? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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

November 2012

Goodness, gracious, D2 has got herself a THUMB DRIVE!

via Twitter for iPhone

Wow, full moon and Jupiter peeking over the trees! <wink>

via Twitter for iPhone

RT @trilug: Mark your calendar for the Dec 13 TriLUG party
http://t.co/yy4R0ZSc

via web

Now there’s nothing to do but wait…

via Twitter for iPhone

@make What happened to the Holiday Gift-A-Day Giveaway? MakeZine Ad said it started today, but no sign of it on your web site.

via web

@sonofalink Curious who they are. I dabble in iOS apps, too.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to sonofalink

@eronel Interesting, and quite useful… but they could’ve at least called it “Torridaire”.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to eronel

Why would I want a “Frigidaire” oven and a “Hotpoint” refrigerator?

via Twitter for iPhone

Look who was stowed away inside my travel bag… “Winter”! pic.twitter.com/lXf9nF7c

via Twitter for iPhone

D2 has a knack for turning a minor infraction into a jailable offense. (“Stop, you’re making it worse!”)

via Twitter for iPhone

Sheamus The longest single-word English palindrome is ‘detartrated’, which is the process of detartrating. And is thus equally useless.

via HootSuite (retweeted on 4:15 PM, Nov 19th, 2012 via web)

RT @schneierblog E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus bit.ly/WqcqRP ||| related: DC919 Crypto Party tonight bit.ly/VMnZm3

via web

So proud of my children. Both of them flunked tests at school last week.

via web

I like thick socks, and I can not lie…

via Twitter for iPhone

Grategatsby Barack Obama makes it look easy to be President. imgur.com/a/X6186

via web (retweeted on 9:55 AM, Nov 18th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

ncnearspace 22,000 feet… and we have visual!! Bright white dot in a deep blue sky straight above us.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 2:37 PM, Nov 17th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

@nivex Heck, all you need is binoculars! ;-)

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to nivex

Cheshire moon, low on the horizon.

via Twitter for iPhone

Just played a 117-point word in WWF. “BRAZEN” Yup, that describes it.

via Twitter for iPhone

Tweakin’ my app…

via Twitter for iPhone

Somehow, I have become an “expert” on a bunch of stuff that I don’t care anything about.

via web

I think that meeting pretty much seals it… I have job security for as long as I want it.

via web

Correction: she was saying “cross-birding”… that makes a little more sense than “cross-burning”.

via Twitter for iPhone

D2: Let’s go cross-burning! (She meant “jaywalking”)

via Twitter for iPhone

Sunday is a good time for me to GMST… Get My Act Together.

via Twitter for iPhone

Note to self: changing time/date on iPhone (while testing a calendar app I wrote) can make web HTTPS and Twitter fail.

via Twitter for iPhone

I am still in my pajamas… it’s 7pm.

via web

NASAVoyager Happy Sagan Day to everyone on the pale blue dot. The visionary would have been 78 today. 1.usa.gov/SVOVxF

via web (retweeted on 7:38 PM, Nov 9th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

@scenek To send Control-A to an app under screen, press “Control-A A”. Or use tmux, which uses Control-B instead!

via web

Vi / vim editing trick of the day: control-A increments the number under your cursor. Control-X decrements it.

via web

RT @cavaticat: A swath of @BarackObama blue cuts through the heart of the South. Why? Plankton. Mind: blown. http://t.co/XB5nzAU8 (@npr, …

via web

zefrank i am having a scotch…. for america.

via web (retweeted on 10:34 PM, Nov 6th, 2012 via web)

Ben0xA My write in candidate is ’ OR 1=1; DROP TABLE VOTES—

via web (retweeted on 10:19 PM, Nov 6th, 2012 via web)

bombsfall From the looks of it, this is blow off work and hang out on twitter being all nervous day.

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 5:12 PM, Nov 6th, 2012 via web)

rtphokie I find this red vs blue state map far more interesting i.imgur.com/IJBIP.gif

via Reddit Pics HD on iOS (retweeted on 8:21 PM, Nov 5th, 2012 via Twitter for iPhone)

It’s 12 hours before polls open and I just now discovered that the US House district lines have been redrawn, moving us into a new district!

via Twitter for iPhone

Friend went to eye doctor, now his pupils are seriously dilated. I said I’d take his picture so he could see them. !!FLASH!! Oops, sorry!

via web

SecretHQTweets We’re on so-called “Standard Time” only 1/3 of the year now. Shouldn’t DST be Standard Time and this be, I dunno, “Daylight Wasting Time”?

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:22 PM, Nov 4th, 2012 via web)

Honestly, me in the kitchen? It’s like Neville Longbottom in Potions class!

via Twitter for iPhone

My company does not know how to write prose. All text docs are broken into long-spanning table/grids. All “white papers” are PPT slides.

via web

Going back to work today is like going back to spend the summer with the Dursleys. ’s over :-(

via Twitter for iPhone