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

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 1:56:03 PM

I just earned the 110 Film Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/YNmw

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 1:54:53 PM

Brain freeze!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 1:52:03 PM

Photo: We all scream! — at Dairy Delite http://gowal.la/r/YNhq

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 1:50:49 PM

I scream! — at Dairy Delite http://gowal.la/r/YNgq

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 9:28:12 AM

So why did LinkedIn institute a CAPTCHA when signing in? GRRRRRRRRR.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2010 at 6:00:59 AM

Sitting in the dark thanks to a power outage. Bleah.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 30, 2010 at 10:15:07 PM

Maybe they could borrow "Tomatotown" from Reynoldsburg: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/us/31columbus.html?_r=1&hp

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 30, 2010 at 8:03:48 PM

Special birthday noms with @JerseyGrrrl — at My Kitchen Witch Cafe http://gowal.la/r/YChe

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 30, 2010 at 6:22:23 AM

DIY color development: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/4843423044/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/4842832629/

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 30, 2010 at 5:31:38 AM

it's on days like this that I wish I spoke Esperanto

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2010 at 3:52:30 PM

@millionleaves sure do; still have them somewhere. Very cool stuff on that site. I'll have to dig mine up and see if I already have them :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2010 at 3:15:50 PM

@inkpixelspaper no; too much work right now. I have some time off next week, though.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2010 at 1:55:35 PM

@danrubin I think we all try to channel Grant Hamilton at one point or another. :-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/3703126816/

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2010 at 1:52:32 PM

picked up some containers at Adorama over lunch so I can try my hand at developing color film tonight. Walked back. It's awfully warm....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2010 at 2:18:30 AM

Insomnia sucks hard.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 28, 2010 at 5:18:59 AM

@msjen I've tried a bunch of the extra apps, including Hipstamatic & CameraBag. I have too many real toy cameras to enjoy them.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2010 at 9:29:11 PM

@msjen anything other than Camera is inauthentic, trying to make the iPhone something it isn't. That's not very punk rock.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2010 at 9:28:26 PM

@msjen my favorite iPhone photo app is Camera. Its photos look just like they were shot with an iPhone. (TBC)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2010 at 6:18:22 PM

Heading home after a surprisingly enjoyable day at the Summer Mandatory Fun Event — at Hoboken Terminal http://gowal.la/r/XWmj

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2010 at 7:06:19 AM

Heading to work early for a day of Mandatory Fun — at Middletown Train Station http://gowal.la/r/XNrm

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 26, 2010 at 7:11:32 PM

Waiting for @JerseyGrrrl to come pick me up on her way home from dance class — at Middletown Train Station http://gowal.la/r/XH83

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 25, 2010 at 1:54:30 PM

Doing the uncle thing: making funny noises and taking pictures.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 25, 2010 at 1:06:08 AM

@msjen I hope Oberon's People are sufficiently grateful for all you've put up with.... :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 25, 2010 at 1:00:34 AM

attempting to downgrade my iPhone 3G back to iPhone OS 3.1.3. Fingers crossed.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 24, 2010 at 1:40:57 PM

We so have to take Mom here next month — at My Kitchen Witch Cafe http://gowal.la/r/X3S6

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2010 at 11:29:14 PM

testing my new speakers; so far, they're passing with flying colors. John Adams' "The Chairman Dances" sounds better than ever.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2010 at 7:38:40 PM

Weekend! — at Broadway Grill http://gowal.la/r/WRQi

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2010 at 4:07:54 PM

@dylanw so that less savvy users can enter content into the site, leaving you to focus on the interesting work.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 22, 2010 at 6:48:59 PM

@dylanw make it a good one. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 21, 2010 at 5:52:46 PM

@markveldhuis The Mac Mini has one purpose: to operate the QS1R. I looked for the best cheap Windows machine I could find, and it was a Mac.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 21, 2010 at 4:18:11 PM

can haz new Mac Mini

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 18, 2010 at 10:25:11 AM

@feather looks almost like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You've been blessed with a visitation and touched by his noodly appendage!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 16, 2010 at 6:42:26 PM

@dylanw Home Depot destroyed my last job. They were the worst client I've ever worked for.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 16, 2010 at 6:17:36 PM

@dylanw Home Depot is evil. Go to Lowes instead. Really.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 15, 2010 at 3:33:30 PM

@inkpixelspaper same way you screw up anything else; bad ingredients poorly prepared by the clueless

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 15, 2010 at 3:12:34 PM

@inkpixelspaper have you ever had pizza in the UK? Compared what passes for pizza there, it's fantastic :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 15, 2010 at 6:23:10 AM

@msjen he's had pacemakers, but an LVAD actually pumps instead of just telling the heart when to pump. Orders of magnitude more serious.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 15, 2010 at 12:14:44 AM

is amazed that Dick Cheney had an LVAD implanted; he's been living all these years without a heart, after all

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 14, 2010 at 11:14:30 PM

EWR-JAX: $424. JFK-JAX: $89. Hmm, is it worth the extra hassle to get to JFK? Three guesses, and first two don't count. Buh-bye, Continental

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 14, 2010 at 6:41:01 PM

Surprise, surprise, stuck on a slow moving NJ Transit train *again*. This is only going to get worse. Thanks, Governor Christie, you fuckwad

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 14, 2010 at 1:16:29 PM

@mert funny how that works, yeah? :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 14, 2010 at 7:14:01 AM

