Tag: Twitter

• Just realized we’ve got some kind of group activity scheduled for every bloody evening this week. Error; I *DO NOT* like people that much. #
• Is my internal debate “Green Day Concert vs High School Reunion” or “Experiencing New Things vs Reliving Old Things”? Does it matter? #
• I enjoy my work, but it’s only in my play that I get to set my favorite toys on FIRE. #
• For better or worse, ADRIFT has taught me two things: actions can convey ANYthing, and plot complications are the Jello of my story stomach. #
• Adrift: The blue-white brushtip shape of the lighter flame grazes my shirt; its ignition makes a hard WHU.. http://bit.ly/zdlKE #
• Know what I hate? When you tell me “It’s probably a virus” when I mention my weird computer problem. I hate it EVEN MORE when you’re right. #
• Oh, Blue Screen Of Death, why do you always wait until fifteen minutes past my desired bedtime to come a-knocking? #
• Still waiting for final confirmation for tomorrow night’s game. Prepping anyway. Whatevs. #
• This is pure happy-making. RT: @DaphneUn: I didn’t know I liked Swedish swing hip-hop, but I do! http://bit.ly/2tmlR #
• RT: @jchutchins: Dun-dun-dun! J.R.R Tolkien estate sues to block “The Hobbit” adaptation — http://is.gd/1RerC — regrettable actions. #
• Desktop BSOD-ploded last night. Up til the wee hours getting it functional again. Worse, it was utterly, UTTERLY my own stupid fault. #
• Says too much re: my old WoW habits that non-WoW-player @DaphneUn gets the jokes: Secret Raimi WoW Shooting Diary http://tinyurl.com/klhl3j #
• Evony ads provide a surreal background noise, eventually revealed as the Evil Behind It All. Like the missing bees. Or Bad Wolf. Or Weevils. #
• Followed some followers I’d missed. Blocked some ‘social networking gurus’ and spammers I’d missed. Feeling much more twitter-balanced. #
• Adrift: Adrenaline encourages large gulps of air – *supremely* unhelpful when on fire, or coated in extin.. http://bit.ly/HbLcv #
• RT @MylesMarlow Did you lose followers? Twitter apparently kicked off a bunch of spammers and bots. Good. #
• WOW that was a crushingly awkward entry for @Finnras today. The in order… words of… my brain… not… goodly. Fire bad. Tree pretty. #
• Adrift: Burns could be stabbing me while I’m blinded and coughing foam, except… he is too. Le.. http://bit.ly/16VdTg #
• At a The Wiggles show. Trying to contain my shivery, dancing glee. Not that difficult. KAYLEE, however, is pure electric glee. Worth it. #
• Adrift: The foam smells like kids medicine – burns the skin. Ironic, that. Scooping it away from my eyes;.. http://bit.ly/VBafu #
• RT: @DrWicked: I wish beating myself up for not going to the gym burned more calories. #
• *Pries himself out of the muck and mire, fully-formed and ready to kill, like Saruman’s Uruk-hai.* Rawr. #
• Actually, the muck and mire were pretty productive today, even with the sigil of the white hand painted over my laptop screen. #
• Adrift: No knife in my ribs, or bullet. Or shouted call to his troops. When I can see again, Burns is jus.. http://bit.ly/A72gj #
• Food, Inc. http://bit.ly/uXBrp
  – Must see. #
• Completely unrelated to my desire to see Food, Inc.: my desire to see Paper Heart. #
• At Kk’s classmate’s over-precious birthday party. How is it? I’m ready to go back to the Wiggles. #

• Quite a weekend. House painted. Killed a balrog. Watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang AT LEAST SIX TIMES (no, wait, that was Kaylee). #
• Note to self: buy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang before Library repossesses newly painted house. Also, might as well get The Sound of Music, too. #
• Here’s a picture I took the last time @maureenjohnson went skydiving: http://is.gd/1Fq79 – she does this kind of stuff ALL THE TIME. in reply to maureenjohnson #
• Adrift: As soon as we’re alone, Burns rounds on me, growling threats too… /honest/ to be igno.. http://bit.ly/UZDJa #
• Random Average: This weekend… http://bit.ly/1tYLa3 #
