@tipjoy yes, but can't *EVERYTHING* benefit from using tipjoy, when you really think about it? :)

@bradwilson what do you suggest? criticism without suggestions = fail^2

@wilshipley don't worry, nobody on twitter is paying attention, they don't have to know that you have a secret black baby, I mean, game pc

@wilshipley crap dawg, I can BUILD you a dedicated gaming PC that would *crush* the laptop for less money. Way less.

@wilshipley playing Crysis on laptop is pre-emptive fail. Just set expectations accordingly. You need a video card with its own power supply

@wilshipley well, ideally you'd start with the vista sp1 media.

@wilshipley Crysis is great. Hope you brought a 8800GTX or better to that party, though! IMO that's the minimum for the game to look awesome

@wilshipley given your recent taste in games I am almost afraid to ask. I pray it is Far Cry 2 or Crysis: Warhead.

@wilshipley Windows Vista. The native indians call it Mojave. Mmmm. Feel the, rich, luxurious OS goodness. (make sure you have SP1 btw)

@HisShadow umm, also, wtf is up with Hell House? http://chaocracy.com/blogs/ogre/archive/2007/04/16/75.aspx

@HisShadow the bad news is that we're old. the good news is that the pain will all be over soon.

@bjplink I posted about the 20 free Rock Band 2 tracks here, with YouTube links: http://is.gd/4x66 -- judge for yourself!

@haacked MICROSOFT HATES INDONESIA, this is now official and on the record. Your comments?

@hotdogsladies so sad to learn you're a slave to the UPS delivery service grind, like the common people!

@IDisposable better dynamic pluralization isn't a *useful* feature that users actually *care* about.

@TonyBunce that's the right idea -- http://tinyurl.com/63wv5w copy empty dir to target with /purge opt

@digitarius nuclear bombs wired to dead-man's switches? That is *SOOOO* Raven!

@jzy we call it "babby" atwood. Also, in related news, I found out how babby is formed. Through science.

@anildash no, Paul Boutin told me to stop blogging, so I will stop blogging. It's as simple as that, my friend.

@rkierner probably a time-based thing. Allow reply DMs from anyone you've DM'ed within 12 hours or 24 hours.

@zzamboni they need to allow DMs *from* people *you have DMed*. Such a no-brainer. Twitter adds one new feature every decade, I think.

@secretGeek it IS possible to respond to a DM from a person who doesn't follow you: http://is.gd/2QoX

@LaTtEX what about an extremely slow rep decay, like 100/month? Even that seems arbitarily unfair to people who rarely post by nature.

@wilshipley let us never speak of the iMac "puck" mouse again. I still say MSFT doesn't get enough credit for their mouse innovations.

@wilshipley Apple has a crap track record for input devices. Apple sux at mice (MightyMouse, EOD), and IMO keyboards too.

@seanbamforth holy cow, an actual *currency* with decay-over-time. Real money? I'm speechless. http://www.transaction.net/money/gc/gc01.html

@sacs it was built by "designers". of course it'll never be actually *practical*. (ducks)

@ianfnelson I was referring to those *other* Q&A sites, of course. SO users are far too intelligent to ask nonsense questions.

@jongalloway "I can't respond?" as usual, I declare victory! Of course Jon's real enemy is is time management skills, not so much me..

@hisshadow I HATE HATRED SO MUCH! GOSH!

@timbray hatred is corrosive; it rots people from the inside

@mattgrommes "you only have yourself(s) to blame" -- there, I fixed your bug for you.

@kevindente yes, but can the 2 year old pick locks? THAT'S when you start to worry.

@kevindente skymaul catalog! http://tinyurl.com/yynh7v

@josephholsten "ah, Sahib, after that it is shit all the way down." http://tinyurl.com/nqtv5

@isaiah this helps! thank you! retweet: make sure the IE7 element being faded (to other than 0% or 100%) has background-color!

@timbray per The Daily Show, the Canadian conservative party is "the equivalent of our Gay Nader Fans for Peace"?

@shanselman no, THIS is the real Obama birth certificate. http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2392/colmkbtwlaf0.gif

@senordanimal start a new one. if you email me both user page URLs I can merge accounts

@migueldeicaza @jongalloway yahoo. SHOCKING. make sure you use http://yahoo.com as your "login URL". Beyond that, clear domain cookies.

@secretGeek because bitches drink for free. http://tinyurl.com/5mhpyf

@jongalloway you are high as a kite. without adblock the world sucks. see: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000772.html

@jongalloway since 3.0.1 firefox has been pretty stable for me, but the one-process thing means I have to kill it every two days minimum.

@kevindente still, it's a good point: the price of a decent "web browser" gets lower and lower all the time.. soon, $199.

@kevindente yeah but that's $299 with linux and 4gb "hard drive", not apples to apples

@omarshahine you paid $449, what a ripoff! $379 baby! :)

@sethweiner user generated content. Take a look at our formatting vs. any other forum. We look better. Know why?

@davidkspencer Language Log is ten times the blog I will ever be. It's that good.

@carnage4life congrats!! welcome Nathan to this crazy-ass world!

@gerikson "Stack Overflow: we answer your stupid questions, so Raymond Chen doesn't have to."

@secretGeek we can't all just post a bunch of crap like you do! CRAP I SAY! CRAP!

