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17 May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17

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  • If my #CPU temperature is symbolic for my #productivity today, I'm proud of the 80 celsius it's currently at. Otherwise, cool down! #
  • Thoroughly impressed by the level of #FuckedUp ness #BreakingBad manages to reach. Great show! #
  • Having a massive sugar-high at 11pm #BadPlanning #
  • Listening to #AmonAmarth #039;s Guardians of Asgaard, remembering all the times I banged my head on it: Vancouver, SanFrancisco, Enschede etc \m/ #
  • Enjoying a home-made cup of hot chocolate, made by mom. Childhood memories galore! #
  • Naam van het stadium van de failliete voetbalclub Veendam: de lange leegte. #laughingoutloud #
  • Biting my lip watching dutch tv for a few days at my mom's place. Complaining, bitching, uninteresting news, it's bite-your-lip fest! #
  • Who knew #babysitting a bunch of machines could turn into such a #nightmare Well, I did, but still.. #FAIL #
  • Woohoo! #Malaysia here I come! Booked a cheap ticket to #Bangkok for June 11th and will make my way down to Malaysia from there.#travel #LIP #
  • So true! RT @martenmickos: A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. – Steve Jobs #quote #
  • Hahaha RT @fat_basstard: has new shampoo http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/40392/ab565439/herbal_elements.html #
  • RT @wetenschaap: On Amazon.com: "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality" (gift wrapping available) #wtf #
  • RIP RT @dvntownsend: \m/ DIO \m/ #
  • Had a wonderful weekend catching up with old friends in all corners of NL! Also, I have a deep hate for the #OVChipkaart #FAIL #

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10 May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10

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  • huh, did I really just arrive back home in NL? Hugging mom feels good, as well as the feeling I don't have to go anywhere for a few weeks! #
  • Gonna buy a new tv with my mom today. She wants a Philips Ambilight, and even that has 10 options in the 42 inch range. #firstworldproblems #
  • Day 1 in NL: sandwich with chocolate sprinkles, sandwich with cheese (that is not an insult to cheese ;) ), peperkoek and vla. Missing: drop #
  • Mr. Productivity, I so enjoyed your visit yesterday, why don't you come back today? #
  • Had a productive night.4am, time for bed. Lots of exciting things going on tomorrow,yay!(new TV, hitching, meeting bookkeeper, good friends) #
  • After some very enlightening discussions with @PaulAretz it seems like I might be heading back to Asia. Just found a flight for 259EU #crazy #
  • Just saw #movie Law Abiding Citizen while soaking in the #bath tub.Very #impressive movie, but too long though since I'm all wrinkled now :) #

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3 May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03

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  • #couchsurfing back at Julie's place for a night. Tomorrow: #Stanford #Narcolepsy Research Center, then #hitchhiking to #Bakersfield #
  • unexpectedly made it to bakersfield, once again with the very last ride before sunset. Great people, looking forward to tomorrow! #
  • Raise your hand if you think i'm crazy: booked a ticket to Frankfurt for this sunday :) #
  • "that was before she started drinking Locke's kool-aid" #
  • Got his ass saved by a #couchsurfer once again! A very stormy night on the #strip sounds good, but i'm happy to be inside! #
  • Drinking Lagunitas Wilco Tango Foxtrot: "a malty, robust, jobless recovery ale" . Wonderful beer! #
  • Finally managed to file taxes over Q1. Only 24.5 hours early, haha #
  • Does anyone of my friends in Holland need anything from the U.S.? I'm flying back on Sunday and can bring stuff.. #
  • Ready to party in a comped room in the new Las Vegas Aria hotel: http://bit.ly/aexDem Let's try to not get kicked out this time :) #
  • Dead tired after an insane (but fun!) camping trip, looking at spending the night on the strip in Las Vegas. Flying to EU tomorrow! #travel #
  • Impressive reports from Chernobyl: http://bit.ly/PgUx. Will the US coast look like this after that oil spill lands? #

