Tweets for Today

• 11:32 Went and looked at grills with Cindy last night, then made pasta and watched Lost (phenomenal). #
• 11:48 Tried Dale's Pale Ale last night. Not sure I'm behind this "canned microbrews" fad, but it was a nice, smooth PA. #
• 11:51 More beer at Hans' last night with Char. Paid exorbitantly for the Dogfish Head 120; it was brilliant. Also had Satan Gold, quite good. #
• 11:57 Had picked up several weeks worth of comics yesterday and started in on those, including Astonishing X-Men final. #
• 14:00 Around 2 AM stopped reading comics and decided to hook up bedroom stereo, then trim beard, then rearrange boxes. #
• 14:07 Why must my body decide that I'm feeling productive right at bed time? #
• 14:09 Giving the Scarlett Johansson album a whirl. #
• 14:10 (Non-updating iPhone was really updating but needed a restart for the iPod app to see the new music) #
• 14:11 Wow, that's a really deep voice for a woman. #
• 14:21 Hearing some Beach House in this. #
• 15:55 Cindy picked me up for lunch today to try the smoked burgers from Guy's Meat Market. Good stuff! Little dry but very nice smoked flavor. #
• 17:24 First listen verdict for the ScarJo album: not great, but likable, I think. #
• 17:26 Tuesday morning brought 9 issues, mostly small, one big, to the attention of my apartment complex. Number solved at this moment: 1. #
• 17:26 Number that have, in some way, begun to be addressed: 2. #
• 17:28 When you can't even get them to tell you how much money you owe them, that's just sad. I AM TRYING TO GIVE YOU MONEY. PLEASE HELP ME. #

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Tweets for Today

• 15:16 Girl Talkin' it up. #
• 15:34 "Night Ripper" serves to reinforce that music appeals to us through the clever violation of expectations ("surprise"), sort of like comedy. #
• 16:34 When did "Fiesta" become cultural shorthand for "cheap"? Fiesta mart, spices, car, and now I see a Fiesta grill. #
• 16:45 I wonder how well Lone Star ages? twurl.nl/qpxp08 (via Win) #
• 17:46 Implemented a caching scheme for the output of my little web app. Thank you, md5, for making it easy to get (relatively) unique identifiers. #

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• 09:57 Trying desperately to remain optimistic about the work day. #
• 12:02 Sounds like the new BMW 1-series is crap. Shame, that: twurl.nl/rn7xz6 #
• 13:42 New Hold Steady album and some light coding. This is about as good as the average work day gets. #
• 14:09 Loving the continued lyrical references to previous HS songs. #
• 14:54 Just put Built to Spill's classic "Perfect From Now On" on the nice headphones... #
• 17:05 Listening to Thao's new album on the AKGs. Haven't listened in a couple months. Very catchy & fun. #
• 18:42 Watching this week's Zero Punctuation; looking forward to homemade kabobs @ Yalda's birthday party. #
• 18:49 Listening to the Bon Iver album again while I wait for Cindy to be ready to go... #
• 19:07 Thing I love about this album is how you get so used to the quiet acoustic stuff you don't even notice when the full band shows up. #
• 19:08 It's the complete opposite effect of Neutral Milk Hotel, when you realize that all the sound & fury is just Jeff Mangum and an acoustic. #
• 02:12 Joyfully subversive: twurl.nl/ixhssc #
• 02:13 Food was good tonight. Company was mostly good, except for a couple overly pretentious types, which is a lot coming from me. #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:32 Wait. I got yesterday off *and* I only have to work 4 days this week? Sweet! #
• 12:00 Great interview on Pitchfork with Phil Elv[e]rum/the Microphones/Mt. Eerie: twurl.nl/hxx0rn #
• 14:08 Fergie's "The Duchess" was just crying out for a deluxe release, wasn't it? #
• 18:20 Physicists: the ultimate example of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" #
• 18:23 Context: twurl.nl/e5zias (and a good deal of my life at school, in a lab filled with physicists). #
• 01:37 Assembled patio furniture tonight; hit Jenni's Noodle House with Cindy; watched a couple more episodes of Dexter. #

