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Twitter Updates (1-15 January 2010)

Added: January 17th, 2010 (tagged with: twitter)

Twitter updates for January 1-15, 2010. This gets me caught up to current (on a bi-monthly schedule). Let's hope I can find time to script this before the next update is due!

  1. Just finished watching the first season of Dexter... Wow. Looking forward to catching up with the series. 2:41 AM Jan 2nd
  2. Temperature when we leave Arizona: 70F Temperature when we land in Chicago: 11F 1:56 PM Jan 3rd
  3. Stopped to swab down our rigs, but went quickly through airport security. Our first trip carrying our gear went smoothly. 2:34 PM Jan 3rd
  4. Wow, caught a train and bus immediately. Chicago must be paying me back for the 60 degree temperature drop. 8:36 PM Jan 3rd
  5. Missed out on SparkFun's Free Day - their servers were slammed, I should have prebuilt my cart :( $100K worth of product gone in 1h 44m 50s 12:05 PM Jan 7th
  6. Nice! Free movie rental from @redbox tonight. Went with "State of Play." 8:14 PM Jan 7th
  7. Just uploaded my backflying videos from SkyVenture Arizona: http://www.sepcot.com/blog/2010/01/first-trip-wind-tunnel (30m over 4 videos) 10:23 PM Jan 7th
  8. Looking for examples of websites with layout bugs... If you know of any send some links my way! #JavaScript #CSS #HTML #bugs 4:05 PM Jan 9th
  9. Just finished reading "Speaker for the Dead." If you haven't picked up the Ender's series, I highly recommend doing so. #books 11:28 AM Jan 10th
  10. Really considering going to the next @MobileOrchard workshop http://bit.ly/8DMV9K 9:23 PM Jan 14th
  11. This mornings @xkcd mouseover reference has put me in the mood to watch HACKERS :-) http://xkcd.com/689 9:09 AM Jan 15th
  12. Nickelback tickets secured. With GA tickets at $85 a piece, I can't go to as many big shows as I used to... #music #concert 10:33 AM Jan 15th

Twitter Updates (December 2009)

Added: January 17th, 2010 (tagged with: twitter)

I finally hopped on the bandwagon and joined Twitter last month. You can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sepcot or you can watch here for weekly or bi-monthly updates going forward (when I get around to scripting it).

Anyway, here are my tweets from December 2009:

