
Ah, Friday evening on the terrace - and @jmittell has inspired me to bust out the High West Rendezvous Rye.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Cheers! Mine is neat, it will not shock you to hear.
Replying to @mkgold
WOO-HOO! Well-deserved congratulations, Matt!
Replying to @zephoria
Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself...
Replying to @rgfeal
Amazing! I want to hear all about it.
@AppDotNet I'm joining the movement and backing http://App.net. Sign up here: http://join.app.net/wgkfmmmh #joinus
Replying to @captain_primate
Safe journey, Ethan!
RT @Paul_Franz: Keep an eye out for my review of @kfitz's excellent book "Planned Obsolescence" in the Review of Higher Education. Shoul ...
Replying to @Paul_Franz
Thanks - I'll look forward to reading it!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @atrubek
Holy cow. It's wonderful! I wonder if I could commute from East Lansing?
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @atrubek
Wow, it is lovely. But, um. BIG.
Replying to @cgbrooke and @dancohen
Ditto.
Replying to @wedaman
Hence the discount.
Okay, I’m testing out the @AppDotNet alpha. Finding folks there is a little difficult as yet; if you’re there, let me know.
Replying to @sramsay
Go to http://join.app.net and back the project; then request an alpha invite.
Replying to @sramsay
I’ll get on that.
Hey, nice! // RT @NYUpress: REVIEW: 'Planned Obsolescence' by Kathleen Fitzpatrick \(@kfitz\) http://bit.ly/MTTckd
Replying to @LibSkrat
Thanks for letting me know! I’m not shocked, at all; the attachment to the ways things have been done runs deep. +
Replying to @LibSkrat
And not always for bad reasons! Deliberate change requires careful deliberation… but it also requires change.
Replying to @LibSkrat
My pleasure!
Replying to @rgfeal and @NYUpress
Indeed. It’s an excellent reading, and a review that would be useful to somebody trying to decide whether to plunge in.
Replying to @sivavaid and @zephoria
Especially not with the cut Amazon takes.
Replying to @zephoria and @sivavaid
One answer is clearly shortsightedness. But the pricing situation for ebooks is complex.
Replying to @zephoria and @sivavaid
For instance, one effect of Amazon's underpricing Kindle eds is that purchasers are less willing to pay full price for +
Replying to @zephoria and @sivavaid
hardcovers, so all prices are threatened with being driven down, worsening the cost recovery issue.
Replying to @alexismadrigal, @zephoria and @sivavaid
Absolutely - though academic authors benefit more from editing than many like to believe.
Replying to @zephoria, @alexismadrigal and @sivavaid
Absolutely. I'm happy to have publ'd with presses that put out well priced simultaneous paper & ebk eds.
Replying to @yayitsrob, @alexismadrigal, @zephoria and @sivavaid
Many presses have cut copyediting budgets heavily, but the best still value good editing.
Replying to @JoeBeOne, @zephoria and @sivavaid
I didn’t mean to suggest that it was; only that publishers fear that Amazon underpricing Kindle editions +
Replying to @JoeBeOne, @zephoria and @sivavaid
will have the effect of driving down the perceived value in books generally, undercutting hardcover prices.
Replying to @brettbobley, @mckenziewark, @sivavaid and @zephoria
If only someone would write about that!
Replying to @karlstolley and @sramsay
This will now be my explanation for everything: "That's just how @kfitz does."
Replying to @sramsay and @karlstolley
I only hope I give you a lot that needs thus explaining.
I know some pretty cool people and projects the person who gets this job will work with: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2012/08/13/manager-digital-library-publication-and-access-at-new-york-university-libraries/
Replying to @amndw2
WOW! That’s fantastic news! Congrats, Amanda, and we’ll definitely have to meet up.
Glad to see the work that @MediaCommons has been doing on open review since 2009 mentioned in this Chron article: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-Peer-Review-in/133563/
Replying to @jmittell
More or less. I am just glad that the reporter included more precedents than $#%@! Nature.
Replying to @jmittell
My new favorite quote: “If you get volunteers, it’s not conducive to quality.” Spoken by a SOCIOLOGIST.
Replying to @lnakamur
Go, you! I look forward to hearing about the new gig -- and to getting caught up on our projects...
After seven months of sharing an office, I’m attached enough to my epiphyte to name it. Meet Spike.