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• 17:47 Saturday: Thanks to Will, Tisen, and Dan for moving the big stuff. Thanks to Mom & Dad for all the cleaning. #
• 17:48 Thanks to Cindy for working harder than everyone else. Couldn't have done it without her. #
• 17:48 All furniture is now in its more or less final place, though there is some fine tuning to do. #
• 17:49 Need to get tall CD/DVD/book shelves bolted into the walls so I can fill them. #
• 17:49 Lots of little things to find places for. #
• 17:49 AV system is up and running, though back speakers still need to be mounted and speaker placement fine-tuned. #
• 17:53 Got a sago palm, oregano, mint, basil, rosemary, and a jalapeño plant in the ground outside. #
• 17:54 Have some other projects like finding a nice piece of furniture for bar stuff, a bathroom cabinet, etc. #
• 17:55 Got a nice little set of 4 chairs and a table from lows for $110. Needs to be assembled. #
• 00:25 Damned apt. complex double-booked my parking space; I found note threatening to have me towed for parking in my own space. #
• 00:26 Have to not park in my paid space until this is resolved, which could take a couple of days since I don't know who left the note. #
• 01:57 twurl.nl/kuo8bq Despite Engadget's bashing and lame presentation, this is a unique look at the beautiful 20th Anniversary Mac. #
• 02:16 Looks unlikely that anyone can challenge Apple on portable media players, but I hoped this Oppo would be interesting: twurl.nl/udepxn #
• 02:17 Looks like a half-assed iPod touch knockoff. The complete de-emphasis of metadata is particularly disconcerting. #

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• 10:37 Update on Tuesday's Pizzagate debacle: apparently address was wrong it went to our admin's house. I think she just wanted all the pizza! #
• 12:26 Will be glad when the day's over and I can get to work on this whole moving thing. #
• 14:52 Reproducing other people's work is one of the most unpleasant things in science. Which says a lot... #
• 16:05 Work day, be over. Now. #
• 23:32 Kitchen & closet mostly moved. Still some utensils in the kitchen & boxes in the closet. Not bad for 5 man hours... #

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Tweets for Today

• 13:54 Got keys to new place this morning. Less than 2 days remaining in good ol' 629. #
• 14:24 The internets have provided unto me the new Hold Steady album. I believe the proper expression is: Woot! #
• 15:14 Note to self. Perl has no function called "shit". It's called "shift". #
• 15:39 Not a Klipsch fan and not sure how they sound, but they certainly *look* beautiful: twurl.nl/0qi8l5 #
• 16:53 In case anybody else might benefit, the journal Bioinformatics used to be known as Computer Applications in the Biosciences or CABIOS. #
• 17:27 Hating science. #
• 18:03 Listening to Radiohead mix derived from their Houston set list. #

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Tweets for Today

• 13:17 Hey, Death Cab deserve it. Now hurry up and get us a new Postal Service album, Ben. twurl.nl/5ii5a1 #
• 13:38 Indescribably hot: twurl.nl/xtpyms Reminds me of my childhood... #
• 13:59 Listening to Dodos, I notice that "Winter" has some Beirut to it. Lots, actually. There's probably more throughout the album... #
• 14:33 Boss not here today. Working at staying motivated. There's code to be written! #
• 15:54 Wrote a bash script to scp some files but couldn't automate SSH login. Lost a few geek poitns for that one. #
• 16:28 The laws of physics state that this will sound like crap: twurl.nl/xboua8 #
• 17:09 Dinner last night was a great penne alla carbonara with fresh tomato/spinach from farmer's market. Cindy gets all the credit for that one. #
• 17:11 Accompanied by Dexter season 2. Good so far, although I can't expect the payoff will be as good at the end of the season as the first. #
• 17:59 Interesting how DED completely ignores Hillary in this article. Perhaps if we all did, we could move on. twurl.nl/im43oe #
• 19:59 Miracle drug? I remember reading about this a while back... twurl.nl/45lw5i #

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Tweets for Today

• 15:18 Thanks to coworker Serkan for bringing in chocolate cheesecake from Three Brothers Bakery. Yum. #
• 15:30 OK. New Hold Steady single is great and has me very excited about the album. Has me throwing up horns right here at my desk. #
• 18:34 Someone failed to order pizza for Journal club today. That's the only reason I go. EPIC FAIL. #
• 19:42 Last night, got books, DVDs, video games, framed photos, candles packed. Apartment looking a little weird. #
• 23:40 Listening to new Hold Steady single, am reminded of lesson learned at their show: the best seat for the show is the one closest to the bar. #
• 00:50 Best thing about Radiohead's "unconventional" "In Rainbows" release was a bunch of music geeks up at 2AM all listening to the album at once. #

