The Twilight Report

Your Home For Snappy Repartee

“They should make Lego City Demolition Derby. This is more or less what Undercover devolves into anway.”
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“Also, they all say Luigi is #1 and year of the Luigi and such, but they have all been playing new smb instead of dark moon. think about it.”
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“Now that I have all my hats Nintendo sends me little green men who I am pretty sure could kick some slime.”
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“Just asked an actual Russian for where the nooklar wessles.”
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patapsco valley state park chimney

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颐和园 window shapes

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“What do you do when the video on skype doesn't work and the audio on google hangout is too laggy?”
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颐和园 by the lake

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颐和园 detail

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天坛

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dunes 炖煌

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I think we should print this.
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白马寺

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西安 park building detail

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ad in china

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“The version that came with squeeze was more fun and made it feel like there were eight CPUs.”
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“Version of xosview that comes with wheezy makes my single CPU with four real threads and four hyper threads look like a single CPU again.”
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“First two weeks of March next year in Sydney :)”
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mogao caves doorway detail

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“Returned to Maryland safe and sound.”
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“At IAD next stop PEK.”
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“The frenemy of my frenemy is my frenemy.”
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“First Squeeze -> Wheezy upgrade, thankfully without the sort of regret that accompanies an Ubuntu upgrade.”
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“For a pacifist, Fortress Maximus has more guns than I have ever seen on a Transformer.”
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“Achievement Unlocked(?) I have never seen Windows Explorer consume 10GB of memory before.”
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saturday evening

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“Got my shots, ready to go to China!”
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fish

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“It seems like every third addition to CPAN now a days has the description "lightweight web framework"”
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“Awesome when people start having random and unrelated conversations on your defect in bugzilla.”
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“Why does eating ribs make my nose itch?”
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“I predict the next big thing will be "Two Point Oh 2.0", or put another way, "3.0".”
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“We just got back from the farmers market in Silver Spring.”
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“Aint nothing better than jalapeno jam on jalapeno bread.”
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“Watching Doctor Who on BBCA sucks due to comercials.”
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“Achievement unlocked: ssh over serial via socat + kvm/libvirt”
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“Guy in the cube adjacent to mine smells like cat food.”
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“This is only part 1? Oh no, how many parts are there?”
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“Man that model train is totally going to get demolished by that earthquake.”
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“This bad disaster movie wants to be 24, which I didn't like either.”
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“Half watching bad TV programs on Netflix while programming is vaguely reminiscent of half watching Nik at Nite while programming as a kid.”
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“After watching a couple of old Steven King TV miniseries, http://tvtropes.org is my new favorite website. Coincidence, I am sure.”
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“The Google Reader Competitor Industry seems ill-prepared for Google Reader's departure. Seems hard to believe that nobody is using it.”
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“Springer without chrome ware -- does one exist?”
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“Congrats to his popiness. Can we stop talking about it now?”
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“Legacy is the new replacement.”
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“So that turned out to be a wussy storm.”
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“I just discovered I have a mess of mp3s in Amazon from CDs I purchased there years (decades?) before they even had a cloud player.”
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“With the one man helming both Star Wars 7 and Star Trek 11, 12 is mixing sci fi metaphores as big a faux pas as it used to be?”
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“Who do I loath more, Red Hat for making a crappy distro, or CentOS for making it affordable for organizations?”
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former workplaces

On NPR today they went at pains several times to say that there are two types of company's on the Internets, those that know they have been compromised and those that don't know they have been compromised yet, on account of the story about the Chinese military hacking US companies and government. Given the penchant for my previous employer (NetCon[1]) to use the company name as the root password I would put them in the latter category.




  1. not the companies real name, but feel free to add it to the list of passwords to use when you are ssh bombing my web server
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“Enjoying a slow tour through House of Cards (US) though Kevin Spacey is Urquhart Lite after watching the original.”
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“Here is a pro tip: do not try to catch a falling cactus.”
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“Recommended not speeding on MD-200 as it is crawling with cops. That guy in the ginormous pick up that sped by me this morning knows.”
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“My kingdom for a spoon! The office has only forks and knives not quite simpatico with my desire to consume my rice puddin'.”
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“upgraded my servers from Perl 5.14.1 to 5.16.2, which must mean 5.18 is due out soon.”
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“Economist describes Perl as "small" and "elegent" in obit for Aaron Schwartz. Erm...”
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“Happy Approaching Arbitrary Passage Of Somewhat Lengthy Period Of Time.”
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“Only 359 more mortgage payments left to go...”
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“Also unexpected white Christmas is unexpected.”
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“Just managed to get my Thinkpad to drive new Dell U3011 at 2560x1600 and have to pause for a minute to appreicate massive number of pixels”
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“evening.traffic http://instagr.am/p/TWqxczkoEy/
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“after.work http://instagr.am/p/TWqZakkoER/
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“Going to file "refactor our bugzilla" under "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" department.”
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“Of course it's not on Netflix. Netflix sucks.”
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“Comcast's live chat reminds me of Douglas Adams Genuine People Personalities on the Heart of Gold.”
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“Remember robot points?”
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“My new neighbor says he has a zen attitude about comuting, but then he works fror home so...”
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“new.floor http://instagr.am/p/S86E0rkoPM/
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“Everyone is the only one to have a balanced plan and everyone is above average.”
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“House looks great with new floors and paint and a few minoa repairs so focus on the positive.”
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“I think the seller of our new house had his wired crossed. This would account for all the crossed wires in our house. #JoeHomeOwner
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“Not crazy about the Wii U's frequent and time consuming updates.”
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“Please no more stories about the Royals ever. Thanks.”
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