Tag: Twitter

• The “first SUV” (http://j.mp/fAaIxW) – Want! #
• Dropped in on @dknippling's Choose Your Doom book signing. At the mall. At Christmas shopping time. Totally worth it. Good book; go buy it. #
• How to drive Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings Fans Insane with Just One Pic (http://j.mp/e8NrzR) – HA! #
• Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired (http://j.mp/fBuNbj) – This reality is pretty much life right now. #
• So… that crazy-making Harry Potter/Star Wars/Lord of the Rings picture? We forgot Trekkies: http://brizzly.com/pic/3ZK7 #
• International “Change Your Account Password” Day (http://j.mp/eReGVZ) – Me, on MMO Reporter. #
• RT @rdonoghue: The unifying characteristic of people who would do it better is that they didn't do it. #
• At the Kindergarten holiday pageant. Preparing to be jingle bell rocked. #
• Republican Thinking on Recent Healthcare Developments (http://j.mp/gHo2rT) – Shocker. #
• Everyone knows someone hard to shop for at Christmas. This is the first time I've encountered someone who's hard to be shopped BY. #weird #
• TWITTER HIVE MIND: My "secret" santa rejected my entire Amazon wishlist; I need a single, $100 gift for them to buy. WHAT SHOULD I SUGGEST? #
• HIVEMIND: The gift can TOTALLY be pointless/annoying, because at this point, I DON'T ACTUALLY WANT IT. #
• HUMAN GOOGLE: Your gift suggestions are collated and forwarded. Now to see if they meet the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS. #
• My personal favorites were a couple goats donated through WorldVision.org, or $100 bucks worth of fruitcake. We shall see… #
• The more irritated I get, the more I sound like my dad. #

• Why look: Musicland is buying Sam Goody – http://www.yorkblog.com/books/2010/12/borders-barnes-noble-closer-to.html #
• Man I hate people. Sometimes. Not *you* guys, of course. Definitely not you guys. But, you know… people. Everyone else. #
• Cataclysms are tiny, compared to the Big Bang (http://j.mp/gjkJzG) – My first article for MMO Reporter. #
• Comic: Teef (http://j.mp/iacSES) – Oh yeah; this is gonna be me. #
• Weather Radar (http://j.mp/eZ5sDx) – This is pretty much what it's like to live in Denver. #
• Can you be a Community Coordinator for the whole Universe? (http://j.mp/gMcdre) – Latest article for MMO Reporter. #
• More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week (http://j.mp/gsqYTA) – Can't stop the signal, Mal. #
• This sums up what the holidays are like around here: @daphneun – "I think I have glitter in my eye." #
• The Play’s the Thing: A New Holiday Acting Event for LotRO Thespians (http://j.mp/fMAd1O) – Me on MMO Reporter again. #
• The Road to Mordor: A conspiracy of hats (http://j.mp/hUcYEf) – Funny hats. Funnier commentary. #
• Banana split for breakfast! Except the ice cream has been replaced with oatmeal and the whipped cream with brown sugar and milk. But STILL. #

• WIP: I recount how a bioengineered horror ended the great galactic republic – the truth filtered through a fairytale about a talking rabbit. #
• I'm no longer allowed to read certain sections of Adrift to @daphneun since I started killing characters she likes. #amwriting #nanowrimo #
• My 'little princess' WIP character's super-power seems to be that she's stubborn and argumentative. #writewhatyouknow #
• Today's WIP: "That was how the princess brought the Spring Tree back to the kingdom and finally ended Winter. That was how the War began." #
• My daughter is critiquing the lyric logic of old Springsteen songs. She is not impressed. #raisingemright #
• 'But if there's only grown-ups there, you're just going to talk about husbands and be BORING.' #thingsKayleesays #
• I enjoy any movie that employs cast iron skillets as the primary melee weapon. #tangled #skilletsrock #
