The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-01: Broomfield – Countries Beginning with I

^ big snowstorm this week; this picture of the Sun courtyard was taken on Friday, Oct 30th

today (Oct 25th) is the birthday of the beloved stepmom who walked out of my life 25 years ago. Happy birthday, Nancy, wherever you are. #
background: Countries Beginning with I Â» A Missing Mother http://bit.ly/2BEezb #
The Mismeasure of Woman – NYT “the situation for women as a whole wasnâ€™t improving, and was even getting worse. ” http://bit.ly/qLsjw #
Facebook #fail: “You do not have any friends” #
here comes the snow. Fortunately, not gonna stick. #
hm. Methinks this snow is going to exceed predictions. #
@apperceptions I’m the opposite – I still read lots & lots of good old-fashioned paper. Tho I’m reading a lot more non-fiction than I did. in reply to apperceptions #
Oracle E-Business Suite on Sun Blades – Sun Video http://bit.ly/1P8oa #
Solaris Operating System – Solaris Sponsors LISA ’09 “Solaris Sponsors LISA’09” http://bit.ly/LmOy9 #
everybody stop talking about food. I’m hungry! #
@shawnferry use Shazam on the iPhone – might be able to identify a buyable track in there somewhere in reply to shawnferry #
okay, okay, I’ll do grants today. I now have the POWAH! #
@KathySierra we have entire whiteboard walls at Sun. Results include: Geek Humor http://bit.ly/1KPwUD #
@missrogue it’s cedar trees, the scourge of central Texas in reply to missrogue #
@pizzocalabro oh, damn. You had to mention the Pirates of Penzance… we’re supposed to be thinking scary Halloween music! in reply to pizzocalabro #
Join us at LISA (Large Installation System Administration Conference) rohrer@borealis http://bit.ly/dLKfi – giving away lots of great books! #
@creepyed great! pls RSVP at http://frosug.org/ so we count you for the food. 500 eldorado blvd, broomfield, co 80021 – http://bit.ly/2KChkM #
I seem to have a lot of weeks when I’m counting up registrations for multiple events at once… #
catching up with a lot of old friends over the last few weeks – just when I really need them, too. Feels good. #
@creepyed hon, we gotta get you some better vampire books. Look up Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. in reply to creepyed #
Watching snow fall and fall and fall… #
RT @billstreeter: Why is pork so magically delicious? – because it tastes like human. #
@billstreeter I dunno, maybe it’s one of those ” ultimate taboo” things in reply to billstreeter #
@vdotw hell no, I think we should go for the full 18″ ! in reply to vdotw #
@Cdash *sniff* No one ever wrote /me/ a love letter with zombies in it. in reply to Cdash #
watching snow from BRM office, occasional falls of enormous sheets of accumulated snow from the roofs. Will leave by 2 when CU etc close #
I am so bad at long meetings. Especially on the phone. #
@vdotw i’m new around here, how do we measure these things? Go out in the courtyard with a ruler? in reply to vdotw #
a few gazilliion things I /should/ do. Right now, none of them are the thing I /want/ to do. #
@lskrocki @vdotw see my blog post in reply to lskrocki #
@bubbva read one of the Sookie books, not impressed. But might like it better if I started from the beginning of the series. in reply to bubbva #
@jscarp you just keep kicking that cancer’s ass! in reply to jscarp #
wy do we have 8 guys shovelling the walks in the BRM courtyard? Hardly anyone here today, and those left will leave soon! #
RT @elizadushku: I did her once. It was enough. @sionrees would it be really ironic if you went as Buffy? Maybe not. @nautibitz LOLling now! #
@bklein34 damn! Just when I’m really craving chocolate, too… in reply to bklein34 #
@creepyed no problem. We’re waiting to see what conditions look like by tomorrow afternoon. Our speaker is willing to go on with the show! in reply to creepyed #
RT @italylogue: Am I the only one who (a) isn’t watching & (b) doesn’t care about the World Series? – me neither #
Whoa. Interesting news from the mother ship #
@Cdash Security Summit 9-5, reception 5-7, BoFs 7-11… http://bit.ly/rZjuM #
it’s ON! [FROSUG] Brendan Gregg Talk tonight http://bit.ly/2p7F0Y Sun Broomfield, 500 Eldorado Blvd, Bldg 1 conf center. 6pm pizza & beer! #

^ Brendan Gregg speaks at FROSUG. Yes, of course I filmed it. Yes, it will be available soon.

