@ApostrophePong Gawd how old is that film? http://tinyurl.com/c2rte8
@ApostrophePong I can’t connect to snipr.com from here. Either it doesn’t like me, or it doesn’t like Telstra.
@ApostrophePong Inquiring minds need to know: Is there a Thai movie that’s the equivalent to “Flashdance”?
You’ve got to be joking! Cheech & Chong playing Enmore Theatre 15 & 16 April? What FOR?
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / gym / lunch / snark / etc. Attention diminished.
RT @zuzu: My vacuum is awesome. [I am SO tempted to say “Then keep your legs closed”, but I won’t.]
Replug: UNSW’s 2nd workshop on Internet filtering and censorship this Wed. http://is.gd/jClh I’ll be there. May not liveblog, rules not set.
Sat plan (remainder): convert Yass video files; 1330 gym & lunch & sna@SnarkyPlatypusPlatypus; evening unplanned.
LOL! The bio of George W Bush at whitehouse.gov is a hagiography of the first water! So funny! http://is.gd/gDZH
I think a boat was involved.
@cowspanker It’s another case of a metric continuing to be used long after it stops the “right” metric. Oh well.
@1uk3 I chose #fisting ‘cos I’d just read two posts mentioning it: http://is.gd/lcdp and http://is.gd/lc80. Seemed a suitable word.
@1uk3 Thanks, yes, the #fisting started with me, with the tweet at http://is.gd/lcJA
@doctorpopcorn Glad all the #fisting has provided some amusement. So to speak.
@djmattyg007 Thank you. This #fisting has gone berserk… And it’s not slowing down!
Who was looking for that video where the woman says Barack and Michelle Obama do a lot of #fisting …? http://is.gd/gEFx
Oh, here’s a photo of me doing the #fisting.Thanks, @ApostrophePong! http://bkite.com/052WN http://is.gd/lcAP
I am home, and I can’t even monitor all my @replies ‘cos of the stream of RTs of my original #fisting message.
@stephenfry Can you imagine what would happen if you RT’d the #fisting meme? Twitter would explode!
@NewtonMark I have no idea what I have begun. But if @stephenfry mentioned that #fisting is the trend, please RT… well, what would happen?
RT @danpatmore: Just saw Oliver Stone’s ‘W’. Didn’t realise George was a jerk his ENTIRE life. #badpresident!
@franksting @collinmullane Yes, the #fisting is all my fault, tho I started it before @mpesce made his bet that it wouldn’t succeed.
@espressocomms Tweet proclaiming #fisting challenge was 1948 Sydney (0848 UTC). No 1 on Twitscoop by 1958, on search.twitter.com by 2034.
@espressocomms Hmmm… well, maybe I don’t have the exact timestamp. The API will reveal the time of tweet 1261557261. #fisting
RT @mpesce: RT @Jay3199: RT @wcyo: all the people clogging up Twitter with #fisting (<— very hard image to get out of my mind)
@ireckon I know the time of my first Tweet, and we have timestamps on the screenshots. We Can Analyse This! #fisting
I will definitely be writing at length about The Night of the Twitter Fisting. If it ever ends. #fisting
What’s intriguing is that my original #fisting message is still being RTd, STARTING the chain. What happens when America wakes up?
Wow, look at http://twitscoop.com/ now! Nothing even CLOSE to fisting! #fisting
RT @RealTimeTrends: #fisting - has risen to the #1 trend on twitter. Follow here: http://idek.net/3hw - twIRC Channel: http://idek.net/3hx
RT @twithority: New Twitter Trend: #fisting http://tinyurl.com/arnc2z
RT @daymix: New Twitter Trend: #fisting http://tinyurl.com/b72scw
@Tuna Well maybe the next challenge is DVDA… but let’s save that for another time. ;)
@mpesce Actually, fisting is also just a word for rolling your hand into a fist, like @TheBloggess’ grandmother does. http://is.gd/lcdp
@scenariogirl I’m not fussed if I “lose” followers. What I tweet is full range of me. Serious or childish. People choose to watch, or not.
@pixel8ted We already have #fisting as #1 at Twitscoop http://bit.ly/ADWnb but only #2 at http://search.twitter.com. Moar fisting please!
RT @cnawan: Well hey, at least you know you’ll always have a warm place to… rest your… I’m aborting this sentence. #fisting
RT @wolfcat: !hat will the rest of the world make of Australia’s sudden interest in #fisting? [What, indeed! Fisting a national sport?]