• RT @ChuckWendig: RT @EvilWylie: Carpenters Needed! Saw And Nail Cabinets, Doors, Even Whole Houses. No Pay, But You'll Get Great Exposure! #
• A Bitter November (http://j.mp/ggDP9Y) – Heh. #
• Two employees here have swung by to say 'I really like that N7 hoodie… sir.' Feeling simultaneously cool and OLD. #
• I thought we could reconcile some things if we just talked and maybe spent some time together, but you know what, Monday? Fuck you. Cheater. #
• SubZin (http://j.mp/hHfQJS) – Finally, the Internet is complete. #
• Postcards from WoW, Part 7 (http://j.mp/egh9b0) – Yeah. Not much interest in heading back to WoW any time soon. #
• You know how to keep me from working? Drag your feet about paying me. #themoreyouknow #
• I don't want to come across as a WoW-hater, folks. I'm not. WoW-agnostic? Yeah. Lasped WoWtholic? Something like that. #
• My favorite holiday song, two years running – Always in the Season http://t.co/u8JTlcJ via @youtube #
• I love @jonathancoulton, but this "kinetic typography animation" makes ShopVac MORE awesome. WATCH. http://t.co/OCe8FLA (thanks, @scalzi!) #
• Let the oatmeal cook a little long this morning, and got an inch-thick oatmeal & raisin pancake. Added syrup. BEST COOKING MISTAKE EVER. #
• Thanks to this building project, I've learned *so much* about what's keeping our house standing. (The answer? MAGIC and BLISSFUL IGNORANCE.) #
• Samuel Pepys and the POD Diary by James Bridle (http://j.mp/eU6Ty2) – The bit about publisher love is telling. #
• When someone at my ex-dayjob (where I still do short contract work) says "I just can't see why you aren't still here," it kinda sucks. #
• I know they mean well, and it's nice to hear how wonderful they find my work, but… yeah. Sucks. #
• My daughter enjoyed Tangled so much she's asking when we get to go see our NEXT movie. This is a HUGE shift away from her theater-hatred. #
• McDonald's with my daughter. Hellooo Transformer Happy Meal. Now to see what Kaylee wants to eat… #
• Jeez, the McD Playground is a really suboptimal experience for someone my height. #wherearethefeedbacksurveys #
• RT @EvilWylie: (waitress, telemarketer…) RT @IrisBlasi: In a world of shrinking advances, additional author revenue channels are a *must*. #

• If the contracting company that built my house back in '83 had a face, I would kick that face right in the balls. #
• If you're struggling a bit with #nanowrimo I recommend this Really Mean Trick to keep you going: http://bit.ly/caYEYr #
• (No writing post today, though I might vent my spleen about shoddy and shady home construction later.) #
• Monetize It (http://j.mp/g4cP5o) – It is here, with the nuts-and-bolts of epublishing, that Konrath is at his best. #
• Is anyone aware of unicorn pictures where the horn is… higher? Like up at the top of the head, extended right off the spinal stack? #
• Yes, I just used "unicorn" and "spinal stack" in the same tweet. That may be the high point of my day. #
• I tweet-failed earlier. I'm basically looking for unicorn pix where the horn's like this: http://bit.ly/gXpwft and not mid-forehead. #
• No, I'm not writing a story where unicorns siphon the blood of children via spine-horns shaped like juicepack straws. Oversaturated market. #
• Illustration of the current Whedon nerdrage: http://twitpic.com/39ciov #
• A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks: http://bit.ly/6xmGxa #
• One of the best things about my current WIP is that it's science fiction, not magic, which means I get to actually enjoy explaining things. #
• See, science fiction has SCIENCE in it, which becomes exponentially more awesome as you find out how it works. Magic is the exact opposite. #
• #nanowrimo people: Tomorrow is is Thanksgiving. Be a writing ninja: http://bit.ly/fWZAqE #
