The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

May 2009

@lesliejenna i feel ya. ‘THE POLLEN FORECAST FOR YOUR AREA IS HIGH’ - i have a secret home remedy - shots of whiskey; clears you right up

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new four loko flavor released - watermelon! i voted for green apple; maybe next time… www.drinkfour.com

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folks have asked WTF i mean about the terminator timeline: this is how i see it, with branches and potential time loops http://idek.net/CvZ

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@facebook idk what scaling probs you have but it took 70 seconds to compose & send HTML for home.php when i req a 2nd time w/primed cache

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p.s. Scott Bakula ( @scottsbakula http://idek.net/CuO ) is the shit - mad props for Chuck, Enterprise, & Quantum Leap

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Star Trek: Enterprise season 3 ramps up the sexual tension to 11. There’s a lot of side boob for a UPN show.

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single flaw in the terminator plot is the paradox of kyle reese being john connor’s father. john in original timeline must’ve had a diff dad

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two words of pure awesome: motorcycle terminators

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@seanmcnichol nah, his first name is actually david

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going on a man-date with prince albert. looking forward to a quaint evening with just me, him, and the cyborg death machines.

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star trek enterprise is great; Captain starts a bar fight and first thing the Lt does is grab the beers off the table to save them from harm

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it’s a good thing i’m manly enough to appreciate an extremely rank fart, because Remi is quite proficient in that regard

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corn plot @ 3 weeks, with dog for scale: http://idek.net/ClC

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Dear Paycheck,

Please buy me a pair of kevlar pants.

Your faithful servant,

Jameson.

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the wild turkey gobbles were a refreshing change to the rooster crowing this morning

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for the love of god, avoid Pecos Bill’s Beef Jerky! you might as well buy a nylon dog leash and chew on it! i wouldn’t feed this to a dog!

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updating our account deletion script is fun ‘high risk optimization’ - data set reduction with risk of losing a client’s info. no pressure.

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2nd @facebook suggestion of the day; track ‘previous’ friends & don’t display as ‘suggested friends’ (i see who unfriended me & vice versa)

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srsly, @facebook ? only way to hide all quizzes is via greasemonkey script? I shouldn’t have to fix this client-side http://idek.net/CZ4

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programming credit card processing systems sucks; why can i place a hold or capture funds instantly yet it takes days to release a hold?

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@seanmcnichol i assumed natural bones are more dangerous because they have warning labels about splintering; reading about rawhide now

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2 foot rawhide lasted nearly a month… good investment. I got some looks as I struggled to stuff the replacement into my backpack.

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@tab126: I was behind a WRX STI a few days ago; I had trouble keeping up with him on my CBR, blazing around turns on country roads

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HOA approves my fence plan ‘with conditions’ 5 months after submission. They had 30 days or I was approved by default. Good thing I waited?

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I wish: I understood MySQL’s calculation of cardinality for multi-column indexes, and why it’s inordinately low for some of ours

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very few things can beat the satisfaction i gain from optimizing a database query to run in 1/600th the amount of time

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bronto dev: making gestures of appreciation since 2009

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ready for a release since my peers let me down over our work weekend; first morning of racquetball in a week

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At Wong Burger, when it’s right, it’s Wong!

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@seanmcnichol i’ll make you a better offer. I’ll name you sole beneficiary on my life ins policy for $500. It’s a pretty big payout. Deal?

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@seanmcnichol: it’s some supersweet hybrid; the sweetest corn they had at home depot

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i officially own a plot of corn… hopefully i will get to eat it

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a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man

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@tab126: backroads ARE scary. twisting around on one lane with little room for error vs going in a straight line on a 4 lane wide highway…

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Bronto Spring 2009 Release is live and blazing fast

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Finally, tonight, we will have enough dicks to complete the Dickship and return to Dick Planet!

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@tab126: let me know if you want to go riding some time. there’s a biker bar in durham called charlie’s if you want to go some time…

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2 hours still bronto spring release begins

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squeezing every drop of performance out of bronto app. going live with avg page speedup of 70%; many sub sec page loads w/primed cache

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TWC “requested permission to communicate with me by email.” Yet there was no opt-in; I had to opt out or I ‘gave them permission’ - FAIL

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http://idek.net/Aux - Wake up car drivers! Half of the related stories are of riders dying when a car turned out in front of them.