Replying to @briancroxall
Spike has about doubled in, um, spikes since January. I think he likes the atmosphere.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Thanks! I’m thrilled that it survived my seven weeks away...
Replying to @briancroxall
I was afraid of that too, but Spike appears to be quite forgiving. A nice soak when I got back from Europe & all was forgiven.
Replying to @katinalynn
Good question! I’m honestly not sure; the documentation did not say.
Replying to @shermandorn
As soon as I can wrest @spike away from the non-tweeter who’s squatting on it.
Replying to @briancroxall and @EmoryDiSC
What percentage of your users are on Macs? The ML integration of AirPlay is pretty amazing; add an AppleTV & stir.
Replying to @briancroxall
Sigh. I suppose so.
Replying to @CopyrightLibn and @briancroxall
Eh, it’s not you that’s the wet blanket! I worked at a restaurant that got sued in the 19--- um, a while back.
Have we all agreed that it’s uncool for a student to “Ms.” you instead of using “Prof.” or “Dr.”? +
I just got “Ms.”d by an assistant professor, one who found me through my college’s website. And I’m trying to decide whether to be annoyed.
Replying to @LibSkrat
The gendered aspect of the asst prof contact is exactly what’s got me pissed.
Replying to @debcha
Email. I’m thinking my reply will use the full signature block, which includes “I’M A FULL PROFESSOR, YOU DOPE.”
Replying to @profwernimont
Is what I was thinking! Skip the salutation, or first-name me. But “Ms.”???
Replying to @plragde
I do take age into account w/undergrads; first-years are usually clueless, so I clue ‘em in. But an asst. prof?
Replying to @jmittell
Good point.
Replying to @nancybaym
Hahahahahahaha!
Replying to @plragde
Ayup.
Replying to @amandafrench
Ooh, that would have been much worse, yes.
Replying to @melissaterras
Alas, it’s a Mr. Do wish there were a diminutive I could use.
Replying to @jillian6475
Agreed; I’ve gotten a fair bit of “Mrs.” from first-year students -- or worse, “Miss.”
Replying to @RickGodden
I really wouldn’t think it would be that hard, esp for a professional. When in doubt, opt for the most respectful version. Sigh.
Replying to @nowviskie
I try not to do so, but something in being Ms’d by a young male prof got under my skin.
Replying to @RickGodden
I tend to start with “Prof LastName” when it’s a message to someone I’ve never met. I then often use a “FirstName \(if I may\)”...
Replying to @nowviskie
I am less bothered by that \(tho students who firstname me before we’ve even met do rankle\), but an “if I may” goes a long way.
Replying to @sherah1918, @wynkenhimself, @amandafrench, @nowviskie and @melissaterras
Oh, no they didn’t!
Replying to @finnarne
It’s all those vowels, I guess…?
Replying to @triproftri
OMG.
Replying to @patrick_mj and @amandafrench
I’m… speechless.
Replying to @amandafrench and @nowviskie
You forgot the “obt” part!
Replying to @morganmundum
Conveniently, I think I am!
Replying to @kwazana and @nowviskie
I have always hated that our catalog does that. It’s like the Chron: a kind of genteel exnomination of status.
Replying to @magistrahf
I don’t think there’s a UVa connection, no, but the Jeffersonian angle is interesting!
Replying to @magistrahf
My institution calls everyone Ms/Mr in the catalog. Makes me a bit nuts; there’s something artificially genteel about it to me.+
Replying to @magistrahf
Myth or not, UVa has very genteel roots. My institution has sort of artificially created them.
Replying to @tcarmody, @wynkenhimself, @amandafrench and @nowviskie
I opt for Prof for the same reason \(lots of MFAs\). But the principle remains.
Dear customer support folks: Reversing a fee you should not have charged is not a “courtesy.” It’s what I’m owed. Kthx.
Replying to @boone
Assuming that the sport in question is grousing on the internet about random communications, It. Is. On.
Replying to @captain_primate
With every single one of your tweets from this talk, I misread you as being snarky: “Um, we are *all* dealing with…”
Replying to @captain_primate
It wasn’t actually your tone at all, just my tired eyes missing the “l” in “Ulm.” Sounds like things are good there!
Replying to @captain_primate
Nice.
Hooray, it’s a draft! I might not blow this deadline after all! #writing
Is there a way to get Google Calendar to pop up event alerts without switching away from the tab I’m currently typing in?