• Best thing about my little rice cooker: making my morning oatmeal in my office, filling the space with the smell yum. Thanks, @ebertchicago. #
• Smell OF yum. Whatever. I just woke up. GOOD MORNING. #
• "The ship was silent around us, save the cries of the girl and the fall of water in a garden long abandoned, full of death." #amwriting #
• RT @ebertchicago: It's late, you're broke. Pasta, chicken broth, can of turkey chunks, seasoning. Got some frozen veggies? All in The Pot. #
• #nanowrimo Less than 10% of those who started are still going. Are you? How awesome does that feel, even if you're behind? Keep going. #
• Where's that bookmark for the Esperanto-English dictionary? #research #thingsIneverthoughtIwouldsay #
• RT @seananmcguire: So You Want To Be A Writer? Funniest video I've seen in a while: http://tinyurl.com/26bs974 #

• So the guy postponed the repair project (last Wednesday) to today, due to snow. This, of course, guaranteed heavier snow today. #haha #
• You'd think, given how much coke zero I drink, coffee wouldn't wire me up so much. You'd be wrong. I was. No more 9pm cuppa joe. #tired #
• The smell of coffee and cigarettes were so inextricably interwoven during childhood I can't smell one without catching a ghost of the other. #
• I love brizzly, but it's kind of … not showing me some of the @ replies pointed at me the last couple days. #
• The team we're bowling tonight showed up with an average of 2.5 balls per player. Overcompensation, thy name is 'Team XXXtreme.' #
• Meetings, more meetings, phone calls, and a head-on collision with a good book have eaten my day. Finally time to get some work done. #
• Paul (http://j.mp/cGJm1F) – I'm going to need a babysitter on 2/14/11… #
• RT @dknippling: Bloggers, book reviewers: let me know if you want to review Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse. http://www.doompress.com #
• "We have to have our 3 year olds scream “stop touching me” to get what children understand: this policy is wrong." http://bit.ly/aV8FkZ #
• When your to-dos are 'write' or 'respond to an email I really don't want to respond to', writing gets MUCH easier. #motivation #nanowrimo #
• Oh… oh sweetie. That's adorable, but SO WRONG. :) RT @Nemone7: @doycet Hey! Thanks for today's nano post. How is it you know everything? #
• Inexplicable earworm of the day: Nothing Compares 2 U. Seriously, what the hell. #
• Have entered the 'gravy' portion of my nicely productive writing day. Hello, fruit: shall we celebrate together? #
• Astonished the porn industry hasn't ginned up TSA-parodies already. Someone call Larry Flint and point out the mockery opportunities here. #
• To be clear: I think the current TSA policies are a serious, serious problem. What better way than porn to highlight the inherent seediness? #
• Hey Twitter, why are you texting my phone with every @-reply I get? #
• Fiddling around with about.me. Not quite sure what to DO it with it, but hey, harmless fun. http://bit.ly/9kxhGg #
• It's annoying how much crap's accumulated in 'storage' in this house simply because I couldn't be arsed to throw it out. #purge2010 #
• There's a jackhammer pounding in my basement. That's not a euphemism: there's a pounding jackhammer, and it's in my basement. #demolition #
• Love watching the HP midnighters. Potter is their Star Wars. It will never mean so much to me, but it does to them, and I respect that. #
• RT @dknippling: The only thing that will bring this country together is our hatred of the TSA, apparently. #
• Spent the morning mixing cheap kitty litter into half-empty cans of really ugly old paint. #glamorous #
• Old Paint and Kitty Litter Wall Texture. Oh yeah. I'm waiting for my call, HGTV. #
• Beloved around-the-house Inis Meain is developing holes in the same old places again. I need better sweater patching tricks. #
