- Just turned off a bunch of notifications in Facebook. I feel free! (So it's nothing personal if I don't respond to your comment.) #
- Your reality is out of date: on "mesofacts," facts that change so slowly you'll miss it if you're not paying attention. http://bit.ly/8YPxVP #
- Forget all my noodling at Went West (http://bit.ly/dw8AFq), here's a real reason not to live in a city: http://bit.ly/dzl3Uh #
- Why do people tweet news items without a link? #
- Most annoying thing about Macs: having to beseech and then wait for them to eject things. Does whatever causes this benefit me in some way? #
- Real estate! #
- Ira Glass: "The natural state of all writing is mediocrity." #
- Miss. Co is short election judges, but this is first I heard of training-and I'm a former judge. Comm. fail? http://bit.ly/dgXbRX #
- "[D]oves were released as a symbol of peace … as fireworks burst in the sky, catching many birds in the cross-fire." http://bit.ly/c0iJqf #
- Grateful the sun is not out today. #
- Wow, Diane Ravitch now sounds… sane about No Child Left Behind. http://bit.ly/c8Lfvi #
- Buy a raincoat. Soon, Republicans' heads will be exploding all around you. http://bit.ly/935oEX #
- Our mailman has taken to wearing a blue fedora (or maybe it's a trilby?). I wonder if it is an official USPS uniform item. #
- Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. http://bit.ly/9c78mu #
- So glad I decided to get some physical therapy for my back. (Tara at Alpine PT for Missoula people.) #
- At my desk late, setting up for a conference call with India and Australia. #
- Love when "looting" footage shows "looters" throwing food out into crowds of strangers. I thought reporters needed BS detectors. #
- If health-care reform is really a multi-billion-dollar "giveaway" to insurers, why are they now fighting it? http://bit.ly/9LpD6g #
- Advice to criminals: don't keep a diary. http://bit.ly/9PX12n #
- Man, more post-quake looting. Why don't people in places where infrastructure is destroyed just wait patiently for it to be rebuilt? #
- Well, now that spring is here in Montana, guess I'll just throw away all of these winter clothes…. #
- "We used the wrong measurements to decide if childhood mental illness is real, and we reached the wrong conclusions." http://bit.ly/aPdArz #
- "Come to terms with the fact that your breaths are limited, and your days numbered. You have to budget your outrage." http://bit.ly/b6vagL #
- Google fixed a problem by using "Wittgenstein's theories about how words are defined by context". http://bit.ly/cHUsb0 #
- If liberals give up snootiness/evangelicals retire sanctimony, might make progress against enemies of humanity. http://nyti.ms/9MThoA #
- What's worse, a targeted, surgical assassination, or a drone attack that kills innocent bystanders? http://bit.ly/9ezSk5 #
- Do I know the kind of people who can tell me what's so great about an app that opens WPF resource dictionaries really quickly? #
- My latest Went West column looks at my changing relationship to city life/Baltimore. http://bit.ly/al65qo @wtcommunities #wtcomm #
An Archive, 2007-10