August 2009
18 posts
Hey, kids: writing drunk makes you thinkz up mroe stuffs
It’s six o’clock. Do you know where this voice is coming from?
This is like the opposite of a committed relationship: I reveal all my craziness right away, and it doesn’t matter.
Networking by search term is like eating by dry weight. Not exactly the whole story.
Thought I was meeting with an orthopedist, turned out to be an orthoepist. Am articulate now, but my foot still hurts.
Behold the “pro blogger”: half blogger, half pro’.
Does anyone know a desktop widget that lets you count down from a number? Not a timed countdown, a manual one. (?)
Middle ages, middle passage, middle earth, middle man, midfielder, midnight.
Oh, don’t worry. That was only the most important moment if your life. Seriously, don’t sweat it.
Oh, stop. Don’t give me those retweet eyes.
Barack Obamalamabobama. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Twitter is the counterinsurgency.
Paid $10.66 again at the supermarket. Expecting eye-gouging any day now.
Twitter search & derivatives thereof have become my first stop for breaking news.
Tools are boring. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them awl.
Conclusion: #_sycophants is in all cases inversely proportional to #_thoughtful_opinions.
Thanks for all the fish! And by fish, I mean #ff. And by thanks, I mean this tweet not legally binding in Kazakhstan.
Twitter is Eliot’s “unreal city.”
July 2009
303 posts
Vegas is a kind of voluntary exile.
The story of thorn. Or, why “ye olde” is a misspelling. http://tr.im/t2xe
Being a medievalist means casually dropping obsolete pronouns in everyday conversation. “How are þu—What? I said how are you?”
Being a medievalist is kind of like being both-handed. —What, there’s an actual word for that? Oh screw it, it’s Greek.
And thus begins the early evening lull. *crickets*
If life is a mineshaft of love, what the heck is love? A mineshaft of mineshafts?
#artchat will begin shortly, to be guest hosted this week by @mergyeugnau.
Never underestimate a chimpanzee’s left hook.
Never underestimate my ability to remember something or other.
Tomorrow’s #artchat will be guest hosted by the gracious @mergyeugnau.
We’re only a few months away from the first rapper to rhyme about how big he is on Twitter.
That’s a nice shirt! Or as boring people say, “Blah blah blah blah!”
Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet? http://tr.im/uCRx (via @cfbearden @clioweb) Psychol. try to defend their turf.
The sheer coolness of re-expanding “o’clock” to “of the clock” is totally worth the extra effort.
Retweeting @nytimes is like making a mildly disparaging comment about someone after you curse them out.
Am looking for a guest host for tomorrow’s #artchat. @ me if interested.
The perils of being a medievalist: when you crack a particularly clever joke, people think you just can’t spell.
Being cleverer than everyone I underestimate is a full-time job.
Speech as publication: on translating Beowulf 259 http://tr.im/ullM
Btw, wtf? Omg!
“Listen! We heard the past magnificence/ of the Spear Danes, princes among princes—”
A red hill hunkers down somewhere in Texas.
Why Twitter is already monetized, and what you can do about it http://tr.im/ugQ2
“Rabbit rabbit” is adequate, but let’s diversify. On the 15th: “mole mole;” on the 31st: “burmese python burmese python.”
Imagine this country without the farce that is a two-party political system. Whoever would we dream of mutilating?
Speech as publication: on translating Beowulf 259 http://tr.im/ullM
I’m sad to get plagiarized, but even sadder to see it done in such shoddy fashion.
Um, I’ve just been ripped off by @CrisBrown. Original article: http://tr.im/ugQ2 Reworded ripoff: http://tr.im/uj6X
I’ll be posting snippets from my Beowulf translation from time to time. Feel free to shoot me comments.
Twitter is already monetized http://tr.im/ugQ2
I just took “What Work of Literature Are You?” and got “The Norton Anthology of Shut the Fuck Up Already!”
Pop rock: because intelligent lyrics and original melodies are too hard anyway