• Nap or coffee? Nap or coffee? Nap…. or… snzzzzzzzk* #
• In my previous tweet, I overlooked a third option, obvious in hindsight: Nap AND THEN coffee. #onebirdtwostones #
• Wow. @daphneun decided to spend part of her day MASTERing a new dish. Short ribs. Some kind of wine sauce. Sweet Fancy Moses I'm stuffed. #
• Got a scene half-done at the bowling alley today, but definitely still owe Sunday-me some solid wordcount tonight. Off we go! #
• Oh my god, you guys: @daphneun has never seen Tremors. WHO DID I MARRY?!? WHAT KIND OF MOTHER WILL SHE BE? #

• Morning, #nanowrimo folken. It's day eight. Are you still in this thing? Awesome! Find out why: http://bit.ly/ccmmYM #
• Listen, internet: I'm kinda tired, so can we just assume I ranted about the stupidity of Daylight Savings Time (again), and call it good? #
• *looks at calendar* Day seven? Not day eight? *mutters* #
• Reading a sekrit copy of Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse. Heh. heheheheheh. Heh. Review soon. http://bit.ly/9fOSue #
• (Re)Blogged for #nanowrimo folks: Getting past the Dreaded Day Seven: http://bit.ly/ccmmYM #
• RT @ChuckWendig: Come, novelists and writer-types. Murder unicorns with me. Get shut of writing myths: http://bit.ly/bEYK7P #NaNoWriMo #
• The cunningly sophisticated @maureenjohnson is answering #nanowrimo questions today. Probably yours. Check it: http://bit.ly/b5UVdJ #
• Unicorn City trailer: http://t.co/K9o4qtw @unicorncity — I'm in some kind of shameful nerd love with this thing. #
• I'm unreasonably optimist that maybe, sometime today, Twitter's API will unclench enough for my new blog post links to actually show up. #
• I'm unreasonably optimistic that maybe, sometime today, Twitter's API will unclench enough for my new blog post links to actually show up #
• Alright, screw optimism; time to post links my hand. #primate #
• RT @Three_Star_Dave: RT @pourmecoffee: Pressure building on GOP to cut deficit/create jobs. I sense an anti flag-burning amendment coming! #
• Writers, gamers, Chuck speaks, and it's good: Solve for X – A Story Must be an Incomplete Equation: http://bit.ly/dBuQtN #nanowrimo #
• The siding repair guy is FINALLY going to fix our house damage tomorrow. SO, DENVER PEOPLE: It *will* snow tonight. Thought you should know. #
• Huh. A way to tweet right from the Chrome address bar. http://www.scottporad.com/2010/01/07/how-to-tweet-directly-from-chrome-or-firefox/ #
• For the Burning Wheel game, @cyface has given his character the Instinct "Always be the Smarted Person in the Room." *rubs hands together* #
• Gah. Yesterday, none of the twitterfeed stuff worked. Now it's all posting twice. Sorry for the spam, guys. #
• Surreal: @daphneun had a dream where one of my characters (Vikous) was showering. Leathery wings, pale skin, clawed feet, and sudsy loofah. #
• As I predicted this morning, frozen precipitation has begun outside my window. How long before the siding guy calls to postpone? #takingbets #
• I think what might ultimately break my soda habit are afternoons like today, when a meager caffeine dose is INSUFFICIENT. #
• Who (http://j.mp/cKMQYD) – Who. Pond. Mucha. Lovely. #
• My new favorite Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ddkmiidlgnkhnfhigdpadkaamogngkin #
• First Snow http://flic.kr/p/8SjRaT #
• Burning Wheel prep and #writing all day today. Need a #nanowrimo post? I suggest this one: http://bit.ly/b18QRW #
• Tonight's Burning Wheel game involves a murder investigation and a sport we've invented that combines nine-pins, lacrosse, and blood bowl. #
• Fun first Burning Wheel session. Not the game I expected to run, but I love it. #
• Should be a very productive morning; absolutely no distra– *email ping* "Your invitation to About.me" — Oh crap. #
