I recently visited my local Citibank branch (California and Battery Sts., San Francisco) to open an account for the nascent illumos Foundation. The walls are charmingly decorated with huge murals of San Francisco. The banker I was working with said that these were painted decades ago by the original bank’s manager, who included a wry self-portrait, complete with cigar, in the detail photographed above. Presumably “DCS” is his initials. I’d love to get photos of the whole thing – they would make great decorative posters for those of us who love the city.
The Twitter Diaries: May 2012
(in reverse chron order)
DeirdreS: @ryancnelson In India, it was the Windows XP “ta-dah!”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208411175120150530
2012-05-31 23:46:36
DeirdreS: RT @jkuner: just saw a great talk by @dapsays about node.js profiling. http://t.co/jJfgRRrL . flame maps are awesome! #fluentconf
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208343752773877761
2012-05-31 21:44:12
DeirdreS: RT @joyent: If you’re at #fluentconf check out Joyent’s @dapsays in 20 mins! 2:35 PT Dave’s sharing his #node debugging magic http://t. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208312949339734017
2012-05-31 20:58:21
DeirdreS: RT @GinnyLaRoe: The much anticipated ruling is out in Oracle v. Google. Judge sides with Google on 37 API packages.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208301413300834305
2012-05-31 19:23:32
DeirdreS: RT @heinz_gies: A new record! #SmartOS is watched by 300 people on github now 🙂 congrats to you all!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208277549887930370
2012-05-31 18:17:32
DeirdreS: RT @derickr: Welcoming Couchbase to London by drinking their VC money. – That’s what VC money is for, after all.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208260943384281088
2012-05-31 05:34:17
DeirdreS: Will have to show this to Vance George. HT to @johnnysunshine http://t.co/gGaHnzJM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208068863097708546
2012-05-31 04:50:06
DeirdreS: @pborenstein Not that I know of. Have to give up Thai restaurants – they try, but apparently don’t always know where the soy lurks. Damn.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208057744895385600
2012-05-31 04:09:25
DeirdreS: “they want privileges awarded to “religious” institutions, while claiming exemption from obligations of civil society” http://t.co/Rsb0iYcp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208047506590928896
2012-05-31 03:57:42
DeirdreS: @pborenstein Yes and unfortunately I have become a very sensitive soy detector. Gut-twisting agony is such a great souvenir of a meal.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208044558066528257
2012-05-31 03:48:50
DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine @pborenstein Restaurants are hard w soy allergy, and I’m bored of the ones I know are safe. So i cook even when too tired.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208042327132995585
2012-05-31 03:12:25
DeirdreS: RT @bdha: So vfsstat is really freaking nice. #smartos #illumos
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208033163149193219
2012-05-31 03:04:32
DeirdreS: RT @siracusa: 25 years of HyperCard by @matthewlasar http://t.co/zodUy3vs – I LOVED Hypercard. I could DO STUFF with it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208031178052206592
2012-05-31 02:59:57
DeirdreS: .@leapingwoman I try to avoid grating since I do very frequently grate myself, and guests tend not to like blood as an additive. #ow
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208030023058341889
2012-05-31 02:58:54
DeirdreS: @vdotw It’s actually easy to make biscuits from scratch – I was looking forward to this recipe: http://t.co/ZnJ9j0zG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208029759123374081
2012-05-31 01:52:57
DeirdreS: RT @KellyOSullivan: Today requires a martini. – You may be on to something there…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208013163055165441
2012-05-31 01:50:35
DeirdreS: Also: it would be really nice if I could do ANYTHING in the kitchen without stabbing, slicing, or burning myself.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208012565668835329
2012-05-31 01:45:13
DeirdreS: …sometimes a small frustration is just one thing too many.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208011216935862272
2012-05-31 01:44:49
DeirdreS: All psyched to make biscuits which I haven’t had since I realized I’m allergic to Bisquik, and I can’t find the baking powder…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/208011116629069826
2012-05-30 02:53:12
DeirdreS: @AnastasiaAshman how was that? Haven’t read it in 30 years.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207665937409773570
2012-05-30 23:38:02
DeirdreS: ALBERT EINSTEIN: The important thing http://t.co/o8PRznNq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207979208381710336
2012-05-30 22:56:04
DeirdreS: RT @dapsays: If you debug Node in production, you’ll be interested in my talk at #fluentconf tomorrow: http://t.co/JpQr34fC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207968648839696384
2012-05-30 21:25:03
DeirdreS: RT @ahl: presenting DTrace for Oracle at @NoCOUG tomorrow at 4pm with @dboptimizer (also of @delphixcorp); join us! http://t.co/7wp9HgW7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207945743166734336
2012-05-30 20:58:55
DeirdreS: @scottherson It can always drop further.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207939167664082945
2012-05-30 20:25:32
DeirdreS: “like many TCKs in this world, I have learned more about goodbyes than anyone should ever know” http://t.co/FX4bCA8K
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207930765676265472
2012-05-30 20:20:34
DeirdreS: Dear @bitly I now have to cut and paste to get a URL’s title into a tweet from the Chrome extension. This is an annoying extra step.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207929517472350209
2012-05-30 20:18:29
DeirdreS: Top 10 Signs Your Enterprise Doesn’t ‘Get’ Open Source | Red Hat Services http://t.co/0BGD9Jui
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207928993301803008
2012-05-30 17:43:56
DeirdreS: @hollyburns Placebo?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207890098979749889
2012-05-30 16:08:29
DeirdreS: Hand-Writing – A new autobiographical piece: http://t.co/KROcJH06
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207866075998732288
2012-05-30 16:00:03
DeirdreS: 4 years ago my daughter graduated from Woodstock School http://t.co/8nBgNPWm
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207863953525710849
2012-05-30 15:40:13
DeirdreS: RT @joyent: Joyent’s Dave Pacheco to speak at @FluentConf about Node.js in Production, Debugging and Perf Analysis. See you there! http: …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207858962316533762
2012-05-30 05:59:05
DeirdreS: @vambenepe Oh, so lawsuits are a family thing? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207712716528427009
2012-05-30 05:22:45
DeirdreS: RT @deirdresm: OH: Are you sure that Kardashia is not one of the countries Deirdre is visiting this year? – On behalf of all Deirdres: NO!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207703572308172800
2012-05-30 05:21:12
DeirdreS: RT @dino246gts: Epic #dumbass award goes to… Lmfao… Check it out! #mitt2012 #withmitt http://t.co/jSG5D5LS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207703181940101120
2012-05-29 22:43:14
DeirdreS: @izs You sure that’s not the pain medication? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207603029883629568
2012-05-29 21:50:32
DeirdreS: Shopping therapy doesn’t work for me. Probably just as well.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207589767418875904
2012-05-29 21:48:56
DeirdreS: @deirdresm too bad we can’t know more about the first @deirdre on twitter. She is by definition the leading Deirdre. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207589366619574272
2012-05-29 20:22:21
DeirdreS: RT @dberkholz: If the secretive NSA manages to contribute to open source (GPL, no less), any company’s “inability” to do so is just excuses.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207567577512296448
2012-05-29 20:21:54
DeirdreS: @bobthomson70 I don’t care about global influence nearly as much as I care about a bunch of religious whackjobs trying to run my life.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207567463603372034
2012-05-29 19:35:28
DeirdreS: Ok, this might make an iPad make sense, if you add a Dvorak-capable keyboard (any recommendations on that?). http://t.co/jnzWVWRU
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207555780390551552
2012-05-29 19:27:40
DeirdreS: RT @stevel: dear recruiters, when you say “Talent Acquisition Team” i hear “We are Borg. Resistance is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated”.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207553815241695232
2012-05-29 19:26:52
DeirdreS: RT @postwait: This system supports ZFS pool feature flags.
Successfully upgraded ‘data’ from version 28 to version 5000.
The #future of …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207553613504069632
2012-05-29 18:52:59
DeirdreS: .@bobthomson70 I’m more or less expecting the US to split up sometime this century. I don’t want to live in the Republic of Gilead.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207545086253342720
2012-05-29 18:43:15
DeirdreS: Ouch. “In Europe, a Dispute Over Facts and Fairness” – http://t.co/z7OpQVMp http://t.co/3GJqdXFg
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207542638621097987
2012-05-29 17:39:42
DeirdreS: RT @LOLGOP: This is your daily reminder that Mitt Romney hasn’t released his birth certificate, his tax returns or an actual plan to red …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207526643084959744
2012-05-29 15:35:42
DeirdreS: How did I miss them before? Brilliant! (Also: rude!) 29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates – YouTube http://t.co/aFQNSK8F
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207495438549516288
2012-05-29 15:17:17
DeirdreS: RT @nosigorg: Announcing 4th NOSIG meeting, on SmartOS, with Max Bruning from Joyent speaking 2x 1 hour. Details: https://t.co/dgJqkMxj. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207490805097701376
2012-05-29 15:07:02
DeirdreS: new bloc post (a bit of autobiography: Back to School
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207488223272902656
2012-05-29 07:07:25
DeirdreS: RT @rosso: Another earthquake…long one #milan #terremoto
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207367527360245761
2012-05-29 06:29:04
DeirdreS: A brilliant and disturbing piece of art: “Il sogno degli italiani”: (The Italian Dream) http://t.co/1Gx6qnq3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207357874119254016
2012-05-29 06:26:06
DeirdreS: The best thing tech marketers can do now is foster conversation between creators and users of technology – then get the hell out of the way.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207357128820797441
2012-05-29 06:20:56
DeirdreS: I prefer my own definition: Everything that touches the customer is marketing, including UI design, customer service, social media – & more
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207355826925600771
2012-05-29 06:12:51
DeirdreS: “Marketing is…” – only marketers could have come up with the essentially meaningless definition given here http://t.co/Eoja2dMK
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207353792486850561
2012-05-29 05:13:17
DeirdreS: @AnastasiaAshman Yes, I am more terrified of having enough insurance for that to be done to me, than of not having it – which says a lot.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207338803319414784
2012-05-29 05:08:08
DeirdreS: @missbhavens Not on tumblr so I’ll tell you here: You are the absolute opposite of boring!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207337508621660160
2012-05-29 04:08:59
DeirdreS: “This is not just wrongheaded but steals the life from everyone involved.” http://t.co/qRRuiV0D
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207322621266759680
2012-05-29 03:14:16
DeirdreS: @shanley Immed reduce heat to lowest, cover pot, set timer for 15 mins. When timer goes off, fluff with a fork. That’s it. This is for white
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207308852037828609
2012-05-29 03:13:23
DeirdreS: @shanley When water is at rolling boil, put in rice. Keep boiling until water is boiled down to top of rice surface, stirring occasionally..
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207308628506578944
2012-05-29 03:12:40
DeirdreS: @shanley How to make rice: 1/2 cup rice per person, twice that amount water. Put water in pot with salt, bring to boil over med heat…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207308448101171202
2012-05-29 03:03:30
DeirdreS: @ryancnelson http://t.co/cNi1wb3W
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207306143222083584
2012-05-29 01:41:57
DeirdreS: “legislatures are ordering doctors to lie about medical evidence, the patient’s condition, their own medical judgment” http://t.co/eaarDwqZ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207285620463255552
2012-05-29 01:19:49
DeirdreS: “The only thing he can do is defeat you. if that means more to you than your country, you shouldn’t be in Congress” http://t.co/O9DZjOvK
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207280051262205952
2012-05-29 01:16:08
DeirdreS: @dberkholz See you at CLS then – and looking forward to meeting you!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207279122504892416
2012-05-29 01:06:03
DeirdreS: RT @markjaquith: Water drips from crucifix. Faithful proclaim it a miracle and drink the water. Skeptic investigates. **Sewage leak** ht …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207276584699297794
2012-05-29 00:55:32
DeirdreS: new: Back to School http://t.co/209FswrC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207273937732775936
2012-05-28 23:41:20
DeirdreS: “Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before… Make good art.” http://t.co/iRPDPs9A
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207255263848312832
2012-05-28 22:19:50
DeirdreS: @pelegri Apparently, according to the developers of a tony San Jose shopping center, Italy and Spain are irterchangeable.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207234754175705088
2012-05-28 21:52:30
DeirdreS: “you must leave everything that you cannot control; it begins with your family, but soon it comes round to your soul” http://t.co/KnuZy7PT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207227877916278784
2012-05-28 21:44:55
DeirdreS: @pelegri http://t.co/RvqPwSMU – @timbray suggested maybe they were going for Catalan. If so, they got that wrong, too.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207225968262250496
2012-05-28 17:56:54
DeirdreS: “Future anthropologists might conclude that the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball” http://t.co/COtwcVb4
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207168587767615488
2012-05-28 17:52:31
DeirdreS: @notmatt Indeed, that’s why the America’s Cup was held in Barcelona.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207167483235405824
2012-05-28 17:51:48
DeirdreS: RT @pborenstein: @jasonh @postwait @markimbriaco Due to @bcantrill’s boyish good looks, I never thought to look at his shoes.
