Sunday, November 15, 2009

Aweekstweets November 8-15 2009—tweets hastily thrown into semi-serendipitous categories

Aweekstweets November 8-15 2009—tweets hastily thrown into semi-serendipitous categories

TECH-AND-TECH-INDUSTRY TWEETS

LIFE-OF-AN-ANALYST TWEETS

SHAMELESS-SELF-PROMOTION TWEETS

MUSIC-CUZ-THAT’S-WHAT-I’M-WHISTLING-WHILE-I-WORK-IF-YOU-REALLY-MUST-KNOW TWEETS

DECADE’S-ENDING-DONTCHA-KNOW TWEETS

  • Decade's ending, dontcha know. Sidling into my sixth decade, this is first where my musical reference points mostly artists from this one. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • Decade's ending, dontcha know. Stretched the already tenuous concept of "friend" to a new breaking point. 7:40 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Movie dialogue-bite from 00 decade: Napoleon Dynamite: "So you and I are friends now OK? So you got my back and everything?" Pedro: "What?" 7:36 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Decade's ending, dontcha know. I'm just happy we've made it this far. 7:24 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Decade's ending, dontcha know. Been doing a mental tally year by year of everything that's transpired, expired, still perspiring. Whew! 7:23 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Decade's ending, dontcha know. A couple of nights ago, I cleaned out my e-mail directories of names/addresses that only add clutter, stress. 7:22 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck

TV TWEETS

  • Seinfeld sans video: George to Jerry: "everybody's talkin' 'bout me, just drivin' 'round in Jon Voight's car" about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • Simpsons with the sound off: skateboard yr eyes with th visual flo: the jokes don't suffer: surf the grain of Matt: caughtyer laff out loud' about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • RT @HowardKurtz "CNN doubling down on straight news by giving John King the Lou slot" JK--Glad it's not Larry King. about 12 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • Was LOL'ing about recent Sesame Street "controversy." Fox News peeved at parody "Pox News." Somehow, CNN OK with "Grouch News Network." 6:26 AM Nov 10th from TweetDeck
  • Was thinking about Sesame Street's 40th. I was 10 when it debuted. Had long since known my ABCs at that point. Watched it for entertainment 6:23 AM Nov 10th from TweetDeck

SHOWING-OFF-MY-ECON-DEGREE TWEETS

  • "McDonald's Investing To Prep for Recovery " (http://bit.ly/2XkiT4): JK--So the economy turns: macroboom of self-fulfilling micro prophecies 9:33 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  • Would love to see wikipedia-style open-src community create visual online econ-indicator dashboard, with history&forecasts, for whole world. 9:17 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  • Post-recession is like post-drought. I'll believe it when liquidity starts trickling down from on high and recharges the aquifers. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck

SHOWING-THAT-NEW-YORK-TIMES-SHOULD-HIRE-ME-TO-TAKE-LATE-BILL-SAFIRE’S-PLACE-WRITING-“ON-LANGUAGE”-COLUMN-BECAUSE-GOSH-DARN-IT-I CARE-ABOUT-WHAT’S-HAPPENING-TO-OUR-PRECIOUS-MOTHER-TONGUE-AND-CAN-GET-ANAL-RETENTIVE-WITH-THE-BEST-OF-THEM TWEETS

  • One of my favorite "we've lost all perspective" terms: "overhype." By def'n, hyperbole is overstatement, aka exaggeration. BS now the norm? 12:15 PM Nov 10th from TweetDeck

JUST-FEELING-ARGUMENTATIVE-TODAY TWEETS

GRATUITOUS-ATLAS-LOVING-ERUDITION TWEETS

  • Curious: history books never say: when did "Europe" get generalized beyond ref to Greek peninsulas and "Asia" beyond that "minor" peninsula? 8:53 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck

RIPPED-OUT-OF-THE-CONTEXT-OF-MY-PASSING-THOUGHT-STREAM-AT-THAT-MOMENT TWEET

  • Was thinking about Hank the Deuce's credo this morning: "Never complain, never explain." Would that I could. Could never, that is. 6:21 AM Nov 10th from TweetDeck

