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I just learned today is known to some as "Star Wars Day."

Why, you may ask?

"May the fourth be with you."

Seriously, there needs to be a way for me to unlearn things I find out on the Internet.

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The following is me trying out using twitter to collect my various thoughts during the day, or indeed for anything at all. Blame caffeina for inadvertently giving me the idea.

• 09:14 Good morning, and yet, I'm already exhausted by evolution v. creation arguments. People. Peacefully coexist. Right now. I insist.
• 09:26 Blah. No Iron Man for us this weekend. And we're busy next weekend. Hmmm.
• 14:30 And the exhaustion from that one contentious topic just continues and continues. So, this is social networking, is it? More anti-social.
• 14:45 Theorem: social networking is a mixed blessing at best for those of us who dislike conflict enough that we become physically ill over it.
• 15:02 I've got it! I'll do a new podcast episode! Because nobody can argue with me on it! It's one-way! Mwa ha ha!
• 16:06 the reviews are posted, and they say Iron Man is FULL OF WIN. I am so pleased. And dying to see it.
• 20:01 geez, nice Internet you got here. discount, am I right?
• 22:15 I do believe I have enough notes for a Sturgeon's Law. Wack!
• 23:12 I recorded a show. No, seriously.

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The following is me trying out using twitter to collect my various thoughts during the day, or indeed for anything at all. Blame caffeina for inadvertently giving me the idea.

• 15:40 rethinking Sturgeon's Law. YES AGAIN SHUT UP
• 16:03 In related news, lots of stuff going up on sturgeonslaw.tumblr.com/ for your geek news enjoyment.
• 16:05 I'm vaguely tempted to try to get individual episodes under 10 meg and using said tumblr blog as the show feed. Opinions?
• 16:08 Too late, I already lost interest in the idea. :)
• 16:25 ahh, how delightfully more empty my sturgeon's law notebook is now. off to a good start.
• 21:02 a third of the way through another year of TWT. huh. neat.
• 22:17 Hooray, another audition recorded for a Pendant Audio show! Fingers crossed, etc.

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I just dropped about a dozen things out of my Sturgeon's Law notebook into my tumble log.  It varies from nerdly interesting to universally awesome.  If you're still silly enough not to follow my online finds there, well, there's no hope for you.  Or you're just new to, well, me.

This is part of me refining the podcast again by way of getting away from little news updates that are little more than "link in the show notes."  Getting away from that since people can just subscribe to the durn Tumblr feed and it's so much better for that.

Caveat: There is some crossover with gamera_spinning.  You've been warned. :)

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It's true, I just unfriended a bunch of people, but only because I'm using the friendslock more and I feel like, well, anyway, I did i 'cause it makes sense to do so.  No slight intended.

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The following is me trying out using twitter to collect my various thoughts during the day, or indeed for anything at all. Blame caffeina for inadvertently giving me the idea.

• 19:33 Actually more or less assembling Sturgeon's Law notes, gradually. Someday I'll find a workflow for this that doesn't make me crazy.

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The next time someone tells you about how some uppity black preacher (or whatever) is angry for no good reason, remember the last words of this excerpt.  (But go read the entire story.)

William Hardgraves, 48, an electrician from Harlem, brought his 12-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter to hear the verdict. "I hoped it would be different this time. They shot him 50 times," Hardgraves said. "But of course, it wasn't."

If you aren't sickened that there has been so little progress made that people are RESIGNED to this happening... you too may be qualified for a show on Fox News?  I dunno.

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Headline: "Obama ex-pastor says he unfairly painted a fanatic"

mamamoira says, "Did he?" and makes a swishy painting motion.

Man, that guy.  First he's making incendiary statements, now he's unfairly painting fanatics!

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[most recently from gamera_spinning:]

"As reported in Publishers Weekly and elsewhere, President Bush's proposed 2009 budget eliminates all funding for RIF, which has provided more than 325 million books to underprivileged children since 1966."

You can support RIF by using their form here to send an email to your senators and house representatives (it'll fill their addresses in for you based on your zip code) or by making a donation.

If you can, please pass this link along.

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Apparently I don't get as much out of twitter as some people do.  A personal failing on my part, no doubt.

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The following is me trying out using twitter to collect my various thoughts during the day, or indeed for anything at all. Blame caffeina for inadvertently giving me the idea.

• 12:33 Experiment: Purging follwing list. Unlocking feed and ignoring adds that aren't familiar henceforth. Tweets will skew to the "unpersonal."
• 12:41 Well, that wasn't that big of a purge, after all. I shake my head sadly at 71 following, 73 followers... and 69 new follower requests.
• 15:49 I was just getting 8 megabytes per second downloading Linux dists. I love my work net sometimes.

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We visited my folks on Saturday to have lunch and just hang out. My father took this photo while we were there.

• I've had a headache much of the day and I'm just not shaking it.
• It's hot and our AC isn't on.  It was acting screwy in the fall so we hesitate to turn it on just now.  But I'm pretty miserable.  I handle heat poorly.  The office is, of course, the hottest room in the house, despite two fans on.
• I have a cold or something.  Sneezing alternating with congestion, thus, I'm sure, the headache.
• I'm just very tired and grumpy.

So, if I say something that seems unpleasant or, even more likely, simply nonsensical, cut me a little slack, I ask of you.

Except the post about blood glucose testing.  I really am bitter about that regardless of the above.

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The NHS is wasting more than £100m a year by helping people with diabetes to monitor their condition at home because it only serves to make them anxious, researchers will say today.

*incoherent sounds of rage*

Someone else take this one.  I am too freakin' tired.  I had to tell my mother "I'm not going to argue with you about this" when she insisted today that carrots are good for me.  (No.  Carrots may be good for you.  They make my blood sugar go up, and things that make my blood sugar go up make me die, piece by piece.  Yes, I am imperfect.  I eat things that make my blood sugar go up sometimes.  But I don't kid myself about it.)

Seriously, how hard is it?  People are anxious when they self-test because they have not been equipped to actually improve their situation, thus all they can do is watch the inevitable happen.  OF COURSE THEY'RE FREAKIN' ANXIOUS.  If only someone had wisely told them not to test then they could be blissfully happy instead!

Footless, blind and dying.  But SO VERY HAPPY.

Nnnnnnrrrrrrghghhhh!

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