http://t.c …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207167302653837313
2012-05-28 16:45:11
DeirdreS: RT @didacog: RT @slidebot *New!* DTrace for biginners part(1) http://t.co/gtUSFLUt (by shojiha 2012-05-26) [ja][DL:OK] #Trac – Japanese
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207150538154971136
2012-05-28 16:40:13
DeirdreS: “there’s the possibility of the death of their memory and legacy, of the true story of who and what they were” http://t.co/KVJvjUrU
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207149285949710336
2012-05-28 16:08:54
DeirdreS: @timbray In Catalan it would be Plaça. I suspect these architects wouldn’t know Catalan if it bit them.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207141407733972992
2012-05-28 16:00:02
DeirdreS: 5 years ago I attended and spoke at FemCamp Bologna 2007 http://t.co/raFohi6I
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207139177249259520
2012-05-28 16:00:02
DeirdreS: 8 years ago I wrote: Italian Law and Naming Your Baby http://t.co/WRwLiZsH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/207139176100003841
2012-05-28 01:55:59
DeirdreS: If you must try to display “European sophistication”: Italy or Spain, pick one and DON’T MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF. http://t.co/eLIfYhky
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206926763014631424
2012-05-28 01:51:28
DeirdreS: RT @harschness: FAQ: LIKE A BOSS https://t.co/wVRa64U0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206925625427111936
2012-05-27 22:45:16
DeirdreS: Accidentally ended up in an enclave of too much money chasing too little taste. Fled precipitately.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206878769099714562
2012-05-27 21:18:30
DeirdreS: RT @brainpicker: What can I say? Sir David Attenborough narrates clip of turtle having sex with shoe http://t.co/hQwvBGYL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206856931774709760
2012-05-27 15:31:38
DeirdreS: Replacements Limited’s Stand for Gay Marriage Has a Cost – http://t.co/z7OpQVMp http://t.co/QCALEm7T
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206769639945019392
2012-05-27 05:05:19
DeirdreS: @nancygandhi Well, I am.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206612024359268352
2012-05-27 04:45:19
DeirdreS: @_Bas1L @sriramnrn Such an event should show up here (add it if it doesn’t), and/or we’d love to help set one up!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206606988585598976
2012-05-27 01:34:38
DeirdreS: My great, great grandchild. http://t.co/mEhSFrHu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206559001318662144
2012-05-27 00:11:27
DeirdreS: @NaadiaSheriff @ruperthowe …for some value of “normal”. Rocky on!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206538067421577217
2012-05-26 19:18:15
DeirdreS: @rod11 @jasonh @bcantrill We need to get it on video. I’ve seen it once or twice but don’t remember it. I hate shoes with laces.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206464282219646976
2012-05-26 04:15:40
DeirdreS: Watching “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Of course.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206237139241938944
2012-05-25 22:54:53
DeirdreS: .@vondanmcintyre Bought and re-read Dreamsnake recently – it was as good as I remembered, or better. #ebook #sciencefiction #biotechnology
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206156410810146816
2012-05-25 22:47:12
DeirdreS: RT @iamdanryan: I’m rewriting the Linux kernel because it’s not written in Node.js. Please fund me.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206154480075542529
2012-05-25 22:35:32
DeirdreS: RT @KellyOSullivan: Funny how >99% of the people I hear saying there is no #waronwomen are men.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206151543391657985
2012-05-25 21:22:07
DeirdreS: RT @pbeyssac: When I said Oracle is now a compass that shows the south… blaming Sun HW is really osé. http://t.co/zvBkTDaP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206133066694004736
2012-05-25 18:28:13
DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine @notmatt and the measurable benefits are less than biology would have us believe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206089304223645696
2012-05-25 16:59:47
DeirdreS: @mcavage One thing that baffles me is that Americans take so little of the measly vacation time they have. Everyone needs a break.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206067046927175681
2012-05-25 16:55:02
DeirdreS: @mcavage It would be better for all to give them a 3-month sabbatical right now.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206065853526056964
2012-05-25 16:40:27
DeirdreS: @jonasthaler For an idea what this might look like in practice, read @DavidBrin1’s Kil’n People.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206062182620872704
2012-05-25 16:38:45
DeirdreS: .@jonasthaler Yes, I’m never not doing stuff, but I’d enjoy more time for non-work stuff. Everything feeds back into everything else anyway.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206061755636527104
2012-05-25 15:55:43
DeirdreS: The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week: “may be the only way a modern global society won’t overwhelm the earth’s resources” http://t.co/nHgi39Kh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/206050924647546881
2012-05-25 09:59:07
DeirdreS: @sturadnidge There, there… I still have some stickers I could send you: http://t.co/CbBx66el
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205961184317407232
2012-05-25 05:00:43
DeirdreS: I work with a lot of truly amazing people. Yes, I know how lucky I am.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205886090333274112
2012-05-25 02:18:52
DeirdreS: Belated HT to @izs for my earlier link to Yeh’s http://t.co/Qzsvoxkq – he said “Speakers at @nodejs events, Please read this”. Nodies rock!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205845357643567104
2012-05-25 02:16:50
DeirdreS: @vdotw would it help if I said @rosso and @michellefabio are friends of mine and known good eaters? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205844847523926017
2012-05-25 02:14:21
DeirdreS: Just downloaded The Unofficial Guide to Nutella FREE today on Kindle by @rosso + @michellefabio http://t.co/lO7kaQm2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205844222547460096
2012-05-25 00:13:00
DeirdreS: RT @postwait: This is a good idea. US citizens: sign it. http://t.co/OvPYltSm
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205813684608573442
2012-05-24 23:53:06
DeirdreS: .@robtreat2 SmartOS is open source. Whatever belongs in core illumos is already there, or will be. Some things just don’t belong.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205808675191926785
2012-05-24 23:45:33
DeirdreS: SmartOS News: May 24, 2012 – http://t.co/HDVCC4ZA http://t.co/vDJVKpVo
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205806774102667265
2012-05-24 23:08:04
DeirdreS: “One can’t talk rationally or on any evidence-based discussion of tax policy. It’s assumed cutting taxes does good.” http://t.co/vzAMhl4E
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205797341377200128
2012-05-24 22:01:49
DeirdreS: “Speaking up when you see someone wronged sends a powerful message, needn’t take any special courage or eloquent words” http://t.co/Qzsvoxkq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205780670885281793
2012-05-24 20:46:33
DeirdreS: RT @heinz_gies: @DeirdreS The proper answer to that would be: “The Keyboard!” – GROAN!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205761729932693504
2012-05-24 20:46:09
DeirdreS: @dave_miner I strongly regret that I didn’t just take all those copies left in MPK. Did they eventually find good homes?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205761629084856320
2012-05-24 18:45:57
DeirdreS: If you describe yourself as a rockstar, I will probably look confused and ask: “What instrument do you play?” I’m kinda dense that way.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205731377163939841
2012-05-24 18:36:21
DeirdreS: @quasi42 I removed the FB Like button from my personal site, felt it too intrusive on my readers.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205728963492982786
2012-05-24 18:35:10
DeirdreS: The OpenSolaris Bible – and exactly how it’s still useful for SmartOS and illumos http://t.co/joOqpvwF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205728665529626624
2012-05-24 17:31:32
DeirdreS: http://t.co/FqLXNYm7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205712650003415041
2012-05-24 16:26:18
DeirdreS: RT @TomRaftery: Hilarious email exchange between an Australian and his US neighbour – sheer brilliance http://t.co/y7ueduQi /via @rascierto
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205696234818772992
2012-05-24 16:21:40
DeirdreS: RT @HeidiPfeifle: “Love more, fear less. Float more, steer less.” I love this! Thank you @Halcyon – still have that on a sticker he gave me
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205695066445070336
2012-05-24 16:20:43
DeirdreS: @WITI I think it’s purely age and sex, which is about all the information FB has about me – plus my friends, of course. #rude
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205694827071934464
2012-05-24 15:57:52
DeirdreS: RT @caroline_leigh: Presenting “Campaign Followup — What to do with a Lead?” at #MUS12 w/ @mcp823 @Joyent today at 10:20 in Imperial Room B
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205689079986270208
2012-05-24 15:57:42
DeirdreS: @caroline_leigh Break a leg!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205689038194216960
2012-05-24 15:56:43
DeirdreS: @hirojin For some parts of my job, it’s helpful to know what the trends are in online advertising, and I have ads on my personal site…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205688788649918466
2012-05-24 15:37:56
DeirdreS: Beginning to find the “wrinkle cures” ads on Facebook downright offensive.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205684062109700096
2012-05-24 06:29:33
DeirdreS: Accidentally undercalculated tip on tonight’s dinner, feel bad about it. OTOH suspect they accidentally gave me soy, so I also feel ill.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205546057558540288
2012-05-24 06:20:35
DeirdreS: @jmclulow Absolutely.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205543798611259392
2012-05-24 05:44:59
DeirdreS: RT @stevenkaas: Yo Doug, I put a strange loop in your strange loop, so you can Hofstadt while you Hofstadt.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205534840655851520
2012-05-24 05:44:18
DeirdreS: @AmnaAhmad schadentheme
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205534668706168832
2012-05-24 03:23:05
DeirdreS: A community is not something we own; our ability to “manage” it is very limited. “Lead” and “nurture” might be better ways to think of it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205499131203039233
2012-05-24 03:12:26
DeirdreS: RT @willsnow: @adrianco yeah, umm I did that on http://t.co/ScrEfOOd for quite a while. Works great!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205496450971467778
2012-05-24 03:09:51
DeirdreS: Ah, now I remember – Storify is built on node.js, so your geeks are kinda my geeks too! #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205495800409755649
2012-05-24 03:00:14
DeirdreS: …because one thing about community is: you don’t get to choose where the conversation happens. #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205493378912227329
2012-05-24 02:50:05
DeirdreS: Ok, Storify looks good. Will it pull in irc? 😉 Thats where my community hangs out. #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205490826862792704
2012-05-24 02:45:18
DeirdreS: Your content, even as a brand, has to be more than “we’re great.” #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205489623764451329
2012-05-24 02:36:57
DeirdreS: Make your community a safe place where everyone has a voice. #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205487522615267331
2012-05-24 02:35:07
DeirdreS: “The only thing we can give others is good info.” #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205487059916423169
2012-05-24 02:32:43
DeirdreS: It’s getting harder to make pop culture references that everyone gets. No matter how popular. Many don’t watch TV at all anymore.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205486455877943297
2012-05-24 02:27:24
DeirdreS: “Step 1: Own it.” That is, your screwup. Yup. #octribe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205485119610433536
2012-05-24 02:21:08
DeirdreS: At #octribe meetup on “what to do when your community wants to kill you”. Maybe need a session on stopping them killing each other.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205483542908633088
2012-05-24 01:22:09
DeirdreS: @HumanityCritic that would include me
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205468696041361408
2012-05-23 18:47:41
DeirdreS: @HTNMMO Just plain illumos.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205369427032678400
2012-05-23 18:31:43
DeirdreS: RT @gustaf: Voxer save 25+ billion events per day, millions of daily users. We’re hiring a Data Scientist http://t.co/J2aO5b2e
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205365406314139648
2012-05-23 18:26:07
DeirdreS: What Joyent has Added in SmartOS – http://t.co/rapmfIq3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205363999431344128
2012-05-23 17:58:56
DeirdreS: Colleague @mcavage has some talents I only recently learned about: YouTube http://t.co/JNe5x9LC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205357159167426561
2012-05-23 17:52:50
DeirdreS: “the Catholic Church had taken $2.9 billion from federal government to pay for charitable efforts the Church provides” http://t.co/KnoOO7Xe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205355623313981440
2012-05-23 06:31:17
DeirdreS: “I understand the economy because I’ve lived in it” -Romney http://t.co/180Yc3aQ – pretty sure he’s living in a different economy than most
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205184105242034176
2012-05-23 04:34:14
DeirdreS: Daily Kos: Wall Street Journal – “Obama spending binge never happened” http://t.co/KwKv7ucZ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205154646912802816
2012-05-23 04:33:20
DeirdreS: Just realizing I am in one of those calm-before-the-storm phases. Summer is going to be hellabusy.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205154421175365634
2012-05-23 03:43:27
DeirdreS: RT @aRealLiveGhost: your body is a collection of beautifully complex systems and processes. are you really gonna use it to type somethin …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205141866742693888
2012-05-23 03:41:36
DeirdreS: @pborenstein 20 years ago? I was married. <wry smile>
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205141404983369728
2012-05-23 03:27:06
DeirdreS: RT @fakedansavage: Sexual compatibility is IMPORTANT in long-term, sexually-exclusive relationships! Establish it before you marry! #SavageU
