dsandler Huh. Usually takes a couple hours for Taco Bell to become a "trending topic," but maybe everyone went for lunch early today. - 7/23, 9am from Twitterrific

dsandler Re: previous: [ http] - 7/18, 9am from Twitterrific

dsandler @yellowdoor The truck comes on the 24th. I'll be driving up the following week, and Erin and The Boy will fly up the week after that. - 7/9, 11am from Twitterrific

dsandler @boredzo Maybe I misread the hint; I thought it implied the speed of the rotation mattered, like there's a "slow rotate" special case. :/ - 7/9, 8am from Twitterrific

dsandler @atebits SOMEWHERE STEVE YEGGE IS VERY SAD NOW - 7/8, 10pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @urbanape I totally agree; iPhone = capture anywhere = essential. (Related: see recent @andypotion…) - 7/8, 6pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @lbutlr It's dumb that you have to do that, though. I spent days figuring that one out. - 7/7, 1am from Twitterrific

dsandler Pretty sure @danielpunkass's site is being swamped by hundreds of Merlin's Pedantic Nerd Guys. "So." e.g. [ http] - 7/2, 12pm from Twitterrific

dsandler Via @rands, yet another article about @font-face, but this one includes commercial fonts (licensed just for the demo): [ http] - 6/30, 10am from Twitterrific

dsandler New Moby (@thelittleidiot) album just dropped. Appears to not suck (read: not clubtrash like the last one). @amazonmp3 has it for $4. - 6/30, 8am from Twitterrific

dsandler @RodBegbie I invoke the Sad TPIR Trombone at least weekly. - 6/25, 9pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @mdietz I know, that's crazy. It was Red Line north, too, which is pretty much the only part of Metro I used. - 6/22, 3pm from Twitterrific

dsandler Enjoyed an excellent dinner and beers with @pbones, who is both a drinker and a gentleman. - 6/17, 8pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @shacker Re Twitter as a standard: You saw [ http] right? - 6/14, 1pm from TwitterFon

dsandler Also, passenger next to me reading my tweets as I write them: Visit twitter.com/dsandler — it'll last longer. - 6/9, 7pm from Twitterrific

dsandler Let's hope all the police cruisers parked out front of my hotel ate for decoration. - 6/8, 7pm from Twitterrific

dsandler OK, they've closed the cabin door. Nobody announce anything while I'm in the air! - 6/8, 11am from Twitterrific

dsandler @bouncingsheep Eww. I've only *heard* about gołąbki and it sounds absolutely awful. - 6/6, 7pm from Twitterrific

dsandler Clearly, the predominant design element of Rice's 21st century campus architecture is ENORMOUS BRICK WALL. - 6/1, 2pm from web

dsandler @SuperStrong FWIW, I call them "subscribers" rather than "followers" in my research. - 5/27, 3pm from Twitterrific

dsandler I think Archer has become the unofficial typeface of tweets on T-shirts. viz: twitter.threadless.com & twitshirt.com - 5/21, 9am from Twitterrific

dsandler “So all I have to do to get you to shut up is take my boobs out? … Good to know.” - 5/20, 7am from Twitterrific

dsandler The fuck!? Our landlord's maintenance guy left fleas behind in our tub. FLEAS. In the tub where I bathe my infant son. Ugh. - 5/19, 5pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @rentzsch e.g. "You're fired." - 5/19, 12pm from Twitterrific

dsandler @shadytrees Man, I suck at Apples to Apples. I always spend too long searching for le mot juste (ending up therefore with le mot dernier). - 5/16, 1pm from Twitterrific

dsandler is giving a firehose of usability suggestions to @avium about Nanogolf - 5/7, 12pm from web

dsandler OK, this is insane. Every time I download 3.0b5 the DMG has a different hash. Does Apple generate these on-the-fly or something? - 5/6, 10pm from web

dsandler @valeriegp Dozens of HPD cars on Main Street, too, laying down police tape. Don't know why. - 5/5, 9am from web