• Least I Could Do: 2010-11-11 (http://j.mp/dsAUup) – This is pretty much how Kate is with dentists. #
• Someday I'm going to write in the morning when I'm all productive and save sleepy afternoons for crap like fixing web templates. #viceversa #
• CANNOT. WAKE. UP. Prescription: cold weather and major caffeine hit. Tattered Cover, here I come. #
• Biweekly veggie/fruit delivery has two pomegranates in it. POMEGRANATES. I don't have that kind of free time; no one does! #
• Oh dear. It's actually four pomegranates. I'm going to have decide between fruit and finishing this story. #nanowrimo #NaPoEaMo #fight #
• Hey, @ChuckWendig has some damn good, damn solid tips on avoiding distractions and focusing. Read em: http://bit.ly/d6MVbI #nanowrimo #
• Least I Could Do: 2010-11-12 (http://j.mp/btTRkF) – Again, this is eerily familiar. #
• Cunning plan to get some writing done this morning was a complete failure — except for the blog post, which I already do in the morning. #
• Time to find out if the afternoon will be any better. Netbook says it's got 3 hours of battery left. LET'S FIND OUT. #
• DAMN this renovation. Damn. it. Why can't anything be simple? #
• Kaylee has approximately every shade of (or colorwheel neighbor to) "red" on this morning, simultaneously. *fumbles for sunglasses* #
• The Man in the Frey Flannel Suit (http://j.mp/amLs9B) – Frey's an ass. Notoriously so. #
• Holy crap. 70k into the WIP, and I just figured out WHY this one thing keeps happening in the story. So surprised. Happy. #lovemyjob #

• “I am a Tea Partier …” (http://j.mp/aA1PlP) – Vote on November 2nd. #
• My daughter, the witch. http://flic.kr/p/8PBR5x #
• #nanowrimo looms, and I seem to be out of soda. #planningfail #
• A re-tweet for #NaNoWriMo This is How I Get it Done – http://bit.ly/cls22L #
• This is, in fact, what she looks like all the time: RT @maureenjohnson: @lauracato as me. "I just stared." http://twitpic.com/32s9e3" #
• If ya'll didn't get enough candy yet, you can come trick or treat at our house… #
• The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: http://bzfd.it/cU0ZuB — These are my PEOPLE. #
• RT @seananmcguire I hate it when people are right about things that create more work for me. – Describes my current revision-pass perfectly. #
• For #nanowrimo – Blogged: All Used Up http://doycetesterman.com/index.php/2010/11/all-used-up/ #
• RT @ChuckWendig: You voted? Pshh. You're not done. Vote for your favorite VACATION HELL flash fiction: http://bit.ly/9TLefm #terribleminds #
• OKAY: Revisions done. Manuscript sent. Now… what's this about #nanowrimo When does THAT start? #
• I don't say this enough. As AWESOME as it is to be married to @DaphneUn, I'm unfairly lucky to have @AgentShana to pester about book stuff. #
• Post from past #nanowrimo – The Thing You Did Wrong Yesterday – http://bit.ly/cq11Zg #
• AC/DC's Thunderstruck on the bagpipes (http://j.mp/cdmU7Y) – Love it. #
• “I Wanna Be Your Man” – Willy Moon (http://j.mp/9OJpnJ) – Welcome to my earworm. M-O-O-N. #
• Oh sure NOW you want to meet for interviews about fancy new jobs. I HAVE NANOWRIMO TO DO, PEOPLE. #sheesh #
• After having a copy for years, I finally read The Stand. Damn, you sure can string a story together, Steve-o. Hat's off. #
• And I want to add that without a nice, portable ereader, I might've never attempted that monster. Next up? Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel. #
• Just went to share something funny with @daphneun, but she's not here. #sadface #workingfromhomeisaripoff #
• ohmygodwhataheadache. #intoomuchpainforahashtag #
• Random Average: A long time coming. http://bit.ly/aa6tgV #
• Dude: you TOLD me to call you back first thing, Nov 5; don't give me a hard time when I DO THAT and you aren't prepared. #asshat #
