Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-13

• "isn't sour cream like, the mayonnaise of mexico?" - alicia #


• dunno if obama deserves a nobel peace prize or no, but he does deserve recognition 4 peace achievements, and im not a judge, so im fine w/it #


• anyone have any google wave invites? i'd really like to take a look at it #


• don't need a google wave invite anymore! thanks a ton @MattMarzilli #


• me: "it sux cuz sports stars peak at like 28. we wont peak till we retire."
  alex: "i dunno, i think i peaked in 7th grade" #


• haha randy moss's first caught ball of the day was thrown by kyle orton #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-06

• i wish the code examples in all the ruby on rails guides didnt omit the parentheses on methods with parameters. it always messes me up. #


• Bueno y Sano 5/5 on #Yelp: Along with Anna's Taqueria (which I believe is only in/near Boston), this is my favorite ... http://bit.ly/2q1SB #


• asked my man at the grill for "rice" and he heard "fries". +20g fat for the day :( #


• "First I was aroused, then I was furious" - Jane Lynch, funniest line of all the episodes of Glee #


• this looks like it could be everything Puzzle Quest Galactrix wasn't and more: http://bit.ly/8fuQU #


• outlook is definitely microsoft's best product. it's their only one that gives me more "that's cool" moments than "omg i wanna die" moments #


• 11 yd WR screen = edelman's least bad play of the year #


• this is the longest last 2 minutes of the first half of any NFL game i've ever seen #


• weird time to call timeout by john harbaugh. either call it right away or wait till after the play, not with 3 sec left on the clock. #


• haha i dunno if i've ever seen a penalty against a team's bench before. ravens need to chill. #


• wtf you can't say "injury timeout on the field" and then cut to commercial before you say who's injured #


• im glad we won, but i feel bad for the ravens. he absolutely should've made that catch. #


• testing and debugging in a compiled language really makes me appreciate interpreted languages #


• wooo pats bringin back junior seau!! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-29

• can anyone with ruby on rails experience recommend a good book? im about to start on it. #


• Anna's Taqueria 5/5 on #Yelp: Anna's Taqueria is one of my two favorite fast Mexican restaurants (the other is Bueno... http://bit.ly/Xr2rt #


• got ruby 1.9 + ruby on rails 2.3.4 installed on my mac (snow leopard) last night. rvm caused more trouble than it was worth, so i removed it #


• "hey can we find a Family Guy to sleep in?" - Alicia #


• 1 play left. go lions!!! #

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Does this count as ironic?

I was sitting at my cubicle today, eating a salad (with fat free sun dried tomato dressing) for lunch. Despite a perfect knowledge of my spill-happy past, I ate the salad leaning back in my chair.

About halfway through, I decided I was just asking for trouble, and decided to lean over my desk for the rest of the meal. Two bites later, a piece of lettuce (covered in dressing) fell off my fork, hit the side of the desk, slid off the desk and onto my pants, then slid off my pants and landed on the floor.

It's things like this that make me think God doesn't exist.

Morning Sickness

Over the last dozen or so mornings, I've felt anywhere from below average to awful. I'm not sure what it is; my friend Ron thinks it's the change of weather, which is definitely possible, but it's never happened before.

I wake up with a sore throat and headache (each of varying intensity). It starts to dissipate as the day goes on, and I usually feel fine by the early afternoon.

I've been getting about six hours of sleep per night. Maybe going to bed earlier will help.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-22

• do the analysts saying TO had "no impact" not know football? u think fred jackson wouldve torn it up if we didnt need to double-cover TO? #


• Latest Facebook blog post (http://bit.ly/VB1qa) says theyre now cash flow positive. If thats true, its incredible (they burnt $500m last yr) #


• Aw, that's a sick tattoo! http://bit.ly/eDblr #


• man tests out bulletproof glass by having his wife hold it in front of her face and shooting it: http://bit.ly/9iTlh #


• Goten of Japan 5/5 on #Yelp: The food here is delicious. I've been here five times, and I've loved it every one of t... http://bit.ly/d9Wp9 #


• "went to church this morning. worst mistake of the day." - some guy yelling in central square #


• you can see why NE picks up vet players. fred taylor knows exactly how to set his blockers up. #


• Celebrity Pizza & Dairy Bar 3/5 on #Yelp: My roommates and I walk here from our house once every couple weeks.
  
  The ... http://bit.ly/uMEAo #


• Antonio's 4/5 on #Yelp: Antonio's makes the most unique and delicious pizza I've ever had. My favorites are the buff... http://bit.ly/10Wh8e #


• i love when i wish a feature existed in an app, then find that it actually does. just happened with "bookmarks" on @yelp #


• Me: let's diagram it out tomorrow. we should get a whiteboard.
  Alex: ya
  Alex: and tattoos. #

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Tough as Nails

I set a goal for myself at the beginning of last week: stop biting my nails.



It's been a lifelong habit. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. In fact, once I do end up successfully stopping, I may start again. I just want to see if I can do it.

So far, it's been a lot harder than I expected. I sometimes catch myself halfway through biting a nail (of course, I have to finish at that point, lest I leave half a nail hanging off). For the first few days, I wasn't even sure if I'd be able to do it.

Now, my nails are longer than they've been since I was a little kid. Once they get to the point where a normal person would cut them with a nail clipper, I'll consider myself victorious.