@cnawan O hai. I’ve “lost” at least one humourless follower over #fisting, but suspect I’ll gain more like you overall.
RT @ParisSite: Screen grab http://bit.ly/ADWnb #fisting
I’m off to Vic on the Park with @AostrophePong, back online in a few minutes. The #fisting challenge must continue!
RT @retweetradar: @stilgherrian you are the top retweeted person on http://www.retweetradar…. right now! [Yes, for #fisting!]
@BeauGiles I know #fisting isn’t on http://search.twitter.co… but they are too flow. Moar firsting required! (Why am I telling YOU this?)
@mpesce Yeah, please see http://www.twitscoop.com/ front page. #fisting
Can someone please post a screenshot of http://www.twitscoop.com/ for me to link to ‘cos we have achieved our aim and I must leave. #fisting
Yay! Victory! #fisting
RT @Darcy1968: @stilgherrian you really are quite a handful… [I wouldn’t have said that in the context of #fisting tho.]
RT @wilsontuckey: I like giving the gays a good fisting. What I don’t get is why they like doing it to each other?
@mpesce This is a vitally important experiment and if people don’t understand that then they’re An Enemy of Science. #fisting
So how long is the lag between lots of people saying fisting and fisting being a trending topic?
Yeah, why not? Official challenge! Let’s turn fisting into the trending topic of the hour. Retweet please.
@BiteTheDust Agreed. http://is.gd/lc80 “Fisting badgers is part of the way of life… City folk have no understanding.”
Maybe if I link to another post from @TheBloggess I can get “fisting” up as a trending term on Twitter. http://is.gd/lcdp
@conem For Twitter, the Dunbar Number thing is the same, just more even weaker ties than Facebook, ‘cos even less cognitive overhead.
@jeamland I. Am. Totally. Outclassed. http://is.gd/lca2 http://is.gd/gwTj http://is.gd/imf8 @TheBloggess pwn3s me. I may never write again.
@JonoH Glad you clarified. It’s astounding how many times I have to tell people that something is satire.
“Primates on Facebook”: Analysis of Facebook friends confirms the Dunbar Number. http://is.gd/lc8J
“Countryside Alliance furious at ban on badger fisting” http://is.gd/lc80
@ApostrophePong One for you: “New ‘Banksy’ hailed after discovery of yellow lines on road” http://is.gd/kOzx
“If you don’t Twitter just skip this. Or if you do. Either way really.” http://is.gd/l0a4
Times Online: “[UK] Information Commissioner Richard Thomas warns of surveillance culture.” http://is.gd/lftC
@IanKath Twitscoop is MUCH faster to detect and drop “trends” than http://search.twitter.com. Different algorithm.
New Scientist: “Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers” http://is.gd/l9bI
@middleclassgirl @likeomg @hopeinhell @plasmaegg Yes, yes, good morning. I’m about the write a blot post explaining the #fisting thing.
Emerges. With some slight amount of trepidation.
Exhausted. [exit]
@jeffsonstein Um, yes, I do seem to have created a monster with the #fisting thing. http://is.gd/lcSH
RT @viveka: This #fisting is making me thirsty. Funny thing is, I *assumed* that @stilgherrian had started it. [Oh, ta.]
@SnarkyPlatypus It’s. Not. My. Fault. Well, it is. But, um… oh, I don’t know, it’s going crazy! #fisting
I cannot keep up with the rate of messages coming back at me now. Apologies if I’m slow to respond, or not at all.
@mopedronin Oh add away! :) I am somewhat disturbed by the success of the #fisting actually.
RT @twinfo: #twopular: @stilgherrian is now the top retweeted person for trend ‘#fisting’: http://twopular.com/tren…
@vardenrhode If it wasn’t 7.45pm at the end of a long fnord Friday, I’d try to define Discorida in a single tweet, yes. But I can’t now.
@kimberleighs Um, oops. “Vilkage” is a typo for “Village”, by which I mean my local village of Enmore. Maybe I need a Glossary… ;)
@ragnarok1971 Good God, Sir! You know (I think) how much I despise the strip generally, let alone during Compulsory Cliché Faggot Season!
@kcarruthers Yes, that’s Gnaomi. http://twurl.nl/iqxsnd She’s famous and in much demand.
@vardenrhode How many Erises are there? All hail Discordia.
