February 13th, 2009 by alephnaught

Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-02-13

  • Updating ClamAV manually because it only comes along with Mac servers …. #
  • And so in the spirit of #followfriday – @PPureIndulgence, @CaraKeithley, @danaseverance, @jzwier, @KristieMcNealy, @AprilTara #
  • And a special #followfriday to @headspaceretro, who did me a big favor this week – thank you! #
  • Aviva has makings of migrane, so I’ve been washing out the tub, making breakfast, and doing morning computer stuff, all very very quietly #
  • RT @HenkTerHeide: India to launch cow urine as soft drink http://twurl.nl/invmps #food #humor – Raises watersports to a new level (not 4 me) #
  • @RobMcNealy Agree with concern, but in sports some coaches are much better coaches than players – just an observation #
  • @MarkRMatthews No, society (and culture) are not the same as government – but our culture influences governmental decisions IMHO #
  • @MarkRMatthews Otherwise tolerance (or even better freedom) goes out the window thanks to the majority Society (capital S) #
  • @MarkRMatthews Society enforces through norms and practices. And its the whole “legal thing” that bothers me with this conversation #
  • @MarkRMatthews This country seems to be moving towards Society, instead of Rights, as the basis for our legal system #
  • @MarkRMatthews If that continues those wanting freedom will have to move to Denmark #
  • I wanted to have deep, philosophical / polisci thoughts first thing on a Friday morning – NOT #
  • @MarkRMatthews “legal thing” is our entire legal system – laws, enforcement, legislature, etc. #
  • RT @openzine: Crazy cool store concept http://tinyurl.com/cmglne #
  • RT @openzine: Crazy cool store concept http://ping.fm/zIdW2 #
  • @MarkRMatthews Ah, its not who gets what rights – its what rights do we all want #
  • @ijustine One time a cop pulled me over thinking I was drunk – I had left my shoes on top of the car, stayed there for miles :-) #
  • Looks like I get to work on some Perl later today (I hate Perl, why can’t we all just Python) :-) #
  • Off to the daily standup meeting #
  • I’m listening to Bhangra all day today #
  • RT @davidlink: Our awesome intern: “All this talk about masturbating is making me hungry.” – LOL, must be a GREAT INTERN! #
  • @kkaleal My #favoriteword is Brilliant (which I learned from someone I respect deeply) #
  • RT @cristianvasile: 30 free creative fonts hand-picked from DeviantArt http://bit.ly/12mibM – Some good ones in here, thanks! #
  • RT @shelisrael: Maybe “The Blue Screen of Death Bar” or “The Reboot Restpit”? #
  • RT @CaliLewis: Amazon giving away free Marvin Gale “Let’s Get it On” MP3 for Valentine’s Day – http://tinyurl.com/alxgxt Thanks, @john_#
  • RT @CaliLewis: Amazon giving away free Marvin Gale “Let’s Get it On” MP3 for Valentine’s Day – http://ping.fm/W12sf Thanks, @john_poz…” #
  • I’m heading out to get a small gift for my spouse and run a couple errands #
  • Use search.twitter.com #
  • Back from getting some small funny gifts for Aviva for Valentines Day #
  • RT @iamronw: I am getting used to the rain now. – Yea, I feel like I’m in Amsterdam again – mid 50s and light rain #
  • RT @snaglepus: Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications | High Scalability http://ff.im/-12Vyk – Thanks, this is very cool #
  • Do any of you find it funny that there’s a book on how to use a 140 character message system, “Twitter for Dummies?” #
  • And do we really want to let them in? :-) #
  • RT @MarciDesign: Twitter Gets a Style Guide: http://tinyurl.com/d9hnxe – Twitter as term paper? #
  • RT @MarciDesign: Twitter Gets a Style Guide: http://ping.fm/aUxyb – Twitter as term paper? #
  • @snaglepus Do what my friends at work did (at a surprise party) – tell him he’s 28 (in hex) #
  • Aviva got us massages for tomorrow – SWEEEEEEET! #
  • @thebook Does Twitter need a Dummies guide? So, I guess a style guide makes sense too #
  • @snaglepus So, in the immortal words of the SNL “financial expert” Oscar Rodgers, “Fix it! Just fix it!” :-) Send someone over #
  • RT @danaseverance: I’m not a creationist but I do think that mutation, which is chance, plays a big role in natural selection #
  • RT @flash_dancer: “The fact that you want to network negates your desire to be a hermit.” – Anon. – probably someone that only uses twitter #
  • @danaseverance I think you need a large number of opportunities for evolution to work right – populations with limited opportunities die off #
  • @danaseverance Right – the evolution, or natural selection, part is NOT chance – the random part is a required input for it to work #
  • Another thing people don’t get is that statistics are useless on a single sample #
  • @danaseverance Nah, I had work that I’m paid to do – I might have time this weekend #
  • @danaseverance Yes, because the same cause may not make the same mutation again; knowing the cause of something doesn’t remove the randomnes #
  • @WorldMagick Thanks – Natural selection is like Operations Research – it looks for the locally best solution among an infinite possible set #
  • @danaseverance Only ordering – causation, if its not consistent, doesn’t impact randomness #
  • @danaseverance And, as for belief in randomness, if you believe in statistics then you do, and if not then you don’t #
  • @danaseverance For example, is the result of flipping a coin random? #
  • @danaseverance If there’s no way to tell which variation you get til you get it, then it seems random to me #
  • @danaseverance But I also don’t want to change your mind #
  • I’m killing time to see what woot.com wants to sell us and then hit the sack #

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