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Has there been any public comment from Jon Ive on Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO?

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Unfinished read’s: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 📚

Started great. But …

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I actually love the new way of Vibe Code assisted apps for Mac. However, one way I measure that …

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Hadn’t visited the Venezuelan Andes since I was a kid (30+ years). Back to Caracas today and …

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Finished reading: Slow Gods by Claire North 📚

Way slower build-up than I expected. One of those …

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Spring break beach portion ends today. Back to the city tonight, and then off the mountains for week …

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Project Hail Mary was great 👎. Specially enjoyable going with my 10yo who also loved the book.

: Epics and Projects Might Break My Goals

I am struggling to connect my halfway-up-the-mountain projects to the actual work my team is doing …

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Procrastinating by contemplating moving to Taskpaper from Noteplan. Why? because I’m an idiot.

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All set up in Tahoe. What they did to the Finder is unbearable. Might revisit Bloom. If Aqua was …

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I moved from Things to Reminders back in December so that I could be ready when the new Apple …

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Will wait for reviews on AeroPress Steel before judging it too hard. But it’s clear that the …

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Currently reading: Slow Gods by Claire North 📚

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Finished reading: For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor 📚

Didn’t get hooked until the last …

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Lucky front porch view.

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Habits 26.02 Checkmate

I went too specific with my habit attempts. I’m pivoting a bit to …

: Habits 26.01 Check New year habits include drinking only water with meals, a weekly fitness challenge, reading past …

: Good Coffee

Funny thing happened on a recent work trip: my Starbucks default tall cappuccino with whole milk was …

: A(I) Time for Month to Month

One of the biggest changes in my computing workflow over the last two years has been the inclusion …

: NotePlan Finally Clicked

I declared task bankruptcy on my Obsidian and Things setup a few months back. In anticipation of the …

: Heaven on Mars

According to Day One, 11 years ago, I went to the movie theater with my 8-month-pregnant wife to …

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Worked around Arc’s lack of profile support using the Velja’s Transform URL …

: Back to Arc with MarkMarks (Ack, Ack)

Switched back to Arc from Helium. In part because my simplification of window management plays …

: Window Mismanagement

I came back from the holidays committed to exercise and eating healthier. But I didn’t expect …

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Finished reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor 📚

Just getting started with the …

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Some days I want to remind myself of its uneventful amazingness, by tagging them as GroundhogDay on …

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Taking a personal day after mostly being on-call during the holidays. The temptation to check …

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Finished reading: Replay by Ken Grimwood 📚

This book was a bit freakish to read. The …

: Pushing the Bleeping Cursor Forward

Have about a dozen drafts staring at me. They all don’t export my thoughts quite right yet. I …

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I really want to love #Obsidian Bases. But the documentation is extremely dry. …

: Brute Force Dilemma

I’m struggling a bit right now. I know one of my teams is underperforming and the main reason …

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This one we all felt at home M 5.9 - 7 km SSW of Quepos, Costa Rica #TemblorCR.

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After 17 years, considering replacing 1Password with Apple Password for personal stuff. Mostly …

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Kegcask Principle: given two Mac apps of roughly the same feature set, the one with brew support …

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Node75 low-profile is going to be my first NuPhy keyboard. Absolutely love the modernist design – …

: Matt Langford New Mythos Theme

Matt Langford, on mattlangford.com:

After years (wow, that happened fast) of crafting themes for …

: Twenty Seven Words Are Enough

Don’t share only your decisions. Don’t always tell people something. Share your …

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I love #obsidian, but sometimes its search/omnisearch drives nuts. I know my naming was dumb, and …

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Of course, as soon as I have a stable workflow with #VoiceInk, I start testing Wispr Flow

: Organic Sentences With Natural Typos

AI autocorrect becomes more pervasive across tools, writing an unassisted message is gonna be the …

: Don't Look Back in Wonder

I never truly believed it, but I produce a lot of content. If you check my 5typos.net blog, there …

: Separating the Art From the Artist

Separating the art from the artists is getting difficult, especially with Apple bending to U.S. …

: Fun Computing

Remember when computers were fun? When you would change Adium alert sounds to sound like the Paris …

: MacBook Cool

Please let the rumored low-end Macbook be an iPhone Air type of Mac. A MacBook in which the …

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Todoist Dictate to add tasks with Ramble looks amazing. I have a baby version of this using Things …

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Wow ‎VoiceInk for iOS I now available. Amazing about how this software category …

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Uhhh the Disk Pro might become Kickstarter impulse buy of the season.

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Really wish Apple would figure out a way to use vanilla eSIMs for Apple Watches in countries without …

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Lost Apple Pencil Pro on flight today. What a klutz. Might have heard a thud when I shoved iPad mini …

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My signing-off message to my IT Ops team: “Happy weekend, and may the server gods have mercy …

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Finally got WiFi to work on a 2015 13 MBP with Omarchy, and spent the afternoon testing it. It does …

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New The Hives album out. My have a great long weekend emails for those in the US might have an extra …

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Whoa. Pebble Time 2 redesign details announced. I’ll be changing my Pebble 2 Duo pre-order to …

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Finished Skeleton Crew with my two kids by my side shouting excitedly at the TV. The rest of the …

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Going all-in to Bookfusion for reading on iPhone, iPad mini, Boox Leaf 2 and (soon) Viwoods AiPaper …

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I’m very excited about the potential Return of the MacBook?. And I enjoyed this take on it.

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Yep. I’m all-in on the Project Hail Mary movie based in the first trailer. …

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I’m 43. Decided that “me resbala”/“it slides off” is my mantra for …

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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!

I’m more excited my new Core 2 Duo and reusing my old Pebble …

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First WWDC I regret missing a meeting for.

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I finished reading: Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds 📚

Good read. However, the ending was a little …

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Daring Fireball: Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74

We sit in the shoulders of giants.

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Letter to Arc members 2025

Well, that’s a bummer.

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What I took from The AeroPress Premium Review, was that the XL tasted similarly to the classic …

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Quiche Reader

Make a dent in your ever-growing list of articles to read later. Save these pages to …

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Has anyone figured out a way to use iPhone Standby mode to show you’re in a meeting? I use my …

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Really curious about these Nothing is making over-ears.

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I need to believe… that in most cases, simply ignoring an obnoxious email is the best way to win an …

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We visited a farm yesterday.

: Entertain Experiments

Give me an efficient routine, and I’ll make a ritual out of it. I love me some routine.

My …

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Dammit. Not only do I love keyboards, but I make myself believe I need side keyboards like the …

: Mind the Joy

This little mantra has served me well over the years. It’s a reminder of being mindful of the …

: The Force is Better Together

I have an unpublished draft post titled: Am I a Star Wars fan anymore?. It was supposed to be an …

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uBlock disabled on Arc at some point this week. Still not seeing the new native ad-blocker settings …

: Smart at Scale Thoughts As organizations grow, they must transition from a “startup mode” of aligned chaos to a …

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I’m a man of simple pleasures.

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My stargazer.

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📺 Paradise was not at all what I expected. In the best of ways. Watched all season 1 in less than a …

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Something, something, separate process discussions with content ones. Need to catch my breath and …

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TIL: I can play Castro podcast to my AirPods while iPhone plays Spotify in CarPlay. Don’t …

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So glad I saved my old iPad mini 6 Moshi iVisor AG Anti-glare Screen Protector. The glass protector …

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Crappity crap. Dropped by remarkable2 pen and now it “writes” even when tip not touching …

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Pre-ordered Black Pebble Core 2 Duo. Couldn’t help myself. Luckily not convinced with the Core …

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4 hour incident on website IDP. There goes our 99.99 SLA.

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📺 Really enjoyed S01 of The Agency with Ana. Also have the soundtrack in repeat. Didn’t know …

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Ok let’s go.

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iMessage is about to loose probably the only 2 users in Costa Rica. For some reason, my messages to …

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Ok, now I just have to give Leader Key a try. Geeky video? mentions Quicksilver? Continuous updates?

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Blot now supports iCloud as a sync folder. There’s no more friction to posting from Obsidian …

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Dear me. Selective text on iOS is frustrating. I manage to select a word in one line, but the exact …

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The Opencore experiment worked, but didn’t produce an usable computer. Let’s see if a …

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Very excited about blot.im iCloud client. If it works, i’ll be able to stop using Maestral. …

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Finished reading: The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 📚

Glad I stuck with it at the end. But …

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The importance of mind maps and concept maps will increase in the AI/LLM age. It’s getting …

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Screegle has become an essential tool in my productivity stack. It enables clean, distraction-free …

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Chorus has become my new default AI tool on the Mac. The way in allows to combine multiple models is …

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Breaking through the clouds after takeoff on today’s SJO-FLL flight.

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Finished reading: Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray 📚

Kept hearing references to this on the Bookworms …

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The Anthropic Economic Index is the start of something. The currently sampling is too small imho, …

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Curious if Raycat’s Hyper Key can replace my Karabiner setup. Still, great feature to add.

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I really appreciate Superhuman. Of course, it just makes a productive cog that is increases …

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Apple Invites is interesting. Will show to my wife to understand if real people™ see value.

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Here we go. Testing posting from Obsidian via Shortcuts.

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Realized that on the Mac, I don’t want to go somewhere special to post updated. I rather have …

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Finished reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚

Read Exhalation a while back, and …

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My goodness. Gemini 2.0 Flash just created an Obsidian Templater in one try that replaced 45min of …

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I consider myself an Obsidian super user 🙄, but this readme allowed to get my main vault overview …

: Lucky in Love

Even when flying alone for work, I arrive way too early at airports. I even check the weight of my …

: Up Next - Things I want to Blog About

Here’s three things I want to blog about over at 5typos.net during January:

  1. Paid …

: Home Sweet Home

I once flew just over our Miami apartment when coming back of a work trip, and instagrammed a photo …

: Good Presentation

Had a presentation go (really?) well today. Followed a mashup of recommendations:

: Writing or Posting Every Day?

Since I don’t consider myself capable of accumulating writing so that I can post multiple days …

: Happy to be Back

Enjoying the micro.one new car smell. It has enough customization to arrange things how I like them …

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Back on micro.blog after two years. Micro.one is too good a value to pass up. I understand why the …

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Resetting my iPhone homescreen for new year. Almost there. This Readwise Reeder Url Scheme to link …

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Decided I’ll stick with daily notes instead of One Big Daily Log file – or whatever …

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My previous assumption that I had the wrong the template for snippets was wrong. For whatever …

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Had messed-up the comments part of my Obsidian Web Clipper Markdown comments section, it was missing …

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Discovered COBI building blocks today thanks to my buddy Gus. Now I getting COBI A-10 Thunderbolt II …

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Went back to Moom after Swift Shift [[../[tidbits]/2024/2024w52 fixed|↯]] seems be causing my Mac to …

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Geeky procrastination day. Added vertical tabs to obsidian (again). Reinstalled SearchLink Services …

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Great Costa Rican Coffee Brewing methods video.

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Moved the Obsidian Vault theme tied to this blog them back to Minimal with the following changes: …

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Trying to remember how I added a black bar to the top of the site. Can’t find the code. This …

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Nice. This is a test

Testing out Obsidian Quick Capture iOS app. Does it append?

It does! Omg. Love …

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Oh man. Was planning to order some Wimp Decaf coffee for my next trip to the US – but they’re …

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Back to the routine. Managed to move Ana’s SIM to eSIM, but since my local CR line is …

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Hard drives, battery packs and now… AirTags

Things I’ve had to control impulse buys when on …

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Finally played some pickleball with mom. I see the fun.

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Finding it hard to not engage with work as everyone arrives from vacation and I start mine.

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Thinking about what affects tides more, earth’s rotation or the moon’s orbit.

Good …

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I’ll take it. Listening to my dad talk about my swimming days with such pride was a very nice …

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Trying out Cometeer coffee and wow! it’s really good.

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Been playing with Remarkable2 keyboard thingy. Hardware is very nice, but software feels limiting. …

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In a post-apocalyptic event, do we as a society revert linearly, say, 500 years? Or do we manage to …

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Playing with mastofeed.org/. Plan is to have my Obsidian Daily Notes – which are my blog’s …

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I’m sure somewhere within Apple, the Shortcuts team has an alpha with a LLM prompt way to …

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Thinking on [[../_scrapyard/2022-02-20 Return to Micro.blog|what to do]] with roberto.mateu.me . …

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Said it before and I’ll say it again: it was a mistake for DayOne to not pursue Publish – …

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Wondering if I could only subscribe to just one, if I’d choose Arc Browser or Raycast Pro. …

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Jezzz. Spotify’s new Desktop UI is painful to me. If the card thing is not working for you, …

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Rollercoaster of a day with new (used) car android head unit and CarPlay. What started as an app …

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Big fan of the Wool books series. Very surprised how much I enjoyed the first 2 episodes of Silo TV …

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Lance Hedrick great mega review Timemore Sculptor 064, 064s, 078, 078s.

Still happy to go with the …

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Thinking again about folder naming. Maybe how to incorporate special symbols like ellipsis to denote …

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Being an app junky, surprised how little interest I have in Blue Sky and others. I’m happy …

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Morning with my forever crush, Afternoon with compatriots. Children had fun on their own, We arrived …

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Sir Sean Connery on his AFI Life Achievement Award:

Memories of working with people who are fun and …

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Abandoned Thin Air. I just couldn’t get into it.

When I miss a few day on my journal and then …

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I got my Boox Leaf 2, and I’ve been playing with it all week. It does have some rough edges. …

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Vacation at end of day. Going all in.

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Decided in the TIMEMORE 064 Kickstarter.

This view by The Real Sprometheus pushed me over: …

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Fifth day of meditation/contemplation. Recommendation by Christian to start with 20min really …

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Attempting to start “meditation” practice yet again. 20min, focus on breathing. After …

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The leaked announcement of Github switching to Teams gets me on the same nostalgic mindset as …

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Open journal is going to be the digital garden. Atomic notes that can grow. None of this social …

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Went all in today, can’t believe I posted about damp towels.

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This page is becoming a microblog of sorts. Not the intent. The idea was longish form post (500 …

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Classic “architecture” questions: what’s the source of truth for the daily posting …

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Giving some thought to the idea of Intermediate Packets on the personal areas. Thinking in terms of: …

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Ok, start of a new experiment. From the clear fail of February’s write everyday comes the OJ, …

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Ok, start of a new experiment. From the clear fail of February’s write everyday comes the OJ, …

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rcmd and Stage Manager. Adding keyboard shortcuts to Stage Manager seems very useful.

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The VARIA VS3 is a nice looking grinder without a crazy price.

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🎥 enjoyed the Raymond and Ray movie.

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Up until now, all my YAML had been short and sweet. Today I had to play around with a long and… …

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Went ahead and signed up for omg.lol – deciding if I should keep micro.blog the activitypub main …

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Was doing all sorts of javascript jujitsu to count characters of documents in Obsidian using …

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I like how following Mastodon accounts from micro.blog improves the feed. But reconsidering just …

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As I see some of the dreamy nighmarish things AI/ML image generation software comes up with, …

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Testing post via Obsidian and new micro.blog mastodon integration.

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Tana seems to want to be way more than a PKM, rather an everything knowledge manager with …

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Wondering if Amazon today announces a Kindle with pen support. Feels like the market has grown …

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Oh crap. The Freewrite Alpha is one of those need generating products. I can hear myself think …

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Finished reading: The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 📚Amazing audiobook. I learned, was entertained …

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I find the Obsidian Influx plugin very intriguing. Haven’t had time to play with it, but will …

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Happy to be perusing How to make the best coffee at home by James Hoffmann 📚

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iOS Kindle app 6.65 adds Share to Kindle ePub support. But it looks like just a wrapper of their …

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It’s a slow motion heartbreak to continue to see SLS struggle. Seems everyone knows the …

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After 4½ years we moved out across the street. Many memories, but excited about now facing north — …

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If you have an Anti-Fog Shower Mirror, give it a clean with toothpaste to remove spots.

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Movie about BlackBerry?() Count me in. The book it’s based on was good, although not …

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Currently listening: The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 📚

Great audiobook. Almost done. Highly …

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The M2 MacBook Air is so thin, that my cheap(ish) Omoton vertical stand doesn’t hold it - even …

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Yep, the Arc Browser hype is real.

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Enjoying Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚. About 100 pages in, finally remembered most of …

: Trying to return

Trying to return to weekly post. Managed to do a few daily make sentences writing session in …

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Hot damn, I love Obsidian + Dataview

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Sweet dreams.

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A few months ago my 4yo jokingly coined Papa Jefe (Dad Boss) as her reply to one of my respect my …

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Finished reading: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚

Took its time to get going, but once it did the …

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Starting: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

Happy this is out!

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Praise the compiler gods, Mac App Store OneDrive version 22.111.0522 is finally Universal. Let us …

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Was about to celebrate Raycast’s new dynamic with placeholders snippets, but just noticed it …

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1st place popular vote and 2nd judges selection for best chocolate bar!!! So proud.

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Super proud of my better half in Costa Rica’s Feria del Chocolate 2022.

Best chocolates …

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Back to Brave after a week with Vivaldi. The customization options Vivaldi is everything and more I …

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Modern CSV 2 Beta is out. M1 versions and a few more goodies. This is my favorite app for dealing …

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Thought that whatever utility gave a background to my Menu Bar had stopped working, but was reminded …

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First screenshot of the Arc Browser I’ve seen. Like it.

Side tabs are a great option multi tab …

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Paste Keyboard looks very useful. Still hoping for a return of Pastebot to iOS though.

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Dear fellow geeks trapped in a corporate job… Mac App Store OneDrive Version 22.099.0508 is still …

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Not sure I’d pick the Logitech MX Mechanical Mini Wireless Keyboard over my Keychron K3, but …

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Currently reading: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton 📚

Took me longer than expected to get into. But …

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Life and work got in the way today, but hoping for a quiet corner over the weekend to enjoy The …

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Currently reading: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell 📚 …

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If you are migrating old(ish) github actions into new repos – remember to check for main vs master …

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Sailing Sunday. Almost no wind, but good for practicing.

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Beyond this point, make your own path.

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Snapchat’s pixy drone looks cool. Hope there’s a no-snapchat use case.

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Reeder we already great. Now it’s brilliant.

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Loving my Apple Studio Display, even the camera is more than fine (when coming from a cheap …

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My favorite barista ☕️

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My unboxing and setup partner

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Finished reading: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford 📚

Good read, but my ignorance of the …

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A combination of a dataset with empty string vs null issue and poorly written case-when-else query …

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Really enjoying my new Keychron K7 with brown switches. Only used it with iPad, but size feels as …

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Apple Studio Display arrived on time, woohoo!!! Box of VESA version is smaller than the regular …

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Currently reading: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford 📚

Overall enjoying it, but taking longer than …

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MIA weekend.

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Happy April 1st. Friendly reminder that all the 2022Q1 projects delivery dates you put in an email …

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This The Verge article about Wyze Cams vulnerability made me remove two v3 cams from my cart. I was …

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Sometimes I wish Apple would name its apps with more personality. It imposible to parse search …

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We’ve come full circle. There’s now support for Markdown in Google Docs.

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Love the idea of apps like FT Edit and The Economist Espresso. Will be trying the Financial Times …

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Back on eesel Chrome plugin with their new Folders feature.

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Great forum thread on Obsidian Hotkeys. Good place to get ideas from.

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Looking Back at Desktop Monitors

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The AfterShokz OpenComm had become unusable because they kept muting themselves in calls. This Apple …

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A great concert is one where you leave liking the band even more #ColdplaySanJose

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Hope tomorrow is Mac Studio and Studio Display review day.

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With Pipe Commands extension RayCast approaches Alfred’s Universal Actions. However, RayCast …

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Debating if I should setup Python3 on Mac or just do a VM Linux for it. I use the scripts …

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Universal Control is pretty amazing.

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Apple Studio Display buying remorse not applying for now, specially seeing how shipping dates have …

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Looks like my weekly macOS restart is due… iCloud Drive freaking out over 75 .md files.

Finder showing upload of file.

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Ordered Studio Display with standard glass and VESA mount adapter. Very excited.

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I was happy for an Apple Event, but didn’t think a new display was going to be on the cards. …

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flowchart.fun now lets you export to markdown. Brilliant. The FF syntax is simpler for quick ideas …

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Finished reading: Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson 📚.

Far from my favorite, but I …

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Feel like crap. 4th member of household to likely fall for omicron (?). Luckily vaccinated with …

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Sadly Hyperkey app (recommended) had an issue with my plugging/unplugging USB-C keyboard and loosing …

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🎥 Finished watching Maixabel last night. Powerful and extremely well acted Spanish movie about a …

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☕️ No press french press: 20gr medium coarse (3 rotations 1Zpresso JX) decaf + 380 ml water. Wait 4 …

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Lots of good folder-naming-system nuggets here. Love this posts with examples.

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I really really miss Superhuman mail app on my Friday inbox sweep. Hopefully the O365 version will …

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Coined a new term for my software dev CapEx reports: Zorp: Zero Outcome Reporting Project. Basically …

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My AeroPress barista.

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Anything that pipes more stuff to RSS sounds good to me. But can’t get my mind around …

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It’s a showdown.

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📺 Weekend binge watching Inventing Anna on Netflix with my Ana. Liking it more than expected. …

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Yikes. Hi everyone! Forgot posts on micro.blog go the common feed. Working on importing from blot – …

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I don’t think the slack replacement with Mastodon experiment is working out. Now I’ll play with the …

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Of course now I have a mishmash of posts between this microblog and the mastodon …

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The ZWILLING Enfinigy Drip coffee maker looks a solid cheaper alternative to the Ratio Six. Looking …

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Really hoping I can get into the Superhuman O365 beta list soon. The slowness of Outlook makes my …

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Watched The Expanse season 6 during the weekend. Held off the final episode today so I can enjoy it …

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Moving posting scripts from drafts to obsidian + shortcuts.

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Figuring out my microblogging sorting now that I have a mastodon instance.

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A lo que vinimos  — what we came for. An expression I always enjoy hearing in real life™.

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🎥 Curious of how accurate, but King Richard was really good.

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Great club day. Trying out new tennis rackets, lunch and pool. Now enjoying a nice Escazú sunset.

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Old quick faithful today: 24gr fine to 240ml. Prismo with paper filter. After a minute ~ 8 …

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Similar recipe as yesterday but on the Clever Dripper — as control.

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Reaching the point of my handwriting improvement project in which I see all that I’m doing wrong. In …

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Testing out the Slow System’s metal dripper. With 22gr Costa Rican dark (medium coarse) and 525ml …

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Doing some numerology for new habits:

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One of those days parenthood has proven challenging.

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Adding Three Jerks Jerky to my wishlist.

