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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01

Posted by Mike on April 1st, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-25

Posted by Mike on March 25th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-18

Posted by Mike on March 18th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

  • In Newport with my brother and sisters for my mom's birthday #fb http://t.co/JmSfAnp1 #
  • Submitted my 2nd patch to WordPress core. It's just a wording change, but it's been causing headaches for me: http://t.co/SFauunwe #
  • On the train back to Philly, doing some @webdevstudios work, and enjoying the intermittent wifi #
  • @ericandrewlewis In hiring people, I found a drive for ongoing self-improvement mattered more than having a CS degree in reply to ericandrewlewis #
  • Shashin 3.1.4 fixes the annoying activation issue, and fixes a Fancybox bug with Firefox http://t.co/gOR0JxU9 #
  • Trying to decide if it's worth $5 to see @williamsba at the Philly WordPress Meetup Tues, talking about multi-site ;-) http://t.co/WYG1h0FQ #
  • "losing 1 hour of sleep/night for a week causes cognitive degradation equivalent to a .10 blood alcohol level." http://t.co/c9xrQjJ4 #
  • Neighborhoods need a social media site for exchanging trash can lids when they blow way down the street #
  • Forgot to make Eidan a "kiss me I'm 3/16 Irish shamrock," like the one Kai used to have https://t.co/dcZtg6ed #fb #
  • Americans don't like gov't spending generally, but they like every spending program; same is true for regulations http://t.co/jq0d6vQd #fb #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-11

Posted by Mike on March 11th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

  • On the Bolt Bus to NYC with @williamsba for a meeting with @LearningTimes – enjoying the wifi! #
  • Just pushed fixes for Shashin and Toppa Plugin Libraries to http://t.co/Gi0D4ZfY. Solves the new site install bug in Shashin 3.1 #
  • Just wrapped up a 7 1/2 hour conversation on all the great enhancements we're going to make to BadgeStack http://t.co/CsFNM0NE #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-04

Posted by Mike on March 4th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

Watch Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー), Right Now

Posted by Mike on March 1st, 2012 in Japan and Travel, TV, Movies, & Music

If you might like a movie that is equal parts…

  • Memento: but instead of the story unfolding in reverse, it unfolds in a completely jumbled sequence, going from 2012, to 1982, to 2009, to 1975, and then back to 2012. If you’re like me and you enjoy a movie that calls for your active mental participation, and you appreciate the movie maker’s attention to detail in making all the threads of a story mesh together, then this won’t be a problem for you.
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil: except instead of a story about a briefly famous band that falls into obscurity, the band in this story, Gekirin, goes from obscurity to oblivion. They write a punk song in 1975 that is ahead of its time, that almost no one appreciates, but ultimately is the key to saving the world (yes, punk rock can save the world, and fortunately, they actually wrote a great track for the movie).
  • Armageddon: in 2012, the destruction of life on earth by asteroid is imminent. Last ditch attempts to save humanity, involving space ships and nuclear warheads, are involved. If you’re wondering what a forgotten punk rock song from the 70s has to do with saving the earth from an asteroid 37 years later, well you’ll just have to watch the movie!
  • The Karate Kid and Power Rangers: a young man who isn’t sure why his father forced him to endlessly practice martial arts as a child finally finds his purpose.
  • High Fidelity: the cool record store owner in this movie has the same encyclopedic knowledge of music as John Cusack’s character, but his sadness does not come from girl troubles.
  • If You Give a Pig a Pancake: (which is a children’s book, not a movie) after watching Fish Story, Maria was talking about causality, conditionality, and contingicies, but all I could think of was this book. Each step in the story makes sense by itself, but they all add up to a crazy spectrum of events.

    • …then you will enjoy Fish Story. It’s available on Netflix streaming. There’s also a doomsday cult, a bitter old man, a brilliant mathematician, a hostage situation, and a love story, but I ran out of movie analogies. I encourage you to not read any plot summaries before watching it – a lot of the fun is watching the story unfold, as it definitely does not follow a predictable plot line. But I will share with you a bit of the review from Lost Turnable, which explains what makes it a good movie:

    Although the idea of Fish Story is more than a little silly, its conceit is not. At its heart, Fish Story is about how music can connect with people and change their lives in unexpected and amazing ways. It shows how music can give us courage and hope, and challenge us to make ourselves and those around us better. It shows how a song, a stupid little song that almost no one in the world knows about, can drastically affect and change for the better the lives of people who have never even heard it. And when you think of it like that, it’s not hard to imagine that a song could, somehow, actually save the world someday.

    Unlike modern American movie trailers that summarize the whole movie for you, the Japanese trailer for it gives you a sense of the movie without giving away the story (with subtitles).

    View at YouTube

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26

Posted by Mike on February 26th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

  • Arrived in DC yesterday – looking forward to meeting up with @hakjoon and @jjmedusa today #
  • A picture of the boys outside the Smithsonian today. They enjoyed the Natural History and Air & Space Museums http://t.co/j6gHKVAX #
  • Argh! Shashin was just removed from the http://t.co/Gi0D4ZfY repository, because of a license conflict with the included Highslide viewer. #
  • Until I can resolve the problem with http://t.co/Gi0D4ZfY, you can still download Shashin from GitHub https://t.co/IqJJZAHR #
  • @zamoose It uses a creative commons license. I've had it in the repo with Shashin for 5 years. I forgot all about the license difference. in reply to zamoose #
  • Fish Story: a movie about how punk rock saves the world, literally. A true joy to watch. On Netflix streaming. Review: http://t.co/QFPZGlxz #
  • I thought @ericandrewlewis was cryptically teasing me, but we both just happened to tweet about fish related movies at almost the same time #
  • @jason_coleman good article, but it's ironic that the author's site has 2 ad overlays and a really annoying vibrating ad at the top in reply to jason_coleman #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19

Posted by Mike on February 19th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-12

Posted by Mike on February 12th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

  • Looks like there is a "Mr. Toppa Toppa" who is a reggae producer – Toppas are everywhere ;-) http://t.co/H4yzmK9r #fb #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05

Posted by Mike on February 5th, 2012 in Mike on Twitter

  • Finally got the NoMeansNo Tour EP 2. This song is a little masterpiece – song: http://t.co/rSWsnVNZ – lyrics: http://t.co/GtwwLueW #fb #
  • Great interview – Luke covers a lot of usability topics – RT @lukew: Thinking about mobile? I think this will help: http://t.co/gTfLCkO8 #
  • Writing code fast and messy will ultimately slow your project to a crawl. This cartoon explains it perfectly http://t.co/h3TuSbqV #
  • RT @Jtsternberg: http://t.co/9Fzk2aKu – amazing letter from a former slave, replying to his former master's request to come back #fb #
  • Wow, I didn't know the Muppets did press conferences – Fox News should know better than to mess with Miss Piggy http://t.co/bai8QTBb #
  • I need to figure out how to work back near Penn occasionally, so I can satisfy my craving for a Hemo's chicken sandwich http://t.co/ZjtDQ6ii #
  • RT @jtsternberg This video made my day! http://t.co/p3hM8Ny7 #fb – mine too #
  • Just responded to another batch of Shashin support requests. I deserve a prize, or some donations (cough, cough) http://t.co/1Orx8brr #
  • The boys & I have been re-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I mean the amazing anime series, not the awful movie http://t.co/ZQkYkpmQ #fb #
  • @speno for the kids we kept it simple – some onigiri had shiso salt and others had green tea salt. For the teachers, we used saury fish in reply to speno #
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