• Adrift: For a few seconds, I even can’t sort out who he’s angry at, let alone what he’s.. http://bit.ly/qZSHc #
• RT: @wilw: I dream of a world where every thing related to Michael Jackson isn’t covered with the breathless urgency of a national crisis. #
• Light-headed. Hungry. No idea why. *squints at clock* Okay, /one/ idea why. #
• Adrift: Now he’s talking about his son. Didn’t know he had a s- wait, what? What’s he s.. http://bit.ly/roFsH #
• This one’s for @daphneun – on several levels – http://bit.ly/7ok21 #
• WiFi is acting a little too much like ‘sufficiently advanced technology, indistinguishable from magic’ today. Blasted summoning circles. #
• Adrift: He tries smashing something into my head, by my shoulder takes most of it. Fishes some aerosol ac.. http://bit.ly/m5WB8 #
• Saw HP6 with @daphneun. “Is this a kissing book?” Yes, yes it is. Pity about the plot, though. #
• RT @Maggie Pop Rocks slogan is “Taste the Explosion.” That’s what he said. #
• I’d like to go home now. *looks around* Make it happen, people! #
• Adrift: Shirt soaked in accelerant. I keep choking him. Don’t know where he gets the stim-lighter, .. http://bit.ly/DOTBE #
• You should be reading this. Yes, YOU. RT @tordotcom Cory Doctorows Makers, Part 9 (of 81) http://is.gd/1JTkY #
• Sometimes, I question those profiles that flag me an major extrovert. In other news: BBB. #

• Dear Aaark Electric (seen on a van during morning commute): You’re not fooling anyone, and angling to be first in a phone book is… quaint. #
• Heh. Via @cyface RT @rdonoghue: schauden4ede, the pastime of enjoying people’s freak outs about D&D 4e (orig: @Judd_of_Kryos, @robertbohl) #
• Although it *was* the weekend, I feel I left @Finnras hanging for two days. Let’s see about a few extra posts from him today. #
• Adrift: I know Burns – better than I’d like, and well enough to regret. Right now, he’s stall.. http://tinyurl.com/l9829x #
• A weekend of painting projects. Deck is 50% primed. Big bench with a million zillion nooks and crannies is primed, painted, and reinstalled. #
• Unplugged for lunch hour. Sat in the park. Ate a wrap. Read a chapter. Unfurled a solar sail and recharged. Ahh. #
• Weekend painting soundtrack was provided by Slacker Radio, streaming on my Blackberry. (Free download, free audio stream.) Recommended. #
• Adrift: Educated guess: he wants to gut me on the deck of my own ship, AND wants what I know about Kaetly.. http://tinyurl.com/msdytk #
• Don’t have the tools, know-how, or sufficient knowledge of the series, but Use Somebody (Kings of Leon) wld really work in a Dr Who fanvid. #
• Sweet jumping Jebus, I managed to stick my foot in it this morning. There’s two hours of my life I won’t get back. #
• Bah. Tried to see how hetero I tweet at http://www.stockholmpride.org/howhetero/ – but apparently I don’t use clichés. I’m compliffended. #
• Re: hetero test: @Finnras is apparently a deeply conflicted soul. (Also, their list of ‘indicative words’ is ridiculous. Bodyguard? Really?) #
• Free, neighborhood-wide ice cream social at the park tonight. Bad timing; scheduled on a day I (a) don’t have KK and (b) hate all humans. #
• Adrift: The problem: he can’t ask me for anything in front of his people – comes across weak. Hell,.. http://tinyurl.com/mmss6v #
• RT: @lapsedcannibal: Bill Moyers expose of health insurance company practices. http://bit.ly/xRhni #
• RT: @DrWicked: Simon Pegg argues for a return to our slow zombie roots: http://short.to/jm1c #
• I’ve hit that crazy gameday headspace where I lose all desire to play the game I’ve been anticipating all week. Happens .every. time. #
• Adrift: Solution: I beg. For my life, my crew, my ship, my daughter. I beg to reveal what’s going o.. http://bit.ly/j8jy3 #
• Dear Denver homeowners: I want to share – K&H Windows/K&H Home Solutions has authored the worst homeowner experience of my life. #
• Random Average: [PTA] Ironwall, Episode 1: The Ambassador http://bit.ly/pkEgt #
