This week in Tweets

February 15, 2009 TechyDad This Week in Tweets

Yearly Jewish Federation donation call. I say I can’t donate. He asks if he should call Jewish Family Services. WTF? #
I’m not poor, I just can’t afford to donate right now. Was tacky how the guy assumed things about my financial situation based on my “No.” #
Did some baking tonight. Snickerdoodles (from bought cookie dough) and No Pudge Fudge Brownies. Yum on both. #
Is it morning? Am I awake? I seem to be dressed and at work, but brain no want wake up. Me nap now. *zzzzzzzzzzz* #
Got a “shouting” call from my wife. Apparently, she picked up NHL at kindergarten, headed for the library, & NHL decided to wet his pants. #
Holocaust denying bishop says he’ll review evidence, won’t visit Auschwitz, but bought a book: http://is.gd/iXmy #
He claims previous comments based on research in the 80’s. AFAIK, there’s been no Holocaust historical breakthroughs in the past 25 yrs. #
Either he’ll claim his evidence review supports denial or he’ll change his tune & use “re-examining the evidence” as a save face maneuver. #
Not feeling well today. Also having a high point day. Think the two are related? #
Packing up and heading home now. Need to fill up the car before I head home & make dinner. in reply to TheAngelForever #
Today’s starting off as a really stressful day. Not a good sign when I’m highly stressed before I even get to work. #
Car needs repair. Then again, it’s 10 years old with 104K miles on it. Perhaps I should just replace it. But what to replace it with? #
New (or used) car requirements: Not too big (just for daily commutes), fuel efficient (at least 28-30mpg) and as inexpensive as possible. #
I’d love to get a hybrid, but they just cost too much. #
Websense blocks Wikipedia’s #Breastfeeding In Public page ( http://is.gd/j2Ih ) as Nudity. Doesn’t flag Wikipedia’s Breastfeeding page tho. #
Also doesn’t block Wikipedia’s Breast page ( http://is.gd/j2JE ) which has a female breast photo (w/ nipple). So why block BF in Public? #
Fun! Sheldon (on online comic strip) has grandpa starting on Weight Watchers… um, I mean Point Watchers. 😉 http://is.gd/j2OR #
Twitter charging companies wouldn’t be fatal. I do wonder how they’d identify corporate use though. #
If I have a site w/ a CafePress shop, am I charged to tweet? What if my blog runs ads? Tweeting about my blog posts could earn me money. #
Warning label on my soup container: “Bowl and soup are HOT after heating” I would seriously hope so. If it’s frozen, the microwave’s busted. #
Is hoping that Daphne on Heroes is still alive. @BreaGrant is wonderful on the show & I don’t want her written off just yet. #
Hopefully she’s recovering in a Hero Prison Hospital. Leaving her status up in the air does help make Matt (& viewers) upset at Nathan & co. #
Bare bones beta version of my revamped Infomercial review site is done. WordPress makes it go quickly. #
Anyone know of any WordPress plugins designed for product reviews? #
Freezing here. I need a snuggie! #
Octoplet’s mom: “Everything I do is for my children.” Maybe she shouldn’t have more kids when she can’t afford the 6 kids she already has? #
If my wife and I had no income, we’d cherish the kids that we had & would hold off on more kids until we were more financially secure. #
Octoplet’s moms 1st 6: Boy, girl, boy, boy, & a set of twins. So that’s 5 pregnancies before the octoplets. #
I’d question the fertility doctor’s ethics if he kept implanting eggs into her while she was unemployed & had many kids already. #
13 month spread between her first 2 kids? #
5 pregnancies in 5 1/2 years?!!! That can’t be healthy for her body. #
I think she just made a dig at the Duggers. I have my problems with them, but at least they have income to support their family. #
She admits that 6 embryos were transferred? I know someone who went for IVF and only 2-3 embryos were used each time. #
Is wondering how much is it going to cost her to raise 13 kids as an unemployed single mom. 2 kids can be pricy. #
Oops, I typed 13 kids…. meant 14 kids. Can’t do math right now. Too tired. Need to do some WiiFit workouts. #
Her 6 year old girl thinks it’ll be stressful all the time. It can be stressful here with 2 kids. I can’t IMAGINE adding 12 more! #
She’s planning to move to a larger home…. with WHAT MONEY?!!! #
Octuplet mom didn’t want her frozen embryos destroyed. Fair enough, there’s another option. Donate them to couples who can’t have kids. #
I believe you can even sell them thus giving her money to take care of her first 6 kids. #
She claims that there were 6 inserted in each round & two failed rounds before the 8 arrived. That’s 24 embryos to donate. #
More Weight Watchers….. er, Point Watchers in Sheldon. Looks like this will be a week long story line: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/ #
Today’s Baby Blues references Breastfeeding:http://twitpic.com/1fl03 #
Has anyone used the ReviewPress plugin for WordPress? If so, what did you think about it? #
RT @mike_elgan: Why not pay Wall Street bonuses in their own toxic assets? http://hellotxt.com/l/3ilm #
Note to self. When you get too little sleep you have a tendency to snack more often the next day. IOW, proper sleep helps weight loss. #
rt @Moomettesgram You KNOW you want to win a blanket w/sleeves ~ The Slanket! Enter now! http://twurl.nl/yupbzh #
Authors Guild says Kindle doesn’t have “right to read a book out loud” http://is.gd/j12v That costs extra? No more NHL bedtime stories! #
