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08:29	It's a photo shoot morning. Time to get myself moving!
13:56	Done with the shoot. Now we're waiting for our BBQ lunch to arrive.

11:29	@MsCaliLogan RT = re-tweet. It's the popular way of saying that you're forwarding someone else's tweet.
14:35	In the studio, slaving over a hot model. Actually, others are slaving; I'm just watching them slave.
18:26	Back from the studio, where I did a little shooting after all. Kym is an extraordinarily gracious model, and a whole lot of fun.

09:48	Day 2 trying to make friend's Airport Extreme behave. Success?
10:06	Liking the new iPhone Facebook app.
11:50	io9 lists their top 100 SF/Fantasy shows. Let the debates begin: Firefly is too high, Get Smart doesn't belong... http://bit.ly/1al2TX
13:11	Just got my copy of Snow Leopard. If you don't hear from me again, that's probably why...
14:07	Starting the Snow Leopard install on my MacBook. Been nice knowing y'all.
14:38	Even dead, Billy Mays is annoying. (I mistyped Billy as Bully.)
15:27	I'm back. Did you miss me? (Running on Snow Leopard. So far, Menu Meters is the only casualty I've noticed.)
16:00	Snow Leopard took to my MacBook so well, I'm now letting it invade my Mac Mini. Fools rush in and all that.
16:01	@elkit I knew something was wrong when I set the car's AC to 75 and had it blasting cold air at me.
16:18	Small SL hiccup: Undid my custom Time Machine schedule. But it remembered, so I reapplied with a couple of clicks in TimeMachineEditor.
16:26	@renatojr_rj Welcome back!
17:39	@renatojr_rj Thought about it, but happy to see you have a full house. I'd like to stop by and hang out with the gang.
17:40	Okay, both my Macs are up on Snow Leopard. Definitely faster, and with only a few minor stumbles. (Including one Excel crash. Surprise!)
18:34	@elkit I had to look that one up. Sounds tasty, especially now that I know that Leberkäs has neither leber nor käs. Kind of like Egg Creams.
18:56	A couple of my Scaper friends were involved in this 48 hour film project. Check out Outside The Lines at http://www.puppetography.com/.
19:55	Never understood the appeal of cats myself. http://bit.ly/1ZXRbq (Thanks to @lomara.)
20:02	@ScaperSuse I was there for a while as Scapevelocity. Didn't say anything, though.

05:54	Bad karma: IKEA avoids most taxes as a charity, but one that does no charitable work. http://bit.ly/2mq34
06:23	Should someone tell Rep. Lynn Jenkins that the original Great White Hope got his clock cleaned? http://bit.ly/aX30c
07:19	@meatflag What about his back? Oh, I see; it's another one of those your/you're deals...
11:15	Installing & debugging a friend's DSL/WiFi setup. Much as I hate dealing with networking, it's such a rush when it works. If it works...
12:43	@elkit They have a beer garden? Why was I not informed about this? You know what goes great with beer? Pretzels!
18:19	GOP Chair Steele suggests in a survey that health care is Democratic attempt to deny care to Repugs and kill them off. Oh, if only...
18:42	Rachel Maddow: Coal industry's grassroots campaign relying on iStockphoto for its grassroots people. Sadly, none of my images...
18:57	@meatflag Gee, Jason, I guess that makes you one of the 54.6% Congratulations!
20:06	Installing Photoshop CS4. Always fun transitioning to a new version.

06:18	One problem with Twitter is how hard it is to tell carelessness, laziness and illiteracy apart. Do you really not get "your" vs. "you're"?
06:23	WTF is my TiVo recording at 6 in the ayem? Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo? A bio of Jackie Gleason? You don't know me at all, TiVo.
06:42	@LotusSixSixSix You had your stumps busted? Is that some weird British euphemism?
13:51	A bright sunny day up in Wine Country, but with the nip of autumn in the air.
14:46	@alwayscoffee "No ham, no foul?" What is this, vegan drama?
18:07	At the #SVTweetup. Free drinks, which are my favorite kind.
19:58	The Grand Canyon Skywalk sounded like a total ripoff two years ago: http://bit.ly/bhslF. Guess it's no less awful now: http://bit.ly/a7ktJ.
20:24	@alwayscoffee I saw Mamma Mia on Broadway. It's paper thin, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Maybe you have to be old enough to like ABBA.
20:32	@alwayscoffee I'm thinking nostalgia may be a factor in enjoying it. Or maybe the movie was crap; it wouldn't surprise me.