• Kaylee has been introduced to the concept of cold pizza for breakfast. She loves it. Genetics at work. Huzzah for Science! #
• After I vid-skype her w/Kaylee, her grandma starts CCing me on ‘inspirational’ emails. Not sure she gets how positive reinforcement WORKS. #
• Via @weedatheevil Inappropriate Soundtracks for Return of the King (awesome) http://bit.ly/mkm5h #
• Adrift: He takes an underling’s weapon and pistol whips me – shuts me up before I say anything more.. http://bit.ly/ssaxk #
• Random Average: [3:16] Actual Play: Reptiloid Chameleon Tricksters in the Goya Asteroid Belt &#82.. http://bit.ly/6Uq09 #
• After careful self-assessment, I think it’s fair to say a day of house painting in 90 degree weather robs me of some of my childlike glee. #
• RT @brianrathbone REMINDER: Have you backed up your website lately? Databases? Relying on hosts’ backups is not wise. #
• Adrift: He has me hauled to the bridge. (*My* bridge, technically – I let it slide.) No one objects; Burn.. http://bit.ly/aOi5k #
• Breakfast: gingery pancakes in The Skillet. Need some kind of reward for MORE PAINTING. *sigh* #

• Adrift: The guns, which are many, are being pointed our direction by a crowd of serious-looking people. S.. http://tinyurl.com/nqa6aj #
• I like that I’m still my daughter’s favorite swing. #
• Kaylee Tiger – Excellent face painting at the Colorado Ren Faire. http://flic.kr/p/6CedXE #
• I utterly refuse to concede that I need to qualify statements made on my blog with “in my opinion” disclaimers. It’s redundant. Also stupid. #
• KayleeTiger informed me she wants only food eaten by Lions & Tigers. I suggest corned beef hash. She misses the reference. #weepforthefuture #
• RT: @boymonster: I really want this t-shirt: http://controversy.wearscience.com/design/elements/ – sooth. #
• Wow, @jhtatroe; our first SoC game, we not only lost, but Britain was retroactively scoured from Earth’s history. Timelord stepped in. Ugly. #
• Gods playing Poker explains the Medical Industry: http://bit.ly/hbpeY #
• RT: @thecreativepenn: Reactions to Author 2.0 program by happy participants http://bit.ly/XwK2q #
• Gamers: you really are rolling more 1s than anything else: http://bit.ly/Bnnnd #
• Also: accidental amputee today, or at least it feels like it: left my phone appendage at home. #
• Dozing off (entitled!) while writing yourself a note turns your moleskine into a tiny Book of Marzabul. #
• Adrift: The attack was Burns’ “bolting hound, flushing game.” For a man living in deep .. http://tinyurl.com/my98wp #
• Adrift: He also enjoys cooking analogies, which is disturbing. The pointed religious analogies are a new .. http://tinyurl.com/nsp894 #
• They apparently handed out free, economy-sized bottles of Crazy Pills while I was out of the office yesterday. #
• As near as I can tell, the Crazy Pill Directions for Use are: “Eat entire bottle. Write something. Send it to Doyce to sort out. Repeat.” #
• RT: @turbine: LOTRO: Welcome Back Week July 9-15th. Returning players play for free, and +25% XP bonus for all. http://bit.ly/zs6Og #
• RT: @wilw: Isn’t there already an open source, lightweight, free operating system that runs nicely on netbooks? #
• RT: @skagency: Andy Borowitz: New iPhone app translates Sarah Palin speech into English. #
• Adrift: I have to wonder why he keeps making references to fanatics and martyrs. Is he part of whatever K.. http://tinyurl.com/mpwfhz #
• Random Average: LotRO – a set on Flickr http://tinyurl.com/nmhzgy #
• RT: @Maggie: Melissa just ordered a burrito with hummus. I can feel the entire Mission cringing from here. #lifelist #
• RT: @lilithsaintcrow: Agents are not the enemy. They are invested in their authors’ success, and they work hard for us. #
• Adrift: Really, the answer to that is obvious: Burns is violent, territorial, and vindictive – yes. Creep.. http://tinyurl.com/mv33jj #
• PEOPLE: It’s Friday, and you need to see this: http://is.gd/1tzQA (It’s okay, you’ve been good; you deserve it.) #
