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

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 28, 2013 at 11:20:20 AM

is committing crimes against source code order in the service of fidelity to design.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 28, 2013 at 9:48:01 AM

@placenamehere the guy from the Yes Men? Judging by the slide on the screen, I would say yes. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 28, 2013 at 8:33:40 AM

22% of men and 8% of women in IT think that the shortage of women in IT is a positive thing: http://idgknowledgehub.com/infographic-women-in-it/2013/02/20/

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 27, 2013 at 5:36:43 PM

@stephaniehobson once you get used to it, your brain will rebel when you don't code mobile first.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 27, 2013 at 11:03:51 AM

Dev says "I have a problem. I'm tired of manually updating these pages. I need a CMS. I know, I'll use Fatwire." Now he has 17,612 problems.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 26, 2013 at 3:21:47 PM

@obiwankimberly @phillydotcom Shortsighted? I think stupid, ageist, and maybe sexist are better descriptions. Total non-sequitur in context.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 25, 2013 at 1:46:12 PM

@JerseyGrrrl I wouldn't know.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 25, 2013 at 7:31:02 AM

“If Your Breasts” by Ivor Cutler is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_4w3y8kl

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 24, 2013 at 10:05:10 PM

must be one of the only people on Earth who thought Searching for Sugar Man wasn't that good. Fortunately, I sleep with one of the other few

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 24, 2013 at 8:15:27 PM

Happy 50th, @jfc3; I'll catch up in a few months. :-)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 22, 2013 at 2:56:16 PM

the presentation by @ariyahidayat on hardware acceleration was fascinating. I had no idea it was so nuanced.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 22, 2013 at 12:54:31 PM

@dylanw languages are easy to learn. Programming concepts less so.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 22, 2013 at 12:53:22 PM

@mollydotcom I remember seeing FutureSplash demoed by Charlie Jackson's 10 yr old daughter at Macworld. I bought a copy it was so cool.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 22, 2013 at 11:05:13 AM

@dylanw boy, I'm sorry you didn't record that part. We were just discussing that at a meeting this morning.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 22, 2013 at 7:39:12 AM

Happy 29th birthday to @inkpixelspaper, one of the sweetest, big hearted-est persons I know.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 21, 2013 at 3:55:50 PM

@surlyshirley So sorry. Sammy was a sweetheart.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 21, 2013 at 12:50:00 PM

ESPN says Jerry Sandusky will continue to seek a new trial and prove his innocence. In other news, OJ is still looking for the real killer.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 21, 2013 at 12:02:15 PM

@dylanw @andrea judging by the current population of the meeting room I'm in, we're the only ones. And this one is catered.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 19, 2013 at 8:45:08 AM

@surlyshirley :-(

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 18, 2013 at 8:00:43 PM

Bummed. Court Jester ran out of F U Sandy yesterday. Oh well. Drowning my sorrows in a Long Trail Hibernator.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 18, 2013 at 2:26:43 PM

@placenamehere @jerseyfreshale thanks for posting this. I see a couple of my regular haunts here. I think my dinner plans have changed. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 18, 2013 at 2:20:19 PM

Presidents Day Specials @ Toast http://instagr.am/p/V4kMKvJ4oj/

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 17, 2013 at 5:01:05 PM

@dylanw how much do you expect to pay to send your daughter to college? That would be a good starting point. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 17, 2013 at 3:33:24 PM

@dylanw a check would have been even nicer. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 17, 2013 at 12:14:05 AM

“I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts” by X is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_4t4k7ft

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 16, 2013 at 2:45:01 PM

@inkpixelspaper now I have "The Streak" by Ray Stevens running through my head. Thanks.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 16, 2013 at 9:31:38 AM

@markjfine and yet, restarting the phone brought back LTE. Thanks for the tip.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 16, 2013 at 9:26:36 AM

@markjfine I still have two weeks to go on my data month. I think this is something else.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 16, 2013 at 8:37:41 AM

Is it just me, or is @verizonwireless LTE down? I haven't seen any since my commute home last night. 3G feels awfully slow....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 15, 2013 at 7:36:20 PM

@donkeyattack @hmnoise @cheeks you bought a house? Sweet!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 14, 2013 at 2:30:04 PM

@donkeyattack Thanks for posting that. Great little set by @TheRealYLT, and they explained why the third place winner got on the cover. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 14, 2013 at 2:23:33 PM

@tashmahal sold out? No extra tickets? ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 8:29:52 PM

@lachlanhardy you're not working hard enough. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 8:29:07 PM

@JerseyGrrrl no, but good guess. Leo Sayer's "I Love You More Than I Can Say". Listening to it right now, in fact.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 6:41:35 PM

Not the one in Austin (@ The Ginger Man w/ 5 others) http://4sq.com/XMBGiw

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 5:47:52 PM

It's amazing the way you can take a horribly bland MOR pop song, play it with a reggae beat, and wind up with a slightly less bland pop song

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 1:37:58 PM

@Suw absolutely not.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 12:31:52 PM

@feather Bah. I remember when Opera's founder was writing plugins for Mosaic to export web pages as FrameMaker MIF files. ;-) #olderman

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 11:53:06 AM

@inkpixelspaper beer helps. Will be self-medicating this evening at the Ginger Man on 36th Street here in Manhattan. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 11:52:26 AM

@msjen I sympathize; I've been suffering for probably six months (changes on my current project around then).

