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Tweets for the week of 2012-09-09

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Tweets for the week of 2012-09-02

  • Them: "I slept like a baby." Me: "You poor, pathetic creature." http://t.co/x3ZZUape #
  • Abso-friggin-lutely. RT @maureenjohnson: To those of you who read books and take the time to honestly review them, good or bad, thank you. #
  • Guys, if you read @maureenjohnson's recent tweets about for-pay book reviewers… well, just do that. Smart thinking about a stupid thing. #
  • I'll Be There In A Minute: http://t.co/pmiupXXs #
  • Catan, with meter-wide tiles and actual resources (bricks, etc) to trade. New project for the back yard. http://t.co/25i38hDv #
  • The problem with going to bed early is that I really can't (comfortably) sleep for more than eight hours, so… Good morning, world. :( #
  • Second day with office emptied out to replace flooring, which means second day with main pc unavailable. #shakes #holdme #
  • Been up an hour, during which I've intermittently used my fully charged phone to GRead. Battery now at < 50%. #terrible #
  • Not having my office available sucks. Just plain sucks – no better word for it. Good reminder that it's my favorite space in the house. #
  • New Interview up with @chuckwendig: We talk Blackbirds, Mockingbird, writing, and (of course) Goodnight Moon: http://t.co/W2gVuyFY #
  • RT @QQwill: The Qwillery: Interview w/ Doyce Testerman & giveaway of HIDDEN THINGS (8/21 @HarperVoyagerUS ) http://t.co/kTWKHb2X #
  • Public libraries are one of the finest things in a troubled economy. http://t.co/zdYG000L #
  • The Bear and the Maiden Fair: the "cabbage vendor" of A Storm of Swords. #
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Tweets for the week of 2012-08-26

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Tweets for the week of 2012-08-19

  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. On youtube? http://t.co/Yf8dbBOW #
  • I don't mean to make accusations, but I seem to have lost SEVERAL hours of sleep last night, and I'm fairly certain Naomi Novik is to blame. #
  • Boy, AltNation's playlist sounds a lot like bizarre mid-80s remix today. Same bands, but with lead singers swapped around. #
  • So, there's a "Cover Wars" thing going on at The Qwillery. Hidden Things is in the running. Maybe go vote? #nopressure http://t.co/eRisOasw #
  • SO ANNOYING to be reading something that I only have available in dead-tree format. Leave the book somewhere, and it's like I DON'T HAVE IT. #
  • Speaking of Hidden Things covers, I'm running a cover-design contest: Submit your wonderful/horrible good/bad stuf! http://t.co/GLT57Ee2 #
  • I'm not going to lie to you Marge: I'm not a 4chan guy, but this story made me laugh out loud. http://t.co/tz1PHdbd #
  • Does anyone remember reading a kid's book about three kids learning about codes and ciphers? Main character codenamed himself "The Brain?" #
  • A ha! Book in question: Alvin's Secret Code, by Clifford B. Hicks. Man, I read the covers off that thing. #
  • Just finished recording an interview for @antonstrout's Once and Future Podcast. Much writing talk. MUCH geekery. So much geekery… #
  • Aww, man. Now I'm all verklempt. RT @mybookishways: HIDDEN THINGS by @doycet just made me cry. Love this book. #
  • 34 minutes to daughter's birthday skating party. 37 minutes to my new broken wrist. #goodparenting #
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Tweets for the week of 2012-08-12

  • Awesome. Watch Curiosity land on Mars with considerably less time-delay than NBC Olympic coverage. http://t.co/5NiGBHDh #
  • What If: Robot Apocalypse — A post that makes Curiosity even more impressive. http://t.co/wzicrawi #
  • RT @sekimori: I wish my house had a search engine. #
  • Hidden Things and @chuckwendig's Mockingbird mentioned in Kirkus Reviews' "speed reader" suggestions for August. http://t.co/xHLv1RYp #
  • After mucking around with various advertisement and promotional… things, I can say, with complete authority, I'm very bad at such things. #
  • Best Olympic camera angle: http://t.co/etKQaFEF #
  • "I don't mind spoilers at all, and I find extreme spoiler-aversion pretty tedious." http://t.co/8JRuqMX5 #
  • Hidden Things cover design contest. http://t.co/GLT57Ee2 Perfect for those with mad design skills… or MSPaint a few spare minutes. #
  • Honest Toddler (and the related Twitter account) is wonderful. And terrifying. Because I'm quite sure my son is… https://t.co/mGqzGHze #
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Tweets for the week of 2012-08-05