dsandler I-I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I k-kind of miss C++. - 5/1, 11am from web

dsandler @gruber Re: use of floppy disk icon in Office ’10: [ http] - 4/29, 1pm from brdfdr

dsandler Sorely lacking a Slap-Of-Wack bar right now. - 4/29, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler Music on airport PA system: ♫ It's toooo laaate to catch your fliiiight... Toooo laaaaate! ♫ - 4/22, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler @liscio I logged into Digg just for you. #needashower - 4/22, 7am from brdfdr

dsandler @justsomeguy I got a stipend and tuition waiver as a PhD student, so technically the three years are in the + column. - 4/17, 4pm from TwitterFon

dsandler Aside: Has the Mac development community essentially settled on a private domain namespace at *app.com ? - 4/15, 12pm from brdfdr

dsandler @schwa I guess I’m too young to have heard the original, and too old to have heard the Crazy Frog version. - 4/14, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler @bouncingsheep @mdietz Deletion is often the first against the wall during times of load/bugs. They always bring it back. #mercifuloverlords - 4/8, 1pm from brdfdr

dsandler @liscio re: capoapp.com: The dynamic range compression on that John Mayer Trio track is insane. - 4/6, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler Boo hiss! VeriSign's web form for their VIP Access 2FA app is an insecure https/http mix! [ http] ... - 4/3, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/04/making_change_on_montrose.php - The Taco Cabana on Westheimer @ Montrose closed?! - 4/3, 6am from brdfdr

dsandler @gbd I used to be a QuickSilver guy. The sluggishness and bugginess eventually got to me. - 4/1, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler Anyone else having trouble staying connected to WLANs on 3.0b2? I keep de-associating with our campus wireless network. #iphone - 4/1, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler “10 windows are open in Safari, containing a total of 31 tabs. Do you want to quit anyway?” *cries* - 3/30, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler Manischewitz has jumped on the retro-packaging bandwagon for Pesach this year: [ http] (via @erinmak) - 3/30, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler Yet another awesome thing about Eliss (toucheliss.com): @stephbysteph's awesome music. (Extract it from the .ipa and throw into iTunes!) - 3/29, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler And in another hour or two, all my data will be synced! - 3/17, 4pm from brdfdr

dsandler Sides of the Bland White Music die that Apple rolls for their press events: U2, John Mayer, Coldplay, Dave Matthews … - 3/17, 9am from brdfdr

dsandler It's been about a year since I upgraded my PBG4 12" to a MacBook. I miss the old Mac most on flighs. #sorryaboutmyelbows - 3/14, 9am from brdfdr

dsandler RT @MacLife who explain how to set up iTunes DJ…and use it for evil in a workplace. [ http] - 3/12, 5pm from brdfdr

dsandler @mdietz Er, sorry about that. Here, I'll reply to your previous tweet: I think conversations in Greader will go largely unnoticed. :/ - 3/11, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler @gbd Visual SourceSafe : Game & Watch - 3/3, 4am from brdfdr

dsandler Source code for [ http] is up at [ http] - 2/28, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Is it still #followfriday? If so, check out @defconprime and his awesome reviews of everything. Warning: literary theorists may be offended. - 2/27, 10pm from brdfdr

dsandler @mattgemmell I thought Satan’s Skidmark AA was a delicacy coffee? Did I get that confused with something else? - 2/24, 4am from brdfdr

dsandler Blogging is hard. Let's go, uh, pick up the baby from daycare. - 2/23, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler Hypothesis: using iPhone to find & share crucial cites during seminar = informative and interesting to all. (Disproven.) - 2/23, 1pm from brdfdr

dsandler @mattgemmell Finally got around to the Dock survey results; very interesting indeed. I'd love more information density, personally. - 2/23, 6am from brdfdr

