• Thoughts on this as a potential new avatar? http://mcgees.org/img/cartoonme.gif #
• Now it's in YOUR mind! RT @pattonoswalt Wish "pistachio" didn't sound like the slang term for one's facial hair after a golden shower. #
• Author of #atheist site http://yourenothelping.wordpress.com/ gets outed for sockpuppetry, plays the "whiny bitch" card, then hides posts. #
• New discovery: fastest way to reboot laptop is to insert headphone plug into USB port. You're welcome. #

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• Fine place for a day full of breakdowns! Takes more than a meltdown to show us how. :^| #
• #USA needs a new national anthem. Sorry to the rest of the world that it's about bombing. #
• Dear #USA: you can't effing wait until 15 minutes into matches to wake up. Gah. #WordCup #GHA #
• In fairness, #GHA are on their game. #worldcup #
• Wearing an #LAGalaxy scarf. #LandonDonovan is my homeboy.  #worldcup #
• #USA: follow up on gk deflections. kthx. #worldcup #
• sigh. deep breath. toilet break. #
• FUCK. IN. A!!! Woot, homeboy! #worldcup #
• Well, these are going to be some fucking tense 25 minutes. #wordcup #
• #GHA players are faster runners, aren't they? And totally know how to touch and "continue their slides". #worldcup #
• I've seen enough #Galaxy matches to be CERTAIN where Landon was sending that penalty kick. Good thing #GHA didn't watch the tapes. #
• Dear refs: that hard part in the #GHA player's arm is called "an elbow". HTH. #
• Did Ayew even TOUCH him?! Looked like #USA simulation to me! #
• Switched from drinking Camparis and Soda to God's Blessings — 'cause it's freaking COLD here in the #NorthEastKingdom. Go #USA! #Vermont #
• Merde merde merde merde merde. C'mon, #USA! #
• It is NEVER acceptable to cheer for someone's severe ill health. Oh wait, yes it is. http://n.pr/doHgFa #
• .@wikipediagame: SO CLOSE to cool. But no way to see who won; how your paths compare with others'; naive scoring. http://wikipediagame.org/ #
• Sitting alone sobbing at @postsecret and wondering how often I've caused similar pain. That's not a secret. It's a recommendation. Go read. #
• 12 hours until #ENG-#GER! #WorldCup #OverlyInvested #
• Did #TchadBlake point the #Kunstkopf AWAY FROM #PearlJam when recording #NothingAsItSeems on the #Binaural record? Weird. #audio #audiophile #
• .@PennyRoyal67 I worked to develop a #poetry mag while in college. Typing "Poet of the Month", an editor wrote "…of the Moth". We kept it. #

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• A fan! W00t!   RT @jordancdarwin #FF @clanmackay The Jesus of mathematics and computer science, and a fellow lover of the bard himself   #
• RT @tmaufer RT @credomobile Tell Hillary Clinton: Stand up to Blackwater. Please sign and RT http://bit.ly/dwir4a #
• Bought some #Persian food at the #FarmersMarket. Going to eat, watch #CriminalIntent. Watching on computer, yes, but Twitter off.   Loves! #
• #FF @monicks @lauruhhpalooza @charitywater @WitAndWisdumb @tmaufer @center4inquiry @wilw @NPR @neilhimself @ev @pattonoswalt @CraigyFerg #
• Ḍįặc̉ŕít̉ỉc̣ D̀éčǒŗãt̃ĭòǹ: For #hAx0r Wannabees Everywhere http://www.mcgees.org/cgi-bin/decorate.cgi #text #character #conversion #

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• I'm collecting two of every animal, but I'm short an #aardvark. Anyone have an extra he could send to #Vermont? #weather #rain #
• Yeah. {biggest sigh ever} But I can't even tweet about it. At least I know that God's got it all in His hands. Oh, wait, he's pretend. Shit. #
• RT @wilw Geeks are really good at taking something we love & turning it into something 2 argue about with other geeks who love it [as we do] #
• Dear fellow #Scientists: visit some classrooms. http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/amy.html #