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Tweets for Today

• 12:53 Finally got Uverse install ordered. Having correct address helped. Guess I'll get to pick & choose Uverse vs cable. #
• 12:54 As predicted, no Uverse install until 1 week after move. Getting cable & Uverse is totally worth it to avoid time without internet. #
• 12:55 Also, got current phone promos (free month TV, $100 rebate). Online promos were better but at least I know everything's on the up & up. #
• 15:20 OK, this Bon Iver album is beautiful... #
• 16:53 Yay for free coffee Mondays. Had a chai latte & cinnamon roll. #
• 16:54 Currently undergoing listen 3 of the new Islands record. Growing on me. #
• 17:43 ...but it's still too long. #

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• 17:47 The Woodlands is a pain in the ass. Poorly signed, poorly staffed. Is it too much to ask to have some local cops direct traffic? #
• 17:47 Paid $22 for 2 "yard" margaritas; my estimation is they're maybe 15". Oh well. That was $20 given to me by karma anyway. #
• 17:48 Radiohead put on a good show. At least I think that was Radiohead. Hard to tell. #
• 17:48 Picked up Wendy's on the way home; consumed in Rudz parking lot, then beer @ Rudz with Becca, Dan, Laura, Becca's friends. #
• 17:49 Lunch at Avalon Diner. Felt authentic. Wished I had room for a malt. #
• 17:49 Checked out beer can house; really neat. Will have to start taking people from out of town there. #
• 17:51 Finally picked up "Houston It's Worth It" from Beer Can House at a discount and tax-free! I was just trying to support a non-profit. #
• 01:57 Picked up Jeff & Jim from the airport; they took me for dinner at La Mexicana. First non-Sunday-Brunch meal I've had there. #
• 01:58 Started packing. CDs are done. Still weird to think I won't live in good ol' 629 after this week. #
• 02:15 Mario death mashups: tinyurl.com/6eeukk #

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• 13:59 Reel Big Fish's "Sell Out" on this week's "My Name is Earl". It's 1997 all over again! #
• 14:35 Last night's Battlestar Galactica was solid, jut like last week's. I think they're back on track! #
• 16:50 Well. Frickin' apt. complex definitely gave me the wrong address. Reliant is handling very well. AT&T next then... USPS, God help me. #
• 17:08 Did I say very well? Seemed that way. It's gotten confusing. #
• 17:31 Old guy was fine, but apparently had to switch me to somebody new who is, apparently, an idiot. #
• 17:31 Also, horrible hold music. #
• 17:58 Comcast managed to figure out my correct address where AT&T & Reliant failed. +1. #
• 18:20 Getting ready for Radiohead. Reading the "rules" for the Woods Pavilliion, it sounds almost as painful as air travel. #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:43 catching up: NY strip w/ chimichurri sauce & corn/tomato/avocado salad for dinner. #
• 11:44 plus Office finale. Great episode, set up good plots for next season. #
• 11:45 then beers @ Gingerman w/ Cindy's lab friends & Char. #
• 11:46 came home & watched Lost. Best. Damned. Show. On. Television. #
• 11:47 now going to Sealy conference in Galveston. Nice (relatively) cool weather, just like last year. #
• 13:54 @ conference now. Had good lunch @ Mosquito Cafe. Brie/apple/bacon sandwich, carrot orange Ginger soup. Overpriced but good. #
• 16:07 Taking break from the conference at Mod Coffee. Large Americano has me buzzing a little bit. Sometimes coffee affects me, sometimes no. #
• 16:09 Decent music mix here. Some Flaming Lips, Velvets, Clash... #
• 16:28 Mac/PC ratio here is about 50:50. Having been a Mac user in the 90s, this is like a golden age. #
• 16:38 Great article on the way TV eats time and brain cycles: tinyurl.com/5zyhqd #
• 16:50 Note to self: you don't like overly-fruity iced teas. #
• 23:43 rudz w/ Cindy's friends. Had the spinach mushroom quesadillas. Brilliant move was adding BACON. Tried Devil's Backbone & Mothership Wit. #
• 23:45 1/4 & 1/2 size kegerator is $600. I have $600 BushBucks. Coincidence? Probably. That doesn't mean it's not a brilliant idea! #

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Kid Amnesiac

In response to yesterday's tweets, Phil commented:

I have to take exception to Amnesiac being cut from your listening sessions. I am by no means a Radiohead fanatic. I probably don't deserve to give this level of input but I have to say that, maybe as a collection of songs, Amnesiac isn't amongst the best. However, the songs are similar in quality to Kid A. As I understand it, they were written and recorded at the same time and they could've been released as a double-album with Kid A.

