T**tter Archive — Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 (@thereisnocat)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2009 at 9:30:16 PM

@doublesided they must not sell real potato chips in Aotearoa, then, eh? Pringles taste like cardboard compared to the real thing.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2009 at 8:10:34 PM

can haz working Vivitar Instant Slide Printer. Oh yays!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2009 at 11:55:30 AM

just picked up my expense check for the trip to Germany. My credit card is grateful.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2009 at 8:18:45 AM

really wishes RampChamp had the option to turn off its music. I would play more often if it didn't stomp on whatever's playing on my iPhone.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2009 at 9:47:32 PM

@scenariogirl thanks for the screen reader link; that will come in very handy at work for a battle I expect to be fighting soon.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2009 at 9:39:19 PM

@danrubin cameras on eBay are like buses: there will be another one coming along in a few minutes. Give this loser a pass.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2009 at 7:56:21 PM

@kliehm that's a lot of ground to cover; this talk is going to last for 7 hours? :-)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2009 at 12:45:50 PM

is just tearing through this RTL i18n project; looks like I'll have what was scoped at two weeks' work done in one week.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2009 at 8:09:52 AM

just loves Spike Jones' version of Blue Danube: "Oh, the Danube isn't blue, it's green!"

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2009 at 8:54:36 PM

just unbroke my Kiev 4am rangefinder camera. Don't know exactly what I did, but it appears to be working now.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2009 at 6:04:53 PM

loves Christmas as much as anyone, but really, it's too early to be busking Christmas carols. It's *October 28*, not even Halloween yet.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 28, 2009 at 8:54:54 AM

is standing on a platform at Newark Penn Station waiting for a train to New York whose engine isn't broken. #njtransitfail

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2009 at 8:19:17 PM

is going to get to see my favorite Chinese Clean clones, Carsick Cars: http://bit.ly/2H3jWs

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2009 at 6:32:46 PM

@danrubin equipment lust in cameras and computers is strikingly similar, no?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2009 at 7:27:23 PM

is having dinner on the shore. View from our table: http://post.ly/AG2B

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2009 at 2:53:53 PM

@danrubin wrong. :-)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2009 at 2:18:20 PM

@surlyshirley has it been five years already? Crap, feels like yesterday. Thanks for sharing.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 10:22:20 PM

ah, so close. Congratulations, Hawkeyes.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 10:20:22 PM

last play, 2 seconds to go, 4th and goal. I love football.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 10:11:24 PM

holy crap, touchdown! Go Spartans! Number 6 Iowa is going down!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 10:09:17 PM

holy crap, it's a hook and ladder! Go Spartans!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 7:25:55 PM

wants to know why it's always Republican candidates who place unsolicited campaign signs on my lawn. Democrats never do this.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 6:37:39 PM

with five minutes left and PSU up by 25, it's over.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 6:24:24 PM

knows that it's not over 'til it's over, but really, it's over. Unless it's not over.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2009 at 5:50:54 PM

is thoroughly enjoying the Penn State-Michigan game. Touchdown!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2009 at 8:41:54 PM

can haz a nice cleaned, lubricated, adjusted Pentax K1000. Oh yays!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2009 at 5:22:58 PM

@danrubin that enlargement is sweet! Was that from mpix.com?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 21, 2009 at 6:29:52 PM

is crushing your head.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 20, 2009 at 7:34:16 PM

is waiting at the train station for @JerseyGrrrl to pick me up. Having only one working car (flat tire on the MINI) sucks.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 20, 2009 at 1:56:03 PM

can't reach Flickr. Anyone else having problems?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2009 at 3:34:20 PM

@epersonae you give me too much credit. I wasn't even working for att.com when they registered their domain name.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2009 at 4:09:40 PM

just bought tickets to see FELA! on Broadway; tried to see it when it was off-Broadway, but couldn't get tickets. http://felaonbroadway.com

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2009 at 4:42:16 PM

is at a bellydancing conference. Have to confess, as an art form, it leaves me cold.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2009 at 3:17:47 PM

just loves victory formation.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2009 at 3:12:30 PM

is watching a 1-5 Purdue whip a 5-1 Ohio State. Amazing.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2009 at 10:18:27 AM

is loading up his cameras before heading out to breakfast.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2009 at 5:57:20 AM

wishes everyone a Happy World Toy Camera Day

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2009 at 4:46:54 PM

wonders if the fact that they put a name tag on my office means we're staying here longer than they're telling us....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2009 at 9:51:33 AM

@goodwitch where are you headed? In the NYC area?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2009 at 8:36:22 AM

thinks it's a stretch to say Google Wave works on the iPhone. It displays, the functions execute, but it's waaaaay too slow to say it works.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2009 at 8:00:37 AM

is listening to new music by my favorite band of the last few years, Land of Talk. Yay!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2009 at 9:35:25 PM