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• There are plenty of things I "couldn't do to save my life" that I could easily accomplish were my life not at stake. #
• Indeed! Couldn't be happier with Group C results. RT @davidjmcgee WOW. #worldcup #
• NEWS FLASH: Prominent nerd subculture leaders issue death fatwa on #DamonLindelof; comments #SalmanRushdie, "Even I agree". #Lost #humor #
• I love water! It is so cool that it makes up such a large proportion of my body. #
• One of the best things about network names is stuff like "Thoreau was unable to connect to Lemurs!" appearing. Makes wifi failures happier! #
• It's not raining here, which is odd considering that it's 127 EFFING PERCENT humidity. Give or take. #Vermont #NorthEastKingdom #weather #
• .@mystumble Yep! My charities: @charitywater, @ACLU, @center4inquiry, @Oxfam. They cycle monthly, each in turn getting 100% of my donations. #
• My business was doing horribly. Then I started following every @Twitter #TT. I'm still losing money, but now I'm always in the black. #
• Very cool: @NPR is promoting #foraging: http://n.pr/9XZoyi. #Fiddlehead and #ramp seasons just ended here in the #NortheastKindom (#Vermont) #
• I'm in someone's list titled "The Luminaries". 26 members; others include Barack Obama, Stephen Hawking, and Penn Jillette. Wow. @kimberli9 #
• Seeking white man who owns business suit to tour factories, attend banquets. $1000/wk. No previous experience required: http://n.pr/bCJRta #
• The extra period (the punctuation mark) that I couldn't account for nor #debug away in my #PHP output was a piece of dirt on the screen. #
• GPS: "Nearest match for 'sushi': 59.8 mi North" Me: "59.8 miles North?! Isn't that…?" [pushes button] "Yeah. A different country." #Vermont #
• RT @kimberli9 …inappropriate to tell you that ["The Luminaries"] was called "other shit" until @qthomasbower bitched about being on it? #

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• Who's watching #NGA-#KOR and who's watching #GRE-#ARG? Why? Leaning towards the latter, but only relevant if #GRE wins – which they won't. #
• Ha! RT @darkplanneur Il est interdit pour les acteurs de Glee d'avoir des relations sexuelles pendant le tournage, dans leurs caravanes #

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• #LayneStaley lyric that just played: "Slow suicide's no way to go." No kidding, man. Wish you had taken your own advice. #MadSeason #
• Happy #Solstice, everyone! I'm pretty sure that there were 25 hours of sunlight today here in the #NortheastKingdom. #
• Why splashing cold water on your face calms you down, and why iced water works even better: http://bit.ly/be6Mxn #
• Well, THAT was a late sunset, even in #LosAngeles {20:08 PDT timestamp}! Happy #Solstice again! RT @OhNoItsDark OH NO IT'S DARK!!!1! #
• Listening to #Audioslave. @ChrisCornell: Stuff like 2:58 into Cochise is how you lost the LAST octave. Take care of your voice, dude! #
• I'd have gone with a ream of nice résumé paper RT @rationalists I heard that #BP CEO #TonyHayward's kids bought him a mop for father's day #

