Monthly Archives: November 2010

Nov 28

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28

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  • White family early Thanksgiving meal completed! All good, hand-fried onions on top of Beschamel green beans were a hit! #
  • Opened first bottle of smoked wheat beer – as feared, toooooo hoppy. :( Will see if I can blend it with a sweeter beer… #
  • Why are they playing to MLS Cup in *Toronto* in November? #gorapids #dontfreezetodeath #
  • Ugh! @Kim_Stone has a cold! #whosnext #
  • Merger world is a surreal place. #
  • Listening to the T.Rex classic "Bang a Gong" – I'm not entirely sure what a "dirty sweet" girl is exactly, but it sounds good to me! #
  • Oh man! Crazy Bowling Monkey Mascot Tam has the croup. :( Get better soon little Tam, so @Alyssin and @weedatheevil can get some sleep! #
  • So what character from all of Dr. Who history would you most like to make out with? #
  • My answer: Nyssa (Davison-era companion), followed by Amy Pond, the David Tennant Doctor, and then Sarah Jane Smith… #
  • And yes, Romana I (Mary Tamm) is my favorite companion, but I'm not sure I could stop at 2nd base with her!!! #
  • Looks like I have ~70 hrs of vac left for the year and no carryover. Who wants to party in December!? #
  • Calm me down, Linkin Park! It's officially tempests in teapots day! #
  • Snow, snow, go away come again on Christmas day! #
  • Hey Tim, you are in IT? Everyone else is out, and I know I said this broken thing isn't important, but could you fix it and release it by 4? #
  • Happy Thanksgiving! #
  • Grr. Wishing my smoked wheat #homebrew hadn't end up so bitter – that's what you get when you don't tie your hop sack tight enough! #
  • Wow, smoked wheat beer is also surprisingly potent! #unexpectednap #
  • Black Friday Brewing: The ingredients have been obtained! #homebrew – http://twitpic.com/3aeeiy #
  • We're off and mashing using the Brew-In-A-Bag method! #homebrew – http://twitpic.com/3aexef #
  • Used the water running through my wort chiller to fill a treegator! #homebrew – http://twitpic.com/3afvd6 #
  • We're off and fermenting! Bye for now, little beer, we'll see you in 2 weeks! – http://twitpic.com/3afx8v #
  • Brew-In-A-Bag mashing method was incredibly easy – I'm excited to do more all-grain beers this way! #homebrew #
  • Homemade peanut sauce and noodles are good. But 2x the garlic I should have used. Good thing @Kim_Stone isn't here – garlic breath galore! #
Nov 21