@lachlanhardy Wave might not actually be a social application: http://bit.ly/2tmkHG

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2009 at 8:19:17 PM

is off to the basement to develop yet another roll of film from my trip to Frankfurt

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 14, 2009 at 12:58:18 PM

is filling out the expense report from hell for my trip to Frankfurt. Bleah.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2009 at 6:36:44 PM

Ukrainian meatballs for @sniffles: http://post.ly/8Rfj and http://post.ly/8Rft

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2009 at 6:20:26 PM

is at Veselka with @JerseyGrrrl for dinner.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2009 at 4:35:01 PM

just went on an expedition to the water-ravaged 5th floor to retrieve Stuff. Didn't look all that bad to me.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2009 at 10:10:31 AM

found my temporary office on the 19th floor without too much trouble.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 12, 2009 at 4:50:20 PM

will be going in to work tomorrow. They work fast. Temporary desk on a different floor while they clean up. No damage in our area.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 12, 2009 at 2:35:59 PM

best possible tribute to Douglas Adams ever: http://bit.ly/eJVXX

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 12, 2009 at 7:49:32 AM

got to the train station, read my e-mail, and turned around and went home. Fire in the office means I work from home today. Tomorrow too?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2009 at 8:33:08 PM

@surlyshirley hope you're feeling better soon; wouldn't want you to miss next weekend....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 10, 2009 at 5:45:44 PM

is out at the lighthouse shooting pictures with the Canonet and the Brownie Hawkeye Flash. http://post.ly/81o5

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 10, 2009 at 1:18:54 PM

this Penn State game vs. Eastern Illinois is turning into as much of a slaughter as I expected. Probably not worth watching 2nd half.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2009 at 10:57:55 PM

is finally home. Had a good time at the Search Developers Summit at Google NYC.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2009 at 4:04:24 PM

tried to impress on the people behind Google's AJAX indexing proposal the importance of including ARIA in their reference implementation.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2009 at 11:03:27 AM

enjoyed the tour we took with the Helsinki School of Economics, but is now at the search conference where I should be. Oops.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2009 at 10:32:18 AM

is taking a tour of Google's NYC offices.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 7, 2009 at 7:21:49 PM

is listening to some of the Schlager music I downloaded from the ITMS as part of their 7 Tages Schlager celebration. Sadly, no Heino yet.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 7, 2009 at 7:57:42 AM

@AlunR you could use a clue-by-four, applied repeatedly to said client's head until they reconsider their preference for Sharepoint.

In reply to this Tweet by AlunR

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 9:52:34 PM

@surlyshirley oh well; would have been too funny if it was the same.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 9:46:53 PM

@surlyshirley good stuff, nice Congolese guitar. I wonder if they made this sticker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/3738879902/

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 9:13:41 PM

@surlyshirley ouch! Hope you're okay.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 5:37:36 PM

@dylanw what's your ID on Google Wave?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 9:41:26 AM

just got his first spam with the subject line "Google Wave Invite!" Of course, it was for "generic Viagra".

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2009 at 6:24:13 AM

@surlyshirley yes, we'll be around. Let us know when you're available.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 10:00:41 PM

@surlyshirley true enough. PHL is about an hour and half drive from here, maybe 75 minutes from Rahway. EWR is a short train ride.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 9:49:32 PM

@surlyshirley plus there are fares to PHL as low as $59.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 9:48:17 PM

if you would consider flying in to PHL, there are two nonstops. Probably equal distance/pain to get to Rahway from there.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 9:47:21 PM

@surlyshirley that's weird; I looked 10 minutes ago for just those dates and saw direct flights, but not now

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 9:41:03 PM

@surlyshirley what dates? I saw two direct flights when I looked just now.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 9:35:37 PM

@surlyshirley Southwest flies from CMH to LGA for a lot less than that

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 11:04:50 AM

@danrubin mine too. You can do amazing things with 667, and I'll miss it mightily when it's all gone.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2009 at 2:33:01 AM

@susankitchens my condolences.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2009 at 7:20:27 PM

would like to report that the squash soup was indeed creative. http://post.ly/7CtH Also delicious.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2009 at 6:49:56 PM

is having dinner in Surf City on LBI with @JerseyGrrrl at a place that promises a "creative dining experience."

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2009 at 1:33:08 PM

is having lunch at the Polish restaurant in Barnegat. #comfortfood

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2009 at 8:18:32 PM

was wondering how to get an invitation to Google Wave. Duh! I forgot my sister-in-law works for Google! Had one waiting when I got home.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2009 at 4:43:48 PM

@surlyshirley thanks for sharing. That's f*&^ing brilliant!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2009 at 3:01:32 PM

wants a Babelfish.