Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10

July 10, 2011 11:48 am

Lawn – Cut. Windows – Washed. Papers – Filed. Floors – Scrubbed. Dinner – Eaten. Relaxing – Now. #
Is it just me or is there something suspicious about online shops listing in print 2nd hand books for 10 times the price of the new book? #
@cha0tic That's what I normally think but in this case only a hardback and a paperback edition exist (both 2009) – both still in print! #
@pinpointzero Night #
@TeamDraven Resist (Sorry the comedy accent just doesn't come across in a tweet) #
Is there a Beer thing going on? Three of the last four tweets I've seen all mention beer. Is 22:48 GMT / 17:48 EDT Beer O Clock? #
Rain managed to raise the humidity with little change in the temperature so its now hot and moist #
Paul Trevor 's Like you've Never Been Away is hard to get into. Its wrapped in the book version of a transparent, skin tight, latex catsuit. #
Yeh! Cracked it – nail scissors to make a tiny incision at one corner then carefully peel the plastic off. Now enjoying new art book smell. #
@CraigWFSmith If you use an RSS reader I find piping them to that makes them really easy to manage. #
@CraigWFSmith I find Google Reader is pretty handy http://bit.ly/Bl1G6 and added bonus that it's free #
@sylvester_33 I know the new book smell is solvents & old book smell is decay but I'd miss them both if they weren't there lol #
@eyedoubleyou The front pages today Tabloids front pages today were a joke. Can you imagine the headlines if it hadn't been journalists? #
Was there any B5? Starbug but no Red Dwarf? RT @eyedoubleyou: SF Spacecraft Top 75 – http://j.mp/fTcAb – Where is the Shadows ships from B5? #
@DanDiplo Was that the one that was found in a back garden and led to an evacuation because it had radiation/bio hazard symbols on it? #
@CraigWFSmith Just messing around with getting my new machine up and running 64bit at last so I'm not running out of RAM #
@CraigWFSmith Cool Reader is great – keep up with your favorite websites without having to keep going and looking to see if its changed #
@CraigWFSmith I've literally hundreds but I'm not sure I could suggest any – 3d sites aren't so good at doing feeds #
@CraigWFSmith Doh! I'm to buried in 3D stuff today – writers blogs I follow – http://bit.ly/Y3BFx and http://bit.ly/a45vKl are good #
@DanDiplo To think that a little bucket like that once caused panic, cleared streets and made national news in the '70s. Simpler times #
Now there is some data I could raise a glass too RT @datastore: Wine strengths by country http://bit.ly/l31nF2 #
5 WordPress sites updated – had to tweak the htaccess of one to set the PHP version – otherwise no other complications #
The sky keeps getting darker and darker – at this rate I expect the hordes from Mordor to arrive within the hour… #
@TeamDraven Should arrive just in time for supper. Excellent. I'll put the kettle on. #
5 inch thick pile of paperwork cleared out. Now an early lunch. Next fun. #
@call_me_salome Fingers crossed he does #
@call_me_salome So he fixed it for you then? Excellent #
Useless empirical observation: my shredder increases the volume of paper by a factor of ten. Jumping up & down on it only halves the volume #
@shainorton A little stress relief and a certain amount of childish fun #
@ehlanakovas If I have quite a lot of unused compost as it is. My gardening is on a strictly controlling the hedge and grass basis. #
@inrepose Only the giant space hamsters I use is fake spoiler posts who'd get through it in no time at all. If they weren't fictional #
@ehlanakovas While the principal would be sound the carbon footprint of transporting it to you would outway any environmental benefit #
@CharlesMRyan A rather graphical example of the failure of quality control, cost control and everything else that went wrong #
@jearle Your double life finally coming to light there #
@symatt Good luck #
So when a cop show prominently features a strip joint in the pilot & in titles its telling us its not going to be the next The Wire, right? #
@GRIMACHU lol – 5 USA will have that just as soon as its been through a Cable channel – I'm guessing Sky will pass on importing it #
@GRIMACHU NCSI: Navel Criminal Stripclub Investigation – With lots of forensics on little bits of fluff and hunt for piercings. #
@GRIMACHU Ealing Studios' The Red Lamp and the long running BBC spin off I'm too polite to mention #
So much for the allegorical fairy tale about the Princess and News Fairies I was writing – overtaken by events before the ink was dry lol #
BBC2's shouldn't worry that Mock the Week was very funny but had no mention of phone hacking – no one will notice when its repeated on Dave #
@jearle If this thing gets bigger he'll end up on a whole other level to JL. #
@dr_monkeyface Thanks for the #ff #
Is today National Stop Suddenly in Awkward Places Day? #
@xtamsynx Well I'd need to find a new job & waiting in the banks would be a pain but on the balance it wouldn't be the end of the world #
Great word – minimum Scrabble: 13 points RT @KimKnox: I got to use the word 'libidinous' in a post. Love that word. http://bit.ly/nMZT1d #
@GRIMACHU Local colour is good. Do game writers in non-English speaking countries worry about International appeal in the same way as Brits? #
@GRIMACHU I agree but I'm not sure its as much of an obstacle as it appears – your starting at no worse place than a unique sf/f setting #
@DaddyDM Thanks for the #FF #
I like Google+ but what I really need is TweetDeck integration so I can do all my other social networking in one place #
@DaddyDM Hard to say but I do appreciate the thought and effort – I only FFs occasionally as I end up spending ages deciding who to include #
@DaddyDM I do have a list but each time I do FF I end up revising it and checking everyone's still got the same username / still exists etc #
@xtamsynx I'm not sure yet but personally right now Google+ is Facebook with the control over sharing I've always wanted #
@call_me_salome Or if you do make sure you mix them like the cocktails Bernard used to serve on Yes Minister/PM #