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21

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  • Downloading Sherlock from the iTunes store! Wishing iTunes store was letting my 40MB internet do it's work! #
  • Interestingly, when I connect to the hardline instead of the wireless, went from 3 hr download for 3GB to 30 min. Hmmm… #
  • Forgot to mention the fabulous dinner that @Kim_Stone and I prepared – Garam Masala pork chops, coconut rice, and persimmon-jalapeno chutney #
  • And Sherlock was every bit as good as people said – maybe better since iTunes has the unedited BBC version. Treeeemendous! #
  • It's interesting to me that the IT nerds talk more about football than the business jocks…I wonder what it means… #
  • Realllly looking forward to getting a beer in a short bit. #
  • Playing team "young blue collar testosterone" at bowling tonight. Half their conversation has been about fights they got into this weekend. #
  • The other half of their conversation is an even split between grunts and weird wolf whistles. #
  • This team is like a Hallmark card of asses: sweats & tank ass, preppy sweater ass, asian beanie ass, and cowboy buckle & clip keyring ass. #
  • Totally scored a Tim White special in the first frame of game 2! ( -/ ) #
  • Yes! We went 5-2 against the Ass Assembly! Take that! Crazy Bowling Monkeys Ascendant!!!! #
  • Made tremendously tasty red coconut chicken curry for dinner. Mmm! #
  • Amazon Launches Online Movie Studio: http://bit.ly/aqXXzn [might be time to polish up my scripts!] #
  • OK, one or two 7:30 meetings a week is fine, but I've had something that early or earlier every day, and I just picked up one tomorrow! #
  • I am on the most hilarious call ever. Three prod defects, zero understanding. #
  • RT @rdonoghue: Dear Outlook, Die in a fire. Thanks. [ See, it's not just MEEEEE! ] #
  • January tickets for @jonathancoulton purchased! #
  • Oh discarded half-full McCafe cup lying in the weeds along the Starbucks drivethru lane, you silently say so much. #
  • Sitting at the antediluvian bowling alley getting ready to do the Denver Invitational bowling tournament with @doycet and @weedatheevil ! #
  • Bowling Tourney Game 1: I was 7 pins over average! Team Total: 60+ pins under average. :( #
  • Bowling Tourney Game 2: I was 5 pins over average! Team Total: 50+ pins under average. :( #
  • I swear one of the guys on the lane next to us is Morgan Grimes from "Chuck"… #
  • Wrist…tiring…score…tanking… #
  • Bowling Tourney Game 3: I was 24 pins under average!. :( Team Total: 90+ pins under average. :( #
  • RT @Mrschibimom: @cyface Chibimom cure for 24 pins below average. He needs MORE SEX @Kim_Stone #
  • "Cpt. Spectacular, what are you spending your birthday money on?" "I dunno." Me: "Hookers & blow?" Simultaneously from K: "Whores & booze?" #
  • Later, @kim_stone says "Oooh, you stink, Cpt. Spectacular!" Him: "No way! I smell of awesomeness and money!" #
  • Safer Sex Ed with Cpt. Spectacular: Us: "What do we use?" Him: "Condoms!" Us: "Where do we get them!?" Him: "The Dollar Store!" Us: "NOOOO!" #
  • Just sittin' on the porch fryin' onions and gettin' clubhand… – http://twitpic.com/38wybi #
  • And now begins the process of wrangling the wife and 12yo to get ready to go to early Thanksgiving at the parents'. #holidaytraditions #
  • For me, it's looking like Black Friday is the day of brewing Christmas-spiced #homebrew using the brew-in-a-bag technique! #yay #
Nov 14