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I’ve cut my hand twice over the last week not handling my safety razor carefully enough. That’s …

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Grateful to arrive back in Costa Rica safe and sound. Airport was full, which makes me happy for the …

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You cannot give what you don’t have.

Heard it at mass. Stayed with me.

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Just opened an Airtag 4 pack from Target and 2 were missing. Box looked intact, but in hindsight …

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My Dad surprised me with a reMarkable 2 tablet for Xmas. I’m flipping.

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Just like budget food, budget airlines are less bad internationally.

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📖 Enjoying Mel Brooks All About Me! audiobook so very much.

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Don’t know how I expect to level up my work documentation and processes checklists — if I still …

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The LAGOM mini is yet another very nice looking grinder.

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There’s something about Apple Books on iOS that feels slow. The UX is either laggy or the effects …

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Really into Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Termination Shock. Can’t wait to get back to it every …

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“Kids” got a piano keyboard for Xmas. Going over the options of teaching apps. Currently Simply …

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Can’t believe I didn’t buy the Noir Safari Extension sooner.

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I’m hoping that my preference of writing on the 2018 11in iPad Pro over the 2021 iPad mini is …

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The original Matrix blew my mind and rewired my brain. Which makes The Matrix Resurrection imposible …

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House now emptying out. I’m starting to realize that every year I enjoy the chaos of a full home …

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Minimal viable tasks as a way to reduce perceived costs of starting something and making it more …

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Stopping work when you’re tired and not when everything is done is a luxury in my world view. An …

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With AWS East down, might as well set Teams to auto-respond: working on it and contemplate a life of …

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Tonight I’m sleeping with a device that will measure my blood pressure every 20 minutes. I feel …

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A Catalyst WhatsApp version will be an interesting experiment. The current electron version works …

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If you need ideas for your gratitude journal, be thankful that 8-10cm scorpions are not coming to …

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Like that Keychron is making the M1 Ultra-Light Optical Mouse. This one is not for me, but looking …

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Gave up on buying Spanish ebooks for before stories on El Corte Ingles / Tagus books - the …

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Curious about Sarah Jean Anderson winning recipe on the 2015 World Brewers Cup. Kinda like a …

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Waiting for the iVisor AG Anti-glare Screen Protector for the iPad mini 6. Luckily it seems to be …

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Went down a Stainless Steel Carafe rabbit hole with the Ratio Six Thermal Carafe. However, I might …

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Seems like December will be a good time to get my iPad mini 6. It’s when my screen cover of choice …

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I need to staple Nicholas Bate’s Writing Primer 14 to my forehead.

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Subscribed for a year of Simplify Gmail by Michael Leggett — absolutely worth it just for allowing …

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On a similar note, Ted Lasso’s S02 Christmas episode could be prescription medicine whenever you’re …

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Really liked CODA. Recommended.

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You can temporarily highlight the current row (without changing the selection) by pressing …

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Views of Coronado, Costa Rica.

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Replaced SelfControl with Freedom to help me with better deep work sessions. It’s working great. …

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The worst part of my job involves dealing with Excel as the last mile of data manipulation — instead …

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Great rainforest weekend.

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You could argue “it’s not the right time” given the pandemic and extreme weather of almost any …

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I applaud any team that manages to propel humans to space the same way others celebrate a team …

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Almost ordered a new iMac after playing with it on a store. The screen is beautiful and the design …

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Family pit stop at Mistral Coffee. It was great.

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Pledged for The Slow System by Craighton Berman. Love the design, but specially like the no press …

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James Hoffmann’s book World Atlas Of Coffee is now on Audible. Insta-buy.

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Saving two great shots here of last week’s launch for posterity.

Liftoff of Falcon 9 with GPS III …

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The KEY Coffee Grinder is beautiful. But before you start to wonder if the “home” model of Weber …

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Foo Fighters invites Dave Chappelle to sing Radiohead’s Creep on the reopening of Madison Square …

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Absolutely loved Pixar’s Luca movie.

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Amazing day. We visited KSC for the Falcon 9 GPS III Space Vehicle 05 launch. Long drive, but …

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The Dataview plugin snippet showcase in the Obsidian Forums is a great place to get ideas and level …

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The new(est) Firefox looks very nice. Not sure if it’s the baseline M1 speed, but it also feels …

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Oh boy, the KEY Grinder is beautiful, and crazy expensive.

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It was a great day.

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Arcadia was my hard landing back into comics this weekend. And I’m so happy with the mind bruises it …

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Excellent philosophical video on What is Obsidian.

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Dialed in my dark coffee grind this weekend. Went coarser and saw an improvement: more body and oily …

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Funny story: I knew nothing about the book until Robie — our mini space fanatic — picked it in a …

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Really enjoying Liftoff by Eric Berger about SpaceX early days. Amazing how it doesn’t tell a story …

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Do you wish to die wise or intelligent?

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I’m “just looking”, VR edition.

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They new iMac can also come as a VESA Mount. Please hide my wallet until the iMac Pro appears.

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The LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 2 Trailer is worth seeing. I loved the first season. Animatrix …

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I wish something like stackline was native on macOS.

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My daily driver on the right, and something completely different for the afternoon on the left.

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Playing with Cloudflare Pages. Interesting. Script is installing Hugo for some reason — it’s a …

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Instant subscribe to the Atlas Obscura Podcast.

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Really looking to playing Townscaper this summer.

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In flights

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Go science!

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Doing some thinking around Gary Vaynerchuk’s Document, Don’t Create. Probably need less thinking and …

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First shave with the Twig Razor was amazingly smooth. Same Persona blades I usually use. Will give …

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Nasa’s official Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars landing video is just too …

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Rewatched The Emperor’s New Groove with Ana and kids. Initial groans were paused when I stated it …

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This engadget article on Finder filename sorting is useful to keep around when I’m getting creative …

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Watching LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles with Robie. Fun, but it’s messing with my canon.

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Absolutely love Amazon’s new app icon. Let App icons be app icons. I hope this is the start of a …

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This is going to confuse a whole generation. Still, so good.

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The Speed Cubers is excellent. As a dad and a geek, enjoyed a lot — even teared up at some point.

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This Kettlebell Christmas Commercial really hits the spot — specially since I’ve started doing …

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Nice summary video of 10 Aeropress recipes.

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Really enjoyed Palm Springs take on Groundhog Day. Even Ana liked it.

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This AeroPress recipe will increase steep time to 90s as a result of the experiment

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Sometimes the scientific method just means:

I have no idea of what I’m doing… let me take notes.

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Started using macOS dictation, and it felt good. Can see how it would work in certain workflows.

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I revisit Kenji López-Alt onion slide and dice video once a week it seems.

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Very happy how this recipe turned out.

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Cutting back on Dr. Pepper this year. Club Soda and Seltzer with a shot of lemon are the lifehack …

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Soul’s soundtrack is lock and loaded for the work week. The movie is excellent: enjoyable on the …

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Rewatched Thor Ragnarok last night, and it’s still my favorite MCU movie.

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Wonder Woman 1984 really fell flat the last 1/3 for me.

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Almost lost drone flying into a myst/cloud — ground sensor went crazy. Red wine also didn’t help my …

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If you’re ever around, Café Monteverde has delicious coffee.

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Watched Scott Pilgrim yet again, it really is one of my favorite movies.

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I’m back to playing with Reporter for logging/nudging myself to 2021 resolutions.

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Really enjoying the California Coast Obsidian Theme.

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I’m happy no appreciating Hi Fi audio. Like wines, it can be a very expensive rabbit hole.

In other …

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This unofficial Sublime Text 4 changelog gist is useful to keep an eye out for what’s happening on …

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Couldn’t unlock my Mac with the Apple Watch since WatchOS 7, this Apple Support suggestion fixed it.

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Big Sur update went smoothly — other than kernelmanagerd process going crazy and staying at 80% of …

:

This story about AI camera getting confused with the side ref’s bald head is too funny.

:

Hurricane Eta is hitting up north in Honduras/Nicaragua. Very vulnerable infrastructure.

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📚 Prediction Machines added to library. Hal Varian recommends it, so past history shows I’m going to …

:

I’m very excited about Obsidian.md plugins

To the adventurous souls who have access to 0.9.7 …

:

I’ve always wanted to love Clips, but somehow its cute features always gets in the way. Maybe I’m …

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Had to reinstall Zoom on work Mac. The browser version was making me arrive late to meetings because …

:

I’m even more excited about Apple Silicon‌ Mac’s, and they seem to be coming.

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The Cometeer coffee capsules look like an interesting mix of ideas.

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I’m going down the eGPU rabbit hole… again.

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I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: one of the toughest challenges every parent faces is …

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After 225 days, we’re back home in Costa Rica.

Boarding the Costa Rica flight has been as stressful …

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Everyone is horrified. But I can totally see the use-case for Amazon’s home camera drone.

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Vitamin D Day

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Happy birthday to my forever princess.

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Enjoying a lower temperature (185°F) variation of this recipe from /r/AeroPress/

Inverted, boiling …

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🎥 Dune Official Trailer. I really wish this is delayed so I can watch it on a movie theater.

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💾 Happy that Mimestream is getting some love in HN, it’s amazingly fast. If it had snooze support …

:

The lack of any mention of today’s Apple rumors from the usual suspects tells me there’s some sort …

:

💾 Is It Snappy? is the App equivalent of getting a magnifier as a kid. I’m now measuring the …

:

🎙My Dad reminded me of this great Moth’s story A.E. Hotchner: The Day I Became A Matador

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📚 Really enjoyed How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley. …

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attribute: Sand and waves Saturday

Sand and waves Saturday

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Today’s AeroPress Coffee recipe for 3 strong black cups:

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Phew, feels good to be compliant again. Back to Zoom browser version whenever needed.

May reconsider …

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Learned today that my End of Month Developers/PMs report by projects — based on Github issues so …

:

This Superorganizer interview with Head of Growth at Superhuman was great. Was expecting product …

:

Of course LaunchBar 6.13 was released today. My app FOMO knows no boundaries.

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After almost exactly a year, switching back from Launchbar to Alfred. Sometimes LB feels slow. …

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First supermarket visit in 6 months 😷

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Morning Sunday. Glad you could make it.

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Supported Obsidian development. Switching my work notes to it has been enjoyable and noticeably …

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Vacation begins.

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🎥 Enjoyed Greyhound. Doesn’t rely on suspense tricks to keep you interested and keeps the story …

:

On Wednesday, a 10 year journey reached its destination. I’m happy, sad, relieved, grateful, and …

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These two…

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Between Star Wars Squadrons and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I may need to buy an Xbox. You …

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A few seconds of us on a Saturday

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First non-supermarket coffee of the isolation. Not sure about the grind size yet, need to dial it …

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In preparation for Wednesday, we watched the whole Apollo 11 Documentary. My heart melted with …

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Community Table Read I enjoy this show so much.

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Preparing for the new normal.

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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

📖 Steve …

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📺 Enjoyed the first episode of Trying. Excellent combination of heart a humor.

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GitHub Codespaces looks amazing. Will need to try it, but at least for the shameful JS and Python …

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Switching to YY.MM.MICRO Calendar Versioning (CalVer) for a bunch of personal scripts. Craziness …

:

I don’t know why the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II intrigues me so much.

:

Radiohead - Live in Buenos Aires (March 2009) is the best one posted up till now.

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Nespresso capsules were giving me a headache. Going back to basics.

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Corona has affected my artesanal coffee vibe and reduced me to a push button caffeine pragmatist.

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End to a very long week. No complaints though.

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macOS Password Generator in BASH has saved me a few seconds a day the past few days.

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Nine Inch Nails new album will probably become my WFH soundtrack.

Carfection Land Rover Defender …

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🎥 Loved the Knives Out movie. Smart dialogue, unpredictable plot and overall fun ride.

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Coldplay Tiny Desk Concert is just too good.

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Went to fill up tank and buy some pharmacy stuff next to the old office. Wanted some geographical …

:

The Natalia Lafourcade Tiny Desk Concert is Robie’s new soundtrack on our school commute:

I think he …

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Flatbread/Arepa was added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020. I really thought that we would celebrate this …

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🎙 Enjoyed Guy Kawasaki’s interview of Stephen Wolfram on his podcast. Recommended.

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Robie’s officially started his Skywalker saga movie canon with Star Wars Episode I — The Phantom …

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📺 Started Schitt’s Creek with Ana. I can see it getting great.

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Happy new year. So much to be grateful for. Last week of December arrived too quickly with lots of …

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🚲 We went from “Abu don’t let go!” to “get out of the way!!!”. Great day.

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Speaking of gifts, here’s what Ana and Santa got me for Xmas:

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Brent DiCrescenzo’s original Kid A review on pitchfork.com:

This is an emotional, psychological …

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🎬 Loved Rise of SkyWalker.

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One small step for Bettina taking a pic, one giant leap for my camera app.

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I’m speaking on marvelous accent without the slightest english.

Viktor Frankl

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🎥 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was not what I expected it, but I enjoyed it a lot.

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My girls ❤️.

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Thought I’d have to save for a year go get a Niche Zero grinder, but seems I’d only need half one to …

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Family arrives to Costa Rica on Friday. We show them waterfalls and rainforest on Saturday. And on …

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Yet another reason to visit Disney again and again.

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When you’re a fake handyman, just use longer screws to fix things� Let the wall deal with your …

:

We might need to go back to Disney World sooner than expected.

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When they call you out for being a fake barista…

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📺 Started Watchmen. Yikes.

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🎧 Really enjoying my wired SteelSeries Arctis 1 for work. Super confortable, good enough sound, and …

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Kenji’s exercise and portion control result are a good reminder to reinvent your lifehacks.

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Yes, Shakira’s latest concert is my playlist today. My hips don’t lie.

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No trailer for me, but this is a great movie poster.

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Palmpress looks interesting — and I just found out Jessica Do Tully was on the same Babson …

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Practicing foam for when we have full house over the holidays.

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Loved The Mandalorian Chapter One. It feels even more part of the original trilogy universe than the …

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Dammit Land Rover, why must I love you so?.

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Looks like SteepShot finally got a production sample. That took longer than expected, but great …

:

And it works!!!. Already have encountered a number of bugs, but it’s beta, so no complaining.

Drafts …

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Gillette is making a Heritage-Inspired Double Edge Safety Razor just for selling on Amazon. A bit …

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goddammit Catalina.

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Robie representing Venezuela at his school’s UN Day.

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Good Context on Chile’s Riots

Patricio Navia, on americasquarterly.org:

The bad news is that people …

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Not gonna watch the final trailer again this year. But liking the poster.

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Venezuela’s Water System is Collapsing

Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera, on nytimes.com:

So The …

:

A History of Pizza

Alexander Lee in History Today:

While on a visit to Naples in 1889, King Umberto …

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Caracas Country Club — Where the 0.01% Await Socialism’s Collapse. bloomberg.com

This Google Books …

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First Freddo Cappuccino wasn’t a total disaster. Actually the flavor is quite good. Need to use …

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Didn’t know about the Freddo Espresso or Freddo Cappuccino. Will try to replicate with my AeroPress.

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Really had a laugh with this. Via r/aviation

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Christian had the great idea to write our tech stack in the Slack profile. Here’s my current one: …

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The latest For All Mankind trailer is really good. For sure I’m doing a month of Apple TV+.

This …

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AeroPress Go is out. Probably getting one just to play with it. Although I’ve been making my …

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Probably coming soon, but I really miss the Find my Friends widget in iOS 13.

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The Descript Podcast Studio & Overdub video is all kinds of amazing.

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Casper has created CBD gummies. Hmmm, ok.

:

Seems the AeroPress Go has been pushed to October.

A new online era of The Far Side is coming! Oh …

:

MIA → SJO.

You can have all the content in the world at your fingertips… but you’ll always steal a …

:

At $199.99, even the new LEGO Land Rover Defender is outside my budget.

:

On Friday’s mind sweep is when I miss Google Inbox the most.

:

Seriously considering going with the 40mm small Series 5 to replace my big 42mm Series 3.

Yes… I …

:

Well that’s convenient… Apple Card arrived in the middle of the keynote.

:

Richard Hammond reveals the new Land Rover Defender.

They kept the spirit, and the crazy price. So …

:

Today was a happy day.

:

Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure is by far the best roller coaster I’ve ridden.

:

The force is with us.

:

SJO → MCO

Dorian or not… here we go.

:

When your desktop is a constant reminder of your impending vacation doom #DisneyStarwarsDorian

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I’m reverse engineering our business units chart based on people’s email signatures. The truth is …

:

My procrastinating works in weird ways. Basically 30min aways from finishing a month long project… …

:

Switching my weekly tidbits posts to a Scripting News linkblog format for a while. Of course wasted …

:

Guess who’s having a new subscription — at least for the month of November?

This guy.


JUST …

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This is a good one to close the tests with.

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My princess.

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Brent Simmons, on micro.inessential.com:

Theory: the people you pay attention to have blogs and/or …

:

Listen Up: Why We Can’t Enough of Audiobooks

Let us first retain some historical perspective by …

:

Well, first Apple Card attempt didn’t go as planned →

We are unable to verify your identification …

:

How do you fit two adults and two kids, all with a minor cold, in a queen bed? Very uncomfortably.

:

Robie’s first day in big boy school. He’s not crazy about big changes like these, and remembering my …

:

Testing YAWN (yet another workflow nugget).


Ok, funny new workflow from Desktop:

  1. Comment on Github …

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Now testing the grouped posts script.

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📺 S01 of The Boys done, can’t wait for S02.

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First post using a github issue comment webhook as source.

Looks good.

I waste time… installing …

:

Nice media weekend ↷

🎥 We watched the new Aladdin movie and enjoyed it — especially Bettina.
📺 The …

:

Reached a new weight high (79.1kg!). Getting serious again about fasting and some physical activity. …

:

Having some problems with new lines on the new workflow.

I don’t get Garmin sport watches.

Moved all …

:

✈️ 4 hour delay, but on our way. SJO-FLL.

:

📻 Sting And Shaggy is probably the best NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert of them all.

:

Note to self, A and CNAME records don’t include the domain name.

This learning is worth 2 hours of …

:

13-Year-Old Scientist’s Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids’ Ears

Nora Keegan from Calgary, …

:

This New York-style pizza recipe might get me to start using my baking steel again.

:

📺 Not crazy about Star Trek Discovery season 2. The first one didn’t require much knowledge to have …

:

👽: how was it?
👾: fascinating, especially “the lightning”.
👽: ?
👾: They have these “clouds” made of …

:

I’m going to deep dive into mind mapping next.

🎥 DC movies are more enjoyable when they don’t take …

:

Arrived to the office blasting Eight Days a Week and remembering all my Oslo friends. Thinking about …

:

Strong earthquake in Panama/Costa Rica border, but felt it very clearly in San Jose.

:

📺 On Good Omens, a TV show that makes me want to read the book. Which is not common praise from me.

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ANIMA with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke sounds like fun.

:

If you can’t define the task, maybe you aren’t ready to start it. Doesn’t mean the initial …

:

Funny that Google confirmed the Pixel 4 leak.

The Microsoft Edge weekly Dev channel is out, and it …

:

📺 Just started Chernobyl and it’s hitting me hard. The narrative of the communist bureaucracy being …

:

Two coffee’s too many today. Thought I was getting sick, but of course the ringing in the ears has a …

:

Back on LaunchBar for a while — its clipboard issues appear to have been fixed. The UX just feels …

:

🎥 The Apollo 11 documentary is the first time in 5 years I’d wanted to upgrade my 720p TV. Same …

:

Ass, meet chair

Thord D. Hedengren on tdh.se:

Remember kids, being a writer sucks. It’s like having …

:

Just wasted some fun minutes on the Honest Coffee Guide website. Cool tools, and the Aeropress …

:

A cup of Joe and you’re good to go (Under 6 a day and you’re A-OK)

Professor Elina Hyppönen of the …

:

First cold brew batch of the (rainy) season.

:

A brilliantly funny Apple privacy ad.

:

90% of the workday covered and on track to finish 40% of the tasks I had planned for the day. And it …

:

As if on cue, all my wyze cameras on the newest firmware won’t connect anymore. Factory reset not …

:

Further down the Wyze ecosystem rabbit hole.

:

Explaining to Robie the connection Palpatine has with the Skywalkers, I realize how much of a …

:

Land Serwis builds new Land Rover Series I

Seeking to make a truck better than the original, Land …

:

I’m going to miss the dry season.

:

This Device Free Dinner video by Sesame Street is good advise for everyone.

Seems Drafts latest …

:

Had to switch to Brave for work browser, since Opera appears to be using a new window UI setup which …

:

Co-Working Spacing on Dying Malls

From fastcompany.com:

Putting offices inside shopping centers …

:

Another delicious Blue Bottle Macchiato. It was too cold for my father in law, but perfect temp for …

:

Tried a Dunkin cappuccino this morning and it was not… terrible. It should actually worry Starbucks …

:

Watched Star Wars Episode IX Teaser. Excited. Still undecided if I’ll watch any of the trailers — my …

:

This was a damn good macchiato.

:

SJO → ATL → DCA.

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There’s no one thing

DHH at signalvnoise.com:

As long as you’re stuck on a quest for that one …

:

Worked from home and this hipster borrowed my glasses. Of course he rocks them much more than me.

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🍿 How to Talk to Girls at Parties is clearly from the Neil Gaiman universe, but at times it doesn’t …

:

Another not quite Aeropress coffee thingy, the Twist Press.

:

Moving my microblog to r.mateu.me, which is hosted on blot.im. I’ve been a micro.blog supporter …

: [The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/move/heart-health-swimming-running-exercise.html "The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner - The New York Times")

From nytimes.com:

In theory, those differences should allow blood to move from and back to the …

:

Leaning to not upgrading my AirPods yet. I use them a lot, but for short times, so the terrible …

:

Happily surprised by LEGO Movie 2. Entertaining but also good easily-digested moral learning in the …

:

Aeropress short with a touch of milk foam.

Aeropress short with a touch of milk foam.

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Recommending a podcast between different player apps is an unnecessary frustrating experience …

:

Friday morning swim. 1300mts today, halfway there.

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American Airlines suspends service to Venezuela. This worries me terribly. There’s still Copa, but …

:

Broke 1000mts in swim. That’s the minimal viable training distance for me to consider time in a pool …

:

A fun video on the basics of coffee.

Will test this aeropress recipe soon.

Ikea’s Sonos-powered …

:

Robie, Bettina

Highlight of the day, two smiling faces when being picked up from the kinder.

:

The Into the Spider-Verse Animator Commentary is something I plan to have a romantic date to in …

:

I’m going to take CheapAir’s recommendation of buying plane tickets 76 days before the flight to …

:

Seriously considering getting the Logitech Crayon.

Edit: Or not. It doesn’t work with the 10.5 Pro.

:

Vampire Weekends cover of Spiderman’s Sunflower is so good.

