My tweets

• 07:10 @THE_REAL_SHAQ happy birthday to you, and many happy returns of the day. #
• 07:24 @MrPandaBehr i still have a computer punch card. try that for rare. #
• 07:26 @MrPandaBehr the surgeon general's not in the cabinet. i'll bet that gupta can make lots more money out of government & his wife's expecting #
• 07:30 @jonk i haven't clubbed for at least 10 years but i have the excuse that i'm ancient. my queer card was chipped into a stone tablet. #
• 10:05 back from fasting blood tests, tucked into toast and coffee, ready to face the day. #
• 14:43 @MrPandaBehr : no, i meant that i have a punch card. there was a punch card PC very early on but i worked with xerox mainframes... #
• 14:49 @MrPandaBehr : very few computer science people nowadays have seen a punch card. we used to use 'em in market research tabulation. #
• 21:04 @nakedboy : get business cards printed up with your title as "Consultant" and send an invoice when you've facilitated. #
• 21:04 @nakedboy : i've had fried plantain. don't like it very much (I may be allergic?) but they're like thick potato chips. #
• 21:06 @MikeonTV : i think rooibos (red bush) tea is very nice. Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency tea. #
• 21:09 @ErnieAtLYD : i suppose match.com is thinking that will deter you from choosing the rejecter? #
• 21:10 @boyshapedbox : is "schwab" a verb? what is it? NSFW?? #
• 21:13 @MrPandaBehr : everyone used to have a box of chads to fix holes in punch cards when they weren't punched right...ah, nostalgia! #
• 21:14 @sbrettell : oh, yes. my physics teacher had a deck of them. You could sort on two or more characteristics with two or more knitting needles #
• 21:18 @boyshapedbox : oic. i schwab, you schwab, he/she/it schwabs. #

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Last night...

At 1 am the phone rang. I had just gotten to sleep. I got up and groggily answered it. It was a technician from Trend Micro to help me with the difficulties I'm having in configuring the program. I had told them what time zone I'm in, but, no matter, he thought I must be awake at 1 am. I told him to call on Monday at a reasonable hour.

That must be why I'm dead tired now. Nah, it couldn't have been...