• RT @ChuckWendig: Some hot fresh #NaNoWriMo advice: novelists, stop posting premature… erm, excerpts. http://bit.ly/9YA3Bn #terribleminds #
• Also, I want to thank @neilhimself for tweeting a link to my blog post today. Now I think I'll have a quick liedown. #
• RT @Migweld: I'm not sure of @doycet coined the phrase 'Twitterbation' but he wields it with such ease that I can't help but be impressed #
• Heading to l'hospital for a 'child prep' class with @daphneun. Seems to be something about making babies. #veryexcited #
• RT @Writepop I wear headphones at work, but I never listen to music, because there's no nicer sound than people not talking to me. #
• Last night's class: not about making babies. Actually a prep-for-delivery class laced with eeeeever-so-subtle anti-pain-medication shaming. #
• Hear me: if you did natural childbirth, you get mad, mad props. HOWEVER, I disapprove of a mindset that treats ANY new mom like a failure. #
• It's the same problem I have with formula-haters. Jesus, what a rabid pack of guilt-trippers. Like new parents don't have enough stress. #
• Surprised @neilhimself didn't #neilwebfail my site yesterday with link to the procrastination post. Assume people just didn't click yet. #
• Spotted @Three_Star_Dave and assorted #nanowrimo folken at the local #tatteredcover Why look: a comfy chair. Think I'll stay awhile. #
• MY EAR WORM – LET ME SHOW YOU IT: http://bit.ly/cwnfYY #

• Revisions for the day begin with one of the characters saying "The hardest part is getting started." The clown-faced guy speaks truth. #
• "THAT'S the wrong woooooord, and it's iiiin the wrong plaay-haayyyce. *sings the revision song* #
• I'm already really happy that we've switched the biweekly Wednesday game to weekly, and we haven't even gotten to the second session yet. #
• Scrivener for Windows Beta is out: http://bit.ly/9YfO96 #
• 110 pages of edits/revisions today. Roughly the same amount left to do, but that's misleading, because I've finally reached the Hard Part. #
• Random Average: The Library of Worlds, Part One http://bit.ly/9B35HI #
• And the show was good too. RT @DaphneUn: Just watched the new Sherlock: Study in Pink with @doycet. Brilliant and funny and SMART. #
• "Due to call volume, call-wait time may be… one hundred… twenty… five… minutes." O.M.F.G. #
• (I'm calling a state government agency's office. It took forty minutes of REDIALS to get into the two-hour queue.) #
• *whistles along with the hold music, which he has now memorized* #
• … annnd my call disconnected in the middle of talking to a real person. #eyestab #
• Stephen King's "From a Buick 8". #booksthatfreakedmeout — it's a regular re-read for me. #
• Speaking of #booksthatfreakedmeout I'm reading The Stand right now. Every time someone coughs or sneezes, I have to repress a freak-out. #
• RT @dboshea: 3rd campaign sign seen blowing like tumbleweed in today's driving wind, like God is trying to scour bullshit from the earth. #
• The graffiti app for Droid shouldn't make me as happy as it does. #
• Gah. Note to self: never tweet the word that rhymes with 'bumbleweed' ever again. Silly rt spambots. #
• Highlight of my day has been my dad NOT calling to say he's had a cancer relapse. Otherwise? A crappy morning. Whattaya got for me, Twitter? #
• Another home repair successfully 'rigged. Would be nice if the book revisions went as fast. Pity I can't use decks screws on the manuscript. #
• 1288385988872.jpg http://flic.kr/p/8P4oEA #
• Trying this picture post one more time. http://flickr.com/#/photos/doycetesterman/5127034270/ #happyhalloween #
• RT @boymonster: This year for Halloween I am going as "Guy in Jeans." #
• Man, the water in the pool is SO clear and clean today… #newgoggles #
• Steam (Punk)? (http://j.mp/bMADJ4) – "Where, exactly, is the punk?" A elephant in the room I've pointed out a couple times. #