Replying to @candrews
MOST annoying.
Replying to @jwolman and @candrews
Aha! In Calendar Labs, there’s a “Gentle Reminders” option, that will play a “pleasant sound” and blink the calendar tab.
Replying to @Sarah_M_Ford
I'd been doing that too, but there's some problem between Google Calendar and ML Calendar right now; constantly asks for pwd.
Replying to @Sarah_M_Ford
For better or for worse, my office has just gone over to Google Apps, and is seriously invested in GCal for scheduling...
Hey, lazy web: I’m trying to track down the source for an argument I’ve heard that low readership for most blogs doesn’t matter, as they’re+
not written for an audience, but instead for the blogger’s friends. Who made that argument, and where? Any leads gratefully accepted.
Replying to @Czernie
I will!
Replying to @LibSkrat
That’s *exactly* what I was thinking, but I’m not finding the source.
I think what I was remembering may be @zephoria in paragraph 28 here: http://reconstruction.eserver.org/064/boyd.shtml
Replying to @plragde
I like the idea of opening a bar that’s just for your friends \(and perhaps a few like\-minded passers\-by who become bar friends\).
Replying to @plragde
Not as I’m imagining it. A regular space that keeps regular bar hours for whenever your friends want to pop by - and that charges.
Replying to @fraistat
Awe *and* terror!
Replying to @surlyF and @jvinopal
“Officer, I’d like to report 400 people milling about anxiously, looking shiftily as if something were about to happen.”
I’ve just gotten to spend the last 2 hours emptying my pantry and scrubbing everything down with bleach. Thanks for the fun Sunday, weevils!
Replying to @patrick_mj
So, so true.
Replying to @commish24
I read that somewhere today and promptly forgot. Thanks for the reminder!
Replying to @MLAnews
Alas, n-o.
Replying to @rgfeal
Those little tiny bugs that get into flour. Super annoying.
Replying to @CapitolClio
I am hard pressed to think of a single situation that wouldn't be so improved.
RT @MichaelBerube1: Great essay on adjunct labor: http://tiny.cc/9g3cjw. The MLA has an app for that: http://tiny.cc/ji3cjw All info you ...
Replying to @surlyF
And to assume that no one under the age of 18 ever gets interested in anything that happened before they were born.
The pitfalls of seriality: Last Season, On Planned Obsolescence. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/last-season-on-planned-obsolescence/
Replying to @striphas and @mkirschenbaum
I haven’t had a chance to, as yet. Stanley Fish did, however! http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/mind-your-ps-and-bs-the-digital-humanities-and-interpretation/
Replying to @LibSkrat
I got ambitious after creating my online dossier & got tenurefile dot com, so I’ve got a barn, if you’ve got a trunk of costumes.
Things are just about to Happen. Exciting Things!
Replying to @BendProf
Always leave 'em wanting \(I know\) more!
Replying to @briancroxall
I’ll never tell.
Replying to @nmhouston and @ProfHacker
You are so welcome - thanks for the great post!
Replying to @brendabethman and @rgfeal
This. Is a brilliant idea!
Replying to @mmwwah
Watch out come spring. The mommas are MEAN.
Replying to @jmittell
Re-entry is brutal - and mine was only after 7 weeks, not a full year. We’ll both get back to it.
Replying to @ncecire
Oh yes.
Replying to @briancroxall, @ncecire and @rgfeal
Is it bad form to favorite one’s own past tweets, to make sure you can get them back when need be?
Replying to @ncecire
Indeed. Favoriting is a powerful tool, but it requires careful consideration. \(PS: Thanks for the permalink\!\)
Replying to @atrubek
Gorgeous!
New post at Planned Obsolescence: Train of Thought. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/train-of-thought/
Replying to @SheilaB01
Thank you!
I'm on a train, headed for what should be a delightful long weekend. Hooray for a last bit of summer vacation!
Replying to @BendProf
"Hello, Apple? May I speak to Lloyd, please?"
Replying to @savasavasava
Thanks! I hope you're recovering well.
Inspired by Jason and Natalie, a new post at Planned Obsolescence: You Will Never Get It All Done. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/you-will-never-get-it-all-done/
Replying to @dancohen
Are you operating under the same service contract? If so, then yes. #iphoneofatt
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Argh. I would invite you up but I’m going to be at ASA then.