@KuraFire that's why there are eBooks available now. I wish more publishers would follow O'Reilly's example and offer cheap upgrades to ePub

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2010 at 6:18:12 PM

God I wish the 14 million teenager who got on the train at Secaucus would just STFU.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2010 at 4:36:49 PM

@dylanw leave them both home and do your presentation with semaphore flags

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2010 at 12:28:07 PM

ProTip: When the back end work is being done elsewhere and there's heavy AJAX functionality, run as far as you can in the opposite direction

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2010 at 11:49:46 AM

just cadged an extra day for this project out of the PM. Good thing, too, because I was never going to finish this by Friday

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 7:38:57 PM

The tackiest Italian restaurant in New Jersey http://post.ly/mnIg

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 7:35:01 PM

Having dinner in an Italian village — at Atillio's Ristorante Villagio http://gowal.la/r/udPL

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 6:14:53 PM

@markveldhuis QS1R; similar to a Perseus, but the software is open source and ported to the Mac

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 5:50:14 PM

listening to Radio Exterior de España celebrating la Copa Mundial on my new shortwave radio

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 5:05:51 PM

And now the withdrawal symptoms start

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 4:49:33 PM

Oops.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 4:24:58 PM

@KuraFire why wouldn't Robben think the ref wouldn't give a retroactive card? He already gave one for something he didn't see

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 4:05:03 PM

Feels like nobody wants to win this thing

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2010 at 3:45:26 PM

thought I was going to watch the World Cup final, but I seem to have stumbled on a KickBoxing match instead

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 10, 2010 at 4:11:00 PM

Nice goal by #GER; like watching a game of pinball in the box

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 10, 2010 at 9:30:56 AM

Pro tip: click on the soccer ball in the YouTube interface and you get added vuvuzelas to whatever you're watching. You can thank me later.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 9, 2010 at 10:13:58 PM

fired up the ol' shortwave radio for the first time in almost a year

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 9, 2010 at 3:50:32 PM

Needs to stop looking at the package tracking page on usps.com for the radio I ordered the other day. They don't update that often....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 9, 2010 at 1:04:58 PM

Photo: The view — at Sissy's On The Bay http://gowal.la/r/sHwr

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 9, 2010 at 1:00:13 PM

Getting lunch with @JerseyGrrrl — at Sissy's On The Bay http://gowal.la/r/sHkU

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 8, 2010 at 8:59:02 PM

@feather Happy birthday; you might want to modify that to "best year of my life *so far*" The 40s aren't a wasteland. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 8, 2010 at 6:25:36 PM

Gave up on Penn Station. Took the PATH to Hoboken, and am now sitting in air-conditioned splendor on the 6:20. Diesel FTW!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 8, 2010 at 5:28:02 PM

Sitting on a dead train at Penn Station. 3 for 3, NJ Transit. #njtransitfail

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 8, 2010 at 11:39:23 AM

@inkpixelspaper mine showed up almost a week ago. I've already finished reading it.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 7, 2010 at 6:28:49 PM

Just when I was thinking that maybe NJ Transit wasn't irredemiably awful, they fuck up again. Sitting on an unmoving train yet again. Grrrrr

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 7, 2010 at 4:16:11 PM

It's the octopus' fault, I tell you

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 7, 2010 at 1:07:59 PM

Only 97 degrees out, so a good day for lunch in the park. — at 'wichcraft http://gowal.la/r/rv3C

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2010 at 6:31:10 PM

God, I fucking hate NJ Transit. Every time I get to leave work early and get home at a reasonable hour the train takes forever to get home

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2010 at 4:12:25 PM

@KuraFire agreed on both points ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2010 at 4:03:44 PM

@KuraFire happy now? :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2010 at 10:13:15 AM

Paul the Octopus predicts Spain victory over Germany: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,704954,00.html

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2010 at 9:05:40 AM

@kliehm Could be worse; you could be working with Sharepoint. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 5, 2010 at 9:08:41 AM

Breakfast on the boardwalk with @JerseyGrrrl. Days like this, I love living at the shore — at Avon Pavilion http://gowal.la/r/nxH4

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 4, 2010 at 2:18:32 PM

Last time we were here, this was a run-down Howard Johnson's — at McLoone's Bar & Grille http://gowal.la/r/n9P7

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 3, 2010 at 7:01:52 PM

@KuraFire cheat.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 3, 2010 at 3:02:15 PM

The vuvuzelas seem appropriate in this game; #PAR are defending like a swarm of bees

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 3, 2010 at 1:03:33 PM

Getting brunch with @JerseyGrrrl — at My Kitchen Witch Cafe http://gowal.la/r/mxci

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 3, 2010 at 11:49:33 AM

Well, that wasn't even Klose....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2010 at 8:21:35 PM

The more I think about the #URU-#GHA match, the more I hope #NED pummels the fuck out of #URU. Red card + penalty kick isn't sufficient.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2010 at 3:18:28 PM

Finally! A bicycle kick!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2010 at 11:31:07 AM

Boy, that was a dumb move

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 1, 2010 at 6:01:10 PM

Having a sandwich with @JerseyGrrrl before A Midsummer's Night Swing — at Damrosch Park http://gowal.la/r/kwvQ

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 1, 2010 at 1:51:29 PM

@dylanw don't want to stay married long, eh?

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 1, 2010 at 1:20:53 PM

Just got back from a photowalk with one of my colleagues. Good exercise and good company FTW!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 1, 2010 at 11:27:46 AM

AJAX pagination is a pain in the ass.