:

Managed to swim twice this week. Deliciously tired. Hope to keep it up the rest of the year.

:

Fun video into the world of high-end coffee.

:

The new AirPods are an unremarkable update from the description. Still getting them.

:

First reaction to new iPads is to follow through with my iPad mini threat and get one ASAP (64Gb …

:

Do not disturb the Robertos.

:

And just like that, I know I’m probably getting a new coffee toy next month from the looks of the …

:

The Delter Coffee looks a more complicated AeroPress. Intrigued, but far from convinced.

:

Sad that Waffle.io is closing. It’s a great tool with better features than the default Github ones.

:

Such a good ad.

:

WWDC Monkey

I got the monkey invite. Really think it’s going to be a big year and kinda sad I again decided not …

:

As a dad, David Nanian’s eulogy to his, is something to strive for:

And so we’re here today to …

:

Spotify’s complaint against Apple in the EU does sound a lot like Apple. Just like with the battery …

:

Migrating microblog from micro.blog to blot.im. Will write more about it, but main reason is cost. …

:

Family and friends in Venezuela without power for close to 50 hours. Most hospitals without backup …

:

I was also surprised by Shawn Blanc’s switch to an unhipster drip machine. But have to agree with …

:

Everyone’s a critic, but I think the never released Pebble Time 2 still looks better than the new …

:

Visited my favorite Costa Rican coffee toaster today. Hacienda Real peaberry has been the daily bean …

:

Watching The Umbrella Academy yesterday and a David Gray song came up. The flashbacks to his White …

:

Can’t wait to add The Wandering Earth to my Netflix list.

:

I always develop an interest in projectile physics and spatial awareness when the kids get the …

:

Since December I’ve been working very hard on measuring developer output, software CapEx, and …

:

Domain names are like battery packs, make it cheap enough and I can always self-justify one. Luckily …

:

Ordering coffee at 130 degrees in Starbucks is the hipster idiom that I’m least ashamed to say out …

:

I have welcomed emojis into my heart and keyboard. I held out long enough ;) but we lost the war, …

:

I’m back on my quarterly install of Google’s Gboard keyboard.

:

Ran across Jacoby Young’s Less, More, and None life priority list again. His whole site is such an …

:

A few seconds before this photo, Bettina grabbed my face, turned it on the side, and planted a big …

:

In 2003 I visited my first Apple Store, in Cambridge, MA. I was beyond excited. Little did I know …

:

Yesterday we celebrated Ana’s birthday. My better half has given me two better wholes — each as …

:

This week Robie decided we had to wear (clean) masks for the bedtime story… and last night Bettina …

:

Dave Winer:

If it doesn’t have a feed it isn’t a podcast.

I subscribe to Marco Arment’s theorem: …

:

For 2019 we’re trying to have better controls of our expenses at home. After trying a few Apps, we …

:

Just getting started, but Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke has me glued to the first chapter. A few …

:

Mario Kart for iPhone delay could also be related to the rumored game subscription service Apple is …

:

From an IT perspective ChromeOS devices are a dream come true. But going as far as offering …

:

What a week. Amazing how interests trumped ideology on my dislike towards those that are helping …

:

After 11 years of use (10 of them paid), I’m taking a break from Dropbox. It’s still the best cloud …

:

If the rumored iPad mini is the insides of a 2018 iPad 9.7 in a mini frame with Pencil support, sign …

:

Learning about habit stacking has been a surprisingly powerful tool. It’s not a super power — …

:

Enjoyed First Man 📺. The claustrophobic scenes from inside the ships were enlightening. Any movie …

:

Hmmm, our next generation anti-virus at work might be getting a bit overzealous. Either that, or …

:

I don’t remember any of my Norwegian friends so militant about the matpakke lunch, but it was a …

:

Absolutely best way to finish the year. Amazingly we saw the whole movie — and of course I loved it. …

:

A very special Aruba Christmas

:

The fact there’s no XR leather case from Apple leaves little doubt that the iPhone XR is the cheap …

:

Vacation mode dock enabled.

:

The new Men In Black trailer looks very fun. Sadly the new Hellboy trailer felt off. Wish it was the …

:

Must remember that a tall Starbuck’s flat white has two shots of espresso (ristretto actually). …

:

When becoming a sofa is the highlight of a fun weekend.

:

Robie turned 3 today, and of course Ana organized an amazing birthday party. His whole afternoon …

:

Microsoft confirms Edge is moving to Chromium sometime next year. I understand the reasoning and …

:

Of course Mozilla has to say that giving up on EdgeHTML is bad, but they are still right. I …

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With T-Mobile, seems all major US carriers will support eSIM by years end. Gather around kids, let …

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The Verge’s Better Worlds: a science fiction project about hope sounds — and looks — like a breath …

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Land Rover Defender Spied Flaunting Its New Body In The U.K.

I’ll be the grumpy old man… what in the …

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A tip for all Uber drivers: play your local jazz radio station at a reasonable low volume, and the …

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I’d rather buy the digital download version of Firefly (again) than watch it free on Facebook.

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Zcash (ZEC) is launching on Coinbase Pro. I have a special appreciation for Zcash as a project — it …

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Had lunch with my yellow princess.

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On Sundays we go out. Otherwise these two (plus mom) get encierro — aka cabin fever.

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Having some technical issues. A cache somewhere needs to be cleared.

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After lunch cappuccino with the Prismo AeroPress thingy. It was made out of need — not play — and I …

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Robie and Ana painted a plane, and Bettina tried to paint everything.

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We made a killer entrecôte today.

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Another gift coffee. Very chocolatey. Trying to see if I can tell the difference between the …

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Forgot to post this in the morning: trying a new Salvadorian medium roast I got as a gift. It’s …

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El más feliz de los 37 cumpleaños. Muy agradecido por los mensajes.

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Sugar and Star Wars. My wife so gets me.

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Cleaning up my 4 year old account on Ana’s MacBook Pro. Still takes all of my willpower to click …

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How things change, I had completely forgotten macOS Mojave come out tomorrow. I remember loosing …

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Not the first time Seth Godin inspires me, but looking as his short posts, I’m going to challenge …

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My iPhone XS arrived!!! to Miami. Now I just need to patiently wait a few weeks to visit and pick …

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Really excited to start listening to Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda.

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For the Love of Spock is a solid documentary. A cultural icon played by a good person with normal …

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For the Love of Spock is a solid documentary. A cultural icon played by a good person with normal …

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Don’t really care who Twitter blocks or not — but want to vote with my clicks my frustration over …

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Sous vide cold brew experiment this morning with my favorite barista helper.

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Done with The Expanse S01 — great book and equally good show. Now onto Westworld S02.

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Picked up some freshly roasted coffee to try later today.

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Enjoyed Avengers: Infinity Stone a lot more than expected. Really surprised how well they balanced a …

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Saw Molly’s Game over the weekend with Ana and liked it. It’s the least Sorkin Sorkin movie I …

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HBO’s Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind is an incredibly moving documentary. It’s also so well put …

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Love Notes to Newton is another tangential documentary/film that will be fun to see for a different …

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Really looking forward to this General Magic documentary. Always thought it was more of an …

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Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been using my personal MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016) as my daily …

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Me maneja.

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Trying to get back into comics. Starting with Vinland Saga, which I abandoned last year because of …

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Saw Isle of Dogs with Robie and The Post with Ana today. Enjoyed both. Wes Anderson’s formula works …

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minibarista

Fathers day was really great for my coffee hobby.

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Happiest Father’s Day with this troupe of cousins.

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Todos los días pienso en lo bueno que es el antiguo “Roberto padre” para tratar de hacer el nuevo …

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In its current state, iOS 12 Siri Shortcuts are a modern version of the one button mouse. Forcing …

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After the birth of my children — and tied with my wedding — this is the happiest day of my life. …

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Great article by Ernie Smith on the history of MacOS X interface skins for Windows. I wasted so much …

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Not crazy about the new icon, but Tweetbot for Mac could put an 8-bit clown as an icon and I’d still …

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We heart you @anitamarcela.

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Giving 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson a try. Was recommended by my …

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Running SublimeText on ChromeOS sounds very interesting to me. And the cost of hardware to develop …

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When you had a shitty day, the iOS keyboard sucks at journaling. I don’t mean ducking you piece of …

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Arrested Development can do no wrong, but the style of Season 4 required a bit of extra effort. The …

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Trying new SousVide burgers recipe: still main rule is to manage meat as little as possible.

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I’m a sucker for launch events, and Opera holds a special place in my heart. Excited about tonight’s …

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Star Wars Resistance will be anime inspired, with WWII aircraft and fighter pilots influences. Can’t …

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Saw HBO´s Andre the Giant documentary. You could infer his smarts from his actions — same with his …

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minibarista

Got a mini-barista to help me with my cold brew today — although he kept calling it cake.

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No to sex on roundabouts, Norway tells high school graduates.

Said it before… I so miss Oslo …

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This is a great summary post on Gitflow by Luka Kerr.

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It’s that time of the week when macOS decides it’s not going to display any of my Subtile Text …

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Fine-tuning microblog posting from the blog. Seems I alienated the one reader of the blog with the …

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Giving up on Artemis by Andy Weir. After 100 pages I’m still not enjoying it. Feels a bit too …

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Cal Newport writes:

When you run your own site, reality is harsher. If people don’t truly care …

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I’m struggling deciding how and where to microblog. Which is kind of stupid since I’d already setup …

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My dad’s steak adobo recipe:

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I’m still bullish on Soylent because of its minimalist concept: if you’re not going to have a great …

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La Paz Waterfall Gardens: About 90 min from our house in Escazú. As with most Costa Rica touristy …

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Two Roberto’s, one map. Hilarity ensues.

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Current cold brew coffee recipe:

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Thought I was ser for life with my Goruck GR1 backpack and my Waterfield Bolt Briefcase… but they …

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Fun end of weekend con Aba.

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Surprised I didn’t know about the Marta File Manager for macOS before. Extremely fast and clean. …

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Browsery, Barnes & Noble’s answer to Goodreads seems very interesting. Giving a few weeks try. …

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1Password 7 Beta for Macis out. I’m traveling, so I can’t mess with my production setup. But they …

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Saw Annihilation tonight. Good movie, but not as mind blown as I expected to be — as Arrival did. …

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No smart connector on new base iPad. The keyboard is Tim Cook’s two button mouse.

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Costa Rica has pushed me to be an accidental coffee snob. Even an average bean gives a delicious …

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Multi-media.

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Suddenly feel less bad about taking 3 months to finish Oathbringer 📚.

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Owner of at least two Roberto Mateu’s hearts. (Co-owner with Amelia @anamateu actually)

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First time in the big boy seat

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Would love a comparison between Studio Neat’s upcoming Mark One and Baron Fig’s Squire.

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I have to agree out of principle… and justifying my eternal ToDo throughout my life 🔗 Why Rotating …

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Going to give Jellies a try. YouTube Kid’s ad-supported model is starting to show more and more when …

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No le pongamos el chupón para que no se duerma….

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However, from the HNews thread on digg reader, Winds 2.0 app looks interesting (although electron… …

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Jason Fried makes the case (unknowingly?) for micro.blog no follower info model by-design.

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Sad that digg reader is shutting down. I’m a happy Feed Wrangler user, but the demise of RSS …

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For DRM-free audiobooks, Bound is my favorite iOS app. As other apps have become more sticky, I’ve …

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A good bad day at work. Encountered ( found gives me too much credit) a blocker bug, and had to …

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Saturday trip stop.

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We saw Wonder today. It’s a feel good movie that touches all the buttons. But it does makes you …

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Been enjoying the Scribd service, and will probably finish Sapiens before it’s not available anymore …

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Wish TunnelBear team the best in joining McAfee. But would feel uncomfortable if it were 1Password. …

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I present both the most complex engineering project I’ve embarked upon and the longest instructions …

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YouTube TV doesn’t let me cancel from Safari… which would be fine, if it hadn’t let me subscribe …

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After planning to go to Playa Mantas we ended up in Playa Herradura. Fun day with less fun …

:

Excited about Legion Season 2. The first season was probably my favorite show of 2017.

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Had to rollback a release in production. Bummed after a weekend of testing. You can have your …

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If I didn’t check the site already a few times a day, the new Techmeme Ride Home podcast would be a …

:

Josh Comeau’s webpage, Let’s Learn About Waveforms, deserves many awards.

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The Angle is a nice looking straight razor. However, not sure I’d move away from my safety razor.

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Wesley Moore: A Year Away From Mac OS

I spent less than a week on a Chromebox as an experiment and …

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Beach day.

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The Death of Stalin wasn’t sitcom funny, it was actually painfully entertaining.

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This iPad appears broken.

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RAMS, about legendary German designer Dieter Rams — by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, …

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Enjoyed MacSparky’s Blogging Workflow:

Move the Cursor from Left to Right

At times I forget that …

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Google and HTTP:

The web is a social agreement not to break things. It’s served us for 25 years. I …

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Today’s morning pomodoros soundtrack 🎵 is Stillness by Heron.

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I don’t regret pushing my company to Slack last year. But in many cases, it creates as many problems …

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Great Vox video on app addictiveness. I do remember pull to refresh in Tweetie more fondly and less …

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[…] Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently.

Wow. Will work first …

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Apple TV hard reset was mostly painless. Sadly FetchTV crashes on launch (long live Fetch!). Moving …

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Well, movie night got off to a fun start. Stuck in a loop with Apple TV and recovery mode.

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Finally a lower priced Nest Aware plan ($5 a month, 3$ additional camera). My Nest wishlist from two …

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Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

A member of the cleaning staff— a young …

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Enjoyed this scientifically anecdotal comparison of Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze. Costa Rica …

:

Here’s hoping that changing the iBooks name to Books, is mostly related to an upcoming laptopesque …

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Con mi otra consentida.

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This Community mini reunion was very enjoyable..

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En la aventura actual no tenemos selfies sin enanos sonrientes, juguetes desordenados y ojeras sin …

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Scribd’s new unlimited* books and audiobooks subscription is very compelling.

Going to check it out. …

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The idea of text to speech is always compelling, but I haven’t been able to use it consistently. …

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By the by, I’m loving my 4 WyzeCam’s. Probably being streamed live in a bunch of Chinese websites …

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Every time I read a company is rejoining its parent, I hear the same sharpening of the knife used …

:

Simple Print is an web article cleanup and PDF that almost makes wanna print all articles. This …

:

Blade Runner 2049. WOW, just wow. Love it when regardless of if it’s the story I wanted to see, you …

:

PencilSnap for Apple Pencil

Added to wishlist.

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Walmart and Rakuten take on Amazon with Kobo e-reader alliance

Happy about this. Kobo makes great …

:

🔗 20 Things I Learned From Becoming Warren Buffett

Gotta see that documentary.

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If you’d ever cleaned a car seat or stroller, you could never support space travel for children. We …

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Saw Atomic Blonde last night. Enjoyed it. Wasn’t familiar with the comic, but the influence in style …

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Giving Alfred a try again. Spotlight works, but I miss a bit more power. Even suffering relearning …

:

Microsoft says security fixes will noticeably slow older PCs

If aliens wanted to affect our global …

:

Macdrifter carefully explains how blogs are dead or dying, and he’s also not into newsletters.

:

Brent Simmons is going to post more on micro.blog, and so am I.

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Intel’s KPTI flaw is really bad, but be ready to extreme simplifications. No 30% slowdown for most …

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“wake up early” is an eternal failed resolution my life. Trying an alternative this year:

Realize …

:

Interesting HN comments on Wired’s Kindle piece. Many only use Kindle for fiction and print books …

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Finally saw The Last Jedi. Spoiler free thoughts: 1. Glad I only watched the first trailer. 2. Rogue …

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Found my AirPods.

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Excellent point:

These new apps may feel less like Mac apps, but I’d bet good money they’ll run …

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Not doing so great on the non-fiction reading these past few months. About to finish Shoe Dog, by …

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Giving the default macOS Spotlight a try for a few days. LaunchBar has felt slow in the last few …

:

Also, when“reputable” futures markets appear, the speculation will work both ways. Contributing to a …

:

Without a doubt cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the future. But I don’t see the corresponding …

:

Gemini PDA: 20 Years On, Meet The All New Psion Series 5

I want this… so much.

:

Head to head testing between Nest and Wyze cam starts now. Curious if the 10x price difference is …

:

RememBear looks like a solid password manager from the TunnelBear people. Not moving away from …

:

The best laptop ever made

Apple has made many great laptops, but the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro …

:

Winter is coming. However, if you do order an ark of the covenant, we are able to find it.

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Saw Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Amazing effects but overall editing gave me a …

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Exile’s Kiss You All Over is one my favorite new discoveries of the Red Oaks soundtrack.

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I’ve switched my writing (as if) to Ulysses, but IA Writter 5 is a very clean update. Looking …

:

Polyfact > The best way to browse Reddit’s /r/todayilearned/

Just wasted a good 10 min on this …

:

CrossOver for ChromeOS (via android) is a very intriguing idea.

:

This open letter to Apple regarding foreign taxes is the perfect example of why Scott Galloway says …

:

Been trying to send money to Costa Rica for almost a week… so I welcome our upcoming Apple Pay for …

:

Excited for Firefox 57 on the desktop and Firefox 10.0 on iOS coming next week.

:

Taking a break from Sci-Fi, started The Nix by Nathan Hill last night.

:

Today while playing Robie told me Papi, cell aquí and pointed to the floor so I’d put the iPhone …

:

Some app updates make me hungry.

:

Giving up on New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Usually love his books, but this is a mess of a …

:

The building blocks of Saturday.

:

Embracing Friday.

:

No iPhone X for me. Rational reason is cost saving, but there’s something else. I struggle with …

:

Finished Red Oaks last night. Probable the best summer tv show I’ve seen. Enjoyed it a lot, and it …

:

In iOS 11, you can customize how the Notes app works when it’s triggered from Control Center

News …

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Read-It-Never: Instapaper and therapeutic self-delusion carefultech.net/2017/11/r…

Ouch — the it …

:

Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments redditfavorites.com

From a quick glance, …

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3 episodes in, and Red Oaks may be my favorite TV Show this year.

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Derretido.

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We’re ok. No power right now. Cell phone signal intermittent. Building dancing like the Macarena but …

:

First day of class.

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Palm #eclipse2017 Shadows

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Flying from SJO to Miami. Empty seat next to me, but not looking good. At least there’s not carry-on …

:

Finally playing with the micro.blog app. Deciding on subdomain for mateu.me.

:

There must be a German word for being lucky in love but my bag always leaving the airplane last …

:

Facial ID that requires you to mouth a password — using micro expressions — sounds like iPhone 8 …

:

Baby Driver is a fun and exciting ride with a soundtrack that has so much character, it’s borderline …

:

The new Hulu AppleTV app is so bad, it finally pushed us to cancel subscription (and we do watch a …

:

After watching a couple of times, I still tear-up with this ad:

:

OS Developer Beta’s are the marshmallow test for grownup geeks.

:

Cook by numbers with Father’s Day gifts.

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Didn’t know that Github could render CSVs, this could be useful. Link

:

Finally saw Logan last night. Still digesting, but pretty sure it’s the best superhero movie I’ve …

:

Mañana de monos, mapaches y pisotes.

:

This is Ground Control to Roberto Andrés…

:

My first tweet had a misspelling, so my first mic should maybe do too? write?

:

Posted my quick notes for the books I read over winter. Moved from a 5 starts rating scale to a …

:

En el poco tiempo libre que no tienen, el Foro Penal Vzlano puede ir escogiendo las plazas en todo …

:

The Verily Smartwatch (from Alphabet) looks like a Pebble, [battery] lasts like a Pebble, and quacks …

:

Things 3 beta is super clean. The one missing feature that made me stop using it is included (won’t …

:

Waiting for a calm and peaceful moment tonight to watch The Last Jedi teaser trailer. Excited.

:

Hadn’t noticed until reading reviews about Grand Amiral Thrawn new novel that it become obvious how …

:

The Star Wars Battlefront II Teaser looks amazing. Video was pulled down.

:

Guys night-in.

:

Wow, the first two episodes of Legion are fantastic. Hooked.

:

Never too late to learn the value of sleeping on it.

:

Up till 3am fighting with iptables in CentOS and Docker because “it was forcing port :8080”. Today …

:

The end of the rainbow is… a parking in Brickell.

:

Strange suspicion that some of my devs call me RO not because of my name, but because of my Read …

:

Finally saw Arrival. As great as everyone said it was.

:

What’s up, doc?

:

Sometimes when he’s really bored, I get a charity kiss.

:

Finally saw Rogue One. My current favorite Star Wars movie of the XXI century.

:

I’m ready to stop complaining about the new MacBook Pro, and pay for the next iCloud Drive with …

:

Mi timeline es un espejo traducido de las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela en el 2012 y 2013. …

:

My dear American friends: the next few years would be painful, but you’ll come out better on the …

:

Hora que los Cubs se sienten a dialogar.

:

In a highly ironic twist of fate, Mac users now in the same position as Apple // users… realizing …

:

I haven’t looked down at my keyboard in years… and the Touch Bar hasn’t yet provided a reason. This …

:

I know multitasking is bad, but the Touch Bar doesn’t seem compatible with my multitask habit.

:

People outside the US watching the #AppleEvent on their Hackintoshes are pointing and laughing right …

:

If Mr Robot had come out in 2006, you’d see a lot more Mac’s. Can’t recall the last one I saw… Mac …

:

A quienes le encanta criticar a la MUD por “lentos” nunca han estado en una reunión de condominio.

:

Una “cucharadita” de #Toddy en el café frío señala el próximo inicio del fin de semana.

:

“Individual deals, with individual countries”. #Trumpxit

:

Still. The democratic route is the only one that offers the middle ground a path. But the temptation …

:

#Turkey same conflicted feelings as Venezuela’s coup: it’s hard to defend the institution, when the …

:

I have never seen an A.I. accidentally put the ice cream in the fridge instead of the freezer.

I …

:

A while back I decided to only allow myself to feel anxiety from politics in Venezuela. #Brexit has …

:

The Nice Guys is the spiritual successor to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Both among my favorite movies now.

:

Quick! _____ :

  1. Perform open heart surgery
  2. Shoot the bad guy behind her
  3. Peel that hard boiled egg …

:

Happy May 17th to my Norwegian friends! 🇳🇴

#skål

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Reliable: • Software: Hard • Demos: Harder • Debugging: Hardest • Backups: Hardly

:

I know I’m tired when: I have to say the word in spanglish to myself so I can spell it correctly.

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Venezuelan food truck (I’m basically doing a cheat year).

:

Release days are like greek weddings… lots of drama lead up to it, and there’s one movie too many.

