evilpenguin9000
Fine. Screw you Blizzard I give up. It shouldn't be this much of a pain in the ass to give you more of my money.

GreatDismal
RT @kbeninato: Karen can't come to the computer right now, J. http://twitpic.com/191vhh [Tweet icon WIN!!]

GreatDismal
RT @boingboing China proposes trans-Eurasian rail system from London to Beijing - Boing Boing http://ow.ly/1qsr51

GreatDismal
Baby's caught that London-Beijing Express, don't I feel like hammered shit http://bit.ly/bmLZ5F

ProfBravus
Video editing, just now

ProfBravus
Making a 'virtual me' to take my lecture while I'm away

GreatDismal
RT @ebertchicago: The Periodic Table of sci-fi movies and TV. http://j.mp/bm06eS

GreatDismal
RT @GammaCounter: Moore's Law, shattered by nanotechnology http://bit.ly/9ZQWMh http://ow.ly/1namm via @PolymerPhD

GreatDismal
RT @coffee_punk: @GreatDismal Did you see _Sleep Dealer_? [Alas, not yet!]

ColinPeters
All right then, time for some POLYSICS - Catch on Everywhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMQzvRvDws

GreatDismal
RT @GammaCounter:“Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962.” http://nyti.ms/dgM7HW (images should be very cool) [GREAT]

GreatDismal
RT @killerswan: Regular London to Beijing rail is a million times more compelling than going to the moon again

mbravo
A middle-aged woman next to me in a shuttle bus is reading an Oldi book. The one about Odyssey, son of Laert.

Psicofante
One more day on the coal mine. Typing with silicon oil covered gloves. Sticky.

httf
It's so hard to eat only one bowl of cereal! Must resist!

httf
We need to catch this bullshit on video. I can't believe ABC's misconduct is still in question. RT @artkiver www.bit.ly/9YrN52

G_Robot
Happy Birthday @GreatDismal! (via @fashpo) there is cake on the WGB...

bluesagain
Very happy with my ultracool yellow Noirjyre messenger back in coffee bar now that Bigend walked in with Blue Ant staff & Cayce just arrived

bluesagain
bag not 'back' I hate my typing more with helpful spellers in iPhone

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Are you tweeting in your sleep???

bluesagain
noirjyre by fire: http://flic.kr/p/7Lpipm

bluesagain
@LillyLyle No, they are here. Cacey has dyed hair burnished copper. Bigend's accent very Flemish

LillyLyle
@bluesagain It must be all that Guiness you had for breakfast, on Patrick's day!

bluesagain
Waiting for them to toast Their Creator on his birthday. Nope. Off to a meeting. All laptops closing.

adoxography
My hood featured from "...shook from powerful gusts" (earthquake boy=my neighbor) to House Burning Down http://bit.ly/dCtIht

bluesagain
@LillyLyle I swear. Only no logo coffee in plain cup.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain >>I require photo proof!

bluesagain
Blue Ant assistant was Japanese. Horn-rimmed glasses.

adoxography
Up today: Greenland fishing companies, pass the chips and malt vinegar

LillyLyle
@bluesagain WG 40? Closer to 61, I believe (though a punk teenager at heart, of course )

evilpenguin9000
Pantha du Prince's album, Black Noise is quite enjoyable thus far. Pleasant but I can see it's one I'll intend to listen to more than i will

evilpenguin9000
It occupies a similar place in my listening pantheon as The Field... and The Field are gonna win out most times.

bluesagain
@LillyLyle Who would've thunk it?? Proof! I require proof (but will never believe you anyway. So no point in trying.) Teh Man is 40.

evilpenguin9000
Gah, I've got to stop wasting so many nights playing video games and start wasting them reading. I'm building up quite a backlog.

bluesagain
Waiting period over. Time to work. Keep an eye open for #WGcharacters on this 17 of March 2010 and tweet all movements.

mbravo
Many happy returns of the day, lots of wonderful weird stuff and unexpectedly stylish clothes for Mr Gibson

bluesagain
#WGcharacters Third Blue Ant a young stuffy Norwegian man trying oneupmanship with Bigend who crushed him underfoot as you would an .. ant.

bluesagain
#WGcharacters Very happy with ultracool yellow Noirjyre messenger bag in coffee bar now Bigend walks in w Blue Ant staff &Cayce just arrived

Psicofante
@bluesagain For that you need to work outside, or a place where interesting people gather. I cannot see my coworkers as Gibsonian...

bluesagain
#WGcharacters They are really here. Cacey has dyed hair burnished copper. Bigend's accent very Flemish

bluesagain
#WGcharacters Waiting for them to toast Their Creator on his birthday. Nope. Off to a meeting. All laptops closing.