@caseycharlton on a related note, we better hope Obama has a brother who's ready for public service

@accordionguy now works for MSFT! SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER! SHUUUN!! SHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUNNN! http://tinyurl.com/ruqv4

@jcelgin and then of course Google is always an option for searching SO, like so: http://is.gd/4eDS

@jcelgin try searching for "[c#] constructors" without the quotes, but that reminds me I need to .ToUpper() c# and c++ for them to work

@francip I don't know what you mean -- the current search is full text on the answer body + question body + question title

@nathanbowers that's good, you were the exact target audience for that tweet! galaxy rangers, d&d, bionic six, jem etc

@kevindente emitting HTML using things like Html.SubmitButton() is, IMNSHO, retarded.

@omarshahine no, I consider 2 GB the minimum amount of memory to run Vista. Memory is stupid cheap ($50 for 4 GB?) but 1.5 GB max laptop.

@lazycoder screen space issue, as much as I admire Mobile Safari, you need more than 3". Annnd.. wait for it.. THATS WHAT SHE SAID

@inxilpro *I* don't only surf the web, but lots of people, that's literally all they do. Maybe a tiny bit of light Word/Excel type stuff.

@davidmohara this is the problem with the Mercedes, eventually you turn into Pebbles, who rips off TLC for millions. It ain't right.

@bpapa that's the beauty; you don't have to. Ask and answer all day long with nary an OpenID in sight. There's no signup at all, in fact.

@kevindente I find your belief system fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

@kevindente I think it's kind of seriously dickish to criticize them shipping jQuery, which is a HUGE step forward for MSFT.

@kevindente you might as well ask if shipping software ITSELF is a good idea. It's always changing! Don't ship! Just hyperlink everything!

@alyman well, what we've got now is here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34366 but I wonder if we can do better?

@NathanBowers an unfortunate line break, I read that as ""Always pick up food from a common plate with the butt"... END OF THE CHOPSTIX

@jongalloway I hate and fear radiation! NIMBY! Hell no, we won't glow! Coal-based energy means everything smells charbroiled and AWESOME!

@migueldeicaza I'll be at PDC this year! I'll warn people about your subversive and dangerous "mono" software!

@migueldeicaza mono, that's the software created by communists, right?

@jongalloway did the Chinese prove you right? http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/09/02/225090.aspx

@parsifal thanks, I ran the user stats because we're doing a profile for the OpenID.net site

@shanselman really? that's what you're going with? blow-by-blow airport travel tweets? That's not a cliche or anything.

@issackelly oh, true, I keep forgetting Chrome has a different JS engine. Usually I think Chrome = Safari. You're right.

@kevindente you don't TRY. How hard would it be to slap together a brief blog entry or two on whenerator? Good lord man.

@kevindente .. but will it scale?(tm)

@nathanbowers there is no concept of next|prev when viewing a stack overflow question. Just FYI. There's no "order".

@sverrejoh well, that, and the fact that I have 50 website logins and I can't remember any of them http://is.gd/48sz

@hotdogsladies not a god damn thing. http://tinyurl.com/enm5r

@deadprogrammer I thought you were referring to some startup called "Plonk". Not kidding.

@lattex "not programming related??" Which part of **programmer's** mayonnaise did you not understand! I QUIT YOUR SITE YOU SUCK!

@bradwilson pff, elitist

@kevindente well, except that OpenID *isn't* required to ask or answer.. so .. er.. uh.. rage against the machine, man!

@kevindente yep, for Joe Sixpack OpenID is not a good solution. Good to see Yahoo realizes they're kind of a shitty OpenID provider as well.

@wilshipley "I really want airlines to start charging by weight" yeah, the ladies are gonna love that. Good one shipley.

@BrentO thanks for the DBA ninja help.. let's do some more later!

@andrew_myhre beached NZ whale http://tinyurl.com/484lel I am assuming those are some heavy duty NZ slang/accents in there?

@SaraJChipps even Joel thinks he's funnier than he actually is.. I on the other hand, am hilarious!

@madmanwoo I'll explain it to you the same way I explain it to all my real world friends: if you're not on friendster, YOU ARE DEAD TO ME

@cshirky the shadow of 9/11 is very, very long and Kerry was not a strong contender. At least, that's how I cry myself to sleep every night.

@NathanBowers actually according to my wife (a scientist) the most common scientific expression is "why the hell isn't this working?"

@wilshipley here's an interview with that John Hodgman clone you hate! you hate him SO MUCH! http://is.gd/3X93

@secretGeek have some Roundabout by Yes. It's an anti-wiggles. http://tinyurl.com/4avj23

@spatacoli re: chairs, visit your local Design Within Reach, and then in SF Rucker Fuller. http://is.gd/MwU

@mikearthur I had to -- literally -- mime/pretend to play the recorder as a wee lad. Couldn't hack it. Hoped music teacher couldn't hear.

@crutkas shut up, us Americans are busy trying to scarf down all these KFC Famous Bowls(tm) .. we have no time for your so-called "maths"

@NathanBowers I SAW THAT the other day! I was wondering what Domo-Kun was doing at Target! http://twitpic.com/fscl

@wilshipley Sam and Max statue http://tinyurl.com/3veczn

@saraford but on the plus side your IQ just went up twenty points, man! Glasses = smarts!