: On the multifaceted characteristics of cold showers

Cold showers are terrible. Scratch that, cold showers are an abomination. Why did we leave our …

:

Batido Naranja Cambur / Orange Banana Smoothie 2 Frozen Bananas 1 cup of Orange Juice 1/4 Cup of …

:

La adversidad obligó a la MUD a crear una plataforma tecnológica para comunicarse. Y comenzaron en …

:

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” - Blaise Pascal

:

Saw an iPad Pro today… if the Apps come, this will be great.

:

Really wanted a Will McAvoy from The Newsroom character: a flawed but deep-down lovable Steve — at …

:

Was expecting Sorkin to play with my feelings more. This Jobs you may admire, but almost certainly …

:

Steve Jobs movie is to biographical Jobs, what the West Wing was to the Clinton Administration.

:

Oh, and The Martian is great. ~80% Book Great — which is really pretty good.

:

Apple Watch really needs a Movie Mode, or a DND that won’t light up screen unless touched. Hate …

:

I would totally get wireless audio speakers in my eardrums. #takemymoneymadscientist

:

Evidence that liquid water flows in Mars AND videos showing iPhone 6s may be water resistant on the …

:

The world is filled with haters… luckily most are buyers first.

:

Don’t feel left out. Even if you don’t own any stocks open your default stocks app and join the …

:

The UX for Apple Siri is framed as talking with a servant, while Google Now comes across more like a …

:

Have a few high volume items that’s easy for people to print (cases, toys, …), and maybe a catalog …

:

There seems to be an American Rugby game on TV.

:

But on UI/UX, MacOS is lagging: Window Mgmt, App Launching and Mgmt (the Dock), File Mgmt.

No “this …

:

The old technological superiority Mac users used to have over Windows is gone. That’s ok, all cars …

:

Loved Interstellar, but don’t know if IMAX is a must. Space scenes are amazing, but got dizzy with …

:

I admire those that treat their body as a temple.

I wonder if any of them admire my high-end food …

:

I just wrote my full ALL CAPS sentence in a work email.

#theshame

:

Just nailed an emergency status update and then…

CFO: “You guys are on top of all issues, which …

:

A year ago eCommerce End-to-End testing was an abstract concept.

Today, it’s my abstract reality.

:

Crunch time: when color coded status updates fly out the window and every red/yellow item becomes an …

:

There’s either going to be an #iCloudgate this week, or a bunch of articles will need to be batch …

:

Just found out my name is an anagram for Atom Burro Tee.

Struggling with the transcendent …

:

“Your Customer Success Manager will be joining us in the call”… and I turn off the webcam so I can …

:

Continuously amazed how much supply chain management relies in simple FTP for transactions.

:

something is broken when you need to work from home because you have too much stuff to get done.

:

If the world today was on a Risk game board… I’d think someone was messing with the secret mission …

:

Got a ticket because I used the wrong app to pay for parking spot.

A sign of the times I guess.

:

¡¡¡PURA VIDA!!!

:

Cheap mexican + 2 candy bags in movie = organic container of CH₄ that leaks.

#globalwarming

:

“Steve Jobs is an obsessive maniac and even he doesn’t make us pay him money to put our games on his …

:

Norway folk, need to find the fastest way to get a police certificate for when I lived there.

Any …

:

If email is not work™ then I’m unemployed.

:

Software is always documented. If original developer doesn’t do it… some poor sucker will have to do …

:

‘Her’ is to the singularity what ‘Lost in Translation’ is to culture shock.

In so many ways the same …

:

The gentleman’s book is full of corollaries in the “Ladies that can’t lift their carry-on” chapter. …

:

La emoción por protestas disruptivas en sitios fáciles y convenientes, es eco de las políticas …

:

Cuestiono el valor estratégico de trancar Caurimare y Las Mercedes. No hay universidades ni …

:

Queridos estudiantes, mi corazón está con uds. Pero no mi cerebro ¿que coño están haciendo?

:

If 3D printed guns are the future of weapons… wars will be over soon.

“Error: MK47.3d couldn’t be …

:

I could curse at printers again… or just RT a few past ones to save time.

Sorry you have to read …

:

Many reasons why, but one nice bonus is that Cmd-Shift-D is now mapped to Dropbox folder everywhere; …

:

When a Salad Dressing exhales: ⓐ It’s past the expiration date. ⓑ Judging your sad attempt at a …

:

For those that used FB for years, a sort of reboot would be useful: Call it “Friend Archive”, and …

:

Facebook has tried to achieve this with algorithms, but IMHO, it hasn’t been successful.

A Like for …

:

Really think Facebook needs to deal with social network crud: I don’t have the same friends & …

:

El “un millón de gracias” ya no alcanza ni para un favorcito de pena baja.

:

CCS → SJU → CCS

Good meetings and lots of burgers.

:

CCS → MIA.

Interview time (and other meetings).

:

No #PebbleSteel for me, but very excited about the upcoming appstore.

:

I’m so high from cold-medicine that I might see Santa AND Baby Jesus later.

It’s going to be the …

:

If I had a penny for every time I wash my Apple headphones with my pants… I’d still be short of the …

:

If you just assume every tweet/email/chat has a :) at the end, the web becomes a better place.

:

Million dollar idea: tequila that makes you sneeze afterwards.

I’m calling it “Shot & Splat”

:

I think it’s great that Apple recognizes Mandela on the frontpage. But it feels marketing(ish) since …

:

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen

#QueNadaTeDetenga

:

Decibel Strangle: pushing your office chair towards Computer B (in another desk), with headphones …

:

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ …

:

aún #SinLuz en Alto Hatillo a las 7:30am.

:

Ceteris paribus, I don’t see either of these happening:

  1. Being able to repay any future debt. …

:

Es como hacer una huelga de hambre comiendo tequeños, pero condenando a los productores de harina y …

:

I currently use the following naming convention folders:

[tag] Client Project YYYY-MM [web] ACME …

:

I’m going to give Tags a try in Mavericks. At least for graphics/mockups a single [images] folder …

:

Over the last year my work emails have become very detailed. Not so much for the present, but as …

:

Crap. Hard crash, now MacBook Air shows boot-screen and then shuts down. Cloning SSD from Recovery …

:

Crazy idea: adopt car year pricing model. YourApp™ 2013 sold full price initially, then discount …

:

Pricing is always hard; but exposure to: mega markets, global competition and discoverability …

:

App Store operators are concentrating on volume, so complexities like paid upgrades are not desired. …

:

But low prices in digital goods are perceived differently by consumers. Apps now are either …

:

Software prices in App Store’s need a readjustment. The need to stand-out in crowded virtual shelf …

:

Crap, no unlocked 5s in online US Store.

Good night then!

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The question in my mind the next 90 minutes: iPhone 5S, 5C, or 5U? where U stands for used.

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Las distorsiones económicas actuales en Venezuela son tan tectónicas, que aunque emigres, compras …

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More accurately, we talked a bit… and I made a stupid joke about her job that she still remembered …

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bien pues, “saboteo”. pero exigimos la cabeza del general que se dejó.

¿o es que el imperio no hace …

:

Maybe that’s why time travelers from the future don’t visit: slow Internet.

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Broadband went down mid-morning and had to work tethered at 3G/EDGE the rest of the day.

It was …

:

I’d complain that the World War Z movie ruined a perfectly good book… but they basically just used …

:

El que nunca le dijo “mami” a una maestra, que tire la primera pene… digo, piedra.

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Cuando el ventilador de techo suena… pila.

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Managed #inboxzero.

In other news: my reply and follow-up labels are reporting significant traffic — …

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RIO » PTY » CCS

See you in 7 + 2 hrs #LatAmisbig

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Job descriptions is what the company thinks you do. A job is what you think the company does.

:

Sometimes you go the extra mile… only to realize everyone else is on the metric system.

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MEX » SJC » CCS

Heading home.

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CCS » PTY » GUA

Time to earn the #bacon.

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Major sneeze while brushing teeth.

Bathroom mirror AND lungs covered with toothpaste foam.

:

I respect all culture and beliefs… but can’t understand how people use PowerPoint.

:

the problem with having a really smart Excel table is that when you do something dumb… it can still …

:

#eresfoodiesi te preocupas si alguien comenta “y ahí vemos que comemos” como parte del plan.

:

Just noticed that deployments to a certain server are done everyday at 13:37 CEST.

I find it cool.

:

  1. 7762Km
  2. 4525Km
  3. 8320Km
  4. 0cm

Distances from:

  1. Config change
  2. Issue tested
  3. Result validated
  4. Sigh of …

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Will “Not US-based” become a feature on web services? #PRISM

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“en redes sociales no hay audiencia sino comunidades.” #DiageoEnCasa

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“Cuando llega el comercial en TV, la mayoría de la gente mira su laptop/celular/etc” #DiageoEnCasa

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While editing pixels, fly flew across the screen: brain assumed it was the mouse cursor, hand …

:

iPhone 4S just crashed to a hard floor with such intensity, it turned off.

7 curse words later, …

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and the wicked fairy told my father: “he’ll have 10 fingers and toes; but will NEVER open a yogurt …

:

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence” — Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Corbatura.

  1. Extensión adicional a longitud de la corbata para incorporar la parábola abdominal.

~ …

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CCS →CDG →IST

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) / #wedding

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“Maybe the most underappreciated thing about Steve was that he had the courage to change his mind. …

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Heading home!

#yosoyvenezolano

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Calma, calma, calma.

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Sin drama o misterios, fue un final de fotografía y exigimos nuestro derecho de revisar la foto. …

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Es noche de esperar lo que HACEN, no lo que dicen.

:

En Caracas. Listo para #votarymas

:

CCS-CDG-OSL.

Pero de vuelta el sábado, porque #yosoyvenezolano.

:

Turbulence makes you wish you were on the ground. Unless, of course, that’s where you are heading.

:

When a developer reply is more cryptic than a software error prompt, you know one’s buggy and the …

:

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show …

:

So, no OSX 10.9 previews today then?

:

“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon… everything’s different.” ~ …

:

Of course, I could just use a radix sorting algorithm for all the places I’d look for, but then I’d …

:

I can find everything on last place I look for it.

Unless I ask myself “what’s the last place I’d …

:

Yes, I’ll open the attachment continuously updated for the past 3 weeks, and copy&paste the info …

:

You know they say; lucky in seat assignment… unlucky in bag coming out.

:

OSL →LHR

3 day layover to visit my sis!

:

tilbake i Oslo

:

Damn long stopover at LHR… just bought a Kindle Paperwhite 3G

:

CCS→MIA→LHR→OSL

#muchwork #coldweather #warmfriends

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Combinado, unas 3 Billones de personas en plan maestro para que nosotros 30 millones andemos en …

:

De buena fuente: acaparamiento masivo de carros en China, India, Japón, Korea, México, Brasil y …

:

Tapiti Tapiti Tap Tapiti Tap Tap Tapiti Tap ⌘+C ⌘+V Tapiti Tap Tapiti ⌘+V Tap…

⌘+W

Save this as …

:

‘When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us.”’ ~ …

:

Either the magnitude of this task is looming before me… or my pilates ball has a leak.

:

I’m sure an engineer will figure out how to ping electric shocks via HTTP after reading this task …

:

25 years ago, this building was a house, and on this house we waited for the operator to call back …

:

This safety razor shave would have been better for everybody if I’d just gone to the barber shop, …

:

6h ago: “Might as well clean my inbox” 5h59m ago: 1 New Mail 5h58m45s ago: “Oh crap”

Attempting …

:

The Hobbit was fun. Not a great movie, but a nice ride.

:

Going with my Mom¹ and Dad to The Hobbit tonight.

¹My search history now includes “best time for …

:

Let’s be clear, the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world as much as my iPhone running out …

:

It’s already December 21st in Australia… So typical for end of the world to be late.

(I’ll breath …

:

Cartero toca el timbre para el aguinaldo. Me disculpo que no tengo efectivo, pero que mañana …

:

Tengo un dedo pintado de votar, y le pinto otro dedo a los que no creen que deben ir. #yoyavote

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Fajarse en la difícil de ganar, pero desanimarse en las que ya hemos ganado, es actitud de flojo. …

:

I’ve been wrong before, but’ll never be as wrong as when I contracted but I will on an email. …

:

I listened Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness thousands of times by myself in front of a PC.

17 …

:

Sueño: Poder viajar en el tiempo a la reunión donde inventaron el Choco Müsli… y cachetear a quien …

:

Completely messed up my Mac’s networking, but got a lot better at sniffing traffic data.

:

Whoever designed the AppleTV controller tested it standing up, and not sprawled on a couch.

Damn …

:

No puedo confirmar ni negar que hoy vi algo que me hizo cagarme de la risa.

#RegresaIslaPresidencial

:

Went with Whisky, but not to worry, I’ve enough magazine ads to know it’s ok to drink while working …

:

Hmmm, just remotely captured packets using a VPN to log an issue… but it worked… though not …

:

Espero que el mundo se acabe en 19 días… no creo que pueda sobrevivir un año de gente refiriéndose a …

:

A wise man never said: “yeah, the milk smells funny, but I’m sure it’s fine”.

:

RIO →GRU →CCS

Movember ends at home.

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Going crazy looking for important email from client I got yesterday… just realized I dreamt it. …

:

If the world is going to end on Dec 21st, today is a great day to buy all “No payments for 30 days” …

:

CCS→GRU→RIO.

muito trabalho.

:

“He does watercolors. Mostly landscapes but a few nudes.”

Yep, really liked Moonrise Kingdom

:

I just got beat-up by a conference call. Walked right into it. Better understand where villains come …

:

Time is funny… not always laugh out loud funny; but at least smile-and-shake-head funny.

:

“do you have a dogs barking ringtone?”

Working from home provides interesting background noise for …

:

Booyah! TV now working, aaaaaaaaand with US Netflix and Hulu.

:

When in doubt… I rewatch The West Wing (first 4 seasons).

All good now. What’s next?

:

Este martes de noviembre se lee como un domingo de octubre en mi twitter, pero en inglés. …

:

Trees do not have bones.

Chef Boyardee is not the Prime Minister of Italy. He is the Vice President. …

:

“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.” — Tina Fey

:

Lo único que he visto a venezolanos leer más detalladamente que las instrucciones de CADIVI, son las …

:

Hasta que Toddy no se sincere y duplique las cucharadas recomendadas, no será un éxito en países …

:

“Otra sangría, pero menos ensalada de frutas y más vino tinto”

Que niche se pone uno con la 2da …

:

TV giving my parents AppleID “An error occurred loading this content” trying to play rented movies. …

:

SCL-LIM-CCS

Heading home :)

:

Ok. too drunk to shave now, but starting tomorrow… Movember is on!!!

:

Los tres taxistas chilenos que les he preguntado si bailan tango GRITAN ante la sugerencia. Pero …

:

CCS-GYE-SCL

See you below the equator.

:

All I’m saying is that - if Curling is an Olympic sport, then Airport Gate Change Sprint should get …

:

post friends-week blues.

:

Bought an all-natural hippie deodorant, and (oh, surprise) now I smell like an all-natural hippie; …

:

I hum “♪ Why♩don’t you ♬ piiiiick up? ♫” to rhythm of The Foundations “Build me up”, when on hold… …

:

Love the iPad mini Ad.

:

If Twitter or Facebook displayed their timeline as a Gantt chart… nobody would do anything fun.

:

♥ how NYC can go from freaky to fun, to 90’s, to crazy and back to fun, in just a few blocks. …

:

I was going to make a sarcastic comments about working on a plane… but wifi on flights is so effing …

:

Business travel is like email, it feels like work… but it ain’t.

:

CCS - PTY - GUA

#Guatebuena

:

Ya sé de donde recuerdo esta sensación: ¡estoy despechado!

Mi media naranja (+4%), no quiere nada …

:

Today I think I’ll be 1 in 9 million :)

#7O

:

Dealing with massive email list is a pain in the IMAP.

Done for today, expecting an onslaught first …

:

After going through ~2000 support messages, I can now appreciate the one-off email with something …

:

The hum of the electric razor can be calming… until it goes two octaves lower and you just know …

:

GRU - CCS

#HayunCamino

:

Me: are you sure I’ll make the connection at São Paulo? Her: sim senhor M: and my bag? H: even more …

:

Acabo de escribir “requete full”.

Por lo que no queda duda que soy de comienzos de los 80.

:

No es que estemos polarizados, sino que nadie nos explicó para que eran las dos filas. …

:

No es que los parques no tengan luz, es que las luciérnagas son …

:

No es que el teleférico este malo, es que solo funciona de bajada #BájaloDeEsaNube #V07A

:

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”

Guys, really? we have nothing …

:

I may have considerably underestimated how long it would take to hang dry my clothes.

Washing …

:

1988: made horrible mug for Mom… and she showed it to all her friends.

2012: sent a hug and kiss via …

:

When InboxZero™ becomes ArchiveForLaterSearch®

:

my extreme sport: crazy taxi rides.

I’ve stared at death in headlights once again.

:

I love the smell of SIM cards in the morning.

:

A man, a task, and the sudden realization that the spreadsheet before him has been filled with the …

:

I’m amazingly fluent in the international hand sign of ‘One Draft Beer Please’.

:

I wish upon star to answer this email by saying “I have no idea what you’re talking about… but …

:

nada contra español: es un idioma para poesía, humor, romance y drama en general.

Pero no …

:

translating tech documentation to español makes want to smoke something illegal.

:

Drunk enough to be sincere… sober enough to be serious.

:

Wish: I wish I were home. Hope: I hope this bus heads home.

Verbs and travel… it’s complicated.

:

MEX - GRU - GIG

#muitolegal

:

Detrás de cada kilo de chalequeo hay 35.274 onzas de verdad… O 4.227 copas por cada litro. …

:

every few months I encounter a tie that just seems to say: “nahh, don’t think so” when I try to get …

:

Huge stretch/yawn while sitting on a pilates ball… I just performed a Funniest Home Movie sketch …

:

There’s a summer camp next door. They are LOUD.

But, I can hear they have a little brat called …

:

Looking for an Apartment or Room in Rio de Janeiro from Sept 13 - Oct 5.

Any tips welcomed!

:

“I campaigned for JFK because he’s Catholic and I’m Catholic and they never said it, but you knew …

:

Would you look at that? Versions on Mac just saved me about 45min of rework.

#coolontheoutside …

:

After some careful analysis, it’s now obvious that ‘Full Summary’ is a really stupid heading.

:

I postulate that “once you pop you can’t stop” was thought up by a creative in a urinal after a …

:

“Oh, that’s expected behaviour”.

Best thing I heard today.

:

Debugging computers is hard. Debugging humans is harder.

It’s easier to make sense of a log file …

:

CCS-BOG-MEX

#órale

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Would you look at that? the time reporting system DOES let you record time spent filling it #101010

:

I wish time recording systems would let you record the time you spend on time recording systems …

:

Prof. G: “Trade-Secret: The JAD file MUST have a blank line at the end for it to work!”

Not sure …

:

Super productive the last two hours. I think. Just wrote “Need to check next tomorrow confirm” on my …

:

love affair with AppleTV slightly diminished when I couldn’t figure out how to play The Hunger Games …

:

“Have adventures. The Hemingway mode was in ascendancy for decades before it was eclipsed by trendy …

:

In sex and in networking, you must always be mindful of the ACK Timeout.

:

Meatloaf, Ricardo Arjona and UB40… my iPhone in shuffle reminded me why heading home early was a …

:

The only way I can claim anything remotely similar to #InboxZero this week is if I switch back to …

:

maybe we quickly forget dreams for those few times when we have a horrible nightmare.

#featurenotbug

:

A wise man just told me: “Report things that are out of your control FIRST. The rest no one really …

:

Heading to San Fran to grab a beer. any recos?

:

Indian Monty Python “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” with NBC bleep was just epic …

:

catching up with old friends is always hard: too much celebrating and remembering in a short span.

:

Resignation: when you give up trying to pick the raisins out of Trail Mix and just grab a handful. …

:

Kinda anti-climatic that new –purchased in Apple retail Store— MacBook Air still comes with Lion.

:

Captain: “please remember to place your rollerboards wheels first on the overhead bin”.

Yeps, I’m …

:

I would have expected this from a Monday, but a Tuesday? I thought we had something.

:

Of course, the side-glances and stares from the receptionist now make a lot more sense. And my …

:

“why are you measuring signal strength in the bathroom? Who needs WiFi there?”

I sometimes find my …

:

Estimados amigos vacacionistas de cubículos e insolados por luces de neón: encima de Caracas no hay …

:

me considero quejón de oportunidades iguales: tanto el carro con calcomanía de Rosario que no da …

:

/dev/sda Looks like the RAID 1 configuration is working.

/dev/sdc Looks like the RAID 1 …

:

I have calmly decided to go to bed, run 10K in the morning, and then get on the roof and kill this …

:

INDEPABIS debería tener una extensión para cuando alguien trae pie de guayaba en vez de chocolate.

:

I once arrived to a bar so early… they threw me in.

:

I fought the proxy and I won I needed a server and I got mine The proxy don’t mean shit if you’ve …

:

“Unlike X, the Y fork developer is not existentially challenged.”

Sometimes forums are great.

:

Turns out “The one that got away” is not a reference to Duck Hunt.

:

I really need to stop talking to my dogs and expect a reply. It’s freaking-out the cat.

:

Yeah baby, I have my boxers on, grab my MacBook Air, sit on the bed and… “EAAAAAAOOHHHHOLLY CRAP THE …

:

Our mail programs used to respect us. There was a time when they would announce royally that You got …

:

“You can’t fire me! I… oh, you actually can’t? I’d have to do WHAT?!”

Strict labor laws have ruined …

:

Status: Happy monday everybody!

Real Status: i miss friday.

:

Home is where a long hot shower is.

:

I blame TV horror films for my lack of handyman skills.

Sink food disposers, breaker boxes and gas …

:

“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign …

:

Desde la autopista no veo que viene lluvia, sino una catarata ambulante.

:

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” — Oscar Wilde

:

36 hours after running #10k my walking can be described as:

  1. Cartoonish
  2. Zombie-like
  3. Sad
  4. All of the …

:

algún día moriré de la risa, pero que reclame alguien que me está pasando por el hombrillo es …

:

Apple: “To the 7 bloggers who tried iWork․com 3 years ago, please download your docs before July …

:

Receta para perder las orejas esta semana: ir a la barbería y decir “pásame la cuatro”.

:

If time is absolute and space is relative, then waking up at this hour to go run must break some …

:

Qué día de parada ni qué día se parada: partido de lo que sea a las 8am y 5pm.

Ciudad estaba como …

:

TGIF!!!

What?! Oh, fudge.

:

The Newsroom episode 1 link I RT yesterday is not ‘available in your country’.

I’m torrentially sad …

:

I’m sure Karl Marx was a time traveller who got REALLY PISSED at his bank’s website.