Replying to @literarychica
Thank YOU!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Yes, please!
Replying to @literarychica
It really is important, and yet the pressures of NOW make it so hard to do.
Replying to @profwernimont
It’s Inception for to-do lists!
Replying to @miriamkp
Thank you!
::dies:: RT @savasavasava: too. much. cute. send. help. MT @noelrk: Rare sand cat kittens born in Israel. SO MUCH CUTE. http://cl.ly/382O2y3D2H0k
Replying to @jmcclurken
Congratulations, Jeff!
Turns out I was right about that whole jumping a demographic category thing in the last paragraph. Sigh. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/you-will-never-get-it-all-done/
\(Srsly\. Just registered a birthday gift and found myself at the low end of a surprising new cohort\!\)
Replying to @katinalynn
Thank you - it has been!
Replying to @amndw2
It is, and thanks!
Replying to @miriamkp, @savasavasava and @BendProf
Thanks so much!
Replying to @rgfeal
It is - thanks!
Having an unbelievably crazy birthday dinner, wrapping up an unbelievably crazy birthday.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Definitely woo. Probably also a little hoo.
RT @jmittell: Hell is other people loading your dishwasher.
Replying to @jbj
Thank YOU for the inspiration!
Replying to @joguldi
Oh no. Oh, Jo!
Replying to @debcha and @joguldi
No kidding! My heart stopped there for a minute.
Replying to @radiokath
Insanely good. We had a fabulous, fabulous dinner - thanks so much for the recommendation! I am, however, still recovering today.
Replying to @radiokath
Thank you!
Thanks, everybody, for the birthday wishes yesterday. It was a great, nutty day: 45. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/45/
Replying to @surlyF
Why, thank you! Honestly, I never would have guessed that I wasn’t the elder between us.
Replying to @patrick_mj
Oh, no. I’m so sorry, Patrick!
Feeling squeamish about mentioning a blog post I felt squeamish about writing: Time Zones. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/time-zones/
Replying to @ncecire
Thanks, Natalia. It really does make it hard, in all kinds of ways.
Replying to @JenHoward and @rgfeal
I have heard worse ideas today!
Replying to @amndw2 and @wynkenhimself
Thanks so much for the kind thoughts. I know many others with more difficult situations than ours so I hate to whine!
Replying to @sheepeeh
I know, right? Thanks, srsly.
RT @MLAnews: Pleased that the ARL passed a resolution in support of new #MLA open-access author policies. @ARLnews
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Eek! That really gives me the heebie jeebies.
Noticing that 100% of the tweeps who replied to my squeamish post today are women. #notsaying #justsaying
RT @rgfeal: So sorry that it is necessary to cancel #APSA2012. Clearly, the safety of attendees has to come first. Creative online meetu ...
RT @ARLnews: @MLAnews we're pleased that MLA has adopted OA-friendly policies! :)
Clarification: not at all suggesting that there was only empathy from women, just that it was only women who expressed it to me. Is all.
Replying to @dancohen
I didn't mean to call anybody out, & certainly not you. It just caught my attention that so many women felt compelled to respond.
Replying to @john_overholt
I hear that. It's intractably difficult, on either side. \(And good wishes to both of you for a good resolution\!\)
Replying to @briancroxall
Huh! I'd flipped back through my mentions and your tweet wasn't there. I sit corrected - and thank you for that!
Ignore previous gendered claim. Not 100%, even in immediate outreach. Bad Twitter mentions, or bad reading, are to blame.
Replying to @readywriting
It sucks, indeed. Good luck with your decision! I hope it works out for all.
Replying to @jtheibault
Thanks! I'm hoping for the same.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Things could definitely BR worse than that.
Replying to @newkidonthehall
Thank you! I've been following your move - I hope it work out well and that there's a good resolution soon.
Replying to @candace_nast
Absolutely. Good luck, and I hope you find a good resolution soon!
Okay, Twitters: thanks for the kindness yesterday. Resolved to feel way less sorry for myself today. Onward!
Replying to @maximolly
Have fun, and tell everyone I said hi!
Less whine, more, um, optimistic reflection. New post: Fall. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/fall/
RT @MLAnews: Three more days left to get your entries in for the New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge! http://www.mla.org/nvs_challenge
Replying to @audreywatters
I echo @dancohen: a moving, awful, important post. Thank you for that, and I'm so sorry for the pain that produced it.