ProfBravus
Prezi slideshow I made for tomorrow's class on Planning to Teach: http://bit.ly/b8mmqD

bluesagain
@Psicofante Well right now I am going INside to work in a prison. We shall see...

ProfBravus
And another Prezi for the NARST conference next week on my chemistry visualisations research: http://bit.ly/bztCe1

Psicofante
Knit kevlar gloves are a wonderful invention. They are great when cutting or grabbing red hot metal. Now if they were not always yellow...

Psicofante
@bluesagain Many Gibsonian characters in prisons. Not the nice characters, usually.

bluesagain
@Psicofante It takes all sorts to make a world. Prisons are the same, I find.

LillyLyle
#WGcharacters My boss is like the Finn, but not yet uploaded. (We're working on it)

LillyLyle
@bluesagain A kind of proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_gibson

remotevoices
Didn't see Autechre last night; i am ok with that. Going to see Mono tonight, at Oran Mor. Silver mt zion on friday, at Art School.

vesper_dbs
Not a single picture of myself. Meh. Gotta live with it >@sergiomdgomes: Hot stuff: http://bit.ly/ax2ykn

LillyLyle
#WGcharacters This recent occurrence is creepily like at least three scenes in W Gibson's books that I can think of: http://tgam.ca/KAV

LillyLyle
@bluesagain Teh man iz 18. No guff.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain I mean, who wants to be 40? 40 iz already kind of O. L. D.

Gustavius
RT @4m3D: The fruits of my labor from yesterday... Rendered over night. http://yfrog.com/5gmiovodj -Wow, those are slick!

LillyLyle
@Gustavius That was very slickly rendered, but the lens flare effect is a bit OTT, methinks. Happy Gibson day

Gustavius
@LillyLyle Well, one must bear in mind the end-client in these situations. It's like drop shadows, they're cheesy but dammit, people love em

Gustavius
I'm just another dorky fanboy wishing @greatdismal a happy-assed birthday.

bluesagain
@LillyLyle OK I believe the awesomeness of that !! but NOT the dates. Dates are numbers. My pet hate is numbers. Ugly unpoetic monsters.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain There are number truths and poetic truths.

LillyLyle
@bluesagain I consider the Fibonacci sequence to be extraordinarily poetic.

fashpo
Happy Birthday @GreatDismal!

Gustavius
@LillyLyle @bluesagain Yes, things like Pi and Phi are awesome. Numbers are just the writen notation of philisophical contructs. Blocks.

Fimb
Oh god help me.. wondering why I do my bloody job right now

adoxography
The entire government of Greenland has one phone number. They don't answer it.

adoxography
@GreatDismal Many happy returns

LillyLyle
> @adoxography: The entire government of Greenland has one phone number. They don't answer it.

Gustavius
But then, aren't we all Irish? I mean from an absolute point of view.

bluesagain
@LillyLyle and I have to google it every time so I don't. (Consider it or google it)

jwomack
Also: Pi now 3.15, sun revolves around earth; more TK: http://tinyurl.com/yh3rorg

bluesagain
[Happy Birthday @GreatDismal !! ] Teh man iz 18. No guff. /via @LillyLyle

bluesagain
@LillyLyle Not to some of us. Just you wait!