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205137752084324352
2012-05-23 02:44:59
DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: https://t.co/013oaa4K works as advertised; just checked with both known-to-be-cracked and uncracked accounts
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205127154139279360
2012-05-23 02:35:09
DeirdreS: It is inevitable that the earth will have 10B people – but religion has nothing to do with it. Hans Rosling http://t.co/fFSexoU7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205124679080480768
2012-05-23 02:12:41
DeirdreS: “Taxing the rich to make investments to make the middle class thrive is the single shrewdest thing we can do for [all]” http://t.co/xDyVeZid
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205119028539310080
2012-05-23 00:45:36
DeirdreS: RT @BarackObama: “All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is abou …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205097113321869312
2012-05-23 23:07:01
DeirdreS: @pborenstein The Church’s influence is partly based on its claims about membership. I don’t wish to be part of the inflation of that number.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205434690054799360
2012-05-23 23:06:37
DeirdreS: @pborenstein When you leave there, you are no longer on the tax rolls…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205434587852181504
2012-05-23 22:47:22
DeirdreS: @pborenstein Supposedly “If you’ve been baptized, the church counts you as a member for life.” I don’t want to be counted as such.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205429743498178560
2012-05-23 22:37:10
DeirdreS: @jasonh Yelp can tell you that. Or I can.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205427178970681344
2012-05-23 22:31:21
DeirdreS: I was baptized Catholic, and want to make damn sure I’m not counted as such in anyone’s data. How do I officially secede from the Church?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205425715724824576
2012-05-23 21:51:41
DeirdreS: Hey @OpenJonathan I’ll be mentioning your name at http://t.co/H1M4alKH in a workshop on “The Changing Role of Technology Marketers”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205415733335822336
2012-05-23 21:49:12
DeirdreS: RT @OpenJonathan: Hey @ZDNetRachel and @CalebGarling, thank you for your tireless typing (and good humor). Best telenovela evr. – Agree!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205415104978755585
2012-05-23 21:39:29
DeirdreS: @bcantrill Ask him – he’s got tutorial videos! Massive coolness. And I do truly love the banjo.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205412661347885056
2012-05-23 21:18:31
DeirdreS: Congratulations to @webmink: OSI Board Elects New Officers | Open Source Initiative http://t.co/VDKNpk7h
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205407384926031872
2012-05-23 21:12:26
DeirdreS: More Joyent talents coming out of the woodwork today: http://t.co/FO2AQyUB – we must form a company band!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205405852021161985
2012-05-23 19:57:18
DeirdreS: And The Number 1 Way To Look Like An Idiot Is… http://t.co/r0pE0iEy
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205386947722616832
2012-05-23 19:22:51
DeirdreS: @HTNMMO Yes, we rely heavily on Crossbow – some key cloud features depend on it. And other forms of virtualization, see http://t.co/GeP4mxRu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205378277781667840
2012-05-22 21:25:42
DeirdreS: RT @nodekc: If you’re around next Tuesday, come have a few beers and talk about Node with @edsai and @hij1nx: http://t.co/DmQhrJLL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205046803433918465
2012-05-22 20:45:23
DeirdreS: RT @jnsaff: Used it for 6 months now, worthit! “@joyent: Free Trial of Joyent’s #Cloud Software! Download SmartDataCenter Today! http: …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205036657412554752
2012-05-22 20:27:19
DeirdreS: http://t.co/SSbNuun4
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205032111474872320
2012-05-22 19:58:25
DeirdreS: RT @nosigorg: Headsup: on June 14th we’ll have Max Bruning of Joyent present on SmartOS for 2 full hours. Working to have this Ustream-e …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/205024840032325632
2012-05-22 18:19:02
DeirdreS: RT @fakedansavage: A marriage, for that matter, is only as real as the two people in it decide to make it. All human relationships are b …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204999830609739776
2012-05-22 18:05:04
DeirdreS: RT @leapingwoman: get community input by any means possible from face2face to online chats & surveys. involve them in research, plan …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204996315028004864
2012-05-22 17:56:58
DeirdreS: RT @leapingwoman: A7: org must be committed to enabling community members & their voices, not just pushing own message #CommBuild
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204994277267353601
2012-05-22 16:38:11
DeirdreS: The Republican assault on women’s rights and health is undeniable, severe and continuing. – http://t.co/z7OpQVMp http://t.co/piRjHqAN
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204974447457878018
2012-05-22 15:00:26
DeirdreS: 9 years ago I wrote: Rubber Ducky http://t.co/FTDWHvLl
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204949847411916800
2012-05-22 03:26:49
DeirdreS: @jasonh treat @deirdresm well – she’s one of the Deirdre club, obviously!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204775293272068096
2012-05-22 01:35:37
DeirdreS: @philiph “We don’t want rockstars, we want your kid brother’s garage band.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204747309878218752
2012-05-21 23:04:18
DeirdreS: RT @KI4OTK: Represent! #smartos #illumos #opensolaris http://t.co/263Sg6fp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204709232271032321
2012-05-21 22:11:12
DeirdreS: @angelcamacho @dudulima And I hope to see you both soon!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204695867825987589
2012-05-21 19:59:19
DeirdreS: RT @ericschrock: Congrats to @csiden (and @mahrens1 and @bcrow) on perhaps the most significant #illumos push yet with ZFS feature flags…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204662678680121344
2012-05-21 19:59:04
DeirdreS: Sigh. The “good” thing about virulent anti-gay rhetoric from whack jobs is that most sane people equate it with racist rants of the 60s.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204662614335291392
2012-05-21 19:53:35
DeirdreS: “If you wanted to kill someone, there had to be a reason.” Mafia boss breaks silence over Roberto Calvi killing http://t.co/ZXVENT8y
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204661236061843456
2012-05-21 18:30:04
DeirdreS: RT @KI4OTK: To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee. #AWS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204640217372704769
2012-05-21 18:16:31
DeirdreS: illumos News: May 21, 2012 http://t.co/qHYyc1VR
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204636808695398400
2012-05-21 17:35:29
DeirdreS: @willsnow tearing down is some form of flattery, often practiced by the extremely insecure on those who need not give a damn.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204626479043190784
2012-05-21 17:05:33
DeirdreS: new post: The Last of OpenSolaris http://t.co/wuu66ikr – your comments and memories welcome!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204618947335696386
2012-05-21 15:33:26
DeirdreS: Drama in my blog comments, someone want to help with a takedown for a cheating boyfriend? Italian Idiom and Sayings http://t.co/AvSP6eux
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204595765564284929
2012-05-21 15:02:31
DeirdreS: @simonmcc Ooh, great name!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204587987370115073
2012-05-21 03:43:03
DeirdreS: @densone @shanley Welcome to the family!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204416990515957760
2012-05-21 02:32:41
DeirdreS: Eclipse shadows http://t.co/h6zc5CBD
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204399283712172036
2012-05-20 03:19:07
DeirdreS: NAACP endorses gay marriage http://t.co/dpNLw070
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204048581982818304
2012-05-20 03:11:42
DeirdreS: @shainsingh There are probably millions of them in used bookstores in Italy…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204046713634295809
2012-05-20 00:24:48
DeirdreS: Thanks @lewellyn for coming all the way over to see Yellow Submarine with me!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204004712482217985
2012-05-20 22:23:10
DeirdreS: People are just… complicated. Maybe society would work better if we all gave up our ideas of what anyone “should” be http://t.co/eqBbOvU7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204336491911053313
2012-05-20 22:11:36
DeirdreS: Jon Stewart, Religion Teacher Extraordinaire | Religion & Politics http://t.co/YsIWwbXe
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204333581823262720
2012-05-20 20:33:32
DeirdreS: @KI4OTK Maybe because god is looking after them, so they don’t need to be careful.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204308901754187777
2012-05-20 17:02:35
DeirdreS: @dhoeffer ah, good point – hadn’t had enough coffee to see that
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204255812422615040
2012-05-20 16:19:11
DeirdreS: “Think about young women who struggle with math for reasons that have nothing to do with their innate intelligence” http://t.co/EbWH3jhN
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204244891797168128
2012-05-20 16:00:03
DeirdreS: 7 years ago I filmed my dad: What am I Doing Here? An American Civilian in Vietnam http://t.co/BUOIyOYx
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204240076685852672
2012-05-20 15:16:37
DeirdreS: Very puzzled by ilcorriere.it – There was a major earthquake and you lead with owls?!?
http://t.co/R2QVQKna
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/204229145260077057
2012-05-19 18:55:41
DeirdreS: @lewellyn 3d row from screen, center. Not that it’s crowded…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203921886688710656
2012-05-19 18:47:48
DeirdreS: “Like” IRL http://t.co/nHSA7TWH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203919902422208512
2012-05-19 17:16:13
DeirdreS: @lewellyn let me know when you’re 30 mins out
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203896856017772544
2012-05-19 17:13:33
DeirdreS: @lewellyn Ok, see you there!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203896185818333184
2012-05-19 17:13:10
DeirdreS: @shainsingh http://t.co/5dJyoByH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203896088636305410
2012-05-19 16:34:08
DeirdreS: .@pfuetz @rbarraud It was fun to go to Santa Clara after that and see lots of people wearing “my” shirts, perhaps in protest.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203886267790921728
2012-05-19 16:32:21
DeirdreS: @shainsingh Have fun! #Dtrace #Backtrack5R2 ps did you know Diabolik was created by two Italian women?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203885816009850880
2012-05-19 16:31:48
DeirdreS: .@rbarraud …at least the engineers finally got them – before only those who went to conferences got any OpenSolaris schwag
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203885677358743552
2012-05-19 16:30:46
DeirdreS: .@rbarraud I gave away 3000 t-shirts to ex-Sun staff in mid-2010 because we were no longer allowed to give them outside the company…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203885419929157632
2012-05-19 16:02:03
DeirdreS: Added a new Flower Gallery: Poppies http://t.co/oAd99aqD
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203878192057036800
2012-05-19 15:54:55
DeirdreS: .@vdotw Heh. Friend says her OpenSolaris baseball cap gets her chatted up by geeks everywhere.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203876397884784642
2012-05-19 14:57:43
DeirdreS: RT @fysaen: Testing SmartOS from Joyent. ZFS+DTrace+Zones+KVM what a lovely combination.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203862003457073153
2012-05-19 14:40:50
DeirdreS: “weight change takes a very long time. All diets work. But the reaction time is really slow: on the order of a year” http://t.co/QOBEuVRj
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203857754375467008
2012-05-19 14:28:42
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan In this case, it was probably because Larry loves red,
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203854701677133826
2012-05-19 06:36:25
DeirdreS: The Avergers was fun, product placement not too obtrusive, nice to see the Sun logo but pretty sure those servers are not red in real life.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203735844387950592
2012-05-19 06:29:50
DeirdreS: @FilmCritHULK One nit: the people in the sium were speaking flawless Hindi – in Calcutta? Should have been Bengali.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203734187923091456
2012-05-19 06:28:30
DeirdreS: @FilmCritHULK Saw, then read – now mad I missed final final scene (someone was waiting). Have to see it again in 2D; 3D was hard to see.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203733855193137152
2012-05-19 05:00:23
DeirdreS: In the 1st min of the Avengers I thought: “How did they get Hans Rosling to be in a movie?”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203711677986910208
2012-05-19 01:18:49
DeirdreS: .@BattleshipMovie if you were all that grateful, you’d give them free tix and not try to profit from pseudo-patriotic BS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203655920549494785
2012-05-19 01:16:43
DeirdreS: @JewelStaite I liked you just fine as a girl who looked like she dared to eat cheeseburgers. Yes, I know the camera adds pounds etc etc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203655391505162240
2012-05-19 01:13:43
DeirdreS: RT @SteveMartinToGo: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: A thing that will be something soon, coming, I’m sure, in the future, at some point.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203654635666415616
2012-05-19 01:13:04
DeirdreS: To understand my childhood, start by seeing Yellow Submarine, Fantasia, and Hair. The latter came late, but wrenches my guts out still.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203654471694295040
2012-05-19 00:01:17
DeirdreS: Oh, these boys won’t let me be – Poor Poor Pitiful Me – http://t.co/mVS5kIuc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203636408445976576
2012-05-18 02:09:49
DeirdreS: I think I’ll just stay off the social media for a few days now. Got work to do, and it will all just piss me off.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203306367807799296
2012-05-18 01:51:10
DeirdreS: George Carlin – Mohammed Ali, Vietnam the US Government YouTube http://t.co/NtykCkvO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203301670707412993
2012-05-18 00:23:25
DeirdreS: New version of SmartOS available, including a VMWare image for testing virtualized http://t.co/uWETXtkd – thanks, @johnnysunshine !