So my question to you is: if Kid A-mnesiac had been released as a double, would you have listened to the whole thing?

PPK

I'm not a fanatic either; regardless I'm glad to have your input.

I've always felt like Amnesiac was the Kid A b-sides. Kid A is tight, focused, near perfection; Amnesiac is the leftovers. Maybe you could resequence and make a nice double album of the two, but if Kid A was disc 1 and Amnesiac was disc 2, I don't think it would work as one album.

Tweets for Today

• 10:38 Continuing my Radiohead retrospective with the 1997's seminal OK Computer. #
• 11:44 Hold Steady skipping Houston and playing El Paso? Insulting. A few open days in their Texas schedule, maybe something will change... #
• 13:40 And to that last bit, let me just add yay for competition and a more open market. #
• 14:28 On to Kid A, likely their best album. Thinking I may have to cut Amnesiac in the interest of time. Maybe Hail to the Thief too. #
• 15:23 On to In Rainbows. #
• 15:47 Sweet. New Stereophile has reviews of Revel Salon2 and assorted headphones. #
• 17:36 Slow day. I blame it on the fact that Lost is on tonight and tomorrow is Friday. #
• 17:37 Now going back and picking up Hail to the Thief, since I've hit all of the "essential" albums. #
• 17:48 Had a nice visit with Anup across the hall in his new office. Has a couch and coffee. This could be detrimental to my future productivity. #
• 17:57 HttF has some great moments where I think, "This is frickin' awesome", but it's too damned long and sometimes just bores me. #
• 19:01 OMG more web server drama. We're not at the enterprise level here. None of this shit matters. Get over it. #

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Tweets for Today

• 15:19 2nd SATA drive mysteriously unmounted; kernel panic from SATA driver a few minutes later. So long, 68 days of uptime. #
• 15:36 Funny how people are really latching onto the concept of a 720x480 screen for the rumored offspring of the iPhone and the Newton. #
• 15:45 Vampire Weekend reference in "Sally Forth"? WTF? tinyurl.com/6rj6dy #
• 16:02 Seems like once an afternoon, around 3 or so, I have one Time Machine backup that takes *forever* to finish. Like >1 hour. #
• 16:56 Uverse is being such a pain in the ass about this service transfer that I am *tempted* to go back to Comcast. And I really hate those guys. #
• 16:59 Really wanting to strangle someone at AT&T right now. a) they don't list my new apartment; b) have to return all old equipment and get new. #
• 17:01 If they can't schedule service installation close to my current move date, maybe I'll take whatever Comcast's current promo is. #
• 17:05 Downfall of AT&T will again be their customer service. Haven't forgotten those 1 hr wait times for ATT mobile customer service in '03-'04. #
• 01:01 Trying Hulu out for the first time to watch the Office episode I missed last week. Bad compression + hand camera = unwatchable. #
• 02:00 This might be my worst nightmare: tinyurl.com/5qtv85 #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:45 No Age album is alternately Broken Social Scene and Tines New Viking. Odd combo, but it's synergistic: more PB&J than nuts & gum. #
• 12:54 Ugh. Getting the feeling transferring Uverse service is going to be a pain. They have to confirm availability at new apt. #
• 12:54 And God knows when I'll be able to get an appointment. #
• 13:08 Claims that Death Cab have gone in some new direction on "Narrow Stairs" must primarily be from people unfamiliar with their back catalog. #
• 13:54 Been observed before, but "You Can Do Better Than Me" is *very* Pet Sounds. Organ, sleigh bells, timpani in part give that effect. #
• 14:26 Bah. Go so long without using Awk that I have to brush up anytime I want to use it. Might be faster to write Perl. #
• 15:39 Just had a meeting about our web server's hard drive being full. They were talking in circles until I showed up. #
• 15:39 At which point I pointed out that either a) there's junk on there that needs to come off or b) we need a bigger drive. #
• 15:41 So the next step would be to figure out exactly where all our space was going. Logic saves the day! #
• 16:15 1 seminar on a new genetic technique, 1 on getting a job. Guess which I chose? First one has dinner, so I'll try to sneak in there later. #
• 16:19 but I prioritized the one that could *help get me a job*. #
• 18:19 Just turned on EQ in iTunes to add a little bass boost to the AKGs. Feeling a little dirty... #
• 18:58 Starting my pre-concert Radiohead retrospective. Today: The Bends. (no real reason to listen to Pablo Honey, right?) #
• 20:04 Didn't expect much from the new Spider-Man cartoon, but it's actually pretty good! #
• 01:00 Watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie tonight. It was what I expected: intermittently entertaining. 15 minutes is the ideal length for ATHF. #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:21 Ugh. Boss just gave me the "I want everyone to come in earlier" talk. He usually gets over it in a week or two... #
• 11:22 He doesn't seem to understand the substantial difference between 9 & 10 on my productivity. But I never *agreed* to 9, at least. #
• 11:30 Think we left it at "do the best you can". Fine, as long as he realizes 10 is the "best" that I "can" do. #
• 12:19 Pitchfork's not crazy about the new Death Cab album. I shouldn't be surprised: tinyurl.com/4cozxe #
• 13:32 One day, soon, I will never have to hear the phrase "Western White House" again. #
• 15:03 I don't buy it: tinyurl.com/52ktgw #
• 15:31 Uptime on the work machine is at 66 days. Pretty sure that's a record. #
• 15:33 (personal record, that is. I really only restart it for software updates, and I haven't applied any lately) #

