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Former scientist. Current coder. Future supervillain.

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@lsv Remember you're not allowed a mulligan. You have to keep whatever you get.
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@daraobriain Transactions are double taxed all the time. But no one complains about VAT even though they've paid income tax on their salary.
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@ceephax Couldn't resist...
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10 years
@pickover @SLSingh Still prefer this spiral illusion. Here, blue and green are the same colour http://t.co/hxmB5baxY9 http://t.co/fFLhDLT7oc
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4 years
@robmanuel Make it age 13 and call it Pop Hitzvah.
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3 years
It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that I have not, in fact, been moonlighting as a fashion design studio on the side.
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Dreams come true.💫Thank you @athleta and @area for my custom dress for the #MetGala ! As a young girl, I never dreamt I'd be here. To celebrate, Athleta is donating $50,000 to The #PowerOfShe Fund to empower women and girls. This is for you, girls! #AthletaPartner #MetInAmerica
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3 years
@Bobby_Seagull The one true pattern was abandoned long ago.
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10 years
So @edsheeran 's first album was +, and the second was ×. If the third and fourth aren't ↑ and ↑↑, both myself and Donald Knuth will be sad.
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8 years
I wonder how long it will take for the 'hidden security feature' of the new pound coin to be discovered. Security by obscurity is bad!
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2 years
@JamesSACorey I've not seen it, but if it's worse than "Converse All Stars, vintage 2004" in I, Robot... my word.
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6 years
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1 year
@SnapDecks First time infinite, EvoLock still does the business even with the Spider-Man nerf. Though honestly, probably an easier climb than any previous season between the botched ladder reset for high infinite players and Conquest mode being introduced.
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7 years
This is how regular people feel when they're waiting to book tickets for Glastonbury, isn't it? #HamiltonLDN
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9 years
@FOTSN @graphjam Taking into account it's #vennsday as well...
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@Stahlkarnickel1 @MagicOnline Coming soon to a paper Legacy tournament near you: "Judge, before I explain the disagreement my opponent and I are having, I need to know which degree-level maths qualifications you hold."
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8 years
Brilliant acoustic gig from @stevenpage in Regent's Park this afternoon. Bring on proper gigs in the UK soon! #pageinthepark
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2 years
@fischer_scotty Let me introduce you to 22nd of July, Pi Day for the rest of the world! 22/7 being a staggeringly good approximation (it's even better than just 3.14).
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4 years
@JennaGuillaume It's a rare thing where you can pinpoint the exact moment you committed to a show, but this was it for me and #TheGoodPlace
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8 years
@teabass @Digi_Makers Those Nodecopters were my first exposure to the language. Now I'm a node developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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3 years
@Simone_Biles @Athleta Not my handiwork, sadly! I can just about stitch a button back on a shirt.
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4 years
@BorntobeWildHS Got there! Special thanks to @slizzle466 for the Odd Rogue list. 22-12 with the deck from D3, cutting through Demon Hunters like a hot knife through butter. VanCleef seems like an appropriate reward!
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9 years
@GabrielleAplin Anyone selling a single ticket for London tonight at Wilton's? @VibeTickets @TwicketsMusic @Twickets
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8 years
Cameron standing down by October means people who voted for #Brexit for increased sovereignty will have a leader they've not elected.
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10 years
So @edsheeran 's first album was +, and the second was ×. If the third and fourth aren't ↑ and ↑↑, both myself and Donald Knuth will be sad.
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6 years
Looking at a pair of earplugs that claim "level attenuation across the frequency spectrum", so found the specification sheet to see the data. I thought I'd seen every misleading graph axis possible, but they proved me wrong.
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9 years
@rockpapershot Boy, based on that screenshot, Terraria has been patched a lot since I last played ;-)
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8 years
It pleases me no end that I'm clearly not the only person in this region of the Venn diagram.
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NEW VIDEO!! Our huge #Hamilton collab is complete! Feat. @hankgreen , @veritasium , and more!
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6 years
Being back at work after the incredible weekend that was #EMFcamp is quite the shock. Where are the gouts of flame? The lasers? The blacksmithing? The puzzles? Surely the real world wasn't always this boring?