:

Mis 30 comenzaron cuando salió un reloj que cuenta piscinas.

En mi juventud soñe con él por miles de …

:

Holy crap! The Fall Hyperion just went all ‘The Matrix’ on me (in the good way).

Long night ahead…

:

Si haber vamos, prefiero que conviertan La Carlota en un aeropuerto antes que en una pista de F1. …

:

“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” — …

:

“A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions” — Richard …

:

“I’ve made a huge tiny mistake.” ~ Gob Bluth

#sixseasonsandamovie

:

“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world, that I can’t even finish my second apple pie.” …

:

Have you practiced with you air drums lately?

C’mon, even fake instruments need some love. Now give …

:

mucha gente al volante ha debido de ser BURDA de mala en tetris.

o simplemente son mala gente.

:

En series de 200mts espalda, combato la tentación de la carrilera durante 170mts.

Épico debate …

:

And for all of you who don’t care, count yourselves lucky that I won’t share, my #WWDC underwear. …

:

“We are all here on earth to help others… what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.” — …

:

“I kind of see plot as a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write musical …

:

/night/ Chocolate Cake → nightmares, toss & turns, thirst, stomach ache.

/morning/ Chocolate …

:

Phone interviews are A LOT more fun when you just tell the truth.

I never get the job offer, but …

:

Interponsable. adj. Dicho de personal de ‘inter’ que hace cita para instalar servicio y nunca llega. …

:

Es algo incongruente que para votar necesites capta-huella pero para ser candidato no.

:

“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.” — Patrick …

:

“Sir, I need you to please put away the iPad for take-off”

“Bitch please”

Funny in my head, but a …

:

So whoever utters these words: “It should be mine ’cause I saw it first” gets instantly vaporized by …

:

I hope someday technology will allow us to solve one of the most divisive ideological conflicts of …

:

say what you will about WebApps, but reloading a website is a lot less painful than restarting an …

:

My monologue on using 60 seconds vs. 1:00 minute on the microwave continues to NOT find an audience.

:

“You know that the opposite of now isn’t … OK, look! washing the dishes.”

Some people don’t respond …

:

“…and that’s my brilliant business idea”

“I’m pretty sure that’s illegal”

We need to colonize new …

:

“¿Dónde estás?” “AQUÍ”

Porqué el GPS no fue inventando en Venezuela.

:

“sí se les esta quitando la pava, es que el pavoso se está muriendo”.

Los almuerzos familiares …

:

Those who don’t get reading on an iPad haven’t had a huge wet sneeze sneak up on them recently. …

:

Mi momento #meiriademasiado de la semana… me niego a ver The Avengers en español.

:

“Nonfiction conveys information. Fiction conveys emotion.” Sol Stein

:

Phew, everything seems to be working now.

Kids, remember to measure twice before anything DNS …

:

Now I remember why I have a rule about not touching Nameservers and DNS Records during weekdays. …

:

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Red Smith, sports …

:

En Caracas. con nuevas ideas, esperanza y

Perdón, pasó un motorizado.

:

regarding #CCDD: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say …

:

Yes… no… maybe.

Sometimes the right answer is all of them.

:

sometimes in life you make a decision and can’t escape the consequences…

Chocolate + Peanut Butter …

:

in an age where communications are almost telepathic, we share a fiction of ourselves more than …

:

I have not seen the light, but I know where the switch is.

:

how cold is it? I like my wine chilled, and although we’re sitting around the campfire, this wine is …

:

BTW, I may be tweeting the word ‘brilliant!’ a lot in the next few days —and if all goes well— even …

:

after 4 days in Barcelona, there’s more of me to love —or hate.

thankfully only bags have weight …

:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Norwegian banks are the most efficient in the world from …

:

I lead a very boring life: have bought antacids on an airport bathroom dispenser, but never a pack …

:

with an hour to spare on Heathrow, I really need a sweater… what do I buy? an iPad case.

:

would you look at that? in the land of No Service, my Kindle has 3G

:

Off to an internetless, kindle-filled island existence this week. Don’t release anything too cool!

:

Caracas: ciudad donde te llega el email del último mito urbano de crimen, y lo único que piensas es …

:

“You might have noticed that I appreciate the avant-garde french rock-pop scene”

“I think she’s …

:

It has been brought to my attention that a quick look at my Facebook photos gives the impression I …

:

every time I see a $50.000 car with its window open, I think:

“fart gone wrong”

:

Sorry about last tweet. It was a “pay with twitter” template.

:

I remember you with every breath I take.

Thank you for the memories… my lunch cheeseburger with …

:

“scientific method” is how I explained using two different deodorants today.

rather not say what I’m …

:

driving with a plastic cup with wine is the most uncivilized civilized thing I’ve ever done.

:

I don’t have the attention span necessary for spy novels. Between Russian names and code names, I …

:

El Gatorade es 96% agua y el vino 85%.

Un par de hielos y esto es un ‘sports drink’.

:

unsurprisingly, being charming in a small space with bad acoustics and very loud volume, is not one …

:

Yikes, Sublime Text 2 is an amazing improvement to what I tried a year ago. It’s making me question …

:

Nowadays, yelling “that’s MY WOMAN!” will earn you a punch in the face… from ‘your woman’.

:

Most ‘Social Networking Experts’ I know aren’t very sociable.

:

Me thinks a lot of people are going to be wishing they owned $AAPL tomorrow.

:

“Prueba la dijonnaise que está excelente”

“esa es como el PertPlus de las salsas ¿no?”

“…”

Por eso …

:

en aeropuerto, kioskos y restaurantes, absolutamente impresionado de la claridad en Margarita para …

:

A diferencia que en la vida, en la natación lo primero que se pierde es el estilo.

:

Entre más doctores conozco, más extraño a mi pediatra.

:

One stupid rumor about the 15in MacBook Air and I waste 45 minutes looking at Thunderbolt …

:

“The greatest enemy of a good plan, is the dream of a perfect plan” - Carl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831 …

:

Oí al moto-taxi decir “¡Vaaaya flaaaaco!” y “¡Piiilaa goldo!” en el mismo semáforo.

No sabía que …

:

After seeing leaked pictures of sexy young actress, first thing I think of:

“There’s something wrong …

:

It’s difficult to lie about “who came into the apartment with their feet dirty?” when the footprints …

:

“éste trago esta demasiaaaaado fuerte pana”

(5min después)

“bué, de verdad quedó sabroso”

El tiempo …

:

just put the kindle into the beach bag before even looking for the swimsuit.

sometimes my priorities …

:

¿Alguien del Cumbres sabe un reencuentro mañana?

:

it was bound to happen. just got a 2nd confirmation email for my iPads with a different order …

:

I currently have 9 iPads on my cart, since app adds one every couple of failed checkouts.

If by …

:

guys stop pushing! I’m sure Apple has enough new iPads for everyone…

AARRRRGGGGHHHHHhhhhhℎℎℎℎℎ

:

Printers hate me and WiFi networks don’t respect me.

You can probably imagine what this wireless …

:

Ir a la Barbería Monaco durante un juego de fútbol ha sido lo más arriesgado que he hecho en el …

:

“I’m going to name my daughters Helvetica, Georgia and Verdana”

“And if you have a son?”

“Garamond”.

:

I have kept all my resumes from the last 10 years.

I find it very easy to laugh at myself. …

:

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” - Isaac Asimov

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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - L. P. Hartley

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Just found out that spicy tuna doesn’t come from the Gulf of Mexico.

Waiter telling the next table …

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Turns out ‘irony’ is not a recognized ISO_9001 management principle.

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Weird, just read Facebook’s S-1 filling and it doesn’t say anything about donating …

:

Today’s meditation exercise said: “let your mind wander, and follow it”.

I ended up in a mental red …

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best Oscar acceptance of the night. The A Separation guy made the world a better place.

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Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, maybe, yes, yes, mom’s kinda hot, meh, yes, etc.

My red carpet feedback …

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Ño! yo quiero saber cual fue el centro de votación del #12F que están mostrando en E!

ah? ah! ah. yo …

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note un aire de pena entre los que trotábamos en la lagunita. todos sabíamos que le estábamos …

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Never tell geeks “keep your eye on the ball”.

For us it’s not a winning sports teaching. It’s a …

:

I just tried to RT an email.

Not sure if I’m an idiot or a visionary.

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The expectations of a generation that never knew computers without internet are going blow our mind.

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It’s the time of the year again for my Sorkin fix. Re-watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip:

“I’m …

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I’m #ouch too #ouch cool #ouch to #ouch use #ouch sunscreen.

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Decenas de personas trotando en la Río de Janeiro, y el “gran parque” de La Carlota cerrado.

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“it’s called denial”

loved Midnight in Paris.

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Sometimes a client’s email is worth a thousand words. But if you try to bill them in another …

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COTERIE!!! that was the word I was looking for earlier today! Sheesh.

Now I have to remember what I …

:

WTF?! went into a meeting and now there’s a new OSX version?

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“Speak when you are angry - and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” - Laurence J. Peter

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#3040449

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United We Stand

#clichebaratoperoválido

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Estoy preocupado… va a faltar birra.

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Quien asegure tener “datos” a esta hora y no sea vidente, miente entre los dientes.

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Primera vez que estoy ligando una cadena. Vamos Hugo, activa a un poco de NiNis. #DiadelaJuventud …

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el merici esta vacío. para los que quieren ejercer su voto ursulino.

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¡Buenos días! Vota feliz, vota contento, pero por favor… no votes adeco ;)

Jodiendo, vote por quien …

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OH “en esa alcaldía va a quedar el que menos pierda”. mis panas políticos podrían escribir bumper …

:

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

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Me acaban de decir de una quiniela para el #12F . Luego de mi horror puritano inicial, creo que es …

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“Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close …

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“Dear Roberto, thank you for…” +100 words.

Rejection letters should be like CSI murder weapons: …

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Why does watching sports make me wanna eat?

I have much coherent reaction when I watch porn.

:

I don’t remember ever saying: “this has too much mayo”.

I should check my cholesterol.

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“Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.” - Stephen Fry

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Es apropiado que el #4F y #WorldCancerDay coincidan. Para ninguno de los dos puedes decir “¡Feliz …

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no explosions, no (obvious) CGI, no 3D, no color, and almost no dialog…

less is more, and The Artist …

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Dark chocolate is one of the most graceful past-expiration date foods.

(I hope)

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we may nod (but I can’t spell)

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Ladies, bangs is to hair what fuchsia is to colors… we made nod, but we have no idea what you’re …

:

cola monstruosa vía la boyera. están asfaltando en el hatillo…

alguien necesita un nuevo jefe de …

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“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten” - AA Blue Book

:

Every time I call my norwegian bank or credit card I get a little taste of Oslo service: not really …

:

With a whole generation of kids thinking it’s Ok to touch the screen, I’m condemned to become a …

:

Estimado moto-conductor: cuando su circunferencia abdominal es la que pega con mi retrovisor, es …

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“In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches …

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“If A is a success in life, then A equals X+Y+Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth …

:

When in doubt: helvetica.

If the poster still doesn’t look right, your problem is not the font.

:

Las colas caraqueñas mas interesantes son las que generan peos existenciales:

“De verdad, ¿pa qué …

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“A geek is a person… with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for …

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Spending almost two hours looking for “good background work music” is the …

:

“Aquí todo el mundo dice lo que piensa”.

Nos falta pensar un poco lo que decimos, pero uno es mejor …

:

Sorry, please disregard last tweet…

The good news: test worked! The bad: don’t know why.

:

On cleaning days, you’re either part or the problem or the problem.

Either way, don’t argue.

:

Bloody hell Apple: $46.33 Billion Revenue, 37.04 Million iPhones, 15.43 Million iPads, 5.2 million …

:

En otra palabras, los únicos que están bravos en mi Facebook son los que dan la bendición en sus …

:

Anecdóticamente, veo corte generacional clarísimo entre los que ven a #capoldo como “maniobra de …

:

Every time a song ends while on hold, I die a little… when the same song starts again, I’m reborn in …

:

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” - …

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I just sneezed so hard that my internal clock is blinking 12:00 AM

:

A good snooze button is designed so you can operate it with less than 50% of your brain capacity.

:

La carne roja y whisky muy cargado se pueden remediar. El contrario no.

#factoflife

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Done! all new songs have album cover.

No, wait, I meant to say: crazyyyy partyyyy woohoooo …

:

Candidato entregando panfleto con propuesta de mejoras en vialidad, empeorando notablemente el …

:

My productivity #fail of today was of such epic proportions… I almost didn’t write this tweet.

Happy …

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Of all the stupid things I’ve done this week…

Tip: Do check the power cable is plugged-in before …

:

A suspiciously large number of people have changed their emails with year-of-birth’s in the address. …

:

#1: I’ve seen things you can’t possibly imagine.

#2: ’hell you talking about?

#1: YouTube

:

it has taken me a long time to realize this… but capitalization is overrated.

punctuation —on the …

:

Loving this showdown between new and old media. #SOPA

:

Cuando “decir lo que piensas” y “decir lo que sabes” difieren mucho, es mejor quedarse callado.

:

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” ― Carl Sagan

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Next time there’s an Apple event and think I’m geeking out my timeline too much for everybody… I’ll …

:

Ok, still figuring out Path, but one thing it has over Google+ is… girls.

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En sabú. #FML

:

Cuando “vamos pa’ Sabu” suena como buena idea…

3 vasos de agua y a dormir.

:

With a good book I nod and shake my head. In a great book I suddenly talk back to it.

:

fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

I hate Windows.

:

Recovering a Windows PC for a neighbor should count towards sainthood… or at least be a tax …

:

The only thing I’ve ever seen that I’m glad Aaron Sorkin didn’t write was Steve Jobs commencement …

:

My lack of religious beliefs makes this hard to accept…

But, my conflict with printers may transcend …

:

There’s 3 things in the way of my work plans: the state of the economy and visa status.

“And?”

…? …

:

El romanticismo con la patria es parecido al humano: emocionante, pasional y en la mayoría de los …

:

The Douchebag Handbook:

Effectivity of a workout is proportional to how many people you stand in …

:

Sunburn, the body’s way of saying:

“You are an idiot”.

:

I may seem arrogant, but I have flaws you can’t begin to comprehend.

:

72% of all geek breakups occur when they answer accurately —yet incorrectly, to the question: “Isn’t …

:

“The good news is that the pie is ready! The bad, I lost a fake nail somewhere”

My sister, ladies …

:

Arepa con plátano de cena.

Próximos tweets desde mi guarida secreta.

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Buying meat for a barbecue makes me think that maybe zombies are people like us… just really …

:

Got a flat tire when I was late for… nothing.

Terrible for a sitcom episode, but great regular ol’ …

:

When in doubt, check Permissions.

:

Contagion is the wrong movie to try showing off about places you’ve visited:

“I’ve been there! …

:

Standing in my room with a can in one hand and a leash in the other.

Why? How? What?

Mom: YOUR DOG …

:

Madurez: ponerle sólo las 3 cucharadas indicadas al Toddy.

Quizás el año que viene.

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In other words: in this precise moment in space and time… it hurts to be me.

Hope everyone had a …

:

Hang: To be or remain suspended.

Over: finished; ended or concluded.

Don’t need to know Latin for …

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Women: I need to pick which swimsuits to take.

Men: … crap, I can’t find my swimsuit. Do I even own …

:

Las hormigas esquivaron los Halls para llegar a mi Cri-Cri.

Mensaje recibido.

:

Anecdotally, the battery life of my iPod Shuffle is ∞

:

You know when a music set is trying to kick you out a party and you don’t for up? Well…. I just did. …

:

Tonight I danced with a salsa teacher and learned a life lesson:

Don’t dance with a salsa teacher.

:

To all trying to look cool in the tropics:

Sweat, it’s what’s for dinner.

:

I hope that by the time I’m good at social network chitchat (~10years?) there won’t be something …

:

If we could harness the energy of good intentions, sport equipment stores would be like nuclear …

:

Have you ever, like, drank too much water?

#mostboringtweetof2011 nominee.

Thank you for your …

:

La decoración del apartamento de la playa es siempre un flashback remixed de tu vivienda principal …

:

If I ever write a self-help book, the title would be: You Are So Not Special.

Useful even to those …

:

Just found my 2011 New Year’s Resolutions… I misspelled diligence.

:

Sorry, but I just can’t help thinking that a “free gift for every child” is either a socialist …

:

All of you whom late tonight have to quietly move a large object from storage into the living room… …

:

Explicar pan de jamón en ingles, y oír “So, it’s like a sandwich?” fue mi fracaso cultural del día.

:

Had dinner with great friends of the last 18 years. If we knew then what we know now, we’d still be …

:

You start to show your age if: “Relive childhood memories” is advertised of something you were too …

:

My goodness, upgrading devices to iOS5 and figuring out from where to restore, sync and backup has …

:

My home Internet is so slow, Kim Jong-il is still alive on my twitter stream.

:

Back home after 78 days traveling.

Very happy to see parents, dogs and… my own toilet.

:

MIA ✈ SJU ✈ CCS

Going home.

:

It should be illegal to fly with this hangover.

It probably is.

:

Don’t delay your Apple purchases because of rumors.

You end up feeling smarter… and without an …

:

Everyone that ain’t asking for an iPad this Xmas ’cause iPad 3 is “coming soon” stand over there …

:

Still don’t have access to MacBook, but just redownloaded the 500ish songs I had bought in iTunes to …

:

First tweet from my new iPhone 4S.

I can now write nonsense up to 5x faster.

:

OH “¿Qué son tequeños?”

Por dios Miami.

:

There’s 3 weddings and 5 baby photos on my timeline today. Facebook needs a “single” filter.

:

When you bounce ideas (even stupid ones) off smart people, you are told the “watch-outs”. Not the …

:

Pretty sure a metro machine just scammed me with $1 coins.

:

Now off to Miami.

Hoping to pass out soon. See you again in EST.

:

Holy crap USA, I hope this is the best airport security in the world, ’cause it feels like the most …

:

Departed Hong Kong on Monday and arrived on LA on Sunday.

Somehow I felt/feel less jetlagged in the …

:

“wanna dance?”

“no”

“no, what?”

“no, please”

Chinglish is painfully direct.

:

Kebabs: food sent by the gods to feed the chosen people… at 4am in the morning.

:

Back in HK. Can confirm twitter doesn’t work behind the great firewall.

Sad to accept how much I …

:

Street crossing is theist extreme activity I’ve done on this trip.

:

Took bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai. About the distance from Caracas to Bogota in less than 5 …

:

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The longest is a Beijing taxi ride. …

:

Off to Beijing and Shanghai!

If the Great Firewall doesn’t like my tweets… see you next week.

:

Dear airlines: If you don’t find any place for the media box, other than beneath the seat in front …

:

Back in Hong Kong 香港 for the weekend.

Mostly to support my pal JL on his 100K race.

:

But river snake tastes “just like chicken”.

:

First real food #fail of the trip. Chicken feet are like broccoli, only way worse.

:

A draft beer in Siam Reap is 3 kroner.

Meet you guys in the airport.

:

Wrote a thousand word post of my India trip. Which seemed long, until I realized that’s just about …

:

HKG ✈ SGN ✈ REP

In other words: Off to Cambodia

:

Earth rotation speed is 1674km/h in the equator.

Why is it that life seems to move at both a billion …

:

He bailado “Danza Kuduro” en 3 de los 4 países que he visitado.

He explicado que no sé q significa …

:

Around Central, two telecom stores have lines of 200 people more or less.

:

According to Mike, half of those in line are locals. The rest are either from India or Pakistan.

:

Roughly 500th guy on line got here wednesday night. Said starting today he hasn’t gone to bathroom …

:

#notetoself my humor is not usually understood. With a Korean audience… it’s just plain sad.

:

The Wan Chai Electronic Center is like the red light district of geeksterdam. Was offered everything …

:

Soon: DEL ✈ HKG.

Trying to write India blogpost, but current draft is just a passionate mess… Which …

:

The desert is red, and camels are brown.

And you’d be surprised where you find sand afterwards.

:

OH: (French accent) “Am I alright? I’m more than alright”

:

La visa de turista India debería incluir una caja de Loperan®

:

The Indian equivalent of Latin “steeping on someone” is: elbow on face.

Yeah. It’s rough.

:

The level of chaos in Chandigarh (to my western eyes) grew orders of magnitude during Diwali.

Great …

:

The fact that if I drill hole through the center of the earth I’ll come up in Ecuador, blows my mind …

:

So many geeky stuff happening in Singapore. “They” should organize emergent startup scene tours.

:

Change of plans: CPT ✈ DXB ✈ SIN

:

CPT ✈ JNB ✈ HKG ✈ SIN

See you tomorrow (Ep.4)

:

If you tweet from a Blackberry and no one has service to read it, does it make a sound?

:

Finally arrived at Cape Town after 40 hours. Last part of the trip was in taxi. Let’s just say the …

:

JHN → CPT by train.

See you tomorrow (ver3).

:

My sister just renegotiated the taxi fare.

I think I’m getting fired from my “Big Brother” job soon.

:

Helloooooooo South Africa!

:

Somebody should make an Android phone in the shape of the teardrop xPhone 5. It already has a …

:

LHR ✈ JNB

See you tomorrow (again)

:

As a follower of Murphy’s Law, I shouldn’t be surprised that my 11hour wifi-less flight boards at …

:

Just bought some TSA approved nail clippers at the airport … and the packaging needs scissors to …

:

The same crew of the Caracas-San Juan is in the San Juan-NYC leg. Pretty sure that What is “bitchy” …

:

CSS ✈ SJU ✈ JFK ✈ LHR.

See you tomorrow.

:

I’m always surprised how normal users can find the appearance settings, regardless of OS.

And commit …

:

Dreamt there was a snake eating a turtle on my bed … which I’m pretty sure means I should stop …

:

Acabo de escribir un email donde pido que me confirmen un número te teléfono porque el que tengo …

:

Oh yeah … Let’s talk iPhone.

:

Love the idea that most of my preconceived notions about a wedding celebration are about to be …

:

If I could talk to my 21y/o self I’d say: “self, in 9 years remember to bend your knees when you …

:

I ♥ bacon. Bacon ♥ my heart. My heart ♥ blood… I’m a vampire.

:

I may be an idiot, but I’m a knowlegaeble idiot.

:

People never seem to understand the point of life …

Exactly.

:

“Pregunte que sí hay” es el mejor eslogan de radio en los últimos 25 años.

:

Just realized that when all cars go electric, handymen are robots and legal documents use HTML5 … …

:

Smart people who fake being digital idiots so they don’t have to google stuff sometimes piss me off.

:

Note to self: I can still drink 8 beers like a 20 year old.

But my 30y/o bladder can only hold 6.

:

La furia de Esteban –manifestada en tormenta– se siente sobre el municipio de Leo.