• Okay, if (like @julichilliard) you’ve NOT been good, see it anyway. Also, this: http://bit.ly/mj3RU #
• Adrift: I think about Kaetlyn, mixed up with Burns. I’d much prefer him morbid and apocalyptic inst.. http://tinyurl.com/lul342 #

• Hey @mightymur, my nephew just finished (devoured) Dragon Breath, and wants more, more more. Any suggestions? :) in reply to mightymur #
• RT @mouseguard: “If you told a 15 yo me the comic I was doodling would someday be an RPG that beat out D&D for RPG o/t year, Id’ve laughed!” #
• I infer from others that Mouse Guard winning best RPG my be the result of 4eDnD haters skewing votes, but the result’s still correct. #
• Which is not to say that I don’t like 4e DnD. Superior to 3e and its spinoffs, IMO, yesterday’s purgatory-like session notwithstanding. #
• I think I’m done playing in that monthly DnD game: 20 minutes of fun PACKED into eight hours. It’s just poor allocation of my leisure time. #
• PTA game cancelled due to parental visit. (Mom’s birthday blah blah, 40th anniversary blah blah. Whatever.) Maybe I’ll teach em Mouse Guard. #
• Got the deck stained this weekend, but didn’t get the railing painted. Will save it for July 3rd. Happy birthday, Mom; grab a brush. #
• Huh. Only 20% of twitter users go in via the web page. I’ve use the web page and a phone app. Are twitter apps really THAT much better? #
• Adrift: He takes me back to Jon and De, fielding skirmish reports while explaining he’s just decide.. http://tinyurl.com/m77ykt #
• Adrift: The good: There’s no way he can get us through the station, so we get a free ride to our sh.. http://tinyurl.com/n6rpu7 #
• Random Average: Optimizing my free time http://tinyurl.com/m7ck7z #
• Crazy morning. Crazy evening. Crazy yesterday. Probably crazy today. Wouldn’t mind terribly if things calmed down for a bit. #
• Also: have read Lady Blackbird. Would like to play, please. ‘Now’ would be good. #
• Werd. RT @AletheaKontis Having no dreams at all is far better than having nightmares. Thank you, exhaustion. #
• You know; re-reading @finnras from the beginning (five months and 150 posts as of… now), it’s almost like I have a plan. (Note: I do not.) #
• Adrift: The commander see me off with “Ishbel’s blessing”. He’s keen enough to se.. http://tinyurl.com/nbkfw9 #
• Date Night brought to you by Film on the Rocks (http://bit.ly/18VnpA
  ). Tonight: The Princess Bride. \m/ #
• Red Rocks Ampitheatre COMPLETELY SOLD OUT to see a 20+ year-old movie. Astonishing. Then again, it’s Princess Bride. #
• Generated a flurry of activity on the Burning Wheel forum with a magic hack for Mouse Guard/Realm Guard. Am inordinately pleased by this. #
• For the 151st Finnras post, I finally gave into the dark side and made a Star Wars reference. If nothing else, it amused ME. #
• Adrift: The shuttle pulls away. I peer through a port hole at the big ship’s airlock with the Drift.. http://tinyurl.com/npfr8c #
• Random Average: Huh. http://tinyurl.com/mbyq2g #
• Oh, you feisty excel spreadsheet. Always good for a grapple, aren’t you? Now get back in the cage, and PUT THE GAG BACK IN. #
• And now: apologies to anyone following both me and @jamieharrington – that was a LOT of nerd-spam. Off to lunch. As you were. #
• Adrift: We dock with the Binturong. Breathing stale ship air removes a weight; feels good. The sound of g.. http://tinyurl.com/ls5wrt #
• Damn, Panera Bread: back off the the a/c, for pete’s sake. It’s not THAT warm out today. #
• Familial visits are awesome. Garage door is working again. We’ll save the deck painting for Elena’s visit next week. Shh. Don’t tell. #
• Delicious dinner last night at the Black Pearl on… wait for it… Pearl Street. I know, right? Birthday and anniversary wishes wished. #
• The secret to winning Shadows over Camelot appears to be “play with your parents.” #

• Spent the afternoon blasting the house and deck with a power washer. Scrubbed so thoroughly it smells more like I cut wood that cleaned it. #
