MT @ealdent: "…every [Apple] news article shows a picture of Steve Jobs, sometimes I'm not sure if he's actually dead" – so, iDolatry? # My advisor, uh, seems to be competing in "natural language processing idol" at #naacl2012 ?! @asayeed @CindiThompson #whyaminotinmontreal # Awesome: 1890 gravestone on SFO beach > genealogy of owner > Phineas…

Fun big-data meetup with @pbrane, @johnmyleswhite, & others. @stormprocessor got shout-out, & http://t.co/uy980E4Y. Nifty! #

Heartbreaking loss for the Throttle Rockets in the very last jam. But who'd've thought I'd be mistaken for Prince at the afterparty? # phoneticians & praat-icians: bop to this catchy video to practice transcribing ingressives & clicks http://t.co/D8idVsD8 via @angryzenmaster # Time-lost gender-bent Cyberman guerilla reinserting into 1921 Reality Prime via @bruces < Wired <…

http://t.co/BtRYfLT2 # wow, this yak's gone a long time since its last shave. # "The "just speak English" policy at StackOverflow — http://t.co/1DobC8zo&quot; Seriously. Messed. Up. Via @unthinkingly # "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever http://t.co/nMn5t56U&quot; via @ealdent & @imtboo # Just bought shirts: Sportland Sportball http://t.co/dzrp5xbS and of course "Shut…

Ten minutes debating salvation with syllogistically-challenged Jesus-ers waiting for the bus; conceded to blasphemy, but only on their terms #

Whee, a day full of arguing with people I respect! #funtimesatwork # samizdat software architecture redesign. #funtimesatwork #

Previous RT links to article about mathematical separability measures by a dude named "Jeremy Kun" #Iamnotmakingthisup # Attention coders: calling a regular expression "xxx_reggie" is NOT CUTE and makes you sound like a twit. #messagestothepast # OH: "there's only two answers: either they don't know how, or they know better." #themoneyisinwhichone # I wish @nlp_class…

When you can't tell if that petite bus rider is a weird sneezer or has Tourette's. That's now, that is. # Use and Abuse of Garbage Collected Languages http://t.co/V8fERUZT — (@CompSciFact) [ Hadoop, I'm looking at you… ] #

Woo! 80% speedup by importing the "fastFoo" library instead of vanilla Foo. #badnamingprinciple #goodcodingpractice # Cool: http://t.co/CGgQn9nu tweet your CS paper. via @redpony. I agree we need this track at ACL. # Berkeley mom-focused hackerspace seeks hackers; offers child care while you hack. Cool! http://t.co/DqxenQpf # hm. @nlp_class homework is less fun when I'm skating…