Slightly Off Kilter

• Om nom nom. Bagels and lox for brunch today. "House of Bagels" bagels; real bagels (boiled and baked) none of that bread fluff stuff. Solid. Feb 1st

• Laughing at today's @ICHCheezburger. My cats would never sit still for this! Would yours? http://tinyurl.com/djnyby Feb 1st

• Heh. Me too. / RT @megfowler: i'm a weird combo of absurdly outgoing and performance-oriented and totally shy and observant. Feb 1st

• Apparently the Splendid Bowl is today. We don't follow bowling... But I liked @jrnoded's comment: "Giant sized cookie mixing competition?" Feb 1st

• apelad You didn't like the Apple 1984 ad? (I count my favorite SuperBowl ads on one finger. :-) Feb 1st in reply to apelad

• I've never watched the SuperBowl but was at a Usenix conference in Jan. 1984. People tuned in & gathered round for the Apple Mac intro ad. Feb 1st

• @dajobe Congratulations on the Green Card! Hip, hip, hoorah! Feb 2nd in reply to dajobe

• RT @inhabitat: Cute organic textile munchie toys for tots. http://bit.ly/T0iz / "pbj sandwich"; "bagel & lox"; "hamburger". Omnomnomsquishy. Feb 2nd

Rain! Rainrainrainrain. Much rain today.

Rain through the night. Raining when I woke up at 7. I went back to sleep and it was raining in my dream! I woke up again at 8 to pouring rain. I figured I'd just get up at that point.

• Happy New Year Pacific Standard Time USA! Wishing you all everything you hope for in 2009. Time to turn off lights and watch for fireworks. 12:00 AM Jan 1st

• "Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you'd like to know better." Ivor Tossel, Globeandmail http://is.gd/elgN 10:32 AM Jan 1st

• @Scobleizer It looks like the Twply spam can be turned off at first use. That's better. But off should be the default. About to filter 12:08 PM Jan 1st in reply to Scobleizer

• @AnnRan5 1) Not all (291) post every day 2) I only get @ replies if I follow both 3) My Reader app pulls 24/7. I read when I have time. 9:21 PM Jan 1st in reply to AnnRan5

• @popoki http://twitpic.com/yw1j - That's a good sunpuddle you've got there. It looks like a fine place for an afternoon nap. 10:17 PM Jan 1st from TwitPic in reply to Popoki

• DUI checkpoint. Huh. Friday night I can understand. 7:45 pm in suburb, not so much. Do people make a long drinking weekend of this holiday? 8:36 PM Jan 2nd

• Reordered my supply of Victorian House concentrated coffee (I make a mug of iced coffee every day). Ryan Coffee Co http://tinyurl.com/89pc3n 9:04 PM Jan 2nd

“Twitter is a Waste of Time” - it is a criticism that has been leveled at Twitter many times over and while I’m one of Twitters biggest fans I’m also in agreement that Twitter can be a compete waste of time. I’ve wasted time on Twitter and I’ve seen many others do it. In fact recently when I asked my followers about the topic I found that most people could relate to the idea of wasting time on Twitter.

So how do you stop yourself from letting Twitter become a waste of time?

The article is a good one and most of the comments are reasonable. I recommend reading it. Here's my comment, for the record:

The Inauguration of our 44th US President is on Tuesday (Yes We Can!) and I have been enjoying a front-row seat at several events this weekend. Well, maybe not exactly the front row, but close. Sort of.

In Real Life, I'm in California, a place where water will not freeze if you accidentally leave it out over night. Yet, through the eyes and "tweets" of folks such as Chris Sacca, Ana Marie Cox, Erin Kotecki Vest, and others, I am virtually in Washington, D.C. this weekend.

The weather was rainy and cool.

We had a couple of nice rain storms. I went to bed with the door to the screen porch open so I could listen as I fell asleep.

Then rain turned to chill. There was SNOW in parts of the Bay Area (but not where we live), frost in others. A co-worker had ice on his car in the morning.

I bought my sister a giraffe scarf from Squishable.com for Christmas.

• Cloudy grey day. Foggy this morning, now high overcast. Dismal. I want to be home with my kitties, not in an office building 40 miles away. 3:20 PM Dec 1st

• RT @ariherzog: How Twitter Can Simplify Book Reviews: http://tinyurl.com/5fc5w2 (How to condense 670 words to 20 w/o losing the message.) 8:11 AM Dec 3rd

• At Work. Foggy again. Snail sliding slowly across the nearest windowpane. I could watch the snail for an hour but, sadly, I must log in now. 8:13 AM Dec 3rd

• December 3 is the Expression error: unrecognised punctuation character "{"th day of the year. (Oops :-) www.answers.com/topic/decem... 9:58 AM Dec 3rd

• The Company has declared "The Christmas Season" to be upon us. Greenery, a decorated tree, and poinsettias in every lobby. I miss November. 4:36 PM Dec 3rd

• Ugh. Catered meeting down the hall had a poorly set-up chafing dish over a sterno flame. No water under the food. Burnt to a crisp. Smoky. 1:40 PM Dec 4th

• Just discovered from @caltrain that my usual afternoon train was delayed today (I took earlier train). Morning SNAFU also missed. Lucky me! 8:26 PM Dec 4th