Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19

• And so begins out 3rd anniversary (not that it's the third time, but it's close enough to out wedding date) NYC Espresso Expedition. #
• Love that our Megabus driver was talking smack about Boltbus. Megabus wins. #
• Eight coffee shops (and nine shots of spro) later and we're rewarding ourselves with delicious diner grub. Thoroughly caffeinated but tired. #
• If the people filing into this Iron Maiden concert are any indication, I could never fit in among metal fans. #
• 10 espressos throughout the day then a 2 hour bumpy Megabus ride do not a good trip home make. #
• This just in: The rise of the jumper colon: http://is.gd/dqHxB (via @The_Millions) #
• The first chapter of my thesis is written in the style of Lovecraft, the second like Vonnegut, and the last like Dan Brown. http://iwl.me/ #
• I went to Web 2.0 Suicide Machine my LinkedIn profile only to find this: http://twitpic.com/251exy #
• I cannot, no matter how I try, get @ibogost's latest blog post to open. #
• My wife is trying to convince me that this would be an unwise purchase but I'm not sold yet: http://is.gd/dr1dW #
• Take that, MBAs: http://is.gd/dr1rB But really, he's usually much harsher on humanities departments than anything. #
• Down to 100 subscriptions in my reader. Freer and freeer. #
• Somehow I've lost a blog post draft I've been working on for a week. WordPress isn't my friend today. #BackupFailure #
• RT @PasteMagazine: RIAA Spends $58M Pursuing Music Pirates, Gets 2% Back http://bit.ly/cBc2KE #
• Just found out I'm teaching at 8 and 10 this coming semester after assuming I'd have the afternoon. Hello more coffee! #
• Brinner! #
• Like I said, brinner. http://twitpic.com/25c2yu #
• #ebz That's a very personal question. They don't ask you if you're really meat. http://fallenlondon.com/c/154705 #
• I just got the CAPTCHA challenge of "and Epaulet." CAPTCHA believes that my shoulders are too unadorned. #
• Netflix's first three suggestions for me today were Mel Gibson movies. Who do they think I am? #
• Good news for emerging technology or bad news for autonomous pedagogy? http://is.gd/dt2HZ #
• RT @ProfHacker: New at ProfHacker: @briancroxall offers "Six Ways to Make Adjuncting More Effective and Fulfilling": http://bit.ly/9Auiqa #
• On LMS choices and WordPress plugins: http://is.gd/dt7yV #
• I installed Evernote yesterday. I'm not yet convinced. #
• Hey! Happy birthday Jacques Derrida! He would have been 80 today. Sorry, Jacques, that I didn't properly celebrate. #
• RT @nowviskie: open-access e-filing of your diss does NOT lessen the chances it'll be picked up as a book. #
• Has Fredric Jameson always been a professor of French or is PMLA 124.5 lying? #
• Mississippi finds Terry Gross too inappropriate for the airwaves: http://is.gd/duz8z #
• If you really want to spend $1k on me, here you go: http://is.gd/duNle #
• Alas, my wife is away for a week. Must be time to pack and write–but mostly pack. #
• Of course, being generally terrible at packing, I'm only allowed to pack up my books so it shouldn't be too bad. #
• And with that, I'll cease my tales of lonliness and #banality #
• RT @espn: Tour de France: Former doper Alexandre Vinokourov wins Stage 13 – http://is.gd/dvQIH // Why the harsh lede, ESPN? #
• So tell me, what should I pursue in #ebz #
• #ebz the Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! mangy as a goat! mad as a bat! http://fallenlondon.com/c/158647 #
• Looks like I'm going to talk about Foucault in class tomorrow morning. Get ready, KoP. #
• RT @samplereality: Seems that spammers are creating fake @zotero groups: http://bit.ly/bELlwt // Worst of all they didn't add any articles. #
• Last night I crossed the Sheetz/Wawa divide. Tonight, more adventure. #
• Or should I say, "Tonight: more adventure." #JumperColonIsAlwaysPreferred #
• #ebz Some say the Rose is a vicious, fanged flower that will bite anyone who gets too close. Some say … http://fallenlondon.com/c/160077 #
• 22 students have already signed up for my classes. I'd feel something if the prof. listed wasn't TBA. Hi, I'm Prof. TBA. #
• Better living through espresso: http://is.gd/dxkd5 #
• I've begun to discount articles that include the phrase "At the end of the day." Fair? Probably not. But at the end of the day, that's that. #
• So a quick search leaves me wiki-gardening for a good 45 minutes. #

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