• Cooking naked pork chops in the cast iron skillet; one part cooking, one part branding livestock with hot iron. Yeehaw. #fathersday #
• Clarification: the pork chops are naked, not me. #
• Retweet @TwitterLit “Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity, is a man living on the brink of disaster.” http://is.gd/18Gwn #
• Why yes, I did forget to put on sunscreen yesterday. Why does everyone keep asking me that? #
• Adrift: Forgot this is Yoren; he doesn’t give up on bad ideas – it’s a kind of loyalty. Somet.. http://tinyurl.com/lsm3hv #
• Adrift: He trades up from ‘kill the commander’ to ‘pop out the Captain’s eye with.. http://tinyurl.com/ljm42m #
• RT: @sethsimonds: Your parents were tempted to off you many times & let you live. The least you can do in [return] is be patient with them. #
• Thread on storygames has me thinking about RP games via Twitter. Tempting. #
• Adrift: He can’t quite reach my face, given our position. Unfortunate, that; lacking alternatives, .. http://tinyurl.com/lr7qub #
• 500 new words within the WIP. Small in number, but mighty; they forced open the story enough to allow many more in their wake. Now then… #
• Random Average: A Penny for My Thoughts http://tinyurl.com/nq5dt6 #
• RT @sethsimonds: If you came up with the idea of putting strawberries and rhubarb together in a pie…I’d like to shake your hand. #goodcall #
• Adrift: The grapple/pummel doesn’t go on as long as it feels like. Probably. Yoren’s enthusia.. http://tinyurl.com/lwe3am #
• Random Average: LotRO: They can rebuild it. Better, stronger, faster, and dude… way f@*#ing.. http://tinyurl.com/m8tdcz #
• Rt @namenick Crime pays for ebook publishers | Books | The Guardian http://ow.ly/fNNx #
• io9 – Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie – http://tinyurl.com/nd7dpl #
• Gamers, Writers: I draw your attention to SURVIVOR: RELAY (zombie survival fiction-arg, via twitter) http://tinyurl.com/5w73an – wanna? :) #
• RT @UnclePilot MTV is streaming episodes of The Maxx! Fuck. Yes. Goodbye, Thursday Afternoon. http://is.gd/1dfHb #
• Just watched a quick, hard rainstorm turn the tiny concrete-lined creek in the park into a raging flashflood-swollen river. Scary and cool. #
• Adrift: The commander, still holding the stun baton, offers a hand up. Takes me a bit to respond – caught.. http://tinyurl.com/lk6x8f #
• Creating a green icon unironically; to tell Iranians, despite banal Trending Topics, some still care about their struggle. #IranElection #
• Pro deck-staining tip: don’t wear open-toed sandals. (I worked that out all. by. my. self!) #
• The desk soaked up a LOT of stain. A LOT. I suspect that, like all dwarves, I power-washed too greedily and too deep. #
• Dear Colorado Weather: if you rain on the deck we /just/ stained (in 90+ f sunshine), I will CUT you. #
• Way way WAY too many snacks at the game table today. So far, failing my willpower checks – gonna need a fort check soon. #
• Adrift: If this were an adventure vid, I’d knock him out with his own baton and leave. In the real .. http://tinyurl.com/l2tnte #

• RT @sethsimonds: If you came up with the idea of putting strawberries and rhubarb together in a pie…I’d like to shake your hand. #goodcall #
• Adrift: The grapple/pummel doesn’t go on as long as it feels like. Probably. Yoren’s enthusia.. http://tinyurl.com/lwe3am #
• Random Average: LotRO: They can rebuild it. Better, stronger, faster, and dude… way f@*#ing.. http://tinyurl.com/m8tdcz #

• RT: @sethsimonds: Your parents were tempted to off you many times & let you live. The least you can do in [return] is be patient with them. #
• Thread on storygames has me thinking about RP games via Twitter. Tempting. #
• Adrift: He can’t quite reach my face, given our position. Unfortunate, that; lacking alternatives, .. http://tinyurl.com/lr7qub #
• 500 new words within the WIP. Small in number, but mighty; they forced open the story enough to allow many more in their wake. Now then… #
• Random Average: A Penny for My Thoughts http://tinyurl.com/nq5dt6 #