dsandler Also, to the Hopkins grad students who liked the subtle XKCD nod in my slides: You're welcome. - 2/17, 4pm from brdfdr

dsandler Some days 140 characters seems like too much. - 2/8, 12pm from brdfdr

dsandler And DGAF☆☆TANK, if I ever meet you in person, I am going to push you off a cliff. - 2/4, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Uh, WTF, iTunes? Now you're popping up advertisements? [ http] - 2/3, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Am I the only one who looks at "github" and sees the name of a Quake monster? - 2/2, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler @pixelknave++; - 2/1, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler @greggrunberg We LOLd. - 2/1, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler Home alone on a Friday night. Do I launch into an awesome coding binge, or finally succumb to exhaustion from this cold? I think I'll - 1/30, 7pm from brdfdr

dsandler @dangerdave :focus { outline: none; } - 1/29, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Finally, a resolution to my nagging Comcast bandwidth issues. [ http] - 1/29, 6pm from brdfdr

dsandler @ComcastBonnie Yeah, the tech came next-day, identified the problem (modem gone bad), replaced it with a new unit (non-refurb!). All well. - 1/29, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler @urbanape I use from: in Mail.app searches all the time. cf. [ http] - 1/29, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler Ooo, another BSG on the TiVo. I wonder if this is the one where we find out who the Final Canadian is. - 1/28, 10pm from brdfdr

dsandler Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. I drank a lot of this my first semester freshman year, before I got heavily into coffee. Takes me back. - 1/25, 6pm from brdfdr

dsandler 80% emphatic agreement with @siracusa's top Mac games list. But "The Colony?" I would have put one of the Haller games (Fringe/Solarian) in. - 1/24, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler Re-reading the text of Obama's speech, struck by the Jesus-like language ("for us…they died") attached to forebears & ancestors. - 1/20, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler Weirdness: gmail is receiving messages to $USER@dsandler.org (forwarded to gmail) but silently eating $USER+whatever@dsandler.org. - 1/8, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler rsyncing essential files off our soon-to-be-totally-failed 3TB RAID - 1/7, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler …on the other hand, allocating space in each app for a settings panel (gear icon, (i) icon, etc.) is wasteful and (usually) inconsistent. - 1/6, 11pm from brdfdr

dsandler Here's a hint. If your application has a "Mark All As Read" button, you've already lost. - 1/6, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Very, very disturbing: Have identified an email that Gmail simply lost. Only remaining copy is Mail.app's IMAP cache (and Spotlight index). - 1/5, 1pm from brdfdr

dsandler Today's overly sentimental new-dad moment: sticking a finger in the baby's mouth and feeling the scratchy corner of a single emerging tooth. - 1/4, 12pm from brdfdr

dsandler Our apartment building smells like bacon. - 1/1, 9am from txt

dsandler @dangerdave Uh oh. Hope the exit door still works. Otherwise, in the event of an emergency landing, you'd be caulk blocked. *rimshot* - 12/30, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler What a year for Nate, sez @erinmak. Birth: Obama victory; Rice wins a bowl game. - 12/30, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler The Boy is down, which means it's time for the second half of Rice v. Central Mich in the Texas Bowl. Go Owls! - 12/30, 7pm from brdfdr

dsandler Come on. How hard can this be? You only sell one thing: a lethal dose of cinnamon and fat, in an appealing spiral. Effing get to it! - 12/27, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler OH: "Maybe it was a bad idea to go shopping today..." - 12/26, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler @gruber Wayne Enterprises (NYSE:W) mkt cap ≈ 110B. Stark Industries (NASDAQ:FE) ≈ 55B. - 12/23, 11pm from brdfdr

dsandler @AmyJane to wit: (1) [ http] (2) [ http] … didn't take long. - 12/21, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler @atomicbird Been using DreamHost for years, through good times and bad. Still quite happy on balance. - 12/19, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler @shanev Are 99¢ app makers “real” developers? Some certainly are. It’s hard to see how they’re businesspeople, though. - 12/13, 7am from brdfdr