GreatDismal
RT @anjkan: She's obvs just enjoying rockin' it in the new "Disneyization" dialogue of China's nouveau-haves. http://bit.ly/da7Qwc

GreatDismal
RT @somebadideas: Trailer for creators of "The Wire' new series 'Treme' - post Katrina New Orleans. Cannot wait. http://bit.ly/dojQsM

GreatDismal
RT @jwomack: Also: Pi now 3.15, sun revolves around earth; more TK: http://tinyurl.com/yh3rorg

mcdermott9976
RT @flipcritic: How the Irish saved civilization. http://j.mp/92YfqU

quote:

GreatDismal
RT @somebadideas: Trailer for creators of "The Wire' new series 'Treme' - post Katrina New Orleans. Cannot wait. http://bit.ly/dojQsM

I'll have to wait for the DVD's but looking forward to it as well.
Go Nina go!

mcdermott9976
RT @kellykoch32: RT @EWAusielloFiles: michaela mcmanus joins The CW's new ALIAS-esque pilot NOMADS. http://bit.ly/dxmcHf [my sis-in law]

bluesagain
@Psicofante I,however, see you as Gibsonian in those oily gloves dissecting rubber and Neruda

GreatDismal
RT @somebadideas: Primer on new speedy drug synthesized by Chinese chemists, mephedrone, currently legal in the UK. http://bit.ly/9NeI67

GreatDismal
RT @somebadideas: Mephedrone popularity bloomed after seizure of 33 tons of sassafras oil in Cambodia, depleting ecstasy worldwide.

GreatDismal
RT @JohnPiv: @GreatDismal And suddenly, it's the Texas Book Suppository.

JustinRoby
I've always liked the British English convention of a group being a plural. @bluesagain @LillyLyle @mrphoenix @ColinPeters @mcmucca

adoxography
So *that's* where fishsticks come from!

adoxography
Anyone who doubts global warming should speak to a few Arctic fishing companies

Psicofante
@LillyLyle @bluesagain @Gustavius Numbers are fixed in meaning, while words change not only with time but according to our emotions. Fuck!

Psicofante
@bluesagain I suppose that feeling Gibsonian disqualifies you from being Gibsonian. You have to feel normal to really fit in your own niche.

Psicofante
It is the worst day to say it, but all those stories of the Irish saving civilization are so culture centric that it goes beyond ridicule.

bittersweetdb
@GreatDismal I hope you have a lovely birthday!

Psicofante
@adoxography The problem lies in the choice of words. Say Climate Change rather than Global Warming, and most people say yes, it has changed

GreatDismal
Michael Mann told me that people experience movies *backward*, as they leave the theater; the climax/ending is really the beginning.

adoxography
@Psicofante Well, actually, when the fish you catch keep moving closer and closer to the North Pole every year, warming is the term

Gustavius
@GreatDismal So, when they left the movie Momento they experienced it right way around?

Psicofante
@adoxography Yes, but you have to sell the idea to people who have record snowfall, record floods, record cyclones. The Arctic is too far.

adoxography
@Psicofante And the Arctic is getting farther away every year

LillyLyle
@Psicofante It's possible that numbers are *not* fixed, but differ in other dimensions or parallel universes. (I was born outside the box)

JustinRoby
I'm just another dorky fanboy wishing @greatdismal a happy-assed birthday. /via @Gustavius [Me too]

Gustavius
RT @CBCNB: Environmental groups face uncertain future http://bit.ly/ai9YyV -I vote this for most obvious headline of the year.

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/1955kq - Experiments with Flame (http://bit.ly/a06u4A and http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/imageUploader/

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/1955lr - Using an HTML5-based image uploader (http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/imageUploader/)...

mcdermott9976
@JustinRoby @bluesagain @LillyLyle @mrphoenix @ColinPeters @mcmucca I concur.

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/1957ch - Another Flame experiment.

LillyLyle
@Psicofante You're right.

LillyLyle
@GreatDismal May (at least) 61 nice things happen to you today! XX

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/195f2z - Another attempt at representational art with an abstract brush.

headfirstonly
@GreatDismal Happy birthday from Blighty, sir

mrphoenix
It's wednesday, it's bridget's birthday and this morning we woke up in Madrid!

headfirstonly
@ProfBravus nope - even a trip to the eng workshop downstairs couldn't improve on the "bit of wire" repair.

mrphoenix
Just having a break in the cafe after walking around the Prado. Lotta gems here...

mrphoenix
...but not El Greco. I described his work as 'velvet Elvis painting' and Bridget was scandalised

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/195jv0 Another representational exercise with Flame.