Lay on, MacDuff, and cursed be he who first cries “Hold, enough”! #
was amazed to discover that you can see entire movies on YouTube now. At least until someone notices. #
hmm. We have an embarrassment of engineering riches in BRM today. #
live video stream of tonight’s FROSUG talk about to start: http://bit.ly/3vyKrE #
@missrogue have you heard Los Lonely Boys? Texican music in reply to missrogue #
a classic piece of comedy to start the morning wiht a LOL: YouTube – Russell Peters in Indian-Italians http://bit.ly/45LH1 #

^ This week we also had the annual Sun Colorado Chili Cook-Off, with about 20 teams competing.
Here’s my colleague Diana Wadding; she and Lynn were serving Mark Nelson’s excellent green chili recipe.

RT @willbldrco: Brendan Gregg demoing Brendan Gregg demoing JBOD shouting disk latency http://twitpic.com/nkq74 #
pre-Halloween video: BRAINSSSSSS! – Stephen Tyree & Alex Barclay of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research http://bit.ly/3tvwua #
I suppose it would be a good thing if I found a Halloween party to go to. But then I’d also have to find a costume… #
@vdotw Oh, dear. I suspect it would take an aswful lot of wine for me to survive six little boys… or even one… in reply to vdotw #
@stephenfry here’s cheers: 2001 trip to NYC, asked 12 YO daughter what film she wanted to see. “Gosford Park, because Stephen Fry is in it” in reply to stephenfry #
weird spam subject line: “We sell you all these pills thinking about you.” #
@mtuckerb lose a day and gain an hour. Or else the universe will implode. Have fun! in reply to mtuckerb #
@dottavi peccato che non ci sono piu’ a Lecco – avrei volentieri preso un cafe’ con te. Dovresti venire in Colorado invece in reply to dottavi #
RT @webmink: SunMink blog: The Fun Theory
It may be an advertising stunt, b… http://bit.ly/eMxtx #
RT @craigmorgan: My Oracle tag-along dwarf tases me whenever I utter the word “free.” (via @fakejonathan) … found via @webmink … #
slept 7 hrs solid, then another 2. Feel great. And happy. Now to pack for Baltimore. (Yes, happy even about that.) #
oh, great. Just when I feel like writing, my blog is down. Guess I’ll do it the old-fashioned way: write first, post later. #
pack, unpack, pack, unpack… looks as if MD/DC/VA will be warmer and wetter than CO #
“Negativity bias explains why [in marriage] it takes five compliments to make up for a single cutting remark.” http://bit.ly/55u9U #
argh. Steeling myself for all the sales crap I’ll have to get through to accomplish online check-in at United #
Amused to learn of a historical cougar: Mary Ann Evans aka George Eliot at age 60 married a 40 YO man. After living 24 yrs w a married man. #
Sun Video “Kernel Conference Australia: Panel Discussion on ZFS” http://bit.ly/2oIZwk #
@jeffreytaylor good! You deserve a break. in reply to jeffreytaylor #
@lskrocki you make an adorable angel in reply to lskrocki #
@thepartycow I bought some really cool rainboots at that Cole Hardware just a couple of weeks ago in reply to thepartycow #
@pizzocalabro “But soon you’ll cage me on your shelf -I’ll never learn to be just me first
By myself.”ouch. #
@reiger umm… I guess it’s a question of what you’re /wearing/ to Rocky Horror. in reply to reiger #
@pizzocalabro being “caged on the shelf” in a marriage can happen at any age – and not just to straight people. Power struggles kill love. in reply to pizzocalabro #
hadn’t looked at Twitter Lists til just now. highly amused at the variety of categories people have put me into. #

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