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    11/24/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    That OJ tweet is so bogus. All LA peeps know that OJ was a Pioneer Chicken man.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    The interestingness of PrisonTweets sure to drop considerably after the Corrections Board mandates 100-character canned warning every 15 seconds stating, "This Tweet Comes From Imprisoned Inmate of the State of California Corrections System".
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    I once bitched on Twitter about the skanky dude at the web cafe who surfed porn all day. Not only did said dude jump a MILE in his chair when that post went out, but two cops walked in and checked him and his monitor over a few minutes later. Sadly, he'd switched to Amazon.com or something.
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    11/24/09

    @raincoaster: are you saying both the perv and the cops follow you on twitter? i'm trying to think of all the reasons this might be, and none of them are good
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/24/09

    @k122n: Yes, both the cops and the perv were following me on Twitter. But only the cops show up at the Tweetups.
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    11/24/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes...

    Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "unstable"...)
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    11/24/09

    In reply to The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad
    BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now
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    11/24/09

    In reply to The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad
    How did mr.assclown get 10M in VC monies?
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    I think they used to do the same thing at Groton...
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/23/09

    @Bunsy: Ha! LIGHTS OUT!
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    11/23/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    Someone should make proprietary jailhouse tweet-delivering software, so you know the messages are really from the inside. These jailhouse Twitter users could be called Bird Men, and the software Alcatraz.

    Too convoluted? Or just stupid enough?
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    snugbug promoted this comment Edited by sweet_communist at 11/23/09 11:21 PM sweet_communist was starred sweet_communist was unstarred
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    11/24/09

    @sweet_communist: "Just stupid enough" is a standard with a lot of potential for wider use, I think.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
    Adrian, as the editor for Modern Correctional Officers Monthly, I'd like to discuss adapting this concept into a coffee table book.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/23/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    You're kidding yourself if you think most people can be interesting for more than 140 characters at a time.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    A great holiday gift for friends, colleagues, clients, inmates ...
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to distribute these messages to anyone who wanted to read them? And do it for free?

    Oh, right.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/23/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    "The night was cold and damp, like the hulking wad of poo swaying in my oversized underpants as I walked through Old Man Johnson's abandoned "

    OK, now what?
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
    Finally, George W. Bush can get his book published.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/23/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Here's the dirty little secret: there's nothing particularly glamorous about being an Ivy League grad. (I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, but have 2 Ivy degrees, with lots of relatives/friends/co-workers who are Ivy grads.) If you look at us (not just me, but my cohort, in our 40s), you'd probably call us successful.

    But we're not Kennedys or Bushes. We tend to make decent money, but we're still dealing with mortgages, trying to avoid getting fat, filling out paperwork all day, figuring out who's going to drive the kids to soccer practice, wondering if we're going to end up divorced, trying to keep our values and our sanity intact.

    I want to my alma mater's game Saturday. Game sucked, but beautiful weather, and a nice way to spend some time with my kids. It's nice to reminisce; I had a good college experience.

    But Sunday when I did the grocery shopping, no one at the store cared where I went to college. Today I'm back at work, which is alternately boring and interesting, just like always. It's not any different from my friends and neighbors who went to State U, Adequate Catholic University with Famous Athletic Program, or Liberal Arts College You've Never Heard Of.

    This isn't meant to be a whine; I recognize that I've got a pretty good life, particularly on the monetary side. But if going to an Ivy League school was as wonderful as Kamer makes it seem, why are so many of us wasting time commenting on Gawker?
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