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Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Douglas Preston should be thanking his lucky stars that anyone pays *any* money for the crap books he writes http://bit.ly/a1rMxK #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Wow! I already hate today! #
Sorry KEXP, I just can't take the non-stop 80s/New Wave junk this morning #
This is how I would rather be spending my day http://flic.kr/p/7DtApa #
Currently watching our resident owl devour whatever small woodland creature it just caught #
@homermt I find installing differed OS's on a regular basis to be a fun & interesting hobby. Does that count? #
@aleroslyakova Don't worry, I'm watching too. Starbuck's secret hillbilly past is my favorite subplot #
Bottles have been washed for tomorrow evening's bottling of the abbey ale #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Sorry, but the right-winger "Property tax, BAD! Sales tax, GOOD!" thing just doesn't make any sense http://nyti.ms/a7tTgO #
I think it's going to take a little while to get used to the new office setup #
Is 8 years too long to have been using the same mouse? #
Wow. Just when I thought Evan Bayh couldn't figure out any more ways to screw over his party. #
Exterminators & pest control people seem to be an odd, quirky bunch #
Killing Joke! Thanks, random mode. #
Bayh figured out a way have even more time to spend on cable news kneecapping fellow Democrats #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

I think I need to stop sweating where I'm going to do the lagering & just brew a Munich helles #
Office remodeling, day 2. Not gonna finish today, but hopefully get it back to "usable" #
Whoever did the old built-ins in my office was a believer in "If 1 nail will do, might as well use 5." #
They want effects. #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Disappointed to hear that neither Triumph nor Saga were involved in last night's opening ceremonies #
Dear technology pundits: There are still people who need to do more than Foursquare checkins & txt msgs from their computers #
Dan Quayle should get together with Dan Burton and Mike Pence to form a team of incompetent Hoosier supervillains http://bit.ly/cAhBJP #
The office demolition project is under way, & well past the point of no return #
I agree. Donnie Darko wasn't that great, & Tim Burton has made nothing but shitty movies for years http://bit.ly/bWfwXX #
Drinking English ale from a Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald pint glass purloined, iirc, from the old BW-3 on Coventry #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Attention, party people: It was a false alarm. Tag Team is not actually back again. #
No, they'll wait for all the suckers to pay the insane markup, *then* they'll drop the price http://bit.ly/arL4oB #
Stupid Google/Blogger shut down IRockCleveland.com. Bastards! That was a great music blog. #
I just got the new Overkill album(?!), and holy shit is it great #
“if you find an ancient space ship trapped in the ice, you might just want to leave it there” http://bit.ly/9OEERw #
Yay! Kernel update = broken nvidia drivers! Huzzah! Today sucks. #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Kool Keith wishes us all to know that he is hype for the critical beatdown #
has joined the group 100,000 Strong On Facebook to Express Their Dislike of Facebook #
John Mayer should also apologize for his shitty music. #
@homermt Very good sir–lobster, stuff with tacos #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

The rollers are better than nothing, but I'll be pretty happy when it's nice enough to ride my bike outside again #
"Healing Punch" is my favorite superuseless superpower http://bit.ly/cczI8U #
@enorteck Are you facilitating? Have you established a parking lot area?! in reply to enorteck #
This is a pretty lame-ass "snow storm" #
@jperlow Meh. You're not missing much. One more place to follow people & remember to post stuff in reply to jperlow #
@dangillmor http://bit.ly/9ykbOI "Human microchips seen by some in Virginia House as device of antichrist" in reply to dangillmor #
And why should I believe Google Buzz won't be subject to all the same stupidity Google displays in recommending/adding gmail contacts? #
The most awesome thing I've seen on the internet in quite a while. Also, the most disturbing. Ah, the duality of it all http://bit.ly/cxHrx1 #
has joined the group I Bet An Infinite Number of People Will Join This Group Before I Do #
Oh good–double posts from Twitter. Thanks Google Buzz! #
So far, I'm finding Buzz to be just as annoying & redundant as Friendfeed was #
It doesn't matter what Gingrich *actually* meant. That's the beauty of ad hoc reasoning http://bit.ly/9nxGNN #
Dear Google: I would appreciate it if you would stop notifying me over & over about the same people following me #
If the whole idea is that Buzz is part of Gmail, why do they need to send me email notifications for Buzz updates? #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

Great–now it's the stupid Olympics. Couldn't there be 1 week out of the year where I'm not bombarded w/sports shit I don't care about? #
I'm *highly* skeptical of Obama's health-care summit idea, but Jon Chait makes some good points http://bit.ly/bMPxCq #
Tearing apart & rebuilding a couple of PCs last night has me itching to buy new hardware #
BINGO! RT @dangillmor: why i won't be using Google Buzz much: i don't do all my email there, just a small subset… #
Oh, awesome. Now gmail is horribly slow, & the Buzz crap isn't even active on my account. Thanks for nothing, technology. #
Interesting post from a game developer on "post-Agile". Guy makes a lot of good points http://bit.ly/9fnvtc #
@jdegrassi Geez, they should just have him do a Justice League movie while he's at it in reply to jdegrassi #
Facebook really needs a "Just show me everything & let me sort it out, godammit!" setting #
UGH! Just realized to my horror that I have to be in Boston for St. Patrick's Day, the worst holiday ever #
Yes, but the important question is, will Google Buzz work over IMAP in mutt #
It remains a mystery to me why Andrew Sullivan is granted any credibility about anything #
@PeckBobb Everyone knows earthquakes are caused by top-secret DARPA experiments #

Twitter — Pete @ 4:46 am

When your entire MO is the politics of resentment, looking like/being an idiot is a badge of honor, I guess http://bit.ly/9lmpio #
Arguments for a la carte cable remind me of people who think PCs would be cheaper w/out Windows & pre-installed apps http://bit.ly/9ZoCKc #
I understand the motivation, but this service seems like THE MOST ANNOYING THING EVER http://bit.ly/b5JVrx #
@PeckBobb Get on the mic, get, get on the mic! in reply to PeckBobb #
HAH! "Content blocked by your organization. This Websense category is filtered: Tasteless." #
@DavidCornDC Exactly! What the country REALLY needs is a blue-ribbon commission! in reply to DavidCornDC #
"We have top men working on it working on it now." "Who?" "TOP. MEN." #
"We have top men working on it now." "Who?" "TOP. MEN." #
Dear Internets: Appending "-POCALYPSE" to the end of every goddamn word isn't funny anymore. #
Now that the Louisiana Saints have won the world series of basketball, we can forget all about that whole Katrina business, right? #