:

The venezuelan opposition has shown patience among themselves, and more importantly, towards their …

:

Synopsis says “a funny and touching road trip…” while Genre is “Drama”.

Sounds like life alright.

:

These network printers must have developed sentience and are conspiring against me.

It’s the only …

:

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone™ and Mind the Gap.

#clichemashup

:

When your puppy learns to shake = Unbearably cute.

When she gets to 40Kg = Aggravated assault.

:

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” …

:

Whoever said: “aging is a bitch, but it’s better than the alternative” hasn’t read enough Sci-Fi.

:

10 years ago hotmail gave you 2MB of space and “planning your weekend online” probably meant queuing …

:

“You’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.” Auto-repair guy to Isaac …

:

Me: 8GB (4GBx2) for $52! Myself: Dude, you don’t need it. Me: But … 8GB!!! Myself: It’s not even …

:

Q: Do you know Norwegian?

A: Yes, financial Norsk.

Q: Huh?

A: I can get money out of the ATM and use …

:

The second-person narrative in Halting State reminds me of my “choose your own adventure” book era …

:

I can now officially recommend that if you read Game of Thrones, don’t watch the TV show until you …

:

Punch line: the final phrase or sentence of a joke or story, providing the humor or It’s

:

Anyone around Asia in November? I have my own towel and am mostly potty trained.

:

Zagat/Yelp should have a “Certified Wrap Engineer” sticker.

This wrap was so poorly packaged, that …

:

When stocks plummet, I’d like to see the smiling picture of the trader who shorted.

:

I don’t have any fashion sense, but I do appreciate good design. Once in a while, these two spheres …

:

Finally saw Suckerpunch.

Jezzz, need a drink.

:

Reality is just an illusion with a really good lawyer.

:

At some point we all realize that a spoon of salt and one of sugar don’t cancel each other out.

:

Caracas driving gives me tourette’s

:

A wise man once said: “What do you mean I’m facing the wrong way?”

:

Do feel it? ’Tis the season on holding off on all iPhone/iPod purchases!

:

Remember when your mom would tell you not to eat too much chocolate at night and you’d laugh?

Hope …

:

I’d pay $4.99 right now to be able to download the install disks for Mac OS X 10.4.11 from Apple. …

:

If you read “First, install MacPorts …” and close the tab, it’s thursday.

#ThingsDueOnFriday

:

If it doesn’t have a Debug option, don’t call it a “Powerful New App”.

:

Looking for some South Africa historic fiction. Any recos?

I know history is interesting enough, but …

:

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I don’t know any better.

:

I keep making stupid mistakes …

But at least I tell myself “this wasn’t my brightest idea” more …

:

Minimalism works both ways: it’s not only buying less stuff, but if you do buy, make it something …

:

I want my mobile to connect to desktop chat clients (2005).

I want my desktop to have access to IM …

:

Back from vacation, the slogan: “Colombia: the only risk is wanting to stay”

Is brilliant AND …

:

En Andrés Carne de Res Chía, y después directo al aeropuerto.

Voy a desayunar alka-seltzer.

:

Last week: “Given the past 5 days, I hope to recognize the tech industry when I come back.”

Didn’t …

:

Turistiando en Colombia no puedo evitar pensar que a Venezuela le sobra materia prima, pero le falta …

:

Experienced Colombian culture by having aguaardiente shots.

Never knew the hangover could start …

:

I love my Kindle 3G. Finished book while boarding, bought two more as I sat down.

If only they …

:

CCS ✈ BOG

Really digging the Embraer 190 layout.

:

Reporte aeropuerto: sin duda alguna el gate con el mejor caos es vuelo a Lisboa. La gente del vuelo …

:

Taking a 10 day vacation. At the mercy of open WiFi.

Given the past 5 days, I hope to recognize the …

:

#AyCaracas me mentas la Madre comiendote la luz, pero te frenas para que la mami cruce frente tuyo. …

:

I’ve made a huge tiny mistake with some passwords.

I’m a walking zero-day vulnerability.

:

Need to take a shower after getting home and playing with my 5 slobbering dogs.

Can’t wipe smile …

:

50 minutes and a few dozen copy/paste’s into Google Translate later … my norwegian credit card is …

:

Hmm. Second time in two weeks that the Lion Finder goes berserk on me.

Relaunches itself, but it …

:

Wow, Google buys Motorola. I imagine a bunch of Android licensees now regret not buying Palm.

:

Party Buses: two things that make me throw-up independently —moving vehicles and alcohol— combined …

:

Done with A Storm of Swords. Good, but not as great as previous two.

Going to take a break into …

:

Somedays I looks at myself in the mirror and can’t help but wonder … why didn’t I add haircut to my …

:

Crap, crap, crap, crap.

When they say RTFM … I should read the effing manual.

:

Si alguna vez viste Bambi, y tienes mascotas, siempre que lavas los platos hay un momento que los …

:

Ironically, my iPhone has never misspelled “Damn Autocorrect”.

:

Just wrote this on a chat to justify myself:

“I was drinking wine. Never my best drink for the …

:

My body must have an auto-balancing life expectancy system.

Why else would I crave a Fast Food …

:

My iPhone just looks up from twitter and whispers “Dumbass”.

:

After leaving an underground parking my BlackBerry would stare at me with no signal, as if saying: …

:

Economics is engineering with currency instead of units … and low disregard for gravity, safety …

:

Not that I ever got when to use it … but Facetime is not working for me on Lion.

:

Al parecer hay barberías que ahora abren los lunes.

:

Wine, the answer to … most things.

#chooseyourpoison

:

Ok. I drank the Kool-Aid, OS X 10.7 Lion is pretty awesome.

:

It amuses me to know Chavez uses this US based, venture capitalist financed, web service to manage …

:

Fairness is such a human value, we dreamt up an afterlife so we could digest the most horrid …

:

In my travels, no country received me with as much goodwill as Norway. The Vikings are peaceful …

:

Roundup!!! the word I’ve been looking for the last 15 minutes is ROUNDUP.

Anyone know a good brain …

:

Perder ganando. Venezuela y su #Vinotinto comparten mas que la nacionalidad.

:

Regardless of the server-farm size, there must be a freaked out Sysadmin at Apple right now.

“I can …

:

A diferencia de otros, pido cadena. Un mensaje de unión nos beneficia a todos … a menos que el odio …

:

La Vinotinto olvido la regla #1 de transito en Venezuela: el fiscal puede decir una vaina, pero pila …

:

A friday on the middle of July.

Is the internet even on‽

Hello?

:

Would Be a Great Band Name would be a lousy band name.

:

Corrección del tweet anterior: no estas en una humanidad unida por el destino … estas en una cola de …

:

Sé positivo: no estas en trafico, estas en una inmensa caravana de graduación del colegio de la …

:

“Se le notifica a nuestra distinguida clientela …” es sinónimo de “Miren coño e’ madres …” …

:

You know what they say about guys with big LED displays …

Nothing.

Which is how I know geeks are not …

:

  1. Death
  2. Taxes
  3. DNS

I truly don’t completely understand any of the above.

:

Uno a veces no sabe si es serio o aburrido.

Y creo que si uno lo tiene que preguntar, la respuesta …

:

Just finished Game of Thrones. Immediately bought A Clash of Kings.

Debating when is the best time …

:

If drunk, divide outlook by 1.000. If sober, multiply by 100.

If unsure… get a drink a read tweet …

:

Cancerígenos y cancerígenas …

:

Espero que la cadena arranque con un “Previously on Lost …” por que a mi ya se me olvido que dijo …

:

Traffic, It’s What’s for Dinner.

:

Dammit, feeling so groggy.

Game of Thrones book got all epic on me last night and went to bed way …

:

Search for news about increased gravity a failure. Therefore my weight isn’t lying.

Therefore …

:

Kids, if you ever do the dishes after a big feast, don’t lean on the counter.

Your belly (among …

:

Shuffle puso solito: Arjona, Franco de Vita y Mecano. Ninguna fue adelantada.

Desenmascarado por …

:

Today I yelled “coming!” to my phone as I ran to pick it up.

I’m not getting old … my iPhone just …

:

Apple, Microsoft, Sony and now Nintendo …

This is the geeks equivalent of Shark Week.

:

Seems like a good week to clean up iTunes library.

:

Byebye #BBM. I start evangelizing #iMessage today.

(BTW, stupid name Apple)

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The awe in my dog’s face after yelling from a second floor: “Stop that! I’m watching you”, must be …

:

Might as well accept it:

Pre-#WWDC weekends are of the few I’m ok with days flying by.

:

Just deployed a stable, nice looking and very portable solution for the fambiz.

But if I ever need …

:

Angry drivers with Christian bumper stickers reassure me I won’t be alone in hell.

I will be less …

:

If you fail to grasp the importance of extending my WiFi … I can now tweet from the bathroom. …

:

Just extended my WRT-54g WiFi range with new Airport Express via WDS.

I feel like a MAN.

:

Also, a bit annoyed that none of the kids wearing these sneaker boots don’t get my Back to the …

:

Only reason I’ve noticed that Reebok boots are making a comeback is ’cause my brain keeps saying …

:

Airport security checkpoints take so long that you can easily workout the process. That must be a …

:

If Pawn Stars has taught me anything, is that ending a negotiation meeting with a quick “No” … will …

:

CCS ✈ SJU

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Drank, danced and was merry … bring on the #rapture.

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Kcuf |kākˈôf|:

Solemn utterance intended to revoke multiple shouts of “Fuck!” as a result of reading …

:

There’s something not quite stable about Ubuntu 11.04.

:

Relativity: how saying “it will be ready by End of Work Week” sounds reasonable on Monday vs. …

:

Sometimes you win more by loosing the argument.

Wish I listened to myself sometimes.

:

If you think you’re funny, you could be.

If you know you’re funny, you most likely aren’t.

:

Either Apple’s Dock Connector USB cables reproduce, or I’ve bought a LOT more iPod/iPhones that I’m …

:

I’m pretty sure no monk that reached enlightenment had a drivers license.

:

Dreamt I had proof of alien life.

Then dreamt that I had dreamt it.

I’m a conspiracy.

:

Understanding my destiny, I started to rise and … WHAM!

Never find your destiny while under a table.

:

Personal Hitchcock moment: Reach for toothbrush and notice it isn’t dry.

Pause. Look around. Wonder.

:

Being online used to mean you where in front of a computer.

Nowadays you’ll hear: “Going on …

:

Ok. Last one, but you aren’t going to believe this:

Fuchsia is not a Brazilian singer, it’s actually …

:

Turns out that Magenta is ALSO A COLOR (and not just a manly way to say pink).

We need tougher color …

:

I’ve just been told that “beige” is an actual color, and not a conglomerate of lesser know ones. …

:

There’s a possibility that DSL will be installed at my parents place today. My level of excitements …

:

crasve |kras āv| verb collide violently with the realization that the Save button caused the crash… …

:

Electricidad de vuelta en Chacao, pero tengo el presentimiento que #sinluz será trending topic este …

:

#sinluz Chacao.

Pero tranquilos, no son recortes, es ahorro obligado.

:

Never mind, also not working with Safari or Firefox.

Something must be iffy with the proxy, which …

:

Unholy shit, what a crappy day.

Real life™ needs a soundtrack … a people spam filter and an unfollow …

:

Absorbing presentation design + deadline + chocolate bar next to keyboard + 90 minutes = unexpected …

:

“The installation procedure for Aces Patch B requires that your hard drive have about 3 megabytes …

:

5 hours after scorpion bite, the only superpower I have is a new nervous tick that makes me shake …

:

Watching the Apple liveblog on the my iPad 1 feels like reading Maxim with your girlfriend in the …

:

Mi iPhone tiene auto-detecta el wifi de el Alazán de Altamira.

#soydelacuarta

:

I wish BIOS makers knew how to make subliminal messages.

That way I could remember the fucking …

:

Mail: “Important Tax Return Document Enclosed”.

Well, hello there April … didn’t think I’d see you …

:

Don’t know if it’s a thing, but #ODIS

(Oh Damn it’s Sunday)

#TGIF obnoxious cousin.

:

I tend to forget things when I drink.

OMG WHO JUST WROTE THAT?!

I also argue with meself.

:

Doing some demographic grafx for a presentation. Many filenames with “sex” and “age”on the Desktop. …

:

Very sure the next world war will start because somebody left an empty carton of milk on the fridge.

:

When the flying insect makes a noticeable shadow, it’s time to get the heck out of there.

:

I always logout from my bank account with two distinct attitudes:

  1. Hell Yeah!
  2. Oh Shit.

Today is a …

:

Another great BlackBerry feature: self-aware recycle procedure at kernel-level.

Or …

Fucking phone …

:

I should have known when bitching about no hot water, that there’ll be no water a few seconds later. …

:

Hmmm, update this manually or waste 15min messing with .htaccess so it happens automatically?

500 …

:

If you take the backroads in your commute, give way to those leaving home.

No reason to ruin THEIR …

:

“Marvin: I’ve been talking to the main computer. Arthur: And? Marvin: It hates me.”

One of those …

:

Que sabroso es comer sabroso.

:

A smoke in the middle of the night provides no answers…

But helps with questions.

:

Using twitter/facebook/internet for anything less than a massive democratic revolution seems like a …

:

I have about two dozen effects at my disposal to make a photo appear old and analog.

Can’t seem to …

:

I could never be a F1 driver.

I’d be yelling “PICK A FUCKING LANE!!!” the whole race.

:

27 Km/h

(Speed at which a lady on a ’74 Malibu ahead of me, reaches my rode-range boiling point on a …

:

Not a cloud in the sky, 24°C.

Somehow heading to an office doesn’t seem like a well thought out …

:

Like a Pixar movie, the iPad is quickly developing two plots: a simple touch and go UI, and a …

:

We all tend to imagine that great things come from people doing great things, but I think most of …

:

Finally playing with MacAppStore and Tweetie 2.

Loving it.

:

I finished reading Peter F. Hamilton’s Void Triology last night.

Pure Sci-Fi space opera. But still …

:

If you’ve ever read Sci-Fi short stories from the 60’s, the time to start freaking out is right …

:

Con suéter por Caracas, 15min de Altamira al Cafetal y entrando al cine de Plaza. ¿Será que amanecí …

:

There is no spoon.

Damnation, bad time to have a granola craving.

:

Drinking your sorrows away is stupid … but sorrowing your drink? — that’s just plain disrespectful.

:

“I think I made a huge mistake …”

George Oscar Bluth II.

:

I have the luck of loving my Dad unconditionally AND being infinitely proud of him.

:

“we’re so glad people from the old-guard showed up”.

I laughed …

Until it dawned on me, I was …

:

____```_______`/`___|`/`_`\/`___|` `\___`\|`|`|`\___`\`)||||___)| |____/_/|____/` ```````````````` …

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█████ ██ █ ████ libertad ███ █████ no█████ ████ ████ es ████ ███ █ ██████ negociable.

#SOSinternetVE

:

Sometimes somebody asks exactly the right question. Sadly, I didn’t have an answer.

:

The best mirror is an old friend.” George Herbert

:

█████ ██ █ ████ todo ███ █████ es█████ ████ ████ bueno ████ ███ █ ██████ama. █████ ███████ ███ el …

:

Yikes, the friend which most recently shared a location in Google Latitude was 476 days ago.

Still …

:

Any recos for a good/affordable VPN provider for small groups? Priority is fast browsing speed, not …

:

If AA leaves 2 of my bags ’cause the plane was “too heavy”, can I charge them $100 per bag? (mine …

:

The trouble with the 1980’s as compared with the 1970’s is that teenagers no longer rebel and leave …

:

CCS ✈ SJU

#☂

:

Dear diary: something crazy happened today, I … wait a sec, this is twitter! Where’s the delete …

:

Note to self: the last scraps in a bag of salted nuts is … salt.

:

Me: “I’m not rich enough to use the iPad naked”.

Blank stare.

“I meant, without a case”

Don’t let me …

:

Caracas: ciudad con falla de borde.

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/// / / / / / / /// / // / / // / / / / // /// / /// / / / // ☂ // /// /

:

Weirdest thing, my MacBook wouldn’t recognize my password today.

Told myself “have you tried turning …

:

I 1/♥ CCS

:

Seldom has an “EZ Open” package delivered on its promise.

And don’t get me started on “Resealable!”

:

Having the iPhone, iPad and MacBook on the same room when an appt alarm goes off, reminds of the …

:

Best thing about a Sunday morning run? Guilt-free bacon and cheese sandwich. And I do mean BACON. …

:

Liked Due Date. It’s no The Hangover, but still a fun ride.

[★★★☆☆]

:

Talking on Skype to do some remote work. Internet too slow for video, then connection just went …

:

Yikes, two gory motorcycle accidents on a 3Km highway stretch. Time for policy debate?

Or maybe …

:

#QueLadilla. Anoche se metieron unos rateros y mudaron tecnologicamente a mi mamá: MacBook Pro, …

:

Voy a estar pendiente eventualmente en mercadolibre, pero si por casualidad alguien le ofrecen uno …

:

Creo que soy un racista urbano: odio esta ciudad, pero no tengo argumentos que no sean prejuicios.

:

Ahora sí que el sector privado no va a construir ni un policía acostado en Venezuela.

:

¿No te da pena? 130 millones de votos en Brasil, y dan los resultados a las 8:30PM.

:

Was voted head of the energy, water and gas committee of my commune.

Given that we have shortages of …

:

This is a public service announcement:

  1. NO ONE can touch my computer screen.
  2. If you smoke, you can’t …

:

DCA ✈ MIA ✈ CCS

DC and Caracas on the same day?

If I hear “Clear and Present Danger” or see Harrison …

:

Ouch! #alcs

:

Oh, btw. I bought a 11″ MacBook Air.

Will review soon.

:

Forgot to mention that I saw The Social Network last night. Being an Aaron Sorkin fan, it was easy …

:

SJU ✈ MIA

:

I’ve seen the future, and I owe him money.

:

A cold sweat appears when I read the error: “Please contact your domain administrator…”

Which, I am.

:

Brain hurts and heart shakes its head.

Or is it the other way around?

:

“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes.”

I’m getting a cold. Sigh.

:

Anybody know of a certified Norwegian→English translator?

Need to translate 3 Skattekort Tax pages, …

:

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor …

:

No quiero que la oposición sea un solo partido, pero sí quiero que se inscriban bajo una sola opción …

:

iPhone volume level when connected to car: 100%

Level my head blows-off with headphones : 92% …

:

W00t! hello #NewTwitter.

Let me try to break something.

:

Don’t know about you, but some of us are celebrating.

#26S

:

Have faith #26S.

Even when we lose the ability to be amazed, we can surprise ourselves.

:

As I turn 29, I’m reminded of all the successful communist states that have appeared during my …

:

As I turn 29, I wonder: “if Venezuela’s inflation is 30%, does that mean I’m 1% younger than most …

:

#dedomorado + 1.

:

Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, Facebook.com is down.

:

Playing around with iOS 4.2 beta on the iPad. No way I can go back to 3.2 now.

:

The best thing about so many eBook readers everywhere, is that –for the first time– no one told me …

:

I hate writing formal emails in spanish. It takes twice the space and it’s half as clear.

:

Mother fucker. Arrived home to a dead MacBook.

Simply won’t turn on.

:

I’ve just spend a month traveling. It was basically a combination of fortunate smaller trips that …

:

LHR ✈ MIA ✈ CCS

3 eBooks, 2 movies and 1 TV season … and I will probably fall asleep.

Media overkill …

:

About to watch: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Excited!

:

A lady with a Kindle 3 sat next to me on the train. The contrast of the screen looks amazing.

Damn, …

:

Just had tap wine and bottled water.

#Paris

:

London → Paris

Mind the écart.

:

Just wrote this to somebody as part of an email, but soon realized it applies to myself. I’m 3/4 of …

:

My dad on why he travels to certain places on his vacations:

“when you live in chaos, you crave …

:

When in doubt, order the house wine. It’s like a pizza: usually cheap, goes down easy, and every …

:

If you’re having a great time with your family in Borough Market, DO NOT go to …

:

So ashamed. Fell asleep during the ENTIRE tour bus in Athens.

Will try again tomorrow with more than …

:

Boston ✈ London ✈ Istanbul.

See you in 8.000 Km!

:

At my first American wedding rehearsal dinner. Hopefully I’ll remember all the same drinks for …

:

Gotta love somebody who describes his nephew as a “care-bear on acid”.

:

Some people are born 2 shots behind. Amazing the fun when they catch up.

:

I’m at my most spiriytual on the back of a Boston cab.

:

Just dreamt I was “at home” in Oslo.

Stupid brain.

:

West Palm Beach ✈ Boston

:

San Juan ✈ Miami

Que cosa mas grande, chico.

:

Need to leave Puerto Rico soon. Too. Much. Food.

#burp.

:

Serious family business talk + mojitos + Peruvian restaurant = funniest food order mom has ever …

:

Caracas ✈ San Juan, PR

:

And by live, I mean life.

:

Everyone should buy an one-way ticket sometime in their live.

:

¿Alguien sabe algún local en la zona Hatillo - Los Naranjos con wifi decente? Gracias!

:

After hearing my first two songs: “Hurts like Listerine” and “5 blades agains my cheek”, my manager …

:

Do you ever try to use The Force to pull your iPhone from across the room?

No? Oh. Eh, right… Me …

:

Friend, I absolutely respect your spiritual beliefs, not your FWD emails on the topic. If god needs …

:

Dreamt I was late for my final physics exam. Woke up in cold sweat. I do not want to be 17 ever …

:

Kids, always remember to keep your distance from the car with vomit on the driver’s door. #HIMYM

:

Few things suck my time –and I enjoy as much– as when a friend asks: Which Windows Laptop should I …

:

I think my friends are getting tired of me saying “I have good news and bad news”.

If you’re one of …

:

Creo que el próximo debería ser Páez, y de ahí un esqueleto de Presidente cada dos semanas. …

:

Watching my grandmother struggle with her DVD player makes me wish bad thoughts for some genius UX …

:

Como diría mi abuela: “mierda que pea”. Felicitaciones a los casados.

:

¡Ay Caracas! Sometimes, I love to hate this city.

The rest of the time, it’s the other way around.

:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears … fuck, I lost my notes.

Hang-on, I’ll be right back.

:

Outsmarted by an octopus.

I wonder if he does financial planning.

:

Screams, fireworks, people singing and car horns playing.

It’s not that we used to be a colony; we …

:

I’m reading a book about being productive while working remotely, and I keep falling asleep.

This is …

:

Oyendo este partido me siento como en el 12 de Abril.

:

If you tell me “look at the bright side” and don’t get -or care- about my Monty Python reference … …

:

Being a geek is all about focusing «How?» and never paying attention to the «Why?»