dsandler RT @manton: [ http]. The 99¢ price point makes the App Store feel like a flea market. - 12/12, 10pm from brdfdr

dsandler Spent several minutes in total confusion until we figured out our calendar was missing the 30th. - 12/11, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler @shortyawards I nominate @chockenberry for a Shorty Award in #chocklock COS HE TOR DOWN THE FRICKEN NDA WALL WITH HIS [REDACTED] - 12/11, 1pm from web

dsandler @jwz Actually, that can have the opposite effect—especially in babies. - 12/9, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler Damn, it's cold in the office this morning. #alwaysbeshrinking - 12/8, 7am from brdfdr

dsandler @dangerdave Over and out. - 12/7, 5pm from brdfdr

dsandler @rstevens I totally do that too. Helps me get a sense of the velocity of the twitternets. Yesterday: high dx/dt. Today: notsomuch. - 12/6, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler Sorry! Sorry! Didn't mean to honk! - 12/2, 9am from brdfdr

dsandler To those of you using Qwitter: It's nothing personal, I'm hacking and slashing mercilessly. I still love you. To the rest: LA DE DA - 12/1, 7am from brdfdr

dsandler @hotdogsladies cf. "Nothing But Trouble." [ http] - 11/28, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler @dsilverman My thoughts exactly upon seeing the retail parking lots out in Sugar Land this morning - 11/15, 12pm from brdfdr

dsandler “You know that $FRIEND is heading for Red Forman territory, right?” - 11/14, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler @dangerdave What's your favorite iPhone musical instrument, though? - 11/14, 5pm from brdfdr

dsandler @regan Somehow "www.formationofme.com" got turned off even though "formationofme.com" is still on. - 11/11, 12pm from brdfdr

dsandler So many Americans are hungry for change that [ http] is offline. - 11/6, 11am from brdfdr

dsandler @gruber Not quite what I was looking for, but, in the words of George H. W. Bush, “that’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” - 11/4, 11pm from brdfdr

dsandler @maddow, on MSNBC: “It's sort of worth crying about.” Yes, yes it is. - 11/4, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler MSNBC: Bad Suit News Network. Seriously: David Gregory looks like a gangster. (Olbermann's suit isn't much better.) - 11/4, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler Trending search: [ http] - 11/4, 9am from brdfdr

dsandler Back from Halloween in the 'burbs. The Boy got tired before we could go out, which is OK because the 7yo niece brought back quite a haul. - 10/31, 7pm from brdfdr

dsandler (halloweenified Twitter icon) - 10/31, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler (this is Vera Mono b, which runs a little small. My other go-to config is gfn=ProFontX:h9.) - 10/29, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler RT @al3x: Fuck yeah. [ http] - 10/28, 5pm from brdfdr

dsandler @MikeTRose Permission granted. (Will update the licensing on Flickr.) - 10/28, 10am from brdfdr

dsandler @rands Marketplace is PRI, where they serve coffee instead of chamomile. - 10/28, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler I certainly hope not, @cleversimon. Twitter is for Jews and Muslims too! - 10/27, 11am from brdfdr

dsandler Behind a Subaru with an Apple sticker and a McCain/Palin sticker. I knew they *existed*, but... - 10/25, 11am from brdfdr

dsandler Is it just me, or is iPhone gamma ≠ Mac gamma? - 10/22, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler Woo! New @ylnt: “Mister Owl.” Hoping for some Tootsie Roll-themed hilarity. - 10/17, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler E: "I want some nuclear power pants." - 10/15, 7pm from brdfdr

dsandler I gotta say, the glossy black plastic screen bezel just screams VAIO to me. Oh, wait, are we not talking about the MacBooks anymore? - 10/14, 4pm from brdfdr

dsandler Research paper paving the way for the future of Twitter: submitted. D me if you'd like a copy. - 10/10, 3pm from brdfdr