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

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  • Now the 12yo's are arguing over whether a particular song is Rhianna f/Lil' Wayne or Lil' Wayne f/ Rhianna. #MusicalPuzzlesofThe21stCentury #
  • I agree with @Kim_Stone that it's frustrating when there is a situation out there that you want to do something with but don't know how… #
  • In all seriousness, creating the 1986 playlist I just made took me through about 100 emotions remembering those songs / times. Mmmmm. #
  • And yes, @warrenlocke, my 1986 playlist does include DANGER ZONE! #
  • I'm hoping bowling gets out early tonight so I can go home and see if Q got my 40MB internet hooked up! #
  • I really really want to zig-a-zig-ah! #spicegirls #noshame #
  • If I don't make it home alive, it's because the other team killed me for failing my "use scoring interface" check…repeatedly! #
  • Bowling went so late we had a casualty! :( – http://twitpic.com/357nsz #
  • Well, after some minor tweaks, my Qwest internet is running at 40MB! I haven't found a site yet that can run that fast tho. :) #
  • Well, the poster app for ridiculously fast internet is definitely Google Earth so far. :) #
  • Hoping that the fact that our neighborhood just lost power is because of a construction mishap and not someone crashing into a power box! #
  • Wow, picked the exaxt wrong time to hit the parking lot – 10 ppl in line to use the already slow parking payment machine! #
  • Wow, picked the exact wrong time to hit the parking lot – 10 ppl in line to use the already slow parking payment machine! #
  • RT @TheWalkingEye: This is almost as exciting as Rex Manning Day! (This is an Empire Records reference for you, @Kim_Stone)! #
  • Wow! This week's Castle was more like Die Hard than Agatha Christie! Tense!!!! #
  • Filling out this paper character sheet for #burningwheel feels waayyyy too trad! #
  • My #burningwheel character is 1 part Dr. Who, 1 part Temperance Brennan, and 1 part Colombo. #
  • Oh, and 1 part Giles. #
  • Happy birthday @Kim_Stone ! #
  • I love you @Kim_Stone ! #
  • Hi all! @Kim_Stone was without internet last night and she's in an all-day class today, so she'll be delayed in responding to all your love! #
  • I like interviewing these folks in Bangalore early in the morning – I'm sharp enough to catch subtleties, but not yet snarky from my day. :) #
  • My new rule of brewing – taste a commercial beer of the style you are trying to make before making it! #
  • Just had a Kona Brewing Coffee Stout that tastes remarkably like the coffee stout I made and threw out. :P #
  • Getting to level 3 of phone support is like getting to level 3 of a brutal dungeon crawl. #
  • Look at @Kim_Stone in her opera finery! – http://twitpic.com/369y8o #
  • Intermission time! So much fabulous people watching! I love Denver – cowboy jeans and elegant gowns -side by side and wonderful! #
  • The lovely mushrooms with my duck made me think of fig… #
  • I loved the juxtaposition between the over-the-top falling in love circumstances and the utterly ordinary but devastating death in La Boheme #
  • "The truth is that I love her completely, but my life is killing her…the North Wind rushed through my squalid rooms and took her health" #
  • The Magnolia hotel is pretty but fricking freezing! #
  • HVAC in our room was dead! @Kim_Stone pranced into the elevator to the new room in a hotel robe and heels to the delight of other guests. :) #
  • Nice slow morning, breakfast at Panzano, King Tut exhibit, and now at Falling Rock Taphouse enjoying a #RussianRiver Pliny the Elder….mmmm #
  • Now on to a fabulous rueben and a Bear Republic brewing Mach 10: http://bit.ly/cVxCuk #
  • Finally waking up after my beer and food binge knocked me into a delightful nap. Now awake and watching @mythbusters ! #
  • Just passed the Microsoft store at the mall. Not sure want to think other than "follower". #
  • RT @Mrschibimom: My husband won't let me keep a gun in the house, because he says I'll shoot him with it someday. [I feel the same way!] #
Nov 14