07:47	Rudy Giuliani wants to run for Governor. Haven't New Yorkers suffered enough?
08:53	There's something to be said for PETA's new "fat people are the problem" ad campaign. Like "STFU, PETA!" There, I said it.
10:41	Michael Steele: VA Encouraging Vets To Commit Suicide. I see, it's opposite day. The Repugs have a lot of those. http://bit.ly/Hb7ul
10:46	Dick Cheney accuses Obama of politicizing Justice Department. More opposite day: "I know I am but what are you?" http://bit.ly/16whSS
12:19	RT @billprady: Learned that the media is (are?) reading my tweets. Considering complex disinformation campaign. Sounds like a lot of work.
15:47	Nucking futs: AZ resident tries to turn murder car into Cash For Clunkers program! Read to the end: http://bit.ly/BocqR
15:53	Made a too big sandwich with the last of the Acme bread. I am hoist on my own batard.
16:13	Installing Adobe Lightroom. Then I'll install Photoshop CS4. It's good to have friends with connections.
17:49	@MsCaliLogan Maybe he's collecting the raw materials to build his own beach.
20:57	Who thinks of this stuff? Chili's as an analogue for anal sex. Brilliant! RT @VictoriaDahl: RT @SmartBitches: http://is.gd/2yJTD

09:44	@JustaSunGod Yeah, 'cause there's nothing worse than a cold alien probe.
11:31	@richcirminello So good to me.
14:21	Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me is coming to Santa Barbara next month. Just got my ticket; Row G!
17:08	Some good can come from tragedy: both of Ryan Jenkins' VH1 reality shows have been canceled. Can we stop with these reality crapfests now?
17:35	@_Rayna The question was worded to get a specific response. "Part of good parental correction"; that's assuming facts not in evidence.
18:00	RT @VictoriaDahl: He's alive!!! @Barryeisler [Until I see a manuscript, I'm treating this as an ugly rumor.]
18:55	At the TWiP meeting at SmugMug HQ. Hope they don't eject me as a non-SmugMugger.
21:36	I just got 5 images accepted to @shutterstock! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5

10:01	This mornong's shoot cancelled. Model a no show.
10:07	Senator Grassley admits he's full of shit on death panels, still full of it on why he lied the past three weeks.
13:40	Legs really sore today. WTF? Oh yeah, Muir Woods yesterday. That trail was way too vertical for yours truly. What was I thinking?
14:14	Tragedy! No blueberries at Trader Joe's. Guess that means a CostCo run...
17:26	@JackieKessler You mean it's not a movie about geometry?
21:52	So when a model flakes, what's a photographer to do? Me, I shoot road signs.

07:31	Off to Muir Woods this morning, camera in hand. Pray for me. Or for Nature.
08:20	Fog from SSF to the Golden Gate. Good day to shoot?
17:07	Good but exhausting hike in Muir Woods with @jfikephoto, followed by Il Fornaio for lunch. Never took out my camera, but still a good day.
17:40	TomTom/iPhone car kit looks great. When can I get one? http://bit.ly/1aigzm
18:10	Roger Ebert waxes eloquent on Universal Health Care. Even when I disagree (and here I don't), I love to read this man. http://bit.ly/h1oW9