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• used too much mirin in his rice, but got wifi set up, so considers this a net win. #
• Goal #NewZealand! Against #ITALY! w00ty surprise! #WorldCup #football #soccer #
• .#NZL goal totally fair — not offside vs #ITA. #wc #
• Geez. #ITA goal off a penalty kick following a soft foul and a flop. 1-1 vs #NZL. #WC #
• Bravo #NZL, even if you lose! #WorldCup #
• "I wish you could have heard the music // When the clouds growled overhead … I finally felt alive" — I love #Vermont! (Lyrics: @TallyHall) #
• "Most one-sided #WorldCup match-up" my arse. Way to go #AllWhites! It wasn't "#ITA's to lose"; #NZL EARNED IT! #
• $500?! That's money that the attendees could have spent on their guns, ammo, Bibles, blinders, and earplugs! http://bit.ly/aQjeOR #Palin #
• Something about bra winning out over civvies? Does this have to do with clothing choices of female soldiers? So confused. But pleased! #
• 10+ years out of college, I remember lots of passionate debates on philosophical topics but frequently cannot recall which side I took. #
• On 3 major cross-country interstate routes, L.A.-#Vermont distances vary only 2%. But don't take I-40. You'll thank me. http://bit.ly/cCh9NA #
• I have SUCH a clever #teaparty post sketched in my mind, but no teabaggers read mcgees.org: ½ due to antipathy, ½ illiteracy. C'est dommage. #
• I love my #Toshiba T135, and not just because it sounds like a #Terminator. But mouse batteries died, and touchpad is TOO HOT TO USE. Gah. #
• If you RT me to mock my politics, that's cool. If your #bot automatically mocks EVERY tweet w/ a given keyword, you get a spam report. FYI. #
• Only on Twitter: RT @maximummaggie Just masturbated on a swing along side a public bike path..if anyone saw they didnt make themselves known #
• I mean, good grief. Being open on Twitter is one thing. Yes, I know @maximummaggie's job. Still, you can kinda stumble upon anything here. #
• I'm bored and sleepy, it's late, and I have to get up early tomorrow. Optimal solution just occurred to me. G'night, tweeps! Over and out. #

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• Do not press this button. Unless you want to be entertained. http://fjfjyii.coms.hk/online-disney/bunsol.html #

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• Internet access unreliable now, but all is well as of Twitter's timestamp for this tweet (click on the '#' for timestamp if on mcgees.org) #
• How about instead of working on a slogan, stop the industrial #farming that produces an insipid product?! http://n.pr/d5mmJ2 #pork #
• Eco-liberals calling mysticism "science" is JUST AS OFFENSIVE as creationists doing so. No, reiki, reflexology & palmistry ARE NOT SCIENCE. #
• Each time the woman next to me takes a bite of sandwich, she sucks clean each of her fingers with a popping sound. I may have to leave. #
• OK, I do have to leave because of the finger-sucking. Bitch. Where did you (fail to) learn your manners?! #

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• Awesome line from a #UFC match just now: "These punches are just academic at this point" #
• I really-times-{N} need to sleep. {N} is large enough that the expansion would exceed 140. #

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• Good news: it looks like it will be easy for the #WayneRooney people to change their names back http://bit.ly/btesyv http://bit.ly/bY3cgW #

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• Regarding Arizona mural change: RT @kimberli9 @clanmackay the kid had Homer Simpson's 5 o'clock shadow.That (so I understand) was issue #
• Idea heard today at co-op was dumbest so far. That's saying a lot. Why is liberalism in VT so + correlated with facile and magical thinking? #
• Greater than 75ppm Cadmium in paint not necessarily scary. An alleged level is 1000ppm, though. Kids' product! http://n.pr/bd4tYc @McDonalds #
• Also, a definition of Cd as "naturally occurring element in soil" is an offensive distortion. So is "less than in other recalls" @McDonalds #

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• .@funnyoneliners Because greed is the father of invention, and sometimes mommies and daddies argue. #
• Bush: "Yeah, we waterboarded … I'd do it again to save lives." http://bit.ly/98Q0Kj #torture #politics #war #crime #warcrimes #Bush #
• This is not a joke RT @Mike_FTW Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White http://bit.ly/aTiMvg #
• .@thefenderguy I thought so too. Original article: http://bit.ly/9fildh — Artist says the change was for racial reasons, principal says no #
• .@thefenderguy I suppose I should say the artist claims the principal asked him to change it for racial reasons, and the principal denies it #

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• Fake! Clearly it\'s just a picture taken in Australia and you\'re holding the camera upside-down. (@cockerham)http://yfrog.com/20bunagj #
• is horribly anxious and stressed out. I hate paperwork, phone calls, and confrontations with people I've known for a long time. #
• Containers for perishables are called Reefer containers; great for shipping ganja, marijuana & hemp too. via @cockerham http://bit.ly/dftsd8 #
• Sponsored links on #Google above search results now harder to identify: Page bg color; text in #767676 (~ middle gray) & floated far right. #
• "Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that they learned to be terrorized" (via @schneierblog) http://bit.ly/ce6qyA #
• Presumably much the same as it meant in the segregated American South, just with different groups. (@WitAndWisdumb)http://yfrog.com/b8j4cj #
• I'm supposed to go to a #sushi party, but I'm beat. And there will be no #sashimi. #

