Pat Rice (@pzr)

Champaign, Illinois

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @pzr ever

February 2012

Unlikely to download the Windows 8 preview: nowhere to install it & not all that interested anyway.

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Thinking that “annus bissextus” sounds vaguely naughty….

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“I’m looking forward to never dealing with these people again.”

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The build scheduler blows up in interesting ways when it thinks 2012 isn’t a leap year….

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Daytona 500? Is that what TiVo recorded instead of House?

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It figures - as soon as I tell someone that I like Pair Lite, the server hosting my site starts crashing.

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Needed: a hand gesture by which riders can signal @cumtd operators, “Don’t stop, I’m waiting for the bus behind you.”

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Sometimes I think the phrase “You’re making a good point” is code for “I’m ignoring you”.

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Much discussion at the bus stop this morning of a dead squirrel, lying in the road not too far away.

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I tell Jake that getting up every ten minutes to wander the house is no way to fall asleep. But he does not believe me.

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Curating some vanilla pudding. Very tasty.

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Trying to extract the last of the 2011 FSA money. I expect the plan administrators - aka chimps - will not let it go without a fight.

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If I had heat vision like Superman, I’d use it to set off ceiling sprinklers everywhere I go.

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The questions are tougher this year….

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La guerre des livres….

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With cell phones, there’s a strong correlation between ‘telco involvement in design’ and ‘suckage’.

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I like the hand straps on the @cumtd hybrids. I swing from one to the next & pretend I’m Spider-Man.

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Escorting civilians to the escape train. They don’t know it yet, but they’re doomed.

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Struggling to get all my iMap clients to use the same Drafts / Junk / Sent / Trash folders. Mail.app, check. Thunderbird, check. iPhone…?

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One more for the discard-all list: @bluehornetemail, whose ‘Position on Spam’ page struck me as just a wee bit hypocritical.

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Also blocking spam from http://t.co/f1CTjB23, owned by @acxiom. So many companies out there that make money by annoying people. #grumble

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Spam filter configured to discard all messages sent via @relevanttools.

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Thinking I should not have to add spam filter rules to discard all the spam that has digitally-signed this-is-not-spam headers. But I do.

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Transfer accomplished. Now if the 6W can only get to Springer & Country Fair before 5:30….

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Attempting a somewhat tricky transfer to teach Norris Tire before they close. Bus-fu, don’t fail me now….

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Unsurprised to see that University staff have no more respect for crosswalks & traffic signals than do University students.

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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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Phone battery at 11%. Left the charger at home this morning. Oops.

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Smells like one of the WRIfolk left his popcorn in the microwave too long.

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In Javascript, ‘this’ is a predefined identifier that always points to the wrong object.

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Removed @path from my iPhone. Now wondering how to remove my address book from their servers.

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NFS: designed by chimps, used by masochists.

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Meetings are not work.

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Jennifer & I started a 550-piece jigsaw puzzle after dinner this evening - and finished it before bedtime. Maybe it was too easy….

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@r_akers I listened for thirty seconds, then…*gong*. (Chuck Barris, where are you now?)

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I did not yell “Free Bird!” during Jake’s concert. But I wanted to.

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Next concert Jake is in, I’m going to show up the night before. It’s the only way to get a parking space in the same time zone.

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The disappointing thing about professional sports is that in any given game, only one team will lose. Surely this can be rectified.

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Downloading OS X 10.7.3, all 1.34GB of it.

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Facebook tells me I have hidden three hundred and twenty-five apps, and one group.

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@bradrubin And your files are now shiny clean!

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Wandered about the Post Office for half an hour, snooping on the folks in blue. Struck me as a very last-century operation.

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Looking forward to the Super Bowl. Go Cubs!

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“If I include references to nonexistent files, builds fail with missing-file errors? Really?”

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Yes, very foggy this morning. Oh, you meant the weather…? That, too.

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Things I have never done to cows: clicked, tipped. I’m sure I could extend the list, if I tried.

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Seriously annoyed just now with certain of the cow-orkers.

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