07:53	It's Spam Friday! Five new spammer signups on Barry's forum, five new spammers following me on Twitter. All blocked, thank you very much.
07:58	@alwayscoffee But not as much Spam as Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam.
11:46	@ScaperSuse Suse, I'm so sorry to hear that! Been there. (Oh, wait; I am there now...)
12:11	@ScaperSuse Certainly enjoying myself more than in recent jobs. Need to work on the money part, though. And I miss coworkers. Sometimes.
15:05	Great list from Wired: 10 things about photography that piss them (and me) off. http://bit.ly/CDDCy
16:11	James Fallows points out that Jon Stewart can be defeated. All it takes is to be a pathological liar. http://bit.ly/aHp8j
16:49	@JustaSunGod Obviously a woman with an eye for quality.
17:50	Guess more than John Bolton's soul is moldy from neglect. http://bit.ly/2ZcTph (The RSS feed has a Google ad for mold cleanup services.)
18:45	Salon: Bringing a weapon to a rally isn't about exercising your own rights; it's about threatening other people's rights http://bit.ly/4At69

06:49	Doesn't bear thinking about: epic design FAILs in the Star Wars universe. http://bit.ly/3Bd4HM
07:30	@barryeisler And yours is the vote that counts. (Although I vote for more Rain as well.)
08:07	Nikonians on Canon's reduction in resolution on the new G11. A good move on Canon's part; numbers ain't everything. http://bit.ly/AcoLY
10:20	Lutheran Church decides gay is okay, as long as you don't do anything with your dirty parts. How very liberal of them. http://bit.ly/tZBKy
11:23	@ScaperSuse But at least you had a couple of minutes to enjoy thinking it's Saturday. And think about it: in another two days it *will* be.
11:41	@VictoriaDahl I haven't read your books either. Does that mean I should unfollow you?
15:15	@VictoriaDahl @alwayscoffee Is it getting warm in here?
16:12	Reading the IMDB entry for World Without End, a 50s SF movie I loved as a child. The Goofs thread is particular fun. http://bit.ly/gGaZH
21:07	Plans keep changing. Ice rink shoot for tomorrow canceled. Model shoot for Sunday canceled. Going to Muir Woods Saturday, weather permitting

09:44	Grassley on health care is like Lucy holding the football. C'mon, Dems; be smarter than Charlie Brown!
12:08	Zombies and Jane Austen I can understand. But zombies and Alan Parsons? So wrong... http://bit.ly/18uMnA [Eat... brains...]
12:18	Wow. Just wow. 10% of Americans think Obama was born in Indonesia, 6% think Hawaii's not in the US, 4% aren't sure. http://bit.ly/18qdVh
12:28	@Ealasaid But they're not even properly dumb! Every Birther knows it's Kenya, not Indonesia! And 6% of Americans are sure HI isn't a state?
12:40	Wow. Scalia claims innocence is no defense in death penalty case. Justice isn't just blind; he's an asshole. http://bit.ly/abG6p
13:13	Successfully connected Shutterstock.com account to Twitter.
13:15	Trying a new service at @Shutterstock. Let me know if it gets too spammily obnoxious.
14:55	RT @reduced: Robert Novak is dead? Please tell me Valerie Plame did it. [If only...]
16:01	So who still advertises with Glenn Beck? Big dicks and things that suck. Okay, the promise of big dicks... http://bit.ly/38XxNs
17:42	The guys from This Week in Photography have a new Meetup group, which I just joined. Guess I should listen to their podcast, huh?
18:11	Trying to watch the 1st Chronicles of Narnia film. Boring. Yeah, I know I'm not the target audience, but boring is boring.
19:10	Sitting in a photo class in Fremont. Think I'll learn something?
22:09	Read 'em and weap (or laugh): alternate spins on film plots http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2009/04/uncomfortable-plot-summaries/
22:18	@sandrift That's a relief. My compact's a Canon G9, but the thought of Canon DSLRs makes me queasy. Friends don't let friends shoot Canon.
22:28	Okay, that's funny. Thanks to my last tweet, @CanonReview is following me.