@kimberleighs yes, Fu Man Chu has a great rep. But I think I might have dinner back in the Vilkage. Or not. Beer before decisions.
@barrysaunders @voirol @GarryMunro You are all of one mind, Gentlemen! “Have another”, indeed. :P
I am finishing at Darlinghurst now. I will have ONE beer at the Green Park. What should I do after that?
@Nickhodge @CameronCollie @barrysaunders As always, Wikipedia is your friend. Even without underwear. http://is.gd/l4fm
Oh FFS that man can can talk the hind legs off an elephant!
So, the offline diagnostics show no errors, but when save the log file you say you can’t detect the USB key. Notice any inconsistency, hmmm?
@middleclassgirl You may call me “Harmony” too. :P
@middleclassgirl Yes, dear, you’re wonderful and oh so special are you happy now excellent now go away kthxbai.
ROFL! It’s performing “Self Discovery”! Isn’t that usually done with crystals and incense, led by a tie-dye-clad woman named “Harmony”?
@ZebraBites I’m doing a full firmware and low-level driver upgrade on an HP Proliant running Windows Server 2003. Hardware diagnostics next.
@ZebraBites It’s the right direction only if this computer is not in, say, Arabic. Which it isn’t. I think.
My previous tweet may or may not explain why I just followed @AFTRS simply because @SilkCharm said so.
Watching a blue bar get slowly longer, rightwards. It’s not the first for the afternoon. It’s far from the last.
RT @jonseymour: Outbreak of unwarranted optimism in comments to @coljac’s New Matilda piece: http://bit.ly/CgXzF
RT @coljac: A timely reminder of the evils of #nocleanfeed, which as it happens, is still official Government policy: http://bit.ly/s4v1a
@coljac Yes, a bit bizarre: this whole thing is based on just a few vague lines of “policy”. #nocleanfeed
@timothygrey Agree that coffee at the Bunker in Darlinghurst is good, but I’m stopping coffee in the afternoons. My doctor says… etc.
@BiteTheDust The train to Newcastle would be a lovely journey but a challenge for Next G reception. They should put a microcell on trains.
Arrived at Darlinghurst. One client office isn’t ready for the server downtime. This a tad… disruptive.
@stufromoz Alas, yes, too far to travel. And Nurofen is likely to be… inadequate for the job. ;)
It’s Friday. I’m tired and I have a headache. I’m likely to be grumpy and impatient.
@coljac Do we have a case of people not being able to count Senate votes? #nocleanfeed
@Colgo LOL. It’s a bit like the people who think their life will finally become organised if they buy just one more organiser thingo. ;)
Sometimes I wish that instead of inventing more and more and more tools, people would USE the tools they already have to ACHIEVE something.
@NewtonMark @jeamland Alas, even ssh encryption is unlikely to speed up 15x the transfer of a .zip’d CD ISO image. ;)
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / Newtown station / King Cross station / Darlinghurst client’s office.
@renailemay Is “having a really positive internal meeting” a euphemism for something? It sounds like “added fibre for regularity”.
@terryworld A meaningful bio (or not) is a BIG factor for me deciding whether to follow back. I have a LOT/per day, so the decision’s fast.
@jeamland I was also thinking SSH could be faster than HTTP if there was a dodgy transparent HTTP proxy in the middle. “I’ve been Conroyed!”
@jeamland Would routing differences really explain 15x speed difference? Mind you, would HTTP vs SSH?
@JonoH BTW, I was impressed with Next G on the road to Yass. Only significant drop-out was in hills just before Yass, which was expected.
@JonoH Weird, tho, I get 15x faster pipe from HP t my US server, then still that 15x from that server to m in SYD. SSH faster than HTTP?
Did I mention that Theodore Roosevelt was in my dream last night? I’m trying to remember what he wanted me to do.
RT @iain_chalmers: “Unique Oz visitors” can easily exceed 22m in webstats… me on my phone, me at work, me on the laptop, many mes!
@mpesce A little from column A, a little from column B.
Dear CGU, Disclaimer says only “intended recipient” may do stuff. It’s addressed “Dear Sir or Madam”. Who’s the intended recipient? Morons.
Dear CGU, Disclaimer says I can’t reproduce info without permission. I need to print the form to fill it in. Do I have permission? Morons.
Dear CGU, Disclaimer says I can only use information in email with your permission. Do I have permission? Otherwise can’t read it. Morons.