JustinRoby
And yet another http://twitpic.com/195l0n (I like yours, @psicofante. Amazing the range of application these tools have).

Psicofante
@JustinRoby You are too good at the free hand sketch. So I focus on brush and colour.

JustinRoby
@LillyLyle It's a bit of an exercise, though the abstract ones I'll probably use for a background for some project eventually...

JustinRoby
I was inspired to see if I could control the tool more by what's in the gallery http://tr.im/Sfsw Some stunning work there.

JustinRoby
@Psicofante Thank you. I have certain anxieties about color, produced by lack of training.

ColinPeters
Choose your own Warren Ellis-esque greeting: Good morning {exploding|crusty|salivating} {sin machines|pustules|love ferrets}

ColinPeters
Also, Happy Birthday to @GreatDismal, godfather of Cyberpunk and we'll never let him forget it (or live it down). Have a good one, sir.

bluesagain
@mrphoenix @bridge @GreatDismal @lillylyle Sharing a birthday with WG! You too turning 18 today? Many Happy Returns to another Great Person!

ColinPeters
I woke up this morning with a desire to watch The Dark Crystal again. I wonder if it's out on DVD.

ColinPeters
The folding plug is very neat, but isn't it a bit early to pick a design of the year? via @DesignObserver http://www.designsoftheyear.com/

JustinRoby
http://twitpic.com/195nlf And, yet another (channeling @beatonna ?)

bluesagain
@Psicofante Hmmmm Mirrors within mirrors ...

ColinPeters
RT: @mcdermott9976 @flipcritic: How the Irish saved civilization. http://j.mp/92YfqU

mcdermott9976
@ColinPeters my wife has never seen it. Blasphemy!!!!

ColinPeters
@Psicofante Indeed. As I RTed one just now I thought, shouldn't it be western, or European, or even just Christian? And even then...

ColinPeters
@Psicofante But still, I RTed it, because I liked the story.

mrphoenix
Torregiani's bust of Isabel II is astounding!

ColinPeters
RT: @titleofmagazine: Nothing says springtime like a Penis and Vagina festival in Japan http://bit.ly/cCqGbO

mcdermott9976
RT @BreakingNews: Body of woman missing since Jan found in boxspring in Memphis hotel room http://bit.ly/dBbtKF [this really creeps me out]

Gustavius
My son complains most noisily when it's time to brush his teeth, yet he's playing a tooth-brushing video game and enjoying it.

LillyLyle
@gustavius Yes. And it's your birthday too. We are all turning 18 today. Just so you know, & don't go out and try to buy any alcohol.

Gustavius
@LillyLyle Heheh, awesome. Well happy birthday!

Gustavius
If you are following me and I'm not following you - please speak up so I can see you!

LillyLyle
@Gustavius That's a corollary to the peace/love/understanding generation having seen ±100 murders/week on TV as children.

ColinPeters
RT: @FuterYomToe @IsoBan The Most Accurate Flyby of Mars to Date http://tinyurl.com/ydljc63 [watch full-screen]

vesper_dbs
#Ireland! >@celldweller: Ok, find me a good promoters & good places to play this Fall/Winter and I'm there... That's a worldwide invitation.

bluesagain
@LillyLyle @colinpeters I am already drinking beer from the bottle and eyeing the guy across the room ...

LillyLyle
@Gustavius Haha! That made me think of this old song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWGJBXQFTlM

vesper_dbs
A half-not-sober and totally-green Happy Birthday to @greatdismal, the man who has inspired millions and made us dream in holos :-)

bluesagain
@lillylyle @colinpeters ..who seems to be 10 yrs younger than me &woulda been OLD then. Wait! Who woulda been 8 when I turned 18. Hmm

vesper_dbs
(yup, St. Patrick's in Dublin is definitely more special than anywhere else ;-))

bluesagain
@Gustavius She's 18. You too?