  1. Picking up Steph at O'Hare, then off to the Skydive Chicago formal Christmas party. 4:03 PM Dec 5th, 2009
  2. I've got a matrix keypad attached to an Arduino. Now time to get the Arduino to communicate keypresses via XBee to another board. 11:11 AM Dec 6th, 2009
  3. Just picked up a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Now, only a take-home final stands in the way of me dusting off my NDS. 6:28 PM Dec 8th, 2009
  4. heh, I have the TMNT OST on my iPhone and it always puts a smile on my face when 'Turtle Power' or 'This Is What We Do' turn up on shuffle. 6:59 PM Dec 8th, 2009
  5. After an 8 hour marathon to finish my 5 question take-home final, my brain can now rest. Take that Wireless Networking - I'm done with you! 7:03 PM Dec 9th, 2009
  6. Currently 2F w/22mph winds (-20F). They don't make appropriate indoor/outdoor clothes for this. Freezing commute, but boiling at work. 7:39 AM Dec 10th, 2009
  7. Just booked an hour of tunnel time for me and Steph at SkyVenture Arizona on New Year's Eve. :-) 7:32 PM Dec 10th, 2009
  8. @kevbo iTunes has a free Holiday Sampler for your Christmas collection: http://bit.ly/5zzAfQ 9:53 AM Dec 12th, 2009
  9. Sitting at California Pizza Kitchen, taking a break from Xmas shopping. Woodfield mall is exhausting. 3:30 PM Dec 12th, 2009
  10. Christmas Light Hero, made by a former Disney Imagineer, simply amazing. http://bit.ly/4WEhVO 7:53 PM Dec 12th, 2009
  11. Had lunch at The Counter. Custom burgers were pretty good, but the fries were more impressive (50/50 regular and parmesan) 5:01 PM Dec 13th, 2009
  12. Played some Spirit Tracks on the bus today. The game makes us of the DS mic a lot, so the ambient noise makes playing a bit more difficult. 5:50 PM Dec 13th, 2009
  13. Even with the fall semester complete, there is still not enough time in the day to do the things I want... 10:00 PM Dec 15th, 2009
  14. Nice! Now I feel confident jumping with my camera ;-) http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/845602 10:53 AM Dec 16th, 2009
  15. Nintendo, the DS is a portable system. I can't always shout into the mic. Why does Zelda rely on that functionality to continue the story? 6:21 PM Dec 16th, 2009
  16. mmm... Tapas Las Ramblas for dinner tonight. 6:14 PM Dec 17th, 2009
  17. I love Celebrity Jeopardy, I can actually answer quite a few questions... or is that question quite a few answers? 8:17 PM Dec 17th, 2009
  18. Off to Kentucky to spend a Christmas weekend with relatives. 11:31 AM Dec 18th, 2009
  19. Baby back ribs at Logan's Roadhouse were disapointing - dry and flavorless. 8:40 PM Dec 18th, 2009
  20. Wow, data over EDGE sucks... I have a new appreciation for 3G now. 3:18 PM Dec 19th, 2009
  21. #Books added to my collection this weekend: Dilbert 2.0, Heat Wave, and Xenocide. Also got It's Always Sunny season 4 on DVD. 9:48 AM Dec 20th, 2009
  22. Back from Kentucky. A few days of work, then off to Minnesota for Christmas. 6:14 PM Dec 20th, 2009
  23. We got a new board game for Christmas: @SortItOutGame. It was a lot of fun, but programmer in me kept thinking about an iPhone port :-) 7:00 AM Dec 22nd, 2009
  24. Perfect snowball weather outside. @leonc Can we cancel work for a company snowball fight? 8:49 AM Dec 22nd, 2009
  25. Made it as far as Tomah last night with only one spinout! 6 hours to complete the first 2/3rds of the trip... time to get on the road again. 8:30 AM Dec 24th, 2009
  26. Made it to Minnesota in one piece. Not that the weather didn't try to take us out on the way... stupid winter. 12:13 PM Dec 24th, 2009
  27. Merry Xmas! Remember to secure the perimeter and stay indoors, Robot Santa's coming to town. #futurama 8:51 AM Dec 25th, 2009
  28. Got home safe from Minnesota, a days rest, then it's off to Arizona for the New Year. 6:43 PM Dec 27th, 2009
  29. CO detector has 3 indicators: battery, service, alarm. 3 chirps while flashing alarm, what does this mean? Time to buy a new alarm. #fail 11:32 PM Dec 27th, 2009
  30. Nice night out on the town: Sherlock Holmes and dinner in the city. 7:57 PM Dec 28th, 2009
  31. Gah! I need to get to bed, got a 5am cab ride to O'Hare in the morning. 60s and sunny weather await in Arizona :-) 10:07 PM Dec 28th, 2009
  32. Woo-hoo! Made it through airport security with my parachute without a problem. Skydiving on Thursday :-) 6:02 AM Dec 29th, 2009
  33. En route to Skydive Arizona. First some tunnel time, then some skydiving. 9:35 AM Dec 31st, 2009
  34. The wind tunnel at Skyventure Arizona is amazing. I could easily spend all of my time (and money) there. Jon Walker was a great coach. 5:58 PM Dec 31st, 2009

2009 Reading List

Added: January 11th, 2010 (tagged with: books)

A little over a year ago, I started using the "Reading List by Amazon" application inside LinkedIn to track the books I read. I may have forgotten to add a book or two, but here is the list of books I read and logged last year:

I have already finished one book this year, with two other started, a stack of 12 waiting to be read, and a few Borders gift cards waiting to be spent. This should be a good year for reading :-)

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