07:34	Guess I didn't lose my insurance after all. Ex-employer changed COBRA admins; old one sent cancellation letter, no word from new one yet.
08:07	57% of GOP think there's something to this Death Panel stuff. Wasn't there something about The Big Lie back around WWII? http://bit.ly/wKVpr
08:18	RT @JustaSunGod: Um, excuse me, you've got a Web coming outta your butt http://bit.ly/211B38 #justsayin [OMG!]
09:48	Josh at TPM on Right Wing attitudes about violence. The Left and Right aren't even close on this one. http://bit.ly/DRSbY
09:55	Colbert: Fox News can't do math. They show postage went from .29 to .44 since 1991 and say it doubled. (Jeeze, what maroons!)
11:18	@ScaperSuse I'm gonna hold up my own #farscaperewatch until the new DVDs arrive. Already ordered mine on Amazon.
14:53	@VictoriaDahl Wait, @barryeisler was good looking once?
15:26	Is this a joke? What marketing genius came up with this? http://bit.ly/3J7ITw (Thanks, @meatflag.)
16:47	@alwayscoffee It doesn't? You mean it isn't a southbound toupee?
17:28	Playing with DeepMeta, an app to make uploading images to iStockphoto less sucktacular. So far I am unimpressed.
21:49	Tell me this doesn't make you laugh. Go on, I dare you. http://bit.ly/Xl82o (Thanks once again to @donttrythis.)

11:31	Michael Seitzman on why the abuse of the term Nazi is so offensive. (And ineffective; use it & you lose the debate.) http://bit.ly/1mfG5g
15:37	You know how COBRA lets you continue your medical if you lose your job? Turns out it stops if former employer changes plans. Bastards!
19:11	@richcirminello TMI, Rich. Unless... exactly whose nipples are popping?
19:34	@richcirminello I bet that smarts! But if it's any consolation, at least it can't happen more than once more, right?
19:36	Is it possible to overdose on blueberries? I for one am willing to try.
20:19	Come to think of it, there are probably worse role models than @donttrythis. A lot worse. Probably. http://bit.ly/TY9ck
20:52	@billprady Does that mean we get good Lewis Black bloopers on the DVDs?
21:09	Dangerous chemicals in your home? Get the facts: http://www.dhmo.org/

08:33	Finished editing and submitting 20 new photos. Now to get ready for this morning's shoot.
13:56	Back from my shoot with Jamie Hilfiger, Tommy's niece. Blonde, adorable and a good poser. (As opposed to a poseur, you understand.)
14:44	Enterprise Rent-a-Death-Trap: company ordered cars without air bags to save money, then sold them. http://bit.ly/2JjEe5
20:27	@lomara I think you're talking about Carl Winslow from Family Matters.

09:45	Edited and submitted first 20 photos from yesterday's shoots. http://yfrog.com/7hvnfj
14:37	Plaintiff gets his case tossed after texting a witness in court. How dumb is that? http://bit.ly/1caMd
20:17	The things you learn. According to On The Media on NPR, Fahrenheit 451 should have been called Celsius 451. What a mistake to make, Ray!

07:54	Daily Show finds "Glen Beck is a fraud" smoking gun video, world is unsurprised. Why does anybody believe this yutz? http://bit.ly/KpDEb
08:02	Email this ayem from Graphic Converter developer: spell check will arrive with Cocoa UI conversion late this year. Huzzah!
08:06	Okay, this is spooky: the camera in the iPhone 3GS takes the picture *before* you press the shutter! http://bit.ly/2EfbTE
08:20	Too cute: a tripod on a keychain! http://bit.ly/m7Bs5
08:28	Wow, I'm on a #microstock roll! 3 extended license sales at @Shutterstock yesterday, 2 at @Dreamstime, 1 at CanStock, 1 at BigStock today!
08:51	@TonyAlba_Pizza Count me in for the Tweetup!
09:21	I'm now following @jonathancoulton. It's all @donttrythis's fault.
12:26	RT @RickWebb: I cannot stop thinking how much more Facebook would be with the addition of a "don't like" button.
21:53	Back from a shoot. Lots of pictures to upload and process.