:

5 hour wait to apply for new passport was rewarded with an all-you-can-eat Brazilian place in the …

:

En las próximas 24 horas se va a joder una comida: o no se puede salir a cenar, o ni de broma me …

:

Haven’t laughed that hard in a movie theater in a while: The A-Team rocks (★★★★☆)

:

My internet connection is so slow, this bad joke still needs 25 minutes to download.

:

Btw, viva Mexico!

:

I think the US leaves as an accepted member of the football world. Just stop calling it soccer.

:

Now back to the regular geeky programing, for any follower I have left.

:

There is a 50% chance this marriage will produce a Chicago Cubs fan.

We really need some sort of …

:

No sane person should live under these internet speeds.

:

The web detox has been mostly good over the last week, but I’m getting withdrawal symptoms now.

P1 …

:

2 hours and 20 minutes to download 378MB. Sigh. I miss Oslo.

:

Off to bed. Thankful that a late night email opened the possibility of a project. Specially since an …

:

The huge butterfly in my bathroom wall is either:

  1. A perv,
  2. Very relaxed with human presence,
  3. Dead.

:

  1. Dad tries to get out of something (which he never does either way) ’cause “it’s my day” …

:

Fathers Day Lunch Bingo:

  1. Somebody points out that he was already a dad at your age …

:

  1. The Story gets told.

Every family has one. And today, you get to hear it for the gazillion time.

:

MIA✈CCS

Emocionado por las eminentes fiestas patronales.

:

I just had a “brownie filled cookie”.

Let the record show I died a happy fatso.

:

I think Safari 5 has a money saving mode. If I go to gizmodo.com and search for IPS, it crashes …

:

This week I got my new personal business cards. I went with COLOURLovers, This Is Not A Rainbow …

:

Jumping over the Atlantic

It been about a month since I arrived in the US after leaving Norway.

The …

:

Safari 5 really becomes unstable with some extension combinations. Trying to figure out the culprit.

:

“un poema de tres letras, Gol!” los narradores de Univision le tiran a Neruda.

:

When the iPhone autocorrects “Thongs” when you meant “things”, get ready for a Chevy Chase type …

:

I’m getting geeky old: I have access to the iOS 4 gold build, but don’t want to mess with my iPhone …

:

Made my first Par today! (don’t about the other 17 holes)

:

My brain has created very powerful adversaries to beat for jogging: ice in Oslo, lighting in Miami, …

:

I need either $100k more or 10Kg less to live in this city.

:

The death of the Newton has been avenged by the killer himself.

i.e.: I love my iPad.

:

Just spent 45min helping a friend who lost an important file in a USB drive boot sector crash.

:

Mix: Very sunny 12 hour bike ride, t-shirt, helmet and gloves. What do you get? The weirdest sunburn …

:

Ha-harr-rrle-ey’s ar-are fuun-n, but-t-t, th-they vibrrrrat-te-te a lot-tt.

:

I love  rumors that basically mention everything that hasn’t being updated during the last 6 …

:

I can begin to understand friends who are expecting a baby.

Apple just emailed; my iPad is on its …

:

Deleting all my playlist in iTunes and creating new ones. Kinda forgot how fun it was to make them …

:

Years ago, I was convinced that Computer Viruses where germs, bacteria, and yes, viruses.

No wonder …

:

On June 7, you have an appointment with a couple of Apple liveblogging sites.

:

Pizza, pizza, just delivered, Thanks for being so considerate. And before you make me fat, Please …

:

Turns out I’m worse at golf than pool. And some of you know how much I suck at pool.

:

Folders in iPhone OS 4.0 can’t come soon enough.

:

Holy humidity batman!

Welcome to Miami.

:

Two Advils and a Blue Moon. Almost ready for another overnight flight.

:

Cool to see everyone playing with there new HTC Evo around Google IO

:

Time for new sunglasses: ducked to avoid a big something that was coming at me from the sky. Turns …

:

Train rides have a duality to them; the rural scenery is beatiful, yet the the urban areas are …

:

Taking the Coast Starlight train from Seattle to San Francisco. (Fun fact: same one they took in the …

:

Yes Apple, I want an iPad.

No, you don’t have any right now. So stop emailing me about “picking one …

:

Boston ✈ Seattle.

It was really great to be with my family. Although, I shouldn’t eat anything this …

:

Just finished Enders Game on top of the Seattle space needle. Don’t know what it means, but it meant …

:

The MobileMe Mail Beta is actually pretty nice. If it does go free, it could give Gmail some …

:

With regards to accesories, the nook seems to be considerably ahead of the Kindle.

:

You know the Monty Python sketch where the fat guy blows up after one final bite? That’s me in 5 …

:

The people’s republic of Cambridge: a place where crazy people, intelectuals and nerds take part in …

:

App is the new .com

:

BTW, even with a 9 hour layover in Paris, #AirFrance managed to leave my bag there. Me thinks they …

:

In Boston!

I ♥ Boston. Have I mentioned it before? Well I do.

:

Just reserved my iPad 3G 32Gb. Hopefully will be back in stock soon.

:

Little known fact: french versions of apps only install if you click “No” in the End Users License …

:

Never thought I’d call “home” a place in such a faraway land. Thanks for everything Norway. I …

:

Just said final goodbyes. Going to miss a lot some good friends in Oslo.

:

Kick-Ass: Never has a movie title better described my review. (★★★★★)

:

#PackingNotes: clothes hangers are intelligent beings. When threatened, they form packs and work …

:

#PackingNotes: I have enough sweaters to survive a winter in Pluto.

:

#PackingNotes: remember that ziplock with incense candles you left on top of the bookshelf? … …

:

#PackingNotes: That sturdy beer glass you’ve had for more than a year, will suddenly become fragile.

:

#PackingNotes: with everything in the van you’ll go and get your wallet. Which is in last night’s …

:

#PackingNotes: You’ll suddenly realize a dozen people will notice you misspelled “kitschen” in one …

:

There must be a glitch in the Matrix - snow in may? -.

And all my winter stuff is packed in a box.

:

Iron Man 2: not as great as the first one, but not a franchise killer (★★★☆☆)

:

Ouch.

:

Everybody is claiming support for HTML5 as a way to weaken Adobe Flash before pushing their own …

:

Adobe really needs to have an amazing Flash version for Android soon, or embrace HTML5. The burden …

:

It’s getting tiring to write “… iPhones, iPods and iPads” every damn time. Thinking of using iProds.

:

Taxes filled. I must say that the official Norwegian online tax submission is 10x simpler than US …

:

Back in Oslo after a month. Landlord asked permission come in and “arrange some stuff” for pics. …

:

Damn, I was counting on WWDC being on late June.

:

Sleepless after an afternoon of kidnapping horror stories. My neighbor being the main character of …

:

Que sabroso es votar.

:

Impresionante como “¿muerto quiere misa?” y “¿tico quieres pizza?” suenan parecido, y significan lo …

:

There is something really fun about bringing a 5 y/o laptop back to life, and setting it up “just …

:

Any recommendation of international movers in Europe? Finding lots of brokers online, but not the …

:

Missed. My. Flight.

Include #pendejo on any reply.

:

Madrid, amazing friends, great weather, and abundant food and caña. Good times.

:

Y ahora a ver a los madrileños estresados en el segundo tiempo. Grande fiesta o grande rasca. …

:

Walked around city. Visited a museum. Slept on the park after watching iPhone OS 4 keynote, and soon …

:

In Genoa. Trully beautiful city, filled with, ehm, beautiful stuff. No Apple Store, but at the …

:

Ahh Paris, the city where you can eat deliciously without paying too mu … WTF? €39?

:

I know that in India, if you’re one in a million, there are 1100 people just like you …

:

In Paris. My “femmes with guitars” playlist never sounded so good.

:

AMS → PAR.

Had a great time. Pretty unique window shopping though.

:

Breast of a monkey = ahpe teet

:

Do you swallow or spit? = sch-lick yea off spuk yea?

:

Marry me = Traumah

:

Top 3 useful phrases from the cityspy.info map for Amsterdam:

:

Call it Europa, Continental Europe or whatever, over the next two weeks I’ll be backpacking and …

:

OSL ✈ AMS

:

Need a soundtrack for the next two weeks. Going to buy a few albums and search the iTunes attic for …

:

Fantastic Mr. Fox Screencap

★★★★★

Loved this film. It’s typical a Wes Anderson movie done in animated stop-motion. If you like …

:

Testing geolocation on Twitter.

:

Over the past two years, my use of Facebook has dropped consistently. To the point that I only use …

:

phew, just made a big credit card payment. Remind me never again to think that a big limit is a good …

:

When I see a new iMac I’m convinced the iMac+iPad combo just makes sense. Then I use my MacBook on a …

:

Amazon’s Kindle passive-aggressive ads against iPad: Easy to read, even on bright sunlight. Free 3G, …

:

Seriously considering quitting Facebook for a personal tumblr blog. To login feels like a chore, and …

:

Book publishers: some “people” won’t just buy the paperback when the eBook is unavailable. They …

:

Happy about tomorrow chill plans. Just what the doctor ordered after this week. Well, maybe not …

:

It is done. #ERP

:

Europe has 731 million people speaking 23 languages. S America, 569 Million and 3 major ones.

No …

:

Not artsy enough for today’s concert at Blå. All I hear is static and echo.

:

“the simplest explanation is usually the right one” vs. “things aren’t always what they seem”. My …

:

Don’t worry, given my skills, I won’t be able to say no. Also, feel free to tell me that my Mom was …

:

If you’re reading this tweet from Boston in 2007. Please find me and demand that I take the …

:

Some emails can knock your air out.

:

Really beautiful day in Oslo. Brain keeps saying “Must go out!”, body answers: “check the …

:

About to see in 3D how deep the rabbit hole goes.

:

Just heard some great news from great friends. Was reminded that you shouldn’t fret 9-5 too much. …

:

Done for the night. See you all in six hours.

:

About 40 screenshots to go #1050isgonnarock

:

Always remember: when in doubt, restart.

:

If you’re ever cooking, and for the life of you - suddenly can’t find the recipe book. Check the …

:

Cold, dark and snowy. IPod shuffle playlist just turned suicidal. What an #ERP walk home.

:

If I don’t have the skills to fill my competence skills in the #ERP system, should I just take the …

:

Previous tweet misunderstood. Not ↓, just making a peculiar joke. Anyways, #ERP’it.

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Trying out an US layout keyboard again after two years. Pressing  instead of ↩︎ every 5 seconds …

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Just had an uplifting chat about possible future plans with a good friend.

Crazy talk, but still …

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I’m wary of websites that put the US on top of the country pull-down list.

Does it have a silent “A” …

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Can’t believe I hadn’t seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang before. Brilliant movie.

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Ender’s Game is the first book on my reading list not available for the Kindle.

Will probably go …

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Just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire. Liked 1st one better, but still good enough. Looking …

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Less that half-way through, and today’s work day sucks. I have: angry, sarcastic, condescending and …

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Snowboarding was great! Managed to stand long enought to say: ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” ~Mark Twain

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Thinking of a Web browser with integrated keylogger.

You leave it as default browser in Mac guest …

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Doing benchmarks is so much fun when you win.

Specially by a whole lot.

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Damn. Just dreamt I was being mugged at gunpoint. There was no indication, but I knew I was back in …

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The idea that a package sent from Florida on monday arrived two days later still baffles me.

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I hate PayPal so much.

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Feliz Dia Palíndromo! 01022010

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Unlike the iPhoneOS, OS X and Windows are full of UI dead-ends. Menus and dialogs that after you …

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Keep thinking that  is trying to tell us what we don’t wanna hear:

Humans are the ones that can’t …

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Could the iPad’s 3G weird Micro Sim be more about an iPod touch 3G?

Maybe  is segmenting 3G: iPhone …

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There should never be a Sync button on an App. It’s either an option that’s enabled and works in the …

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Remember to reset your iPhone if it’s acting up. It may put a strong face, but it still has a …

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I dreamt about the Apple tablet last night. I was playing a board game on it with a friend. …

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TechCrunch: Will Next Week’s Apple Event Finally Bring Background Apps To The iPhone?

No. …

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Propuesta: marcar con #sinluz los reportes de corte de electricidad en Venezuela.

Facilita encontrar …

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Handyman inability:

  1. Take apart a device with just one screw
  2. Put everything back together
  3. Notice …

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Got Win7 with Boxee up and running on Acer Revo. Don’t quote me but, Win7 is kinda nice.

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Back in Oslo. Everything is very white and very cold. Just want to get home, eat a soup and go to …

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Happy new year/decade everyone.

Have fun and be safe. It’s going to be a great year.

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Well, I think everything is done. Or as done as you can make it without coding anything. Now, off to …

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Aww crap.

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I think world leaders have not seen enough “killer asteroid” type movies.

And people have seen too …

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Having a not-great day.

Am I calm? I’m fucking ZEN!

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Just ordered me-dad and me-self two Kindle’s for Xmas.

You can now feel safe that Apple is going to …

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Twitter is finding out about “things” before some mailinglists.

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seriously considering opening a new mail account just for humans. Services/lists emails are taking …

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Questions to answer on any project doc:

Rename headlines as needed.

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Google CEO: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing …

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Just used “iffy” in a troubleshooting email reply. I just know I’ll regret it.

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Every time you put a target date in a roadmap, an angel loses its wings.

They instantly become …

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I had completely forgotten that the tv was announced the same day as the iPhone. Talk about being …

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The weather sponsored test for foreigners in Norway is over. Rainy Nov is gone. Cold -yet blue or …

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MacBook media center won’t start again. What am I supposed to do? Read? … oh, right.

But need to fix …

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Girl who was walking really fast and turning around in front of me. Sorry if I scared you. Had my …

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Never judge a book by its cover.

But do judge an app by its icon.

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Lost returns 2/2/2010 9pm EST. They have 18 hours left to explain WTF is going on. I just hope they …

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Just got my Google Wave invite. Thanks SpE!

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Happy to find out PS3 games are region free (unlike Blu-ray movies). Will lump together a bunch of …

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If “Office Plant Police” is ever made into a TV Show, I’ll be in deep trouble. I’m so sorry Shirley!

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Starting to loose geek creed with friends when they ask if I have Google Wave invites. Don’t even …

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movie / destruction level / responsible: independence day / 50% / aliens Day after 2morrow / 80% / …

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Oslo sentrum on Sunday morning is a vomit minefield.

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However you call it: ratón, resaca, cruda, guayabo, hangover or fyllesyke.

I have it ☂

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Every time I say “it’s snowing, it’s snowing. God I hate this weather”, I’m quoting a Fointains of …

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Twitter should have a friday night filter. The norwegian tweets I’m seeing are similar to the …

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#propuestapais: Diez mil bibliotecas. Cualquier libro publicado en el país, garantizado una compra …

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S’noooooooooooooo’w

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«emailing is not work» That’s why engineering types write short and nasty ones and marketing types …

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Feeling kinda of dirty for using iWeb on a site project I’m helping out on. But it’s sooooo easy to …

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Can anybody suggest good Windows software product pages? have a bunch of Mac ones, but few from the …

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Just ordered my first Pizza online in Oslo. Can’t believe it took me a year. Will see everybody …

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Going to People’s for brunch/lunch. In case anyone wants to join.

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Random thought: a black bear with insomnia during hibernation must be really bored. Or pissed.

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Yikes! Kindle International Edition: $279, Shipping: $20.98, Import fees to Norway: $75.00.

Think …

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It’s past 7am in the East Coast. Bye bye twitter. As soon as the US wakes up, the #obama_nobel …

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Oslo’s duty free creates a conundrum: I need to spend to save money.

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Flying to London for the weekend. Must not buy a Sony e-book reader, must not buy a … Kinda glad my …

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Just bought online Assassin’s Creed and Little Big Planet for my new PS3. Couldn’t resist it.

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What a hellish day. Meetings are productivity bloodsuckers.

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Health, love, family and friends (here, there and everywhere). Best birthday ever. Hello 28.

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#fall09TV List: The Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother, The Mentalist, Mad Men, Psych, Bored To …

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If your iPhone displays all incoming calls as an “Unknown Caller” check with your provider. Most …

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Don’t know why I trust small companies more than big ones: just deleted my mint.com account after …

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Kinda of ashamed of how much I enjoy coming to ikea

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Back in Oslo. Turkey was great. Need to go trough 1000+ pics to make something shareable.

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Sarps b-day party was incre-wait for it-dible. Headache is a reminder of the good times.

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Leaving for turkey! I think I figured out how we can make nano CPU processors. Will tweet when I …

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Sometimes I appreciate the productivity elegance of not answering an email. It’s the Norwegian way …

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Least fun part of the job: taking screenshots in Windows Vista machine. Not only do I hate Vista, it …

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MacBook mediacenter now up and running again with Snow Leopard + Miro + Boxee. Suck on that TV …

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A blank canvas paralyzes me. Templates, examples and blueprints get me going.  was right: Rip. Mix. …

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Country compatibility check #7: You’re the scary one in a dark alley.

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Editing actual content in XML is like, like, hmmm. It sucks!

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I hate DVD media so much. Why can’t I download an OS image to an USB drive? Screw the fruit company, …

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Media center MacBook just died. Looks like hard drive is fried, then I’ll take this in stride. It’s …

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Took hard drive out. It’s dead alright. Sounds like an old 14.4 modem trying to connect. I think I …

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It’s alive!!!

Have you told your consumer electronics you love them recently? Do it now. You’ll feel …

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Rework took a bit longer than expected, but happy with the results. Let’s see what the rest of the …

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I actually like the blue dots #opera10

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If anyone sees my brain, please tell it to report back to the mezzanine. thanks.

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Parents 30th anniversary. Me: “Big plans?” Mom: “We forgot!” That’s love … ♥

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RT “Aristóbulo, pasame el Twitter ese para escribirle a esa gente”- “Señor Presidente, solo acepta …

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5 years after watching it (twice) in theaters, The Matrix Reloaded still does not deserve to be …

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Yikes. It has been actually 6 years since Reloaded! They must be right: Time heals everything.

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Video chatting with my dad in Caracas. Grandma shows up and tells us how she used to send telegrams …

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There is a simple moment of blissfulness when something compiles without errors ↩︎

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Manually backing up old blog posts for website update. I cringe at most of my predictions: about …

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Breakfast or lunch? That is the question. #lazysunday

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Lots of noise. I order beer. Girl behind bar points to “be good or be gone” sign. Sudenly there is a …

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brive.  (verb): To operate and control the browser.

she told him:click there, no, the other one; he …

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You say tomato, I say we stopped talking about fruits and vegetables a few days ago. Why bring it up …

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Just realized that background notifications don’t work in my unlocked iPhone. I can imagine why …

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La peor parte de la Censura es ♒♒♒ ♒♒♒♒ #FreeMediaVe

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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” ~ …

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Surprised of how much I liked Ice Age 3. [****]

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inbox zero! (+5 unremovable’s). Next week is mostly planned out. This can only mean: it’s …

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“You can’t tolerate the facts” #1stdraftmovielines

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Weekend rafting in Sjoa was super fun. Everything. Hurts. Today.

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Newsweek article prompted me to start working again on an idea about a social network for vzlan …

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phew, now that Raúl Castro is in Nicaragua we can finally have a productive discussion regarding …

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Transformers 2 is 148 minutes too long [★★]

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Creativity dissolves when you tell somebody what needs to be done. Followed by, how he/she should do …

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rum with iced tea makes the clouds go away. And also smile like a bloody idiot.

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Had whale steak last weekend and elk burgers last night. If trend continues, will probably have …

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Hmm. My “trick” to use • in front of some playlist names (• Latest podcasts) to keep them on top, …

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Rainy day in Oslo. Not that Norwegians notice.

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OS 3.0 up and running on my unlocked 1st gen iphone. Feels snappier™

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It was a long day. Good news that tomorrow is going to be … a little shorter. Yet more intensive.

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Looks like tomorrow is going to be a loooong day.

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please work. please work. please work. please work.

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Pretty sure I’m sitting this #iPhone out also. Can’t stand locked phones anymore. Gonna wait till …

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They seemed to have fixed all my complaints with my MacBook 13in. Better battery, FW800 and lower …

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✔ inbox 0 ✔ cleared desktops ✔ weekly log ✔ updated task list ✔ ready for weenend ✖ beer time

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bought mocha beans dipped in chocolate to “curb sugar craving at work”. Bag is gone now. Stomach …

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the #tvshow Mental is really bad. Predictable plot, characters and overall formula. It’s going to be …

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#opera10 tip: Double-click on the handle below the tabs to fully show/hide visual tabs

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Healthy wrap place around the corner from office is turning into a spicy kebab and pizza. How sad. …

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Thoughts go out to the Atlantic Ocean #FlightAF447

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Darn. I was so tired last night that I left the fridge open. The germ freak in me will probably …

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Back at work. Lots of it.

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Hmm. Surprising how a little a little rum on the iced tea helps with video editing creativity.

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Weird, twitpic points to another pic than the one I took. This could potentially be scary.

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Really liked the Star Trek movie. Surprised how they managed to balance 6 TV series and 10 movies …

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Gonna write a userscript that searches thepiratebay.org every time a site displays “This video is …

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On plane full of norwegians. Not one mouth mask. Pretty sure attitude is: if we’re gonna die, might …

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… Or maybe they’re convinced that no flu can survive aquavit. Which is probably a scientifict fact.

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Leaving for Paris to meetup with sis and mum. Found the napkin with solution to Riemann Hypothesis.

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How gullible. I felt happy reading something is available exclusively for . When it actually means …

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Another person told me I spoke english with scandinavian accent! Ja? Nie. It will be a loooong time …

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Arrived in London. Thank you norwegian.no for losing the bag you took from me at the door. Pendejos.

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Btw, I think I solved the Riemann Hypothesis in a napkin. Will post it when I land

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Leaving for a weekend in London. Hope the weather is as nice as Oslo.

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Let me say this in the nicest way possible: the new Aluminum MacBook battery sucks ass vs. the …

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iPhone completely locked up when I unplugged headphones. Weird.

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As more early majority friends join Twitter I see a future with two accounts. A private one that …

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I think it’s officially time to put away the winter jacket. Beautiful day in Oslo!

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“Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument …

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Leaving Boston for Oslo. So long and thanks for all the meat! Btw, I found a new way to measure time …

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thank u “md” open wifi. I appreciate your socialist tech-kindness

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Walking around Cambridge-Boston. Nostalgia+dejavu+smiles=sighs

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Leaving Peter Luger. I apologize to the cow’s family. They died for a good cause though.

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In cab to NYC. Now where is my Red Sox’s cap?

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It took a couple of trips to realize that the international security point in oslo airport is to …

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Start spreading the news … In Iceland, next stop: NYC!!! (Don’t worry Boston, see you next week)

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In mobile monday oslo. A LOT more suits than expected. I’m wearing a t-shirt

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What a dumbass. Survived 3 winter months without falling on the ice and I sprain my ankle walking to …

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“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” Or will it? Loved #BSG finale.

