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The Week’s Twitters (2009-06-27)

  • Thinking Ian McEwan’s Saturday feels pretty padded. Maybe he should have done a whole week instead of just one day. #
  • Cowbell good not only for fever, but also existential ennui. #
  • RIP, MJ. #
  • Not fearing the reaper. #
  • The cool mountain breeze wafts across my keyboard. Beyond the purple mountains, ones become zeros and zeros become ones. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-06-20)

  • Waiting for Midas to call. Not the king, unfortunately. #
  • Reading Raymond Chandler on The Simple Art of Murder: http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html #
  • Hoping the one call comes before the other call. #
  • Bears that dance, and bears that don’t. #
  • I’ve been in the woods a while. Is this Facebook/Twitter thing still going strong? #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-06-13)

  • Following birds around. #
  • The ATVer with the .45 strapped to the handlebars told us “I don’t believe in climate.” #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-06-06)

  • Waiting for the motel to turn the water back on. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-30)

  • Hail, thunderstorms, bright sun. All at once. Just another day on the Mogollon Rim. #
  • Scratching my head over the hiker who just passed through Bird Camp — with six goats, laden with saddle bags. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-23)

  • Enjoying not being in the woods for a change, but not minding the thought of going back tomorrow. #
  • Standing on a corner near Winslow, Arizona. #
  • The internet’s grip on my mind seems to be lessening after almost one month of tent living in the Coconino National Forest. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-16)

  • Finalizing the details of my Ponzi scheme. #
  • Local weather forecast: hot, dry, on fire. #
  • Found a robin’s egg in a nest box in the meadow today. Pretty, but it would take a lot of them to make an omelet. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-09)

  • The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. http://tinyurl.com/23ovg #
  • In Flagstaff, the sun feels like it is out to get you. No tall buildings + the only mountains are north of the city = no escaping the rays. #
  • Can someone tell me what a “go to market partner” is? #
  • Flagstaff: the part built 100 years ago is great, the rest, not so much. And there’s a lot of the rest. #
  • Land of the free: Montana bans red-light cameras statewide. http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/05/05/bnews/br46.txt #
  • Flagstaff. Working in the Rendezvous coffee shop in the Monte Vista hotel. Just reserved the Bob Hope suite for later in the month. #
  • Sipping tea in the meadow just now, I felt more strongly than ever that we might be able to civilize these savages yet. Arizonians, I mean. #
  • Nonplussed by the flaccid national response to swine flu, Bird Camp is instituting a strict new order. Skulls on sticks, etc. #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-05-02)

  • Taking the grill they found in the woods seemed to me an obvious way to anger some band of vicious redneck cannibals. #
  • Using wireless internet in the empty dusty parking lot of the Happy Jack Lodge. About to pay $3 for the first shower since Saturday morning. #
  • Basking in the glow of successfully recording a cell-phone interview on the Mogollon Rim. http://tinyurl.com/csyse8 #
  • Basking in the glow of successfully recording a cell-phone interview on the Mogollon Rim. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Rim #
  • Swineflu health map: http://healthmap.org/swineflu #
  • Don’t call it “collections.” It’s “receivables management.” Also, “search and destroy” will now be referred to as “sweep and clear.” Got it? #
  • Guy with O2 tank at next table is watching an on-line video about “a fantastic moneymaking opportunity.” #
  • Some of the news coverage of swine flu might want to include the symptoms. So we can all start imagining we have it. #
  • Sleeping on the ground for a couple of days really makes you appreciate an old camper mattress. #
  • What is this thing called Bird Camp? All is revealed: http://www.marginnotes.net/about-bird-camp/ #
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The Week’s Twitters (2009-04-25)

  • From high tech to no tech: shutting down the laptops and setting out for Bird Camp. #
  • Taking it to the next level by using not one but two laptops in a coffee shop. #
  • Enjoying Bookmans, a great used book store in Flagstaff. #
  • Next, I want to go to Mysterious Ape Island. #
  • Watching awesome recreation of prehistoric death match between “mega lion” and “mega bear” on the History Channel. #
  • Flagstaff has been reached. Hot red dust blasting across the highway last 150 miles. Thai food is planned. Never use passive voice. #
  • Crossing the Navajo Nation. #
  • We can’t stop here. This is Mormon country. #
  • “Kafka would have had a Twitter feed.” http://tinyurl.com/crwxtv #
  • Sometimes it’s like Burger King isn’t even trying anymore. #
  • A ghastly pall hangs over Utah, as if to show the universe’s displeasure with the mortals who live here. #
  • Hearing the siren call of the open road. Also, the pre-open-road breakfast sandwich and coffee. #
  • Doesn’t Facebook know we don’t want to vote, we just want to complain about the results? #
  • Turning in for the last time in this house for about three months. #
  • Copying music from my iPod to my MacBook using iGadget. Pretty straightforward so far. #
  • Unfortunately, the shower has once again failed to clean itself. #
  • Cleaning to get ready for the short-term tenants, ahead of departing for AZ for the summer tomorrow. #
  • “”The job of the interrogator is to… help the terrorist do his duty to Allah, so he… [is] liberated to speak freely.” tinyurl.com/dzzvrz #
  • Surprised and impressed to learn that, in aggregate, the Earth Day protests in 1970 were the largest in U.S. history: 10 percent of pop. #
  • Waiting for the man. #
  • I hate myself for hating MTPR’s “Morning Classics”, but there it is. #
  • Maybe I meant cannibal rednecks. #
  • Sometimes I get the impression that I’m the only one who is concerned about the threat of redneck cannibals. #
  • Bikers, enough with the left-arm right turn signal already. #
  • RT @itsthomas “Opt out of the (stealth) behavioral advertising network dropping cookies on your machine: http://ginx.com/-pV0tz Please RT!” #
  • “It’s not… “I Twitter, therefore I am.” It’s “I Twitter because I’m afraid I ain’t.”" http://tinyurl.com/ddst6s #
  • Excited to learn that Pete Dexter is a downright prolific novelist. #
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