It's been two weeks since my mother's funeral, and there are some things that need saying. Not to my mom; first because it's way too late, and second because I already said what I felt two years ago. But to other people I encountered on that day:

• To the rabbi: I know you didn't know my mom, and that these things are inevitable. But for the record, Janet Wexler Shiffman was not born in Savannah, Georgia. Like her siblings, she was born in Bowling Green, Ohio. The family moved to Savannah when she was a year and a half. More importantly, it didn't require any force of will to maintain a Jewish identity in Savannah in those years. In fact, it was the vibrance of the Jewish community he found that led my grandfather to move the family there in the first place. There's been a strong Jewish community in the South almost from the beginning, including the world's oldest surviving Reform synagogue, in Charleston, South Carolina. Granted that to you, Reform may not be Jewish enough to count, but to the rest of us it's just fine.
• To my nephew and nieces: Your life isn't my life. You live by a seemingly infinite number of arbitrary rules. I don't. And it is the height of rudeness to point out every transgression I make on rules I don't believe in in the first place. Respect must be a two way street; if you expect me to respect your life, you will damn well learn to respect mine. I will not attack someone in his own home, which is why it will be a cold day in August before I enter yours again.
• To my father: You are the only reason I flew cross-country, and the only one whose feelings matter to me. I came in hope of offering you some small comfort. Dunno if I did any good, but at least I don't think I did any harm. I wish you could be happy or at least content.

There. I feel better now.

08:45	Howard Dean declines Lou Dobbs offer to clear the air after Dobbs makes "stake through the heart" remark. At last a Dem with good judgment.
09:00	Palm Pre collects user location data and phones it home. And people say Apple's evil? Hah!
10:50	Does this really need its own domain? Really? http://www.eepoporkahah.com/ [Thanks, @JustaSunGod.]
12:34	@renatojr_rj Did you at least have fun, what with the lack of sleep and 6 lb. burritos?
19:49	RT @barryeisler: RT @thisisdannyg: @normcowie dude! that's awesome! I'm so jealous! I'm ecstatic for you! Who's Barry Eisler? [*snicker*]
19:57	Just asked the developer of Graphic Converter for the Mac to add spell check to the IPTC editor. Fantastic program, especially at the price.
21:07	Signed up for a shoot on Sunday. I miss being in the studio. Any studio.

07:00	Stephen Hawking on UK's nonexistent Death Panels: "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS."
07:19	Listen to @RickWebb tell iPhone complainers off. Have I mentioned how much I love & rely on mine? http://bit.ly/253NOE
07:28	Great! Now it's Procter & Gamble that wants to give me money: 682k pounds worth! Too bad they're satanic. I mean, look at their logo...
07:44	You fear government health care? Could be worse: This American Life on cases of insurance company denial of coverage. http://bit.ly/W8WTA
07:49	A TPM commenter: Is Hawking *really* British? He sure doesn't *sound* British. http://bit.ly/wautZ [Yes, I know he's not serious.]
09:46	Another shocker from the UK: National Health doesn't suck all the time. Sometimes it's even compassionate. http://bit.ly/N4V6s
09:59	@meatflag Based on my experience with Nokia E62, as stable as Windows would be an improvement.
16:34	@JackieKessler No, aging is an existing condition. And death is a post-existing condition.
21:31	Taking pictures of fortune cookies for stock. It can't all be beautiful naked women. (Dammit.)
21:40	Okay, you know how I used the word N-A-K-E-D in my last tweet? There's an autotwit that re-tweets every post that uses that word!
21:55	Is this more evil than clever, or more clever than evil? http://bit.ly/J0pk9

10:08	Colbert: "So thank you, Ms. Palin, Mr. Gingrich, for making up and then exposing this repulsive figment!"
10:17	RT @JustaSunGod: AHAHA Big John - http://brog.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/malaysiansigns/pee-1.jpg [It so *is* as big as I think.]
13:43	Truth said in jest: Dara O'Briain on false equivalence between rational discourse and abject nonsense. Sound familiar? http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/11/dara-obriain-on-home.html
13:47	Now here's a shocker! White House docs show Rove lied to House committee about role in US Attorney firings. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/docs_bely_roves_claim_that_his_aide_was_freelancin.php
18:10	Finally found a replacement for WeatherPop, the menu bar weather display that's been claiming 55F for weeks. Meteo is free & it works.
21:14	@StephenAtHome Restraining order? Against him or you?

