Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2007 at 8:58:24 PM
didn't think it was already football season
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2007 at 4:54:31 PM
is officially on vacation for the four glorious, glorious days
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2007 at 4:17:32 PM
never seems to see any "related music" for whatever he's playing in the iLike iTunes sidebar. They don't know anyone I listen to.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2007 at 12:31:54 PM
saved the day (or at least that's what his supervisor says)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 30, 2007 at 11:38:28 AM
is actually doing some web work for work! Wonder of wonders....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 29, 2007 at 7:28:29 PM
@sniffles unplug! shutdown! run away!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 28, 2007 at 9:36:26 PM
is looking at abstract polaroid images; tnx, @epersonae!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 28, 2007 at 1:15:52 PM
is reading about stuff at http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html and nodding his head, going, "uh huh"
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 28, 2007 at 8:57:09 AM
@lachlanhardy too late: peeps followed is a zero-based list. you committed to going to 511 when you passed 255
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 27, 2007 at 2:25:00 PM
is signing up for free credit monitoring, courtesy of AT&T, who lost a laptop. Gee, thanks.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 26, 2007 at 9:15:46 PM
wishes it wasn't so difficult to buy a birthday present for his father
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 25, 2007 at 2:03:24 AM
can't sleep. again. fifth night in the past six. bleah.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 24, 2007 at 11:14:10 PM
it's quarter past 11 and three columnists still haven't gotten me their columns for tomorrow's print deadline. This is getting ridiculous.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 24, 2007 at 1:44:01 PM
just got paid for an hour of freelance work done a month and a half ago
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 23, 2007 at 10:47:42 AM
wishes the insurance company would get its ass in gear and cut a check already
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 22, 2007 at 5:50:35 AM
is creating a FrankenXP disc that will boot the Mac Pro (hopefully)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 21, 2007 at 3:53:59 PM
has been pownced upon. Where oh where will it end?
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 20, 2007 at 11:14:45 PM
is amazed and grateful that Ubuntu 7.04 boots without intervention on his Mac Pro so he can save stuff from the dead Linux server
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 17, 2007 at 3:45:27 PM
hears thunder in the distance and is getting nervous
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 17, 2007 at 9:07:45 AM
lives in dread of the IM and/or phone call from Bangalore that comes every morning within five minutes of signing on
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2007 at 6:22:13 PM
is tweeting from the Mac Pro for the first time in over two weeks
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2007 at 6:16:48 PM
is booting up the newly returned Mac Pro for the first time
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2007 at 12:01:29 PM
finally sees a change in repair status on the much-refreshed page on apple.com: Repair complete. Phone call soon come?
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 13, 2007 at 7:42:56 PM
is happy to see that his monitor has a tracking number to be shipped back to the Apple Store. Maybe they'll fix the computer now.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 13, 2007 at 5:20:43 PM
@sniffles New Go! Team is out in North America? I love their last CD (and the Pacman video)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 13, 2007 at 3:22:59 PM
is noting the fact that it is now exactly two weeks since he dropped his Mac Pro at the Apple Store and there has been no progress
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 13, 2007 at 11:19:13 AM
just punched a hole in the wall -- to place an outlet for a cable TV connection
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 11, 2007 at 10:49:42 PM
is listening to Albanian folk music on the shortwave
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 8, 2007 at 5:15:10 PM
is *still* finding things fried by the lightning strike a week and a half later
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 8, 2007 at 1:11:56 PM
is not laughing at @steveganz, having once run out of gas his own self
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2007 at 9:23:52 PM
is doing the laundry in the new washer and dryer
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2007 at 3:11:14 PM
has had his expectations of delivery time recalibrated
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2007 at 2:07:02 PM
is wondering when the washer and dryer delivery guys will show up
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2007 at 2:06:36 PM
@surlyshirley Gah! That's too funny. Sounded better in person, but part of that may be listening on the laptop....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2007 at 11:47:36 AM
@surlyshirley "The hotel" didn't. I assume someone associated with the hotel did, and that it will be in one of Columbus' finer pawn shops
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2007 at 11:23:35 AM
@surlyshirley took it off after getting back from the Scrawl show, put it on the nightstand, forgot to put it back on in the AM b4 leaving
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2007 at 11:01:23 AM
is feeling lousy about losing his wedding ring
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2007 at 9:23:04 AM
is putting together a list for the insurance company of the items that were fried.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2007 at 7:25:58 AM
@suw try Hoefler Text. Comes with every Mac, does old style figures, and has small caps.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 5, 2007 at 5:24:43 PM
is relieved to find that the data drives survived the lightning strike
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 5, 2007 at 5:19:56 PM
is trying to cool down after dragging everything in from the car after his 9+ hour 540 mile drive home from Columbus
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 5, 2007 at 2:07:46 AM
is decompressing from seeing Scrawl put on an amazing show in a small bar in downtown Columbus tonight
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 2, 2007 at 6:47:39 PM
is wondering why his tweet about resting in a hotel room in tomato town didn't show up
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 1, 2007 at 10:43:28 PM
is relaxing in a motel room in beautiful neon-encrusted downtown Breezewood, PA, the city of over 1000 friendly motels (says Jenny Toomey)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 1, 2007 at 4:12:27 PM
wants to leave for his long weekend already, except for the missing his wife part.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 1, 2007 at 12:24:50 PM
is filing his homestead rebate tax form