@jzy tell @nathanbowers about your Fightin' Whities t-shirt!! http://tinyurl.com/db752r

@nathanbowers notice how the outsourced comments are a disgusting canker sore on that Table of Awesoments. Ugh. Hideous.

@jonesinator @ezrahn the bug they fixed caused our db server not to boot this morning! so, yes, updating RAID bios is important!

@jmbucknall no, that bug is new to IE8. Switching to IE7 rendering mode "fixes" it. Try it yourself on so.com

@mabster huge bug in IE8, sadly, see prev twitter msg http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/1398149526

@FrancescoRizzi thanks for pointing it out -- great compliment for stackoverflow! http://tinyurl.com/c7qdoc

@jasonpunyon the slide comments contain SOME of the text, if you download the .pptx file

@kevindente one day I *will* learn English. This is my promise to you!

@dubina dug up this link, which provides reasonable evidence that English is *not* in fact a hard language to learn: http://is.gd/pFgI

@braddunbar I agree that Amazon S3 pricing is a good (if rough) barometer of fair market value for bandwidth / storage / etc

@graemebradbury I have never owned a plant that screamed and pooped every two hours before. Clearly I am shopping at the wrong greenhouses.

@secretGeek you have no idea; the problem with making things fun and gamelike is that some people take the game a bit.. too.. seriously

@shanselman at what age do I get to the "I'd throw my wife under a bus for my kid" mindset, as per your blog? Not feeling it. At all.

@nathanbowers any self-respecting geek would have changed his name to Nathan Bowser by now http://images.google.com/images?q=bowser

@jzy I like Hiyoooo! better http://www.hiyoooo.com/

@jzy get a bidet? If it's good enough for Google(tm)(r)(c) it should be good enough for your azn bum. http://is.gd/pA09

@wilshipley what area of SF is "your" new house in, exactly?

@nathanbowers speaking of "phallic baldwin" http://tinyurl.com/3j4y4

@conceptdev I emailed cnprog, inspiration is fine but they have to LOOK different; can't have confusion about who is who

@jeffhandley inspiration is encouraged, but wholesale ripoff of StackOverflow is uncool: http://tinyurl.com/cu6qs8

@mlyngby Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack! http://tinyurl.com/68rqm3

@harmlessfraud @wilshipley the answer depends on *which* band you're a roadie for.

@wilshipley I dunno, people care more about "loading the facebooks" than the pretty hardware wrapped around it. See: netbooks.

@siracusa is so right about hearing phantom children as a parent. it's already freaking me out.

@nathanbowers great article on the Loudness War. http://tinyurl.com/cdmyzk

@spolsky I've imaged dozens of drives over the years (hdd upgrades) with no issues at all. I used Acronis last time, easy peasy one click.

@counternotions the user experience of IE8 is actually quite nice, which @nathanbowers hasn't seen because he hasn't *used* it.

@nathanbowers I suspect you haven't actually used IE8. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have, and I say it's a bigger step forward than IE7 was..

@nathanbowers do you have specific IE8 complaints? Other than lack of rounded corner CSS and stuff like canvas, it's a great release IMO.

@krelnik Stairway to Gilligan's Island is great!! http://tinyurl.com/367x35

@jongalloway nobody hates software more than software developers. It's all crap. I know because I write some of it.

@wilshipley are you gonna cry? you gonna cry? you gonna squirt some? http://tinyurl.com/cfk9ht

@nathanbowers the great difference between The Facebooks and twitter is that a) it's public and b) no more fake "friends" b.s. to deal with

@wilshipley how about a vicious paper cut?

@hotdogsladies good point. What *is* the difference between insurance and a Ponzi scheme, exactly? Other than one being legal?

@betsyphd said "nobody really likes peeps." (me: incredulous gasp)

@cshirky I dunno, 4 numbered tweets is kinda pushing it IMHO.

@stroz "The #1 reason I decided to call it quits is simply that the rest of the world is monophasic."

@donpark nope, Second Life still isn't useful. Well, except for pr0n. Rule 34. http://is.gd/o9T9

@macdevnet we wondered about twins, if it's this much of a challenge with one babby.. you'd have to be the Greatest American Hero with 2+

@lazycoder not for long. The Battleship "Enterprise" turns slowly, but it eventually follows market gravity.

@timoreilly agree, not sure why analysts can't see that Apple has *already* won the phone war so decisively that nobody else matters

@siracusa ugh. incredibly irresponsible Wii journalism http://tinyurl.com/db5gtx

@yonahw sadly, no. We will post the #mix09 podcast on blog.stackoverflow.com in 2 days, though! We are taking twitter questions.

@mstum refurbished just means no original box, etc and not perfectly pristine. Has a warranty. I've bought refurbs before. Happy with it!

@splatteredbits last time I checked, youtube / NYT / gmail / skype work the same way on a $242 netbook as they do on a $999 Mac.

@jonoabroad yes, but you lack The Windows "Genuine Advantage". How sad for you, sir. How profoundly sad.

@thetorpedodog allow me to introduce you to @rockhardawesome or as I like to call him, "The Every Three Hour Alarm Clock."

