Archive for the 'Twitter' Category
July 13, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
- My 3yo on public display of affection: “That’s percusting.” #
- Blog search hit of the day: “spell the sound of sticking out your tongue.” #
- Jane’s new dentist, upon seeing us enter, en masse, w/ double stroller & baby in sling: “Good Lord, it’s a preschool.” #
July 6, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
- OH I AM STEAMED. Towing company tried to cheat us on mileage, more than double the correct mileage/price. They’ve not heard the last of me. #
- Scott’s car died on commute home. Tow truck driver claimed mileage is gauged by GPS, not his odometer. AND tried to use wrong location. #
- Looks like the littles & I will be without wheels today. Not a problem; home is nice. We have big plans to blow bubbles. # (more…)
June 29, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
June 22, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
- OK. We are climbing out of this virus at last. Not better yet, but getting there. The upswing is a much better place to be. #
- Reading Chocolate Unwrapped by Rowan Jacobsen. Am committing to eating a serving of dark chocolate every day. For health reasons, you know. #
June 15, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
June 8, 2009 @ 4:49 pm | Filed under: Twitter
Bwah? Why, hello, Twitterlog! You’ve been AWOL for what, over a month? Why did you suddenly decide to reappear?
Well, I’m glad to have the record for the blog, but a post this long is just ridiculous. Let’s bump you off the front page, shall we? (more…)
March 8, 2009 @ 12:25 pm | Filed under: Twitter
Favorite twittered moment this week: “I have just been informed that Rilla is ‘Daddy’s dust mote and Beanie’s polka dot.’ ” (more…)
March 1, 2009 @ 3:37 pm | Filed under: Twitter
I was updating my contact page just now and found myself writing “for the fastest response, try Twitter.” I wondered why that would be the case—why am I more likely to reply immediately to a tweet or DM, but it can take me weeks, months even, to respond to my email?
(I know: weeks, months, that’s ridiculous. But if you’ve written me, you know it’s true. Oftentimes, the more important the email—the more attention I’d like to give to the reply—the longer the delay.)
Then I realized: it’s Twitter’s 140-character limit that spurs me to the immediate response. It’s short and sweet, just the facts ma’am. If someone has a question, I can answer it likethat.
A thoughtful and well written email is better than a quick tweet, of course. I’m not saying I’d want to ditch email entirely—heavens no. I relish a nice long letter from a friend or reader. I love writing nice fat letters back. I wouldn’t want to confine my side of any correspondence to a tweet-sized box. But for a quick answer to a simple question? There’s a kind of liberty within the stricture of the form.
(Is that the same reason people are so fond of haiku?)
I had already fallen in love with Twitter as a source of quick answers. Throw a question into the twitstream and the answers leap at you like flying fish. Solid answers, too; keepers. But I hadn’t thought about the converse, before: that if you have a question for me, catching me on Twitter may be your best bet for an immediate answer.
I would love to explore this thought further but I have a boatload of email to answer.
March 1, 2009 @ 11:25 am | Filed under: Twitter
Too funny—after this tweet log posted, I thought, Yikes, I need to change the setting so it doesn’t post the @replies. But so far all the comments on this post have been about @reply tweets!
The log is too long, though. Since my primary aim in autoposting these is to preserve tweets for my own records, I’m going to publish the posts with a “more” link. Twitterlog is after the jump. (more…)
February 22, 2009 @ 11:25 am | Filed under: Twitter
- But this is embarrassing: we had so many books on hold at library that they called, asked us to pick ‘em up earlier than our usual Sat run. #
