kyburg | From Twitter 11-10-2010 (Reply)

02:32:48: Your motives may not be clear to others today, but this could ... More for Scorpio http://twittascope.com/?sign=8
10:56:27: @thiswomanswork And my kid stayed in care for three years while adoptive parents were searched for. There ain't no justice. Poor kid.
10:58:56: RT @thiswomanswork: Seriously @KeepGraysonHome? You want me to follow you??? HAVE YOU READ MY BLOG???? http://bit.ly/acWdHW
11:07:21: @seananmcguire According to my vet, my three do not weigh less than nine pounds each - and one is 20 lbs. No Maine Coons to blame for it.
11:08:59: @seananmcguire The cannonball likes to land on you in the middle of the night. He lives because he's a squeaky moosh with a lawnmower purr.
11:14:41: Last night's dreams were full color and awesome sound videogames featuring oh so cute characters ala My Little Pony x Pokemon.
11:15:12: My character? Kept getting stuck behind the trees, hedges and rocks while the NPCs laughed at it. Make of that what you will.
11:15:43: Too. Much. Preschool. TELEVISION.
11:22:23: RT @ALRutter: Sometimes 1 star reviews are necessary on Amazon: http://bit.ly/cont0b Please RT....
11:24:54: @KMont Hang on. I'm chatting up CS with them now. Whoa.
11:27:13: @KMont Yup, it's coming DOWN. As soon as possible.
11:32:16: @KMont Hang on, I have a screencap.
11:33:25: Yup, it's toast. http://twitpic.com/35n5xp
11:34:40: @KMont There you go. http://twitpic.com/35n5xp The comments are coming down so they can flush the item.
11:38:48: For the record, I think Amazon is one of the best inventions of the millenium. But it's hardly infallible and very, very human at its heart.
11:39:22: You just think it's a bunch of one and zeroes and packing materials.
12:08:50: RT @MoveOn: Trickle down economics failed under Reagan and Bush. Why keep doing it? #1MBailout http://j.mp/1Mbailout
12:12:55: @Aiglet *meeps* I have a wonderful wireless company to introduce to you - not supported by iPhone, but you can't have everything. UGH.
12:14:31: @KMont I don't think so. I work B2B with these guys and know the process involved. They tell me it's coming down, it's coming down.
12:15:44: @KMont And I have a very good idea how it got onto the site in the first place. Hint: virtual editions only, no brick and mortar entity.
12:16:22: @Aiglet The new phone, yeah. The contract? Negotiable.
12:17:47: @Aiglet They buy out contracts, particularly from referrals. But the phone. Yeah, square one on that-if they don't have a freebie you like.
12:18:48: @Aiglet Pssst. #credomobile
12:19:34: @KMont Annnd the chat is saved, so I can beat them senseless later. ^^
12:20:17: @Aiglet That just sucks, is totally unfair and ... yeah. Bastids.
12:22:17: @Aiglet What passes for adequate service these days boggles me. But I remember General Telephone, so there you go.
13:32:20: RT @amazonmp3: We have over 150 whole albums free for a limited time: http://amzn.to/9OAvzS
13:55:45: RT @MoveOn: Because pandering to Wall St and the wealthy is what brought this country to its knees. #1MBailout http://j.mp/1Mbailout
14:03:41: RT @MoveOn: Because the Bush tax cuts for the rich are unfair to 98% of Americans who end up footing the bill #1MBailout http://j.mp/1Mb ...
14:06:02: RT @BoingBoing: Anonymous stories, written on found photographs http://bit.ly/aL7eUh
14:08:11: @neilhimself HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWEEN. (I get to kick it over on Sunday.) Have a wonderful day.
14:15:34: @KMont *sniggers* I've 'rescued' so many from the threat of the cute and furry, safely caged - you have no idea. #getacat #bugstoo
14:17:49: I sure hope I don't have to explain why Amazon doesn't have to sell a Kindle book on pedophila today. Right?
14:18:52: And if you think Amazon is actually into that, you don't know how the data works and why they had no idea before someone went 'uh, oops?'
14:23:24: Amazon = Hanlon's Razor. Yup.
14:27:23: @amandapalmer http://twitpic.com/35nqx6 - AHHH! Awesome - congrats.
14:28:01: RT @FreeRangeKids: Sometimes it is GOOD for kids to hang out with the older men they meet on line. Seriously! http://bit.ly/9MzoxC
14:28:15: @FreeRangeKids Thank you so much for some sanity today. Seriously.