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 11:44:55 AM

@markjfine Hence Early Onset; I don't turn 50 until July. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 9:49:42 AM

I think I'm suffering from Early Onset Don't Give a Flying Fuck.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 7:56:15 AM

NJT cop on the platform this morning, walking and peering at the tracks. No kaboom, so I guess no bombs on the tracks in Middletown. Phew!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 13, 2013 at 7:54:57 AM

@inkpixelspaper all the time

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 12, 2013 at 5:49:19 PM

@inkpixelspaper I don't know that I would say a lot, but definitely a fair percentage.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 12, 2013 at 11:56:25 AM

@markjfine Lots of stuff there. I'll have 2 listen once I'm done listening to John Peel play grindcore songs on the MP3s of old shows I have

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 12, 2013 at 11:14:12 AM

@dylanw I feel lucky; I work with people every day who blow the doors off of most of the web celebrities out there. Nobody knows them.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 12, 2013 at 10:59:34 AM

@dylanw that stuff doesn't make me want to quit what I do; just makes me want to engage less with the "community" and more with normal ppl

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 12, 2013 at 9:58:05 AM

Proof of Obama Derangement Syndrome: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/wapo-poll-gop-backs-path-to-citizenship-unless

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 11, 2013 at 4:55:26 PM

@surlyshirley I'm getting notifications now.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 11, 2013 at 1:17:03 PM

just got a phishing e-mail purporting to be from @verizon; the snail mail address is in Basking Ridge, MI 87325 #baskingridgeisinnj #zipfail

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 11, 2013 at 11:04:21 AM

@surlyshirley I played a word against you about 2 hours ago. I'm not seeing any response from you, so if you've played, then yes, same prob.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 10, 2013 at 7:25:04 AM

“Oops! I Did It Again” by Richard Thompson is my new jam. ♫ http://t.thisismyjam.com/thereisnocat/_4qi1eqp

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 3:04:41 PM

Kick, not punch, @dylanw. More bruising. #squoose

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 2:47:02 PM

Brilliant article by @hoyboy; http://cognition.happycog.com/article/good-work-isnt-enough

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 12:46:02 PM

Is there a more useless piece of shit than iTunes? I think not. Second day in a row its forgotten what apps I have on my phone and syncs all

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 11:35:40 AM

@inkpixelspaper @zachinglis Maybe @JerseyGrrrl will let me borrow hers.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 11:04:38 AM

@epersonae @dylanw @cssquirrel "The boss saw it in a dream" is in Christina Wodtke's book "Information Architecture". Boss is someone u know

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 7:32:50 AM

Hunkered down. Went out and got gas for the snowblower and food for us. Cars are in the garage. Nothing to do but wait for #snowmageddon.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 8, 2013 at 1:43:47 AM

@inkpixelspaper @dylanw see, this is a big part of why we can't have nice people. Dickish behavior chasing away our most talented.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 7, 2013 at 8:28:22 PM

@epersonae I think that describes most nostalgia. Memory is faulty and incomplete.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 7, 2013 at 6:18:01 PM

@surlyshirley now you can sell your expertise at SEO. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 7, 2013 at 4:56:46 PM

@katolivy @universalhub no, I just think that Cory Booker is better than anyone. ;-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 7, 2013 at 4:48:32 PM

@katolivy he'd probably do better if he had a jacket that said "Cory Booker, Mayor"; then everyone would think he was Superman.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 7, 2013 at 3:37:25 PM

I love working with smart people.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 6, 2013 at 11:03:36 AM

@patrick_h_lauke I'm sorry, Patrick, I don't see how you get to that from what I wrote. @karlgroves

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 6, 2013 at 10:52:04 AM

@patrick_h_lauke and yet I don't see any posts from men about being sexually harassed or preyed on. Go figure. @karlgroves

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 6, 2013 at 10:19:53 AM

Oh joy. Facebook just made it possible for spammers to message us on their service. If I didn't have to be there for work, I wouldn't.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 6, 2013 at 10:08:42 AM

@patrick_h_lauke @karlgroves and yet somehow nobody gets punished for being a dick in our industry. That has to change.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 6, 2013 at 9:46:50 AM

. @obiwankimberly @stellargirl and yet heartened by the fact that one woman speaking up has led others to do so as well. We need to fix this

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 5, 2013 at 1:03:20 PM

Glad that so many women are sharing their stories. Sad that so many women have stories to share #fuckingsexism #dontbeanassholeguys

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 5, 2013 at 7:51:33 AM

Bridge Plate @ NJT - Middletown Station (NJCL) http://instagr.am/p/VWZYYfp4ia/

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 4, 2013 at 9:40:15 PM

playing with amortization tables

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 4, 2013 at 2:21:34 PM

@Suw more room for improvement, then. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 4, 2013 at 2:17:55 PM

@Suw that's the point of Fitbit. It's to get you embarrassed and off your ass now that you know your baseline. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 3, 2013 at 10:23:52 PM

@surlyshirley @lachlanhardy conversely, in Europe, InBev/AB's pisswater is sold as Bud, not Budweiser.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 3, 2013 at 10:22:18 PM

@surlyshirley @lachlanhardy for trademark reasons, it's sold here as Czechvar. InBev/AB owns the Budweiser TM here, and the Czechs in Europe

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 3, 2013 at 10:06:31 PM

@surlyshirley @lachlanhardy depends on which Budweiser. Česky Budweiser/Budvar is a totally different beast and definitely worth drinking.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 3, 2013 at 7:51:42 PM

There's nothing like driving down empty roads to get dinner at an empty restaurant to make you feel like a freak. #superbowlwhatsuperbowl

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 1, 2013 at 7:58:33 PM

Yup. RT @KuraFire: RT if you just got told by Twitter that your account might have been compromised and you need to reset your password.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat February 1, 2013 at 3:21:59 PM

@iheni Happy birthday!!!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat January 31, 2013 at 8:44:16 PM

@Suw ah yes, I remember that aspect of winters in northern Illinois. I don't miss it.

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