07:19	You think you've had bad flights? It could have been so much worse on Continental... http://bit.ly/7NcS2
12:54	@JustaSunGod I'll let you know. I'll be driving through ID, UT, MT, SD, ND and WY in a few weeks. I fear my iPhone 3G won't be so 3G.
13:33	So a guy supposedly injured protesting Universal Health Care wants strangers to pay his medical bills. Is this irony or just hypocrisy?
13:54	@SuzyMassey You have cool friends.
17:31	@JackieKessler I vote good.
18:55	The most magnificent book review in the entire history of book reviews, I kid you not. Folks, meet Pregnesia... http://bit.ly/YsIdx
20:48	Watching this show called Confessions of a Travel Writer on the Travel Channel. This guy is the world's biggest whiner. Geeze!

13:13	Back from my shoot. Good workout on the tennis court. I love strenuous exercise; I can watch it all day.
13:28	@renatojr_rj Found the nearest Apple Store and stole their WiFi? That's what I did.
14:36	Facebook's not letting me upload pictures, so I can't share today's tennis shoot. How rude.
16:18	Communing with a pint of Ben & Jerry's Mission to Marzipan. Is A-OK with me.

12:23	Bizarre! Is this how "All Your Base" got started? http://IfStarWarsWasReal.com/
16:41	Hey, twoops! Another Silicon Valley Tweetup is on the calendar for 8/27. Details at http://www.siliconvalleytweetup.com/.
16:46	@RayHartjen #svtweetup is Thursday, August 27th at 5:30pm at Hotel Valencia.
16:49	@JackieKessler What browser are you using? Personally, I find a separate app more convenient for tweeting. URL shortening's a fine feature.
16:51	@JackieKessler Being addicted to Twitter is like being addicted to life. Just in smaller bites.
16:58	@JackieKessler Hmm... Just tried replying with Firefox; it's not going anywhere. Personally, I recommend Tweetie on Mac and iPhone.
17:05	@jmgreenleaf I will now. Anyone who retweets me being called brilliant is obviously perspicacious as hell!
17:19	I ended a FaceBook comment about Pushing Daisies with *snif*. But instead I typed *snuf*, which seems a particularly appropriate accident.
19:02	Taking sushi pictures. Like my pioneer ancestors, I have to shoot my food before I can eat it.
19:31	Tonight's lesson: disassembling and reassembling a rainbow roll seldom turns out well.
21:32	Great column in the NY Times. Safire's substitute Ben Zimmer has failed to fail in his analysis of the #fail phenomenon.
21:33	@VictoriaDahl But yummy and satisfying madness. I'll have you know that Bloody Marys got me through the hell of my sister's wedding.
22:23	Sports shoot tomorrow morning. The model will pretend to play tennis and golf, and I'll pretend to take her picture.