GRATUITOUSLY-SENSUAL TWEETS

OK-THIS-IS-A-LAME-EXCUSE-FOR-POETRY-AND-NO-I’M-NOT-MOVED-TO-WRITE-THE-STUFF-AT-THIS-MOMENT-BUT-MY-BROTHER-PAUL-SENT-ME-A-SPLENDID-BIRTHDAY-CARD-WITH-A-LONG-POIGNANT-POEM-ABOUT-FARTING TWEETS

  • A rainy chilly dead-wet-leaf day in and around DC. Very Novemberly. A great cozy-up-with-caffeine sort of morning. A tweet-tweaking mid-week 7:04 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • 'Twas a lovely warm mid-autumn eve. I was bagging fallen leaves well after sunset. God bless incandescence, home-, street-, and Moon-side. 9:24 PM Nov 9th from TweetDeck
  • RT @windley: "Morning has broken." JK--The morning meal breaks the fast. Monday morning breaks your spirit. See a pattern here? 8:51 AM Nov 9th from TweetDeck

JUST-GOOFING-AROUND TWEETS

FUNNY-DAMN-COINCIDENCE TWEETS

WEIRD-ASS-OBSERVATIONS-I-DIDN’T-REALIZE-TILL-I-TWEETED-‘EM TWEETS

  • My surname is my shibboleth for assessing people's actual friend-ness. If you actually want to know me, listen when I introduce myself. 12:48 PM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Telephone 2-sec silence after I pick up and say "hello," followed by mispronunciation of "Kobielus"--dead giveaway of telemarketer. Click! 10:15 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck

WHAT-THE-HECK-VALUE-ADDED-WOULD-A-KINDLE-CAFÉ-ACTUALLY-ADD-AND-WHY-DON’T-THEY-PUT-A-RETRACT-TWEET-FEATURE-IN-TWITTER-SO-I-CAN-PULL-BACK-HALF-BACKED-THOUGHTS TWEETS

  • RT @elliotluber "Don't most chain bookstores have coffee bars already?:" JK--Yeah, but they're not kindle cafes. Mostly phys-book purveyors. 10:21 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
  • Whatcha wanna bet that bookstores and coffee shops merge into "kindle cafes." People will always need content- and caffeine-rich hangouts. 9:32 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck

CONTINUING-TO-INDULGE-IN-SOCIAL-MEDIA-ARE-CHANGING-THE-VERY-FABRIC-OF-OUR-POSTMODERN-EXISTENCE-WAIT-A-SEC-WHY-AREN’T THESE IN TECH-TWEET? TWEETS

OVERSHARING-FAMILY-STUFF-ON-TWITTER-BUT-KNOWING-FULL-WELL-THAT-MY-FAMILY-WILL-SEE-IMMEDIATELY-WHEN-TWEET-AUTOSYNCS-TO-MY-FACEBOOK TWEETS

  • Just about to process extended-family's feedback on the trove of family Xmas cards that I facebooked over the weekend about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • Navigating my daughter through the extraordinarily confusing synapse map of roads in and around Burke VA--dead center Fairfax County. 12:47 PM Nov 10th from TweetDeck

WOW—DAMN—WISH-I’D TWEETED-THAT-THOUGHT-BUT-FORTUNATELY-I-STILL-GET-PARTIAL-CREDIT-FOR-RETWEETING-IT TWEETS

POLITICAL-TWEETS-TO-RUN-UP-THE-FLAGPOLE-CUZ-IT’S-BETTER-THAN-KEEPING-THEM-BOTTLED-UP-INSIDE-AND-IN-FACT-THEY-NEED-TO-BE-SAID-BY-JINKY TWEETS

YES-IN-FACT-I’M-NOW-51-YEARS-OLD-AND-THANKS-FOR-ALL-THE-KIND-DIRECT-MESSAGES-ON-MY-DAY-OFF-MY-BIRTHDAY-OF-COURSE TWEETS

  • 51+ count ing: Freud's infant ile anal ysis belied his vint age vis age: Sigmund's ash-strewn cigar-sprinkled chin grizzled & grown about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
  • 51: Jung mapped aging to mythic "hero's journey" culminating in sacrificial death: too heavy: Carl shoulda contemplated his own name: young 8:31 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  • RT @kexpplaylist: Birthday by Sugarcubes #KEXP: JK--With my own birthday approaching, I'm feeling very Bjork-y about it all--a good thing? 10:29 AM Nov 10th from TweetDeck
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