Pat Rice (@pzr)

Champaign, Illinois

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Recent tweets

The latest fad among the youth of Champaign: wearing enormous headphones, plugged into a tiny phone. Rather comical.

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Watching Wallace & Gromit with Sam, who is providing a detailed descriptive-video service….

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Today I will teach no pigs to sing.

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Cleanup would be much simpler if we could persuade Sam to barf in the toilet, instead of the nearest garbage can (carpet, door, etc.).

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Jake & Sam are watching a cartoon in which Sylvester the cat is chasing…a laser pointer? Sylvester never did that when I was a kid….

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Purging spambots & abandoned accounts from my Twitter followers list.

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“Referrer” sounds like where a shaved yak might go to get its hair back….

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Wish I could send this to certain of the cow-orkers: http://t.co/hj81R6AD

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AirPort Extreme disk sharing works much better when a powered USB hub is between the AE and the disk….

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“The car’s on fire, and there’s no driver at wheel.”

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Rather crowded on the @cumtd 9B this evening. Must be the rain.

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I wanted to play Space Invaders on my iPhone, but there was nowhere to put the quarter.

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Wondering how to persuade Markdown that I really do want the five characters & a m p ; to appear in my text….

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Every time the OS X version of Microsoft Error Reporting crashes, I cackle a bit.

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Nothing says “You are about to suffer the tortures of the damned” quite like “Starting InstallShield Wizard…”.

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Was hoping for a snow day today. Alas, no.

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Apparently “site license” and “volume license” are not the same thing. I stand corrected.

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@r_akers There are zombies in tonight’s episode.

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I never bought any Whitney Houston albums when she was alive; I don’t suppose I’ll start now.

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Germs are proving quite vexatious here at Stately Rice Manor.

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Watching helicopters, piloted most irresponsibly…er, creatively. Sam is unimpressed & just wants to go home.

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Jennifer: “Why is my @MapQuest map covered with ads?” Me: “Because you are not the customer, you are the product.”

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Gave @LastPass my new online-banking password. It insists on pasting the old one into the login form. #grumble

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The local bank seems bent on making their online banking service so secure that I won’t be able to use it.

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