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• has embarked on an ambitious project to decrease his email volume to fifty per day or fewer. #
• I gave my SAT and GRE scores to someone today. The exact values were, I thought, relevant to the conversation. But I still felt like an ass. #
• In a fascinating but frustrating situation in which each of three applications requires successful enrollment in at least one of the others. #
• #TheFamousGrouse could double in price and I'd still buy it. But please don't suggest this to them. #whisky #whiskey #scotch #FamousGrouse #
• I tried to fit a profound simile into the confines of a 140-character tweet without sacrificing verbiage. I failed. I found it was much like #
• Can we make grammar a test? RT @sexygrl1983 thinks that some people shouldn't … reproduce with out … supervision … effects all of us #
• Just heard #Dio died. No snarky joke. Fortunately saw him sing with #Queensrÿche a couple years ago. Will miss him. #
• Test: can location information be entered through the web interface? #
• Hmm. I don't see a "crosshairs icon". http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/26810/entries/122236 #

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• Give @TheMotleyFool your email address and they'll send you their secret retail stock recommendations: Costco and Amazon.com. Wow! [sigh] #
• Don't get it … RT @funnyoneliners Did Jack Bauer win Idol? RT @obxlaw #

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• The #pollen count warning for today is officially "Stay inside and try not to die." Glurgle glorg. #
• Met my first #Vermont separatist today! Short-term plans, tho: he is sure there will be global political and economic collapse in Nov (2010) #
• "We can make it!" #4wordsbeforedeath #
• "I packed it myself" #4wordsbeforedeath #
• "The green wire, right?" #4wordsbeforedeath #
• "Bet he'll swerve first" #4wordsbeforedeath #

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• Hardwick, Vermont: Coolest. Freaking. Place. Ever. #

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• For apartheid connoisseurs: current master Israel tried to sell then-master South Africa nuclear weapons in 1975. http://bit.ly/caj5WN #
• "no amount of suffering from #rape is as great as the suffering our Lord suffered on the cross for our sins" http://bit.ly/dhgetb #religion #
• #Atlantis, we will miss thee. You've been a good ship, pretty lady. http://bit.ly/b8enK4 #NASA #SpaceShuttle #
• 90 degree temperatures this afternoon. Now a severe thunderstorm warning with 60+ mph winds possible. Ah, #Vermont! #

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• has been staying at hotels and watching TV for the first time in "like forever", and has been reminded why he doesn't watch TV. #
• has some very, very difficult and important thinking to do. #
• No one thinks to witness but they will someday. I will be what I could be. I will have it all. #
• Email just now: "Joshua, you have been selected to receive Trailer Life." Well, screw you, freebizmag.com! #
• I've been meaning to send a thank-you letter to #MartinGardner for years. I never did, and he has died. We'll miss you. http://bit.ly/9rItFF #
• I knew I forgot something at Rite Aid. I told the cashier that I had. And I've remembered it! CD-Rs! Note to self: make lists! #
• Hearing a small river right outside my window is SO MUCH BETTER than hearing a highway right outside my window. Also: BREATHABLE AIR. W00t. #
• Note: @NoteRobot is … odd. It retweets if you use the "Note to ssself" cliche in your tweet. Extra esses to prevent a retweet. #
• I need the CD-Rs to burn the Ubuntu ISO I downloaded to replace the miserable vomitous mass that is Windows 7 on the new PC with a real O.S. #

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• is keeping his peeps updated that all is copacetic and that he, as it were, is doing fucking radly. #
• is also reflecting that his dinner is about to get cold, so he's going to go see if there's anything on Spike. #

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• is safe, warm, away from home, and possibly incommunicado for long stretches. #

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• Test tweet from blackberry. Moo!!! #
• Ok #

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• Classmates.com email subject: "[Name] published a new note. What else is new?" Ambiguity likely unintended. #

