A Week’s Worth of Twitter Updates

Posted By on July 30, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • I'm frankly astonished at how bad I *don't* feel post-surgery. You'd think there'd be pain from the op, but this has been pretty tolerable. #
  • Power's been out for an hour or so due to a storm. Of course, the minute I think to mention it, it comes back online. #
  • I was looking online for a rheostat for a project I have in mind. Amazon mocked me by suggesting a foot pedal speed control. Damn them. #
  • Just had a phone call come from completely out of the blue, from an old friend I haven't heard from in a couple of years. Very cool. #
  • Took sister to the airport this morning. (It'd been 4 years since I last saw her.) The cats have been looking around for her all day. #
  • OK, the novelty of giving myself a nightly injection has worn off. Now it's a nuisance. #
  • If you don't already like tomato soup, try having a bowl after 2 weeks on clear liquids. Er. Mah. Gerd. #
  • I still pronounce it "Peking." // RT @OneFineJay: Four years since that Olympics, some idiots still pronounce Beijing with a zh sound. Ugh. #
  • What good is a mouthwash if it leaves a foul aftertaste? I felt like licking a bus station floor to get that aftertaste out of my mouth. #
  • Two words, people: Bacon. Jam. –> http://t.co/3kWucQpY #
  • Oh, thank you, Lord – a dead router, and it *isn't* [customer X], [customer Y], or [customer Z]. Good way to start the work day. #
  • Wow. Hail smacking the house. #
  • After an early morning snuggling by Packet, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that Packet + black clothes = sartorial disaster. #
  • Work is now done for the week; only once did I feel like I'd have rather been in the hospital. Yes, a 6-hour conference call. Typical. #

Quote of the Day, the “You Didn’t Build That” Edition

Posted By on July 27, 2012 at 12:51 pm

I’d lately been meaning to dig this one up from the archives, prompted by recent campaign developments, but I’ve been busy.* Fortunately, Instapundit and his readers deliver:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

That, of course, was from the late Robert A. Heinlein.


* Healing up after a bit of surgery.