So tired…. So I’m going to force myself onto the WiiFit. Maybe an hour of FreeStep aerobics with 10lbs of weights on my legs will help. #
Exhausting #WiiFit workout. 30 minutes of FreeStep and then 20 arm & leg lifts (each side). All with wieghts on my wrists/ankles. *collapse* #
Night night tweets. Headed to bed to try to get some sleep tonight. Hopefully JSL stays asleep the whole night. #
Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. RT this message to enter. Full details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a #
Our fridge is dying so my wife’s off to look at new ones. #
Phone rings. Automated voice: “If you own your own home you need to protect against major appliance failure.” Phone spammers have me bugged! #
Local police going to do training exercise near my work (w/ unloaded firearms). Could be a good photo op but not sure they’d like it. #
More Weight Watchers/Point Watchers fun over at Sheldon Comics: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/ #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= Looks like a nice way to store NHL/JSL’s stuffed animals #
Court Says Vaccine Is Not to Blame for Autism http://tinyurl.com/dfvczr #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= I really like that this is machine washable! #
Looked at Twit-Jacking page (with JS disabled of course) to figure out how it works. Had to translate a blog post from French to English. #
It opens an iFrame in such a manner to make it see-through (invisible but still able to react to clicks). #
It pre-populates a tweet (Twitter supports this). Next it puts a visible “Click Here” button under the invisible Twitter Submit Tweet button #
You try to click the “Click Here” button, but actually click the “Submit Tweet” button. Viola! Another “Don’t Click” tweet is posted. #
Just updated my How The “Don’t Click” Twitter Hack Works http://www.techydad.com/?p=349 blog post with a solution for @twitter to use. #
Network is conspiring against me. Trying to finish one task I was told to do by end of day, but server’s being slow. #
Trying to leave early to get fridge, but I can’t leave until this is done. And the network seems to be working against me here. ARGH! #
iPod Touch giveaway at http://twurl.nl/fbtbdv by @katjapresnal #skimbaco #11moms Please RT! #
Off to WiiFit. Wish there was some way to Tweet while FreeStepping. (No, I don’t have a Smart phone/iPhone. Just a laptop.) #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= Looks like a very cool stuffed animal storage system. #
Night tweets! #
Someone brought in donuts today. I looked at them and wasn’t tempted at all. Sorry, @DunkinDonuts, but it does mean my diet’s working. 😉 #
One Boston Kreme donut has 6.5 points. Instead that, I can have 2 packets of instant grits (4 points) and a Kashi strawberry bar (2 points). #
Really wish @Hostgator’s Windows servers were available. Heard good things about them, but I need to run ASP/MS SQL as well as PHP/mySQL. #
Zoomable photo of Inauguration Day: http://tinyurl.com/c8jabs Very cool! #
LOL! Free Valentine’s Day song from Amazon.com MP3: http://tinyurl.com/b2gmbe #
Is it time to go home yet? #
Is it the weekend yet? #
Feeling a bit confined in my 8 foot by 10 foot windowless office. #
Why is OpenOffice.org flagging every word as spelled wrong? Did I really spell “a” wrong? Or “on”? Or “in”?!!! #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= Really hoping to win this… can you tell? 😉 #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= My wife & I could review it on our blogs. (hint hint) 😉 #
Friday 13th strikes! Washing hands & water splashed over the front of my pants. Walked back to my office looking like I peed my pants. 🙁 #
All I can say is: Thank goodness for sportjackets! #
Is the weekend here yet? #
Any web hosts out there that offer ASP, PHP, mySQL, MS SQL, at least 5GB of space, and the ability to host multiple sites on the same plan? #
My wife and I have a “fun” V-Day planned. Cleaning the house up so that our new fridge can be delivered. #
Weekend time! Yay! *Thinks about all the cleaning that needs to be done this weekend.* Hmmm… Maybe I want to stay in the office after all. #
Our V-Day was filled with kitchen cleaning & microwaved dinner. Ok, not romantic, but very productive! #
5 bags of garbage & the equivalent of 2 more bags recycling. One room down, 4 more to go. #
Sheldon Comics has another (and possibly the last for now) “Point Watchers” strip: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/ in reply to Shortpacked #
Asked to join advisory panel. TOS say that they’ll own all “rights to the suggestions of every kind & nature throughout the Universe” WTH?!! #
If I agree to the TOS, I guess I’d have to move to my nearest parallel dimension to make a comment that the company wouldn’t own. #
RT and Enter to win a Boon Trio Animal Bag. Details here: http://twurl.nl/uj5t2a <= This looks so cool. #
Doing a full mirror of all files on my web hosting account to see how many GB’s I’m using with files. With 27% transferred, I’m over 1GB #
Projecting 4GB when all is said & done. Add in another GB or 2 for DBs and future growth. Looks like I need 6GB+ from a hosting provider. #
Listening to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye, free from Amazon.com MP3. #
Just checked my disk quota and it’s claiming that I’m using 4GB. That’s probably files only, then as my mirror is on track to be that much. #
Night all! #