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

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  • Now the 12yo's are arguing over whether a particular song is Rhianna f/Lil' Wayne or Lil' Wayne f/ Rhianna. #MusicalPuzzlesofThe21stCentury #
  • I agree with @Kim_Stone that it's frustrating when there is a situation out there that you want to do something with but don't know how… #
  • In all seriousness, creating the 1986 playlist I just made took me through about 100 emotions remembering those songs / times. Mmmmm. #
  • And yes, @warrenlocke, my 1986 playlist does include DANGER ZONE! #
  • I'm hoping bowling gets out early tonight so I can go home and see if Q got my 40MB internet hooked up! #
  • I really really want to zig-a-zig-ah! #spicegirls #noshame #
  • If I don't make it home alive, it's because the other team killed me for failing my "use scoring interface" check…repeatedly! #
  • Bowling went so late we had a casualty! :( – http://twitpic.com/357nsz #
  • Well, after some minor tweaks, my Qwest internet is running at 40MB! I haven't found a site yet that can run that fast tho. :) #
  • Well, the poster app for ridiculously fast internet is definitely Google Earth so far. :) #
  • Hoping that the fact that our neighborhood just lost power is because of a construction mishap and not someone crashing into a power box! #
  • Wow, picked the exaxt wrong time to hit the parking lot – 10 ppl in line to use the already slow parking payment machine! #
  • Wow, picked the exact wrong time to hit the parking lot – 10 ppl in line to use the already slow parking payment machine! #
  • RT @TheWalkingEye: This is almost as exciting as Rex Manning Day! (This is an Empire Records reference for you, @Kim_Stone)! #
  • Wow! This week's Castle was more like Die Hard than Agatha Christie! Tense!!!! #
  • Filling out this paper character sheet for #burningwheel feels waayyyy too trad! #
  • My #burningwheel character is 1 part Dr. Who, 1 part Temperance Brennan, and 1 part Colombo. #
  • Oh, and 1 part Giles. #
  • Happy birthday @Kim_Stone ! #
  • I love you @Kim_Stone ! #
  • Hi all! @Kim_Stone was without internet last night and she's in an all-day class today, so she'll be delayed in responding to all your love! #
  • I like interviewing these folks in Bangalore early in the morning – I'm sharp enough to catch subtleties, but not yet snarky from my day. :) #
  • My new rule of brewing – taste a commercial beer of the style you are trying to make before making it! #
  • Just had a Kona Brewing Coffee Stout that tastes remarkably like the coffee stout I made and threw out. :P #
  • Getting to level 3 of phone support is like getting to level 3 of a brutal dungeon crawl. #
  • Look at @Kim_Stone in her opera finery! – http://twitpic.com/369y8o #
  • Intermission time! So much fabulous people watching! I love Denver – cowboy jeans and elegant gowns -side by side and wonderful! #
  • The lovely mushrooms with my duck made me think of fig… #
  • I loved the juxtaposition between the over-the-top falling in love circumstances and the utterly ordinary but devastating death in La Boheme #
  • "The truth is that I love her completely, but my life is killing her…the North Wind rushed through my squalid rooms and took her health" #
  • The Magnolia hotel is pretty but fricking freezing! #
  • HVAC in our room was dead! @Kim_Stone pranced into the elevator to the new room in a hotel robe and heels to the delight of other guests. :) #
  • Nice slow morning, breakfast at Panzano, King Tut exhibit, and now at Falling Rock Taphouse enjoying a #RussianRiver Pliny the Elder….mmmm #
  • Now on to a fabulous rueben and a Bear Republic brewing Mach 10: http://bit.ly/cVxCuk #
  • Finally waking up after my beer and food binge knocked me into a delightful nap. Now awake and watching @mythbusters ! #
  • Just passed the Microsoft store at the mall. Not sure want to think other than "follower". #
  • RT @Mrschibimom: My husband won't let me keep a gun in the house, because he says I'll shoot him with it someday. [I feel the same way!] #
Nov 07