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• 16:36 yesterday: lots of Mario Kart, Graham/Angela's graduation bash with great food. This afternoon: symphony. #
• 22:01 had dinner @ 100% Taquito. The barbacoa was particularly good. I'd go back. #
• 22:02 At Walter's for Blood on the Wall. #
• 00:03 first show in a while. Feels good. Shame there aren't more people here. #

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Tweets for Today

• 15:24 @ chrisamiller wiitransfer.com/codes/ Check that out. Fewer e-mails to send about Wii friend codes. Also, you need to get Mario Kart. #
• 16:54 www.miniusa.com/?#/learn/racing/driveLikeAPro-m Nice driving tips from Mini. #

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Tweets for Today

• 11:05 Woot! Tax refund! Bad for the poor, good for me! #
• 11:09 Well, not directly. But anytime I get government money, I assume it's taken from the poor, not, say, the military. #
• 11:10 I feel like I should re-enact that episode of Futurama where Fry uses his refund to buy $300 of coffee, and then uses it to slow down time. #
• 11:32 Sort of wishing we had Advanced Topics today just to score some free pizza. #
• 16:46 Off to iron a shirt and then go to Sabrina's graduation dinner at Pappa's Steakhouse. Mmm... steak... #

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Tweets for Today

• 14:12 Seminar on "protein design using evolutionary information". #
• 15:35 Death Cabbing it again. Amazing what a difference full CD quality can make. #
• 15:35 Using the AKGs doesn't hurt either... #
• 15:39 Couldn't watch Jeff Bridges in Iron Man without thinking of Lebowski. #
• 18:16 Either the encoding on this Wolf Parade album sounds like crap, or this Wolf Parade album sounds like crap... #
• 01:02 Protein folding powered by human intuition: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508122520.htm #
• 01:16 The wonderful weirdness of Mazda's RX-8: tinyurl.com/6yl6vf #

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Tweets for Today

• 10:59 Looks like we're breaking the 90º mark tomorrow. Guess it's time to buckle down for summer. #
• 11:14 1 year after I started writing, finally, it is finished: tinyurl.com/634erq #
• 12:57 Don't guess I mentioned that the internets finally stopped letting me down: Death Cab album leaked. #
• 12:57 Considering going to see Iron Man tonight. #
• 12:58 Really wanting to buy a new toy. Should probably wait until post-move and evaluate finances then, though. #
• 13:29 Another thing that will end in tears: tinyurl.com/43m6xd #
• 16:35 Decided to break out the Grados. Trying out new albums from Bon Iver, Dodos, M83, No Age, Wolf Parade, Death Cab, and Islands. #
• 16:36 Wolf Parade is pretty similar to the last album (which I haven't listened to in a while) so far, but not really catching me. #
• 16:37 Wasn't blown away by Bon Iver. Was expecting something more immediately beautiful and tragic. Maybe it's there, but not on the first listen. #
• 16:37 Death Cab seems fine so far; their albums are always growers. #
• 16:38 Islands seems OK so far... #
• 16:51 So far, so good on the Dodos album. #
• 16:56 Yeah, the Dodos record has a lot of potential. To be fair, Dan already told me so... #
• 17:33 Dodos album: a little over-long? #
• 17:50 No Age: now this is what Times New Viking should have sounded like! #
• 18:25 Time to head home and set up my new Time Capsule. And eat. #
• 22:01 Time Capsule set up. Need to connect via Ethernet for first backup, and get Wii & SqueezeBox on new network. Latter is giving me trouble. #
• 00:39 Just back from Iron Man. Good, but had sort of the same "blue balls" effect of the first X-Men & Spider-Man. Which is probably a good sign.. #
• 02:40 Current SqueezeBox firmware isn't compatible with Time Capsule. Updated to nightly beta of next release. #
• 02:41 Had to get the thing on the network to update, though. For that, had to set up Airport Express as an ethernet bridge. Also complicated. #
• 02:44 Everything's working happily now, though. #

