Weekly Tweet Digest for 2009-12-20


  • Off to the KDEN Christmas Party! #
  • To Wal-Mart! #
  • Bad time to be an STFC astronomy, particle physics, or nuclear physics employee: http://bit.ly/6ZHRrU http://bit.ly/5ArkPo #
  • Time for volleyball! #
  • teTeX takes forever to install via MacPorts on a G5. #
  • Fly, hawaiki build, fly! #
  • This is very appropriate: http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2009/12/15/merry-fucking-christmas/ #
  • UKIRT (one of our telescopes) gets the axe from STFC: http://bit.ly/6opVoq #
  • Have you voted for the 2009 Baddest Baby Name yet? Even if you have, you can vote again! http://bit.ly/5OxmqI #
  • Difference between UK and US science funding: STFC has to cut £140m (and possibly another £600m real soon), NASA gets another $1b. #
  • Ugh. The free coffee (chocolate and mac nut) wasn't worth the price. #
  • This survey takes 20-30 minutes to complete only because the server is slow. Actual answer time is probably only 5 minutes. #
  • Holy shit it's only a week until Christmas. #
  • Speaking of winter and snow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23575410@N05/ #
  • It'd be awesome if eBay stopped assuming I live in Canada. Getting sick and tired of having everything converted into Canadian dollars. #
  • Desaturated Santa costume is brilliant. http://bit.ly/6pjkmB (via @waxpancake) (via @gnat) #
  • I have officially converted Alice. She spelled the band as "Perl Jam". #
  • Rain? What rain? It's nice up in Volcano! #
  • Yum, butter tarts! Yum, shitballs! Yum, Nanaimo bars! #
  • Nothing says Christmas like Adam Sandler's Chanukah Song. #
  • People will pay twenty bucks for Final Fantasy VII? Damn. #
  • RT @astronomyblog: Blog post: What the STFC UK? http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000921.shtml #STFC Grrrr. #

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