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4 years
Just had my biennial wistful thought about buying enough GameCubes, BBAs and copies of Mario Kart: Double Dash to max out the local multiplayer, and realised the reason it's silly this time is the preposterousness of have sixteen people in one room.
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6 years
I've been to a few singalongs @ThePCCLondon in my time, but none have been quite like the #GreatestShowmanSingAlong .
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5 years
@ThePCCPodcast Love all the cinema and film chat on the podcast. Is it just me though or does it detract a bit from the main topic on what is surely the #1 visa podcast out there? #visawatch
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4 years
@WolfgangWarsch @AlxHague I made a Discord bot that plays @WavelengthDaily for private use with friends. Would making it public be okay?
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7 years
Somehow, the biggest problem facing Millennials had gone from 'avocado hand' to 'nuclear war and Nazis' in under three months.
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7 years
I made a silly Twitter account that only posts videos of @AndrewMarr9 introducing the weather, which you can find at @SoToTheWeather .
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7 years
@robmanuel Every time, I think 'this is too obscure for there to be a wikipedia category page'. And every time, I'm wrong:
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5 years
@kazade Not a #gamedev person, but want to see the eventual answer so with that proviso... ABS(x) < y gets you there?
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6 years
Took a particular #MtG deck to the shop for the first time, ended up on camera. Went about as well as could be expected...
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7 years
@thepricesignal @SaffronOlive Double-faced card or bust.
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8 years
I cannot stop staring at the misspelling in this tweet.
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9 years
@mode7games I've said it before and I'll say it again: SQL injection rocks'); DROP TABLE Shirts;--
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7 years
So the Brexit whitepaper appears to be: 1. We have X 2. X is good 3. We'll negotiate to keep X Never have I felt more like Michael Bluth.
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1 year
@maxtortion I first ran across this as "The CAD rule", which says you should drop panel 2 and 3, to the same effect.
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9 months
@EternalMTG @Sawatarix Write-in vote for the machete order!
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2 years
@xJCloud The last bullet point on 'Last Voyage of the ________' implies not.
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@HMQueenBee @neilhimself I spotted @neilhimself on the way to the event last night and popped in to @Hatchards he had just walked past for the same reason just in case. So you are not alone!
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5 years
@James_LRR So the prophecies were true!
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7 years
@MTGCritic I read this as 'Moderately Played" and got very confused.
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There are no more details in this snippet from an @empiremagazine article about Oppenheimer, but I assume someone's asked the obvious follow-up question?
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8 years
Most impressive runner this year in the @LondonMarathon for me was barefooted Jesus carrying his cross.
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5 years
@maxtortion I would like very much to subscribe to this newsletter.
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7 years
@ArtsTheatreLDN @Kris_Whitmore @timminchin As a developer, I feel for whoever's responsible for your site. Can you get them a pick-me-up too?
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8 years
@harksys @teabass @andrewhathaway Weird. The GitHub docs don't mention you have to be called Andrew to consume the notification endpoints.
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7 years
@AndyRickie @RobRoyMcCandles And The Middleman. And Trophy Wife. I'm rooting for @nataliemorales like I rooted for @NathanFillion pre-Castle
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11 years
I think I might be losing track of the internet. Ryan Gosling is trending on Twitter, and I think it's just because he won't eat his cereal.
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9 years
@MattyStudios @TheBoozeCube #BoozeCube I've got another idea too, but it's taking longer to form fully. So for now... http://t.co/Wct5fXXEVA
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@Lin_Manuel @kaysarahsera @jonnysun Teenage me wrote this and somehow won a prize for it: Hydrology is an unjust science. 2 many people have no water. Oh, why is it so unfair?
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8 years
My anticipation for tomorrow has been revitalised single-handedly by @mode7games tweeting '<Month> the <date> be with you' for the last year
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7 years
@LordGrimdark Alternative question, not sure if less problematic: is there a format/service where you get a bigger share than the others?
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4 years
@ThePCCPodcast @TALL4ALL @farawaysad @arianeanindita The opening paragraph of @davidehrlich 's @TimeOutLondon 's review of Fury Road is so good I still think about it and bring it up whenever I can. Thanks for continuing the podcast despite everything!
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@Pentadact NERO Burning ROM from back in the day didn't hit me until 15 years later.