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

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  • Fogger is dead, but spider-lair porch is pretty spooky! #
  • Finally got around to creating a band & characters for Rock Band 3 – Band: "Cryptic Fig", character: "Whiti Geden". #
  • Someone is in my lap is preventing me from answering the door! – http://twitpic.com/32smgn #
  • Annnnnnd…we're out of candy. #
  • Celtic new year people! Celebrate like it's 666AD! I suggest reading some Sister Fidelma mysteries! #
  • I am oozing with amazement at Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark in the 80's Something Wicked This Way Comes film. #
  • Today, I spend my day imagining our world integrated with that of our soon-to-be Southern overlords. #
  • Seriously jonesing for a visit to Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe… #
  • Dang! The Ikea-In-Progress in Park Meadows has 6 cranes running simultaneously! – http://twitpic.com/332ln3 #
  • Sending out good vibes to the world! #
  • Apropos of nothing, I love the Hinoki-fragrance products from Ten Thousand Waves – so much I just ordered some Hinoki cologne. Mmm…piney.. #
  • RT @trapcast_sara: very interesting. the acct in me loves the analytics of it haha http://trunc.it/c6xj1 #
  • Hmmm WotC announcement of Web-Based Character Builder is interesting. #
  • Here's the announcement of the D&D 4e Web-Based Character Builder – "All characters are in the CLOUD!" :) http://bit.ly/ayvVEn #
  • Hey, my company finally has 40MB internet to my house. ORDERING NOW! #
  • Copper Hook mushroom corn risotto GO! #
  • And herrrrrrrre's risotto! – http://twitpic.com/33dk9l #
  • Breakfast at Panzano this morning rewarded by the outgoing and incoming governors sitting down three booths away! #
  • Holy cats people. Never seen such a huge giant ball dropped in my entire life. People give IT a bad rap, but we're angels in comparison. #
  • Trying to focus on campaign burning with @doycet for tonight, and not the half-dozen OMG moments I've had at work today. #bwhq #
  • The dice-eye view of the game! – http://twitpic.com/33oidk #
  • Quote of the character burning session so far: "Tell me how much my mole rat is going to cost!" #
  • Coworker just got a smartphone; she is texting like mad on it…I hear her phone buzz, and I think it's mine! I should be only one texting! #
  • It's weird that when I think about eat-out-during-the-week lunches, the reheated panini from Starbucks seem to agree with my body the best.. #
  • Kicking off @Kim_Stone 's birthday week! Next year her birthday will be 11/11/11, & she'll be life, the universe, and everything years old! #
  • Relaxation achieved. #
  • Old people scuttle around grocery stores during weekday afternoons like cockroaches scuttle about your kitchen at night. But slowly. #
  • Best sign on one of the dozens of crumbling motels along East Colfax in Aurora: "Rooms: Clean, Movies: Dirty." #
  • About to leave to pick up the now-12yo Capt. Spectacular! Tonight is Casa Bonita party night for him and his buddy! #
  • Rocked some serious Expert Rock Band drums with Capt. Spectacular on guitar! Now is he obsessing over his avatar's appearance. How 2010. #
  • Just finished a masterful repair of a broken Rock Band drum pad. In related news, there is now superglue residue on the kitchen table. :( #
  • Really enjoying the Pro Drums in Rock Band 3 that distinguishes the cymbals from the toms. In related news, no longer playing on Expert. #
  • I am having a serious conversation with my internal organs right now – they are recoiling in fear from the impending trip to Casa Bonita. #
  • Capt. Spectacular tries out the rockstar eyeliner. – http://twitpic.com/34jpmj #
  • The line at Casa Bonita – been through 3 switchbacks already! – http://twitpic.com/34kfxx #
  • "Food" consumed at Casa Bonita. Now sipping a Mexican Vienna Lager and peoplewatching whilst the boys run amok. http://flic.kr/p/8RhT5r #
  • I must admit I didn't expect the sheer amount of giggling that two 12-yo boys can produce while watching "Ponyo". It sounds like a sorority! #
  • Oh, Xena. You never shied away from the campiness that I so crave. #
  • I am reminded of how much I love the vain attempts of the Xena supporting cast to hide their kiwi/aussie accents. #
  • I am laughing hysterically but silently as @Kim_Stone tries to bring the 12yo's to a pizza topping consensus. :D #
  • The NFL is no more exciting to watch on TV than Soccer, it's just a lot more explicit about when you need to pay attention. #
  • Now @Kim_Stone is trying to guide the 12yo's in selecting boba drinks. Too many choices for such young decision engines? We'll see! #
Nov 07

