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Archive for January, 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-30

  • @marginalcomment No, but I think your tweet qualifies as a hamm-fisted attempt at humor. in reply to marginalcomment #
  • Sitting at Car Max, and waiting for an offer on a car I'd keep if I really wanted to continue not being able to afford it. #fb #
  • Just sold my car to CarMax. Kinda sad. Kinda free. Kinda richer than I was an hour ago. #fb #
  • Mmmmm, Katzenzungen! Die habe ich fast alle gegessen! #fb #
  • Today has already been too full and it's only noon. The magic trick J did with the cat earlier was much appreciated though. #fb #
  • @LairdHunt The most fun, beautiful, and perfectly useless ones! in reply to LairdHunt #
  • I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive. (via @hodgman) #
  • Pondering a nyctaloptic palmiped. #
  • RT @cornelln Brilliant yet obvious,completely true. Why iPad matters: Future Shock: http://bit.ly/ce4m5f /via @fraserspeirs #

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Advanced Notice: Reading

I will be giving a reading with the fabulous Joanna Ruocco
on Thursday, February 18, 2010
at 7:30 p.m.
in the English Department
at the University of Denver
(Sturm Hall 495
2000 E. Asbury
Denver, CO 80208
)

You should come.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-23

  • Have spent much of the day working on Cubicle Deathmatch. #fb #
  • Damn that was cold! #fb #
  • In the meditative brainlessness that is cycling, I completely forgot about the Katzenzungen Joan gave me. A surprise in my backpack! #

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William S. Burroughs’ Stuff

click here for an article about the photos on boingboing.net

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-16

  • @do_or_diy I have had the M page hanging in my cubicle or house for the last 5 years. Can't wait to hear the mp3. in reply to do_or_diy #
  • 10 miles on the bike. A good class. Cigar and bourbon on the front porch. A fantastic graphic novel. A call from a good friend. #fb #
  • Every Man for Himself, and God Against All. #fb #
  • I was very tired. Then I got into bed. #fb #
  • I questioned my decision to ride this morning when I realized my crotch was cold. #fb #
  • @achewood I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to find "gruntle" in the dictionary. You have made my day again. Thanks! in reply to achewood #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-09

  • I will be tweeting an entire book starting January 4. Please follow, and tell others to too. Happy New Year! (via @SusanScarlata) #
  • I should have used the RT convention on the previous tweet so as to avoid confusion. Follow @susanscarlata !!! #
  • @hodgman The OED lists "materteral" as "humorous. rare." in reply to hodgman #
  • Students expect their instructors to be a little scatterbrained, right? #
  • I just heard the phrase, "the pedagogy of terror." Chilling and wonderful. #
  • Alan Watts on Nothingness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrMVous0Ac #
  • Car battery dead. In a cab and late to work. #fb #
  • Now on a bus with at least two incredibly beautiful and well-dressed people. #fb #
  • @marginalcomment No, no. I was in the middle somewhere. in reply to marginalcomment #
  • Go see the Cliff Evans video installation in the art building at DU. Go. See. It. #fb #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-02

  • There were just 6 children under the age of 5 in the locker room–all screaming. Hooray for noise canceling earphones. #fb #
  • transubstantiation #
  • @Colter_Burkey It's a key word in the book I'm reading. in reply to Colter_Burkey #
  • rhinoceroseses #
  • @Colter_Burkey No, it was a key word in the song stuck in my head. in reply to Colter_Burkey #
  • About to finish reading a novel by PaweÅ‚ Huelle. I wonder how he pronounces it. #fb #
  • Watched 4 episodes of Dr. Who today. Now to spend some quality time with Patrik Ourednik (while my wife works on her expense reports). #fb #
  • A picture of my lovely wife and me can be found at http://sweaterwrecks.com/ #
  • She said, "My fingers are dainty like knives." #
  • Pie crawls, apparently. #
  • "Did you know Lawence Welk music is so fast it can exhaust you" http://twitpic.com/w500n #

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