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5 years
@ThePCCPodcast @ThePCCLondon @TALL4ALL @Snylle4400 Really enjoyed the episode with the projectionist. Personally, I'd love to hear more technical behind-the-scenes chat. Maybe even a discussion on screening rights (though I know a lot can't be talked about - maybe about historical issues there have been, now resolved?)
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10 years
@MattyStudios #Twitterhole Your wife and mother switch bodies, Freaky Friday style. Which do you sleep with to switch them back?
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8 years
Well don't I look like a fool now.
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9 years
@Wimbledon @FerVerdasco Thanks for making my first full live match at Wimbledon such a great one!
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7 years
Getting a shoutout on @MarrShow for @SoToTheWeather is certainly one heck of a way to start my Sunday... #marr
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4 years
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4 years
Tom Nook hasn't offered to sell me a correlator for my interferometer yet but I assume it's just a matter of time. #AnimalCrossing
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8 years
Today, it was when I was under a tog 15 duvet, a sleeping bag, wearing 3 fleeces, a shirt, hugging a hot water bottle I admitted I was ill.
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@savo90 @SoulOBrass @SaffronOlive But doesn't 110.5g mean that it shouldn't be able to go Library -> Hand?
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8 years
When I give my address I sometimes add "Earth, Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha" to see if the other party has a sense of humour #TowelDay
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9 years
Whiling away a nightbus journey by stalking @TayeDiggs on Twitter. Who did not star in Underworld, @WordsAboutBooks . (cc: @CeceliaAWatson )
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10 years
@pintacso @travisdwoo Yup. If you fall 40 inches, your *speed* is 4.5 m/s. The force you feel landing depends on how quickly you stop.
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10 years
@calleja @patrickrothfuss @rubylee_burke First book on list being 1984 either points to a joke or total cognitive dissonance.
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9 years
@MattyStudios You get one wish from a genie, what is it? Then the other hosts come up with an ironic way to grant it and ruin your life.
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5 years
Time for the trip to the cinema I've been looking forward to since this time last year, for a film in a now-Disney-owned franchise that has entries of uneven quality, at best. Of course, I'm talking about Sing-A-Long Muppets Christmas Carol at @ThePCCLondon .
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10 years
@top8games @richardhagon @Marshall_LR @zdch I cannot begin to convey how happy I am to see actual shirts - and even ties - on the coverage.
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9 months
@LipetzNathan Interested, but only verified accounts can DM you :(
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7 years
@robmanuel A surprise @b3ta newsletter is obviously wonderful, but I'm going to be angry when tomorrow isn't Saturday.
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10 years
RE That last retweet: thank heavens. Maybe my Twitter mentions will become usable at last.
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5 years
@NowakCreative @SaffronOlive This is the content I want to see.
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9 years
@tournageuk @SYEGlitter Afraid not, wasn't really thinking about documenting and more about "oh shit there's glitter everywhere"
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8 years
Kudos to @southwark_lb for letting me register for a postal vote by emailing a photo of a filled in form printed on the back of an envelope
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1 year
@TenArmsMTG Here we are! 73/75 of the list Michael Phillips ran to a T16 finish at Lobstercon earlier this month. My two losses (once in swiss, once in semis) were both to Gw elves. Only City of Brass for Engineered Plague felt a bit sketchy, but small sample size.
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5 years
Oh boy, here I go ordering stationery supplies from Japan again.
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7 years
@michaelianblack If it's not MATES, I'm going to be unspeakably upset and then listen anyway.
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9 years
@RobertCentury This all just sounds like I should be looking forward to Friday even more than I currently am!
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11 years
Apparently @hcl21 videoed a bit of our demo at #hackedio . It loops amazingly well: #nodecopter #psmove
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4 years
@NizlopiOfficial @lukeconcannon You're the band I've seen live the most. If/when you unpause, I'll be there!
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1 year
@maxtortion When I was faced with that dilemma, I built a deck around stealing / casting other people's cards, the logic being it'd 'automatically' be the right power level regardless of how tuned I made it.
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@ThePCCPodcast @TALL4ALL @arianeanindita This episode made me miss the now-defunct, but staggeringly good @MikeandTom podcast. Maybe you have some tips for less experienced snack-raters, @CavanaghTom and @michaelianblack ?
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