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Tweets for Today

• 13:54 Honestly, is this supposed to come as a surprise? tinyurl.com/59h4dw #
• 15:50 Forgot to mention that the internets finally have produced the new Death Cab album. Woot. #
• 15:51 Goals for the evening: grocery shopping, clean up kitchen, some filing, catching up on web page reading, and Mario Kart. #

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Tweets for Today

• 10:09 Back to reality today, I suppose. But taking the morning to unpack and watch last week's BSG. #
• 15:01 Well, back in lab. Looks like most of today will be spent in the Coffee Corner, though. #
• 18:21 Hmm. Cinco de Mayo. Maybe I'll make up some margs tonight. Requires trip to grocery store, maybe liquor store, though... #
• 19:05 Just spotted a Zune in the wild. My first one! #
• 01:16 Errands accomplished this evening: picked up tequila for margs and bourbon (almost out); picked up Mario Kart Wii; stopped by Jeff's. #
• 01:18 Spec's excellent liquor manager again recommended a bargain to me: Fina Estampa. God bless him. #
• 01:18 Still perfecting the marg recipe. One day... #
• 01:19 Driving home, saw an Escalade limo with a bubble-blowing machine in the back, leaving a trail of bubbles along Shepherd. Wow. Just... wow. #

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• 14:37 Had brunch @ SoCo Cafe with Becca & friends. Good meatloaf. Too many damn "pretty" people. #
• 17:40 very pleasant personnel @ Austin Bergstrom, inc. security. Nice shops & food too. Can't beat free whiskey samples @ Shannon airport though. #
• 18:12 Decided I should pass on Amy's ice cream and went with Sweet Leaf mint & honey green tea for by airport snack. Feeling good about decision. #
• 18:32 boarding groups and positions? Just assign us some fucking seats and be done with it, Southwest. #
• 19:49 Roughest landing I've had in a while. Thought for a second something had happened. Pleasant flight otherwise... #

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Tweets for Today

• 16:10 Back on US soil; no longer getting screwed over by weak dollar (directly, at least). #
• 16:18 What's with this paying for snacks on AA flights bullshit? I'll starve before I pay $5 for potato chips. #
• 21:17 8 flights down, 2 to go. Back in the great state of Texas. One night layover in Austin before finally returning home. #
• 21:18 Cleared security 6 times. One more to go tomorrow... It's enough to destroy one's faith in humanity. #
• 21:32 In case anyone's curious, Aer Lingus's in-flight entertainment system runs Red Hat. It crashed and I got to watch it reboot. Fascinating. #
• 22:56 First time I've ever slept through beverage service. #

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• 03:50 Leaving for Shannon airport. Goodbye Ireland, i'll miss you; hello home, will be good to he back. . #

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• 04:01 Saw Dingle peninsula, drove up to Ennis via ferry, checked into B&B there for a couple days, then more pubs last night. #
• 04:03 Cliffs of Moher today. And more pubs, of course. I *love* this country. #

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Tweets for Today

• 13:09 Found WiFi, checking in. Flew from Nice to London on Monday, London to Shannon the next day. Currently at the B&B in Dingle. #
• 13:10 Beautiful weather, incredible scenery, lots of Guinness (though not much other variety). Things are good! #
• 14:15 Off for dinner/music/beer at pub, then pub hopping for more music/beer. I'm liking this. #
• 17:32 I *love* this country. Makes me feel very white, but there, I said it, it's out there. #
• 19:31 Apparently in Ireland the Internets have an off switch. I'm supposed to go downstairs at the B&B and flip it when I'm done... #

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