  • I'm not a Trekkie, but I want to see this episode now. http://t.co/R8Umm23K #
  • This is @daphneun's new favorite picture of me. I leave 'why' as an exercise for the viewer. http://t.co/JfEybSzR #
  • The only significant difference between me and NBC viewers is that I *know* I'm not watching the 2012 Olympics. #
  • RT @jkottke: I love Twitter the service and I am starting to really dislike Twitter the company. #
  • Hipsters in two paragraphs. https://t.co/CI1yMcT2 #
  • Browser wars in a nutshell: http://t.co/MCHI1CBr #
  • People Who have Disappeared Mysteriously — http://t.co/UrrDwXsx — no I'm not explaining why I was looking this up. STOP STARING AT ME. #
  • Thinking aloud about a game I'd like to run. http://t.co/ZKyRSrw9 #
  • Only thing keeping me from a new ISP is my current ISP's chronic instability. The local CenturyLink node hasn't been stable in weeks. #
  • I literally use my smartphone browser more at home than anywhere else, thanks to CenturyLink's day-long weekend outages. Ridiculous. #
  • I give Total Recall a solid meh stars. #
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Tweets for the week of 2012-07-29

  • Oh HELL Yessss. "Do Not Push" – A Gotye Call Me Maybe Mashup by Pomplamoose: http://t.co/qO4iI017 #
  • At the doc, trying to determine the cause of the intermittent fever I've had since comiccon. So far we've ruled out menopause. Tentatively. #
  • Have now seen the NBC adaptation of the original BBC version of the 2012 Olympics. Not impressed. Embarrassed, actually. #
  • RT @emilymphocyte: LOOK AT ALL THE TRIBUTES! This is going to be the longest Hunger Games ever. #olympicceremony #
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Tweets for the week of 2012-07-22

  • Very exciting day! The day before Kaylee gets home from grandparent camp. Oh, and I'm doing a panel at #Comiccon this morning. Whatevs. #
  • Hey #comiccon I'm signing Hidden Things ARCs at the Sails Pavilion and the Harper Collins booth today. ARCs are FREE. Just sayin'. #
  • #Comiccon is a frankenstein mix of Neverending Crowd Death March, and Never Enough Time to See All the Cool Stuff. I'm going to miss it. #
  • Want to hear about the awesome stuff I saw at #comiccon Tough. Check out @50ShedsofGrey instead, because it is funny and dirty and funny. #
  • Daughter has requested a new "read together" book, and happily agreed to The Hobbit. Chapter One (and a lot of extemporaneous singing) down. #
  • Raise a shaking, palsied hand if you contracted #thefuckingplague at #comiccon #
  • I've been waiting for this to kick in! MT @angelajames Hey @doycet the pre-order price of your e-book dropped to $7.99! http://t.co/diviNAN7 in reply to angelajames #
  • Now on the Twitter header: "Who Unfollowed me?" Who the fuck cares? I have all these other beautiful people to talk to. #
  • Sometimes, I think "the blush is finally off the rose; it is no longer possible for a book to keep me up until 4 am." [1/2] #
  • Then, I'll open something like Ready Player One, and realize that I am very wrong, very happy, and very, very tired. [2/2] #
  • (Ready Player One is also @DaphneUn's most recent free pass to do an "I told you so" dance whenever she sees me.) #
  • So… we're fucked. Seriously fucking fucked. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math – http://t.co/jSRO71pt #