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26 Apr 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-26

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  • thank you anonymous wonderful Indian girl for being a source of light and laughter during my 5 hour public transport-hell! #
  • Staying at Donna's place. Ate local and organic meat today, didn't feel guilty, yay! #
  • Doing some work while Donna is cooking Mexican food!Having kind of a crappy day because I ate meat yesterday and forgot to drink water today #
  • In Tahoe at the bottom of soem ski slopes that are too expensive to try out. Someday I'll break my leg on a slope, I 'promise' myself :) #
  • Chose Atlanta as my next destination because I wanna settle down for a bit and catch my breath. That just means 4300Km of #hitchhiking :) #

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19 Apr 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-19

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  • Ending my day of preparations. Network, vm & preso prepared. Time for bed! #mysqlconf #
  • 5am! I'm already up and showered, ready to leave my house to sit on the lrt for an hour. nervous yet excited! #mysqlconf #
  • finished the #mmm #tutorial session at the #mysqlconf Now watching Brian and Alan do the memcached tutorial #
  • attending edward scriven's keynote at the #mysqlconf Hope he has good stuff for us regarding oracle/mysql #
  • edward talks about Oracle using Open Standards. Open Standards != Open Source though. Feels like he's trying to win our sympathy #mysqlconf #
  • Edward Scriven: "That means MySQL is the right choice for certain applications" #mysqlconf #
  • #scriven #mysqlconf Talking about a beta version of MySQL 5.5. Didn't we get a bunch of promises last year about 5.4? #
  • Following the #mysqlconf trending topic at twitterfall.com. Great way to visualise! #
  • watching a keynote by @timoreilly about the future of clouds, sensors and data gathering. #mysqlconf #foodforthought #
  • Watching Mark Callaghan's mysql @ facebook talk at #mysqlconf #
  • 26GB network traffic per second @ peaktime at facebook. #mysqlconf #impressive #
  • #mysqlconf 'Update #performance_schema setup_instruments set enabled="yes"''? That feels wrong.. #
  • big fat oracle disclaimer at the performance_schema start and end of session: do not rely on what you saw here in your decisions. #mysqlconf #
  • Monitoring in InnoDB session in ballroom B is packed #mysqlconf #
  • Am I going to Hawai?? Just found a ticket for 130$ ALL INCLUDED! #chaos #planning #lip #traveling #
  • Linux performance session. Busy! #mysqlconf #
  • thinking about scuba-diving at monterey this weekend. Any #mysqlconf attendee's who want to join me? #
  • Last day of the #mysqlconf Great conference, lots of new/interesting stuff, potential business and successful tutorial session. #openquery #
  • To all my friends around the globe stuck in cities/airports: accept what you can't change and take the opportunity to enjoy wherever u are! #

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12 Apr 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-12

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  • doing some work from #KualaLumpur enjoying some #tehtarik and #gojira (isn't that a great combination ;) ) #metal #tea #
  • why do I always realis a city would be great to stay in for a while the evening before I'm leaving (and to a different continent this time!) #
  • weird #KL #taxi driver: tried to charge me 3 times the price and when I refused and offered to pay half, he refused any money and drove off! #
  • Waiting to board my flight to shanghai. checkin couldn't find my reservation and i need to recheck in Shanghai. Hope this will go flawless! #
  • funky comedic beatboxing celloplayer on a bike trip #
  • electric sheep: a genetically mutating online screensaver so great you'll sit in front of your pc doing nothing! http://electricsheep.org/ #
  • List of notable people who have narcolepsy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_narcolepsy #
  • Just sent an open email to see if i can participate in any #narcolepsy #research @ #Stanford center for Narcolepsy research. Would be nice! #
  • preparing the #virtualbox virtual machines for the #mmm #tutorial at the #mysqlconf tomorrow. Getting excited! #

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