09:15	Liz Cheney: "The purpose of diplomacy is not to be liked." Which explains the Bush years, I guess.
09:24	Yet another call from my credit union's credit card provider, trying to start me on a reporting service. I keep saying no. Cut up the card?
09:32	Errol Morris & Ricky Jay on lying and deception. Fascinating stuff. http://bit.ly/7UUQV
09:33	"A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent." William Blake (by way of Errol Morris)
09:34	In my last two tweets, I initially mistyped "Errol" as "Error". What do you think that means?
10:23	Now it's the Princess of Wales Charity Foundation that wants to give me lots of pounds. As if I don't weigh enough already.
11:28	RT @chrismarquardt: Beautiful! RT @schlingel: Wooooooow! Can you make a Game any more beautiful? http://www.machinarium.com [Oooh, pretty!]
13:33	Exploring Lands End in SF. Love hiking. *gasp* This is fun. *wheeze*
15:58	@thinkum I hope so. It's kind of hazy, and I gave up on getting closer to the Golden Gate when I saw the last set of steps...
15:59	RT @JustaSunGod et alia: haha love it! RT @laughingsquid: All Natural Hot Dog, No Artificial Fillings http://bit.ly/aURyQ [Too cute!]
16:43	Sweet! Scott Joplin meets 80s pop! http://bit.ly/UF9NC
17:37	@ScaperSuse It's not Aeryn. It was never Aeryn. Uhhh, I mean you. Twitter is still a little bit shaky.
19:25	@MsCaliLogan Big vacation plans? Going anywhere exciting?

08:24	Facebook appears to be back. And Twitter?
14:50	Pins I put in the mail on 5/29 came back yesterday: Moved, No Fwd. If true (and it isn't), why'd they take two months to get returned?
14:51	Push button locks on car failed in Palo Alto. Now they work just fine. Last time this happened was at Twin Peaks due to RF. Hmmm...
15:00	@lomara Mary Stuart Masterson *and* that wonderful Elvis cover? How can you go wrong!
15:05	Phony Obama birth certificate traced to innocent Aussie. Now Orly Taitz accuses him of forging it to discredit birthers! http://bit.ly/BZHkt
15:20	@repubx I have indeed. It's only perjury if it's under oath. Anyway, absence of evidence is *not* evidence of absence.
17:08	I love it when Colbert uses a photo of Guy Smiley for Mitt Romney!
17:32	Just rebooked my flight for my Upper Midwest road trip. Everybody stay healthy this time, m'kay?

...and Twitter isn't there to hear him, does he still tweet?

A few morning tweets I'll have to blog instead, since Twitter's sucking mud:

• Duh moment of the day: According to the NY Times, the American Psychological Association concludes trying to make gay people straight doesn't work, does harm.
• Laptop Magazine compares tech support, discovers everybody sucks but Apple. Guess maybe you really do get what you pay for.
• According to an article in CIO Magazine, Microsoft's (debatably) new and (arguably) superior search engine has one small quirk: if you ask it about crappy Microsoft products, it'll change your question to one about crappy Apple products. Some things never change, and the duplicity of Microsoft would appear to be among them.

Both Facebook and Twitter are wedged this morning. How can I be expected to function when two of my connections to the outside world are hanging by a virtual thread? It can't be a coincidence that both are frelled, especially since from what I can see on Facebook I'm not the only one suffering. More on this story as it develops, assuming of course that I'm not the only one reading this. Which I may be.

09:29	@JustaSunGod Be fair, Lee. It can take a moment to realize that what you hear doesn't jibe with what you expect to hear. Happens to me too.
11:44	Stopped at Elizabeth Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto to shoot macro flower pics, then to watch a senior lawn bowling tournament.
13:29	So that's how he did it! http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/
14:10	Mac OS X 10.5.8 just released. Downloading now. Wish me luck!
14:39	Good news: two Macs now running 10.5.8.
14:49	@_Rayna Latest update to Mac OS. A little patch goodness.
15:01	@_Rayna I think you meant "unveiling".
17:48	RT @sandrift: The best spam subject line of the day (maybe the month): "Your shlong can be shlonger"

07:48	Cash for badonkadonkers? Jon Stewart, is there no joke you won't try?
10:17	Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by IRS. Survival of the fittest, indeed. http://www.pnj.com/article/20090801/NEWS01/908010317
12:14	@StephenAtHome Beer? Everybody knows pot goes better with Doritos.
12:29	RT @BreakingNews: Release of 2 U.S. journalists in N Korea comes hours after surprise visit by former president Clinton. [Well done, Bill.]
13:35	RT @VictoriaDahl: RT @timcarvell: If they make a gay-porn version of "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra", call it "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra."
14:09	John Bolton is pissed off about Bill Clinton's rescue mission. Which to my mind is just another reason it's a wonderful thing.
19:24	Blogger people, where art thou?
22:21	Typical blogger conversation: Russian Tim Curry night on cable. What would be in a Russian Tim Curry? (My guess was Kahlua and gin.)
22:43	Is this a sign? One friend sends me http://textsfromlastnight.com/ and another gives me http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/. Funny & scary.

