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A week of tweets: 2010-07-25

Gessel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:11:00 +0000

How odd: a good bill in congress! http://is.gd/dAPL0 #
Back on us soil after very frantic visit to euroland only 2 days without major travel. http://myloc.me/9GANi #

A week of tweets: 2010-07-18

Gessel — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:11:00 +0000

Hertz Traverse LT minivan: why does GM add pointless power tailgate but no USB interface? Sadly, US cars still suck. http://mypict.me/9ag0R #

A week of tweets: 2010-07-11

Gessel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:11:00 +0000

Breakfast at the big table: heath bar ice cream with espresso. #toscanini #039;s http://myloc.me/8OxXp #
Dear boston pops, please, please spare us the misery of the WBZ color commentary on the PA. #shutup http://myloc.me/8P3Ax #
Mass ave taken over by peds leaving fireworks. Police asking people to move to sidewalk not helping… http://tweetphoto.com/30899297 #
It is 60F here in LA and it Rained this morning. WTF? http://myloc.me/8TCd1 #
RT @akieffer: Agave Lab Releases New iPhone App – Tastebud for Open Source Food http://lnkd.in/E3W9KF http://myloc.me/8TMrJ #
No power, no network in santa monica and AT&T screwed up my WWAN account. Work FAIL. Thanks PG&E. Sprinkle shorted it out I guess. #
Wow, nice earthquake. My monitor was wiggling http://ova.st/5 #
RT @dvrogers: Niki de Saint Phalle + Jean Tinguely The world began to blowup + shooting paintings via @christinamcphee http://is.gd/djcm4 #
Off to oakland. Fruitvale is our closest BART stop, but we're on the coliseum side, so it was quiet last time and I hear is so far tonight. #
Quiet in east oakland now http://mypict.me/90Gxo #

Kitten Mittons!

Gessel — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:01:04 +0000

After Tortuga had her kittens, the clatter of tiny paws was almost deafening. We really could have used a whole case of these!

Homeopathy Illustrated

Gessel — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:09:50 +0000

This is a great description of Homeopathy. I have occasionally pointed out to (usually unreceptive friends) a few of the curious consequences of logic in Homeopathy, but this little cartoon is a far more entertaining analysis:

My thoughts are only that:

If you walk into an herb store and can smell the herbs at all, you are getting many (many) times the dose of a wide variety of homeopathic remedies. Why doesn’t this accidental environmental dose either negate or overpower the intended dose?
If the law of similars says ingesting the water memory of a similar-symptom causing antigen cures the disease, so why doesn’t the disease, which is causing those very same symptoms, do the same first?
If water can be durably imprinted with the memory of a substance that was in it (homeopathic resonance or macro memory), and this dilution extends the potency of the water, then by what mechanism is this potency erased, and if not why isn’t every glass we drink filled with potent remedies such that we never get sick, or perhaps with
potent homeopathic poisons that would kill us instantly?

What up with the “+” Google?

Gessel — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:29:18 +0000

http-equiv=”Content-Type”>

Type “Log Viewer” (without the quotes) and get “Log+Viewer.” It seems
like an operator that would force adjacency, but it doesn’t seem to.
“Log AND Viewer” becomes “Log+AND+Viewer” (the explicit operator isn’t
parsed) and “”log viewer”" becomes “”log+viewer”" so it seems the space
is being replaced with “+” (#32 replaced by #43).

A week of tweets: 2010-07-04

Gessel — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:11:00 +0000

Crazy delays on UAL LAX-SFO today. Long few days: LAX-SFO-dinner w/ Mr. Cerasoli and the Gerbil Team-IAD-Germany (embassy)-LAX-Bako-LAX-SFO #
Why so cold and gray, LA? http://myloc.me/8BPuF #
Reallty sweet FA just called my name out as I was walking through the airport and gave me a great hug, made my day but #iflytoomuch #
A hat blew into the air conditioning duct of my UAL SFO-JFK flight: delayed. Not quites as unlikely as a bird dropping a baugette in it. #
Hat has been extracted. On our way. http://myloc.me/8M8oX #
Just read about this builing's bankruptcy in the WSJ. Is cool looking. http://tweetphoto.com/30637327 #

Kittens are all at new homes

Gessel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:43:48 +0000

And the promiscuous mother is back at home, getting shots and fixed this
week.

A week of tweets: 2010-06-27

Gessel — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:11:00 +0000

Mmmm had randy's donuts with @phragments http://tweetphoto.com/29354101 #

Fresh Kittens

Gessel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:11:01 +0000

Yum. OK, they’re not really fresh any more, this was a few months ago,
but they had just been borned and teh mom to nom.