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This week on Twitter

Has it been a week already? Another collection of my tweets are presented here.

• "Sissy Spacek" is a common astronaut insult.
• A red shirt in a Browncoat is a losing fight waiting to happen.
• A man, a plan, a canal: Palindrome!
• Hava nagila monster
• I call my cat "precious little" as it answers the question "what are you good for?"
• If I was the Tzar, I would read the qur'an. However, if I was the Czar I would probably choose the koran.

Twitter: Best of the week

Since forwarding tweets to my livejournal is now unavailable and unpopular, I thought I would try something different. I will post a collection of my "best-of" tweets from the past week here on Slashboing. I will choose only the timeless bon-mots of my own crafting, for your reading pleasure.

Like what you see? Consider following me on Twitter: @drhaggis

• Drugstores should be shaped like the human body, with the product located at the corresponding region.
• I like shopping from other people's carts. However no one wants to hear that I'm only breaking the mores and not the morals of our culture.
• Idea: Plexiglas shield with your watermark etched in it. When people take pictures of you, the image will be pre-branded.
• Sneer: The thing you see on a person's face when you mispronounce words like molybdenum, Alsatian, or mulligatawny.
• A local store has upgraded me to "double VIP" status. Should I hold out for triple?
• Science fiction writers need to look up "regulated power supply". Giving electronics "more power' doesn't make it go faster/better. duh.
• First person shooters have plots? That's so cute.
• The funniest things a fat person can do is dance, fart and fall down. I'm looking at you Farley, Mike & Molly, Jiminy Glick, Fat Bastard
• Funny Fat dancing is a nice break from all the accusations of crushing people and committing cannibalism.
• TV Show Idea: Lawn Order: Landscape division. CHUNK CHUNK.
• Used fictional Kiefer in 24 to promote torture debate. Should have used Kiefer's grandfather Tommy Douglas during health care debate.

Diagram of my online presence

To keep straight the details of all my wheeling and dealing on the internet, I have created this little chart. At first glance it's a mind-numbing mess. Subsequent looks confirm this.

The Slashboing Empire

What it all means to me:

I post to each Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, and Livejournal by logging into each, or via email (which I seldom do). To read all the comments made on my posts, I only have to check Hotmail and Flickr.

What it all means to you:

To read everything that I contribute to the internet, you only have to check my LJ account: drhaggis.livejournal.com and my flickr account: flickr.com/photos/drhaggis. Everything I post to Blogger gets posted to Twitter, which gets bundled with its own content to be fed to Livejournal.

However this has recently changed. The "Loudtwitter" service I was using to bundle twitter missives to livejournal is down, and is unlikely to come back. Meaning I need to find a safe and suitable replacement.

I have also updated the format of Slashboing.ca, in an attempt to keep looking up to date. Let me know what you think!

A seemingly empty room of ninjas

Twitter is a great venue for quick wit and wordplay. One of the fun projects that utilizes this crowd-source of wit is the All Sorts Collective noun collection. A bot parses Twitter, cataloging creative terms of venery such as "a sneer of critics" or "a sic of editors".

I have posted many such collections to my twitter feed including such gems as "a scum of bounty hunters" and "a quibble of geeks". However my most popular submission is "a seemingly empty room of ninjas", being re-tweeted several times over the past year.

In March, All-sorts.org teamed up with the Owl and Lion gallery in Edinburgh, starting a contest to illustrate collective nouns from the index. Illustrator Parko Polo created a fantastic representation of my ninja collection which will be on display at the Owl & Lion Gallery from 15-27th June, 2010. An artists’ book featuring all 15 illustrations as well as individual prints will be for sale soon.

Fake San Diego Comic-Con

If you are unable to attend an exciting convention, one can attend vicariously through the internet. Enough attendees twitter, flickr and blog and their experiences to give those at home a good feel for what they are missing. If you want to take a more active role while sitting on your couch (or behind a desk) you can attend the fake version of the convention.

After seeing fakesxsw posts from people who couldn't be at SXSW, I started up fakeSDCC, a stay-at-home shadow-con for San Diego Comic-con. Part convention satire, part larp, people are playing along, pretending their work desk is a guest signing table or posting about their clever memorabilia finds.

Play along on your blog or twitter, if you want, and I'll save you a seat in the Thundercats/Voltron crossover movie panel.

Twitter posts for FakeSDCC

Happy Halloween!

Jack O'Lanterns 2008
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

We have finished carving our Jack O'lanterns for this year. We have a mix, some complex stencils, some simple ones and a stem-nose.

Also to note twitter is supporting image replacements for some cool Halloween emoticons. I reprint them here for reference and mayhem:

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Greatest Hits on Twitter

Since I started using twitter, a good portion of my blogging energy has been funnelled there in the form of 140 character epigrams. What does that mean for people who only read Slashboing? They are not getting the full force of my wit. To sooth them in this time of need, here are my better tweets from the month of October.

• I usually don't condone this sort of thing, but...Ninjas: http://cheesyninjas.ytmnd.com/
• Watching Mythbusters is more fun when you superimpose the unrequited love triangle between Kari, Grant and Tory.
• The "h" key on laptop is less responsive. I thought the 'I's were the first to go.
• Watched Fringe. They confused voltage and current, electricity with magnetism, and science with fairydust
• Sontaran neck hole + Captain Jack = Doctor Who Rule 34
• White Chicks and Gang Signs: http://tinyurl.com/2op5bl
• Airplane on a Conveyor belt: The plane takes off, the pilot marries her true love, though the deposit on the conveyor is lost.
• Shock of the Decade: Steve Guttenberg working continuously. I thought he fell off the earth in 1990. There was a ceremony and everything.
• Reading about things on Wikipedia, then seeing if I can buy them on ebay. Someone come up with a cool term for that, Quick!

Twitter with me

I have started using Twitter recently, and I really like it. Those readers who visit slashboing.ca directly have probably noticed this new addition to the blog sidebar, however those who read via an RSS or Livejournal feed have missed my tweets.

I can be followed here: twitter.com/Drhaggis

I also joined Twitter because I didn't want any other 'Dr. Haggises' from taking my username. Also, I really like the "what are you doing now" miniblog aspect of Facebook, but little else about it. I may even be deleting my Facebook account now that several high school friends have found me and its purpose has been served. I'm using a lot of different social networking sites, and I have to chose the right ones for how I actually want to network.

Now instead of having to create a full blog post simply to publish a quip, question, or bon mot, I can twitter it.

Also of note, the Mars Phoenix lander has a feed and he posts regular updates of his progress on Mars. It is done in a casual first-person style that makes it really fun to read.

Tweet you later.