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  1. @BlanksSlate Especially since the fire dept. in question presumably had a govt-protected monopoly. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to BlanksSlate
  2. @willwilkinson Our non-omnipotent friend Julian offers a fairly persuasive answer of "you couldn't" to both questions. @normative about 15 hours ago via web in reply to willwilkinson
  3. If you were omnipotent, (a) how would you know it, and (b) how would you prove it? http://tinyurl.com/336p633 about 15 hours ago via web
  4. Is it just me, or does a car-charge dwindle faster than a home-charge on a cell phone, even if the battery's fully charged both ways? about 18 hours ago via web
  5. Even a great song gets tiresome after the 8000th time it repeats in your head. 10:34 AM Oct 4th via web
  6. Whenever you smell something awful in the restroom, tiny particles of the stuff must be flying up your nose. How do you feel about that? 4:48 PM Oct 1st via web
  7. "In the long run we are all dead" is not a profound insight. It's not even true. I wish fewer people thought so. 11:49 AM Oct 1st via web
  8. Writers and bacteria are both protected by only a very thin membrane. #isitawriterorbacteria 12:44 PM Sep 30th via web
  9. Never thought of myself as a hipster... but according to this article, maybe that means I am one. http://tinyurl.com/25k5yzr 11:10 AM Sep 28th via web
  10. @naddycat A very late night, a very early morning flight, and a largely unsuccessful attempt at sleep in between. 6:05 PM Sep 27th via web in reply to naddycat
  11. Now attempting to discover the marginal rate of substitution of food for sleep. 4:53 PM Sep 27th via web
  12. Being sleep-deprived & trying to deal by taking naps is much like having a dying phone battery & giving it 15 sad min. on the car charger. 8:20 AM Sep 27th via Twitter for Android
  13. Hotel room wall at Hard Rock Las Vegas. A smoking gorilla. Of course. http://twitpic.com/2s2by5 8:45 PM Sep 25th via Twitter for Android
  14. "I've got it! Let's have a bldg shaped like a giant parabolic mirror!" Will this go in the 2nd edition of your book? @JenLucPiquant 8:43 PM Sep 25th via Twitter for Android in reply to JenLucPiquant
  15. Las Vegas death ray! Hilarious. http://bit.ly/9coHcG 1:38 PM Sep 25th via Twitter for Android
  16. My review of Sex at Dawn: "an extended lesson in how to commit the fallacy of the excluded middle." http://tinyurl.com/2gxcd4f 10:11 AM Sep 24th via web