14:30:39: RT @latimes: In Southern California, tour guides battle over Chinese visitors http://lat.ms/9eXRFm
14:35:10: @digitaldraco Speaking of that, how far does your officiating license reach?
15:18:56: @KMont You can extricate those guys with some vegetable oil - just watch our for the sharp end. Yanno.
15:27:04: RT @_bigbigtruck_: Haha, holy shit, <Epic is on the Yuletide fic challenge list. If I wrote fic I would totally troll it by secretly ...
15:28:18: RT @wilw: Dear Nintendo, "it's on like Donkey Kong" is all over the Web, and you know that the Web is public domain. You should thank me ...
15:28:36: @wilw LOL *blows kisses*
15:40:29: @nprscottsimon If it is, it's self-censorship and as much a free speech issue as it would if it it *did* want to carry it.
15:44:20: @StarryWillows Yup, it's toast. http://twitpic.com/35n5xp
15:52:20: @digitaldraco Bummer.
15:56:26: You know, I could point to the Amazon flap as another example of internet trollmanship, but then I'd have to explain how. I'm already tired.
15:59:09: @Tubaville It's .. Wednesday. More than an hour is punitive - my yardstick.
16:03:27: @scalzi I could use that kind of energy right now. Seriously.
16:15:37: @TanyaHuff (Where did you find your poppy twibbon?)
17:18:26: RT @FarrellsIsBack: Farrell's appreciates all Veteran's and current members of the Armed Forces! Free luncheon sundae on us Thurs 11th 1 ...
20:02:38: Support Remembrance Day Poppy, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://bit.ly/11ctu4
20:19:53: RT @latimes: San Diego judge agrees to resign after censure by judicial panel http://lat.ms/ae5SeM
20:29:27: @TanyaHuff Thank you!
20:51:51: RT @RealNichelle: Free Speech is victimless. This isn't. RT @cnnbrk Title on Amazon.com appears to defend pedophilia causing uproar http ...
20:53:20: @RealNichelle Thank you. If I haven't said it, I'm remiss. It's *so* nice to have you. And nicer still to have you so close at hand, neh?
21:02:02: RT @FreeRangeKids: Very odd survey about bullies: http://bit.ly/c11GZp // More about high school as a whole, too. Worth a look.
21:06:41: I wish to keep my Giggling Mandrake, please. #ebz
21:06:53: RT @skurveydawg: It's 47 degrees outside. Translation for those who don't live in California: OMFG SNOW DAY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAAA ...
21:21:19: RT @KissMyBundt: Delicious goat cheese, bacon, and roasted apple pizza @cube_la http://yfrog.com/jn9w4lj
21:29:12: If anyone knows anything about the 'Spring Bouquet' silverplate pattern made by Wm. Rogers in 1954, tweet me. I've inherited a set of it.
21:30:23: And man, there HAS to be a story behind it. It was only made one year, and appears to be have been made as a whole set, complete.
21:31:58: It's from the estate of Sis' MIL - who adored me - only the one son is left out of that family (BIL). Four sons, no daughters -
21:32:50: What we've found, over and over again, going through the storage is thing after wow after what - *beautiful* things, never used. Unknown.
21:33:58: Most of them circa late '40's, mid 50's - pretty things. Not used. Like she was afraid to use them or something. #WTFHelen
21:35:54: My goodness. I look at this silver and just shake my head, wondering what the story is behind it. It HAS to have a story. #WTFHelen
21:37:39: Helen passed two years ago or so, fast but not pretty from diabetes and strokes - worked out and used up. She'd survived two of her sons.
21:38:58: The third one was murdered (AMW took up the story - awful, awful, awful) less than a year later.
21:39:53: So when it comes to things - there are a lot of them I wish would just poof out of existence because all their owners are gone.
21:41:04: When you find kid crafts the dead brothers made their dead mother when they were 8 years old, for example - carefully packed away. #sad
21:45:03: Hoarding? Not so much. Just carefully packed (oh so neatly, while she was an indifferent housekeeper) and stored. Unknown to us. #WTFHelen
21:48:53: By contrast, my mother's estate is notated to the nth degree - she started doing it in her late fifties. Nothing we don't know about.
21:49:26: Not that there is a lot left after three house fires and two burglaries, but there you go.
21:54:33: I think I'm angry that she had such an ugly life with all these lovely things hidden away, waiting for her to come back and get them.
21:58:36: *admires the silverplate again* Yup, I'm sure of it. #WTFHelen