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• Quick: What's the difference between South America and South Africa?  http://twitpic.com/1nrwex #
• Again thinking "Why does my email/tweet volume drop precipitously on Friday nights?!" #
• Trying to formulate a "watching 'Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?' on repeat" joke that won't creep out @feliciaday   #
• #JessicaLowndes: An upsetting reminder that three years can turn a crazy-cute minor into a crazy-hot adult. #
• Wow, #xkcd missed putting an "Usher Raymond" joke into the tooltip of http://www.xkcd.com/740/ #
• One of the best ambigrams I've ever seen http://twitpic.com/1nw7mm #
• If the "trademark" symbol is ever copyrighted, I'll need more levels of superscript in my word processor. #

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• Can God compose a tweet so in-jokey that even He doesn't get it? #
• Do you know what would be REALLY great right now? No, me neither. #
• YOU came to get down, and WE should get out [of] our seats and jump around? Why are you so special? I'm Rosa Parks, bitch. #
• Watching #Fringe. Do you know what I hate? THIS SHOW. #
• #Facebook: Reconnect with friends from your past — and re-experience food poisonings from your past when you see what's happened to them! #
• All the way to the end, please, readers RT @Monicks In The Amount Of Time It Takes You To Read This… [Infographic] http://post.ly/fw3G #
• Certain bars are wagering their success on certain groins. Care to guess what the article's talking about? http://bit.ly/9ItjZS #

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• Great album: #Korn, "See You on the Other Side". Nu-metal-heads who hate its originality: bite me. #MM #MusicMonday #YesIKnowItIsNotMonday #
• RT @nep If you want to understand Twitter, here's a #porn star tweeting about her grandfather's death/funeral: @jelenajensen #
• "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" was such a great movie. I didn't know it had #RicardoDarin in it until the opening credits (love him). #
• Q: What do other users do about obviously-spam followers? Bother to block, or just ignore them? Why? #
• There's a "Paint the Sky" joke here, but I'm too classy to make it. http://n.pr/bvseJi #
• Inevitably, the place my cat most wants to be is the 20cm by 20cm square where my foot is about to step. EVERY step. #cat #cats #
• H: "My brother-in-law did that" Me: "I haven't seen Robert in YEARS!" H: "Oh, Robert died a couple years ago" Me: "Huh. I guess that's why" #
• Q: "I'm surrounded by some kids at play. I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?" A: "'Cause they're so fucking LOUD" (Please shut up!) #
• RT @joshuaj7 classic #ipad #iphone joke http://su.pr/1OuDkU #
• With as much as #Republicans fear change, one would think they'd throw more coins into the "end hunger" tubs in the checkout line. (Get it?) #
• Suggestion: Never walk by a rock club you frequent in the daytime. You'll go home and scrub your skin off after realizing where you've been. #
• Very funny, #hulu! Joke's over. Please give me back my controls now! #
• I stand by my six-years-ago self: #Calpis and vodka rocks. #Calpico http://www.mcgees.org/calpis-and-vodka/ #
• If you live in your car, and you press "Go Home" on your GPS nav, does it say "You have arrived" immediately? #

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• Fast food restaurant secret menus: http://bit.ly/9yXh5v Blank stares possible/likely. But blank stares when ordering a #McGangBang? AWESOME. #
• Kids: if you find an #atheist in your neighborhood, TELL A PARENT OR PASTOR RIGHT AWAY! http://i.imgur.com/AMA1v.jpg ←Read. UNBELIEVABLE. #
• Another example that there is an UNFATHOMABLE amount of information available on ANY CONCEIVABLE topic. http://bit.ly/bjHMjf #
• Yum #FamouseGrouse yum. #whisky #
• Do you know that if you redeposit a #BankOfAmerica cashier's check YOU DREW, they hold it because "It's in the form of a check?" #bofa #

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• #Science-skeptics: #ClimateChange is "a lie" and "a conspiracy", right? RT @algore Rain at the North Poll in April: http://bit.ly/bXFG9t #
• Although, I'm pretty sure @algore meant "North POLE". See, poll/pole confusion is what happens when a politician turns scientist.   #
• My mom: "Hungry? Want an apple?" Me: "I don't eat apples any more. They're too expensive and don't give you enough control over the genome." #

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