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203279588636364802
2012-05-18 00:17:49
DeirdreS: @ginatrapani Or becoming ill about it all.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203278178142261248
2012-05-18 23:21:18
DeirdreS: Books http://t.co/UFfsNR3e
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203626346365198336
2012-05-18 23:09:54
DeirdreS: This may give @brendangregg an edge in the never-ending office Mario Kart battle. http://t.co/ShyDrfqQ
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203623474923712512
2012-05-18 23:00:18
DeirdreS: Huh. So I got my name just after a peak for Deirdre, but still not much of a peak – http://t.co/cBS0Imyx
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203621061860925444
2012-05-18 21:12:47
DeirdreS: Any complex technology is made by many people who must work together. Whether we like it or not, relationships are crucial – always will be.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203594001427873793
2012-05-18 21:10:00
DeirdreS: @AlecMuffett That is, one martini of each
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203593303646670848
2012-05-18 21:09:21
DeirdreS: @alexr I have a feeling I do not want to know what, if any, specific jargon is associated with this.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203593139573895168
2012-05-18 21:08:47
DeirdreS: @AlecMuffett Well exactly. I could use one of each about now.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203592995973496832
2012-05-18 21:06:35
DeirdreS: @AlecMuffett I will take any of the above!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203592440588939264
2012-05-18 21:05:53
DeirdreS: @voxer No one here to take it right now, but we’ll get one!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203592267276091393
2012-05-18 20:39:52
DeirdreS: @lskrocki not yet, anyway…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203585719137075201
2012-05-18 20:31:06
DeirdreS: I guess it’s appropriate that I’m wearing my @voxer shirt today 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203583514527010818
2012-05-18 20:28:42
DeirdreS: .@kevinclosson A bunch of us used to work for Sun, whose acquisition by Oracle was extremely traumatic for many – suffering PTSD of sorts.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203582909603516418
2012-05-18 19:37:24
DeirdreS: .@kevinclosson Dan’s very good to his “noncomms”. Grateful for the 100s of tech vids I’ve made? Thank Dan: his idea & bought the 1st camera.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203570000068481024
2012-05-18 19:34:01
DeirdreS: RT @xeni: STOCKENFREUDE (n): That feeling you get, as someone who loathes Facebook, seeing FB shares crap out on IPO day.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203569148893208576
2012-05-18 19:31:14
DeirdreS: Dangit @FilmCritHULK I have to wait to read the rest because I have not seen The Avengers yet – life’s been nuts. This weekend, I hope…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203568445508435968
2012-05-18 18:44:04
DeirdreS: RT @templedf: That is some kinda funny -> RT @Deadspin: The helpful Dadspin guide to feeding a baby, from warming to barfing. http:// …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203556577473597440
2012-05-18 18:22:06
DeirdreS: RT @joyent: The Nuts and Bolts of Joyent SmartDataCenter w/ James Duncan, CTO customer engagement. Webcast 5/22 @10 am PT. Join us. http …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203551050307862532
2012-05-18 18:12:50
DeirdreS: LinkedIn asks “What did you do as Secretary to the OGB at OpenSolaris Community?” – “Watched a community die” probably not the right answer.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203548718128037888
2012-05-18 17:59:03
DeirdreS: On June 5th I’ll be speaking at WITI’s Women Powering Technology Summit on “The Changing Role of Technology Marketers” http://t.co/LSWB8IE7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203545248792719360
2012-05-18 17:50:23
DeirdreS: Growl? When you give a notification that I have “one new message from Sarah Jessica Parker,” it better be that I can sleep with her husband.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203543067804962816
2012-05-18 17:48:07
DeirdreS: .@AnastasiaAshman @KellyOSullivan @getstoried My super community power has a lot to do with growing up a TCK. I genuinely like most people.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203542495353769984
2012-05-18 17:46:13
DeirdreS: .@diogobaeder I consider it a given: don’t take a job you can’t be passionate about, don’t hire someone who won’t be. And it’s hard to fake.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203542018247491584
2012-05-18 17:31:34
DeirdreS: “entrepreneurs in the north have been committing suicide for fear their businesses were going under.” http://t.co/iN9tjt8j
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203538333543047168
2012-05-18 16:31:20
DeirdreS: xkcd: Klout http://t.co/WBDgO34P
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203523173877157888
2012-05-18 16:21:39
DeirdreS: @bdha Yes, @brendangregg failing to make a good case for tourism in his homeland.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203520735472394241
2012-05-18 16:21:05
DeirdreS: RT @PeterKretzman: RT @stephengillett: logged into MySpace after 5 yrs. PK: people (investors) should contemplate how fleeting social ne …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203520593163845632
2012-05-18 16:20:51
DeirdreS: @izs Is it a good sandwich? And don’t you have to dance tango while eating it?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203520534443601920
2012-05-18 16:20:34
DeirdreS: @mcavage Yes, I’m afraid to go there now.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203520465275338752
2012-05-18 15:59:45
DeirdreS: Thank you @nonstick (I think) for recommending the amazingly wonderful Trader Joe’s chocolate croissants.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203515223334858753
2012-05-18 15:58:32
DeirdreS: I have learned that there are aggresive poisonous spiders in the world that will hunt you and attack you. Now I’m having spider nightmares.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203514919931490306
2012-05-18 15:52:45
DeirdreS: RT @pborenstein: Of all the things I don’t want to watch Zuck doing, this is — oh you meant the IPO thing? Nah.
MT @mbaratz: Wanna see …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203513461957861377
2012-05-17 23:07:26
DeirdreS: @simonmcc congrats to all!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203260465718116352
2012-05-17 23:06:14
DeirdreS: .@ruperthowe MORE than enough
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203260166446137344
2012-05-17 23:05:50
DeirdreS: RT @ruperthowe: Facebook’s hubris is almost enough to make me wish for a total meltdown next week.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203260062897143808
2012-05-17 23:01:20
DeirdreS: @Joanmarie “one of these things is not like the other”?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203258931349434368
2012-05-17 22:59:30
DeirdreS: RT @LaCarrieraRosa: Pwa-Professional women’s association Milan ha vinto il Primo Premio Ambrogio Lorenzetti categoria Associazioni enti …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203258471821492225
2012-05-17 20:02:27
DeirdreS: .@FastCompany Maybe we’re now using that brain space for something more useful than a list of phone numbers.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203213912957661184
2012-05-17 19:23:45
DeirdreS: These words are meaningless in professional bios, job descriptions: passionate, rockstar, authority, recognized, forward-thinking, expert.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203204177348923394
2012-05-17 19:06:14
DeirdreS: Reminder: you can try Joyent’s SmartDataCenter for free, some introductory videos here: http://t.co/DrW8o71a
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203199766996320257
2012-05-17 17:33:37
DeirdreS: “Works for me” is acceptable neither as a testing methodology nor as a customer service attitude.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203176461358731264
2012-05-17 17:19:38
DeirdreS: Will online form designers EVER learn good UI? It’s been 20+ years, people. Show respect for the time I must spend dealing with you.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203172940450246656
2012-05-17 16:28:16
DeirdreS: @NomdeB Privileged doesn’t always mean heartless or insensitive, esp about how one is perceived by peers. Most want to be thought “nice”.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203160015345950722
2012-05-17 16:26:02
DeirdreS: @NomdeB Seems to me some might need validation /because/ they know a stay-at-home spouse is a luxury not all can afford.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203159450155098113
2012-05-17 16:15:04
DeirdreS: .@NomdeB Everyone likes others to validate their own choices by doing much the same thing; it’s just human.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203156689925578753
2012-05-17 16:04:28
DeirdreS: @MogdenPong Wow, blast from the past… I’ve seen that comic, ages ago.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203154025514934273
2012-05-17 16:04:12
DeirdreS: RT @MogdenPong: @DeirdreS Women? In IT Depts? Fairly represented? Are you some sort of witch? See http://t.co/JYwvEKQP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203153957172948992
2012-05-17 16:03:24
DeirdreS: .@NomdeB The point is that men whose wives stay home may unconsciously dislike wives who work, because we do not “validate” their choice.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203153755930230784
2012-05-17 16:00:13
DeirdreS: 5 years ago I filmed: Hot Chestnuts! Two Romans Explain How http://t.co/EkNn4lip
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203152955749310464
2012-05-17 08:12:08
DeirdreS: @sturadnidge Pff, 5 months in 5 years? Amateur! 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/203035157358321665
2012-05-17 05:00:29
DeirdreS: the success of married women invalidated the choices they and their wives had made about how to divide responsibilities http://t.co/cQPPpJFD
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202986928805658624
2012-05-17 04:40:56
DeirdreS: Minutes of today’s illumos Developers’ Council Meeting http://t.co/0CNhhvpJ – Welcome @kebesays to illumos Advocates!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202982009356824576
2012-05-17 04:05:59
DeirdreS: @kebesays Figured we should at least tell you before I publicize!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202973210579439618
2012-05-17 03:24:14
DeirdreS: @philiph I rarely tweet a song where the lyrics don’t have significance. I’m a word person. Also: Jethro Tull way ruder than hip hop et al.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202962704531595264
2012-05-17 01:31:06
DeirdreS: @jayrosen_nyu Confused. I could have sworn I saw that talk advertised by @TEDchris – I had even meant to watch it. ???
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202934233298255872
2012-05-17 00:13:02
DeirdreS: It’s a tossup between standing squished in a crowded train, or waiting in a station smelling of piss for one I might get a seat on .
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202914589334192128
2012-05-16 23:36:37
DeirdreS: mdb tab completion in illumos http://t.co/Xn8tcMk7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202905425375535105
2012-05-16 23:35:00
DeirdreS: @notmatt I beg to differ!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202905015071944704
2012-05-16 22:48:03
DeirdreS: RT @dysinger: “troll it forward”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202893201017806850
2012-05-16 22:05:41
DeirdreS: 1/4 of respondents – those who have no women in IT management roles – believe women fairly represented in their dept http://t.co/G1lUnfrO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202882540846067714
2012-05-16 21:57:11
DeirdreS: @philiph http://t.co/4hqy9Hog
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202880401327407104
2012-05-16 21:39:44
DeirdreS: “The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.” http://t.co/BKqxw6f0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202876007882047489
2012-05-16 21:30:51
DeirdreS: Director’s Prelude was great – see you at the concert? I’ll be going on Friday June 15th SFGMC Unplugged http://t.co/HtsivaXl
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202873773479829504
2012-05-16 20:40:48
DeirdreS: RT @gwr755: @safekidsusa published our story about Alec, http://t.co/0VOao87Z to help promote awareness of choking hazards. Please RT.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202861178077188096
2012-05-16 16:35:13
DeirdreS: RT @j05e: I think now would be a good time to learn DTrace – Have fun! here are some resources to help you get started: http://t.co/4t5y1zDu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202799376513499136
2012-05-16 16:32:31
DeirdreS: I’ll be speaking on “The Changing Role of Technology Marketers” at WITI’s Women Powering Technology Summit – June 3-5 http://t.co/bmaLyKVE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202798693945053184
2012-05-16 16:00:01
DeirdreS: 3 years ago I advised my Sun colleagues on Transitioning Your Online Identity http://t.co/ejrRXqrG
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202790517484949505
2012-05-16 15:53:12
DeirdreS: RT @DrJenGunter: I have not been silent -> Where are all the doctors? http://t.co/4hM6s2NA
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202788799913275393
2012-05-16 15:20:57
DeirdreS: “”We have to give a sense that we are not a dying country – but we are not large enough to have a critical mass” http://t.co/ZQqzlXWk
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202780683595292672
2012-05-16 06:12:27
DeirdreS: Already bored to death of the Facebook IPO.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202642649851756545
2012-05-16 03:47:27
DeirdreS: @alanc Exactly. I’m getting similar stuff, and worse.I can’t believe FB makes much revenue from this kind of ad.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202606159499239424
2012-05-16 01:35:29
DeirdreS: “ads can seem creepy and intrusive, no matter the high standards Facebook holds them to.” http://t.co/lb8N3Our WHAT high standards?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202572950589816833
2012-05-15 22:50:41
DeirdreS: back to back desperate emails from Netflix and Tivo. Give up, guys. I just don’t care for your “entertainment” anymore.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202531474556198912
2012-05-15 21:23:37
DeirdreS: RT @CalebGarling: So, Alsup clarified he’s been coding for some time. He’d just never written in Java. – Rockstar judge!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202509566720753664
2012-05-15 20:54:31
DeirdreS: RT @CalebGarling: Alsup tells Boies Oracle’s only doing damages because they haven’t won anything else and they’re in a fix. “This is a …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202502241943429120
2012-05-15 20:37:59
DeirdreS: Trying to write bio for speaking engagement, brain curls up and whimpers at standard buzzwords. Can I just say: “I’m amazing, you’ll see” ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202498079499370496
2012-05-15 18:23:02
DeirdreS: .@bcantrill As long as we don’t have a General Butt Naked http://t.co/HdYn3rrR
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202464119218126848
2012-05-15 16:00:03
DeirdreS: 7 years ago I filmed my dad talking about the religious schism within our family: The Hundred Years’ War http://t.co/pgu1YH5b
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202428137722748928
2012-05-15 15:00:05
DeirdreS: 9 years ago I wrote: Frequent Flier: The Strange Perks of Business Class http://t.co/kfrLWbyS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202413045727772672
2012-05-15 15:00:02
DeirdreS: 5 years ago I photographed some lovely retro packaging: Pastiglie Leone http://t.co/jVzeaOVu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202413034281504768
2012-05-15 09:21:01
DeirdreS: Try Joyent’s SmartDataCenter – and some videos to get you started http://t.co/DrW8o71a
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202327718434586624
2012-05-15 06:06:03
DeirdreS: RT @seldo: You know what’d be awesome? If Romney said “fuck yeah, I’ve got the nomination. I support gay marriage too!” and campaigned o …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202278652388446209
2012-05-15 06:05:23
DeirdreS: The World in 1962 – The Atlantic http://t.co/B9NAu9f6 – why is everyone so fixated on 1962? I guess it was a good year for me, but…?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202278485824241665
2012-05-15 05:54:28
DeirdreS: “I read the comments. I ask for advice. I answer questions. I fix problems. I take fans at their word” http://t.co/P0xevUuH
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202275736755769345
2012-05-15 04:06:47
DeirdreS: @nonstick @ditucci good lord. Who would ever tell another parent – that they’re not married to – that they’re doing it wrong?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202248638456541186
2012-05-15 04:03:17
DeirdreS: @PeterKretzman of course my daughter was esp fond of that one!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202247757740785664
2012-05-15 03:34:50
DeirdreS: RT @Arianna8927: Betty White endorses Obama; Ted Nugent endorses Romney. That’s all u need to know about this election.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202240595761168385
2012-05-15 02:37:41
DeirdreS: SFGMC Director’s Prelude starts with one of my faves: “Mama I’m a big girl now”. http://t.co/Y1BEaAYw
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202226212020563971
2012-05-15 00:45:00
DeirdreS: Can Tech Companies Continue To Innovate With No Women At The Table? | Fast Company http://t.co/GBYGqZe6
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202197856289959938
2012-05-15 00:37:58