10:23	Overcast and gray. These aren't the skies you're looking for.
10:46	Sunny in Morgan Hill. That's much better.
13:51	Walmart selling knockoff Girl Scout cookies. Truly they have no shame. http://bit.ly/oPblr
14:07	"Ever Vigilant, Ever True." Ever AWESOME! http://www.superherosupplies.com/
14:59	How did I miss this? 5 year old sings Folsom Pwison Bwues. "I shot a man in Weno just to watch him die..." http://bit.ly/3VOVaa
17:00	@renatojr_rj Better than way too late, I always say. Well, I don't actually say it. But I think it.
19:15	"Gonna rubber my duckie all night long..." http://bit.ly/bXTQ2
19:38	And what's *your* douchebag name? http://douchebagname.com/
19:53	I know it took me a while to get MySpace & Facebook & Twitter. But this seems like a really dumb idea: http://www.geavity.com/. Am I wrong?

08:45	Stomach upset but responding well to treatment.
08:56	@renatojr_rj Probably, but only from overindulgence and too little sleep.
09:03	From @glengreenwald, how corporate ownership censors and leans on their news organizations: http://tinyurl.com/nxvmct. Thanks, @donttrythis.
11:57	Just back from farmer's market, where I picked up most of the fixins for a really great hero. Gonna be a hot day; go shooting after I eat?
12:13	D'you think they offer it in soft serve? http://bit.ly/Lnsdf
13:02	@jfikephoto Much better, thanks.
14:29	@froonium Oh, that's Ratscape! A graphic supergenius! Farscape's own Wile E. Coyote, only with less anvil.
14:42	@donttrythis Can't you wreak vengeance?
17:26	Here's a puzzlement. Got a FB friend request from my Chassidic nephew. Do I accept and scandalize him & his parents daily? Or ignore him?

14:05	@billprady We may be a proud Twitter army, but we're a little less proud now...
18:28	Second only to Troops (http://bit.ly/ZwuvJ), it's Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline! http://bit.ly/QruWn

09:05	Follow @billprady. He promises boring #bigbangtheory preproduction info if his Twitter following reaches 7,500. How can you resist?
09:33	RT @StephenAtHome: i read a report saying twitter is vulnerable to hackers. but i don't think buy c1@lis now big chub!!
09:47	RT @froonium: *applauds* @Neurocat - Alien prequel? If the aliens are attracted to Ripley because of her midichlorian count, I'm outta here.
14:39	@VictoriaDahl "Thank you. I know you tried." #sexninja
14:59	@VictoriaDahl Or how about, "That was... nice. Really." #sexninja
15:19	RT @VictoriaDahl: RT @emilyryandavis: #sexninja "Wow, your clit got harder than Chinese Algebra." [I can't breathe. Dying.]
16:20	@lomara I installed it this morning. My phone is still happy.
17:39	OMG! 79 different versions of Popcorn! I am in cheese heaven! http://bit.ly/17J7BX
18:28	Catching up with Daily Show and Colbert from this week. Birther loon Orly Taitz on Colbert? John Bolton on TDS? What nutbar crap is this?
18:42	Thank you, @JackieKessler. Your retweet introduced me to Judge a Book by its Cover. I love books, and I love snark. http://bit.ly/4k6uvT
20:14	RT @VictoriaDahl: What's the old saying? It's not gay if there's more than 4 guys; it's hazing. #romfail [I always suspected frat guys.]