Jan
2
2012
Retweet December 2011
From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe.
Software Development
- Being into computers today is not the same as it was in my day when you had to solder chips into boards, now it means you are on Facebook.
- I don’t know why you would fake such a thing but there are a lot of fake self described geeks.
- This holiday season remember to backup if don’t already have a backup system in place.
Thought Leadership
- Life has a funny way to keep you humble.
- Focus on simplicity, complexity is overrated.
- Whether I see the glass half full or half empty largely depends on what is in the glass to begin with.
- To much of a good thing is a bad thing. Not enough of a good thing is also a bad thing.
- No brain, no gain.
- There is no such thing as cheap thrills, only cheap tricks.
Product Placement
- I just realized that I have five phone numbers connected to my iPhone.
- Not feeling the new Twitter app. It feels like it requires too many clicks to do anything.
- Every parking lot should be covered with an array of solar panels. Some parking lots take more area than the base of the building.
- I hate when sites and apps require Facebook Connect to sign up. #pinterest
- I bet that Taco Bell taco shells are made in China.
- Like a true politician, Go Daddy flip flopped on the issue and now claims it does not support SOPA. #WhoDroppedTheSOPA
- Google Grinch: No Ice Cream Sandwich for Galaxy S, first Galaxy Tab, or original Nexus.
- The one feature that had been overlooked in Android is the ability to take a screenshot of your Android device.
Quote
- I’m putting you on the do not kill list. – Bender Bending RodrÃŒguez
- The truth is often stupid. – Bender Bending RodrÃŒguez
- Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what’s good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers. – jwz
- Let’s go and invent tomorrow. – Steve Jobs
Question
- Who moved my cheese and then cut said cheese?
- Who is doing some last minute shopping?
- How many domains do you own?
- Church’s or Popeyes?
- Ancient Aliens or Modern Morons?
- If you could go back in time and would be stuck in prehistoric time, what skill would you need most to survive?
- If Mr Grinch is so mean what do you think Mrs Grinch is like?
- If the world is flat why aren’t international phone rates flat themselves?
- A touch device is a complicated device with many components, what are the chances that the Galaxy Tab would look identical to the iPad?
Randumb
- Looking forward to the future!
- Old Internet memes don’t die, they go remixed, go viral, and trend.
- It’s rumored that the same maker that built a weight scale with a built it twitter client that tweets your weight is working on a toilet.
- Money can’t buy you love but it can sure buy some lap dances.
- When it comes to teenage love, forever doesn’t last long.
- The surprise is the prize.
- Empty space is the enemy of clutter.
- You are the chaos/cause of you.
- You are the cause of you because you.
- It is what it will be and it will be what has been.
- Happy whatever the fuck you celebrate tonight.
- The Internet was invented for the sharing of funny cat videos and pictures.
- Make a right at the 3rd dimension and you are here.
- The best part of nothing is everything.
- Negative ideas manifest into real feelings
- Gift wrapping ain’t going so merry.
- If there is a way to hurt yourself with a tape dispenser I’ve done it… Why is my lip bleeding!?
- I think that The Terminator is the beginning of a long war against the machines that culminates with The Matrix.
Overheard
- OH: Annoying people are really annoying.
- OH: I would love to enjoy my own depression if I only I didn’t have to deal with other people’s depression.
- OH: I wish my life was an 80’s movie.
- OH: To be honest, I’m not being honest.