Dear CGU Workers Compensation, don’t send me stuff by email unless I can reply by email, you lazy cunts.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis fatigué, mais heureux, après une longue et épuisante semaine. Et dans Les Pays de l’Ornithorynque?
RT @RodneyOlsen: The Australian Government is giving us some money. Let’s Give It Away. http://www.letsgiveitawa…
RT @antibullshit: Dad makes son read the Geneva Conventions before being allowed to play Call of Duty. http://is.gd/l8je
@themediaisdying @kcarruthers Agreed, we’re consuming (and making!) more media than ever, just less interested in the factory-made product.
@cowspanker “Unique Oz visitors to news sites” can hardly become more than the 21.5M population of the country, though. Wobbly stats.
@themediaisdying “The Media” doesn’t see Qiking Thanksgiving Dinner to Aunt Maud in Cincinnati IS media too, only looks at its own needs.
@themediaisdying “The media” isn’t dying, only industrial-age media ops. New media and its long tail grows rapidly. 24 hours in humans’ day.
Emerges. WIth loud felines.
After a long day. Energy fades fast. [exit]
There’s an ambulance outside The Bank Hotel already. Night’s off to a good start.
@velvetsarah The 25+ club in Perth? I think it’s called the WA Branch of the Liberal Party. Oops.
@firstdogonmoon Yes, apparently you are a Twitterwhore. A beautifully-formed and highly sexy one, but a Twitterwhore nonetheless. Marry me.
If true, Microsoft should be fucking well ashamed of themselves. Being a lesbian is “offensive”? http://is.gd/kQ6K Hat-tip @stewartheys.
@firstdogonmoon Hasn’t anyone told you? The entire universe is a “clever simulcra”. Especially you. And me. And @stephenconroy.
@deconstructo No, the man who had a friend named Adam did not sound cranky. It was more disbelief at the Authorities’ incompetence.
@abcmarkscott Good to see you on Twitter, Sir! You have a challenging time ahead!
@BrynAU Some folk liked my first attempt, tho it was better live. http://is.gd/4vNu
RT @seijaku0: Conversation I heard on the train a couple of days ago. Man to woman “the restraining order wasn’t gonna stop me from you”…
@BrynAU Glad you like my little observations. I plan to do some more liveblog observationals soon.
I suspect these guys need to work on their opsec. Amd their personal hygeine.
Further explanation: “Coke’s not all that expensive at the moment. Adam’s got plenty of supplies. So whatever you want.”
Listening to another passenger explain how “they fucked up all the paperwork for me bail”.
OK, time to wend my way home to the village, using electric tubeworms as appropriate. Kings Cross on a Friday night. Erk. Wish me luck.
@vardenrhode I will indeed contribute a Thought in the morning my time.
@vardenrhode Alas, your definition focuses on one element, rather than finding the core. An important element, tho.
There’s something rather appropriate about mis-typing “Discordia”. http://is.gd/l4wn
RT @GarryMunro: The main purpose of holding children’s parties is to remind yourself that there are kids more awful than your own!
@JonoH Ah no, the point was that I wasn’t bothering to try to sum it up in 140 chars because I’m too tired. :P
@JonoH Um, yes, I am familiar with all that, given that I’m a Discordian myself. :) All hail Eris!
@kimberleighs There IS a Danish restaurant on Enmore Rd called The Gourmet Viking, but their food looks remarkable boring.
@Nickhodge Sorry, are you accusing me of making sense? FFS, what’s WRONG with you, man?
I am following the majority advice.
@SnarkyPlatypus Gratuit nourriture et de boisson? Très souvent, il s’agit d’Une Autoroute de l’Enfer! http://is.gd/l0Bk
The Digital Liberty Coalition has a new “official” Twitter feed at @DLC_AU. Beginner’s mistake: no URL to their website in the bio! Duh.
Another new follower: Bio is a link to a promotional website and nothing else, only 2 tweets are both links to the site too. Fuck off.
@wolfcat The mystery is why a computer on a 65W power supply would blow a 150W inverter. Has electricity changed since I was at school?
@wolfcat Indeed, @Nickhodge and I agreed that staying with 12V from car to MacBook Pro seemed more likely to succeed.
Also noting the stupidity of auto-follows on word-matching. The other day I said I don’t like rockabilly. So a rockabilly robot follows me.