dsandler Related: @ylnt can be like a word-o-day calendar. Words I've learned from @hotdogsladies: noisome; from @lonelysandwich: callipygean. - 10/8, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler E: "I just realized that Brokaw is probably for McCain." - 10/7, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler This format is absurd. "Here's a 60s discussion period, but you may not discuss the prior question—here's a new, unrelated one." #debate08 - 10/7, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler Brokaw: "Wall street got drunk. The consumer got drunk. Hell, I'm drunk right now." - 10/7, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler @cbowns Now it's newest-at-bottom, as a result of (a) buggy scrolling views in email clients and (b) acclimation to weblog format - 10/5, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Now “using” Facebook (posting to brdfdr ➔ twitterGW ➔ Twitter ➔ Facebook). I can pretend to be a teenager like everyone else! - 10/5, 2pm from brdfdr

dsandler RT @fraying: What would it mean to "win" Iraq? We already fucking destroyed it, which is the usual metric of victory in military situations - 10/2, 8pm from twitterrific

dsandler Pretty sure that the gender.twitmarks.com algorithm is this: male_probability = (is_twitter_user ? 50 : 0) + Math.random() * 50; - 9/30, 2pm from web

dsandler @stadler That's actually a carefully-managed equilibrium. I can't explain exactly how it's maintained, but a political scientist could. - 9/30, 10am from web

dsandler Those are some dark fucking clouds over the Capitol on cnn.com. - 9/29, 10am from web

dsandler How the gold rush continues: “Lighter is not just a lighter for your iPhone and Ipod Touch… It is 3 lighters!!!” [sic] - 9/28, 7pm from web

dsandler On cnn.com: “Bailout talks to resume; Bush vows to get deal.” Like, a bailout just for him? - 9/26, 1pm from web

dsandler Stupid flaky broken 802.1X. Wish I had jumped on NetShare. +1 for jailbreaking. - 9/25, 11am from twitterrific

dsandler @urbanape You should really buy licenses for those and support the developers. - 9/24, 2pm from web

dsandler Also: “Gobsmacked By McCain’s Balls,” or, the forthcoming tell-all memoir by @RodBegbie. - 9/24, 12pm from web

dsandler Glad to be out of the hospital. The shower had laughably low flow. Like that “Seinfeld” episode. Also, Nate’s fine. - 9/21, 1pm from web

dsandler @hurricaneike Come on, boy, you can do it! One more MPH to Cat 3! - 9/12, 6pm from brdfdr

dsandler TV reporting some power outages in Stafford, which is the next town over. Our time may well be running out. - 9/12, 4pm from brdfdr

dsandler Not Good: Mandatory evac of Brazoria Co., where my brother-in-law lives. (They’re already on their way to SA.) - 9/10, 7pm from brdfdr

dsandler @mjtsai Good answer. Wondering if there ought to be some more “standard” way to do this, though—something that would work with QL &c. - 9/9, 1pm from brdfdr

dsandler "What people? ... Comedians?" - 9/7, 8pm from brdfdr

dsandler Feeding the baby to the smooth sounds of the Dangercast by @dangerdave. [ http] - 9/7, 9am from brdfdr

dsandler @chockenberry $LAFONTAINE_JOKE - 9/4, 8am from brdfdr

dsandler retweeting @drhorrible Soundtrack is up. This is the one. Tell your friends. [ http] - 9/1, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler Shit, is everyone reading McCloud's Chrome brochure? I am so giddy to see a comix explanation of garbage collection, interpreted code, etc. - 9/1, 9pm from brdfdr

dsandler PAWLENTY/POWELL: Proffering Provocative Plosive Possibilities for President - 8/29, 10am from web

dsandler Interrupting Palinpalooza to ask if it's insane for me to splice my EX-51 drivers onto my  iPhone earphone wire. - 8/29, 9am from brdfdr