DeirdreS: insanely: The Bad News: As Suspected, Rental Rates Have Increased Dramatically Over the Past Year http://t.co/EmWPTlum
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202196088264994819
2012-05-14 03:26:25
DeirdreS: Joyent’s @ryancnelson shows how easy it is to install SmartDataCenter: http://t.co/wjlmEPYu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201876089499418625
2012-05-14 03:11:14
DeirdreS: Turns out I’m doomed: http://t.co/6qxAqVQo
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201872271109914624
2012-05-14 03:03:35
DeirdreS: @redtwitdown Thanks, was just thinking I feel like the sorcerer’s apprentice: wave my wand, things happen – but it might get out of hand!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201870343634292736
2012-05-14 02:33:39
DeirdreS: So, who wants to get their hands on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter… for free? http://t.co/2BiVb79n
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201862812992155649
2012-05-14 02:28:30
DeirdreS: @edsai Gorgeous! Where are you winging your way to?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201861518160166915
2012-05-14 02:27:56
DeirdreS: @SezinKoehler Nice to meet you!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201861374165516288
2012-05-14 23:43:46
DeirdreS: @hridaybala More likely that I have forgotten more Hindi than you know, because I sadly have forgotten it. Buried under Italian.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202182445636927489
2012-05-14 23:37:37
DeirdreS: @hridaybala But, hey, I’ve never lied about it. I’m very proud of my US-govt financed degree in South Asian languages!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202180898748243968
2012-05-14 23:32:52
DeirdreS: “I want the best and brightest. Not a piece of paper.” http://t.co/T1MfwZub – Almost NOTHING I have done in my career was learned in college
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202179706005622784
2012-05-14 23:11:34
DeirdreS: RT @dapsays: Quick post on the bug I mentioned last week: (https://t.co/quZOd0UT): http://t.co/q7W65DrN (debugging RangeError from a cor …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202174343575375873
2012-05-14 22:41:44
DeirdreS: RT @dizzyd: Do not benchmark on ZFS. You will be sad when you have to run same code on Linux. #protip
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202166835892854784
2012-05-14 22:27:07
DeirdreS: Ops horror movie: http://t.co/AfmUw0WM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202163157714743297
2012-05-14 21:47:41
DeirdreS: ” baffled that Dell would approve the booking of a speaker who will talk about how women should be kept down.” http://t.co/UWUbkt3S
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202153232934502400
2012-05-14 20:42:13
DeirdreS: RT @internetsurfing: Looking forward to a bit of Node.JS coding and then setting up SmartOS (http://t.co/W6TqBz9s), if you code Node.JS …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202136760363401216
2012-05-14 20:22:54
DeirdreS: RT @maddow: US state reckons with its claim to fame: “…nearly triple Iran’s, 7 times China’s and 10 times Germany’s” http://t.co/jTejw7o0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202131898657538049
2012-05-14 20:21:03
DeirdreS: RT @pnoordhuis: Many thanks to @joyent for kindly providing access to a number of SmartOS machines to make sure Redis compiles and runs …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202131430380277761
2012-05-14 17:15:23
DeirdreS: @SezinKoehler @AnastasiaAshman I think the WS crowd will respond. We’ve done 2 or 3 related collections already, see http://t.co/IzkhFtfM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202084707066839041
2012-05-14 16:36:16
DeirdreS: @jonasthaler That’s exactly what it is – ghoulish rubbernecking.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202074864868274177
2012-05-14 16:17:15
DeirdreS: @SezinKoehler http://t.co/D5loL3WR I put out a call on FB last night re your requests for submission – lots of Woodstock alumni & parents
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202070078626336768
2012-05-14 15:47:28
DeirdreS: So, for those who missed this yesterday: who wants to get their hands on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter… for free? http://t.co/2BiVb79n
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/202062582281023489
2012-05-14 07:57:49
DeirdreS: “needing an American racial identity as he grew older but chafing also against it and over-embracing it at times.” http://t.co/7ukhRWpC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201944390401404929
2012-05-14 07:22:40
DeirdreS: “those who define good mothering tell us a whole lot more about themselves than about the nature of motherhood.” http://t.co/B47urTy0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201935544492638208
2012-05-14 06:38:51
DeirdreS: I’ve been adding new photos to my flower galleries, like this one: Rose Gallery: Yellow-Orange http://t.co/7cojGoDO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201924519185752065
2012-05-14 06:37:08
DeirdreS: @hridaybala Yes, he’s also a TCK – he and I have those things in common, at least.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201924088627871744
2012-05-14 06:26:11
DeirdreS: “Woodstock staff… formed relationships that will stay with me the rest of my life” http://t.co/7vKsJs2z
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201921330025734144
2012-05-14 05:47:56
DeirdreS: Gay Myths Busted: Setting the Record Straight. – YouTube http://t.co/6bxRRRAl
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201911707218612225
2012-05-13 19:54:35
DeirdreS: Devoting the day to personal care. they’re giving me champagne, so that’s appropriate.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201762383826403329
2012-05-13 01:29:02
DeirdreS: RT @ebertchicago: One man, one wife, says Romney–whose great-grandfather had five wives, and great-great-grandfather had 12.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201484163898019841
2012-05-13 01:25:57
DeirdreS: @AmnaAhmad Drat. My very reliable daughter will be looking for a place starting mid-Aug. She’s great with pets, too.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201483386471198720
2012-05-13 00:39:06
DeirdreS: I don’t respect their views. Their views are archaic and stupid – “team forfeits title rather than play against girl” http://t.co/RswTy1sS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201471598149115904
2012-05-12 00:34:03
DeirdreS: RT @ebertchicago: Many of us were foolish teenagers. Not many of us knelt on a smaller kid and chopped his hair off.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201107937349992448
2012-05-12 22:14:34
DeirdreS: “least effective relaxation strategies: shopping, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing Internet, watching TV” http://t.co/WVEvLOiW
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201435224159170560
2012-05-12 21:26:35
DeirdreS: @seldo You have my deepest sympathies. I strongly recommend lots of open source get-togethers.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201423148082663424
2012-05-12 21:13:16
DeirdreS: @seldo If this surprises you, you have not been going to enough tech conferences!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201419797597130752
2012-05-12 21:12:09
DeirdreS: @jamesaduncan Good thing you didn’t turn it on before looking…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201419517518286848
2012-05-12 21:04:06
DeirdreS: @konobi Hmm, I dunno. I’m pretty sure the Bible doesn’t say you’re allowed to kiss Canadians.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201417491082248192
2012-05-12 18:46:43
DeirdreS: old video: Centro Ippico Lombardo: Gara Sociale 1999 http://t.co/hgUb9OYO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201382915941208066
2012-05-12 18:26:06
DeirdreS: @pborenstein I never tried it because I could easily see myself being addicted. Got enough 2nd hand to have lungs like a smoker anyway.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201377729973727233
2012-05-12 17:19:43
DeirdreS: “Yes: They hate us. It must be said.” Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy http://t.co/YrXUolca
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201361022106353664
2012-05-12 16:55:16
DeirdreS: @dapsays @brendangregg and Henry Moore, celebrating the birth of baby girl @bcantrill. http://t.co/pGlBUjJb
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201354867900547073
2012-05-12 16:32:56
DeirdreS: @defunkt Bubble time in every sense…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201349248552415232
2012-05-12 06:24:02
DeirdreS: @3awadalla Not THE problem, but certainly A problem. A big one, sadly.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201196015527804929
2012-05-12 05:20:53
DeirdreS: “we can be filled with holes loss wide expanses of unhealed geography—and we can also be excited, in love, content” http://t.co/iEyYYMtn
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201180123288969216
2012-05-12 05:06:31
DeirdreS: RT @Joanmarie: “Robotic butt is even stranger and creepier than it sounds” http://t.co/949Jyzax – that is a very accurate headline
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201176507534684161
2012-05-12 05:03:10
DeirdreS: @Joanmarie At the risk of being obvious, if you were dead you probably wouldn’t be tweeting.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201175664852877313
2012-05-12 04:37:00
DeirdreS: RT @SniperWulfzen: I love @modcloth customer service <3 – Did you know they’re hosted on @joyent ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201169077383868417
2012-05-12 04:25:03
DeirdreS: RT @koolhead17: In Open Source community we work for T-Shirts. #justsaying
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201166071787552768
2012-05-11 23:19:39
DeirdreS: “Joyent is fine with other companies cloning its APIs, because its core intellectual property lies elsewhere” Wired http://t.co/B39awrPC
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201089216791330816
2012-05-11 23:14:57
DeirdreS: If I was still a webmaster, I’d be all over this: Co-browse for customer support, e-commerce and sales with GoInstant http://t.co/PoXQ9FlA
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201088033343283200
2012-05-11 22:49:38
DeirdreS: @vdotw Gorgeous! As I knew you would be.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201081660148678657
2012-05-11 19:56:48
DeirdreS: @vdotw photo!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201038164448649216
2012-05-11 19:50:24
DeirdreS: .@dberkholz Well, exactly. I’m not on here to “interact” with brands, but with people. Most brands rarely have anything interesting to say.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201036554737684480
2012-05-11 19:41:57
DeirdreS: “They don’t get it. They think they’re worth it. ” Liberty Mutual: Your premiums, his premium office http://t.co/cObCz1qz
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201034427449622528
2012-05-11 19:32:52
DeirdreS: RT @stephenodonnell: ” A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.” http://t.co/zfv4n8UY
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201032141428097024
2012-05-11 19:22:19
DeirdreS: RT @AjeyGore: @joyent looking forward to having a #SmartOS chef provisioned cloud on our infrastructure pretty soon! /cc @sriramnrn
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201029487033458688
2012-05-11 18:38:09
DeirdreS: RT @usenix: Women #sysadmins willing to serve on a “Women & Tech” panel at #LISA12 wanted: http://t.co/fiSEihJ9 via @chris_st_pierre
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201018371892977664
2012-05-11 18:22:18
DeirdreS: Video playlist: illumos at SVLUG – http://t.co/HDVH9F0u http://t.co/BdFfBXBF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201014382174539776
2012-05-11 17:52:18
DeirdreS: RT @BorowitzReport: Romney: “I oppose gay marriage because when they’re single they’re easier to pin to the ground.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/201006835136864256
2012-05-11 16:00:04
DeirdreS: 7 years ago I wrote “the kids roamed the town until they found a bar they liked, where they settled in and had drinks.” http://t.co/XL1UoY7Z
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200978589812924416
2012-05-11 15:47:51
DeirdreS: @avbelow I haven’t had the chance, except in the sense that “living well is the best revenge”.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200975515690086401
2012-05-11 15:41:35
DeirdreS: NEW! illumos Hardware Compatibility List http://t.co/3h3vX2jP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200973940489863169
2012-05-11 15:00:02
DeirdreS: 5 years ago I tried to decode Italian SMS-Speak http://t.co/Sadjf6aX
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200963482198347776
2012-05-11 10:34:05
DeirdreS: Once, someone who had bullied me in HS reappeared, “apologized”, was all sweetness & light. I later realized she hadn’t changed a bit.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200896553597153280
2012-05-11 10:30:22
DeirdreS: RT @hellvinz: one week of daily usage of #smartos. Still liking it. so far the best os i’ve seen for hosting vm
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200895619987025921
2012-05-11 06:03:27
DeirdreS: @amandapalmer I don’t work for Google, but I can send you a DTrace pony with x-ray eyes: http://t.co/kaOTAZw6
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200828447327666176
2012-05-11 05:55:33
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan influential in priest? What does that even mean?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200826458703265793
2012-05-11 02:25:39
DeirdreS: @bcantrill congrats to all! ‘
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200773634422341632
2012-05-11 02:19:39
DeirdreS: RT @bcantrill: Welcome Susannah Shelby Gaffikin Cantrill, born 12:55pm at 8 lbs 11 oz; mom’s great and her brothers are thrilled! http:/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200772124225441793
2012-05-11 01:02:04
DeirdreS: Damn. (Naughty language, in case you care.) http://t.co/tRoXHw29
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200752602089136129
2012-05-11 00:42:54
DeirdreS: Well, that’s certainly an enticing subject line: YOU WILL BE COMPENSATED ADEQUATELY
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200747777142177792
2012-05-10 23:51:28
DeirdreS: @missbhavens and/or a sauna for me. The Korean spa is sounding really good right now, if it only had a bar.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200734833146736640
2012-05-10 23:46:07
DeirdreS: @italylogue Yeah. There are some things I strongly prefer to buy there, but I don’t enjoy the experience. At all.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200733486682882048
2012-05-10 23:44:04
DeirdreS: @missbhavens For you or someone else? As for me – it’s going to end in at least one martini
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200732970175303681
2012-05-10 21:34:59
DeirdreS: “the world’s governments are forcing the public to subsidize fossil fuels with hundreds of billions of $ per year” http://t.co/HI1iPlPL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200700487899688960
2012-05-10 20:47:55
DeirdreS: @philliefoodie It’s been suggested you might enjoy this: http://t.co/NZLLBiQS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200688642363105280
2012-05-10 19:27:33
DeirdreS: RT @seldo: Dear media: instead of focussing on dumb shit Romney did when he was 17, why not discuss dumb shit he advocates RIGHT NOW?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200668415583723520
2012-05-10 18:27:12
DeirdreS: Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes – Kristin Andreassen – ReverbNation http://t.co/d4wcTZIa HT @musicjulia
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200653228256411648
2012-05-10 18:22:42
DeirdreS: Sometimes the only appropriate response is… http://t.co/0VEx3zu3
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200652098340265984
2012-05-10 17:46:14
DeirdreS: RT @timoreilly: Fantastic op-ed by @ginatrapani In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers http://t.co/jDY8YzQO Even better http:// …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200642919881904128
2012-05-10 17:34:15
DeirdreS: RT @fakedansavage: Maddow on Obama—it’s required viewing: http://t.co/K5xV5UUS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200639902055022592
2012-05-10 17:32:25
DeirdreS: “@bakadesuyo: Should you go back to bed? http://t.co/o1UWAEoO” YES!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200639443030376448
2012-05-10 17:03:54
DeirdreS: “Unpack your sense of humor, and get on with living and ENJOY IT.” http://t.co/ZMBldepu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200632267629002752
2012-05-10 17:01:36
DeirdreS: Made a little change to my site, see if you can spot it. 😉 Countries Beginning with I http://t.co/IZ2rStxn
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200631688051695616
2012-05-10 05:00:48
DeirdreS: RT @nonstick: @DeirdreS Because they aren’t getting any or not enjoying what they do get. – Good point. My guess is: they’re doing it wrong.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200450292347699200
2012-05-10 04:51:04
DeirdreS: Dear conservatives: please explain to me why you care so damn much about everyone else’s sex life? I’m really at a loss on this.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200447842521853953
2012-05-10 04:27:45
DeirdreS: “Boys wear pants.” – “Not when they’re dreaming.” http://t.co/ZDsYlxAU
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200441973088333824
2012-05-10 03:09:38
DeirdreS: @jmclulow I could say something really vulgar here, but I’ll restrain myself. For once.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200422317883523075
2012-05-10 02:48:15
DeirdreS: Listening to music appropriate to my age: Smoke on the Water.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200416935903637504
2012-05-10 02:44:07
DeirdreS: @hridaybala yup
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200415895305195521