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

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  • Fogger is dead, but spider-lair porch is pretty spooky! #
  • Finally got around to creating a band & characters for Rock Band 3 – Band: "Cryptic Fig", character: "Whiti Geden". #
  • Someone is in my lap is preventing me from answering the door! – http://twitpic.com/32smgn #
  • Annnnnnd…we're out of candy. #
  • Celtic new year people! Celebrate like it's 666AD! I suggest reading some Sister Fidelma mysteries! #
  • I am oozing with amazement at Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark in the 80's Something Wicked This Way Comes film. #
  • Today, I spend my day imagining our world integrated with that of our soon-to-be Southern overlords. #
  • Seriously jonesing for a visit to Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe… #
  • Dang! The Ikea-In-Progress in Park Meadows has 6 cranes running simultaneously! – http://twitpic.com/332ln3 #
  • Sending out good vibes to the world! #
  • Apropos of nothing, I love the Hinoki-fragrance products from Ten Thousand Waves – so much I just ordered some Hinoki cologne. Mmm…piney.. #
  • RT @trapcast_sara: very interesting. the acct in me loves the analytics of it haha http://trunc.it/c6xj1 #
  • Hmmm WotC announcement of Web-Based Character Builder is interesting. #
  • Here's the announcement of the D&D 4e Web-Based Character Builder – "All characters are in the CLOUD!" :) http://bit.ly/ayvVEn #
  • Hey, my company finally has 40MB internet to my house. ORDERING NOW! #
  • Copper Hook mushroom corn risotto GO! #
  • And herrrrrrrre's risotto! – http://twitpic.com/33dk9l #
  • Breakfast at Panzano this morning rewarded by the outgoing and incoming governors sitting down three booths away! #
  • Holy cats people. Never seen such a huge giant ball dropped in my entire life. People give IT a bad rap, but we're angels in comparison. #
  • Trying to focus on campaign burning with @doycet for tonight, and not the half-dozen OMG moments I've had at work today. #bwhq #
  • The dice-eye view of the game! – http://twitpic.com/33oidk #
  • Quote of the character burning session so far: "Tell me how much my mole rat is going to cost!" #
  • Coworker just got a smartphone; she is texting like mad on it…I hear her phone buzz, and I think it's mine! I should be only one texting! #
  • It's weird that when I think about eat-out-during-the-week lunches, the reheated panini from Starbucks seem to agree with my body the best.. #
  • Kicking off @Kim_Stone 's birthday week! Next year her birthday will be 11/11/11, & she'll be life, the universe, and everything years old! #
  • Relaxation achieved. #
  • Old people scuttle around grocery stores during weekday afternoons like cockroaches scuttle about your kitchen at night. But slowly. #
  • Best sign on one of the dozens of crumbling motels along East Colfax in Aurora: "Rooms: Clean, Movies: Dirty." #
  • About to leave to pick up the now-12yo Capt. Spectacular! Tonight is Casa Bonita party night for him and his buddy! #
  • Rocked some serious Expert Rock Band drums with Capt. Spectacular on guitar! Now is he obsessing over his avatar's appearance. How 2010. #
  • Just finished a masterful repair of a broken Rock Band drum pad. In related news, there is now superglue residue on the kitchen table. :( #
  • Really enjoying the Pro Drums in Rock Band 3 that distinguishes the cymbals from the toms. In related news, no longer playing on Expert. #
  • I am having a serious conversation with my internal organs right now – they are recoiling in fear from the impending trip to Casa Bonita. #
  • Capt. Spectacular tries out the rockstar eyeliner. – http://twitpic.com/34jpmj #
  • The line at Casa Bonita – been through 3 switchbacks already! – http://twitpic.com/34kfxx #
  • "Food" consumed at Casa Bonita. Now sipping a Mexican Vienna Lager and peoplewatching whilst the boys run amok. http://flic.kr/p/8RhT5r #
  • I must admit I didn't expect the sheer amount of giggling that two 12-yo boys can produce while watching "Ponyo". It sounds like a sorority! #
  • Oh, Xena. You never shied away from the campiness that I so crave. #
  • I am reminded of how much I love the vain attempts of the Xena supporting cast to hide their kiwi/aussie accents. #
  • I am laughing hysterically but silently as @Kim_Stone tries to bring the 12yo's to a pizza topping consensus. :D #
  • The NFL is no more exciting to watch on TV than Soccer, it's just a lot more explicit about when you need to pay attention. #
  • Now @Kim_Stone is trying to guide the 12yo's in selecting boba drinks. Too many choices for such young decision engines? We'll see! #