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Undo Send, Drunk email Filter, Calendar gadget. If Gmail existed in the late 90’s half of Dawson’s …

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Good friends are made obvious with simple actions.

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This was a weird week at work. A couple of “truths” where shaken. But the weekend is here and beer …

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“Forever’s not so long” nice short film.

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Down again. Effing site.

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Site is back up. Maybe it just wanted some attention? That’s all I need, a spoiled virtual server.

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Going to Watchmen tonight. W00t!

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Having a blanding beer (half pilsner, half bayer) in the northernmost brewery in the world. In …

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After 8 months in Oslo I finally found a rude and useless Norwegian. He works at the Manpower.no …

:

There is excitement in the office Quake Live I see a few working late days in the future

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My life just flashed before my eyes. Actually, it was a Fanta bottle falling on my keyboard. Turning …

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Damnation! missed some paperwork, hence tax retention for this month was 50%. I TENKE (think in …

:

Did find a website to get both a library card AND pay my hunting license fee. Useful if I ever need …

:

Damnation. Woke up with a Cold.

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Beautiful and cold day in Oslo (-15C).

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I officially reached adulthood: just bought a dryer for my apartment.

:

Tip: if you wanna meet the head of security of wroclaw airport, bring a tempur-pedic travel pillow …

:

In Poland. Bad weather in Wroclaw so had to land in Krakow (not as close as it sounds, 4h bus ride) …

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Venezuelan pianist playing with Yo-Yo Ma in inauguration right now (Gabriela Montero)

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Arrived home.

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Ccs-Fra flight delayed. Probably going to miss Fra-Osl connection. Hence, will be late for work. …

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Radio interview in about 1 minute to talk about Opera (90.3 FM)

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I think I just unlocked my first iPhone 3G.

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Movistar iPhone 3G unlock: epic fail

:

A good source in movistar told me that the Bold numbers completly overshadowed iPhone 3G launch …

:

Blackberry Messenger network effects in Venezuela are impressive. 9 out of 10 friends and family …

:

finally upgraded to wordpress 2.7. New admin screen (dashboard) is beautiful

:

I would be so rich if I had to fill out expense reports for my personal life. But it would be a sad …

:

Simple iPhone sync just went to hell. Phone is now locked and very pissed about not being activated.

:

Long and tiring day in Sandvika mall. But got 80% of my Christmas shopping done. Ho ho ho

:

Hit the snooze button two hours ago. Now 1 hour late for work. I hate Mondays.

:

Oslo, Dec 8th. Sunrise: 9:05am. Sunset: 3:13pm. Times my stomach thinks it’s dinner: 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, …

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Fucking pissed. Has been a while. Probably will work out in the end.

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in a Bavarian party. Darkest guy in the room!!

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Most senile moment in my life: just went into the storage room, pickup a bag and … lost the fragging …

:

MacBook trackpad update seems to be working great.

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yes store.ea.com, I’m in Norway. But, there is a chance that I want to use the US store you bloody …

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Frag. It’s sometimes easier to bittorrent a damn game than to buy it legally. I’m talking to you …

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www.Backpackit.com finally gets an iPhone client www.frontpocketapp.com Sadly t

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Just setup a rsync script that runs every hour with launchd, and moves downloaded “content” by afp …

:

I was at the market with my Red Sox cap on and the checkout guy asked me “are you happy with the …

:

I’ve been having an usability discussion with my snooze button in the last week. My use-case needs …

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W00t! 2x2gigs sticks from Crucial just arrived. MacBook 2006 to 2008 transition is almost done. …

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Just ate horse meat. Feel dirty and remorseful. In other words, feeling sexy. Still, couldn’t look …

:

O shite. It’s snowing. Wake me up in spring.

:

Went to gym for a run. Couldn’t figure out the f*cking keypad to open the door. Dammit

:

Back in Oslo. UK was great! Now I need to catch up with the office. Fast

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In Scotland. Presenting tomorrow in University of St. Andrews and then University of Glasgow

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in London. Somehow lost the list of numbers for friends I wanted to call. It’s a city of only 12M, I …

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New Macbook is in the bag. Literally. W00t! Will play with it later today. Now, any recomendation …

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Dammit! New MacBooks out of stock at southampton store. Saw one though, love at first sight.

:

Apple Store Bristol doesn’t have new MacBooks yet. Damn.

:

Thanks to everyone that showed up at University College of London and those who tagged along to …

:

Having a pint on an old style English pub under the big ben talking about universal healthcare. …

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Jogged for an hour. It was 80% commitment and 20% getting lost. Really lost.

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Best t-shirt I saw in Bergen. Image: whale in the background. Text: If we had dolphins we would eat …

:

There are many reasons why I never forget that the iPhone has real OS. One of them being that …

:

Finally going to watch wall-e! Really wish Emi was here though

:

Wall-E, Terminator, The Matrix and Battlestar Galactica: the robot uprising has been pre-announced

:

The only way to say something nice about my haircut is to tell people who are staring: “it’s art”

:

The Rev3 HD streaming on the AppleTV is amazingly fast.

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Going to ☾. But before I had to twitterkey. I’m such a ♟ (it’s a pawn, just in case)

:

Sat down on the couch and MacBook shutoff. Pressed play and AppleTV reseted. Waiting for iPhone to …

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Holy toledo, X-Plane is out for the iPhone!!! buying this instant.

:

15min with new AppleTV. Already in love.

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New iPhone 2.1 feature “Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts”. Very useful imho

:

Front Row Update out. Maybe now it can see rented movies.

:

Calendar and email push in MobileMe are definitely not working for me

:

No suprise. Amazon.com video on demand doesn’t work in Norway, even with US account (unlike iTunes)

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Ok eReader, I have unsubscribed from your mailing list 4 times. Somehow I thought you where a …

:

End of an era. Don LaFontaine (the voice-over of almost every trailer I’ve seen) passed away

:

Found Dr.Pepper in Oslo. Happy days are here again

:

Ok. I’ll say it: Oh shoot, google is getting in the browser business!

:

Fascinated and scared shitless by the fact that I’m sitting in the balcony of my rented apt (for a …

:

Praise the lords of kobol! internet in my new apartment! fast, sweet, 1MBps cable

:

Looking back on my life, I can honestly say: I don’t think that chocolate pudding was such a great …

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unappreciated details of life: try asking for baby powder in a language you don’t know. For extra …

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unappreciated details of life: being able to read what the checkout register says. Godkjent means …

:

The Taco Pizza is the most delicious innovation in the pizza world since pepperoni. And no, …

:

Playing around with squarespace.com Looks pretty good. All I need now is content for my blog

:

I just bought cheese in a supermarket in Oslo. At least it looks like cheese

:

Sometimes you have to suppress that “WTF am I doing here!” feeling and just go with the flow

:

On my way to Oslo. Chao playita, hi fjords!

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La atención de CaracasHosting.com va de mal en peor. No recomendado

:

unlocking dad’s iPhone … everything looking good for now

:

Done with AT&T. I find it funny/visionary that I was using Skype to cancel my AT&T account.

:

I’ve been on hold for 20 minutes trying to get a way to pay AT&T an early cancellation fee from …

:

Taking pictures of babies is a bad idea. You feel like crap when you try to delete the “bad ones”

:

Running iPhoneOS 2 in Venezuela with Digitel.

:

hulu.com now has the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Gonna miss hulu too.

:

gad-da’mit Boston. I’m gonna miss you.

:

can’t help thinking TB Rays pitcher Balfour needs new name.

:

maybe Strikthree. Dunno. Just saying

:

at Red Sox game. Wondering what the data cables on top of me are

:

How in the bloody hell does a post that only says Twitter! gets on techmeme?

:

I think I’m gonna give up on Spook Country. Almost halfway through and still I’m forcing myself to …

:

Mars Phoenix landed!!!

:

Just noticed that my building is in the background of a CD cover of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

:

Just accepted Product Manager position at Opera Software. Moving to Oslo in August. Very excited!

:

Making two running playlists: /Pumped and /Plateau. The / at the start puts it at the top of the …

:

Eg forstår ikkje is going to be part of my vocabulary soon.

:

Officially a MSIS and MBA. Unofficially: G33k

:

That was a very fun party. I think.

:

parents are here for graduation

:

holy shit, Ars Wired? This could be cool!

:

Playing around with textmate and textile on the blog.

:

Initially I was convert my 1st rev Macbook to a media thingy adter buying the upcoming version. Now …

:

vespa along the charles with emi on the back. Bliss

:

Emily llega hoy!!!

:

Back in Boston

:

I’m pretty sure the Oslo airport was designed by IKEA

:

7 interviews. With good hard tech questions. So tired

:

Thanks to everyone that sent good wishes. Interview was great. Now let’s see: offer, other optipns …

:

unlike the other museums, the science/tech one is only in norwegean. They have pretty pictures …

:

Beer & pizza overlooking The Parliament park

:

at Oslo. Local num +47 99262791

:

Came to lunch to a little known place called Fenway! Go Sox!

:

Leaving for the airport. Oslo, here I come! (actually Iceland first)

:

unlocking iPhone for Norway trip. If anyone has a recommendation for prepaid sims in europe, please …

:

bittersweet moment. Just earned a TruBlue award flight. BECAUSE of the Vegas trip.

:

The weather is so nice i’m suspicious

:

At Boston. No sleep. But nice flight

:

Hoping that the caffeine and sugar combo in my mocha frappuccino will keep me awake the next 4 hours

:

Jennifer Government is the most fun I’ve had with a book since down and out the magic kingdom

:

leaving vegas. It was a fun and expensive trip

:

I need an email.

:

Today is one of those mornings … when I wake up in the afternoon

:

Update: still no x-ray vision or flying ability. Don’t know why

:

Hip hop is my kryptonite. No merengue, no charm

:

Loud and full

:

Wearing new Superman t-shirt. Curious on how long it’ll take to start noticing superpowers

:

Just landed in Vegas baby

:

Can’t sleep. Spook Country still hasn’t picked up.

:

7 hours ago I opened the fridge and ignored an expiration date. That, my friends, was a mistake

:

woke up early to reserve team room, Now I’ll do the stupid thing of going to bed for “30min”

:

ouch. $60 data charge for using the iPhone a couple of times in Mexico. I’m such an idiot.

:

What the bloody hell?! Federico has Facebook chat and I don’t? do they know who I am? bananaoil I …

:

At Harvard E-Trek conference.

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At pitch idol session. One of the judges is an A-hole. But … Dammit he’s right

:

Babson girl kicked Harvard butt. A+ on presentation, C- on humbleness

:

I really hope that what just sprinted across the window as an anorexic squirrel. Tail looked kinda …

:

At Tech Entrepreurship Night (BU) web2.0 panel

:

first days of Spring in Boston feel like when they take out your braces. Wonderful, yet weird

:

It’s refreshing to listen to a lawyer who is in touch with the real world (I imagine the same …

:

OPT work permit finally arrived. Pheww

:

as any Cheers episode, there was drama. And a: To be continued at the end

:

at Cornwalls with friends. Bar/owner said hi to everyone. This is my Cheers

:

5pm … too late for lunch. too early for dinner. to close to run time

:

For a moment I was actually concerned that my KEYBOARD was getting a firmware update …

:

Red Sox game with my Boston Family today

:

Wooohooo. Interview in Oslo, Norway for a company I really like and a position I really want

:

Can’t believe Numbers doesn’t have ‘Transpose’ feature. That and pivot tables are deal breakers.

:

4 planes, 3 choppers and no parking spots. It must be opening day

:

Class about conjoint analysis brought back memories of 1st screwup at P&G

:

Late night job search turned out a few gems.

:

wired.com’s search is just terrible. Absolute bananaoil

:

Just bought a 1st gen nano for running. Nice guy, good price and fast. Craigslist is an example of …

:

Bananaoil is my new favorite word

:

April Fools is a good day to stay offline and contemplate … if I should be online

:

threadless.com t-shirt arrives. Spring is officially here now

:

Correction: I did finnish my resume update and design change

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I was going to go to bed early. Somehow ended up installing wordpress 2.5. And NOT finishing my …

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I really like Sprint’s latest marketing campaign. Between the Centro’s “Multitaskers”, the one about …

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I WILL finish my homepage this weekend. The Gods of Kobol are my witness

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was visited at 3am by a band of ruffians

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kinda homesick. No matter, movie night!

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Looking for a good historical short stories book. The kind that’s good for opening speeches.

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just bought some threadless.com t-shirts to celebrate spring.

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kinda of pissed off today.

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As soon as Numbers gets pivot tables, i won’t open Excel ever again. Can’t wait

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Getting philosifical over orange rum and dave matthews

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Having fun with SPSS

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Someday i’ll grow up and not smile every time I have to deal with a dummy variable

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off to the Museum of Science.

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ABC.com working again.

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Damn. No double feature Lost today and abc streaming is down. WHAT TO DO?

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My MacBook battery life is down to about an hour. Both my mom’s and my roommate’s MB died in the …

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Spring is back, with it my Vespa. Speed Racer, Mach Go!

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Opera Software called. I’m still in the process it seems. Interview is next week

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Arthur C Clarke is not dead. He is just visiting a black monolith around Jupiter.

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hulu.com is now open. If you are on the US and want to watch TV Shows online, give it a try. Pretty …

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never choose a web hosting provider with stock images of happy people on their website. Any reco for …

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Yojimbo is dead. Long live Evernote

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really, really, really rather be home reading with the tv in the background

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Oaxaca is great. Gonna swim in the pacific tomorrw

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Leaving for Oaxaca! I’ll be back in a week. Stay foolish everyone (but never hungry)

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note to self: never travel again until they develop people-faxes

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red line to south st $3. Amtrack to NY $59. LIRR to jamaica $5. Airtrain to terminal 1 $5. Getting …

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finished packing up and then noticed my only two swim trunks on the floor. I need adult supervision.

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If you think the iPhone/iPod touch are cool now. Wait until june. Hundreds of apps are coming.

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live reading Apple iPhone Event

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Doing a SPSS exercise while listening to Sigur Rós makes you see The Matrix

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Yes. Inbox Zero

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Either I lost my touch or Excel 2008 really sucks. As soon as Numbers gets pivot tables I will stop …

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Careful Hugo. If you play with fire you’re gonna get burned

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rmateu.info and 5typos.net update complete

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Costco, I hate that I love you. You complete me.

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crap. woke up feeling sick

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Someday I’m gonna be INVITED to TED

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I think I know why people become entrepreneurs: No cover letters.

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woohoo. iPhone event next week!

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Going to bed to dream about Aluminum MacBook’s

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Oh shoot. iPhone update out. If I unlocked your iPhone. PLEASE DO NOT UPGRADE!

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Ok Apple. I appreciate not releasing anything that “I just have to buy” in the last 3 months. Now …

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in a way I want the new MacBook Pro’s to look the same. That way I’ll wait until the new Metal/Black …

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not in a class mood at all

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That took waaay longer than expected. But I’m happy with the results.

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Happy Hookup day!

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just modded iPhone earphones by switching earpiece with JVC in-ear one. The smell of soldering is …

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Jezzz. Worst walk ever to school.

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What a lazy bastard. Didn’t run today.

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I procrastinate … therefore I am.

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Sweet. Sweet. Sweet. Opera Software wrote back with more questions.

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Watching ideo video to improve job application. jeezz i want to work there

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Updated my security: Created admin account. Changed default permissions. Disabled listed logins. …

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Carnivals north of the tropic of cancer suck. big time.

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I hate Microsoft Word so much

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SuperDuper for Leopard available tomorrow. I’ll have backups again tomorrow.

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just returned from an unsuccessful IDEO exercise outing.

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Somehow the microsoft-yahoo deal makes sense to me

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Sat down to write a cover letter. Selected shuffle in iPod. First song: “Words don’t come easy to …

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I love Boston Legal

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Said it before and I’ll say it again. DMB + Tim Reynolds is the best reading music

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Inbox Zero!

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Dave Matthews and Tim reynolds is the perfect soundtrack for paper writing

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Macbook Air!!!

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1:15 to go. Excitement…

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very weird dream last night. Not cool.

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Being quiet so the meeting moves along. Not working

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Firefox 3 beta 2 is veeery nice. Thinking of moving back from Safari… i need a hobby.

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One of the things I miss the most of Virtub is listening to smart people discuss things like …

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Why isn’t 11 pronounced “onety-one”?

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Been thinking about email clients lately. First thought: Make the UI “Contact-Centric” rather than …

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best new feature in leopard. RPN in the calculator!

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Mac&cheese.

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Just got my www. hulu.com private invite!

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Holy Sh*t. Looks like we did it.

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It is time. Tell us what we know.

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reñido

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WE WON!!!!!!!

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getting together with fede and los herrera to wait for results

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Think positive. Be careful. Vota No.

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-4C + Open Helmet + Vespa = Botox face

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Broke down and bought external dvd drive. Macbook’s drive suck big-time

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Switching to Safari

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effing macbook dvd drive sucks

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Need a haircut … need a shave … need some loving

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Went to comic store and bought Planete Vol. 2 & 3 and Full Metal Alchemist Vol. 3. At meeting …

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Super Mario Galaxy is the most fun I’ve had in a game since … Super Mario World 2.

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DAMN IT! it’s dark already. And now … I’m hungry

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Helvetica (film) was beyond amazing

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Surprised how much my music purchasing has moved from iTunes to Amazon MP3

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the plan: apple store, microcenter and costco.

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Very nice day. Grabbing my XTi and going to take pics. (Full Metal Alchemist vol.2 in the back …

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Geeky Thanksgiving. Just received the Helvetica Documentary and Planetes Manga book 1

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I tried to prolong it. But the winter jacket is out of the closet.

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Trying not to buy the black Eee PC

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Don’t still Beto yet, things to do. Don’t install Beto yet .. Don’t … Oh! cool icon!

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¿Por qué no te callas?

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twitter hat meme is on

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Waiting for phone call for job interview.

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Moodblast updates Facebook, Twitter & Adium. Pretty cool

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I wont have lunch until I finnish this deliverable … I’m hungry

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making a Poster for Symposium.

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Mozilla Prism + Google Gears = Interesting

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When is BSG Season 3 DVD coming out?! Been waiting for months

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Bad thing of having your desk in the bedroom: if you’re feeling sick, productivity tends to zero

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Can’t believe that after 3 years turned off my Newton started perfectly with a new battery. Still …

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Listening to radiohead while writing an email makes them shorter. I swear.

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Burrito grande or Quesadilla? that is the questions

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If Gmail2.0’s UI is as fast as they say, I would consider going back to webmail.

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Making a halloween poster in 15minutes

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Welcome to the opensocial. brought to you by google

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Thinking about trying Thunderbird. Mail.app is the biggest disappointment on Leopard

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Thunderbird all setup. Liking already

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Finished folding laundry. Nothing is missing. Something is wrong.

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Leopard running. It was not a flawless process

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Duh, Migration Assistan doesn’t let you select which Apps to Migrate. Back to square one.

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I know it’s crazy. But I really like mint.com

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IMAP! IMAP! IMAP! just in time for tonight’s upgrade. Praise the lords of kobol, and the google.

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Just bought SuperDuper. I Just don’t like the idea of Time Machine saving stuff I deleted.

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Still thinking of how to upgrade. Current Plan: Clone Drive, Clean Install, Use Migration Assistant. …

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The web feels quiet. Leopard quiet.

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Logout on iPhone, Macbook. NO FREAKING IMAP. Google, please. Call me ok?

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Driving my Vespa trough traffic is like Apollo 13. It’s either going to be a tragedy or my finest …

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Google please activate my IMAP, activate my IMAP, activate my IMAP, activate my IMAP, activate my …

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I Just purchased a plane ticket Boston-Caracas , Caracas - San Francisco. My card smells like burnt …

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Apple fixing the Dock in the Leopard GM means I’m upgrading this weekend. Kids, do as I say not as I …

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Never go to the first class without reading the syllabus.

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Google Sky is too cool. But they have absolutely no imagination in UI design

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Newsletter solutions suck big time

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CPT, OPT, F1, H1B. I just wanna work dammit!

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iPod Touch. Has nice ring to it. After Shuffle, anything works.

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going out with my XTi

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Apple store is back online. Nothing to see here folks.

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The Palm folio is great. But two years too late.

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The TV will play content from YouTube. Not bad. Still not buying it.

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Nothing good every happens after 2am

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I have discovered that a glass of wine helps me with my writing considerably … or at least it makes …

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Choosing fall courses. Marketing or entrepreneurship? that is the question.

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If EMI strips DRM of their library I’m buying 10 songs as soon as their available.

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Discussing IBM turnaround in the 90’s in class. Good case btw (HBS9-600-098)

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Just installed 160GB Hitachi hard drive on my MacBook. I feel mega-geek.

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Trying out Twitterrific 2.0beta. Really nice update. The best feature for me is going to be the …

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Currently wishing I was back home in Venezuela. But my Baroque Cycle and Desinging Interactions …

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MBA Council meeting, then Symposium 2008 meeting, then Interna marketing talk. Then Lost. Hope Lost …

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Back home in Venezuela for the break. Had to go to the hospital because of pain after broomball …

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Almost done. Reaaally hungry. But I forgot to leave anything defrosting. Pizza maybe? nahhh

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Just watched Flushed Away. Pretty Funny. My chocolate croissant

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Jeez, SNL is really bad today

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Just bought 3 Calvin and Hobbes books at a bargain B&N sale. Looking forward to getting home and …

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Cold and Rainy outside. Productivity down. Way down.

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great Google search tip in DL.tv, type what your seaching for as an answer, not a questions. That’s …

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I just won an election! new VP of Marketing at BU Graduate School of Management

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Somebody answered a very “special” intership email.

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Making dinner and waiting for Lost.

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Adding people to twitter list. This thing is couple of weeks away of reachin ght tipping point.

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Folding laundry while listening to twit. Veronica Belmont, marry me!

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In class.

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Just got an internship offer increased. The company that shall remain unnamed, sells computers and …

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Practizing for Presentation. Hopefuly Keynote will do half of the job as usual.

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presentation turn out great! as always Keynote and a couple of stock photos saves the day!

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Sent a particular internship lettet that makes warm a fuzzy. Now the wait begins

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Why am I more productive at 3am in the morning?!

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Why oh Why doesn’t the Nintendo DS support WPA?

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writing an internship cover letter. Career center at school keeps going bezerk ’cause I write them …

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Working on an Cost-Benefeit exercise. Giving up and going to bed.

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Watching adult swim

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Watching Battlestar Galactica 2.5

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Intalling my news Dell 22inch Monitor … it looks great

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preparing breakfast

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reviewing all Macworld and CES news and launches