LillyLyle
@ColinPeters You mean this one, by the Muppet guy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjA2zoUaRFg

vesper_dbs
The only bad thing about today? I have to get up at 4am tomorrow to get my mom to the airport on time. ARGH. And then work. ARRRRRRRRRGH.

LillyLyle
@Gustavius Happy Burfday to you too!

LillyLyle
@bluesagain I see what you mean about your relationship to numbers, hahaha

vesper_dbs
Gods bless VPN access, for it allows us to do stuff without having to go to the office on days off </chant>. And now seriously off I am!

JustinRoby
@remotevoices I'm typically on-time for everything. Doors open at 8, I'm there at 8.

Gustavius
@bluesagain 18 was a pretty good year for me. 19 too. I wouldn't go back though, cuz I'd have to live through my 20s again...

remotevoices
@JustinRoby I used to do that, but can't remember last time I saw a support band worth seeing.

LillyLyle
@Gustavius It's okay, it's only for today. Tomorrow you can be O.L.D. again

Gustavius
RT @nora3000: Good piece on MSM not getting the Web's link culture http://bit.ly/clodnb On the web but not of the web—as we say around Spark

remotevoices
OK, support for tonight don't look *too* bad - even if they are local... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU6GveSyuT4

Gustavius
What's with dictatorships & officials requiring such ridiculously massive "cop" hats? http://twurl.nl/47f5jp Mushroom heads via @raincoaster

bluesagain
@LillyLyle Takes years off you ! Don't ask me how many tho

JustinRoby
@Gustavius's RT seems related to @jeffreyjcohen's keeping us abreast of similar issues http://tr.im/SgpO.

bluesagain
Not necessarily @Gustavius @lillylyle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eature=youtube_gdata

LillyLyle
@bluesagain I won't ask. I can do da math ;D

bluesagain
@LillyLyle That's a relief!! LOL

bluesagain
@remotevoices Me exaggerating?

Gustavius
RT @JustinRoby seems related to @jeffreyjcohen keeping us abreast simlr issues http://tr.im/SgpO These words are stolen from the dictionary!

LillyLyle
Well, babies ARE small dictators, so... http://bit.ly/dfDc4a [via @touristique]

LillyLyle
That's it. Gotta leave for @Filmhouse now, looking fwd to seeing The White Stripes film. Bye!

JustinRoby
The Potomac is *brown*. http://twitpic.com/1917dh - Washington D.C. Storm is gone now! /via @Astro_Soichi /via @katiemconnolly #fb

insanefool
Yay!!! I did it!!!!

bittersweetdb
@insanefool yay! what?

bittersweetdb
Another cool iPhone-to-run-your-house app: RT: @coolhunting: A single device controlling everything http://bit.ly/cIsWsI

insanefool
@bittersweetdb Passed the tests... sorry to be cryptic but that's about all I can say....

ColinPeters
Now thinking of getting A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy, the harper (Dragonsong, etc.) trilogy, and DVD of The Dark Crystal...

ColinPeters
... for my daughter's birthday, of course.

ColinPeters
Suspecting my wife may see through this ploy.

JustinRoby
Christopher Jion (Dirgefunk Records, DHR) on SoundCloud: http://tr.im/SgVV

evilpenguin9000
Sitting at the resevoir reading when eithrt a squirrel or rat swam by. Also I was accosted by geese.

bittersweetdb
@insanefool Well I can share in your yay regardless congratulations!

ColinPeters
@evilpenguin9000 accosted by geese #bandname

bluesagain
@evilpenguin9000 hey you are both getting out and reading as well! Impressed in Norway

adoxography
RT @rickasaurus: But what if it's a big hoax?! http://is.gd/aMlFE

vesper_dbs
...Baseball/Football? ;-) RT @bluesagain @parisreview: Art is like sex: nothing else matters when you are doing it. -John Banville

GreatDismal
RT @adoxography: RT @rickasaurus: But what if it's a big hoax?! http://is.gd/aMlFE

bittersweetdb
In case you needed another reason to loathe health insurance companies: http://tinyurl.com/y87xzct