2012-05-10 02:43:49
DeirdreS: @signed8bit yeah, y’know, there’s a danger gay people will make out wherever can see them if we provide too much public transport!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200415819212144640
2012-05-10 02:37:44
DeirdreS: …now see two young women snuggling on the train, think: “I’m happy to live where people can be themselves. Now let’s let the whole USA.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200414290027622400
2012-05-10 02:35:59
DeirdreS: This morning saw a man in denim overalls talking w one in a corduroy suit at the Bart station, I thought: yeah, living near Berkeley…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200413847297867776
2012-05-10 02:13:15
DeirdreS: RT @sterlinggates: Hell, just rerelease Serenity and put “From the director of THE AVENGERS” in every trailer. See what happens.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200408125524807680
2012-05-10 02:03:09
DeirdreS: @RohanPinto this is why we should ignore “the news”. So don’t care what the dude works.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200405584682549248
2012-05-10 02:02:05
DeirdreS: RT @chrisarnold: If you applaud @BarackObama’s position on gay marriage, show up to the polls this November. Likes and RTs don’t win ele …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200405316318408704
2012-05-10 01:09:24
DeirdreS: @jmclulow we’d have to add a lot more chairs
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200392059457253377
2012-05-10 00:51:49
DeirdreS: We have a timeout corner? http://t.co/pjfxDYLI
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200387630276419584
2012-05-10 00:38:49
DeirdreS: What’s in a nametag. | http://t.co/EY9fuscc
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200384361441411073
2012-05-10 00:29:58
DeirdreS: I was like… http://t.co/gSRc0KSE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200382135310368768
2012-05-09 23:03:03
DeirdreS: RT @ZDNetRachel: That hearing is FINALLY over. All of the press pretty much agree barely anything was decided…or everything. We just d …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200360262728032256
2012-05-09 23:01:45
DeirdreS: RT @sastauth: Researching potential of #smartOS as an alternative to #SPARC. Would like to get feedback from current SPARC / #Solaris u …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200359933991059458
2012-05-09 22:31:47
DeirdreS: RT @pborenstein: @jayrosen_nyu Technology is esoteric; drinking at lunch is fun. Very much so. They can’t code, market, or sell tech. Yo …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200352392934457345
2012-05-09 19:17:57
DeirdreS: better yet: “Watch out, you may get what you’re after!” TALKING_HEADS burning down the house.mpg – YouTube http://t.co/RcM61QMp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200303615049609219
2012-05-09 19:16:30
DeirdreS: currently stuck in my head: Talking Heads – Psycho Killer – YouTube http://t.co/IBWEXpYz
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200303250371641344
2012-05-09 18:12:20
DeirdreS: RT @craigmorgan: @bcantrill talking awesome common sense about OSS licensing and ZFS specifically (at 5:50) … http://t.co/nV3eg5IV
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200287100246036481
2012-05-09 17:52:45
DeirdreS: @ZDNetRachel totally not how Sun employees understood it at the time. They are giving the lie to much that we believed in. BTW: we’re pissed
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200282172219863040
2012-05-09 17:51:24
DeirdreS: @avinash dunno about that. As presented in their myths, most deities display traits we don’t like in our fellow humans.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200281830778339328
2012-05-09 17:50:23
DeirdreS: RT @italylogue: Anniversaries in Italian History that Every Curious Traveler Should Know http://t.co/TIVA7Mga by @italofileblog {SO HAND …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200281574338596864
2012-05-09 17:49:20
DeirdreS: RT @arclight: It’s like a competition to be the cheapest, cruelest, stupidest, sociopathic lying douchebag on the planet. And people see …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200281311888416768
2012-05-09 17:44:22
DeirdreS: @NomdeB you yourself, being the product of “miscegenation”, might not have been legal in NC at the time of your birth. @stopbeck
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200280062581411841
2012-05-09 17:43:02
DeirdreS: RT @thinkprogress: FACT: Last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage it was to ban interracial marriage http://t.co/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200279726030462979
2012-05-09 17:41:10
DeirdreS: @StopBeck BO is expected to announce a new law which will force Glenn Beck to make an honest man of Sean Hannity.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200279257245691904
2012-05-09 17:39:38
DeirdreS: RT @BarackObama: If you’re a woman for Obama, there’s a free bumper sticker with your name on it. RT so your friends get theirs, too: ht …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200278870321147904
2012-05-09 17:38:37
DeirdreS: RT @davetong: For every action there is an equal and opposite corporate policy.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200278615533957121
2012-05-09 17:35:03
DeirdreS: @avinash and that’s only the God “of the Book”. What about all the gods, most of them even older? Might have diff opinions.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200277715604094978
2012-05-09 17:00:04
DeirdreS: “We are creating the most accepting society [in history] because we can see so much about people’s behaviors.” http://t.co/neJaKJGT
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200268915639713794
2012-05-09 16:06:30
DeirdreS: @sriramnrn whoops, let’s try that again…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200255432521023490
2012-05-09 16:06:17
DeirdreS: Video: illumos at the SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion Panel http://t.co/SUDZpF3t
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200255380524244994
2012-05-09 16:00:03
DeirdreS: Video: illumos at the SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion Panel
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200253808494903297
2012-05-09 15:10:03
DeirdreS: @trochej No, I never got around to getting in touch with the guy who was running it, it needed changes anyway.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200241229164838912
2012-05-09 15:09:28
DeirdreS: @bubbva Yes, it’s common enough to be “funny”. But a sad way to live a relationship.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200241079595974656
2012-05-09 15:00:03
DeirdreS: 5 years ago I wrote about Italian Milk http://t.co/jJlDiCB2
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200238710212669440
2012-05-09 05:27:18
DeirdreS: This was probably funny when Whoopi said it, but, in real life, this kind of passive-aggression is just sickening: http://t.co/uaGsiRYL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200094572133613568
2012-05-09 05:11:47
DeirdreS: Italian football discusses coming out (in Italian): Altro che realismo, sui calciatori gay Di Natale è solo ipocrita http://t.co/G5IudvNY
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200090666326433793
2012-05-09 05:06:22
DeirdreS: RT @gsp1984: These two pictures will be viewed/judged identically by our children and their children. http://t.co/h7Of89m0
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200089304750489600
2012-05-09 05:05:15
DeirdreS: Ellison Wonderland: http://t.co/tV6ftvPg (PJ has all my sympathies.)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200089025816694785
2012-05-09 04:35:42
DeirdreS: 4 years ago I translated: Learn Italian in Song: Il Campo Delle Lucciole http://t.co/47J97upr
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200081588422324224
2012-05-09 04:07:20
DeirdreS: “in our quest to manage pain, we deny joy, medicating away the unsettling, washing away aliveness in which love lives” http://t.co/MPhryOi6
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200074449897263106
2012-05-09 03:57:35
DeirdreS: reminder: When Did You Choose to Be Straight? – YouTube http://t.co/l34w7y6g
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200071994425872385
2012-05-09 03:44:29
DeirdreS: RT @pelegri: Dear california. Let’s repeal Prop 8 – there are a couple of weddings I really want to attend…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200068699686838273
2012-05-09 02:56:36
DeirdreS: @lewellyn Yes.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200056648709062656
2012-05-09 02:50:14
DeirdreS: Buzz Bissinger: Why College Football Should Be Banned – http://t.co/KwSd7sZZ http://t.co/pxjoVlCh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200055047701278720
2012-05-09 02:38:39
DeirdreS: Oh no. Not Maurice Sendak.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200052129166139392
2012-05-09 02:12:46
DeirdreS: .@wilw “If you don’t like it here, you can leave” – happens whether you’re the local or the foreigner: http://t.co/I505zhNh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200045617916035072
2012-05-09 00:31:10
DeirdreS: @yashar Add NC to the list of states I will not live in.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200020046972588032
2012-05-09 00:21:32
DeirdreS: Video: illumos at the SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion Panel http://t.co/SUDZpF3t
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200017624938184704
2012-05-08 02:52:12
DeirdreS: RT @pourmecoffee: Imagine going to sleep tonight knowing strangers vote tomorrow on who you can marry.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199693152112754689
2012-05-08 02:50:59
DeirdreS: RT @DrJenGunter: 10,000-15,000 abortions/yr occur among women who pregnancies resulted from rape/incest
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199692845676904449
2012-05-08 02:49:18
DeirdreS: @NomdeB @dianefischler @chrisryanphd And that clergy is often not celibate in practice. So we can add a large dose of hypocrisy here.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199692421288820738
2012-05-08 23:52:06
DeirdreS: RT @slfritchie: Proposal for more Erlang-triggerable DTrace probes, whatcha think? http://t.co/lxJZr5Vh
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200010217877020672
2012-05-08 23:37:08
DeirdreS: @lewellyn No rush!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200006450339266561
2012-05-08 23:37:01
DeirdreS: RT @brendangregg: new blog post: dtrace.conf 2012 videos http://t.co/7BMTR9TF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200006420974936067
2012-05-08 23:25:35
DeirdreS: @lewellyn Want to join? I think it’d be more fun with more people. It’s been restored, apparently.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200003543959207936
2012-05-08 23:18:15
DeirdreS: Childhood memories (“Great movie to be high in,” according to my dad) mean I need to see this again: http://t.co/GlrBWaG8 – join me?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/200001699514036225
2012-05-08 22:16:39
DeirdreS: Just occurred to me, apropos of books, that this one was published 20 years ago. http://t.co/QPYcdlUi
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199986192253595649
2012-05-08 21:41:11
DeirdreS: “US women low political status, children not enrolled in preschool as often, working moms not guaranteed paid leave” http://t.co/tjZ2PCJp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199977271975620610
2012-05-08 21:25:59
DeirdreS: Lack of sleep colors the whole day in drab gray. I should have stayed in bed this morning.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199973447168819200
2012-05-08 20:48:26
DeirdreS: The Queen has arrived. She will be properly framed. http://t.co/baeWxQmp
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199963988967170049
2012-05-08 20:16:45
DeirdreS: SmartOS News: May 8 – http://t.co/HDVH9F0u http://t.co/uzho4GhN
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199956022532648960
2012-05-08 20:09:02
DeirdreS: New video: Why You Need ZFS http://t.co/gCp5Y2Du
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199954078946697216
2012-05-08 19:57:02
DeirdreS: Must go read @FilmCritHULK to get the bad taste of that out of my mouth.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199951060738125825
2012-05-08 19:55:39
DeirdreS: I find this disturbing: “address the beauty industry w technology created by women targeting our core female consumers” http://t.co/kRXVxVc9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199950712296316928
2012-05-08 18:54:22
DeirdreS: @heinz_gies I’m not complaining – I enjoy it and/because I’m good at it.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199935288733216768
2012-05-08 17:46:26
DeirdreS: RT @Mozi_N: Sen. Scott Brown(R-MA) insures his 23-year-old daughter through Obamacare, but he still wants2repeal it. @Kernelwars @Progre …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199918195241533440
2012-05-08 17:42:45
DeirdreS: RT @DrJenGunter: An estimated 22,000 pregnancies from rape could be prevented with access to emergency contraception
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199917268921090049
2012-05-08 17:12:36
DeirdreS: Apparently my major task on this planet is to get people to talk and listen to each other. No, I will not be a marriage counselor.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199909679856500737
2012-05-08 16:45:53
DeirdreS: RT @jperkin: New blog post: Goodbye @Oracle, Hello @Joyent! http://t.co/sIBGabhL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199902957087625216
2012-05-08 04:24:32
DeirdreS: “Water, water everywhere…” Nor any shoes I could actually wear. (I did eventually find a pair.) http://t.co/7nzfpHsu
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199716391551643649
2012-05-07 23:27:33
DeirdreS: RT @webmink: Bad News For The Meshed Society?: The Oracle/Google initial verdict is out in the US, and it’s bad news for the … http:// …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199641652095238146
2012-05-07 19:58:05
DeirdreS: RT @BklynOBGYN: “80% of people search for health topics online. 60% of people think what they read online is true” @DrJenGunter on why s …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199588937126264832
2012-05-07 19:19:53
DeirdreS: @hridaybala – @brendangregg has ruined cricket for you now? 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199579324586803201
2012-05-07 15:58:49
DeirdreS: “lower intelligence in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, effect mediated via conservative ideology” http://t.co/QBd1IHRa
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199528724784361472
2012-05-07 15:32:54
DeirdreS: short Video: illumos Key Technologies – http://t.co/HDVH9F0u http://t.co/uR1tdtsB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199522202780049409
2012-05-07 01:24:03
DeirdreS: Sigh. I wish I didn’t have such a strong feeling of “We’ve been through this before, and apparently learned nothing.” http://t.co/qKOES5Qt
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199308583316361217
2012-05-06 21:48:47
DeirdreS: @ActuallyNPH That means we get more Joss, right? I can deal.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199254409593618432
2012-05-06 20:17:22
DeirdreS: @DrJenGunter please do not waste your most excellent brain on Chopra. He’s not worthy of your time.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199231402154278912
2012-05-06 20:16:15
DeirdreS: .@DrJenGunter @todayshow because some parents are idiots.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199231120393506816
2012-05-06 20:14:44
DeirdreS: .@pcrampton @billcrosby If 80% of jobs are found through personal connections, does recruiter behavior matter much?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199230741073231872
2012-05-06 18:20:20
DeirdreS: http://t.co/uiC7houa
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199201943359463424
2012-05-06 18:08:26
DeirdreS: 1 year ago: New Videos: The Gregg Performance Series http://t.co/6QqOr2CB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199198956826263552
2012-05-06 18:06:34
DeirdreS: 5 years ago, one of my most popular posts: Old-Fashioned Italian Baby Names http://t.co/eDqfF0lO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199198484329533440
2012-05-06 18:05:52
DeirdreS: 6 yrs ago: “Italians live closer to the seasons than Americans do. American homes, offices overcompensate for weather” http://t.co/iAiGa5rY
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199198310207193088
2012-05-06 18:04:58
DeirdreS: ~6 years ago: Trainwriting – Italian train graffiti http://t.co/lhHnDohA
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199198082343256064
2012-05-06 18:03:27
DeirdreS: 9 yrs ago: “Joss might have been interested in her point of view; his aim with Buffy was to create a role model” http://t.co/Hj6S6bRw
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199197702372868096
2012-05-06 18:00:42
DeirdreS: 9 years ago: “when you’re about to leave a place, you are suddenly out of patience with it. Annoyances loom large” http://t.co/FK3dfzNE
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199197007338946561
2012-05-06 17:59:43
DeirdreS: 9 years ago I wrote: “No,” said the old man, “I’m waiting for this jerk to get up and do the right thing.” http://t.co/OiAZEGRY
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199196762962014211
2012-05-06 17:47:55
DeirdreS: @gbonazzoli Can you tell me what “even more” consisted in?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199193790345523204
2012-05-06 16:17:46
DeirdreS: “humans sensitive to sleep related facial cues, w potential implications for social & clinical judgments & behaviour” http://t.co/Mop8qax9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/199171104445710337
2012-05-06 02:36:36
DeirdreS: @WallsBleedLust Heck no, it’s squirrel mating season and you’re in the way! At least in his little squirrel mind….
