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You know who never has a shortage of work? Skylight repair man in Gotham City.
— Dan Moren (@dmoren) December 10, 2013

I totally wanted to reply to this, but there isn't enough space in 140 characters.

There's this idea in physics of the order of magnitude (OOM) calculation, sometimes also called a back-of-the-envelope calculation. The idea is that you can calculate a rough number (OOM) for a very abstract concept with just making a few assumptions at the beginning and doing a very small bit of math. The classic story is that Feynman calculated the number of piano tuners in Chicago on the back of an envelope.

So let's say that a typical Batman cartoon episode takes place over a single day of real time. Let's further presume that in a typical episode, a villain breaks one window, and Batman breaks a second. If a repairman takes a half day to replace a window, then Gotham would need exactly one glass repairperson to account for the city's villains and heroes. Any additional window breakage would require either overtime on the first glass repairperson's part, or else additional glass repairpersons.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.

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So I'm managing a Facebook group and a Twitter page. I've linked them on FB. When I make a new post on FB it ports it over to Tw. Unless I set it up as a timed futurepost, then it doesn't port over to Tw. Why, and how do I fix it?

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.

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@NotifyNYC
Movie filming w/ a simulated explosion at Cedar Grove Bch near Ebbitts St and Cedar Grove Ave (SI) 6P-11P today. FDNY/NYPD on site.
https://twitter.com/#!/NotifyNYC/status/66532543356346368

If anyone goes, I want to see photos. :)

I also have an account on DW under the same name (though I haven't really used it at all), or you can find me on twitter under the same name as well.

I've been using TweetDeck on my work PC, and Tweetie on my Mac, and I now know exactly what I want in a Twitter client. More-or-less in preference order, or at least numbered so we can refer to them...

MUST handle multiple accounts - I have my personal account, my personally identifying / work account, my online class account, and my bird's account. (Both Tweetdeck and Tweetie have this).

Tweeting: I want to be able to post the same tweet to multiple accounts without having to copy and paste (TweetDeck has this, Tweetie does not)

URL shortening (both TweetDeck and Tweetie have this)

Deleting: I want to be able to right-click or something and delete the tweet. (TweetDeck has this, I don't think Tweetie does)

Following: I want to see a single stream for tweets everyone that I follow in any of the four accounts, with a smaller copy of my own icon in the bottom info line indicating which of my four accounts is following that person (or which multiple accounts). In other words, I want the multiple following streams to be integrated into a single stream so that I don't see the same tweet from @Astro_Mike three times just because I'm following him with three accounts. (I have yet to see this in a Twitter client, and this is the one thing that'll make me switch Twitter clients at this point.)

OS: I want the same program to exist for both Mac and PC, and look identical for both. (Nope)

Multiple computers: I want appearance preferences stored on a server and loaded when I load the program, so that if I change something on one computer, it comes up on another one. (TweetDeck supposedly has tihs, but it's broken and hasn't ever worked for me.)

RT: I want when I RT for it to by default start with "RT @blah:" rather than ending with "(via @blah)", and I want to be able to edit when I RT. ("RT @blah:" is TweetDeck's appearance, "(via @blah)" is Tweetie's)

Pop-up notification: I want the ability to show the pop-up notification in various sizes, colors, and positions - corners do NOT work for me, I want right edge of the screen in the middle. (TweetDeck and Tweetie [via Growl] have limited choices here, but not enough.)

So, anyone know of a Twitter client that has all these, or want to write me one? *grin*

(and other geek feminists wanting to help men get with it)

Since you're not on Twitter: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Resources_for_men

I've been blagging here a bit less than usual lately. Part of it is that I've been Twittering more (I'm zandperl there), and part is that some of my internet thirst is being slaked more productively, by my online course. I don't feel as much need to say things to the world, if I can say it small I twit it, and only if I need to say it big do I LJ. This is a good thing - LJing can take a lot of time, and I want to become more productive. That is, do real work more consciously, and have more structured free time instead of time lost to aimless surfing.

Enough with the introspection. Check this flowchart of the financial crisis.

Twittering the debate. I'm zandperl there, as usual.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
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