The bad news: my parents are w/o power & are trapped in their house by a fallen tree. The good news: the tree did not land on their house.
Also, they report that they have plenty of wine.
Replying to @jwolman
Priorities: in order.
Replying to @surlyF
Agreed!
Replying to @dancohen
I hope so too. Isaac may be weakish, but he's slow-moving, so they're stuck with him a while longer.
Have just discovered that autocorrect autocorrects "weakish" to "weakfish." ???
Replying to @ncecire
Exactly what I was thinking.
Replying to @themba
A little Yiddish in your PC, maybe? \("Weak? Ish\."\)
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Only if things go very, very wrong. The tree did hit the neighbors, tho, so my parents' luck is at someone else's expense. :(
Replying to @mckenziewark
Totally.
Replying to @sherah1918
Completely crazy.
Replying to @briancroxall
Right? You should have known to move your house out of the way.
Replying to @mmwwah
Apparently, yes, thank goodness.
Replying to @mckenziewark
Oh, it makes *everything* make so much more sense that way!
Replying to @themba
Ha! I like that.
Replying to @mmwwah
It's southern Louisiana. I'm sure they're outfitted.
Replying to @mmwwah
There are, yes, but So LA is overall far more culturally Catholic \(with a capital C\).
Replying to @mmwwah
In fact, I was about to joke that they were likely outfitted, or Baptists. One or the other.
Replying to @JoVanEvery
I know, right? One must lay in pre-storm supplies!
Replying to @bighandsome
Honestly, I'm just hoping my stepfather hasn't busted out the chainsaw himself, mid-storm. But thanks!
Replying to @maximolly
Wait, what? How terrible!
Terribly, terribly sad morning. My heart just breaks for their family. http://savas.me/2012/08/rip-my-friend-lee-dirks/
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @ldirks
was an extraordinary friend to DH; he connected me to a couple of key projects & was really interested in the field.
Everybody tweeting that FOXNews called bullshit on Ryan: pls note the column is in “opinion”; “news” says no such thing http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/29/ryan-calls-for-american-turnaround-with-romney-in-lead/
New post, on the deadline double-bind: Stuck. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/stuck/
Replying to @jcmeloni
I know, right? I just got here!
Replying to @nancybaym
Hey, fabulous! Congratulations.
Replying to @cgbrooke
What stylus do you use? \(I take it you like it\.\)
Replying to @cgbrooke
Cool, thanks!
Replying to @ritaraley
Looking forward to seeing you here!
Replying to @cjprender
Is there a convention going on? ::sticks fingers in ears::
Just finished a rough paper sketch of the talk I’ve been struggling with -- and my pen ran out of ink as I wrote the last sentence. Ta-da!
Replying to @fraistat
Not usually. But this thing had me stymied, and the change of scene helped.
Replying to @fraistat
Exactly. There’s something about moving from one kind of surface or frame to another that often helps break up a jam.
Me too! // MT @devoneylooser: The Critical Pulse: 36 Credos by Contemporary Critics just published, incl piece by me! http://tinyurl.com/9cc9hbj
Replying to @MoodyFred
Indeed! Tools that know when you’re done would be priceless.
Replying to @jbj
Whoops. Have been off the Twitters, so just saw this! We weren’t just trying to undermine the hegemony of the 3-charactered. Really.
Super-productive day. Now the srs decision: stop working & go take a yoga class? Or push through & finish this talk already? I’m that close.
Replying to @jbj
Funny, that.
Replying to @jbj
\(Seriously, it’s baked into WP, I think\. I’ve never seen a setting to change that restriction\.\)
Okay, @JenHoward and @nmhouston carry it; I’m off to yoga. Thanks, twitters.
Replying to @publichistorian
I'm a little behind, but wow! Congratulations!
Thanks for pushing me to go to yoga, folks; it was exactly the right cap to a rockin' day.
Replying to @surlyF and @wynkenhimself
I *did*! Which is why I only said thanks \(and sat down to dinner\) after 9pm.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
It was, wasn't it?
Replying to @surlyF and @wynkenhimself
I know, I know. But I was so close to done. \(I thought\. There's more to do tomorrow after all\.\)
Replying to @jwolman
Press & hold the menu button. Instant home screen. \(Not to say the UI doesn't suck\. It does\. But at least there's that\.\)