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198964449544110081
2012-05-06 02:34:21
DeirdreS: “Jurors are people, and people don’t like being fooled, inadvertently or otherwise. Especially otherwise.” http://t.co/R8iLjqOF
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198963886601412608
2012-05-06 02:21:24
DeirdreS: RT @agrieser: The ‘why’ behind node.js design, by Jason Hoffman (CTO Joyent). Starts slow, worth it. http://t.co/dvrxfZNv
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198960627300048896
2012-05-06 02:20:52
DeirdreS: @WallsBleedLust He’s probably thinking: “That guy is in my territory – go away, jerk!”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198960491865968641
2012-05-06 02:19:14
DeirdreS: video: Woodstock School in 1979 http://t.co/ueJFMIP9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198960081801445376
2012-05-06 00:28:29
DeirdreS: Old wounds: “In maritime law, the captain goes down with the ship. In the corporate world, he sells the sinking ship and cashes out.”
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198932210139672576
2012-05-05 22:54:59
DeirdreS: RT @KellyOSullivan: They’re right! I DO want the government in my vagina! Now I understand. http://t.co/bKcR0sKk #GOPVagina HT @NomdeB
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198908680798863361
2012-05-05 21:49:08
DeirdreS: Remind me never to live in Arizona, or Kansas, or…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198892108793380864
2012-05-05 21:47:49
DeirdreS: Unearthing old old old photos and videos from antique CD-Rs, not sure if my daughter will love me or hate me for this…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198891778223505408
2012-05-05 20:20:04
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan For the time, it was. Among other things, I suggested using CompuServe forums!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198869693598150656
2012-05-05 19:04:31
DeirdreS: Just mounted a CD I recorded in 1997, and found an online marketing plan I wrote that year for friends’ software.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198850680176386048
2012-05-04 21:56:52
DeirdreS: @philiph I stopped listening to the radio around 1984.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198531665138696192
2012-05-04 21:25:49
DeirdreS: Video: Instrumenting the Real-Time Web: Node.js, DTrace and the Robinson Projection – with a classic @bcantrill rant http://t.co/7oqRFM0r
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198523851733336065
2012-05-04 21:03:47
DeirdreS: I don’t usually notice the generation gap between me and many of my tweeps, until something happens involving music.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198518308159492097
2012-05-04 20:59:10
DeirdreS: New version! Download SmartOS – SmartOS Documentation – SmartOS Wiki http://t.co/uWETXtkd
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198517147847237632
2012-05-04 19:19:20
DeirdreS: RT @indecision: Conservative experts draw line between belief in science and mass murder. And they did that without resorting to logic. …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198492019943931904
2012-05-04 17:34:55
DeirdreS: @Gundryggia when that was the boss, I quit.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198465743120121857
2012-05-04 06:09:40
DeirdreS: Got to see two old friends today, ate great food, and did yoga (not in that order). And laughed a lot at work again. Life is good!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198293294881574912
2012-05-04 05:57:25
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan Me? I haven’t watched it! #NCIS
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198290212655345664
2012-05-04 02:33:54
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan The creator of that site probably never got laid.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198238996713848834
2012-05-03 23:15:24
DeirdreS: .@ekampf @amalc SmartOS is for running websites – if you want to run them fast. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198189043358498816
2012-05-03 20:26:04
DeirdreS: @WallsBleedLust Thanks, the one you gave me may be ok – have’nt tried yet
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198146427971567616
2012-05-03 19:43:48
DeirdreS: RT @WallsBleedLust: Best sticker collection ever. @voxer @joyent http://t.co/fmIqFYGa
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198135789383716864
2012-05-03 19:14:47
DeirdreS: RT @oraclepartners: Be sure to join Solaris 11 engineering experts for a Developer Technical Webinar on DTrace May 8 @ 9AM PT…. http:/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/198128490275536897
2012-05-03 06:02:46
DeirdreS: @jonasthaler ooh!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197929173279444992
2012-05-03 05:18:54
DeirdreS: White rose by streetlight http://t.co/ODGFqPo7
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197918126153805826
2012-05-03 05:15:47
DeirdreS: RT @rachelmyers: Walking away from the ModCloth Girl Geek Dinner (that’s #mcggd in hashtag speak) with wildflowers and drinking plans! S …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197917349322559489
2012-05-03 05:14:36
DeirdreS: @missbhavens and even if they did, who cares?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197917049257861120
2012-05-03 03:27:02
DeirdreS: RT @MichaelDell: 28 years ago (May 3rd) with $1000, instead of studying for finals during my freshman year at the University of Texas, I …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197889981115666432
2012-05-03 03:24:41
DeirdreS: @missbhavens problem is I’m hungry and stuck behind a camerafor a while yet
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197889388896718849
2012-05-03 03:23:59
DeirdreS: @davidpaulyoung @bcantrill mmm, too subtle to be Italian in that instance
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197889210785607681
2012-05-03 03:16:25
DeirdreS: @sogrady sigh. There are many.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197887307045535745
2012-05-03 03:14:27
DeirdreS: .@bcantrill makes a point http://t.co/5xozrC4v
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197886809026461696
2012-05-03 03:06:29
DeirdreS: Suddenly I’m hip deep in OSUGs. Putting the band back together. Welcome home to open Solarish, gang. 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197884809006166017
2012-05-03 02:57:08
DeirdreS: @missbhavens not sure if I love you or hate youfor that.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197882456215535617
2012-05-03 02:48:19
DeirdreS: “Why do we have to have these competing projects? It’s all just butting heads over licensing.” Josh Paetzel
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197880238166908928
2012-05-03 02:28:06
DeirdreS: RT @jeffreytaylor: PLS RT: Help me raise money for @SFGMC ‘s Dragathon and put me in a dress! See linked video for more details! http:// …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197875147582078979
2012-05-03 02:21:20
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan yeah, kinda weird…
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197873446514987010
2012-05-03 02:07:01
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan filming my boss on a comparative OS panel,had requests to stream for those who can’t be here, as we do for our own events
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197869845189099521
2012-05-03 01:52:40
DeirdreS: Sadly, I will not be able to live stream tonight’s event – Symantec has not given us any network access in their building.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197866232995778561
2012-05-03 00:47:39
DeirdreS: @WallsBleedLust @voxer some of that better have our names on it! 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197849870642585600
2012-05-02 18:46:54
DeirdreS: RT @joyent: We’re at Stanford IT Open House. @jasonh talking in a few hours: Free Private Clouds for .edu. http://t.co/0eyRJgNM
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197759083170893824
2012-05-02 18:40:45
DeirdreS: RT @JeffMerrell: From @sandy_carter Best community managers are part of/respected by community. #ibmsocialbiz #socm2012 #msloc430
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197757535313346561
2012-05-02 17:18:59
DeirdreS: RT @steveweinstein: You still have to vote. And drag everyone you know & their daughters to register & vote no matter the GOP ob …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197736958905163776
2012-05-02 17:16:00
DeirdreS: @CalebGarling are they asking anything that’s not completely frightening?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197736208078602241
2012-05-02 17:14:57
DeirdreS: RT @hotdogsladies: I realize and respect that many people are vocally opposed to any use of profanity.
With that said, most of those pe …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197735945200615424
2012-05-02 17:14:36
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan @pourmecoffee I expect to see Newt flogging Priceline next
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197735857438982145
2012-05-02 17:14:08
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan @pourmecoffee
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197735738803109888
2012-05-02 17:12:34
DeirdreS: @tomcoates have you heard @bcantrill ?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197735343485751296
2012-05-02 16:55:07
DeirdreS: @Joanmarie there is nothing ungraceful about funky dyes. No such thing as too old to have fun, with your hair or anything else!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197730953743962112
2012-05-02 16:46:10
DeirdreS: @rubinafillion @lanesutton interesting challenge – but ultimately impossible – to make GS sympathetic without a radical change in culture
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197728700287041536
2012-05-02 06:56:53
DeirdreS: @lewellyn Someone tried to connect you with a device, or you tried to connect someone…? Either way, probably not a good date activity!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197580402553131008
2012-05-02 06:37:01
DeirdreS: A tiring but rewarding day doing what I do best: connecting people with each other.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197575403290886144
2012-05-02 06:12:21
DeirdreS: @WallsBleedLust No, no – the Unix beard must be earned! 😉
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197569195918102528
2012-05-02 00:56:46
DeirdreS: @littleidea That’s where you shave the yak, right?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197489776935444481
2012-05-02 00:55:52
DeirdreS: Recovered the images for: Capturing Good Sound for Video http://t.co/lOXRrTas
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197489548211662849
2012-05-02 00:39:35
DeirdreS: In 6 of the 10 most competitive countries, it’s illegal to demand more than a 48-hour work week http://t.co/wjL9Q5QO
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197485451148398592
2012-05-02 00:36:11
DeirdreS: SmartOS News: May 1, 2012 – http://t.co/HDVH9F0u http://t.co/4bVrR11A
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197484596617691136
2012-05-02 00:16:13
DeirdreS: Having a day full of LOLs at the office. And I don’t think it’s just because I’m easily amused.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197479571182981122
2012-05-02 23:31:12
DeirdreS: @atl Welcome to the SmartOS family!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197830628492840961
2012-05-02 23:09:59
DeirdreS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON: The happier man http://t.co/rPL8nmOq
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197825293065523201
2012-05-02 23:07:49
DeirdreS: dang, wish I could go! Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners » Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #19: Sponsored by ModCloth http://t.co/0Xoc4ekr
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197824747764064256
2012-05-02 22:58:36
DeirdreS: @jasonh we’ll be in Mountain View at this event: http://t.co/umNnoWqL (me, Bryan, Brendan)
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197822424711041024
2012-05-02 22:57:37
DeirdreS: illumos News: May 2, 2012 http://t.co/Xtyo3cI9
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197822180556419072
2012-05-02 22:54:58
DeirdreS: will be heading south soon for this: SVLUG Event: Comparative Operating Systems Discussion – will stream if I can http://t.co/EiJRBQ0c
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197821510252105728
2012-05-02 22:45:11
DeirdreS: @monkchips @jasonh is down in Palo Alto right now, so I suspect you could persuade him.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197819048787062784
2012-05-02 22:20:04
DeirdreS: @atl community support! http://t.co/ofSuxXDP
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197812727954157568
2012-05-02 21:53:23
DeirdreS: @atl We’re still working on the whole situation, feel free to ask for clarification in the mailing list, irc, or wiki.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197806015591354368
2012-05-02 21:47:57
DeirdreS: @monkchips You could come watch the fireworks: http://t.co/umNnoWqL
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197804647958847488
2012-05-02 21:46:50
DeirdreS: @atl did you find this? http://t.co/DKb6zxCh What else would you like to know?
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197804367871606784
2012-05-01 23:39:24
DeirdreS: @AlecMuffett @runasand http://t.co/IDpluOII
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197470307882237953
2012-05-01 18:55:01
DeirdreS: @ccraigross Better than DTrace or better with DTrace? #lfeeus
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197398737272836096
2012-05-01 18:32:14
DeirdreS: RT @ebertchicago: Oops! Projectionist hits “Delete,” entire file of “The Avengers” is wiped out. A good reason to use film. http://t.co/ …
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197393006754676736
2012-05-01 18:18:33
DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine Plus, business sense & integrity neither the same nor mutually exclusive. I don’t want to do biz w anyone who lacks either.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197389561398169600
2012-05-01 18:17:06
DeirdreS: @johnnysunshine Looks to me like he was handed a company that already had troubles that his predecessor did not want to deal with.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197389195503869953
2012-05-01 18:11:29
DeirdreS: Whatever the outcome of the #Googacle trial, @OpenJonathan may be the only person involved who has any integrity left.