Looking thru a bunch of new Twitterfollowers, noting how few said anything about themselves, meaning I’m unlikely to follow back.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai été inquiet au sujet de vous. Vous avez été un ornithorynque invisible! Comment vas-tu?
@BiteTheDust The Ustream video dropped out when we switched cells, but that’s because it timed out before Next G had finished its thing.
@BiteTheDust Yass is hardly “exotic” nor “remote”, but we had very good Next G reception almost all the way from Sydney.
@wolfcat I remember your warning about inverters, but they were all working OK. For a while. And then they died.
Emerges. Today’s alarm-conspirators were the cats, a persistent currawong and a particularly aggressive honeyeater.
I. Am. Exhausted. Thanks to everyone I should be thanking, which I’ll do in some sensible way on Saturday. [exit]
@HappySinger Here’s a nice summary of how “what The Rabbit-Proof Firewall is meant to block” has changed over time. http://is.gd/kWjv
@DDsD It’s possible you said hi to Apollo rather than Artemis, they look very similar at a distance. http://is.gd/kWiZ
@Nickhodge Indeed, Artemis is usually very reticent about ANYONE giving her attention. http://is.gd/h76Y
@Nickhodge Um, please be rewording your previous tweet http://is.gd/kW2X kthxbai.
@Mr_Internets Your evil father didn’t tell you about #poltech? Hmmm… But then I’VE been talking about for days. Catch up, boy!
Home.
Oi! Live in moments, you slack things! Pay Attention to me!
Plinkies on!
OK, “Stilgherrian Live Road Trip” about to go live at http://is.gd/kJgT #rtyass
There’s limited battery power, but there shall be video very soon.
@seancarmody I would subscribe to your newsletter but the link ir brnken.
Twitpic. Twitpic. Twitpic. Bah! Whatever happened to IMAGINATION?
Watching a fat chick being photographed hugging giant concrete merino testicles, and laughing. She was a Christian, says @Nickhodge.
Heading north out of Canberra in that red thing belonging to @Nickhodge.
@longzheng The penetration of Internet is Australia is 2nd in world, but the speed is… well, please wind the handle faster. ;) #poltech
@smperris @plasmaegg Yes, the Parliament House Wi-Fi went bad, so “danzig” is the hotspot by me and Telstra Next G [insert pimpage].
@willemrt Yes, one you’ve bought the product, everything is about cutting costs. Their costs.
Noting that downloading updated driver CDs from HP’s support website is unspeakable slow. Surely a huge company can afford fatter pipes?
@CADbloke Ah! The “converter” is what I’d have called an “adapter”. Ye, we’d decided to go that way next time. We have Learned a Lesson.
RT @CADbloke: Laptops are natively DC, so are cars (both run on batteries). Inverter: DC-AC, laptop PS:AC-DC. Converter: car DC - laptop DC.
@CADbloke Sorry, you’re differentiating between an “inverter” and a “DC converter”? Please explain!
Fri plan: 0830 record podcast interview; clear 2 days of accumulated cruft; 1300-1700 HP server diagnostics at Darlinghurst client; escape!
Talking about inverters is possibly the most boring thing I’ve had to do all week. ;) Isn’t this what we invented electricians for?
@iain_chalmers But it’s not the 65W power supply that died, it was the 150W inverter. Three of them.
@Mediamum 24 March is Ada Lovelace Day. http://findingada.com/ I pre-recorded an interview for that. #ALD09
@franksting When was the last time you pursued an engagement model with your mother?
@franksting Facebook is “pursuing an engagement model”? LOL! You mean “talking with people”?
@Mediamum No, we were in Yass for only 3 hours on Wednesday. The video we shot will be online on 24 March.
Can has electricity? #poltech
Liveblogging has begun from the Politics & Technology Forum at http://is.gd/k
Arriving Parliament House, Canberra. I can smell the democracy.
@GreenJ Ill be starting the liveblog from just before 9am. We’re about to leave the hotel and head up to the hill.
Thu plan: breakfast @kcarruthers; liveblog from Politics & Technology Forum http://is.gd/k
@ApostrophePong That white powder keeps me fit and healthy, the lithe and athletic creature that I am.
Emerges. OK, even in a Canberra hotel @ApostrophePong takes the camera into the toilet. FFS! Hurry up! Hurry up!
Emerges. Even in a Canberra hotel, @ApostrophePong has the camera in the toilet. Hurry up! Hurry up!