Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

• AOL’s new CEO is stopping by today for breakfast. Anything you want me to ask? Difficulty: Qs that won’t get me … – http://bkite.com/06ZxK #
• Everyone welcome MQ UED @jengray303 to Twitter. She says @kirstenm & I peer pressured her on. Suuuuure! #
• @lilitroy I have much more social networking pull than @chipd, plus I’m a better dresser than he is. ☼burn☼ in reply to lilitroy #
• @lilitroy Not many people, but I suited up. Be better to have pictures tomorrow for No Pants Day: http://www.nopantsday.com in reply to lilitroy #

• Found $6 bucks in my pants pocket this morning. Lincoln & Washington had that laundered money smell with a hint of Snuggle fabric softener. #
• @gnutel0 I’m sure there will be a money laundering exchange built on Twitter by the end of the week. $cashtags instead of #hashtags. in reply to gnutel0 #
• Want to be a Product Intern for @MapQuest our PA office or know someone who does? http://cli.gs/2zuNdW Please pass it on. #
• My @TastyBakingCo Banana Creamie got smashed in my bag ☹ — still tasty though. Bag of M&M’s or Frito-Lay Munchies for the rest of lunch? #
• “We can now refer to swine flu as “bacon lung.” (via @gregsblog) Wonder if we can make this a trending topic today. #baconlung #
• What words don’t look to you like they are spelled right, even when they are?
  “Satellite” and “definitely” are two of mine. #
• Warding off Bacon Lung with @Icelander and @tracibabe using beer and wings. – http://bkite.com/06YsG #
• The History Channel’s “Life After People” is fascinating stuff. Recommended. http://cli.gs/LMgd3q #

• Working from the home office this morning so dog doesn’t eat the crew here to clean-up the haz-mat area left by the tub repairman last week. #
• New Ben Folds a Cappella album out today. Very cool: http://cli.gs/4GZMb1 (via @pajiba) #

• “The Wrestler” was a very good movie. Recommended. #
• Boston Cream Pie Cake for breakfast and FTW!. The only way to top “pie cake” is for there to be “ice cream pie cake.” #
• Chuck season finale tonight folks. Head down to Subway for dinner and show your support for a 3rd season! #
• If you tell someone “banana bread” before they sneeze, they won’t be able to 83% of the time. Learned from @tracibabe; stat’s mine. #

• House has been overrun with a Pampered Chef party. @antthelimey and I have sought refuge at Symposium. – http://bkite.com/06Qzf #
• Finally got my house back from visitors — not that I mind visitors. @tracibabe is wiped so resuming fun technical things. #
• It’s somehow become 85-degrees in my office. Might have to move operations in front of the TV downstairs. #

• It’s no http://fmylife.com/, but it is funny: http://textsfromlastnight.com. Looking for entries from people I know. ☎☺
  (via @kplawver) #
• Discussing “Heinous f&%*ery, most foul” with Tony, @antthelimey and @larrymyers. Don’t ask. – http://bkite.com/06Oey #
• Getting some grub at @hotzpizza with @tracibabe & visiting Jake, one if the best bartenders in town! – http://bkite.com/06Osh #
• Told that if I order Stromboli, it’ll take an hour! For a pizza joint, this should indicate an issue. – http://bkite.com/06OsQ #
• Bacon is sometimes elusive. #

• Had breakfast with @tracibabe. Table of sales people meeting next to us talking like a platoon about to take a h… – http://bkite.com/06Lgi #
• Congrats to @brightkite and @foodzie for making BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs list http://bit.ly/xsm4B #
• Told it’s time to “get real,” but being animated is more fun, the comically large anvils would hurt more & Acme doesn’t deliver here. WTF? #
• Have to remove everything out of the master bathroom because the tub is being ripped out and replaced tomorrow. Massive cracks in it. Fun! #

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
• Lifehacker – 30-Second DVR Tweak Speeds Up Commercial Skipping – TiVo 30-second commercial skipping a Comcast DVR:
  1) Press the "Cable" button at the top of the remote to put it into Cable Box control mode.
  2) Press and hold the "Setup" button until the "Cable" button blinks twice.
  3) Type in the code 994. The "Cable" button will blink twice.
  4) Press (do not hold) the "Setup" button.
  5) Type in the code 00173 (for 30 second Skip).
  6) Press whatever button you want to map the skip. (I use the fav button—next to mute.)
• Short URL Auto-Discovery ‎(wiki)‎
• Porting code to Python 3 with 2to3 – Dive into Python 3
• Capo Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

• @larrymyers I set apps like iTerm to use the Monaco font. Love to hear of better suggestions out there. in reply to larrymyers #
• Sign of things to come. Twitter Search yielded the link to the new Bob Dylan stuff faster than Google. New Dylan is really, really good too. #
• @tracibabe is playing a megatouch game with half-nekkid girls on cards while we wait for @willtrippe at wings. – http://bkite.com/06Kfe #
• Think @corneliusis just did a drive by as we came over and didn’t stop to chat. Hanging out with lil’sippa. – http://bkite.com/06KrF #

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• 10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts | My Ink Blog
• Revisiting the Mac mini media center | Entertainment & HDTV | Macworld
• iCal Reply Checker | John Maisey iCal Reply Checker is an add-in to iCal for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 that gives the user options for how replies to meeting invites are dealt with. It allows the user to not send replies, send replies on a case by case basis, send all replies or (as of version 1.2) opens the reply message in Mail for editing.
• Apple – Downloads – Email & Chat – YAI YAI (you are invited) is a plug-in for Apple Mail that translates and transfers Outlook, Google Calendar, Zimbra and Exchange clone meeting invitations to iCal. It corrects many incompatibilities between Microsoft Exchange style meeting invites and what iCal can understand.
• Inconsolata
• pubsubhubbub – Google Code A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol. Includes an open source reference implementation that runs on Google App Engine.