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197387783881490432
2012-05-01 15:53:10
DeirdreS: @bubbva No problem with the title, just the spelling. @PeterKretzman gets resumes form people citing their experience as “mangers”!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197352975331635200
2012-05-01 04:04:52
DeirdreS: @KellyOSullivan You have sexual thoughts about chocolate? What do you call that? That’s my kind of orientation!
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197174725317890048
2012-05-01 03:57:40
DeirdreS: RT @gorbypuff: I heard you like DTrace http://t.co/Ol8KOrnv
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197172914146131969
2012-05-01 02:12:48
DeirdreS: “acknowledge that you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible” http://t.co/Z7FSyqke
http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/197146520741625858
2012-05-01 00:47:42
Family Lies
I’ve never been good at any form of lying; I prefer to deal with life and people straightforwardly, to have nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of.
My father made this hard. He burdened me from a young age with secrets too big for a child, things I could not tell anyone because they would get him into trouble or hurt people’s feelings or whatever. The very worst of these set off a cycle of pain and revenge that had decades-long repercussions – for me.
When my parents separated and Dad and I moved to Pittsburgh, he was still a young and handsome man, with no intention of staying single. He dated a number of women, some of whom I liked, some I didn’t. But it wasn’t long before he met Nancy, and we both fell in love with her.
She was very young – barely ten years older than I, she might have been only 19 when she met him – beautiful, sexy, a good cook, and, perhaps surprisingly, very loving and attentive to me, as well as head over ears for Dad. He courted her with attention, pet names, worldly sophistication, custom-made jewelry…
I suppose he was presented to her parents some months before I was. They were Slovaks who had immigrated to the US soon after WWII, and owned a blue-collar café on Pittsburgh’s South Side. Devoutly Catholic, they would never have allowed their daughter to be in what they considered an adulterous relationship: my parents had been married in the Catholic Church, and were divorced (actually, at that time, only separated) only in the eyes of the law: the Church grants no divorces. Nancy still lived at home with her parents, under their control to an extent that might surprise a young American woman of today. What could she and Dad do?
They lied.
They told Nancy’s parents that my father was a widower, valiantly raising a young daughter on his own after the death of his wife. My mother.
This went down smoothly (and I didn’t know about it) until things had progressed enough that it was natural for Nancy’s parents to invite us all over for a meal one day, to meet the poor motherless child. Then I had to be instructed to go along with the lie.
I was stunned and terrified. On the one hand, I loved Nancy very much and was afraid that, if I said the wrong thing, I would lose her from my life forever, because her parents would not allow her to be with my dad. On the other hand, I was deeply uncomfortable with the idea of actually saying such a tremendous lie as that my mother was dead. Children, consciously or otherwise, believe in the power of words and wishes: surely to speak of my mother as dead was disloyal, tantamount to wishing her dead – and then, who knew, she might actually die – and it would be my fault.
It was a crushing burden to lay on a nine year old. I remember being acutely uncomfortable through that first meal, afraid someone would ask about my past and my mother, and I would have to speak the dreaded words: “My mother is dead.” I don’t think anyone actually said anything; perhaps John and Mary thought or had been told that it would be kinder not to mention it to me, so I was at least spared any “Oh, you poor thing” scenes. But my interactions with them were thereafter constrained by my fear that I would say the wrong thing, let slip that I had a mother and a brother still very much alive somewhere. To not be able to talk about someone is also to make them die a little.
About a year after we arrived in Pittsburgh, my mother came to visit, all the way from Bangkok. According to my dad, her primary reason for visiting was to get the divorce papers signed, and he later claimed that I overheard her say so, but I do not remember this. I also don’t remember how she found out about the lie I was being forced to perpetuate – from me? from Dad or Nancy? Most of the subsequent events do not exist in my own memory, but I heard about them later, over and over, in varying versions from Dad and Mom both.
However it happened, Mom did find out, and was rightly appalled. But, whatever she may have said about it at the time, she took no immediate action. I continued to live a lie with Nancy’s parents, and don’t recall whether I was aware that Mom knew about it.
It must have been the following summer that the three of us drove cross-country in my granddad’s old VW camper. Dad and Nancy dropped me off in Texas with my aunt Rosie (perfectly fine with me – Rosie lived out in the country, and had horses! as well as cats, dogs, and my cousin Casey), while they went on to Mexico. Some weeks/months later they picked me up and we went back to Pittsburgh in time for the school year to begin. A few months after that, around Christmas time, Dad had to be hospitalized as a result of a parasite he’d picked up in Mexico. It wasn’t life-threatening, but bad enough that I was shipped off to Rosie again, where I attended the tiny Coupland public school for a few months.
Meanwhile, Dad and Nancy proceeded with plans for a big, Catholic wedding, to take place in April (1974) in her home parish with the family priest. That’s when Mom struck.
Dad had managed to keep Mom from learning enough details about Nancy to contact her parents directly, but Mom worked around this obstacle. She wrote to the archdiocese of Pittsburgh, to let them know that Dad and Nancy could not be married in the Church, since Dad was still, as far as the Church was concerned, married to Mom. I suppose it was the beloved family priest who had to break this news to Nancy’s horrified parents. I guess it was too late to back out of the wedding altogether, but the ceremony was hastily moved to a chapel at the University of Pittsburgh, to be conducted by a Unitarian minister.
I did not know any of this, having returned from Texas just in time to be in the wedding ceremony, in a lovely dress that had been made for me by Mrs. Garcia in Coupland. My dad’s old friend Harry came up from New Orleans to be his best man, and my grandparents from Shreveport. For me, it was a thoroughly happy occasion, and I truly believed all the words I was given to recite about how we’d be a family forever and ever. I had no idea of the tensions that underlay it all.
At some point thereafter I was told that John and Mary now knew the truth about my mother, so I wouldn’t have to lie anymore. I don’t think they ever asked me one way or another. I might not have had an easy relationship with them regardless, there was such a gulf of culture and experience and belief between me and them. But, knowing that they now knew we had all lied was almost as bad as the lying itself had been. I hated that I had been dishonest, and it didn’t occur to me that, as a child, I wasn’t responsible for what I had been made to say. I had already shouldered many adult-sized emotional responsibilities in my young life, and assumed that I was supposed to, though this one was larger than most.
This was all ammunition in the continuing war between my parents, which by no means ended with their divorce or any of their remarriages. With this and other weapons, they fought through me for 40 more years. It never stopped, until now: my father is dead, and I no longer speak to my mother. Perhaps, left finally in peace, I can now get past it all.
Hand-Writing
Being a left-handed person in a right-dominated world can be hard, especially in elementary school. It’s difficult to write: if you hold the paper “normally” and write straight across from left to right, your hand covers over and smears what you’ve just written. Many lefties turn the paper sideways and then write from top to bottom across the page. Others hook their hand over the line and write from the top. Either is at least as awkward as it sounds, plus you’re pushing rather than pulling your pen across the page, creating extra friction and resistance.
As you may imagine, handwriting was hard and even painful for me. I always got poor grades in penmanship, although I could draw well and got good grades in art.
I loved reading and language, so the putting-words-together part of writing was no problem for me – I was a wordsmith from a very young age. But getting my words down on paper was almost beyond me.
My parents separated when I was 9 and I moved with my dad to Pittsburgh, where he attended grad school. My mother remained in Thailand with my infant brother. In those days it was next to impossible, and impossibly expensive, to make international calls, so the only way Mom could hear from me was for me to write letters.
I wanted to stay in touch with her, but I was up against the handwriting problem: I just hated writing anything. It was slow, irritating, and my hand cramped. But Mom nagged me to write more, and Dad nagged me as well, probably because Mom was nagging him about it. It was an ongoing battle, resulting in infrequent letters containing roughly: “How are you? I am fine.”
Finally, Dad hit upon a solution. He had bought a Selectric typewriter to use for his grad school papers. This was in 1971, when a Selectric was new and sexy technology. We had never had any kind of typewriter at home before; the old mechanical ones would probably have been too hard for my child hands anyway. The Selectric was easy and fun, and I found the mechanism fascinating. I could only hunt and peck, but this was still so much easier than handwriting that I was happy to type long, chatty letters to Mom.
The change in style and increased length, and the bare fact that my letters were now typewritten, made Mom suspicious. She became convinced that Dad was writing the letters for me and that I was being deliberately kept incommunicado – um, why? to hide something from her? (I’m not sure what that would have been.) She was very nasty about it, accusing Dad of god knows what.
I was crushed and furious. I had finally found a way to write in a length and style natural to me, and I had assumed this would make Mom happy. Instead, she rejected my efforts and said it wasn’t even me doing the writing. I was offended on my dad’s behalf, that she would think that badly of him, and further angered that she’d think he could stop me contacting her if and when I wanted to.
There was only one way to prove it to her: I recorded a cassette tape. My voice shaking with hurt and anger, I told her that the suspect letters had indeed been written by me, and if she didn’t appreciate them, I’d stop writing altogether. When she received that, she had to accept that my letters were in fact mine. Not that I felt much like writing to her after that.
The upside of this dismal episode was that I got comfortable with a keyboard early on. Later, in high school, I took a typing class, and soon began typing papers for other people, as well as everything of my own that I possibly could – much to the relief of my teachers. I resented having to write exams by hand (still do): it’s a handicap that affects my grades, though I’ve never been able to convince any academic institution to find a solution to this. Fine, then don’t bitch about how hard it is to read my handwriting – I told you it would be!
My keyboard skills had a further benefit: they led to my career in tech.
Back to School
Getting back to Woodstock School at the beginning of each new semester was an undertaking, and sometimes an adventure. The journey was never short: most of us lived in other countries in Asia or the Middle East. We’d take a plane or train to Delhi, then a bus or taxi to Mussoorie, 7000 feet up in the Indian Himalayas. Especially for younger students, these trips were coordinated with the school so we could be met at the airport by staff members and escorted on school-arranged buses, and more or less watched over until safely checked in at our dorms.
However, between the difficulties in communications to and within Asia 30 years ago, and the general unruliness of teenagers, the school couldn’t always keep track of everybody.
I don’t remember what year it was that I came back to Delhi after winter break and managed not to join a school party, or at least not to be on the bus with the others. It can’t have been my senior year, because a couple of kids older than myself were along on this adventure (Kim, Tajchai – do you remember this? I think you were part of this story). Somehow, five or six of us needed to get up to school, and weren’t on the school bus. None of us had much money.
There were (and are) cheap ways to travel in India, such as public long-distance bus lines (the Indian version of Greyhound) of all classes and prices, from rattling, hard-seated, overcrowded tin cans to air-conditioned “luxury” buses. But, if you were willing to stuff enough people into it to share the cost (about Rs. 500 total, if memory serves), a taxi was nearly as cheap, and at least you could ask when you needed a stop. So we pooled our resources and hired a taxi to take us from Delhi to Mussoorie, putting four in the backseat and two in the front seat (plus the driver) of a capacious Ambassador.
A taxi was more comfortable than a bus, but not by much over six or more hours of stop and go traffic on terrible roads – also very stressful driving conditions. I don’t remember what time we left Delhi, but by the time we reached Dehra Dun (the town in the valley below Mussoorie), our driver was tired, and well aware that it would take another one and a half to two hours to get us up to school. A native of India’s plains, he may also have felt daunted by the winding mountain road, falling darkness, and cold weather ahead. He decided to hand us off to a local driver in Dehra Dun for the final leg of the trip – which may have saved all our lives.
Heading up the two-lane “highway” to Mussoorie, we soon ascended into clouds, fog, and sleet. The driver went slower and slower; we could only see a few feet beyond our front bumper, then even less that that. The headlights on the taxi either hadn’t been working from the start, or failed as we were going. None of us could see anything but a dark gray fog of cloud and condensation against the car windows, but we were familiar with this road. Even though we couldn’t see it, we knew that, at many points along the way, there was no barrier to stop us plunging several hundred feet down the mountainside. Fortunately, the driver – a young local man (and a Sikh, I recall) – knew it, too.
Our group had started the day cheerful and chatty, but by now we were tired and increasingly frightened. I was nightmarishly reminded of a dim childhood memory of a similar drive up a volcano in Hawaii when I was about four.
Suddenly the car ground to a halt, crunching on roadside gravel. The driver peered out over the hood, but couldn’t see anything. He opened the door and looked down at the road. “Oh my god,” he said, quietly and hoarsely. Our front wheels were inches from a precipice.
He backed up carefully, and we continued the slow, painful journey. I don’t remember how long it took, or really anything about the trip after that point, but we obviously did eventually make it to school, and then (on foot, as ever) down to our dorms. We probably got told off for being late and not arriving with the other students.
Harrowing as it was, this wasn’t much of an adventure by Woodstock standards. Ask the students who escaped the Iranian revolution in 1979. Or the boy who, arriving home in Bombay after the partition of India in 1947, found that his parents had had to move abruptly to Lahore, and had left no forwarding address (probably didn’t know it themselves when they left). He had to make his own way, but eventually did find them, of course. Or the one who, even earlier, was home in Burma with his missionary parents for Christmas. When it was time to return to school, his father pulled out a map and said: “The Japanese are coming from here; I suggest you start walking in this [other] direction.” And he did – three weeks through the jungles with a group of missionaries fleeing the invading Japanese army, to reach Calcutta and thence take a train back to school, where he was eventually reunited with his parents.
I guess you could say that Woodstock students are resilient and know how to take care of themselves. Sometimes, we just didn’t have a choice.