@ben_sim @rakesh314 "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued." on db. not sure why.

@nathanbowers big thumbs up on http://uxhero.com

@kevindente have you tried JavaScript? http://tinyurl.com/5kpe99

@wilshipley wow, that's a serious case of FUI. And it found my secret pr0n stash, too! http://iliarwevn.livejournal.com/56293.html

@cannonade 1) naming is *really* hard. 2) The IT site name needs to be clear and straightforward -- risk of "fix my printer" is high

@foleyisgood but if I kill the hobos, I can feed babby the delicious soup I loot from their corpses! http://is.gd/nqcR

@wilshipley the least you could do? I disagree. You could do less. Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.

@nbrosnahan your CTRL+C and CTRL+V keys ain't broken, are they? have at it! :)

@martindoms I wasn't ego-searching! it was totally random (link on Hacker News, then recent entries). I try to avoid Scobleizing too much.

@wefollow #animal #vegetable #mineral

@betsyphd just shared this reaction with me http://is.gd/nozG

@jwcarroll yep we have the Happiest Baby in the World DVD queued up at home. Have gotten several recommendations for it!

@scottherbert actually IE8 isn't bad IMO. The problem is it's not nearly good *enough*.

@wilshipley I had totally forgotten about Sex Packets http://tinyurl.com/arsj4q

@cshirky are you the bizarro Clay Shirky? Comments as tragedy of the commons? Depends how "common" your commons are.

@balsamiq thanks for the tip on your parenting blog.. is it true most parenting blogs die off in 2 years? http://www.patatamonkey.com/

@kirilnyc we had some *great* nurses here (Alta Bates in Berkeley), which made the few clunkers really stand out

@betsyphd is doing well she did a fantastic job

@spolsky so far giving birth is like combat -- hours of crushing boredom punctuated by brief, random periods of utter terror

@unclebobmartin ouch. though having now seen the maw of darkness that lies at pain level 10/10 I am not surprised.

@betsyphd just hit pain level 9/10

@superdalgas starting to see why you did a natural in-home birth.. some of the hospital procedures seem more about CYA than the patient?

@haacked @betsyphd says that's not what she wants to hear. :)

@curvyboom BABIES EVERYWHERE! YEEEAAAAH! http://tinyurl.com/zuamr

@jongalloway I definitely need to pick up a copy of that ASP.NET MVC book. The cover is amazing. http://twitpic.com/1zt30

@e_to_the_m yep, inducing was scheduled but it looks like these are real iContractions. Soon iBaby will be iBorn.

@betsyphd is using the iContraction app on her iPhone to track her .. iContractions http://is.gd/mNIn

@leeked lol, no, I mean @betsyphd is pregnant already and the labor is beginning tonight. BUT I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK!

@jwthomp I love the Aspire One; wife has one. keyboard is fine, touchpad is fine, performance is decent. Great little netbook for $242!

@lacker "can't we all just be friends" we tried that, it's called Facebook, and it sucked.

@zedshaw exactly, and this is why I wear a Run-DMC "tougher than leather" outfit at all times. http://is.gd/mHxe

@iflyhigh are you saying this because you're "flying high" right now? :)

@tlesher are you kidding me? Returning all your old clothes for refund to exploit a return policy? That's not trying, that's being a douche.

@statictony FUI -- gotcha! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001164.html

@wilshipley I thought you said you wanted to move to Redmond to be, and I quote, "near the only software company that *matters*, damn it"

@jongalloway good point. if everyone *hates* you, you are *definitely* doing something wrong.

@rsgoheen well, there is the Spark view engine, which is pretty sweet too http://dev.dejardin.org/

@mabster it's unpleasant, in both senses of the word, but the manager has to talk to them about their.. smell. It was a cultural issue too.

@marcoarment wow -- quite a compliment, thanks! Also, +1 Pepper from ElectricLarryLand. http://www.marco.org/84901305

@eschaton there is something other than Windows?

@wilshipley if you do not bring your Medieval Madness pinball table with you, consider yourself unwelcome in the bay area

@jarrod_dixon had a crash at startup prob with Visual Studio. Found solution on Stack Overflow. Recursive development ftw. http://is.gd/mD4d

@gerikson I am not dissing Hacker News, I like Hacker News! On the other hand, your momma is so fat..

@fake_francis You know what I hate? Vests.

@gvrv but I'm talking about technical details, not "you gotta have MOXIE to run a startup, kid! And by the way I own 50% of your ass!"

@jongalloway tl;dr nobody is going to read a long thread anyway. Every post should be (almost) self-contained through quoting.

@jarrod_dixon just asked me "too hacky?" to which I replied "quality doesn't matter."

@jongalloway I spent 20+ seconds staring at "loading DISQUS comments..", then 10 pages of arrow code. http://is.gd/13w0

@jongalloway because it's hard to read? Because you usually don't care about the rest of the tree? Because relevant stuff is quoted anyway?

@wilshipley (insert brokeback mountain joke here). also, SEXIST

@migueldeicaza tl;dr

@jmcecil well, my wife @betsyphd liked it, and she didn't know the material.. so overall, I think, Watchmen was a success