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twitter is having downtime at noon on a wednesday… ballsy. i guess few twitter users have the right to complain; still it’s unprecedented.

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today in summary: dry run chafing, happenThings™, Act!ionPages (©), webalytics, bases of data pointing every which way

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this morning a guy i play racquetball with broke his racquet. big whoop, you might say. the twist: he broke it while hitting his own leg. ow

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3 houses along my 7 mile commute have trees through the roof. tree fell in my back yard, but into the lake.

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just planted 120 kernels of sweet corn in my back yard on a whim… will be awesome if they actually grow

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@seanmcnichol i’d say 2800 square feet of yard beats 20 square feet of crate

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ultra heavy duty 2’ long steel stake? check.
heavy duty 30’ long aircraft grade cable? check.
heavy duty dog collar that won’t snap? whoops.

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@derickatunc if i had to guess, they are probably using cheetahmail as their email service provider; thus the starbucks.ctah.com

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narwhals, narwhals | swimming through the ocean | causing a commotion | ‘cause they are so awesome

http://idek.net/AHB

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this concludes the test of the anger broadcast system. if this were not a test, i would continue. i’m actually quite happy thankyouverymuch.

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MOST ANNOYED by: retweets, hash tags, direct messages, twibes, twoosh, twitterspeak in general, and of course the @*!#ing fail whale

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MOST OFFENDED by: religion in govt/politics, overcomplexity & sluggishness of legal system, US internet infrastructure, DEA, mysql, and duke

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@lesliejenna: A twoosh is the sound that Twitter makes every time someone sends a tweet that’s exactly 140 characters long. it’s stupid.

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INFURIATED by keith code. @knucklesandwich says you can’t polish a turd, but we have all honed our turd polishing skills down here (twoosh!)

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FED UP w/facebook making de-friending so hard. can’t do it via search; have to tab through ‘all friends’ page by page. F U FB. twooooooooosh

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PISSED @ rhythmbox - ‘shuffle’ feature my ass; tons of albums on my list haven’t been played in the year I have used it. last.fm radio FTW

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@seanmcnichol: booby trap that part of your lawn with mower-destroying objects embedded in the ground

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STILL ANGRY: at useless parents. caught teenagers snooping around neighbor’s house; parents were ambivalent. could have ended badly. twoosh.

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In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people ANGRY and has widely been considered as a bad move.

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ANGRY: at meteorologists. 30% chance of rain and not a cloud in 100 miles? grow some balls and commit to a prediction. time to ride. twoosh!

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ANGRY: been stuck in this dead end job for 2 years as of today. ha j/k it is YOU who should be angry b/c my job kicks your job’s ass. twoosh

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ANGRY: good thing firefox has the ‘resume last session’ feature because it’s locking up every 5 min since i upgraded to jaunty jackalope!

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listening to angry music a la deftones, rammstein, rage against the machine

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hi kids! the mood of the day is: angry! it all started when that @#&$ school bus driver almost turned me into a red streak on the asphalt…

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RIP Duke Nukem Forever http://www.shacknews.com…

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i curse any religious org that uses autodialers to proselytize - please come to my house so that i may berate you face to face

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awesome; now i can get my lulz in a more organized manner: http://bit.ly/wwc2N

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another win for law-abiding, gun-carrying citizens http://idek.net/9zz

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i can hardly contain myself: ‘the terminators’ http://www.imdb.com/titl…

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she should have at least gotten a manslaughter charge http://idek.net/9yC

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recently @kristengreg noted spider season is afoot - this morning i had a guest in my bathroom that was similar to this http://idek.net/9jw

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LMAO @ crank 2 - leaky shot up fake breasts, porn actors strike, dog shock collar, full body tourrette’s on a motorcycle, racetrack sex…

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# twitter followers / facebook friends / blog hits doesn’t make you a celeb b/c it isn’t mass media and nobody knows you http://idek.net/9YB

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motorcycle news of the day: marines love to hop on a bike with no training and get themselves killed http://idek.net/9Vt

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matrix on TNT today with great scenes cut: neo on operating table, spoon scene, guard saying ‘oh shit’ after seeing trenchcoat full of guns

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